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Speaker 1: Bradshan and welcome everybody to the Cowboys Hour. Thank you

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Speaker 1: all of you have come out on about Me Tuesday

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Speaker 1: evening for our regular Monday night stop after the game.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Tuesday night, after Monday, and now we're going

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Speaker 1: when you turn the clock back, yes, I made sure

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Speaker 1: you who are watching us streamed live or otherwise on

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Speaker 1: people to see our faces. Try try to look away

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Speaker 1: from here and look over there, because those people are

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Speaker 1: much much better to look at. And those people would

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Speaker 1: be Taylor Stern and Cowboys linebacker Layton vander Esh. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for coming. Thanks, thank you, and and so Layton,

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Speaker 1: deal of help. But they can imagine it. Yeah, Layton,

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Speaker 1: you're forgiven because you must be exhausted, are you know?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're young and strong, but are

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Speaker 1: just because I've been kind of hanging out with my

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's our one day off for the week.

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Speaker 1: So we got a short week coming up, so you

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Speaker 1: gotta get things done today and then get ready to

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Speaker 1: go for this coming week. Well, we're all gonna get

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Speaker 1: to know Layton vander Esh a little better. Damian Wilson,

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys strong side linebacker, will be along and join us.

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Speaker 1: Also later in the program, those of you who are here,

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Speaker 1: we'll have an opportunity to ask questions and um, we're

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Speaker 1: just gonna hang out and see if we can have

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Speaker 1: a good time and get and get the taste gone

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Speaker 1: a little bit. So how long does that take you

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Speaker 1: after a tough loss? Um? I think it's different every game,

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Speaker 1: but I think with a game like this, and with

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Speaker 1: with the point that we are in the season, you

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Speaker 1: gotta let that go pretty quick and you gotta move

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Speaker 1: on to the next one. So UM, for me, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it happens pretty quick. I get pretty focused

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Speaker 1: up right off the bat, right up next day. So

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Speaker 1: I'm already looking ahead to Philly and getting ready to

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Speaker 1: go for that day. Have you watched tape of the

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Speaker 1: Eagles yet? Today was as you said, today was your

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Speaker 1: starting to look look at tape and look ahead, and

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Speaker 1: So Taylor and I don't rehearse the questions, so I

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Speaker 1: don't know what questions she has to grill you within

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Speaker 1: think just the defensive chemistry we all have. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it just makes for a good atmosphere. Now, Jalen considered

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Speaker 1: Justin's an awesome guy though he is extremely encouraging. He's

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Speaker 1: other a few other teams had been doing it this year.

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Speaker 1: Last night was the first time you guys have done it, right,

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Speaker 1: Uh the second time? When was the first time? Oh?

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Speaker 1: During I'm talking about during the game when everyone posed,

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Speaker 1: But I think now it's just kind of it's kind

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Speaker 1: Don't you then have to have a great game and

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Speaker 1: from that. And obviously we're a young defense, we're a

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Speaker 1: That's the fun. That's the extremely fun fun thing about

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Speaker 1: because that does not look like the kind of thing

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Speaker 1: that happens organically. And then guys start posing and and

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Speaker 1: It's yeah, yeah, it's swag. I got a question for you,

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Speaker 1: And I feel like a lot of cowboys fans. I

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Speaker 1: can imagine how they feel when they see shun Lee

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Speaker 1: leave a game, And how do you guys feel, how

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Speaker 1: do you react in that moment when you see him

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Speaker 1: mind on that game. Yeah, we gotta step up, and

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Speaker 1: especially me and my position right now playing with him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, a guy like that go down and the

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Speaker 1: reputation he's had and how much he knows is intelligence

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Speaker 1: with the game. Uh, that just lights of fire underneath

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Speaker 1: playing with a guy like Sean every single day in practice,

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Speaker 1: being in the meeting rooms with him. Uh, just the

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Speaker 1: And I feel like for for my role and being

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Speaker 1: seen anybody as intense as he is? Absolutely not? In

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Speaker 1: Damian Wilson. I'm giving him a chance. Is it? Traffic

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Speaker 1: it out, punch it out, whatever it is. He's always

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Speaker 1: there and you're always hearing him, Like he might not

424
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Speaker 1: be talking to you, but you're hearing him. So uh,

425
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,320
Speaker 1: that's just the atmosphere that that it is being around him,

426
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,640
Speaker 1: and and his his language is colorful on the practice

427
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Speaker 1: field also not here I'm gonna I didn't. I didn't

428
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Speaker 1: ask anybody to repeat any of the words. But I mean,

429
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Speaker 1: you're you'd both agree that his language is colorful if

430
00:22:55,640 --> 00:23:01,920
Speaker 1: you've seen it, seen some things, you know, But he

431
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 1: doesn't do that off the field. Oh, thank you the

432
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 1: sweetest little guy, all right, right, but when he puts

433
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 1: he puts on his little coaching uniform, it's just transforming. Um.

434
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Speaker 1: So before we take our next break, I really want

435
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Speaker 1: to give you an opportunity, uh, Damien, to do a

436
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 1: little clinic because I, first of all, I think you're

437
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,920
Speaker 1: playing the best football of your career, um, and you

438
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,440
Speaker 1: and you have been doing that since spring. You're just

439
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,200
Speaker 1: you're at the top of your game. And as the

440
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,400
Speaker 1: strong side linebacker, your opportunities are a little bit less

441
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,639
Speaker 1: because they're a lot of people are in nickel situations

442
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 1: and you don't get to be on the field as much.

443
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 1: And we can talk about that in a minute, but

444
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 1: I would love you to explain to people what it

445
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 1: is about your skill set that makes you ideally suited

446
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 1: to play strong side linebacker. Sam in the vernacular, Uh,

447
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,640
Speaker 1: I think it's, um, well, I got long arms, it's

448
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:03,640
Speaker 1: at the edge, I'm pretty fast out the buzz. Uh,

449
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good blitzer. Um. It's just you know, just

450
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: the attitude when you gotta go out there. I mean,

451
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: you know, they probably gonna run the ball away from you,

452
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: so you're probably gonna be end up in a pursuit situation.

453
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: It's just pursuing to the ball every every time, you know,

454
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,920
Speaker 1: just giving it what you got every time. Laden you've

455
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 1: played middle linebacker and week side, Mike and Will have

456
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: you have they worked you that strong side? Yep, yeah,

457
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: not as much, but just just a few things here

458
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: and there, just in case, just in case something happens.

459
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 1: That's just the main thing. I mean, that's another thing

460
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 1: we take pride in as a group is being able

461
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 1: to play in all positions. I mean Damian, Damian plays

462
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: sam that's his primary position, but in practice and everything,

463
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 1: and even like sometimes in the games, he's got it.

464
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 1: He'll go out there. He knows Will, he knows Mike,

465
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,400
Speaker 1: he knows all of them, just as if he played

466
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 1: all every single one of them. So that's that's the

467
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 1: unique thing about him, and and I think our group

468
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 1: as a whole is we just got some dynamic players

469
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 1: that can that can play anywhere you need to play.

470
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: Everybody plays at least two positions. Yeah, well as it

471
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: should be, and I mean everybody everybody's gonna you know,

472
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: look at the number one draft choice, and and Layton's

473
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: had a tremendous rookie half season. So far and and

474
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: it's impossible not to notice him. But I think that

475
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 1: I think you get overlooked a little bit sometimes, you know.

476
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: Jaalen obviously commands a lot of attention, and I just

477
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: wanted to be on record as saying how how much

478
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: people should be paying attention to number fifty seven because

479
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 1: Damian Wilson is he is playing the best football of

480
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: his life. And we're gonna do you well if you

481
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,919
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. If you'll get a dad gun interception,

482
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: I'll do yeah, all right, Yeah you'll get I'll refine it,

483
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: I'll practice it, and I won't crumble at the end

484
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 1: if you can make it all the way in the

485
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Speaker 1: end zone. There we go. Okay, we're on all right,

486
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Speaker 1: we're on the Cowboys Hour, and I with Damien Wilson

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Speaker 1: the Omnifrisco at the Star. Second down, the log inside

502
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,439
Speaker 1: hand o Wallas put the ball on the ground. That's

503
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Speaker 1: forty your line? Who got this one? The Cowboys defenders

504
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Speaker 1: say they double recovery for the Cowboys. Jared Smith one

505
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: of the bright moments last night for the Cowboys defense

506
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: early in the game against the Tennessee Titans. And we

507
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: are delighted to have Layton vander esh and Damian Wilson,

508
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: two members of the Dynamic Cowboys linebackers team, with us

509
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: this evening. Now, I want to find out one once

510
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, Damien was on this program

511
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: and we talked about the fact somewhat to my surprise

512
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: because you're from Mississippi, aren't you. Right? Okay, as you

513
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: can see by the tattoo on his arm, that says

514
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: home very observant. I might spend less time looking at

515
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: his tattooed arms than you do. But that's all right

516
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: right here, No, yeah, no, I'm fine. But Damien went

517
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:54,440
Speaker 1: to Minnesota and we talked about the fact that you

518
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: became a kind of a hockey fan because they've got

519
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: such a great hockey program. Am right, right, right? And

520
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: so I'm wondering if Layton's a hockey fan. And if

521
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: you guys ever talked hockey boy? No, no, no, I

522
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: got two cousins that play sent my pro hockey. But

523
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not. I've never been a fan of it.

524
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: Have you? Have you seen many games? Uh? A few?

525
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: Not very many. Do you go to many Stars games?

526
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: I've been through a couple of them, you know. Uh,

527
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: I think last month I went to see them played

528
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: the Wild. That's the Minnesota Wild. For those of you

529
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: who don't follow the NHL. We've got to get Joe

530
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: Treyhan who's you know pr Joe, He's he is hooked

531
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: up with the Stars. Yeah, we gotta get you guys.

532
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: I mean the Stars game. They're pretty good now, man. Yeah,

533
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: such a great sport to watch in person, especially, I

534
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: mean especially when the gloves come off and they go

535
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: at it. That is true. That is unique to hockey,

536
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: It really is. So did you ever play whom Mississippi

537
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: looks missus? Yeah? I mean it's a reasonable reasonable I

538
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: begged the difference, sir. No, I never played though. Okay, yeah,

539
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: Layton's got all his Boise Steak guys down here. When

540
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: are some Minnesota guys gonna come over here? You know what,

541
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: it is a lot of Boise State. There's a lot

542
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: of them. It's quite a few. I've noticed that myself.

543
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: Have you have you taken note? Yes, especially on the

544
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: defensive side. Exactly. Did that make it more comfortable for

545
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: you coming in here with all those guys from Boise

546
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: a little bit? Yeah? You could say that. Um, I

547
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: mean it's just I did. I just did. Actually, the well,

548
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: the thing the thing is with that is I never

549
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: really got to play with any of the mother than

550
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: said and said came in with me. So that was

551
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: that was kind of neat um having that experience, said,

552
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: excuse me, said as Cedric Wilson, the wide receiver. You

553
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: were co captains, and he or his shoulder and he's

554
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: on injured reserved yep, yep. Uh, So yeah, I was

555
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: nice coming and it was said already haven't played ball

556
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: with him for a few years. But and and d

557
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: Law came out the year that I came in, so

558
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: I always kind of teach him about that, saying he

559
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: should have stayed the year so I get to play

560
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: with him. But and then Ty was obviously way before

561
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: I got to play, way way way. Yeah. Yeah, but man,

562
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: that guy can play ball, Yeah he can. And you

563
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: never would have played with Orlando Scandrick way older than that, yep, Yeah,

564
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: I never. I never. He was already gone by Yeah.

565
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: I never even really got the chance to meet him

566
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: when he played at Boys because I went to a

567
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: bunch of the games when I was growing up, and

568
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: I always saw him play, and he very rarely came

569
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: back once he left, so I never really got the

570
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: chance to talk to him. Yeah. Now, what's going on

571
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: in Minnesota? When can we expect some more Minnesota guys

572
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: down here? Because there's something in the water boys stay.

573
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: It's hard to say, but I might not have Minnesota

574
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: guys at least I got something. My big team guys,

575
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: you do, you do quite a few, Yeah, Anthony Brown,

576
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: you got Zeke Elliott, you got all your Michigan guys.

577
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Nebraska, Nebraska, Yeah, yeah, you and Travis. You

578
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: guys talk about big ten. I'll beat most of those

579
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: guys in college too. You did what game? Do you

580
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: remember the most from that? Uh? Well, we always used

581
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: to drag Malik and Randy and Nebraska. The only people

582
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: that really beat us was uh, Zeke and o'ha State.

583
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: They want about a touchdown my senior year, so it

584
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: is what it is. And Wisconsin as you're doing against Wisconsin, Yeah,

585
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: we don't want to talk to those. But you know,

586
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: Travis wasn't there then, so that doesn't count. All right.

587
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: I want to work. I want to compare high school

588
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: experiences for those who don't know a little bit about

589
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: Layton's high school experience. It was, it was not it

590
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: was not conventional for an NFL player. Is that a

591
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: fair thing to say? Absolutely? Absolutely. Just let's pretend people

592
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: don't know and tell them a little bit about um.

593
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: All right. So I grew up in a town in

594
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere, probably one of the smallest towns

595
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: in the nation. Uh, four hundred people in city limits

596
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: graduated with eleven of my class played eight man ball

597
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: in high school all the way through. And you were

598
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: a quarterback also a quarterback valedictorian right of eleven people.

599
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: That's something something more than most. Um. Yeah, so yeah,

600
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: I played quarterback, middle linebacker. Uh, and I mean sports

601
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: was sports is huge in that town. Everybody pretty much

602
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: breathe lived everything, football, basketball, all that stuff. Um, So

603
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: you could say the experience I had grown up in

604
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: that tiny town was definitely unique. Uh, it was special.

605
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have traded it for anything. You know, everybody,

606
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's business. That's just kind of how it is. Um.

607
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: But it's fun. Everybody's family and like I said, everybody,

608
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: everybody lives right around football and in that little community

609
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: community in the school. Now what where in Mississippi did

610
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: you grow up? I grew up like forty minutes north

611
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Speaker 1: of Baton Rouge. So it's called Gloucester. It's right on

612
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: it's right on the state line right there. It's Amen

613
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: County North, and it's Amen Parish South because you know,

614
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: Louisiana got parishes. But uh, I'm from from from smalltown too.

615
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: You know, but I don't know about eleven people. It's

616
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: the graduating class. I mean, but it was really small though.

617
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: It's like forty though already in the graduating class. Now

618
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: you had to play both sides of the ball. I did. Yeah,

619
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: my first couple of its, I was a wide receiver.

620
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: My last one I was a quarterback, and I think yeah,

621
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: my first year I played safety and then the last

622
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: three was linebacker on the fens on defense. So if

623
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: you hadn't what were the other sporting options? And what

624
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: was the name of the name of the city Gloster, Mississippi.

625
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: By the way, how did you forty miles from Baton Rouge?

626
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: How did the LSU not recruit you from? Oh? Man?

627
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: Like I said, there's forty people, forty people in the town, man,

628
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: but forty miles they could they could drive out. They

629
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: signed it first. Okay, it's it's Louisiana, Mississippi. They't know

630
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: where all the players are, right. Were you disappointed not

631
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: to be recruited or yeah, because I like it. I

632
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: liked the LSSUE when I was when I was growing up. Man, Yeah,

633
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: all right, So what other sports tempted you? Uh? I

634
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: also played basketball. I played track. I played baseball for

635
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: a while and then um, I couldn't keep up with

636
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: the ball anymore. I had to cut that out. Uh,

637
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: And that was pretty much it. Yeah, I just want

638
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: to know what other sports Layton might have considered besides

639
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 1: pursuing football. Um. Well, I grew up playing baseball a

640
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: lot when I was young. Um, but everybody thought I

641
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: was gonna go play basketball in college. I had more

642
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,720
Speaker 1: offers to play basketball at smaller schools than I did football,

643
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: like any other place. Um so, and all my three

644
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: older sisters played college basketball, so we were pretty big

645
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: basketball family. So a lot of people were expecting that.

646
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: I think my mom was expecting that. I think she

647
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 1: was shocked that I kind of want to go to

648
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: the football route. But I always wanted to play at

649
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 1: Boise State and walked on there. But Uh, in high school,

650
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: we didn't have a baseball team. We didn't have enough

651
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: money to fund that so and track in the spring

652
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: was self funded, so you had to find your own

653
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: rides track meets. So it was definitely different about YEP.

654
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: I would say, again, who offered you in basketball? Um,

655
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: pretty much every nai school and in the Northwest. I

656
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,399
Speaker 1: could have played football and basketball at CEF. I. Um,

657
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 1: I could have went and played I probably I could

658
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: have went and played basketball. Boyse walked on there. Um,

659
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: just pretty much every small school in the Northwest. Couldn't

660
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: name them all Mountain West school. You know. I went

661
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: to New Mexico and we were the basketball powerhouse. And

662
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: New Mexico always beat Boise State in basketball. That's true.

663
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 1: But when you came here, a lot of people compared

664
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 1: to you to Brian Urlacker Mountain West guy. Did you

665
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: feel like you saw the resemblance there. M yeah, other

666
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: than being tall and white. Yeah, Well, it kind of

667
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: took me a while to figure out. Like I think

668
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,760
Speaker 1: I figured out that he played it in New Mexico

669
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: about a year, like kind of when the whole draft

670
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,479
Speaker 1: process started. I didn't even really realize that he played

671
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: in the Mountain West or at that time it was

672
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: probably the Whack or whatever it was that he played in.

673
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 1: But just the comparisons there, I mean, I see it there.

674
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: But obviously he's an extreme athlete and the things that

675
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: he did, and now he's in the Hall of Fame.

676
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot to live up too. But

677
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: I mean the expectations are high, and I got high

678
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: expectations for myself, so I don't want to do anything

679
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,720
Speaker 1: short of that. Well, I think that you are certainly

680
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 1: taking rookie years strides in those directions. Everybody's having a

681
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: great time watching you. We're gonna take a break and

682
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:11,960
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00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,840
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685
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,239
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686
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,759
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687
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,080
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00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,239
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723
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: because Steven's got a microphone down there, you had a

724
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: line of questioning you wanted to throw with these young men.

725
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: I did you know we're talking about where they're from.

726
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 1: And Damien's from Mississippi and Layton's from Idaho. And I

727
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: remember when you got drafted. Layton, the first thing that

728
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones was talking about was you hunting wolves? Do

729
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: you know that about him? Damien? Now, what is that about?

730
00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: What does that entail? It's real, it's real, it's you

731
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: really hunt wolves. Absolutely, one of these guys gets in

732
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: the helicopter and flies over. No, you can't, you can't

733
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: hunt them that way. The pigs are like the only

734
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: thing wolf. I wouldn't say, there's people that do that

735
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: and that's mostly that's like fishing game and government control, okay,

736
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: and how they hunt wolves that way for the law

737
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: of dingyah absolutely um. But I think a lot of

738
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: people get the misconception about wolves because a lot of

739
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: them don't experience actually living around them. I grew up

740
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 1: hunting and fishing my whole entire life, and growing up

741
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: obviously wolves were protected, couldn't hunt them. And then they

742
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 1: reintroduce the type of wolf that they said was in

743
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 1: that native area in the Northwest and the Rockies, and

744
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: that was the classic gray wolf um. But uh, there's

745
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: a theory behind it that they did not reintroduce the

746
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: native type of wolf and that it was a Canadian

747
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: wolf um of that species and it was a lot bigger,

748
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: aggressive wolf and it they just blew up. There was

749
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 1: not really any any control over them at all. There

750
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: was no there was no Like I said, like the

751
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: fishing game was was pretty much just let them have

752
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: their do it, and they were just going off on

753
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: the elk herds, the deer herds all that stuff. So um.

754
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: Growing up around that and seeing that, and obviously hunt

755
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: was a big part of our it's a big part

756
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: of everybody's life and that whole entire area, and I

757
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: know it is around the US, whether you hunt or not.

758
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 1: But that's a lot of the ways that we get

759
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: our food. We don't really go to the store and

760
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: buy our own meat. We go hunt for it and

761
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: we have it for the whole year, and so that's

762
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: how we get it. And so a family usually has

763
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: usually gets one or two tags for a deer and elk.

764
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 1: You go out there as a family and you go

765
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: hunt with each other and you get your food for

766
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: the whole year. So that's just a matter of the fact.

767
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,280
Speaker 1: And when there's when there's wolves out there just teeing

768
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: off on elk and deer every single day, there's not

769
00:41:58,040 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: much you can do about it when the fishing game

770
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: and government doesn't let you, doesn't let the hunters that

771
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 1: actually control that. So um and Idaho, they're extremely hard

772
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: to hunt. They're really hard. They're extremely hard time Idaho. Uh,

773
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: They're they're very smart. Um They're virtually impossible to hunt

774
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: unless you know, really really know the ins and outs

775
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: and how they work. I mean, they got all three senses.

776
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: They can see very well, they can hear very well,

777
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: and they can smell very well. So uh, there's a

778
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: lot of animals that don't have all three, they have

779
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: one or two. So uh them having all three makes

780
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 1: them uh very very apex predator. How does one become

781
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: introduced to wolf hunting and how often do you do it?

782
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: You're trying to go, bratt, No, I want to go? Um,

783
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: you think I could get one? Damian? Thank you, I'm

784
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: not going out there. Yeah. No, Um, I don't know

785
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: if it's really that you get introduced to it. I

786
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: think it's just something that that you do. Uh, it's no,

787
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Like you don't just accidentally wake up one

788
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 1: morning stretching your pj's, walk by the cheerios and say,

789
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: you know what, oh look, let's go wolf hunting. Somebody

790
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 1: has to start doing. Yeah, you grow well, it's part

791
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: of it. You grow up around it, You grow up hunting,

792
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: and so you see the effects that they have them

793
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: on the other wildlife and the cattle and everything, and

794
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: so it's it's just part of keeping the circle. Who's

795
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,760
Speaker 1: the first person who took you wolf hunting? My dad? Okay?

796
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 1: And rifle bow and arrow rifle rifle ye on foot,

797
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: on the motorcycle on foot in Idaho, you can't, uh,

798
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: you can't really hunt them on anything else, uh, because

799
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: I mean there's mountains are straight up and down, so

800
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: you really gotta you really got to have just a

801
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: little bit of fresh snow, a couple inches of fresh snow,

802
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: and you gotta track them or you gotta call them in.

803
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: How do you call them in? You can use an

804
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: electronic color or you can use your own mouth, howling,

805
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: adam or whatever. It's not necessarily it's not that easy.

806
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 1: This good one late absolutely isn't that easy at all.

807
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: Can you cops? Could you do it? Well, I'm not

808
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: doing it. My dad does it. I've never done it.

809
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: So disappointed that your folks did not come here tonight.

810
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: I think you could probably ask your dad on social

811
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: media or something, right, Maybe that'd be weird. What's the

812
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: what is the most exactic thing you've ever hunted? Mister Wilson? Well,

813
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: I'm not really that much of a hunter. That's my brother,

814
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,760
Speaker 1: I believe, later than my brother, probably the best friends

815
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: out there. But I'll be more of a fisherman. Okay,

816
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've been more of a fisherman and what

817
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: what do he fished for? Perch? And what he fished

818
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: for in Idaho? Everything? I mean we got perch too. Um,

819
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: but we got salmon runs. We've got sealhead runs, We've

820
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:02,760
Speaker 1: got bass, we got trout everything. Sturgeon, yeah, sturgeon wolves. Okay,

821
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 1: all right, Steven, let's go out here. Hey, hey, hey,

822
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: bron Um, we got Clint here Um he has a question,

823
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: and here you go. This one's for Layton again. Thank

824
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: you for the rookie card I delivered to you back

825
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,879
Speaker 1: I think last month Zack spews or whatever. But yeah,

826
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: second is, uh, did you anticipate on getting as much

827
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: plain time? I guess prior to the season before, I mean,

828
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:31,879
Speaker 1: knowing Shawn Lee's injury history. Um no, not necessarily. Um,

829
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: I was just getting ready for any possible position that

830
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: I was going to be thrown in. Uh, coming in

831
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: as a rookie with with the type of linebackers we

832
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: already had, I mean, Damian, Jalen and Sean. I mean

833
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: those three guys all know how to play a tremendous

834
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 1: amount of football and and very extremely good at it.

835
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: So uh, just just starting in my role and whatever

836
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: the coaches asked me to do, knowing that special team

837
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: was gonna be a lot of it. Um, and then

838
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: if something happened, if a guy went down, just knowing

839
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: that I had to be be that dude and be

840
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: ready to step up and fill the shoes. Good question.

841
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 1: All right, we got Jason here, um, here you go,

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Speaker 1: Layton Damien from wolf hunting to quarterback hunting. How do

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Speaker 1: you tackle a quarterback? After last night? I mean that

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Speaker 1: gets blasted on the sideline in Washington. A great question.

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Speaker 1: I was sitting there and discussed. You did a great job.

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Speaker 1: I felt terrible for you. It was a great play.

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Speaker 1: How do you tackle a quarterback who's running diving forward?

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Speaker 1: That that personal follow you that was so bogus, that

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Speaker 1: was just ridiculous. Will be in your head next time

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Speaker 1: you go changing a quarterback down. Nope, I'm gonna tackle

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Speaker 1: him the same way I did go. I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's We're subject to how the NFL has involved now

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Speaker 1: um and and the reffing. I mean, every ref has

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Speaker 1: their own interpretation of the new rules, and it's constantly

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Speaker 1: changed on us. So it makes it hard on the

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Speaker 1: defense in whatever they do. I mean, in a ton

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Speaker 1: of new rules, they put in like, I mean, how

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Speaker 1: how you're supposed to cover a tight end, how you're

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Speaker 1: supposed to cover a running back. I mean the defensive holding,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff that there's hands, hands, ball on five yards,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. It's it makes it hard on the defense.

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Speaker 1: But we gotta find a way to go after them

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Speaker 1: and and just use our use the weaknesses to our strengths.

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Speaker 1: Do you change anything? Uh, I wouldn't. I probably wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: You know, they got the new thing where you gotta

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Speaker 1: roll on your side. You can't fall directly on them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're really protecting these guys right now. But

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Speaker 1: at the same time, it kind of puts us in

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Speaker 1: the buying because you know, the natural tackling position. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of hard. But just keep doing what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: Just keep doing what you do. Everybody, thank Damian, Wilson,

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Speaker 1: Light and Vandersch. Will see you next Monday on The

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Speaker 1: Cowboys Hour.