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Speaker 1: the Boys, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at
Speaker 1: the Star in Frisco. Now your host Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels,
Speaker 1: and Shannon Gross Wednesday, Star, Frisco, Texas. Hey boys, Hello,
Speaker 1: what's up? How you feeling? Man? I'm good? How are
Speaker 1: you guys? It's great, Man Sharks, Thanks, you always looks
Speaker 1: so good. Thanks. Thanks. My hair's growing back. Your hair's
Speaker 1: growing back. I got a long way to go. Wow,
Speaker 1: it took you like a month. It's gonna take me
Speaker 1: like six months to get there. Saying man, Lawson, to
Speaker 1: stop shaving my head, all right, you know, let's work.
Speaker 1: I was like, Man, if I start, because I started
Speaker 1: letting my hair grow out over the weekend, I'm like, Man,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys lose, am I gonna have to keep my
Speaker 1: head shaved one so I had no effect on it. No,
Speaker 1: all right, what's happening? What's going on today? How are
Speaker 1: you guys? How are you feeling? Nate? Good? Oh Man,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm excited. Man. We did a concrete cowboy and
Speaker 1: good show, laugh, and we we got a sponsor that
Speaker 1: um brought in some cookies and oh, those cookies are
Speaker 1: really excited me to see Kurt, you know, excited about
Speaker 1: those cookies. Man. They are good cookies. Those cookies are deadly.
Speaker 1: They are. That's why you all need to eat them.
Speaker 1: So I don't. I had one, and I'm gonna die
Speaker 1: just in case Mexico happens. You ain't give it a
Speaker 1: doubt that all preparation that's tall being prepared today, Today
Speaker 1: is win day. Yeah, it'll be full blown come Friday.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt, no doubt, Okay, no doubt. Wow, this
Speaker 1: dude and he tries to slip it in like we
Speaker 1: ain't gonna catch it. Curt tries to slip it in.
Speaker 1: I'm getting I'm I'm prepared. I have plan B just
Speaker 1: in case. There's no plan B. When you when you
Speaker 1: selling you selling out for the Cowboys, there's no plan B.
Speaker 1: Either sellout for us or don't ride with us. Well,
Speaker 1: you know I love him, but I don't love him
Speaker 1: for sacrificing all that money. I'm prepaid for this vacation. No,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be ready either way. I'm gonna be ready
Speaker 1: and either way I'm gonna be ecstatic because I'll either
Speaker 1: be at the super Bowl for a week. You need
Speaker 1: to find another We need to do this. We need
Speaker 1: to do this show from the super Bowl if we
Speaker 1: make it, when we make it, you down, Nate, would
Speaker 1: you drive Atlanta making sure it's all the old Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I just get ready for that. I am you single,
Speaker 1: but he better not me. One night, Kurt got one
Speaker 1: night in you. We could celebrate one night. We could
Speaker 1: celebrate you know what. The night that we go out,
Speaker 1: everything changed about you. Yeah. Yeah, the way the way
Speaker 1: you walk out that door, Your looks when you come
Speaker 1: back gonna be different. The smell of you gonna be different.
Speaker 1: The arrangement of your clothes may be a little different.
Speaker 1: Like in the Hangover, you miss them on the tooth
Speaker 1: play the j drop? Yeah, which one? Oh? Yeah? The
Speaker 1: tooth or Douglass he smashed the set on the toilet,
Speaker 1: You won't smash it. Gonna be a toilet bro Oh,
Speaker 1: big game this weekend, boys, this game. You know what
Speaker 1: every game for the last five weeks has been and
Speaker 1: this one no different. Man, You win this one. You
Speaker 1: know what's gonna What would be nice? What would be
Speaker 1: really nice? There's a couple of possibilities. Right, the Cowboys win,
Speaker 1: they clinches the division. Possibility the Cowboys lose and the
Speaker 1: Eagles and Redskins lose, you clinch the division. Right, Yes,
Speaker 1: Redskins are playing the Jaguars. Yes, I think Eagles are
Speaker 1: playing the Rams. What would be really nice is just
Speaker 1: go to Indy. Win this game, get the hats and
Speaker 1: the T shirts in the locker room. Let us get
Speaker 1: some really cool pictures, some great social media videos. Let's
Speaker 1: don't lose this game, and then come home and watch
Speaker 1: the night game. I totally agree, and have to celebrate
Speaker 1: by ourselves. Two games left, then the rest guys get ready.
Speaker 1: I want to win the game and I want to celebrate.
Speaker 1: I want to party on the plane. I want the
Speaker 1: plane to be like Soul Plane. Do you ever see movie, Kurt? Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, oh, that's a great movie. I want
Speaker 1: to party on the plane. I've done a lot of that, man,
Speaker 1: have you? Oh my god, wow, I want to do it.
Speaker 1: I want a party like Nate. So I got a
Speaker 1: question for you. Actually, this is a great question by
Speaker 1: Kurt Nate, I doubt you answer it, So, Kurt, I'll
Speaker 1: let you answer your own question. Got Nate's got at
Speaker 1: least I think he'll chime in at this point. Would
Speaker 1: you rather have Andrew Luck or Dak Prescott? Luck has
Speaker 1: the better numbers, but he'll turn thirty next year and
Speaker 1: has had a lot of injuries. Dak's twenty five has
Speaker 1: a better winning percentage. Kurt says Pro Football Focus grades
Speaker 1: Luck the fourth best quarterback in the NFL this year.
Speaker 1: Who the who? The top three? Do you have? Who?
Speaker 1: Those three? Yeahs? Is two Rivers? Is three Rivers? Then Luck,
Speaker 1: Brady Rogers, the usual respect. They got a big game
Speaker 1: this week too, Chargers and Chiefs. That's pretty big, big
Speaker 1: for the AFC. So what do you think? What do
Speaker 1: you think? Nate? You got an opinion on that lot,
Speaker 1: you know, And I'm being honest. Luck ain't nothing like Luck? Yeah,
Speaker 1: nothing like when he's not hurt. When he's not ain't
Speaker 1: nothing like a health to Luck. I mean, I'm being honest. See,
Speaker 1: I love I love Dak Prescott. He plays for Dallas
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. He's a he's a he's a hell of
Speaker 1: a guy. He's a hell of a leader. Uh, he's
Speaker 1: a winner. He's a winner. But I think the same
Speaker 1: Luck with a better arm talent. Yeah, you can. Luck
Speaker 1: is what motivates and told their team. Uh. And I've
Speaker 1: always said I think Dak is a is a co star.
Speaker 1: I think you put a lot of uh not a lot.
Speaker 1: You give him, You give him good pieces, and he
Speaker 1: can make it. He can help them be better. You know,
Speaker 1: Luck will make them. It will make these guys better.
Speaker 1: Luck he that type of guy. So yeah, man, even
Speaker 1: at thirty, even at thirty, Luck is a beast because nowadays,
Speaker 1: used to thirty, you were on the backside. Now hell,
Speaker 1: these guys were playing thirty four and I'd be like, nah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's kind of innerned yet Yeah he Luck is real man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think, Kurt Well? I was kind of surprised.
Speaker 1: Look comparing their stats, Um, you know, Lux obviously he
Speaker 1: averages two hundred and seventy five yards a game, Prescott
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty four. Luck two tds Prescott one
Speaker 1: one point four. But there's other ways they're pretty similar.
Speaker 1: I mean they average seven point two. Luck seven point
Speaker 1: two yards per passed, Prescott seven point four. Luck has
Speaker 1: an eighty nine point three career rating. Prescott has a
Speaker 1: ninety five point eight. So I mean Prescott's better completion percentage.
Speaker 1: I mean it's going a little better. Luck has four
Speaker 1: fifty plus passing games and lost them all. Dak has one.
Speaker 1: I mean everything either equal or points in Dak favor.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, man, just ball test. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but talking about Dak so much about this last game,
Speaker 1: if he and looking at his stats and digging into
Speaker 1: all this stuff, and sometimes it's ugly, but man, he
Speaker 1: defies logic. Yes, and if he just matures a little
Speaker 1: bit when it comes to taking care of the ball,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be hard as hell to beat. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's very and I know he gets his
Speaker 1: comparison a lot, or at least he did of his
Speaker 1: his rookie year, But he's very Russell Wilson esque. He
Speaker 1: just he grinds. Also has become He's become a Yeah,
Speaker 1: Russell has become Dak. He's afague about one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy eighty. I'm serious, he's become When Dak was was
Speaker 1: hot for us a couple of years ago, and now
Speaker 1: he's hot. Dak is a two fifty to two seventy
Speaker 1: guy U thirty two passes or less, uh, seventy percent,
Speaker 1: you know, completion a touchdown R two, whether it's running
Speaker 1: a path, and don't make a difference to him. He
Speaker 1: is a bottom line guy, win the game. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterbacks say they are bottom line guys,
Speaker 1: but if you go into their background, if you talk
Speaker 1: to some of the fellows around them, they'll find out
Speaker 1: their bottom line win guy. If they're getting their numbers,
Speaker 1: they want their numbers. Yeah, you know, Dak, he truly
Speaker 1: wants to win, because that's how it is. That's how
Speaker 1: Troy was. Troy's like, I'm telling you, Truy can throw
Speaker 1: it the best of them. Yeah, I've seen it, I
Speaker 1: know it. He can throw it the best stuff. Man.
Speaker 1: But just think Emmon had one year like twenty five
Speaker 1: twenty seven touchdowns and and a third of them was
Speaker 1: in the red zone. Don't you know that Troy could
Speaker 1: have had half of those in this touchdown ratio would
Speaker 1: have been out of the you know, out of this world.
Speaker 1: But he didn't care. When we got inside the five,
Speaker 1: it was in time. Yeah. You see that in Daku.
Speaker 1: The accuracy, no, but the winningness to win, yes, see
Speaker 1: some guy. I'm telling a lot of guys to talk
Speaker 1: about winning and then I'll talk. And that's why I
Speaker 1: feel so comfortable about Sean Lee. I'm serious, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel comfortable to bring him back when he's ready to
Speaker 1: bring him back, insert him, give him, giving him his
Speaker 1: snaps because he's gonna be about the team. Everybody's not gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, And it hurt his hard. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a competitor. It hurt his hard, but he'll do it
Speaker 1: for the team. Yeah, everybody, you win him and be like,
Speaker 1: oh nah, and let him go. It's all right, We'll
Speaker 1: do all right. Yeah. What do you think Dak has
Speaker 1: this year three? Middle of year three, well towards the
Speaker 1: end of year three? Do you think he's what he
Speaker 1: is now is what he's gonna be, or do you
Speaker 1: think he's got them things? He got a few things
Speaker 1: that he approved on. What are those? Just? Just ball security?
Speaker 1: Obviously is one, right? That is the key to this
Speaker 1: because you came into the league approving protector of the
Speaker 1: ball while you made calculated and good throws. I think
Speaker 1: he'll get back to those good throws, you know, because
Speaker 1: he'll know his receivers better. He'll understand the offense just
Speaker 1: a touch better, and I think our office a line
Speaker 1: will be a little bit better. All those things equate
Speaker 1: to a better Dack. Now, if he come in doing
Speaker 1: the same thing again next year, and I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you something, the league will adjest to you and they say, oh,
Speaker 1: he gonna just take advantage of them, he's gonna throw.
Speaker 1: If if you're gonna wind up throwing seven or eight
Speaker 1: bad passes a game, they can say whatever they want,
Speaker 1: but you got it, you don't have it. You you
Speaker 1: a problem because now you're sporadic, and then'll cost your
Speaker 1: games when the league catch it with you, the cost game.
Speaker 1: But now if he can get rid of getting those
Speaker 1: down to one or two maybe bad throws a game,
Speaker 1: then then you got something special. Yeah you're looking at
Speaker 1: other Kirk. Oh, you mentioned Sean Laman. Go. It looks
Speaker 1: like he's limited in practice today, so he's starting to
Speaker 1: see a little action out there. Yeah. Yeah. Avon Austin
Speaker 1: also limited, so he may be coming. Oh excuse me
Speaker 1: a few guys. It looks like Zeke kind of sitting
Speaker 1: out for precautionary or just rest. Zach's obviously sitting out.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you someth man. People talking about timing.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. If a receiver catch fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty balls a week at least ten to twelve a week,
Speaker 1: and a running back run twenty or thirty times a week,
Speaker 1: what tell me what do he need to do during
Speaker 1: the week for me? Hey, man, let's get over there
Speaker 1: in jog a little bit, stay lose, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying to do. A couple of little wind spreads.
Speaker 1: Go and just put him over there with the special
Speaker 1: teams guys run back and forth. Yeah, because, man, forty
Speaker 1: times that's a lot. You know something somebody you mentioned
Speaker 1: that we really haven't talked about coming back back into
Speaker 1: this offense. That gives you a totally new dynamic now
Speaker 1: that you have Cooper in there and you have, you know,
Speaker 1: a pretty stable offensive line. Is Tavon Austin. No, not
Speaker 1: that guy before, before Amory got here, Zeke was the
Speaker 1: only guy that that could take it to the house. Besides,
Speaker 1: you had Tavon. He'd proved that you get the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands, he can he can make something happen.
Speaker 1: Now you got Amory to spread the field a little
Speaker 1: bit more, you can do some tricked up stuff with
Speaker 1: Tavon or put him in the receiver rotation and just
Speaker 1: try to get the ball in his hands on some short,
Speaker 1: quick routes because you've seen he's pretty explosive. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see him get back in his lineup. You know,
Speaker 1: interesting to see how they use him. Yeah, like you
Speaker 1: said that, they've got a deep ball threat now with
Speaker 1: Cooper and just I mean, is he gonna take some
Speaker 1: of some plays in the slot with Cole? Is he
Speaker 1: gonna line up other slot? I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but you know, you know it ain't It ain't interesting
Speaker 1: to me to see how they're gonna use him just
Speaker 1: using I'm serious, see him involved, right, yeah, just get
Speaker 1: give give him the ball in an open space and
Speaker 1: let's see him go. Because like you said, now with Cooper,
Speaker 1: they got open space. So now you you know, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to pay attention to our passing game. Yeah
Speaker 1: you And so it's like you did if our tight ends,
Speaker 1: I mean, now it's taxing the whole the whole defense
Speaker 1: got to defend the whole field, you know, And so
Speaker 1: think about this. Just let's just let's just dream a
Speaker 1: little bit. Okay, let's just open our minds up a
Speaker 1: little bit. Let's Tavon's coming back, right, Rest Zach a week,
Speaker 1: let him get better. You head into the playoffs with
Speaker 1: you're getting Sean Lee back, You're getting Tavon Austin back.
Speaker 1: What you haven't had him involved in this offense, hopefully
Speaker 1: a healthies. Jack Martin tiring's back kind of in the rotation.
Speaker 1: Maybe you rest him and give him another week off
Speaker 1: and you get You pretty much have your entire unit
Speaker 1: that you started the season with on both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball heading into the most important stretch of the year,
Speaker 1: which is the playoffs. Your defense is playing like wild men.
Speaker 1: Your offensive has shown that they can put points on
Speaker 1: the board, can be explosive, and if they need to,
Speaker 1: they can throw the ball Hell's dac through for over
Speaker 1: four hundred yards. I mean, just think about it. It's
Speaker 1: almost like this is all coming together at the right time.
Speaker 1: And if you believe in this team, why not you know,
Speaker 1: why not them? And before you answer them, why why
Speaker 1: do I get the distinct fitting in Douglas? You a
Speaker 1: voice analyst? Uh? Tim, Oh, why do I get Shannon
Speaker 1: is trying to talk itself into it? I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: in do you feel that I'm talking to fans into
Speaker 1: it because he's fair broken staring up in the sky.
Speaker 1: Their hearts have been broken. I'm look, I'm looking to
Speaker 1: Jesus to bring these people in to believe. As Nate
Speaker 1: would say, Lord, Jesus, help me, help me convince these
Speaker 1: people that this team can do this. Why not? Why not?
Speaker 1: Why not? Hell? They beat the Saints, why not? They're
Speaker 1: coming together the right time. I'm telling you, man, do
Speaker 1: not sleep on this team. Don't. As as our buddy
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods would say, the human Logue, don't blink, don't blink,
Speaker 1: don't blink, blink. They gotta get through this game. Sunday though,
Speaker 1: what was that? What was that? Who? Let's go to
Speaker 1: the phones, Greg and Columbo. What's up my man? What's up? Hey? Guys?
Speaker 1: I Scott one of him is listen to the show
Speaker 1: because last week I called. They asked me, what what
Speaker 1: does this offensive? I said, more tight end play. Well
Speaker 1: we didn't say that, Yeah, yeah you did say that,
Speaker 1: Yes you did. We don't, don't. I don't think we
Speaker 1: need Rico. Man. I like that, soult Are you like
Speaker 1: coming in? He man? And see this is what what
Speaker 1: what we got now is a bone competition it's a
Speaker 1: full blown competition now because Schultz uh uh, Kurt's best
Speaker 1: friend Jarles and Joe let know the snake back. But
Speaker 1: but what what Hey? What you see this week? Hey,
Speaker 1: it's your our predictor what do you see this week?
Speaker 1: What I see is I see Sean Lee making a
Speaker 1: name from himself again, That's what I see. And you know,
Speaker 1: I wish Taco would put his big boy panties on
Speaker 1: and stop with this Twitter stuff and feel sorry for
Speaker 1: himself and with the program. Yeah? Did did did Schultz
Speaker 1: remind you of of a certain former tight end of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys on that one play where he caught that
Speaker 1: ball across the middle, put both hands on it and
Speaker 1: just put his head down and just made him wrestle
Speaker 1: him to the ground. He looked kind of familiar, didn't he? Like? Bennett? No,
Speaker 1: get off the phone, Craig, we gotta go, We gotta
Speaker 1: I don't know he pulling some crap out of his
Speaker 1: But we'll talk to you later. Greg, Who we got here?
Speaker 1: Who'd you? Who did you fix that? Man? Who did
Speaker 1: you grab out of the hall? Outside linebacker? Cowboys? Yes? Sir,
Speaker 1: how you doing, mister Edwards? Shannon? And this is Kurt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how are you doing. So, how's it going going? Great?
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Well, thank you very much for
Speaker 1: inviting me. Yeah great. So what you're doing out here
Speaker 1: at the Star? Man? Oh man? I just got me
Speaker 1: a little lunch. It's amazing. The facilities are great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a nice, very nice lunch. Um. The guy was asking
Speaker 1: me about back in Valley Ranch. I told him it
Speaker 1: was about as big as this room though, yeah that
Speaker 1: we had Yeah yeah, yeah, so would fit the whole
Speaker 1: team in there. And the sad thing they tore down
Speaker 1: old Valley Ranch, right, Yeah, I didn't get a chance
Speaker 1: to get those copy of the blue carpet. That was
Speaker 1: my first vision when I came to the cowboys, who
Speaker 1: was walking in the night and seeing that that that
Speaker 1: Regal Royal blue carpet. And that's my fondest memory of
Speaker 1: when I first got drafted about Dallas. When we got you,
Speaker 1: I was in the first uh second round. Uh remember
Speaker 1: they had three picks first year. Yeah, and then uh
Speaker 1: coach uh then Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones uh uh told
Speaker 1: me he said, Dixon called, we'll call you right back
Speaker 1: and then and I was expecting him to say, you know,
Speaker 1: they picked Dixon Networks. And what they did is they
Speaker 1: traded with Detroit and then knocked me down a thirty
Speaker 1: seven pick. But this is this is the thing, right,
Speaker 1: So I tell everybody about this. I said, it took
Speaker 1: me about five years to figure it out. You know,
Speaker 1: back then, we didn't have um busy you know, you
Speaker 1: you would have a busy signal on the on the
Speaker 1: phone if somebody called you, right, huh. You know, it
Speaker 1: wasn't on call waiting. So he kept me on the
Speaker 1: phone the whole time, like in the first round, asking
Speaker 1: me different thing, what's your favorite color Dixon? I was
Speaker 1: like blue suit. I'm sitting there trying to figure out
Speaker 1: exactly what he's doing, right, and then you know, and
Speaker 1: then so and finally figured out that he was keeping
Speaker 1: me on the phone so that nobody else could call me.
Speaker 1: But it didn't turn out bad. You know, I'm fortunately
Speaker 1: to be sitting here talking to you today. Yeah you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So did you guys, go ahead?
Speaker 1: Go ahead? That goes? No, it was me. I mean
Speaker 1: you were here in the yeah ninety Yeah, yeah, I was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was here with My last game was the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and Arizona. Yeah that was my last game with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. So who all you came with? What's your class?
Speaker 1: Oh shoot, my gudness. Yeah yeah, Goffrey Miles, which passed away.
Speaker 1: He was my roommate. Yeah, yeah. He taught me a lot,
Speaker 1: and it was It's crazy that we were, you know,
Speaker 1: roommates in the competition between us both we were playing
Speaker 1: the same position. But Godfrey, you know, kind of floated
Speaker 1: around and was able to back up a lot of people.
Speaker 1: So we had the ability to to do that. Where
Speaker 1: um we had Russell Maryland. Uh, then we had um
Speaker 1: Alvin Harper I um then uh job everyone. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: Larry was there. Larry was the last pick. So we
Speaker 1: had Eric Williams, Leon lad yeah, Godfrey, Yeah, yeah. It
Speaker 1: was class. They all. I've seen on TV where they
Speaker 1: argued that we had one of the best draft classes,
Speaker 1: you know, of all time, you know, so yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was specially for the Dallas Cowboys that that class there,
Speaker 1: I tell you that class hurts around. H yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Class really had a lot of speed at linebacker, empower
Speaker 1: at the offensive line with the big yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: It was yeah, and and and all around athletic ability
Speaker 1: with Leon la Dens. I mean It helped out put
Speaker 1: punch in different places. Oh yeah. I mean to have
Speaker 1: as a line background, to be fortunate to have Russell
Speaker 1: Maryland in a three and leon Let up in front
Speaker 1: of you. There was nobody getting through to touch us,
Speaker 1: and we were we were so free. I remember when
Speaker 1: I went to Minnesota and the first player I was
Speaker 1: in Minnesota in practice in four pads, and I have
Speaker 1: never ever seen a center in my face so fast
Speaker 1: on floor away. I couldn't believe it. I was like,
Speaker 1: where does gut come from? I'm like, who? So everybody
Speaker 1: you know, you know John Randall, Right, John Randall, ain't
Speaker 1: he ain't he ain't holding he holding nothing? See swimming
Speaker 1: on first Dame. Yeah. But to be fortunate enough to
Speaker 1: have Leon Let and Russell Maryland didn't even tone Tony
Speaker 1: Cassius sitting there, you know, in front of us and Chad.
Speaker 1: They kept us clean, flowing to the ball. You know.
Speaker 1: So it made my career a whole lot better. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know what how much did you weide? Dicks? Were you? Oh? Man?
Speaker 1: When I got drafted, dude, Uh, I weighed two hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve pounds. They could run. Yeah, and what got
Speaker 1: you was what got you was that you thought that
Speaker 1: you can run him over and it was and the dude,
Speaker 1: you know you're trying to hear, but if he didn't care,
Speaker 1: here not moving man. Nate's talked about the intense practice
Speaker 1: as you guys used to say, Oh my goodness, dude,
Speaker 1: it was nothing like today. Somebody, somebody told me the
Speaker 1: practice was over, and I was like, was that was that?
Speaker 1: I say, you know, but you know, it's a different
Speaker 1: game today. And a lot of people argue that, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, but I know, dang gonna well
Speaker 1: they looked daging good now, I know that for sure.
Speaker 1: And that number fifty five, Oh goodness, due this man?
Speaker 1: Was it two weeks was it? It was two? Was
Speaker 1: it two weeks ago? I was watching the game. You know,
Speaker 1: you have a totally different view of the game when
Speaker 1: you're sitting there. So I saw him telling the guy
Speaker 1: before the play happened, the ball is coming here, like
Speaker 1: you could see his hand, like the ball is coming here,
Speaker 1: and bam, he goes into that in the battfield and
Speaker 1: makes the ball his side to side is amazing. I mean, like, dude,
Speaker 1: he's down the line. Uh So I was a little
Speaker 1: questionable when they picked him. Don't get me wrong, but now, dude,
Speaker 1: if he's doing and seeing plays at uh that you
Speaker 1: know normally a five year guy would you know get
Speaker 1: he has an amazing nose for the for the ball
Speaker 1: and being able to get things done. That's that's very impressive.
Speaker 1: But I can I can see where they're going to
Speaker 1: benefit a whole lot from that man. Now, yeah, what
Speaker 1: was your favorite super Bowl that you played in? It
Speaker 1: would be the first one, you know, and then my
Speaker 1: favorite moment of the Super Bowl would be when uh,
Speaker 1: I mean y'all been into the Rose Bowl because it
Speaker 1: wasn't Rose Bowl, right, Yes, yes, it was in the
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl and you know how it kind of flares
Speaker 1: out and everything and that you know that bowl was
Speaker 1: when they were done with the national anthem and the
Speaker 1: Jets flew over. Dude. Remember it was just like it
Speaker 1: made your skin cross and it was like, dude, it's
Speaker 1: like every since you was like a little kid, you know,
Speaker 1: and you and it's so funny and you know, uh,
Speaker 1: when I was a little kid. You you score touchdown,
Speaker 1: you'll say Drew Pierce. And you score touchdown, you say
Speaker 1: Tony And it's cool. Now I'm talking to these guys,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like they come up, We
Speaker 1: go up to places and these guys come up to
Speaker 1: call me Dixon. I'm like, dude, do you know who
Speaker 1: you are? You know? And I'm like a fan and
Speaker 1: these guys, you know what I'm saying. So but yeah,
Speaker 1: but so every since you was like a little kid,
Speaker 1: you know, is this is the game that you have
Speaker 1: always wanted to be in. This is the Super Bowl, dude.
Speaker 1: And and and then to realize that when the Jets
Speaker 1: flew over you were actually playing in that game and start,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, and what it meant to, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: to your life. It's just like, this is what I've
Speaker 1: always played football for, and this is it. You remember
Speaker 1: that I remember was like it was hard to set
Speaker 1: our team down. Yeah. Yeah, the Jets came across. You
Speaker 1: realized and see this is what really magnified it is
Speaker 1: how many of us you know, in our era and before,
Speaker 1: loved the Rose Bowl. Yeah yeah, now we in the
Speaker 1: biggest of Yeah, atmosphere is the Rose Bowl, granddaddy of
Speaker 1: them all. And then we plan the Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: when them just Jets, them Jets just made it all
Speaker 1: scene real and unreal. And then the show of Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson being the half watch that I tried to get
Speaker 1: Jimmy I and we go, Jimmy you guys, yeah got
Speaker 1: the meeting. Yeah yeah. So but dude, you're talking about it.
Speaker 1: I played in the Rose Bowl because of Michigan State. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh we were fortunate up to win in that
Speaker 1: game though, But but yeah, but like you said, the
Speaker 1: magic of it being the Rose Bowl and playing the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl there also and just and it being your
Speaker 1: first time. So this is like I tell everybody said, dude,
Speaker 1: could you imagine And you know you're lolder than me,
Speaker 1: but if somebody was in the U, if somebody came
Speaker 1: to me in high school when I was eighteen year old,
Speaker 1: eighteen years old and pointed to me and said, Dixon,
Speaker 1: you're you're going to pay play in the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: in six years, yeah, you would have been like, shut up, man,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But just think about, dude,
Speaker 1: we were that young, six years out of that out
Speaker 1: of high school. We're playing in the best game you
Speaker 1: could ever play in, you know, forever. And unfortunately we
Speaker 1: won and then we won again and then mister mister year,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, but I remember the day
Speaker 1: on I remember, dude, you remember like when the championship game. Dude,
Speaker 1: that was like the Yeah, I mean that was the
Speaker 1: heated game where that championship It didn't matter where, you know,
Speaker 1: geography didn't play a part of that. It was like
Speaker 1: wherever that championship game was, that that was the That
Speaker 1: was the game. And that I mean you talk about
Speaker 1: Bloody Man, yeah, sat and and my goodness, Young you
Speaker 1: know he just throwing the ball doing all these different plays,
Speaker 1: and you know it's like he think of Young the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think of Young the defensive line, the whole team,
Speaker 1: the whole team. It was just like dude, star for
Speaker 1: star Yeah, Starford star Man. And then back then, you
Speaker 1: like you were like, who's gonna win the Super Brow
Speaker 1: Somebody in the NFC East or the forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: one of those teams is gonna win. So this is
Speaker 1: this is this is gonna be the team. So Green
Speaker 1: Bay was the warm up? Yeah, yeah it was. And
Speaker 1: that was a warm up and that was the woman.
Speaker 1: It was. There was some hell of a game. Brett
Speaker 1: far sterling shot yeah, yeah, games. Yeah, Brett farb is
Speaker 1: my favorite quarterback. You know, yeah, if anybody'd ever played
Speaker 1: it because he's a dog. And then I got to
Speaker 1: go to Minnesota. I got to go to Minnesota and
Speaker 1: I got the plane twice and I'm a goodness, dude,
Speaker 1: So I hit this dude one time in Minnesota and uh,
Speaker 1: tag on a farv um because I kind of knocked
Speaker 1: him out a little bit right, so far came over
Speaker 1: there to him and started yelling at him, get you,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm like, too, I couldn't believe this
Speaker 1: guy's yelling at don't even get his butt up, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'm like, and I turned around
Speaker 1: it and kind of sick, but I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get you too. Hey, mans, you this me on quarterbacks? Man,
Speaker 1: what's what'sh your take on the young young dad? Man? Oh?
Speaker 1: That is great? Um, I think. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I questioned the long ball a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: Um the accuracy of the long ball. Um, that's that's
Speaker 1: my concern. I think his reads, uh in my opinion
Speaker 1: that he should run faster. He has the ability. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, why are you sitting there waiting?
Speaker 1: It's like, dude, like and then the other thing, too,
Speaker 1: is that you look at any blocking scheme as it
Speaker 1: relates to passes. There's always a get out, you know,
Speaker 1: you block or a get out. Why aren't you taking one, two, three?
Speaker 1: It ain't there take your get out and golf. And then,
Speaker 1: you know, because they're playing him so soft because they
Speaker 1: don't believe that he's a strong passer. You know, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: why don't you just go ahead and run the ball
Speaker 1: for another twenty yards and then get the first down.
Speaker 1: It just it looks like it to me, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, but I'm sitting up in the stands and
Speaker 1: I'm not on the field. But yeah, but he's yea,
Speaker 1: you ordered most of the game's days. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I started coming around the organization back in
Speaker 1: about two thousand and eleven, and you know, whenever they
Speaker 1: ask me to come over and do some signing of autographs,
Speaker 1: like I appreciate, I'm be like, man, uh, it's a
Speaker 1: pretty cool deal to sit around and have fans remember
Speaker 1: some of the things that we were able to do
Speaker 1: back then, and I sign autographs and do all that.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty much there are a game I don't
Speaker 1: I don't get an opportunity to speak much though, because
Speaker 1: I sometimes, uh say, special words happened around They just
Speaker 1: makes it up. He just there we go. Was was
Speaker 1: Dixon ever on any of your huh excursions that you
Speaker 1: guys went on. And Dixon lived in his own world? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're talking about Dix. Dix was in his own world?
Speaker 1: What what do you mean? What you know when he went?
Speaker 1: He was no, no, no no, no, no no no no. See.
Speaker 1: You know what's so funny they do? One time I
Speaker 1: was out of practicing, Alvin Harper said what he said?
Speaker 1: He said, when you look in the mirror, what do
Speaker 1: you see? He said, Dixon sees a goody two shoes.
Speaker 1: He thought he thought it was a good two ship.
Speaker 1: I ain't no pack hunter wolf sound of fact, like
Speaker 1: like late man, Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm like, dude,
Speaker 1: I don't know. There we go, There you go? What
Speaker 1: they What do you think their chances are this year?
Speaker 1: Get get getting in the playoffs? Obviously that's probably gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Do you think they got a shot at taking it
Speaker 1: the distance? Oh? Yeah, why not? I mean I don't
Speaker 1: see anybody out there that looks, you know, not beatable,
Speaker 1: especially after that performance against New Orleans, I'm like, dude,
Speaker 1: what do you mean? And what were they picked They
Speaker 1: would only picked down. They were picked down seven and
Speaker 1: a half I think, And I was like, and then
Speaker 1: I think they were up three from this game, and
Speaker 1: I'm saying, they're like, man, that that's saying a lot.
Speaker 1: And then to perform a lot better than that, I
Speaker 1: think they have. Yeah, they definitely have it. What they
Speaker 1: have done now is that they are allowing the defense
Speaker 1: to rest and then and the only way you're going
Speaker 1: to win a game is allow your defense to rest.
Speaker 1: Clock management, you know, uh, location on the field, how
Speaker 1: are you going to manage the ball, the quarters and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. As soon as they get
Speaker 1: passed all that, they have no problem. And like I said,
Speaker 1: allowing to that's I mean, dude, that's what got us
Speaker 1: so good is that, you know, we go out there,
Speaker 1: we get him a one, two three out, and then
Speaker 1: y'all going there and y'all eat the clock up for
Speaker 1: eight minutes, and then we're sitting on the sidelines and
Speaker 1: go out there and do another one, two three, and
Speaker 1: then y'all eat the clock up for it. And then
Speaker 1: you look at it. It's perfect clock management, you know. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you see some similarities between this team and what you
Speaker 1: guys who y'all were back and yeah, yeah, goodness, it's
Speaker 1: like it's it's we were just talking about that the
Speaker 1: other day that we had to number one defense and
Speaker 1: nobody went to the pro bow. We had to know
Speaker 1: name defense. It was like nobody who was who? Who
Speaker 1: do who get? But all y'all went to the like
Speaker 1: nine offense with the pro bow and like nobody on
Speaker 1: the Yeah yeah yeah its just Shall And then uh
Speaker 1: Wanstead gave us some plaques. Yeah, we know they gave us.
Speaker 1: We had an awards ceremony in the in the locker
Speaker 1: room for how having number one defense that gave y'all
Speaker 1: a number one defensive plaque and everything, and uh so
Speaker 1: I've seen that not too long ago though. Way it
Speaker 1: was pretty wow man. Yeah, hey, Doug, I know you're
Speaker 1: I know you're a sucker for nostalgia. Oh yeah, before
Speaker 1: we let Dixon go, do you have any any questions?
Speaker 1: Well he you know, when he started talking about the
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl and how fun it was to play a
Speaker 1: super Bowl there, it reminded me there was a theory
Speaker 1: that back the Cowboys were the best team in the league,
Speaker 1: you know, for for four or five years. But there
Speaker 1: was a theory that you guys played better on grass.
Speaker 1: That that it that because like two of the three triplets,
Speaker 1: Emmett and Irvin, they weren't speedsters and their skills showed
Speaker 1: out better on grass than on turf. Yes, and so anyway,
Speaker 1: that just reminded me of that that when you were
Speaker 1: I mean you guys, when you got to the Rose
Speaker 1: Bowl and you're on a natural grass field, you score
Speaker 1: fifty points. Yeah, defense was great. Yes, you know what,
Speaker 1: our defense was built for the turf. These dudes could
Speaker 1: have played on turf. Oh yeah, wow. When they played
Speaker 1: in Texas State so fast, dude, it was everybody asked me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, that was the fastest turf because they crowned.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that the crown we had, yeah turn
Speaker 1: a half feet, yeah yeah, you you would be on
Speaker 1: the sideline. You couldn't even see the guys below their
Speaker 1: knees because of the crown. And you know, so just
Speaker 1: imagine if you're in the center of the field and
Speaker 1: you're running downhill, you know, to the sideline, and as
Speaker 1: soon as you turn it up, dude, you're just like floating,
Speaker 1: you know. And then, like I said, it was extremely
Speaker 1: fast fast man. Yeah, quarterbacks had to learn that if
Speaker 1: they're throwing out. Farm had had the worst time adjusting
Speaker 1: it because he would be so hyped. They wouldn't float,
Speaker 1: they just keep riding. It took him a minute, but
Speaker 1: once he got connected. Yeah, scary man. Oh yeah. And
Speaker 1: then you know, and then you know, I always believe
Speaker 1: that Michael Irvan is, you know, my favorite player as
Speaker 1: far as why we want wor so successful as a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl team was Michael Irvin. They couldn't Nobody could
Speaker 1: stop that twelve yard out. It's like nobody do. I
Speaker 1: tell people all time that that I believe that Troy
Speaker 1: Aikman and Michael Irvin's they were blindfolded and ran routes.
Speaker 1: They would probably catch that ball eight out of ten times.
Speaker 1: They knew how to run that route. And the ball
Speaker 1: was in the air before Michael even turned out of
Speaker 1: this cut. That's how the timing was. And I started
Speaker 1: to see that a little bit with this guy here,
Speaker 1: you know, but the guys are too fast on the
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball that you have
Speaker 1: to make sure that that ball is in the air.
Speaker 1: And one of the concerns I would see for this
Speaker 1: team here is the timing with the receivers. But this dude,
Speaker 1: this Cooper dude, This Cooper dude. They hit man Super
Speaker 1: Cooper Pizza U Pie, It's Marie do. It's like that
Speaker 1: Cooper Doude. It's it's amazing what he has done for
Speaker 1: that offense. And uh, you know, when the Dez Brian
Speaker 1: thing happened, I was like, man, you could you can
Speaker 1: never you know, not have a number one receiver. And uh,
Speaker 1: they're getting the best of a many many worlds is
Speaker 1: that they have a great number one receiver without the arrogance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but you know, you know you did. I
Speaker 1: don't know any team I've ever played on it didn't
Speaker 1: have a number one receiver that wasn't eric arrogant, you know,
Speaker 1: like Andre Rising in college. You know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: that dag On, Uh you play with Andre Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know Dreke Yeah, yeah, that's what I's there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then um, and then you got Chris Carter when
Speaker 1: he I was up there in Minnesota, and you know
Speaker 1: they're all they got that air to him, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And Uh so, I don't know. He
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to have that yet. He doesn't in person either.
Speaker 1: He's really humble, he's quiet. I thought maybe to me,
Speaker 1: here's a little ariic cockiness to him. He's just he's caught.
Speaker 1: He's confident, like he's been there. Yeah, what do you
Speaker 1: what do you see it out of him? What makes
Speaker 1: him special? Um? Well, after the catch, I see that
Speaker 1: he doesn't go down easily. I mean, like to catch
Speaker 1: the ball, then put his hand down on the turf
Speaker 1: and then continue to make yardage. It's pretty good. And
Speaker 1: then you know he he's mastered the uh separation. At
Speaker 1: the end of the class, you're able to catch the ball.
Speaker 1: It seemed just been a problem around here. No, I
Speaker 1: just say that. I tell you what, he mastered separation.
Speaker 1: He's a master. Take. I tell you what. Damn there.
Speaker 1: I watched the last game down there. Every play that
Speaker 1: there's a little bits, a little bit of there's a separation.
Speaker 1: He's mastered separation. You know anything about it? Extend his
Speaker 1: arms and yeah, it's like you know, you you slow
Speaker 1: down and then you speed up. You talked about Vandresh
Speaker 1: a little bit. What do you think about Jalon Smith
Speaker 1: out there's oh yeah, yeah, he's doing great. Yeah. Like
Speaker 1: I said, the whole linebacking group is you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I was hoping that Sean Lee would have
Speaker 1: had a little bit more presence in the um, you know,
Speaker 1: being out there with his leadership skills, and it seems
Speaker 1: as if somebody is you know, speaking to uh number
Speaker 1: fifty five, and uh it looks like some veteran is
Speaker 1: out there, you know, coach coaching him or giving it
Speaker 1: from a player's point of view instead of a coach's
Speaker 1: point of view, like, uh, the guy for us was
Speaker 1: Jack del Real. Yes, Jack del Rio taught us how
Speaker 1: to beat Barry Sanders. You know. It was Jack del
Speaker 1: Real And matter of fact, I think he alerted the
Speaker 1: entire league as it relates to how to beat Barry Sanders.
Speaker 1: And that was Jack del Real And I remember the secret. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I remember the morning we came in and uh
Speaker 1: walked past the locker room and Jack said, hey, come here.
Speaker 1: So we all went in there and looked down and
Speaker 1: he said, I think I figured out how to beat
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders. And we were like, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: So he sat down there and Jack watching film like
Speaker 1: coaches ain't watching film jacking and watching film. So he
Speaker 1: got a piece of paper and he's writing down all
Speaker 1: the times on the Beta machine, you know, specific times
Speaker 1: on the Beata machine. And he had marks next to him.
Speaker 1: He said, well, look at look at this right here,
Speaker 1: at this play. This is where they missed him. This
Speaker 1: one right here is when they tackled him. This is
Speaker 1: where they tackle him. He said. What's consistent about when
Speaker 1: they tackled him is that they went after him and
Speaker 1: took away away. You know, so he would he would
Speaker 1: bounce and do something random, and football everybody knows that
Speaker 1: football can't handle random. If random happens, something's wrong, you know.
Speaker 1: So it so he would he would come, come here,
Speaker 1: and then he would move. And if you took away
Speaker 1: the option of the move this way, then that means
Speaker 1: that the only way he had to go was this way.
Speaker 1: And then if everybody attacking so uh. Coach Janstead said
Speaker 1: that week, we are not going to have or be
Speaker 1: penalized as players for mistackles. So if in the game
Speaker 1: what we did is we went after him this way,
Speaker 1: and then this guy went this way and then I
Speaker 1: went that way. Yeah, so funny. The year before that,
Speaker 1: I was just talking with Cassius. Remember Cassillus was on
Speaker 1: the on the highlight film around like a top. He
Speaker 1: thought he was tacking. He did too. Yeah, they went
Speaker 1: and they stopped. It was turning around. Yeah like that,
Speaker 1: like we had worried he was still running. Yeah. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. What he's saying is Barry was
Speaker 1: sudden he would come here and stop. He was hoping
Speaker 1: you would stop. But what they want to do, they
Speaker 1: wouldn't stop. Yeah, they just kept coming at it, right,
Speaker 1: and so when they and that made them move and
Speaker 1: they made the move right back into their defense. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You always was attacking that outside, making them move back
Speaker 1: as the guy coming. Yeah. So like even when has
Speaker 1: the tape, when he has a take, if you has
Speaker 1: a tate, like that's when to get you, like like
Speaker 1: my man Spros did. Yeah, well Finn, yeah stop, I
Speaker 1: guess yeah right, you can't. You can't. You can't stop
Speaker 1: you coming at it. You gotta keep going even if
Speaker 1: you missed, Just keep gumming cards going because you got dude,
Speaker 1: you got six or seven guys that are hunting him
Speaker 1: down too, and they're all going to take it and
Speaker 1: do the same type of thing. We just you know,
Speaker 1: we just attack them and stuff. So yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's awesome. Oh goodness, do you know you're talking about
Speaker 1: you're talking about some stressed out that day, you know,
Speaker 1: that week, the whole week saying it's like because you
Speaker 1: ain't got nobody here, we have nobody on our team.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was Bary said nobody. Yeah, yeah, yeah, nobody.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't never played anybody in my life.
Speaker 1: It was very senders the ever. You know, Deon had
Speaker 1: a little bit of that. No, no, don't get a confused.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody. Dion was a player in his own right.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, this he's yeah, yeah. But we used to
Speaker 1: sit there because our defense was always the top five defense,
Speaker 1: and we used to sit there and look at them
Speaker 1: and they and they used to be walking out the field.
Speaker 1: They were still talking a little noise, but not as much.
Speaker 1: So you're telling me y'all used to stand on. Y'all
Speaker 1: got the best out of house we got. I was like,
Speaker 1: I said, you see his ex due. We used to
Speaker 1: do the same thing. Man um Godfrey, Godfrey mile. So uh,
Speaker 1: I'll come off the signline. I go sit on the
Speaker 1: bench and goff say man Godfrey, tell me he say man,
Speaker 1: get up. You gotta go watch these dudes. So we've
Speaker 1: watching watching the uh the Philadelphia linebackers, he said, he said, dude,
Speaker 1: you about no, No, I'm gonna tell you the clinic
Speaker 1: was the New Orleans linebackers, them four cats. Yeah, Patrol,
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, dude, Damn Mills Jackson of dude, they
Speaker 1: have folk. Dude, I'm talking about you. You talking about
Speaker 1: as entertaining. You know. Dude, would be like, man, you
Speaker 1: need to watch these dudes. It's like they're all talking.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, goodness better Ricky Jackie just called him Seahorse,
Speaker 1: sea horse. We call him hard. He just had open heart,
Speaker 1: open brain surgery. Oh man, yeah, about a week or two.
Speaker 1: But he's doing all right, understanding. Yeah, but brother, you
Speaker 1: were the only one man we would watch. We would
Speaker 1: watch that film and yeah, watched that field. Everybody had
Speaker 1: a head. I'm talking about I used to. We used
Speaker 1: to be on the sideline feeling for the offense. We'd
Speaker 1: be like, dude, the giants would come in there Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: You be like, dude, they got them loving sacks on this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was man called us to watch film all together.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I don't want to watch. This
Speaker 1: one of those games when the coaches tell us we're
Speaker 1: not gonna watch the film, man, we will be praying
Speaker 1: we're not eve gonna watch. It was so terrible, we're
Speaker 1: not even watch Moving on, Moving on, man. But Jimmy, Man,
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't understand how Frank Jimmy was
Speaker 1: with us when when it comes when it comes to
Speaker 1: telling us, and when he believed we could beat the team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I don't care if it's about one, I don't
Speaker 1: care if it's about a hundred. We should beat this team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he did. He was so straightforward with us. Man,
Speaker 1: once we got good. Yeah, he was so straightforward with us.
Speaker 1: I love that. And then what I liked about him
Speaker 1: is that and how he would build such confidence in
Speaker 1: young players is that he would go in there and
Speaker 1: our team meetings on Monday, Yeah, Monday, and like he's
Speaker 1: like he's notre Domins, dude. It's like, how is he
Speaker 1: predicting the outcoming game on Sunday? You know? And it's
Speaker 1: all because he knows he understands matchups. This dude understands
Speaker 1: every level of matchup in the in the team and
Speaker 1: against your opponent, and matter of fact. You know, if
Speaker 1: you start looking at how he uh, you know, picked
Speaker 1: players to run his defense or run his offense. You know,
Speaker 1: he understood matchup. This guy is not that good. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna pay him that much. But well I knew
Speaker 1: if I got this guy sitting over here, and this
Speaker 1: guy over here and then this, it makes us. It
Speaker 1: makes sense for us to keep this guy in here.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, making the efficient use of individuals.
Speaker 1: And he was a master at that, you know, for real.
Speaker 1: So man, I don't we gotta take a break, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to. Yeah, I got and not worry
Speaker 1: about it. Across the street over there and him you're
Speaker 1: walking out. Yeah, all right, we'll take a quick break.
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Speaker 1: you he talks more now you know then before you know,
Speaker 1: because Cowboys do a lot of like signings with him
Speaker 1: before games. So you gon have to learn how to talk.
Speaker 1: Open your mouth if you can't be quiet. I mean
Speaker 1: that's the most we ever got at him. He'd have
Speaker 1: talked that much doing when we was playing football. Man, Hey,
Speaker 1: I don't know, he probably never left. He was a
Speaker 1: quiet dude. He was quiet, man, he was He was
Speaker 1: a lone wolf. How did this just happen? But I
Speaker 1: saw him in the room. He was in the lunch
Speaker 1: room with one of the people, and I walked us,
Speaker 1: the dicks, if you get time from whatever you're doing,
Speaker 1: come down to the show. He said, I can come
Speaker 1: down now. Say your name allows you to come down
Speaker 1: the bro you know. He looked at us, said yeah,
Speaker 1: your name allows you to come right on down here.
Speaker 1: He's one of the boys. Yeah, you're hanging with the
Speaker 1: boy absolutely, and Douglas gonna come up with some dumb
Speaker 1: ass questions about Dion sand playing on the turf and
Speaker 1: they scored fifty. No, no, it was true. It was
Speaker 1: the absolute im messing with Mike and Troit. Mike and
Speaker 1: Emmett were those type of guys. They they were. They
Speaker 1: were fast in their own special way, but grass they were.
Speaker 1: They were excellent. Yea, they were excellent because you came
Speaker 1: down a notch wise and speed just that split a
Speaker 1: little second and they gained scene like can split second.
Speaker 1: But if you want to see a fast defense comfortable
Speaker 1: to this one, you see every Sunday out here. Man,
Speaker 1: our boys when we hit that turff in Texas Field,
Speaker 1: they ain't seen nothing like that, Bro, They ain't seen
Speaker 1: nothing like that. With Dixon and Miles and Ken Norton.
Speaker 1: Oh man, we had another brother. We sent him to Chicago,
Speaker 1: but because Dixon took his place. But Vincent Smill. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they all had like four or five forties. And see
Speaker 1: I wanted did you catch what he said when he said, man,
Speaker 1: the freedness that Russell and Leon, let them run. If
Speaker 1: you want to see Sean Lee and all that group,
Speaker 1: that wolf wolf pack slow down, let them defensive line
Speaker 1: and stop stop doing their job up front. He be like, man,
Speaker 1: what what happened to the wolf on hein't hauling as much.
Speaker 1: Look at the defensive line. So the defensive line or
Speaker 1: up those those blocks when you got to put an gear. Example,
Speaker 1: you're on the backside the tight ends over here, So
Speaker 1: Damian Wilson's on top of the tight end in the
Speaker 1: middle is our mike backer. We got a one technique
Speaker 1: and we got a three technique. Or if we running
Speaker 1: the week side, we got a three technique. Back here,
Speaker 1: this guard and this tackle got to scoop up to
Speaker 1: get to our will backer. You are to get will backer.
Speaker 1: I'm the d I'm the offensive guard. I gotta take
Speaker 1: this three technique along with this tackle, and I gotta
Speaker 1: give enough to to my tackles so he can catch up.
Speaker 1: And I still got to get to you. Well what
Speaker 1: Malie Collins and and and what's gonna do? Is they
Speaker 1: so strong they knocked me back? You running the clear
Speaker 1: error and the players over there you're running. I can't
Speaker 1: get off my tackle. He stuck. He stuck. Now the
Speaker 1: wolf hunter comes and screaming the hollar all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: hen meeting him in the backfield. But if I can
Speaker 1: get a hand and knock knocked back Mala Collins, and
Speaker 1: I scoop up to you, brother, I got a backside
Speaker 1: of lane that you can drive a mack truck through.
Speaker 1: That's a simple difference of a player in front of
Speaker 1: you covering your behind. I'm telling you. And and Ken
Speaker 1: Norton and Ken Norton used to be like Sean Lee,
Speaker 1: it's coming right here. It's coming because he'll be reading you.
Speaker 1: He'll be reading the guard, he'll be reading the time.
Speaker 1: It's coming right here. It's coming right here. You know,
Speaker 1: like you know what what's the play was? It's coming.
Speaker 1: They can't tell you the play, but they gotta sen
Speaker 1: that is next thing. You know. Here we come right
Speaker 1: there and they're already running. It's hard to deal with
Speaker 1: the defensive like that when you got guys across your
Speaker 1: board that's running four or five, four to six, but
Speaker 1: they're running free. It's like they're running four four, they're
Speaker 1: running free. You're running back just he ain't. He chaking
Speaker 1: steps and he trying to read and everybody is explosive
Speaker 1: because Zeke can take a smaller crack than most people
Speaker 1: explode through it. For most backs after about four or
Speaker 1: five hits like that, where they ain't game. Nothing is
Speaker 1: zero game. They ain't got the heart, bro, They ain't
Speaker 1: got the heart. Even they think they got the heart,
Speaker 1: they ain't got the heart. And Jee Dixon came in
Speaker 1: at two twelve. He then started his first year, but
Speaker 1: the second year he was he beefed up a little bit.
Speaker 1: Probably got two sixteen two twenty. And I'm telling you
Speaker 1: running four or five four six forty coming downhill. That's ugly, man.
Speaker 1: It's like a spirit, like a spirit hehing you read
Speaker 1: in your chest. He was kind of un sudden guy,
Speaker 1: wasn't He was pretty Yeah? It was good man. But
Speaker 1: like you said, Jimmy was good at management and and
Speaker 1: you know, and everybody couldn't get paid. Yeah. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: didn't want to pay linebackers. Nah. They wanted to draft him.
Speaker 1: And after your first contract, let you go. Kim Norton, man,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you Ken Norton. When coach Landry them draft
Speaker 1: to them, everybody want to call that boy a bus
Speaker 1: out of us LA. It was Troy ken Norton. We
Speaker 1: found James watching he come from USA, and they wanted
Speaker 1: to call ken Norton the bus And Jimmy said, okay,
Speaker 1: you're my Mike backer. All we're asking you to do
Speaker 1: is run, and you're talking about Ken Norton took that
Speaker 1: thing to a new level. I mean you, uh, let
Speaker 1: me see, we had to strength the power. They call
Speaker 1: right or left? You all just right. You don't know
Speaker 1: if he's staying right or left, but they would get it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, is he what is he called the strength?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. They're gonna fish kill him.
Speaker 1: We had to rename him. We revisited it. We can't
Speaker 1: let the name go. We came in the name go
Speaker 1: because he came up his shoulders a Kodiak bear with
Speaker 1: a big old Simon in his mouth. So we had
Speaker 1: to bring it back and said, yeah, I do. Man,
Speaker 1: don't let my wife to tear you from telling me. Well, Kurt,
Speaker 1: thanks for showing up hell of a show today, which
Speaker 1: for y'all call him please please big pizza pie, it's
Speaker 1: Marie Douglas. Please please take one of those clips that
Speaker 1: they just did in at a drop. Okay, Hey, thanks
Speaker 1: for bringing Douglas. Thanks for doing what you do. Kent,
Speaker 1: thanks for doing what you do. Pressley, thanks for doing
Speaker 1: what you do. We will be back tomorrow is our
Speaker 1: Friday No Show Friday, a joint show at what are
Speaker 1: y'all doing? Nine o'clock on Friday? Nine o'clock on Friday.
Speaker 1: Kurt Now, I will not be here, but we will
Speaker 1: be here tomorrow. We'll have Mama Gross. We got a
Speaker 1: lot of y'all got being skinned them next. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got a lot of things going on tomorrow. We gotta
Speaker 1: cover offense, defense, defense, offense. Pick some games less the
Speaker 1: players shows up and then all bets are off. Y'all
Speaker 1: have fun. We'll see tomorrow, same time, same place, So
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