1 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: This is the Miller Light Cowboys House, supported by Albertson 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:12,039 Speaker 1: and Omni Hotels and Resorts. Brought to you by Miller Light, 3 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: the only beer of the Cowboys, Albertson's and Tom Thumbs, 4 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: the official supermarket and pharmacy of the Dallas Cowboys, and 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: by Geico Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or 6 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: more on car insurance. Now your hosts, Danny Serek and 7 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: Brad Sham and welcome everyone. Thank you so much for 8 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: joining us on the I guess this is the bye 9 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: week edition of the Cowboys Hour, isn't it? Because last 10 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,639 Speaker 1: week we were coming out of the Pittsburgh game, So 11 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: this is coming out of the said, shall we call 12 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: this the bye week edition? Let's do it. Let's do that, 13 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,279 Speaker 1: because I just did. We're delighted to have all of 14 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: you with us, wherever you are, wherever you're listening around 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network, streaming on the Dallas Cowboys 16 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: dot Com. And what a treat. And we thought, what 17 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: what better a time than to give all Cowboy fans 18 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 1: a chance to get to know a little better a 19 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: guy who gave him a great exciting Sunday afternoon a 20 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: week ago quarterback Garrett Gilbert. I know you have just 21 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: come off the practice field, like literally, and so thanks 22 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: for your time, Thanks for taking some time and sitting 23 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: down with us tonight. Absolutely, it's great to be here. Um, 24 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 1: you know, uh yeah, we're well. First of all, it's nice. 25 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: Nice to get back to practice and had a few 26 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: days off off the bye week. We are not on 27 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: our bye week. You guys are on bye week edition. 28 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 1: We are onto the Vikings. But uh yeah, it was 29 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: nice to get back in the building, get going, and 30 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: now nice to spend a little time with you guys. 31 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: Now we're gonna we are going to go through your 32 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: career travel log because we've got a few minutes. It 33 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: might take a while. Okay, I know I've got it. 34 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: I believe me. I did a little homework actually, but 35 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: I mentioned that to ask if when you have had 36 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: even a few months exposure to Bill Belichick is the 37 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: next thing automatically we're on to the Vikings. Belichick is him? Absolutely? 38 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I certainly learned a lot in 39 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: my time up there. Um uh from him obviously from 40 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 1: Tom um. But yes, that's uh, that is that is 41 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: definitely the mindset. Um. And I know he's made that 42 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: quote famous, but he sort of lives it out on 43 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 1: a daily and weekly basis up there. So Garrett, I 44 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: want to go back to the Pittsburgh game for a second, 45 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: and I am going to UM, I'm gonna risk offending 46 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: the competitor in you to see if you can identify 47 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: with UM the way a lot of Cowboy fans felt 48 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 1: watching the game. This season's been what it is. Everyone 49 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: knows we're not gonna hide anything from anybody, and uh, frankly, 50 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: I don't think there was a Cowboy fan on earth 51 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: who knew what to expect from you, except unless they 52 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: were Texas or SMU fans. Then then they really only 53 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: knew your name. And here you came and played this 54 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: right poised game and looked very much in control. And 55 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: I said to my broadcast partner, Babe Laufenberg, he looks 56 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: like he's been doing it his whole life. He said, well, 57 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:13,959 Speaker 1: he has, which is absolutely true. And so I wonder 58 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: if there was not in the moment, because we heard 59 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: what you said afterwards, and it was frustrating to lose 60 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: at the end, but in retrospect and taking the season 61 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: kind of as a large taken as a whole with 62 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: a W. Can you see why some people felt like 63 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: you almost that was almost a win to play the 64 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: unbeaten Steelers and have you in the game and leading 65 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: for so much of the game. Well, to take it 66 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: back to what you said at the beginning, right, we're 67 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: all competitors here, and there's only one reason we play. 68 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: Obviously we love it, but we played a win, right, 69 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: and so certainly very frustrating not to get that done. 70 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: That being said, we did a lot of good things 71 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: I think over the course of a sixteen game season, 72 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: regardless of why happens, uh two weeks ago, regardless what 73 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: you get, the sort of you take each game and 74 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: you can build on it, right, you can build on things. 75 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: You can you get rid of things, certainly, but you 76 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: can build on things. And I feel like that offensively, 77 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: certainly defensively, the defense played phenomenally. But you know, as 78 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: our unit, we we did some really good things. Now 79 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,919 Speaker 1: how do we uh, how do we improve upon that? 80 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: How do we finish some of those drives and get 81 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: them into the end zone and turn those threes into sevens? 82 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot that uh, you know, there's 83 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: a lot that we can build on here. UM, and 84 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: I and I do feel I do feel good about that, 85 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: and I think we all do us an offense. UM. 86 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: But ultimately, as you said, we are competitors and we 87 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 1: you know, we were here to win. No one's gonna 88 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: wave a magic wand and bringing a Tyrant Smith and 89 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: Lyle Collins uh and Blake Jarwin back onto the field automatically, 90 00:04:54,200 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: let alone dak or or or now you know, now 91 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: you're having defensive losses and everybody's everybody's injured. Um. When 92 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 1: you then look at the weekends, there's and there's nobody 93 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: in the NFL who after nine games wants to be 94 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: two and seven. But when you look at the weekends 95 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 1: results and you realize that if you can do what 96 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 1: you just said, build on what you did in that game, UM, 97 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: no one wants to hear it, but you can, you 98 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 1: can really have an interesting second half of the season 99 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: and maybe still do some things. Do you did you 100 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: see that? Did you sense that in practice at all 101 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: today or if in the meeting you had on Wednesday 102 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: or anything like that? Absolutely? UM, you know we we 103 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: we we are what our record says we are. But 104 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: at the same time we have every opportunity to UM. 105 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: Going forward to achieve everything that we want to. Um, 106 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: we have every opportunity to uh go win the division 107 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: and and and that thing about that is we're not 108 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: going to do it tomorrow. We're not going to do 109 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: it this coming Sunday. We have to do it one 110 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: day at a time and in one game at a time. 111 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: As cliche as that sounds, that's the most important thing 112 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: for us right now is to continue to focus on Uh. 113 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: You know, we don't get back to five hundred this 114 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: week if we beat the Vikings. You know, we have 115 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: to do that one day at a time, one game 116 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: at a time. Did you surprise yourself at all in 117 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh game how well you played? I don't think so. UM. 118 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: You know, I first and foremost, I have to give 119 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: a lot of credit to our our offense as a whole, 120 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,799 Speaker 1: our our well, our team as a whole, but our offense, 121 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: you know, UM, starting at the top with Kellen and 122 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: um and and and nus and and the coaching staff 123 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: getting me personally prepared to play UM as a new guy, 124 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: and then offensively, the group, UH really did a phenomenal 125 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 1: job communicating with me all week long, getting me ready. UM, 126 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: you know, little things like, uh, how the cadence sounds. Um, 127 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: you know, how how I sounded the line of scrimmage, 128 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: how I sound calling the play. Those things are all different. 129 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: So those guys have had to do with a lot 130 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 1: this year, having had four quarterbacks, um, you know, in 131 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 1: the huddle at different at different parts of the season. So, um, 132 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: all of those guys really did a great job, uh 133 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: you know during the course of the week helping to 134 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: get helping to get us ready to go play. And uh, 135 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: you know, I think that what we put on the 136 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: field on Sunday again go back to losing sucks. But 137 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: there's a lot to build on there. You have a 138 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: lot of experience with not just NFL practices and preparing 139 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: for games, also starting and we'll get to your background 140 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: much later, but you knew going into that game that 141 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: that was going to be your first NFL start. Were 142 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: you having to battle any new butterflies or nerves that 143 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: you hadn't felt before leading up to the game. There was, 144 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: There was nothing new, but there were certainly like as 145 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: sort of familiar feelings from you know, having it's been 146 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: a while, yeah, but familiar feelings of those butterflies that 147 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: you mentioned of getting ready to play for a game, 148 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: like I knew, I was, you know, as paired has 149 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: I'd ever been to go play a football game. Um, 150 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: but I think you're always gonna fight or rather, you know, 151 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: feel those butterflies, uh leading up to kickoff. So um, 152 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: I don't want to say it was anything like unfamiliar. Um. 153 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: But at the same time, it had definitely been a 154 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: while since I'd felt those things. And I was, you know, 155 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: fairly exciting summer of nineteen in Orlando and the AAF right, 156 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: that was right, Yeah, that's correct, So play for step 157 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,239 Speaker 1: for Steve's for the old ball coach down in Orlando. 158 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: And yeah, but and were you not the leading passer 159 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: in the league such as it was? Uh? Yeah, um, 160 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: I was. Yeah. I mean someone's got to be. You 161 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: don't have to know that's that's that's true. No, I was, 162 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: and we uh yeah, we we we had some success 163 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: thrown it around, thrown it around the yard down there 164 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: in Orlando. So I asked about that because of the 165 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: question that Danny just asked you. I wonder if you 166 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: felt more, uh well, what that felt like, because it's 167 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: clearly it's not the NFL, but it's professional football and 168 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 1: it's another as to be seen. But you really hadn't 169 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: played very much in a while when you went to Orlando. 170 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: Was that a little bit butterfly inducing? Certainly? I think, Um, 171 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 1: if you go back to last spring going into the 172 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: AAF and the first game there, it had been if 173 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: my math is right, five years, five and a half 174 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: years since I'd started a game. Um, so yeah, that 175 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: would have been back to SMU. Yeah. Yeah, So I 176 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: mean looking at at a long time there in between 177 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 1: starts and obviously m yeah, there's definitely some uh some 178 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 1: at that point, maybe maybe some unfamiliar feelings. I mean, 179 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 1: it's all, it's all, you're getting ready to play football. 180 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: It's it's all the same. But it had been much 181 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: longer before my first Apollos game than going into this 182 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: last week. Now. Again, it's every kid's dream to not 183 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: play in the AAF but go start a game for 184 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: an NFL team. So, um, yeah, there's a little bit, uh, 185 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: there's a little bit different stage there for sure. Um. 186 00:09:55,760 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: You were asked um during the week leading up to 187 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh game. I'm gonna I'm gonna try to remember 188 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: exactly what you said about um that you know, did 189 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: you think at any point in the journey from after 190 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:17,199 Speaker 1: SMU that you maybe had run out of chances and 191 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: you said yeah, sure, once or twice that that kind 192 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 1: of crosses your mind. So maybe you can elaborate on 193 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 1: that a little bit. And the follow up I have 194 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:26,719 Speaker 1: for that is do you feel differently about it now 195 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: after the game against Pittsburgh? Um? Well, I think so 196 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 1: to elaborate, First, you know, I've spent I've spent two 197 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: basically two full seasons out of football, So at some 198 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: point you start to wonder if there's going to be 199 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: I think that that doubt creeps into your mind a 200 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: little bit about well, am I going to get another shot? 201 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: And I've been really fortunate that an opportunity in Carolina 202 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: presented itself when Cam um uh hardish hardish shoulder after 203 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen season, and I got to go and 204 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: be basically the third quarterback in camp while Cam recovered. 205 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: And then I got very fortunate that the AF you know, 206 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: made a uh made its debut um in early twenty nineteen. 207 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: But there were certainly times when I felt like um, 208 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: and I don't think it was a lack of UH, 209 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 1: you know, it certainly wasn't a lack of belief in myself. 210 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: It was more of just at some point, you know, 211 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: you don't most guys don't get to say when uh, 212 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: when they get when they get done playing football. Most 213 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,319 Speaker 1: guys don't get to make that call. You know, it's 214 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: it's it's generally made for you. Um. And so that was, uh. Yeah, 215 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: there were definitely some times where I felt that, I mean, 216 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: I was, you know, I was I was about to 217 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: take a full time job at SMU when the Panthers 218 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: called um and uh and so coaching coaching. Yes, I 219 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: I spent the year before as sort of a volunteer 220 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:52,559 Speaker 1: quality control type and then um, spring of twenty seventeen, 221 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: I was about to take a full time job when uh, 222 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: when when when the Panthers called me up? So um, yeah, absolutely, 223 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: there were definitely some times when when you know, I 224 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: didn't know if there was going to be another shot. 225 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: And as for how that's maybe changed, um, I don't 226 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 1: know if I've I don't know if I've been able 227 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: to really take time to reflect on that. I don't 228 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: think my attitude's changed at all. Um. You know, it's 229 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: it's for me. It's still about and I think what's 230 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 1: really served me well over the past few years as 231 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:25,559 Speaker 1: I've gotten these chances um that I didn't know we're 232 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,839 Speaker 1: maybe going to come was to try best I can. 233 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: And obviously this is much easier said than done, but 234 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,559 Speaker 1: to try to just simply focus on every day when 235 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: I get here to facility, every day when I get 236 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 1: out to practice, how can I improve myself and how 237 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: can I be the best quarterback I can be for 238 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: this team and whatever capacity that might be. And so 239 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: I think that's really served me well as just to 240 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: try and focus on those those two things. And so 241 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: I think, at least for right now, that's what I'm 242 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: going to continue to do. You journal, I don't really 243 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: why do you ask, Because you got a hell of 244 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: a book in yourself. The line, you just need to 245 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: have notes ready to go back. It would be believe me, 246 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: there's a book in you and you just need to 247 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: go back and think about. Okay, because I was looking 248 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 1: at and we got to take a break, I was 249 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 1: just kind of making sure I had your travelogue in 250 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: order and Texas and SMU that's like two or three 251 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: chapters and then okay fourteen with the rams you're drafted there. 252 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: That's with Sam Bradford and Sean Hill and Austin and 253 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: we'll get into that in a minute. But when we 254 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: then go through the list of coaches and people you've 255 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: had the opportunity to learn from and the lessons you've learned, 256 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: and I can see the movie, I can see who 257 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: knows what the future holds, but you maybe maybe the 258 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: next to the last scene is there you go at 259 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: at and T Stadium in front of thirty thousand Steeler 260 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: fans for crying out loud. There were a lot of 261 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: Steeler fans, right, and you're throwing around your act and 262 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: you you just acting you belong there, which I think 263 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 1: is going to stand you in goodstead. All Right, We're 264 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: gonna take this break because someone else is gonna get 265 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: mad at me, and I don't have enough life left 266 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: to have people mad at me. So delighted to have 267 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert and all of you with us on the 268 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: Cowboys Hour. We are brought to you in part by Albertson's. 269 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: When it comes time to shop for tailgate favorites, go 270 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 1: to Albertson's and Tom Thumb get ten percent off your 271 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: groceries every Dallas Cowboys game day. When you wear your 272 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: Cowboys Jersey, Albertson's and Tom Thumb, the official supermarket and 273 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: pharmacy of the Dallas Cowboys, and by Luke Casey, the 274 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: official bootmaker of the Dallas Cowboys. Cheerleaders were back with 275 00:14:36,040 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert on the Cowboys Hour. After this to the 276 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: Miller Like Cowboys Hours supported by Albertsons and Omni Hotels 277 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 1: and Resorts. Welcome back to the Cowboys Hour. Brad Sham 278 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: and Danny Surak and our very special guest, Cowboys quarterback 279 00:17:55,320 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert, just off the practice field, and now I'll 280 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: ask you this and then we're going deep into the 281 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:06,400 Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert story because Mike McCarthy just said a few 282 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:11,640 Speaker 1: minutes ago at his press conference that Andy Dalton practiced today, 283 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 1: which means that he is well enough after his concussion 284 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: and COVID battle that he was able to practice. Uh. 285 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: And so what what's your mindset now after having had 286 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: that Pittsburgh game under you coming into this week. Uh. Well, 287 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,639 Speaker 1: not to be repetitive and and or boring, but you know, 288 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,360 Speaker 1: it's it's going to be the same. Um, I'm I'm 289 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out uh starting tomorrow, getting ready for 290 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,719 Speaker 1: for Minnesota and uh into Wednesday and Thursday in our 291 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: practice days. Uh, my job and my goal is to 292 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: uh you know, help this team in whatever way I 293 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 1: can do and then make myself, uh you know, into 294 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:52,400 Speaker 1: the best quarterback I can be on that given day 295 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: and then do it again on the next day. So um, 296 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: that's sort of uh, that's that's all I'm gonna you know, 297 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 1: work on or concern myself with. Danny. Let me follow 298 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 1: that up with one and then, please, I know that 299 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 1: I'm stifling you over here. Don't take your time somewhere 300 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: along the I mean we're talking a little bit about 301 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 1: what you did at SMU for crying out loud of 302 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: you through for seventy thousand yards. You know, you and 303 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: June Jones seemed to be made for each other for 304 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: a while there, and at least from a football standpoint, 305 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: can you pinpoint the place where you were able to 306 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: make the competitor which you still have to be to 307 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 1: be able to go out and practice and play like 308 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: you did last week after all these years, the place 309 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:43,640 Speaker 1: where you made the competitor find a way to live 310 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: in harmony with Okay, I kind of know that Andy's 311 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 1: gonna start it doesn't matter how well I played against Pittsburgh. 312 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 1: If Andy's healthy, he's probably going to start against Minnesota. 313 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: You know that you've been around too much. But those 314 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: two things are not They're a little contradictory, aren't they. Uh. 315 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean you have to make them live together. Certainly. 316 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: I think everyone everyone in any profession UH as a competitor. 317 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:16,919 Speaker 1: You want to be you want to be the guy right, 318 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: you want to be playing UM. But at the same time, 319 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: UM first and foremost. I'm a part of this team, 320 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: and the most important thing for all of us is winning, right. 321 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: And I think you know, so when I if I 322 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 1: were to let let that UH, let that competitive edge 323 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: take over, I think I'd be doing both myself a 324 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 1: disservice and and certainly the team a disservice. So UM, 325 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 1: I think there's a there's a fine line. As you said, 326 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: you have to sort of mess it right, but there's 327 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 1: a there's a good balance that I think you can 328 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: find between UM, preparing yourself to play UM with the 329 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 1: limited amount of reps UM and UH and and find 330 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 1: in a way to know that or you know and 331 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,160 Speaker 1: understanding that that the best way to help the team, 332 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 1: or you know what the best way to help the 333 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: team is. And so I think that's again, that's just 334 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: how I approach every day. I think it served me 335 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: well over the past few years. UM, and so I 336 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 1: will continue to approach the game that way. UM and 337 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: uh and uh and and that's all I can That's 338 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 1: really all I can concern myself with. UM if I 339 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: if I you know, I can't. I can't really control 340 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: any of that other stuff, and none of us really 341 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: can is And so you know, we just have to 342 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:33,479 Speaker 1: go uh. And I think UM, as a team, if 343 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 1: we attack this uh, if we attack this in that way, 344 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: and every one of us does that, and then I 345 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: think we'll put ourselves in good position. You've only been 346 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: in Dallas for maybe a month right at this point? 347 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: Signed you in about October? Yeah, um, especially with the 348 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 1: week leading up to Pittsburgh. In practice, you guys you 349 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 1: were working out with Andy Dalton before McCarthy had made 350 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 1: his decision on who was going to start that. On 351 00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: top of not being here for very long, how are 352 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: you able to get so comfortable with the scheme and 353 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:06,640 Speaker 1: the playbook before Pittsburgh. Well, one bonus to having been 354 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: in I don't know, you've got the numbers there, but 355 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: nine different offenses over the past six seven years, is 356 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 1: I mean the the only difference really. I mean, we've 357 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: got some unique stuff here for for sure, and every 358 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 1: every coach and every system has their little twist on things. 359 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: But you've almost seen it all at this point. And 360 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: so the biggest thing for me is is word association. 361 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 1: How can I relate? How can I relate what we 362 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: call certain concepts here to what I've called them in 363 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 1: the past. And then in my mind that's you know 364 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: this concept well that was whatever you know ABC in Carolina, 365 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: or that was you know, uh, whatever we called it 366 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: in Cleveland, and so those types of things, um make 367 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 1: the transition a little bit easier as I learn and 368 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: so UM. And then the other thing is is you 369 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: know this this coaching staff take it, you know past past. 370 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: Kellen pasted us to Scott Tolzine and say, coo, Walace. 371 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 1: The guys that I was sort of meeting virtually with 372 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,200 Speaker 1: my first week here, when I wasn't even welcome in 373 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,400 Speaker 1: the building, those guys did a phenomenal job. Wouldn't say 374 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: you were welcome. Now it's not that you were welcome. 375 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 1: I was COVID didn't welcome me into the building. That's 376 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 1: that's correct yet. Um No, that's true. Yeah, I was 377 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: going through my uh my, my onboarding process or whatever 378 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 1: you want to call it. Though they did a phenomenal 379 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: job getting me ready, getting me up to speed on 380 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: certain things. Um as, uh, you know as as I 381 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: first got here, you're ready to go back back in time. Yeah, 382 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: let's go back. Okay. You played high school football in Texas, 383 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: and for anyone who's listening who's not from Texas, that 384 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: is a big deal. High school football Texas. High school 385 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: football in Texas is incredible. It's it's almost indescribable of 386 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: how intense it is in the stadiums and how good 387 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: the players are. And you won two state championships. Right 388 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 1: you were did what high school? Were you at? Lake Travis, Okay? 389 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 1: Don in Austin? What what makes high school football so special? 390 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,880 Speaker 1: Or how did it prepare you right for for where 391 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 1: you are today? I think it's hard to pinpoint what 392 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: makes it so great? Um. I want to say it's 393 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: it's it's certainly started with all the small towns in Texas. Right, 394 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:19,959 Speaker 1: You've got, um, you've got all these small towns especially 395 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: I'm reminded of Friday night lights out and out in Odessa. Um, 396 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 1: you know TV show or a movie first obviously, but 397 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,479 Speaker 1: then the TV show as well does a pretty good 398 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: job painting the picture. Um. It's football is everything to 399 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: a lot of these towns and the kids, and some 400 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,119 Speaker 1: of the kids in these towns grow up, um for 401 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,160 Speaker 1: lack of a better word, there you know, their celebrities 402 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 1: in their town and and um Friday nights that the 403 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 1: town actually does shut down in certain places and everybody 404 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: is at the game. UM. Where where I grew up, UM, 405 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: football was big, but that wasn't necessarily the case. Um, 406 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: it only sort of got to be the case as 407 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: uh we got we got good towards the end of 408 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: my high school career. UM. And then for how it 409 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 1: prepared me, I just I think, UM, the biggest thing 410 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 1: for me would not be the you know, playing specifically 411 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: in Texas and how that prepared me, like the atmosphere 412 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 1: of a Friday night. The biggest thing for me is, UM, 413 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,679 Speaker 1: the coaching that I had as as a youngster was 414 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,680 Speaker 1: like really, you know, I felt I was very well 415 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: coached as a kid I had. I played for UM. First, 416 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 1: Jeff Dykes, who has been who's bounced around as a 417 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,439 Speaker 1: high school coach around the state. And then Chad Morris, 418 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:33,959 Speaker 1: who has gone on to be a head coach at 419 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 1: big time two you know, two big time college football 420 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: programs after being a very successful offensive coordinator. And so 421 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: I think those guys did more to prepare me for, um, 422 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: what was next and you know what was to come 423 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,439 Speaker 1: then than anything. And so I'm I'm real, you know, 424 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,640 Speaker 1: real thankful for that to have been able to grow 425 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,439 Speaker 1: up here and and get to play for guys like that. 426 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: Where was Chad when you played for him? He? Uh 427 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: at Lake Travis? Yes? Good? Uh? And even before that, 428 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:06,239 Speaker 1: because uh, your your dad played at cal As you 429 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: said he was with the Bills, And who was the 430 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: other team he was? He was? He was with the Seahawks, 431 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: then the Bills and the Chargers. How did you guys 432 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: even get to Austin? Um, kind of out of the blue. 433 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,160 Speaker 1: My parents were looking to settle down after he got 434 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: done planned and uh, a good friend of my dad's 435 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 1: just recommended they check Austin out, And um, I think 436 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: they came down on a trip and and and loved it. Um, 437 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: And so you know, we've kind of been there ever 438 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 1: since and um, I mean it was truly just out 439 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: of the blue like that. Okay, so lots of times 440 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,879 Speaker 1: real good quarterbacks and even around Austin. Don't wind up 441 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: at Texas. That's that's a whole book unto itself. How 442 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: did you wind up there? Well, for me, it was 443 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: it was Texas? Was it? Um? When I was growing 444 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,520 Speaker 1: up again, you know, as you said, my dad played 445 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: at cal but I was too young to really care 446 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 1: about football, you know, And we moved here when I'm 447 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 1: four or five years old, and uh so the first 448 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: thing I knew was Texas Longhorns football. My best friend 449 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 1: growing up his dad actually coached at Texas, so I 450 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: was fortunate to actually be around the program. Was really 451 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: his name is Kate McCreary. His dad, Hardy McCreary, was 452 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,479 Speaker 1: the defensive defensive line coach at Texas for a long time. 453 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: Very good, No, that's all right. So I was real 454 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: fortunate to be around the program as as a real 455 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 1: young kid. Um you know, like uh like I got 456 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 1: a picture with Major apple White when I'm I think 457 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: six seven years old, and you know he's I'm watching 458 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 1: him play, and you know, I think, um so, so 459 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,719 Speaker 1: whenever it came time to choose a school, that was it. 460 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,400 Speaker 1: There wasn't anyone else. Um, I couldn't imagine myself having 461 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: gone anywhere else and then to be able to be 462 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 1: offered by I mean it was you know. I was 463 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 1: not committed instantly. Okay, we got to take our next 464 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,640 Speaker 1: break and then we're going to As Garrett said, it's 465 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,640 Speaker 1: probably a couple of weeks on just Texas to stay 466 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,440 Speaker 1: on all of that. But we do have to get 467 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: you from Texas to SMU and maybe we'll give the 468 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 1: abridged version. We'll give the abridged version. We got to 469 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 1: get through that championship game against Alabama. I wish I 470 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,399 Speaker 1: didn't have to, but we have to do. We have 471 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,640 Speaker 1: to just touch on it and on down the road 472 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,919 Speaker 1: we'll go. Just delighted to have Garrett Gilbert with us 473 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: on the Cowboys Hour. 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Brad Sham and Danny 483 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 1: Serek are very special guest Cowboys quarterback Garrett Gilbert. We 484 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: do want to remind you that next week there will 485 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: be no show because we never do one of these 486 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 1: on the Monday before Thanksgiving. It's Thanksgiving? How did that happen? What? 487 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: Do you have any accouterments for Thanksgiving? I love Thanksgiving? 488 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: I mean but you threatened get a Halloween pumpkin and 489 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: failed miserably at that. Did you do you have anything 490 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: from your home on thanks You will there be anything 491 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: in your home for thanks just lots of food? Okay, fine, 492 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 1: we just want to give the people a picture Thanksgiving 493 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: next week. Is really not practical to ask any player 494 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 1: to be taken up an hour of time away from 495 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: from preparation on that short a week. So we'll be 496 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 1: back in two weeks from tonight. And we just found 497 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 1: out that Anthony Brown will be our guest on that 498 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: two weeks from tonight. But right now we're with Cowboys 499 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 1: quarterback Garrett Gilbert. We are, uh, we are trapsing through 500 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 1: the Gilbert travelogue and Danny's got him at the University 501 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 1: of Texas now, so please commence. Next step was SMU? 502 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: How did that transition take place? Or why I should 503 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 1: say start with Yeah, I mean sometimes, um I, sometimes 504 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 1: you just need a fresh starting. For me, that was 505 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 1: the case at Texas. It was just time to time 506 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 1: to start over, time to make a move. Um and uh, 507 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 1: I owe coach Jones at SMU a lot for giving 508 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 1: me that chance. Um I was able to graduate from 509 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,040 Speaker 1: Texas and so be eligible to transfer to to play 510 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 1: right away when I transferred, and um, I had a 511 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 1: I had a blast playing my last two years of 512 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 1: college for for June at SMU. And obviously we you know, 513 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 1: we threw the ball all over the place, and um 514 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:55,960 Speaker 1: it was it was really a lot of fun. Do 515 00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 1: you have any idea how many UM records you set? 516 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: Game records, season records? I don't. I don't. Was it 517 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 1: a blur while it was happening? Um it? You know, yeah, yes, 518 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: and no, I mean it was it got to be. 519 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,239 Speaker 1: Obviously you know, we'd love to you'd love to win 520 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 1: a little bit more. We were, I think, uh seven 521 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: and six my first year there, and then we ended 522 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,759 Speaker 1: up uh sort of flaming out at the end of 523 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 1: the um at the end of my senior year and 524 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 1: finishing five and seven. Um. But uh, but it was 525 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,239 Speaker 1: it sure was a lot of fun, uh throwing the 526 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,960 Speaker 1: ball so much there and getting to getting to uh 527 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 1: to have some fun um tossing it all over the yard. 528 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,920 Speaker 1: You have a seven touchdown game? Is that right? Yeah? 529 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 1: We uh well, I mean unfortunately a lot of times 530 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: we were having to play catch up, so we were 531 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,880 Speaker 1: there was a lot even more throwing going on. And 532 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,160 Speaker 1: then you know, we had how Mummy came in for 533 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 1: my senior year, who was sort of the the original 534 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 1: architect of the air raid off and so Hal and 535 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,600 Speaker 1: June or um there you know, I think they were 536 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 1: battling on the sideline to see who could call more passes. Okay, 537 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,400 Speaker 1: so um, so that's now he's at SMU. Let's get 538 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,400 Speaker 1: him out of SMU. Yeah, out of SMU. You're drafted 539 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,120 Speaker 1: to the RAMS and they were in St. Louis, Yes, 540 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:22,680 Speaker 1: So then I guess how validating was that when you're drafted, um, 541 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,600 Speaker 1: but then still in the practice squad, right, yeah, yeah, 542 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:30,839 Speaker 1: So I was drafted there in twenty fourteen. UM, and 543 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,600 Speaker 1: then after training camp, I got put on the practice squad. 544 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:39,600 Speaker 1: UM it's uh for two months. It's it's a very 545 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,239 Speaker 1: it's a very cool feeling to see your name uh 546 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,400 Speaker 1: on ESPN on draft day. I mean, it's uh certainly 547 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 1: something I dreamt about as a kid, and so to 548 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,560 Speaker 1: be able to fulfill that, to have that play out, 549 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,200 Speaker 1: UM was very exciting. I will say this. I was 550 00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,960 Speaker 1: UM by Saturday afternoon, I think, is when it happened. 551 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,360 Speaker 1: It had been such a long day of watching UM. 552 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,360 Speaker 1: I didn't know if anything was going to happen. I 553 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 1: really had no idea whether or not. And so I 554 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,280 Speaker 1: had I had. I had gone in the other room 555 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,919 Speaker 1: and turned on the Players Championship because uh, I think 556 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,279 Speaker 1: Jordan Spieth was maybe a rookie that year and he 557 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,400 Speaker 1: was leading the Players Championship, and uh, so you know, 558 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:21,560 Speaker 1: I went and I went and sat in the other 559 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,360 Speaker 1: room and started watching some golf. UM when when the 560 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 1: rams and and that's what I was watching when the 561 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,239 Speaker 1: rams called, and I was able to hustle back into 562 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:29,920 Speaker 1: the other room to see my name flash across the 563 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:34,840 Speaker 1: screen on ESPN. So I love to play. Um, I 564 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,200 Speaker 1: can't say I'm very good, but I love to play. 565 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:42,480 Speaker 1: You know. I'm if every spring I start over and 566 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,920 Speaker 1: I build up to uh, you know, I build up 567 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:50,319 Speaker 1: to being Okay, um, a single digit handicapper sometimes in 568 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,880 Speaker 1: in July, and then I don't play for four or 569 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: five months, and so I start all over next January. Okay, 570 00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,919 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this fairly quickly because I think that 571 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:05,000 Speaker 1: it's here. Garrett is to me, one of the great 572 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,920 Speaker 1: lessons that you have for kids who are playing high 573 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,880 Speaker 1: school football right now, or really any sport, and that 574 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,040 Speaker 1: is that if you love it, you obviously got some ability. 575 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 1: Because you're playing in high school, you're playing in college, 576 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:22,319 Speaker 1: you got some ability. There is a well spring of 577 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,719 Speaker 1: determination that has to be in you to keep you 578 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,759 Speaker 1: going through what I'm about to read fairly quickly. And 579 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,040 Speaker 1: I think it would be instructive for you to tell, 580 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:37,800 Speaker 1: especially kids, why you just kept hanging with it. So, 581 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,879 Speaker 1: as Danny said. Drafted sixth round draft pick in May 582 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,880 Speaker 1: of fourteen by the Rams and then cut at the 583 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,920 Speaker 1: end of training camp, put on the practice squad on 584 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,920 Speaker 1: the practice squad for like two months and then released 585 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,440 Speaker 1: and then not doing anything for a couple of months, 586 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,520 Speaker 1: and then in December signed to New England's practice squad. 587 00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,680 Speaker 1: That's December of fourteen. So you experienced a super Bowl 588 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,040 Speaker 1: with them, right, that was the Seattle. Yeah, that was 589 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,879 Speaker 1: a Seattle, very exciting super Bowl. For not running the ball. 590 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,640 Speaker 1: Thanks for not running the ball, Pete. Uh. And and 591 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,120 Speaker 1: then in February you signed with the Page, signed the 592 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:20,520 Speaker 1: new contract for fifteen with the Patriots, waved in June, 593 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,840 Speaker 1: claimed the next day by the Lions with the Lions 594 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,759 Speaker 1: in camp, and then released. And that's where you were 595 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:33,000 Speaker 1: with Kellen Moore as a player and Matthew Stafford. Right, yes, okay, yes, 596 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:38,040 Speaker 1: I was for like a like a long weekend. Okay, 597 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,600 Speaker 1: very good. Okay. So now that you waved in the 598 00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,279 Speaker 1: at the end of at the end of training camp 599 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, uh signed on Oakland's practice squad in September, 600 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,399 Speaker 1: and you were there for the entire twenty fifteen season, right, correct? Yes, 601 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,680 Speaker 1: If I if I were not reading off these years, 602 00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,879 Speaker 1: could you tick off the years like real fast? I've 603 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,040 Speaker 1: gotten decent at it, so I think I probably I 604 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:06,120 Speaker 1: could yeah, okay. So the fifteen season on Oakland's practice squad. 605 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 1: Resigned as a future what they called as a future 606 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,480 Speaker 1: January of sixteen, waived in May, signed back to the 607 00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,719 Speaker 1: practice squad in January. It says of seventeen and then 608 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:22,680 Speaker 1: one game for one game, which is weird, Garrett, that's 609 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,120 Speaker 1: so weird. Well, Derek Carr got hurt and then Mett 610 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:29,160 Speaker 1: McGloin got hurt, and so Connor Cook actually ended up 611 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,080 Speaker 1: starting a playoff game in Houston, and they brought me 612 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:32,719 Speaker 1: back because they didn't know Matt McGloin was going to 613 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,560 Speaker 1: be able to go. He ended up dressing. So I 614 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:37,760 Speaker 1: stayed on the practice squad and was the third quarterback 615 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,719 Speaker 1: there for that weekend. But were you with the Mari? 616 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,759 Speaker 1: I was with the Mari. Yeah, get him and I yeah, 617 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,200 Speaker 1: I was. I was a scout team corner. I used 618 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:51,200 Speaker 1: to lock him up and walkthroughs before practice. Love that. Okay. 619 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,160 Speaker 1: Now comes the call from Carolina that Garrett was talking 620 00:39:55,160 --> 00:40:00,600 Speaker 1: about earlier March of seventeen. You're with them through from 621 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:05,520 Speaker 1: March through camp waived, then signed to their practice squad, 622 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:13,160 Speaker 1: actually activated in October, and then in eighteen waived by Carolina. 623 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,560 Speaker 1: Resigned by them at the end of the year. So 624 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,160 Speaker 1: for most of twenty eighteen, you didn't play for one 625 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,160 Speaker 1: game again there. Yeah, at the end of twenty eighteen, 626 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 1: camp got hurt and then Taylor Heineke got hurt in 627 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,319 Speaker 1: week sixteen, So I was the backup for the last 628 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:29,040 Speaker 1: game of the year in eighteen. Okay, April of nineteen, 629 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,920 Speaker 1: signed with Cleveland, and you're with them all of camp 630 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,480 Speaker 1: until right before camp and then waved and signed to 631 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:40,319 Speaker 1: their practice squad. I actually made the team that one, 632 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,200 Speaker 1: so I was in there. I'll play in the AF 633 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,560 Speaker 1: in early twenty nineteen, right, and then and then signed 634 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:49,960 Speaker 1: to Cleveland and then twenty nineteen I was, I was. 635 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,839 Speaker 1: We kept three quarterbacks. Okay, so I was. I wasn't 636 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,080 Speaker 1: on the practice squad there until this year. Okay, Right, 637 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:58,880 Speaker 1: waved by Cleveland in September of twenty So when you 638 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:05,480 Speaker 1: made the team there nineteen, after all of that, Rams, Patriots, Raiders, Panthers, 639 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,000 Speaker 1: Now you make the team, do you think, oh, okay, 640 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:13,520 Speaker 1: things are looking up? Uh yeah, I mean, I'll actually 641 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,960 Speaker 1: never forget. We were sitting at brunch the day of 642 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,440 Speaker 1: the last preseason game with my parents and Freddie Kitchens 643 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,600 Speaker 1: had told me the night before. It was the night 644 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,400 Speaker 1: before the last preseason game that that he was going 645 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,040 Speaker 1: to keep me on the team. And my wife and 646 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:29,759 Speaker 1: I had just found out we were having our first kids. 647 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:31,640 Speaker 1: So I told my parents both those things at brunch 648 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,360 Speaker 1: next morning, and uh, I was, I mean, that was 649 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:39,640 Speaker 1: I'll never forget that very exciting. Um certainly thought I thought, yeah, 650 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:41,239 Speaker 1: I definitely thought Cleveland was going to be home for 651 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,240 Speaker 1: a while. You just have to figure out who's playing 652 00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:46,200 Speaker 1: you in the movie Garret, because I can see that scene. 653 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,440 Speaker 1: That's a phenomenal. It's not too bad, no, I know. Yeah, okay, 654 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,680 Speaker 1: um okay, and then the and then you were on 655 00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,000 Speaker 1: the Browns practice squad at the beginning of this year 656 00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,279 Speaker 1: and the Cowboys signed you off the practice squad. That's correct, Yep, 657 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,759 Speaker 1: you nailed it. Um, well, I didn't nail it. I 658 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,880 Speaker 1: read it. I mean, I can't remember all that, but 659 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,879 Speaker 1: you're like, but you, but you lived it. And so 660 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,840 Speaker 1: I would love to have you say just a word 661 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,759 Speaker 1: to kids who are having a tough time getting through 662 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:17,200 Speaker 1: their high school season or their college season about where 663 00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:23,120 Speaker 1: you found the inspiration to keep going through all that. Um, Bob, 664 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,600 Speaker 1: be honest, A lot of it was so as as 665 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,160 Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, you know, there was never there was 666 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:34,800 Speaker 1: never really uh like where my belief and myself left. Um. 667 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:36,360 Speaker 1: But I certainly didn't know if I was ever going 668 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,520 Speaker 1: to get another chance. Um. That being said, you know, 669 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,560 Speaker 1: I had a great group of receivers when I was 670 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:43,759 Speaker 1: coaching at SMU, and I'd sort of keep them out 671 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,600 Speaker 1: after practice just to get a few throws, just to 672 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:49,640 Speaker 1: stay ready just in case. Um Courtland Sutland, Courtland Sutton 673 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:51,920 Speaker 1: being one of them, who's now obviously Trey Quinn another 674 00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,600 Speaker 1: one who's who's a you know, a great great player 675 00:42:54,640 --> 00:43:00,279 Speaker 1: for the or was for the Washington um formerly Redskins. UM. 676 00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:05,360 Speaker 1: And then um, uh I think the other thing was 677 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:11,040 Speaker 1: my family. UM, you know, my my my parents, UM 678 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:15,759 Speaker 1: and my wife especially just uh they they've been incredible 679 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,839 Speaker 1: through all this. You know, I I even even going 680 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,279 Speaker 1: back to transferring from Texas. You know, I again it 681 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,600 Speaker 1: was as I said, it was time for a fresh start. 682 00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,919 Speaker 1: But my my parents you know, really helped me through 683 00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,640 Speaker 1: that because it's you know, it's not easy to to 684 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,120 Speaker 1: go to your dream school and have things not not 685 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,560 Speaker 1: work out. Um. And so um, I gotta give a 686 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,600 Speaker 1: lot of credit to them, um, or really all the 687 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,560 Speaker 1: credit to them. Um. But I think the biggest thing 688 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,000 Speaker 1: is if it's something, if you know, if if if 689 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,680 Speaker 1: if this is your dream, if whatever field it is 690 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,239 Speaker 1: regards you know, it doesn't have to be football, it 691 00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,720 Speaker 1: doesn't even have to be sports, but you know, and 692 00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,799 Speaker 1: and if you if you keep after it and keep 693 00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:01,120 Speaker 1: believing in yourself, I mean, ultimately, it just boils down 694 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,360 Speaker 1: to just don't don't give up because, uh, you know, 695 00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,319 Speaker 1: you never know when your break's going to happen. And 696 00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:10,080 Speaker 1: I think I I think I had been waiting and 697 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:14,600 Speaker 1: waiting and waiting for this opportunity to play last Sunday. Um. 698 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,120 Speaker 1: And you know, to be honest, you know, as I said, 699 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:18,399 Speaker 1: I didn't know if I was ever going to come 700 00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,560 Speaker 1: because I have spent so much time out of football. 701 00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:26,640 Speaker 1: But to have that uh finally come to Fruition, UM, 702 00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:30,279 Speaker 1: it's pretty surreal. And so go ahead, no no, no, 703 00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,680 Speaker 1: go finish sorry no, I mean, I just it's Uh. 704 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,480 Speaker 1: I think I think that's the biggest thing that I 705 00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,960 Speaker 1: would say is is well, two things. Really. You know, 706 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,160 Speaker 1: I'm very fortunate to have my family, um, my wife 707 00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,200 Speaker 1: and uh and and and my parents really too sort 708 00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:49,960 Speaker 1: of uh keep me positive uh during things. And then 709 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,279 Speaker 1: secondly it's just under you know, never given up because 710 00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,919 Speaker 1: the journey's never over. And now I have to ask 711 00:44:56,080 --> 00:45:00,399 Speaker 1: Danny to persevere for the next question through one more break. No, 712 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:02,520 Speaker 1: I should not have cut you off. I'm so sorry 713 00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,040 Speaker 1: you did not. I was going to cut her off 714 00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,960 Speaker 1: with so thank you. I'll get your next next okay, yep, 715 00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:08,960 Speaker 1: which is coming right up. We write that one down 716 00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:10,120 Speaker 1: because I think it's going to be a good one. 717 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,480 Speaker 1: Cowboys Hour with Garrett Gilbert, a Miller Like Cowboys Hours 718 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,880 Speaker 1: brought to you in part by Omni Hotels and Resorts 719 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,239 Speaker 1: this fall, do more than just stay apart, stay a 720 00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,000 Speaker 1: part of the game, and stay a part of the 721 00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:24,280 Speaker 1: Cowboys experienced football season at Omni Frisco Hotel, the official 722 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,320 Speaker 1: hotel of the Dallas Cowboys, and enjoy all the dining 723 00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,000 Speaker 1: and entertainment options the Star has to offer. Back with 724 00:45:30,040 --> 00:46:26,960 Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert on the Cowboys Hour right after this, and 725 00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:38,880 Speaker 1: to the Miller Like Cowboys Hour supported by Albertsons and 726 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:45,280 Speaker 1: Omni Hotels and Resorts. Back on the Cowboys Hour, Brad Sham, 727 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:49,560 Speaker 1: Danny Saraka and our very special guest Cowboys quarterback Garrett Gilbert. 728 00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,520 Speaker 1: And so one other thing that I want to that 729 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,120 Speaker 1: I really was kind of inspired by from you discussing 730 00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,560 Speaker 1: at your press conference last week before the Pittsburgh game 731 00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,640 Speaker 1: to weeks ago. That really struck a note with me, 732 00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:06,279 Speaker 1: which was all of those stops in the NFL. And 733 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,759 Speaker 1: obviously you're around Tom Brady, and you're around Matthew Stafford, 734 00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:14,240 Speaker 1: and you around Sam Bradford, and but you were also 735 00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:18,680 Speaker 1: Derek Carr, Cam Newton. But the thing that really struck me, Garrett, 736 00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,720 Speaker 1: was what you said about being around guys like Sean 737 00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:26,520 Speaker 1: Hill and Derek Anderson and guys who have learned how 738 00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:30,480 Speaker 1: to be backup quarterbacks in the NFL and turn that 739 00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,480 Speaker 1: into really long careers. What did you learn from those guys? 740 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:37,560 Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's an invaluable skill. And all 741 00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,480 Speaker 1: those guys obviously what they have in common on paper 742 00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,000 Speaker 1: is is that you know, they stuck around the NFL 743 00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,520 Speaker 1: for thirteen fourteen years, and that's really hard to do, 744 00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:49,480 Speaker 1: as has been you know, evidenced by for a long 745 00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:53,160 Speaker 1: long time. My dad was sort of in the same boat. 746 00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,719 Speaker 1: So growing up, I hadn't an idea of that, but 747 00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:57,520 Speaker 1: to be able to see it up close and personal. 748 00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,680 Speaker 1: Just the way that they approached the game of football, 749 00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,080 Speaker 1: the way that they approach walkthroughs, the way that they 750 00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:05,320 Speaker 1: approach their scout team reps, the way that they approach 751 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,880 Speaker 1: standing behind whenever the you know, the starting quarterback's taking reps. 752 00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:13,279 Speaker 1: It's UM. It's really admirable. And so as a young 753 00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,080 Speaker 1: guy when I got to the NFL and I didn't 754 00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,120 Speaker 1: know what to expect, those were the guys that I 755 00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,800 Speaker 1: sort of clung to because I was standing back behind 756 00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,520 Speaker 1: with them. So how do you go about watching film 757 00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,240 Speaker 1: on a Monday and Tuesday before the practice week starts? 758 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:30,360 Speaker 1: You know, how do you go about you know, getting 759 00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,600 Speaker 1: throws because you don't get a ton of those things. 760 00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,120 Speaker 1: You know, you pull guys aside or you know, what 761 00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:36,560 Speaker 1: do you do during the course of the week to 762 00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:41,040 Speaker 1: make those things count? Because obviously priority number one is 763 00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:46,360 Speaker 1: to get the starting quarterback ready. So I really was 764 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:50,440 Speaker 1: always uh in you know, at least, you know, certainly 765 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:51,879 Speaker 1: as a young guy, was sort of in awe about 766 00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,320 Speaker 1: how those guys got themselves ready because you don't, you know, 767 00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,919 Speaker 1: I think one thing I tell people that UM sort 768 00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,319 Speaker 1: of surprises them. Um at least, you know, friends of 769 00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,319 Speaker 1: mine or is how you know, the backup doesn't get 770 00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,839 Speaker 1: any reps you know, buy and large, it's they're all 771 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,040 Speaker 1: the reps you know, in terms of getting ready for 772 00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:12,879 Speaker 1: the game, go to the starter. So, um, watching as 773 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:17,040 Speaker 1: you mentioned, Sean Hill, Dan Orlovsky, Um, Derek you know, 774 00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:19,880 Speaker 1: Derek Anderson, and then Drew Stanton in Cleveland last year, 775 00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:26,680 Speaker 1: watching them prepare, um was was really, um, you know, 776 00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,160 Speaker 1: something that I felt like I could adapt myself and 777 00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,480 Speaker 1: get myself and and you know, and and find a 778 00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:35,400 Speaker 1: way to sort of uh, you know, I had you know, 779 00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:36,960 Speaker 1: those guys sort of took me under their wing, and 780 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:38,640 Speaker 1: so I could watch them prepare and get ready to 781 00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,680 Speaker 1: go play. And I think that was That's something that's 782 00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:42,839 Speaker 1: been really great for me to use. And I've picked 783 00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,080 Speaker 1: up little things from all of them. Obviously you mentioned 784 00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,359 Speaker 1: the starters. Certainly learned a lot from those guys too. 785 00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:50,120 Speaker 1: But um, you know, the way Tom Brady prepares for 786 00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:52,840 Speaker 1: a game, and and and but the way those starters 787 00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:55,279 Speaker 1: prepare often different from the way that the way that 788 00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,040 Speaker 1: you know, guys like those other guys that I mentioned 789 00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,040 Speaker 1: get to prepare. During the course of the week you 790 00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,719 Speaker 1: were talking about your long journey to get to this 791 00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,080 Speaker 1: point and jumping from team to team and the break 792 00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:10,239 Speaker 1: from the NFL. And you were saying that what kept 793 00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,960 Speaker 1: you going and confident was not just understanding your ability, 794 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,880 Speaker 1: but also the support from your family. And so after 795 00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:20,880 Speaker 1: you got your start, your first NFL start against Pittsburgh, 796 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,440 Speaker 1: what was the message from your parents and from your 797 00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:29,080 Speaker 1: wife to you. Um. Well, first of all, they you know, 798 00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:35,160 Speaker 1: they like me. They were uh piss that we didn't win. Um, 799 00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:39,320 Speaker 1: you know, but they were very I think I think 800 00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:42,400 Speaker 1: proud was probably the best word for it, um because 801 00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,680 Speaker 1: you know, as I said, that, they've got you know, 802 00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,719 Speaker 1: as much to do with me still being here and 803 00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,239 Speaker 1: still having the opportunity to play football as I do. Um. 804 00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,279 Speaker 1: And so if you know, if not more um, And 805 00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,040 Speaker 1: so I think it was, uh, it was, you know, 806 00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:58,640 Speaker 1: it was. It was a pretty cool moment, especially to 807 00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:00,560 Speaker 1: you know, be able to go out after the game 808 00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:03,399 Speaker 1: and hug my wife and my mom and um and 809 00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:08,200 Speaker 1: and see my family. UM. I think I think proud 810 00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,160 Speaker 1: is probably just the best way to best way to 811 00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:14,640 Speaker 1: describe it. So here's a personal question that m is 812 00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,279 Speaker 1: absolutely none of our business, But do you with all 813 00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:22,360 Speaker 1: so six years six years but not not six years 814 00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,839 Speaker 1: in the NFL from the spring of twenty fourteen. Do 815 00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:29,719 Speaker 1: you have enough service time to be vested? Yet? Uh 816 00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:34,600 Speaker 1: I actually do now, Um thanks to being here in Dallas. 817 00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:37,799 Speaker 1: Um that got me my my my third year to 818 00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:41,120 Speaker 1: get vested. And uh so, by the way, excuse me 819 00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,239 Speaker 1: for anybody to know what that means. That means, that 820 00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:48,279 Speaker 1: means vested is for a pension and healthcare in uh 821 00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:52,200 Speaker 1: in the NFL going forward, that's a pretty big deal. Absolutely, 822 00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:57,080 Speaker 1: that was that was I mean, you know, obviously take 823 00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,280 Speaker 1: take take all the fact that I was super excited 824 00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,160 Speaker 1: to come here and you know, be a part of 825 00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:05,239 Speaker 1: this team. And um, that was a nice little byproduct 826 00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,840 Speaker 1: of that or added bonus um to be able to 827 00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:11,200 Speaker 1: to come here and and earn that third year. So 828 00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:15,680 Speaker 1: we normally love to help fans get to know a 829 00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:18,760 Speaker 1: guy better by asking him, um, what what he likes 830 00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:23,000 Speaker 1: to do with his idol time? But you've got an infant, 831 00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:26,600 Speaker 1: you don't have any idol time. No I. Uh I 832 00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:29,719 Speaker 1: took uh I took my daughter out golf in one 833 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,919 Speaker 1: time during the beginnings of of of quarantine. But other 834 00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:37,600 Speaker 1: than other than playing golf, and she was she's seven 835 00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,760 Speaker 1: months now. What was she your caddie? She? Well, she 836 00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,719 Speaker 1: she was. She was my only fan. She didn't care 837 00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,040 Speaker 1: if I had a bad shot either. Galleries a gallery, 838 00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:49,560 Speaker 1: that's right. Um. I loved to golf. Uh. I love 839 00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,640 Speaker 1: to be on when I was back home, I love 840 00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:53,040 Speaker 1: to be on the lake. I haven't gotten to do 841 00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,440 Speaker 1: that too much lately. But yeah, you're right, most of 842 00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,960 Speaker 1: my time has spent chasing chasing her around the house. 843 00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:04,560 Speaker 1: So do you I think I know the answer to this. 844 00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:09,439 Speaker 1: But do you allow yourself to think past this year? 845 00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:13,759 Speaker 1: Not right now? I mean, you know there there are 846 00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:16,160 Speaker 1: times when yeah, you know, my mind will wander a 847 00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:20,120 Speaker 1: little bit and wonder what's next. But but but right now? Um? 848 00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:24,440 Speaker 1: You know again, to repeat myself once again, you know 849 00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:28,000 Speaker 1: I every day is, every day is for me, I think, 850 00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:31,440 Speaker 1: and I really true do I really do truly believe this. 851 00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,319 Speaker 1: I think my future will be best served if I 852 00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:37,120 Speaker 1: continually focus on improving myself every day here and um, 853 00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:40,680 Speaker 1: So the way I take care of my future is 854 00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:43,000 Speaker 1: by by putting my best product on the field every 855 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,120 Speaker 1: single day at practice. And so if I say to you, 856 00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:46,960 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you did two weeks ago, is 857 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:51,239 Speaker 1: that you you cemented the belief in everyone's mind that 858 00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,640 Speaker 1: you're you're at the very least you're a backup quarterback 859 00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:56,200 Speaker 1: in the NFL. You're going to have a double digit 860 00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,839 Speaker 1: year career. If I say that to you, do you say, ah, 861 00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,279 Speaker 1: go await don't know's that's uh? I mean that's great 862 00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:07,680 Speaker 1: to hear. Um and uh and and certainly yeah, every 863 00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:09,239 Speaker 1: once in a while, my mind will wander there and 864 00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:12,280 Speaker 1: wonder what's what's going to be next, what happens? But uh, 865 00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,440 Speaker 1: but again, yeah, I try to I try not to 866 00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:18,200 Speaker 1: focus on on that um as much as possible. All Right, 867 00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:21,160 Speaker 1: have you met Prescott? Yea? He uh, you know when 868 00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:24,640 Speaker 1: he comes in for treatment. He's been he uh. He 869 00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:28,239 Speaker 1: sent me a really nice text before before the game 870 00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:32,120 Speaker 1: on Sunday. Um. And I've gotten to to basically say 871 00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:33,879 Speaker 1: what's up to him a few times whenever he's been 872 00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:36,200 Speaker 1: in for for his treatment and whatnot. All Right, get 873 00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:37,680 Speaker 1: to know him. I think you're gonna be around him 874 00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:39,680 Speaker 1: for a little bit. Garrett. Thank you for the time. 875 00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:42,320 Speaker 1: It's just great for people to get an opportunity to 876 00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:44,440 Speaker 1: get to know you. And it was really fun watching 877 00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:46,960 Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh. Who knows what's coming up. Thanks for the time. 878 00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:48,880 Speaker 1: Thanks guys, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me on. 879 00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:52,200 Speaker 1: That's Garrett Gilbert for Danny. I'm brad. We're off next week, 880 00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:55,040 Speaker 1: See you in two weeks with Anthony Brown on the 881 00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:59,080 Speaker 1: Cowboys Hour. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys 882 00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,799 Speaker 1: dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.