1 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: This is the Miller Light Cowboys Hour, supported by Albertson 2 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: and Omni Hotels and Resource. Brought to you by Miller Light, 3 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: the only beer of the Cowboys. It's Miller Tut Albertson's 4 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: and Tom Thumbs, the official supermarket and pharmacy of the 5 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. Choose VA Veterans get the benefits you've burned. 6 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: Visit choose Dot bea Dot Go and by Geico fifteen 7 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: minutes could save you fifteen percenter more on car and shirts. Now, 8 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: your hosts, Shannon Gross and Brad shan and welcome everybody 9 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 1: to the Cowboys Hour. It's Victory Monday. Let's go. Let's go. 10 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: That's that's the weakest. Let's go. You's a five game 11 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: winning streak. That is the weakest. Let's go. You've been 12 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: saying it so often it's taken a little bit out 13 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: of me every week trying. Is it too much winning? 14 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: Let's go? All right? Now, we're talking, especially considering that 15 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: our very special guest this week is Cowboys head coach 16 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy. Thank you for doing this, Oh thanks for 17 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: having me. This is awesome, This is this. I have 18 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: to sit in the room. Will you buy myself. I'm 19 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:25,639 Speaker 1: no way we would not subject you to that quite yet. 20 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: And we welcome all of those of you who are 21 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 1: joining us wherever you are on the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network, 22 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: and those of you who are watching us whenever during 23 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: the week you're watching us on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 24 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: That's the little box there, Mike waved a little by. 25 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: There you go, you're on that. And to those of 26 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: you who come out to join us on the south 27 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: concourse of the Star of the Ford Center at the Star, welcome, 28 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: thanks for coming. Great to have you here. It's Victory Monday, 29 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: by the way. Yeah, let's go. Let's go. Let's go, 30 00:01:58,240 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: here we go. We got about eight of them in 31 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: their brad we uh we save something because I think 32 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: it's not the last Victory Monday of the year. It 33 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: would be the plan. Um, So we we always look 34 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: for an opportunity like this to be able to get 35 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: to know someone like the head coach. Plus, I believe 36 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: tonight's the night of the rookie dinner, isn't it exactly? 37 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,799 Speaker 1: I've this is the first time we've had it in 38 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: my time here, so I'm looking forward to what what 39 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: what do you suppose goes on at the by the way, 40 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 1: it's not just rookies, it's the veterans kind of conduct 41 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: the thing right absolutely, and everybody's involved and it's a 42 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: it's a pricey night for the young men and um, 43 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be a lot of laughs. Yeah, okay, 44 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 1: so so um. We always do a show going into 45 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: and coming out of the bye but tonight was just 46 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: the perfect night to have Coach McCarthy. And the other 47 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: thing is I was saying to Mike before we went on, 48 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: is the thanks to COVID, Thank you COVID. Uh, you've 49 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 1: just been you haven't had a chance to really kind 50 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: of get into the community at all. You've it's it's 51 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: been unusual in every possible sense. And I'm guessing that 52 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: you just kind of, knowing what your personality is like, 53 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: you would like to be out in connecting with people 54 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: a little bit, wouldn't you. I Mean, that's that's what 55 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: my wife Jessica, and that's where accustomed to, you know, 56 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: in the past. But frankly, this was my walking path 57 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 1: last year as I walked over to twelve every day, 58 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: and you know, and basically this is where I really 59 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: I don't think I left Frisco, Texas, you know, actual 60 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: Frisco the Star probably six months into the into my 61 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: stay here. So no, it's it's definitely. We bought a 62 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: home in Allen, and the kids are in school, and 63 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: we have our two youngest are here in school. And 64 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: you know, we have five children. My oldest is in 65 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. She just turned thirty. I feel old as hell. 66 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: But and then our oldest oldest son, Jack as a 67 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: freshman at University of Colorado, and George is a freshman 68 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: at SMU, so it's great having him right down the road. 69 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: So he comes home for dinner often and uh and 70 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: laundry larger of course, yeah, and it check his mail. Yeah, right. 71 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: But then our two youngest, you have a fourth grader 72 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: and a seventh grader. So life is good. It's back 73 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: in normal for us. It's good. Good, it's great. It's 74 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 1: it's it's good to have you finally been able to 75 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: get your arms around the community and vice versa. Um 76 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: and and as I'm sure you are finding out, it's 77 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 1: a little bit the same everywhere. And then those of 78 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: us who've been here for a while, I think it's 79 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: a little different here. Um. Jerry Jones always likes to 80 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: say that when the Cowboys really get winning, it's kind 81 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: of like throwing lighter fluid on the floor of a 82 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: small room and throwing in a match. It everything goes crazy, 83 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 1: And I'm interested in how it feels to You've been 84 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: around You've been around championship teams. You've been around teams 85 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: that looked maybe good, turned out not to be so good. 86 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: And so you you know what a good team looks like. 87 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 1: How do you know what you're looking at? Well, you mean, 88 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 1: team wise, are just the whole energy letter fluid analogy. Yeah, 89 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: well take the take the whole that we got an hour, 90 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 1: take the no. I'll say this, Uh, the Dallas Cowboy 91 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: fan base is unbelievable. I mean, and you see it 92 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: right away in our first two you know, away games 93 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 1: just to see you know, how everybody travels, and uh, 94 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: it's nice when you're on the road and you when 95 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: your team is being introduced and and you get it 96 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: probably as loud or a louder roar than that than 97 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: the home team gets. So uh, it's that part has 98 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: been great. Um. You know have such a great tradition. 99 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: You know, everywhere you go, it's it's reflected and um, 100 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: I winning brings out the best of in everybody, especially 101 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: US as an organization. So now this is a special place. 102 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 1: I feel like we have a special season that we're building. 103 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: Talk to the team about it. So we obviously off 104 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: to a great start. Jump probably jump on ahead here, Brad. 105 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: But you know, you know we're we broke our season 106 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 1: down into thirds, and this first third is you know, 107 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 1: we've played six really productive football games. So I feel, 108 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: you know that we are in a spot that we 109 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 1: were probably about as school as we could be right now. 110 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: So I mean, also we lost the first one, but 111 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 1: we played productive that evening, so we got a lot 112 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: to build off of. And you know, I really liked 113 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: that our buyas come now and but it's we have 114 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: a chance to do something special, a special place. Well. So, 115 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 1: and I know that you went to camp thinking you 116 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: had a good team, you had the possibility having a 117 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: good team. But that word special, you guys know when 118 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: you see it that, oh this really does have a 119 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: chance to be something. But how do you know? What 120 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: have you seen that's told you that? And when did 121 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: you first see it? Culture? Um, the vibe, the personality 122 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: of the lock room, the leadership stepping up, I mean, 123 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: you know, you know, Doc Prescott's unique Our veteran leadership 124 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: is is We're very high as far as the number 125 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 1: of veterans that have excellent leadership ability of all the 126 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: teams I've been a part of throughout my career. So 127 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: and you know, and then frankly, we're the third youngest 128 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: team in the league. So I just really like the chemistry, 129 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: the combination of the individuals, the personalities, and you could 130 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: see it coming together in the offseason. So um, Oxnard 131 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: is a great place to go and grow as a 132 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: football team. I think there's definitely benefits of having a 133 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: lighter schedule. You know, you're only a lot of work 134 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: to players eleven hours as opposed to I think it 135 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: was fourteen sixteen in the past. But I think that 136 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: helps you know, the group dynamics and developing of it 137 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: and equality of workout there was outstanding out I don't 138 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: think it rained a whole time we were there, so 139 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: we're able to get every practice in and so just 140 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: everything that you're looking for as you move into the season. 141 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: It just lined up very well for us. But were 142 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: you a little skeptical about Oxnard before you actually get 143 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: I'll scared to death of Oxnard, Because every time someone 144 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: talked about ox and I gets kept talking about how 145 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: beautiful it was, how good the food, how good the 146 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: restaurants are, how close was it the beach and the weather, 147 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: And no one said a damn thing about the football field. 148 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: So I was, I was, I was nervous, I was, 149 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: I was frank I was nervous to go out there 150 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: for football camp. And what sold you? What turned you around? Um? 151 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: The work the workload was outstanding. I mean we we 152 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: we hit all of our targets. Um. You know, we're 153 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: able to get through you know, practice the team the 154 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: right way. You know, we had hard practices. Um. And 155 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: then you know, just to set up is very convenient. 156 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: I mean, the flow and the function of the operation 157 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: there was tremendous. And frankly, the weather is so good. Um, 158 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,680 Speaker 1: you're able to really really push your team out there. Um. 159 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: As we unfold here in the next in the next 160 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: few minutes, we also break up into segments. By the way, 161 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: okay three, Uh are we on four? Ted? I think 162 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: we're on four four segments, So it's close. That's a 163 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: normal year. Yeah, that's really exactly right. But we will 164 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: uh and and I want One of the things I 165 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 1: want to do is let people hear what got you 166 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 1: interested in being a coach. The different people come to 167 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: it from different ways. But before we do that, a 168 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: little bit about yesterday. How much was was it a 169 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: statement to win in New England and beat Bill Belichick 170 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: and as different difficult as their defense can be. I 171 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: think it definitely was a statement, but it was more 172 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: of a statement for the people outside of our locker room. 173 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: But I mean, we were extremely confident going into the game. 174 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: We really like the way we matched up. Our players 175 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: are doing a significantly better job this year compared to 176 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 1: last year, just in the preparation phase each week, so 177 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: you know, and you could you know, you can see 178 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: it during the week. Each week, you can tell when 179 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: there's some hesitancy, if you're asking certain group to do 180 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: certain things that they may not feel totally comfortable, wouldn't 181 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 1: And that's normal in an NFL season game week, But 182 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: you know, Saturday night in a team meeting, there's I mean, 183 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: just you know, once again, there's I talk a lot 184 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: about energy and vibe, but just our football team is 185 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 1: very confident and and I think with that you have 186 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: to be in tune with what's you know, what's real 187 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: real confidence and what's fake confident and they're doing it 188 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 1: the right way. Um I think the ability to win 189 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 1: close games. We needed that type of win frankly more 190 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 1: than we needed to beat New England. In my opinion, 191 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: I think over time victories, last series victories are so 192 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 1: important because I'm always looking to develop the team and 193 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: grow towards December January football because that's when it really 194 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: counts and you're going to be in those types of 195 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: games most likely. Um So, But we were very confident 196 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:39,839 Speaker 1: going in there. I mean it's and you know, it's 197 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: just like you can say this every game, and I 198 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: think it's the beauty of the game of football, especially 199 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 1: in the NFL. You know, you take a few plays 200 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 1: early that could be a different game, you know, because 201 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: we were extremely productive on all three phases. It was 202 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: clearly our biggest challenge for special teams that that there 203 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: are special teams. Unit is you know, as as deep 204 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: and his experience of a unit that will face all year, 205 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 1: you know, and our and our special teams played big, 206 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: you know, in our defense played really strong, you know, 207 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: throughout the game. But but it had a tremendous challenge 208 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: they played exclusive and a personnel group that they hadn't 209 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 1: shown maybe two plays all year. So there, you know, 210 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: there's a lot of good scheme and adjustments going on 211 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: that um that we love as coaches, and the players 212 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: really excelled at and offensively, we're obviously very productive, and 213 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: you know, if we don't turn the ball over, it 214 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: could be a little bit of a different game. But 215 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: I think outside of the locker room, outside of our 216 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: immediate group, I mean, I'm sure there's a statement for 217 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: our fans, and that's great. You always want to please 218 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: your fans, and you know, I think it. I think 219 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: you felt a little better about yourself. Brad. You look 220 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: like you were walking a little taller last night. Yeah, yeah, 221 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely, Although after you decided to go for the 222 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: fourth down at your own thirty four, I don't know 223 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: how tall I was for a minute. Was a statement 224 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: might might not have been the right statement. Statement. I 225 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: will admit that you you furrow our brows from time 226 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: the time. But now that we know that going for 227 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: that was all a piece of making sure that you 228 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: could win a close game at the end, now it 229 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: all kind of fits together. Yeah, I'm just falling Jerry's showmanship. Yeah, 230 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: I see he rubs off. He's trying to fit in 231 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 1: around here, he rubs off. What does go into that 232 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: kind of decis it's an unconventional decision, certainly for the 233 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: way a lot of people were brought up at your 234 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: own thirty four early in the game. What goes into 235 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 1: your deciding that now we're going for this, well that builds. 236 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: I don't I don't think you know, I don't think 237 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: I make that call in week one or two. I 238 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: mean I think it's a matter of where we are 239 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: as a team. Um, you know how I felt, you know, 240 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: matching up up front, and I mean it was a 241 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: clean play. I mean, you got Zeke care in the football. 242 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:46,439 Speaker 1: I mean he's he's a hammer, um when he when 243 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,079 Speaker 1: he goes up in there. So yeah, you know, I'm 244 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: not We're not. We won't make a steady diet of it. 245 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: So just we'll want to stand. But you know, it 246 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: was early in the game and we want colling. I talked, 247 00:12:57,679 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: I think it was Saturday morning, and our coordinators may 248 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: I want to aggressive go in there, and you know, 249 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: and and frankly I was I was really trying to 250 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: do the best. We quit as far as playing with 251 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,839 Speaker 1: the lead because we just really felt we got the 252 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: lead on those guys that our defensive front can really 253 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: pin their hairs back and get after their offensive line. 254 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: So that was part of the thinking. And you got 255 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,079 Speaker 1: there eventually so we could Yeah, no, no doubt. I 256 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 1: was just trying to get their little show. Yeah, and 257 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: now we understand. Uh, Mike McCarthy's are a very special 258 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: guest on the Cowboys Hour tonight. We are delighted to 259 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 1: have all of you and you Mike with us. Go ahead, 260 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: when it comes time to shop for tailgate favorites, go 261 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: to Albertson's and Tom Thumb. Get ten percent off your 262 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 1: groceries every Dallas Cowboys game day when you wear your 263 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: Cowboys jersey. Albertson's and Tom Thumb the official supermarket and 264 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 1: pharmacy of the Dallas Cowboys. And we'll be right back 265 00:13:48,520 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: with coach Mike McCarthy on the Cowboys. Let's go wh 266 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: for the Miller like Cowboys our supported by Albertson and 267 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: Ami Hotels and Resort, and welcome back. We are on 268 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 1: the Cowboys Hour on what Victory Monday Monday. Let's go. Now, 269 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: we got Shannon Gross permanently fired up by Brad Sham. 270 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 1: Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy's our special guests this evening. 271 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: We're delighted to have all of you with us. One 272 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: of the what has quickly become a stellar feature of 273 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: this program has been Shannon's deep dive into the Wikipedia 274 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: page of our guest, and so I thought this would 275 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 1: be a good time to go early into Shannon's Wikipedia. Yeah, listen, 276 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:38,879 Speaker 1: this is my favorite part of the show, Coach, because 277 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,679 Speaker 1: Brad actually lets me talk during this segment, so I 278 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,400 Speaker 1: usually turned the rest of the show over to Brad. 279 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: We actually have two pages on you today, so this 280 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:50,439 Speaker 1: is what we do. Normally it's like half a page, 281 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: but there's there's plenty to go through here today, so 282 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 1: we'll get to this right out of the gate. That way, 283 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: we have two segments after to discuss whatever comes out 284 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: of this, so love it. I read what's on Wikipedia, 285 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 1: because we all know that whatever is on the Internet 286 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: is true. Correct, Absolutely, that's the best. So we'll go 287 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: through this and you you fact check for us, Coach. 288 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:11,640 Speaker 1: You let me know if this is true or not true, 289 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: and well I'll go doctor this up afterwards and make 290 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: any corrections. Renty two all right, So this says, and 291 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: if this is true, this is a very interesting fact. 292 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: Because this is true, this is also my birthday. You 293 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: were born Michael John McCarthy on November tenth, nineteen sixty three. 294 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: There we go. We share a birthday. It's amazing I 295 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,360 Speaker 1: found that out today. Great day to be born, says. 296 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 1: You're an American football coach who is the head coach 297 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,679 Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. And 298 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: from two thousand and six to twenty eighteen, you were 299 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: the head coach of the Green Bay Packers. In twenty eleven, 300 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: you led them to a Super Bowl win over your 301 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: hometown Pittsburgh Steelers. Correct, correct, so far? All right? You 302 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: were previously the offensive coordinators for the San Francisco forty 303 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 1: nine ers in New Orleans Saints. Correct, correct, all right, 304 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,399 Speaker 1: And during your fourteen seasons a head coach in the NFL, 305 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: you have an overall regular season record of one thirty one, 306 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: eighty two, eighty seven and two. You're among the only 307 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 1: four head coaches Tom Landry, Chucknoll, and Bill Belichick to 308 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: lead one franchise to eight straight playoff appearances. Correct, All right, 309 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 1: Here we go, All right, here comes the fun stuff. 310 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 1: You were born and raised in Pittsburgh in the blue 311 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 1: collar neighborhood of Greenfield. Your mother, Ellen McCarthy, was a 312 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: secretary and worked in restaurants. Yeah, that's how they wrote it. 313 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: That's how he wrote it. Yeah, she worked a lot 314 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: of restaurants, and she also worked for the Justice of 315 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: the Peace. Okay, I'll get that corrected right after the show. 316 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 1: Your father, Joe was a firefighter for the Pittsburgh Fire 317 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: Bureau and an officer for the Pittsburgh Police Department. Correct alright, well, 318 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: both a firefighter and a police I was a police 319 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: officer for eight years, and then he switched over the 320 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: fire department for I think close to twenty five thirty years. Well, 321 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:59,919 Speaker 1: and then lifetime public safety. Yeah, no kids, awesome at all, 322 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 1: So says uh. Your dad owned a bar called Joe 323 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,479 Speaker 1: McCarthy's Bar and Grill where you spent Sundays cleaning up 324 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: after church before church, before church. Okay, another correction will 325 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: make um. And then your dad raised you as a 326 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers fan. That's the way it is, Becker, I know. 327 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: So this guy over here is a Steelers fan? Is 328 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:29,119 Speaker 1: that Rich Chother pittsburgher that's right. It says, after serving 329 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,919 Speaker 1: as a graduate assistant at Fort Hay State from nineteen 330 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 1: eighty seven to eighty eight, you return home to Pittsburgh. Um, 331 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 1: and you called Mike Godfried, the head coach of University 332 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh, and asked for a coaching job, but no 333 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: positions were available. Correct, pretty true? Okay. And it says, uh, 334 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: you just don't pick up the phone and call the 335 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: coach University Pittsburgh. But that's that's close enough. It's close, 336 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: all right. It says you were told to even to 337 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: mail your resume. That was back in the days when 338 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: we had to actually whale raising. Excuse me, did you 339 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,640 Speaker 1: did you not show up in his office? Yeah? Absolutely, 340 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: That's how I finally got my foot in the door. Yes, 341 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: without an appointment, Without an appointment, I had probably a 342 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,400 Speaker 1: whole shoot by four or five different resumes, my four 343 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 1: or five of my you know, people take resumes there. Um. 344 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: I was trying to get on as a graduate assistant. 345 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: They didn't have any graduate assistant ships available. So I 346 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: walked in and I knew one of the coaches on 347 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: the staff. We were from the same neighborhood. And the 348 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: secretary stopped me and and luckily they were breaking a 349 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:34,360 Speaker 1: meeting and seals and series of the gentleman's name, so 350 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 1: you know, self stopped. We talked, and then they had 351 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 1: a gentleman by the name is Alex Kramer, who's kind 352 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 1: of oh he was like the historian, I really really 353 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: need um fellow that had been at Pitford shoot fifty 354 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 1: sixty years. So he called me and it says we 355 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: had no positions available. We got all your resumes. You 356 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: thanks for coming by and um, but if anything, every 357 00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: if anything you know, happens, we'll give you a call. 358 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,199 Speaker 1: Today Larry called me and offered me a position to 359 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: be a volunteer coach. So I volunteered for my first year. Okay, 360 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: all right, sorry, no problem. They got it wrong here. 361 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 1: They said. The next day you showed up and introduced yourself, 362 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: and a few days later you got some an assistant resigned, 363 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: so I'll go correct that as well. And then the 364 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: other interesting thing was you serve as right, I don't know. 365 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: I think it's open to the public. So Wikipedia is yeah, 366 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 1: it says you serve as a graduate assistant for three 367 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: seasons before coaching wide receivers during the ninety two season, 368 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: and then the other interesting thing. There's two more interesting 369 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: things on here. One it says you worked as a 370 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: toll collector during the off season. Definitely, I just got 371 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: my master's degree. Definitely. I got to tell a story 372 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,159 Speaker 1: because it's it was a summer job. Number one. I 373 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 1: think I worked there six weeks. But you know, you 374 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: just get your master's degree, you come home and you 375 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: don't have any money. You're still you know, you're living 376 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: home with your parents. So I asked my father to 377 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,679 Speaker 1: give me a job, you know, help you get a job. 378 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: But that's the only thing was that was acted. He 379 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: was able to pull off in short nose. So I 380 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,880 Speaker 1: worked at the graveyards shift from ten at nine till 381 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: six in the morning at the Turnpike over the summertime 382 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: before training camp started, pitt So just to get a 383 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 1: few bucks in my part. Now, how how how much 384 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: activity would you have come through? Oh? How long is 385 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,679 Speaker 1: the show? I mean working the turnpike it was exit 386 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: five back then, um when the when the bars and 387 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: the nightclubs let out at two o'clock, young ladies that 388 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: didn't have toll to pay, it was it was amazing 389 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: what you'd see at two am in the morning. It was, 390 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 1: it's pretty funny, okay. And then the last fun fact 391 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: that here it says in in while in Pittsburgh you 392 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: were a two time state polka dancing champion. I made 393 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,920 Speaker 1: that one up. There. There's always one that if you 394 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 1: would have said the Irish, you know, an Irish dance 395 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 1: or something, I would have went with it, the river dance. 396 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: I have to make one up just to make sure 397 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 1: everyone's telling fact checking practice. So thank you for thank 398 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: you for playing, okay, McCarthy, I Wikipedia, that's good. When 399 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: when when he yes, please do in all your free time? 400 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 1: When in there did you kind of realize that you 401 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: wanted to be a head coach and that you wanted 402 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: to coach in the National Football Oh, head coach? When 403 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: I when I had the opportunity to work in Kansas 404 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 1: City for Marty Schrottenheimer, I mean, frankly, he told me 405 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,159 Speaker 1: early in my tenure there that he told me I 406 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 1: had the makings of a head coach. And what did 407 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: he say specifically? What that meant? Um? No, I just 408 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: I think it particularly I got into the league as 409 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 1: a computer guy, if you can believe that. So when 410 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: I was at the University of Pittsburgh, Um, you know 411 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: Paul Hackett, who actually just came from the Dallas Cowboys, 412 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: you know when when Jerry bought the team and Paul 413 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 1: was the offensive coordinator the first year for Mike Guffrey 414 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine, and then Paul became the head 415 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: coach in nineteen ninety. So Paul promoted me from volunteer 416 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: coach making no money to graduate assistant. It was you know, 417 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: it was a big increase. So it was a GA 418 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: there for two years. And then then you know we 419 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 1: actually GA for two years. But we had a young 420 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 1: coach from San Francisco Fort and I was coming by 421 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: the name of John Gruden. And yeah, unfortunately at the 422 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 1: timing of this story, Yeah, but John was I mean 423 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 1: beyond his years and he was the first coach to 424 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: draw playbooks on the computer. He did it for He 425 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 1: did it on San Francisco and took all of coach 426 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,959 Speaker 1: Bill Walts's original drawings and put it on a computer. 427 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,919 Speaker 1: So he brought that system to University of Pittsburgh nineteen 428 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 1: ninety one. So then John went to Green Bay Packers 429 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: with Mike Holmgren in ninety two. I replaced John as 430 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: the receiver coach at Pitt learned how to use the 431 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,880 Speaker 1: computer and literally did not even know how to turn 432 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: it on. I mean he shoved how to turn on 433 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 1: as he was packing his boxes to go to the 434 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 1: Green Base. So then I learned this computer system, UM, 435 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,400 Speaker 1: super paint one point zero and uh on the old 436 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: little Macintosh. Yeah. And then Paul Hackett became the offensive 437 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 1: coordinator from Marty Schrotenhemmer in Kansas City, and he brought 438 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: me along as a quote a control coach, and I 439 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: brought my Macintosh. So that was a that was a 440 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 1: big deal back then nineteen ninety three because your computers, 441 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: the old graphic design aspect of it was just getting 442 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 1: started in the NFL. And so Marty clearly was an influence. 443 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: I think he liked the computer. I guess I don't know, 444 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 1: but he was. He was an influence on Marty. Was 445 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 1: Marty Schrodnheimer's a huge influence on me? Absolutely? I mean 446 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: just there's a lot of things I do today, you know, 447 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,639 Speaker 1: as far as scheduling, how we practice um, you know, 448 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,880 Speaker 1: how we conduct meetings, you know, to definitely learn from 449 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: Marty Schotenheimer. He bow far and I've very fortunate to 450 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: work for a lot of for a lot of not 451 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: only good head coaches, but a lot of excellent assistant coaches, 452 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame type coaches. But Marty, to me, he 453 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:09,360 Speaker 1: had the best program, structure, developed culture. And that's that's 454 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: where a lot of things I believe in today I 455 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: learned from him and from Kansas City. You were in 456 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: Kansas City and six years ninety three to ninety eight, 457 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,679 Speaker 1: and then you went to Green Bay ninety nine as 458 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: a quarterback coach. Then I went to New Orleans in 459 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: two thousand to two thousand four, five years as the 460 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. Then I went to San Francisco when year 461 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: oh five as a coordinator and as a head coach 462 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: six and so, Ted, it's about break time, is it not. 463 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: When we come back, I want to I would love 464 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 1: to hear you talk a little bit about how the 465 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: job has changed over the years, because I don't think 466 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,400 Speaker 1: that the job that you have to do now bears 467 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 1: very much resemblance, except in relation to a football field, 468 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 1: from the one that Marty Schottenheimer was doing very much so, 469 00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: and so we'll talk about that when we come back. 470 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 1: Better and media, it's a better pizza. 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Welcome back to 476 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: the Cowboys Hour on Victory Monday, Brad Sham and Shannon 477 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: Gross and our very special guest, Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy. 478 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: And we were talking a little bit about your coaching influences. 479 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 1: You mentioned Marty Schottenheimer and some of the other great 480 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: coaches that you've worked for and with, and the job 481 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 1: that you have to do today is it seems to 482 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 1: me almost as much about spending time with the media 483 00:31:55,560 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 1: and dealing with those daily pressures and things, uh, and 484 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 1: being aware of social media and what your players are 485 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 1: being exposed to as much as it does about a 486 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 1: football game. So when did you start to see the 487 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: whole industry change? Do you think? I think when you're 488 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 1: an assistant, you're you know, I know one of my 489 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 1: time as an assistant coordinator, you're early we're really blind 490 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: to it because I mean I really didn't spend any 491 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 1: time with the media until until I became a head coach. 492 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 1: Just that's just the way it was, you know the 493 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 1: places that I've worked. Um. So then when you become 494 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: a head coach, you know you have emails and things 495 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: from the league office you have to go through and 496 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 1: um and I'll just say, fortunately, you're already a computer geek, 497 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 1: so you love a different part of my life. But yeah, 498 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: so I just think just just everything that goes on 499 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: in our business, you know, it goes across the head 500 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: coaches desk, and I think that you know the reality 501 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 1: of it, is it anything that touches the players, anything 502 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 1: touches the football team, you have to be in tune with. 503 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 1: You know, you got to be on top of so um, 504 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,000 Speaker 1: I think all of us as coaches, particularly as you 505 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,480 Speaker 1: climbed the ladder, you know, you everything you've done to 506 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 1: become a head coach. Then when you get the head 507 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 1: coaching job, you know they're asking you to do everything 508 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 1: that you didn't do before to get the job, because 509 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,400 Speaker 1: you know you you're either a good offensive coordinator or 510 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator or a special teams coach. So um, 511 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 1: it's just the the administrative responsibilities are significantly different today 512 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 1: and they were in oh six when I first became 513 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 1: a head coach. But I think you know that you know, 514 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 1: player safety is so much, you know, has increased so much, 515 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: the nutrition that you know, the strength and conditioning, the 516 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 1: outsourcing of what's been available to our players that now 517 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 1: it's in house. So I mean, it's just I think 518 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:55,320 Speaker 1: everything around the game of football, particularly the training and 519 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: the enhancement, particularly you know in our trainers, and I mean, 520 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,440 Speaker 1: there's there's just so much more to look at and 521 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 1: talk because I think, if anything, we've gone from not 522 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,960 Speaker 1: enough to now I'm maybe too much, you know as 523 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 1: far as what um because everybody wants to be involved 524 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 1: in a good way, you know, but in this bestly 525 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:16,279 Speaker 1: living in Dallas, you're you're outsourcing capabilities here are tremendous. 526 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 1: I mean a lot more in Green Bay, Wisconsin. So 527 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,399 Speaker 1: I mean, so you you have those type of things. 528 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,200 Speaker 1: You know, at the end of the day, you you 529 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:25,919 Speaker 1: want to make sure your players are getting the best 530 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,400 Speaker 1: care possible and you know, making sure they could be 531 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,160 Speaker 1: the best they can be personally and professionally. There's so 532 00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 1: many things. You just alluded to it and you did 533 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,200 Speaker 1: too Brad that go into coaching now from building the 534 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,879 Speaker 1: team and then you know, talking to these young men 535 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,919 Speaker 1: and influencing them, and then game day and analytics and 536 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,120 Speaker 1: all these things. What's the one What aspect do you 537 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 1: enjoy the most when it comes to coaching. Oh, I mean, 538 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,760 Speaker 1: I had you know, obviously, game days is the highlight 539 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,879 Speaker 1: I think for all of us, you know, the competition 540 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: of you know, competing against the other thirty two teams. So, 541 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 1: I mean at seven it's clearly at the top. But 542 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,520 Speaker 1: I've always enjoyed the game plan process, you know, and 543 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,920 Speaker 1: that's um something that you know, I just have been 544 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 1: a big part of, you know, of you know, growing 545 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,280 Speaker 1: as a coach, you know, a way back in nineteen 546 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: eighty seven, so and and that's what you lose, particularly 547 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,759 Speaker 1: as a head coach. So so you try to you 548 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 1: can always operate more in a big picture, you know, 549 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: mindset and so forth. So, but I'd say, clearly a 550 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,680 Speaker 1: game day in the game planning, and then you know, 551 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:31,840 Speaker 1: I'd probably say practice, you know, because it's to me 552 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: and it's the best part of the day. It's the 553 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 1: most important part of the day. It's the most important 554 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 1: thing that we do as a football team. The Another 555 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: huge change in the industry is the size of the 556 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:45,799 Speaker 1: coaching staff. When when the Giants play, they put out 557 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,240 Speaker 1: their press release, and I love the picture that they 558 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,080 Speaker 1: put in of their coaching staff. When Tom Landry and 559 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,719 Speaker 1: Vince Lombardi were the assistant coaches and I think it 560 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,279 Speaker 1: was Jim Lee Howe was the head coach, and they 561 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 1: had like eight coaches, that was it. And now teams 562 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,800 Speaker 1: have twenty five. I think you've got like twenty three 563 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:10,680 Speaker 1: or something like that. And it's so it's just changed 564 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 1: so much. And as a result of that, and I've 565 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,640 Speaker 1: had the great honor and pleasure of working with every 566 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,640 Speaker 1: man who has sat in your office with it for 567 00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,439 Speaker 1: this franchise, and their approaches have been different. Some have 568 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:28,080 Speaker 1: been well, Landry's had to be different because he had 569 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,880 Speaker 1: a much smaller staff and it was a completely different era. 570 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,279 Speaker 1: One of I think one of Jimmy Johnson's geniuses was 571 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,440 Speaker 1: coaching the coaches and being more of a CEO. Some 572 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,960 Speaker 1: of them have been more hands on with players than others. 573 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,879 Speaker 1: So how do you think you developed your How would 574 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,840 Speaker 1: you describe your style and how do you think you 575 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,400 Speaker 1: developed it? I think you know, I look at it 576 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,800 Speaker 1: from a macro micro approach, and I think it's like anything, 577 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: it has to evolve, you know, because opportunities are different. 578 00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,200 Speaker 1: You know, the dynamics or your team are different, and 579 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,960 Speaker 1: no different that you know your coaching staff will just 580 00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 1: as you move on. So my experience has always been 581 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,799 Speaker 1: coaching young teams. You know, we were always a draft 582 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,440 Speaker 1: and developed team in Green Bay and we're kind of 583 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 1: following that path now. You know, we're the third youngest 584 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,360 Speaker 1: team in the National Football League right now. So with that, 585 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:19,960 Speaker 1: there's a lot of time and energy goes into the 586 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,040 Speaker 1: teaching components. You know, what what's the classroom environment. You know, 587 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,440 Speaker 1: the enhancement of the teaching tools, both audio and video, 588 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:31,719 Speaker 1: and so we spend a lot of time particularly in 589 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,439 Speaker 1: the in the computer and aspects in the analytical of 590 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,680 Speaker 1: being more efficient with our time. You know, we have 591 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,520 Speaker 1: less time with your players today and you did ten 592 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,960 Speaker 1: years ago. You have less time today with your players 593 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,960 Speaker 1: you did two years and go between CBA and the 594 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,880 Speaker 1: CBA in twenty eleven. So you know, the way the 595 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,560 Speaker 1: game's going is you're getting less time with your players. 596 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,120 Speaker 1: So you know, the efficiency of your teaching environment has 597 00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,280 Speaker 1: to be so much better. You know, the virtual experience 598 00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,319 Speaker 1: last year, which you know we didn't do the best 599 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,520 Speaker 1: job of. So I mean that was a great experience 600 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,080 Speaker 1: for us to go through. I mean we were a 601 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,759 Speaker 1: new staff when we were significantly better in that in 602 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 1: that realm this spring. So all those things helped develop 603 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,680 Speaker 1: the way you do a job. I know as a 604 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,440 Speaker 1: as a beginning head coach, I would say was I 605 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,399 Speaker 1: operated a lot more in the micro phase. I think 606 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,360 Speaker 1: you need both. I don't think you just gonna be 607 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 1: a micro or macro manager. I think you have to 608 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:30,120 Speaker 1: have both approaches, you know, as far as exactly what 609 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:33,240 Speaker 1: you're working on. So I'm very I'd say I'm micro 610 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,040 Speaker 1: on things, particularly in the training of the team, but 611 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 1: I'm macro on the on the scheme and the implementation 612 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,920 Speaker 1: of scheme, the evaluation of scheme. But the meetings are 613 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,799 Speaker 1: ran exactly the way you know I see and be ran. 614 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,960 Speaker 1: It's you know, the structure is really a structure to front. 615 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,839 Speaker 1: It goes back to Marty Schottenheimer. So so a lot 616 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,799 Speaker 1: of those things. So I think you developed, think my 617 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,719 Speaker 1: experiences you developed that as you go through as a 618 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,240 Speaker 1: head coach, and is it fluid? Do you see ways 619 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,719 Speaker 1: that you can still change and adjustice absolutely. I mean, 620 00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,800 Speaker 1: I'm a huge believer in self evaluation and I can't 621 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 1: you know, I can't preach it and bang everybody's head 622 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,480 Speaker 1: against wall and Scott self, Scott if you're not doing 623 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,359 Speaker 1: it yourself. You know, I've all I'm still I still 624 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,200 Speaker 1: believe in the yellow tablet. You know. I keep that 625 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,080 Speaker 1: yellow tablet right on the corner of the desk, and 626 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,960 Speaker 1: as things go on during the season, you write them down, 627 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,399 Speaker 1: and you know, in the first ten to fourteen days 628 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,040 Speaker 1: when the season's over, we have extra interviews with everybody, 629 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,799 Speaker 1: all the coaches, all the players, and you know, and 630 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:33,400 Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff that gets thrown at you, 631 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,719 Speaker 1: and some of the stuff may make you laugh and 632 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,799 Speaker 1: some of them make you cry, but you look at it, 633 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,799 Speaker 1: you evaluate it, and I think it's important when when 634 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,879 Speaker 1: the team does come back in the off season, you say, hey, 635 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,280 Speaker 1: here's the twelve things that I've taken out of extra interviews, 636 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,160 Speaker 1: and this is why we're going to do them, and 637 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,480 Speaker 1: this is where they came from. So I think it's 638 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,879 Speaker 1: all part of the buying of it. But I think 639 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,840 Speaker 1: you develop your micro and macro approaches, you know, throughout 640 00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,120 Speaker 1: your career and I'm totally different today and I was, 641 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,439 Speaker 1: you know, four years ago, you know, in Green Bay, 642 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,960 Speaker 1: just because it's just the way that you know, the 643 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,719 Speaker 1: design of of this organization. And I think at the 644 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,560 Speaker 1: end of the day, you got to hire good people 645 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,920 Speaker 1: and you got to create the culture and the structure, 646 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,280 Speaker 1: you know, the discipline and the expectations for everybody to accel. 647 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,480 Speaker 1: A the other job talking about self evaluation and you 648 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,120 Speaker 1: know your your tablet. Where do you think you've grown 649 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,279 Speaker 1: the most from when you started coaching to now? Where 650 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,640 Speaker 1: do you think the biggest the biggest growth has happened 651 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,400 Speaker 1: for you as a head coach? I would say patients, Um, 652 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,919 Speaker 1: you know, I think like all of us were when 653 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:35,879 Speaker 1: you're young. You think you got all the answers and 654 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,640 Speaker 1: you can rehearse the you know, the bible of of 655 00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:41,480 Speaker 1: what you believe in. As a coach, you know, you 656 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,839 Speaker 1: wear it on your sleeve. Where with patients, you learned 657 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,840 Speaker 1: and I listen. I listen a lot better than I 658 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:48,719 Speaker 1: did ten years ago. I listened significantly better than I 659 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,560 Speaker 1: did twenty years ago. So, um, I think it's important 660 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,520 Speaker 1: to let others speak around you because you know the 661 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,560 Speaker 1: position you hold carries presence in weight and and that 662 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:02,640 Speaker 1: that can that can hibit growth. So and that's totally 663 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,279 Speaker 1: in contrast of what I'm trying to get done. I'm 664 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,760 Speaker 1: much just trying to grow a football team. The players. 665 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,960 Speaker 1: I'm trying to grow the coaches too, trying to grow 666 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,319 Speaker 1: the support stuff. I'm trying to grow the football operations 667 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,800 Speaker 1: because it takes everybody to get this thing done. It's 668 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,960 Speaker 1: hard to win a championship. It's hard to win a game. 669 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,240 Speaker 1: It's league, but it's very difficult to win a championship. 670 00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,320 Speaker 1: So when you talk about growth, you got to define 671 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,399 Speaker 1: it and you gotta make it clear what the why 672 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:25,959 Speaker 1: is and how you're gonna do it, how you're gonna 673 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,560 Speaker 1: regulate it, how you're gonna reinforce it, and that's when 674 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,800 Speaker 1: people buy in and we all get better together. We 675 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:33,440 Speaker 1: got to take our last break and I've got to 676 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,040 Speaker 1: follow up to that. 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Visit 697 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:47,120 Speaker 1: get Jack Black dot com today. Um, what other sports 698 00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:48,840 Speaker 1: do you like? What do you what sports do you 699 00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,839 Speaker 1: have to watch? I mean, I think I'm like all 700 00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,319 Speaker 1: parents of foul kids. You like the ones your kids 701 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:59,400 Speaker 1: are playing. Oh yeah, yeah, I've always enjoyed um, you know, 702 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:03,360 Speaker 1: basketball all was always it was frankly was my first love. Um, 703 00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,440 Speaker 1: but you know, I enjoy hockey. I'm actually gonna try 704 00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,080 Speaker 1: to go to hockey game it's this week if I can. 705 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,080 Speaker 1: But nothing like seeing hockey live. So I've been those 706 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,719 Speaker 1: stores game yet where you're you're probably too young to 707 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:19,960 Speaker 1: have watched the Pittsburgh team in the ABA play the Condors. Yeah, 708 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:23,440 Speaker 1: I think it was the Pipers. Is when I was 709 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,920 Speaker 1: thinking of the Pipers and then the Condors. Yeah, that 710 00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:29,880 Speaker 1: was a little before your time. Connie Hawkins, right, he started. 711 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,160 Speaker 1: They had a guy named John Brisker who was supposed 712 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,120 Speaker 1: to be he was one of the roughest plays. He 713 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,160 Speaker 1: was playing the wrong sport where he was playing basketball. 714 00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,160 Speaker 1: Let's just put it that way, all right, before we 715 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,080 Speaker 1: turn it over to our audience. Here we were talking 716 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:42,719 Speaker 1: about and I said, I had a follow up question 717 00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:45,279 Speaker 1: to what you were talking about, and uh, you used 718 00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:50,360 Speaker 1: a word earlier that several of your players have used 719 00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:55,000 Speaker 1: in kind of describing the building what you are building, 720 00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,319 Speaker 1: and that's culture. And that's a word that we hear 721 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:02,319 Speaker 1: from time to time around professional sports. And it's a 722 00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,799 Speaker 1: little vague, it can be. What do you mean when 723 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,560 Speaker 1: you talk about the culture that you are trying to 724 00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:12,200 Speaker 1: build and instill. I mean the culture in the climate 725 00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:16,320 Speaker 1: is is really the connection between the individuals and the workplace, 726 00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,799 Speaker 1: and it goes beyond the workplace and and it's just 727 00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,400 Speaker 1: it's the it's the selling the buying of a process. 728 00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,000 Speaker 1: You know, everybody does things differently. I mean we all 729 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,680 Speaker 1: play the game of football. But you know how you teach, 730 00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,799 Speaker 1: you know how you motivate, you know how you reinforce. 731 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,440 Speaker 1: You know, there's there's everybody has a method and you 732 00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:37,640 Speaker 1: know to get the total buying, you know, it takes 733 00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,600 Speaker 1: it takes the right people and you know, the right 734 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:44,840 Speaker 1: approach to consistency in it. And with that you develop 735 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,640 Speaker 1: workplace culture. And you know, we have this phenomenal facility. 736 00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,680 Speaker 1: I mean, we have so many resources here and you know, 737 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,120 Speaker 1: to take that energy and I just believe in the 738 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:58,920 Speaker 1: development of the whole enhances your opportunity to be successful 739 00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,799 Speaker 1: and as such higher right, and that would be from 740 00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:04,920 Speaker 1: the from the player all the way up to the 741 00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:09,040 Speaker 1: whole organization. Everybody involved, anybody and any individual that touches 742 00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,719 Speaker 1: that locker room is part of that cultural demand and 743 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:16,640 Speaker 1: focus because uh, you know, it's amazing what goes into 744 00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,840 Speaker 1: one football game. That's the thing that I know. Go 745 00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,480 Speaker 1: back when I first got into coaching and I got 746 00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,920 Speaker 1: in my father, you know, and I was telling richest 747 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:27,920 Speaker 1: the story a little while back, and I was I 748 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,920 Speaker 1: was giving my master's degree. I'd start off in the 749 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:35,040 Speaker 1: NBA program because my undergrad was business administration. And after 750 00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,879 Speaker 1: the first semester, I had this opportunity to go into 751 00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,440 Speaker 1: coaching because I coached the first semester, but I was 752 00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,920 Speaker 1: supposed to be. I was being paid by the Business 753 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,959 Speaker 1: Department in fort days and then after the season was over. Guys, 754 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,160 Speaker 1: as you're spending eighty hours a week and the coaching department, 755 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,080 Speaker 1: you're not doing when we're paying you, You're not doing 756 00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,440 Speaker 1: anything over here. So you gotta make a decision. You 757 00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,640 Speaker 1: want to be a coach, you gotta you know, go 758 00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:01,960 Speaker 1: into work for the Health Physical Department and sports administration 759 00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:04,239 Speaker 1: was the focus where you got to come work for us, 760 00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,320 Speaker 1: and you gotta give up the coaching. So, you know, 761 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,239 Speaker 1: I told my dad, I said, hey, I said, I 762 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,120 Speaker 1: want to go into coach and give out the NBA. 763 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:12,960 Speaker 1: And he goes. You know, just when, just when I 764 00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,680 Speaker 1: thought you figured this thing out, you're screwed up, you 765 00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,520 Speaker 1: know so? I mean, and now that your father, do 766 00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,320 Speaker 1: you understand his point of view? We laugh about Yeah, 767 00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,640 Speaker 1: I wasn't the best undergrad students, so he had had 768 00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,440 Speaker 1: a lot, he had a lot of reasons to come understand. Okay, 769 00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:32,080 Speaker 1: let's get some questions from some cowboy fans. Here go ahead, sir, 770 00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:36,040 Speaker 1: congratulations yesterday on a great win. Coach, Thank you. My 771 00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:39,480 Speaker 1: name is Rambo. So I have a question. So you 772 00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:42,120 Speaker 1: guys have won five straight games. How do you keep 773 00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:45,680 Speaker 1: your team motivated and not getting into a comfort zone? 774 00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,000 Speaker 1: Great question. Um, it was a part of our meeting. 775 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,359 Speaker 1: We team meeting today before we broke for the bye week. 776 00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,880 Speaker 1: And you know, we have six building blocks and one 777 00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:56,640 Speaker 1: of them, probably the most important one of them, is 778 00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,840 Speaker 1: handled success. I mean, it's a constant focus. It's a 779 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,000 Speaker 1: haunts the message of you know, of our of our 780 00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:06,200 Speaker 1: football operations. And you know the way I like to 781 00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:09,000 Speaker 1: look at as every level, every win, you know, every 782 00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,160 Speaker 1: level of success comes new devils. So it's something that 783 00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:15,080 Speaker 1: we need to stay on top of. Uh. We talked 784 00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,400 Speaker 1: about all the love that we're getting you know, outside 785 00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,440 Speaker 1: of it, but the importance of staying the same in 786 00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,000 Speaker 1: the locker room and you know, the preparation can't we 787 00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,400 Speaker 1: can't cut corners and all that. So it's a primary 788 00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:27,520 Speaker 1: focus of you know, as me as the head coach, 789 00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:31,440 Speaker 1: and of our coaching staff. Um, how do you, um, 790 00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:38,840 Speaker 1: how do you learn and then teach um how to 791 00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:42,520 Speaker 1: handle both the good things, especially once you become a 792 00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,279 Speaker 1: head coach. I think you are you alluded to before. 793 00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:47,239 Speaker 1: When you're an assistant coach in the NFL, you can 794 00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:50,160 Speaker 1: isolate yourself from whatever you you don't want to be, 795 00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:52,200 Speaker 1: not so much for any of the head coach. So 796 00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:54,279 Speaker 1: when people are saying good things about you, I think 797 00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,439 Speaker 1: you said a couple of weeks ago, everybody's got a toothache, uh, 798 00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:59,880 Speaker 1: and from from all the sugar that was being dispensed 799 00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,719 Speaker 1: and sometimes Uh it amazes me by the way, how 800 00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,960 Speaker 1: you guys ever make a mistake with all of the 801 00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:11,120 Speaker 1: unemployed coaches on Twitter and in the public, everybody's got 802 00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,120 Speaker 1: the answers. I don't know how you ever make a 803 00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:15,200 Speaker 1: mistake with all that help that you got out there. 804 00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,759 Speaker 1: But uh, but you also have to not let that 805 00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,360 Speaker 1: get to you. Somehow, So how do you learn to 806 00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:23,920 Speaker 1: do all that? I think it's part of who you 807 00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,680 Speaker 1: are and it's you to develop it in this business 808 00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:30,200 Speaker 1: and it's not getting better. That's that's a nice way 809 00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,920 Speaker 1: of saying it. Um. So that's just that's part of 810 00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:34,839 Speaker 1: the deal. It's part of the job. I mean, I 811 00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:39,000 Speaker 1: think critique is part of your responsibility of being a 812 00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:41,600 Speaker 1: coach in this league and you just have to And 813 00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,120 Speaker 1: that's the way it is. I mean, it's it's it's 814 00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:47,200 Speaker 1: always harder on the family, you know, than than the individual. 815 00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,480 Speaker 1: Has been my experience, you know. Now, I've been with 816 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,000 Speaker 1: some coaches that I mean. I work with a guy 817 00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:53,920 Speaker 1: in New Orleans and there was kind of when the 818 00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:57,120 Speaker 1: internet was just starting, they had uh I think, I 819 00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,960 Speaker 1: call them like fan chats or something, you know something. 820 00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,799 Speaker 1: And I walked by his office and he goes, see 821 00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,440 Speaker 1: what the hell is saying about man chat? I'm like, 822 00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,719 Speaker 1: my god, why would you read that? You know? So 823 00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:10,920 Speaker 1: I just think it's you know, it's it's part of 824 00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,359 Speaker 1: the deal, you know. And I like, you know, I've 825 00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:15,040 Speaker 1: done it long enough. I believe him. I believe in 826 00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:16,960 Speaker 1: how we're doing in here now. So you're not on 827 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:23,759 Speaker 1: Twitter TikTok. You know on TikTok coach, No, no, not 828 00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:28,640 Speaker 1: on Instagram. Your kids must play. Yes, yes, my kids are. 829 00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:32,200 Speaker 1: Um I want to see my oldest on Instagram and 830 00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,200 Speaker 1: we're trying to keep the young ones off of TikTok. 831 00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:38,919 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, bad, good luck with that. Yes or great 832 00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,719 Speaker 1: way and coach my name is Corey um Dak talked 833 00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:46,520 Speaker 1: about how y'all haven't played a complete game yet. So 834 00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,560 Speaker 1: I was wondering going into the bye week, what do 835 00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:51,719 Speaker 1: you do you think the things you may need to 836 00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,160 Speaker 1: work on, because I feel like that's pretty impressive the 837 00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,959 Speaker 1: way I've been playing so far. You know, these six 838 00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,239 Speaker 1: games that you know, y'all haven't played a complete game. 839 00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,239 Speaker 1: He feels like you haven't played a complete game yet. Yeah, 840 00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:05,680 Speaker 1: I just think it shows you you know where Doc's 841 00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,960 Speaker 1: coming from. He's chasing perfection. You know, we've we've played 842 00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:12,640 Speaker 1: very high productive football. I mean as a whole. I 843 00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:16,399 Speaker 1: think the nature of our business and you know, every 844 00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,719 Speaker 1: the evaluation is so intense that you know, you sit 845 00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,160 Speaker 1: there and have eighty nine plays on offense and you 846 00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:23,960 Speaker 1: talk about the three that didn't work so but the 847 00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,480 Speaker 1: other eighty six were pretty damn good so I think 848 00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:30,080 Speaker 1: it's part of the world we live in. But yeah, 849 00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,240 Speaker 1: I mean, I think it just shows you the focus 850 00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,520 Speaker 1: of our guys really want to be a complete team, 851 00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:37,200 Speaker 1: because we clearly weren't last year. We didn't play well, 852 00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:40,000 Speaker 1: the offense, didn't play to the defense and vice versus. 853 00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,520 Speaker 1: So I can I think you're seeing the focus of 854 00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:44,840 Speaker 1: that now, And I think yesterday's game was a great 855 00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:47,800 Speaker 1: picture of what we're trying to do. All three phases 856 00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:50,920 Speaker 1: contributed to the win, and all three phases stepped up 857 00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:52,920 Speaker 1: and made big plays, particularly when when they need to 858 00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,759 Speaker 1: be made. Coach, take us, take take the fans into 859 00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:00,600 Speaker 1: the locker room game like halftime? Are you are you 860 00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:03,439 Speaker 1: a raw Ray guy at halftime? Do you just kind 861 00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:06,200 Speaker 1: of let the guys do whatever, especially a game yesterday 862 00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:08,400 Speaker 1: that every you know, things, a lot of things aren't 863 00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:10,920 Speaker 1: going in your favor. What's the scene like in the 864 00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:16,120 Speaker 1: locker room? Um, I'm structure. I'm very systematic. Um. I 865 00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:19,560 Speaker 1: do a lot of things the same way for reason, 866 00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:22,120 Speaker 1: because I think when you do things the same way, 867 00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:25,520 Speaker 1: you build experiences and instincts that you can draw from 868 00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:30,120 Speaker 1: your past, your past experiences. So, UM, we've always come 869 00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,120 Speaker 1: in the offense goes to one side, defense goes to another. 870 00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,840 Speaker 1: We have you know, you know video boards or you know, 871 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:40,759 Speaker 1: audio videos set up for the coaches. The coaches will 872 00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:44,359 Speaker 1: then come in meet by themselves and then they'll make 873 00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:47,600 Speaker 1: the adjustments. They'll go into their sides with Dan and Kellen, 874 00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:49,320 Speaker 1: with Joe Phield when we'll start with the line and 875 00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,320 Speaker 1: kell them so they'll make their offensive adjustments and defensive 876 00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:56,400 Speaker 1: adjustments special teams. You know, he's he's doing that throughout 877 00:54:56,400 --> 00:55:00,680 Speaker 1: the throughout the day and um so m then when 878 00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,120 Speaker 1: there's two minutes left go, then I'll call everybody up 879 00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:05,879 Speaker 1: and I have a I have a menu of things 880 00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:07,879 Speaker 1: that I watched during the course of it, whether it's 881 00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:09,919 Speaker 1: the pace to tempo, the up the ebb and flow 882 00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:12,239 Speaker 1: of the operation of Like yesterday we had a really 883 00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:17,200 Speaker 1: uneven um. The clock was going real fast and newly 884 00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:19,320 Speaker 1: in New England if you can imagine that the clock 885 00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:23,360 Speaker 1: was being set quickly, but the umpire set up was slow. 886 00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:26,560 Speaker 1: So it was it was a really herky joker type things. 887 00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,440 Speaker 1: And you know, the penalties, it just the things that 888 00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:32,960 Speaker 1: are going on, you know, And so I'm always trying 889 00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:36,719 Speaker 1: to address the direction and the focal point for when 890 00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:38,360 Speaker 1: we come out. So that's what I finish them up, 891 00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:40,879 Speaker 1: and then I say a few nice things and then 892 00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:42,799 Speaker 1: we break it up. And how do you know, we've 893 00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:46,400 Speaker 1: got less than a minute? How do you know what 894 00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:50,319 Speaker 1: you want to hit him with? Saturday Night? It builds it, 895 00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,600 Speaker 1: you know, at this point in my career builds during 896 00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:54,880 Speaker 1: the week, you know. I you know, I used to 897 00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,480 Speaker 1: read the books and write the speeches and have them 898 00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:00,880 Speaker 1: all done over the summer and and pull them out 899 00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,759 Speaker 1: of the foule. And you know, but I've done it 900 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,040 Speaker 1: long enough. Now there's you know, there's a topic that's 901 00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:08,759 Speaker 1: going to come off with the self Scott of the 902 00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:11,880 Speaker 1: past game. And I built it during the week. And frankly, 903 00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,480 Speaker 1: you know, I wrote my Saturday night team meeting on 904 00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,279 Speaker 1: the plane ride to New England this past week. So 905 00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,719 Speaker 1: it's just, you know, I think the final talk us 906 00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:24,919 Speaker 1: to reflect a week the path going into the game. Well, 907 00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,680 Speaker 1: the great news is that you have been with these 908 00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:29,520 Speaker 1: guys very long. They haven't heard all your stories. I 909 00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:31,680 Speaker 1: could probably go back and here's the old game. You 910 00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:36,640 Speaker 1: absolutely could. Mike, Thank you, Blue, appreciate everybody. Thank you 911 00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,480 Speaker 1: all for being with us, Thanks for coming out Thanks 912 00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:43,000 Speaker 1: for joining us on the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network. 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