WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Day 1 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.400 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:19.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:23.280 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:27.600 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:33.000 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:39.320 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:45.360 It is Thursday, July twenty second, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.640 episode number one. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.680 We are here in Oxnard, California, is day one of 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.840 training camp two thousand twenty one, presented by American Airlines. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.200 I got Nick, I got Dave with me. Amber's out 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.160 for a little while. I'm taking care of some business, 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.640 but we're gonna hold it down. And I'm just happy 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.440 to be back around football on a day to day basis, 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.280 with no mask and just enjoying this beautiful weather. What 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.040 about you, guys, I am standing grindin premiere to year. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:13.720 You got some new gear here. He got like a 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:17.280 it's like a Colin Cowherd situation. Well, you know that 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.000 kind of happens that, like the more experienced you get 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.520 and they give you better equipment. So maybe one day 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.120 you'll get you'll get there and they'll kind of hook 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.120 you up like the headset. You know. Derek's the type 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.679 of that he probably had that like last year, but 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.759 he's like, it's got to go out for episode one 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.680 of next year. You can't like laid it out the 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.880 night before like the first like school. Yeah. Yeah, well, 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.000 I gotta give all credit our producer Chris Beam. He 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.080 hooked me up. He surprised me with this beautiful microphone 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:43.560 for me to be able to use during King trying 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.880 to camp here and uh and so here we go. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.360 Looks great, happy to be here, a thrilled football It's 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.240 it's actually ball season. It's it's interesting because you said 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.440 the same thing I think that that Jerry Jones mentioned 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.040 yesterday and that opening press conference about and got pretty 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.480 emotional about it and a couple of times. But really 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.960 just thinking about, you know the fact that last year 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.280 we didn't have this opportunity. We were all sitting at 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.240 home wondering if we were gonna be able to see 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.560 any practices, and then we got an opportunity to see 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.799 some practices, but it was from Afar. We were all 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.440 masked up. It was just a very different experience. And 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.120 I told I told you Nick, I felt like all 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.840 last season I really didn't have as good a handle 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.000 on this team because during training campus, when we're thoroughly 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.080 immersed in it, it's when we have the opportunity to 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.680 really really get to know these players, and every single 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.200 day you're seeing them play and perform and getting an 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:30.960 idea of what you think. And we just didn't have 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.360 that last day. If this makes you feel better or worse, 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.120 you know, I was very fortunate to be able to 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.280 go to the games last year and be part of it, 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.839 and I missed you guys. For sure. It wasn't the same, 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.360 But I didn't know what was going on with the 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.760 team either. I'm sitting right there, you know. I talked 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.800 to these players after every game, and I hopefully they 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.639 get to know my eyes a little bit, but they 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.320 haven't seen my face, you know. I mean, we got 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:54.480 to do the interviews and stuff like that, but you know, 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.320 so so yes, I hated it that you guys weren't 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.400 with me on some of the games. None of us 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.440 were a training camp like this. But I was very 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.560 disconnected with the team too. Even though I was right there. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.360 It was it was different times. So I'm hoping that 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.120 we get back to some bit of normalcy here. It's 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.079 it's so it's so cool. It's so good to be here, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.000 like to I can't even describe. Yeah, I mean, I'm 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.079 not gonna get emotional like Jerry Jones did, but like it. 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.800 It feels good man, like giving people hugs for the 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.360 you know, to actually seeing other members of the Beat 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.560 for the first time in fifteen months. There's John Machoda 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.160 right there walking past us for the Athletic like seeing 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.800 you know, I got to see and talk to some 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.480 players when we flew out here and like getting situated, 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.480 like saying hi to guys like oh, like you still 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.560 work here? Hut, Like sure, do I know you probably 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.920 didn't believe it. Yeah, It's just it feels good man. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.440 You know, the pandemics not over. I know that, like 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.560 we were, then the league's gonna have some challenges and 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.400 we're gonna have some challenges. It is. I was watching 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.480 the TV Deer District the Bucks game. I mean, I 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.800 guess it's over in Milwaukee. I mean, yeah, we'll see, 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.520 like there's there's probably there's gonna be some hurdles for 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.360 the league and for us. I mean, like we have 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.280 to get tested while we're out here. I think like 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.520 there's yeah, there's stuff that you gotta be mindful of, 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.680 but it feels somewhat normal, and it feels really good. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.760 I will do almost anything they ask me to do 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:21.360 to be able to resume our normal shots again, whatever 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.039 it takes, how many or whatever, let's go said he'll 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.280 do anything. Super Bowl. He did say that, and we'll 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.800 we'll get to that a little bit later. Um. Give 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.960 give the fans though, a general sense of the sights 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.920 and sounds out here. What looks the same, what looks different? Um? 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.000 What do you what's your feel being around the team? 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.080 Just give me some general insights for fans to kind 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.360 of know what what the set up looks all from 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:50.440 the sounds, UM standpoint there. And also it just so 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.119 happens that, like the marketing team is going to blow 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.960 leaves or you know, they're gonna turn on their blower 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.600 about it about right when we start. Every time this 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.240 is gonna be. That's just gonna be the way it is. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.280 So you'll you'll hear that those sounds for sure. No, 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.080 it's different now, guy, like we're Mike McCarthy's got a 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.839 new schedule, like we got time to blow the leaves 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.120 on the court right, Like they're playing music at practice. 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.160 Now that's gonna be wait, but background noise is gonna 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.640 be all the stuff, you know, people getting ready for practice. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.440 If I had to guess, what's the real answer to 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.040 your questions? Are not the real answer? Yeah, we're supposed 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:23.840 to get us now we're jacking around. I'm trying to think, 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.440 what's it's just it which I mean, I doesn't feel 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.040 the same to you. I don't know. There's a lot 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.040 of things that we know procedurally that's different, but does 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.120 it feel the same? Okay? No, the three of us 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.080 can sit here and wine all day about and it 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.040 is different. You know, they're they've made accommodations for social distancing. 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:42.800 It's nice to be around the team, but let's be real, 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.080 like we don't have the same access as usual, Like 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.880 we're not really allowed to go where they go. They're 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.520 kind of sequestered. They've got their own little separate bubble 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.719 within the campus here at the hotel um. You know, 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.320 there's trailers everywhere so that they you know, the different 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:00.320 groups can I don't completely know why, but they you know, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.680 every position. Group's got a trailer where they can kind 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:04.080 of go and do their own thing. I'm not sure. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.880 Here Hard Knocks is here, Yeah, that's fifth on it. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.440 And this is this is McCarthy's first camp here too, 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.320 so you know that's why. And the schedule is different, 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.280 like he was saying, it was schedules earlier in the day, 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.800 which I think is going to be better for us. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.520 We'll see, I mean, but I think it is. It's 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.920 gonna be nice. But you know, um, but there there's 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.600 there's changes. There's a lot of differences. Still. You look up, 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.000 you see this, you know, you see the sunny skies 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.480 and the and the weather and we're all wearing long 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.560 sleeves here. That's I guess That's kind of the point 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.480 I was gonna make, is I could write a I 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.960 could write a book about everything that's different a normal camp, 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.720 right yeah. Uh. But at the end, like it's it's 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.080 training camp and Oxnard at the river Ridge Hotel, like 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.640 it still feels kind of familiar and like the team 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.960 is still staying in the same rooms and walk into 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.520 the same cafeteria and meetings, and I mean, the schedule 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.520 is different, but half these guys don't know what the 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:59.279 old schedule was anyway, so uh, it feels different but 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.240 the same. I know that doesn't make sense, but to 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.640 me it does. Yeah, it absolutely does. Let's go ahead 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:04.960 and move on. I want to talk a little bit 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.200 about the opening press conference. So we're a number of 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.640 storylines that came out of that press conference, and we've 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.040 written around about them on Dallas Cowboys Com, So make 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.440 sure you check that out. But just initially, give me 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.240 some general impressions of what you thought coming out of 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.520 that press conference of either are the three gentlemen on 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.600 stage you had, Stephen, Jerry and Mike McCarthy, anything that 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.200 stood out to you just as a general perception from 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:31.120 the opening press conference, to be honest, and we don't 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.160 have you know, I don't think people want to listen 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.840 to this for an hour. But like I was shocked 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.720 and encouraged by the vaccination stuff at the beginning of it, 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.680 because it's a tricky thing to get your hands on, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.320 Like you're not gonna you're not gonna hear concrete numbers. 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.800 There's a certain degree of privacy that goes into it. 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.240 I get all of that, But throughout the spring in 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.680 the summer, I was like man like the Cowboys. How 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.960 are the Cowboys doing with their vaccination? You know, you're 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.320 hearing reports like there's three teams where not even fifty 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.720 percent of the team is vaccinated. I'm like, is that? 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.720 And so I got to camp kind of like I 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:07.080 wonder how many of these guys are doing this? And 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.640 Jerry and Stephen Jones were like emphatic, and you know 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.120 they're not going to give away names, nor should they, 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.760 but for Jerry to say all but a handful of 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.320 guys have taken steps toward getting vaccinated, and then five 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.840 minutes later Stephen Jones says, we're going to hit the 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.560 eighty five percent threshold and then some that's amazing. And 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.040 I don't you know, if you have different opinions about 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.640 the vaccine, I don't really care. But just from the 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.920 from the standpoint of like this will help them be 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.120 available to play games and not have to worry about 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.360 rescheduling and forfeiture and all that stuff we had to 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.720 deal with last year. That's incredible, and I to be 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.360 honest with you, I wasn't sure that was going to 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:46.960 be the case when we got here, so that was 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:51.840 really encouraging. General impression, Nick my favorite part of the 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:56.840 press conference was actually right before it, I thought, you know, 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:01.000 we're all friends to media guys here. Clarence Hill is 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.080 one of the favorites for all of us, and he 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.280 has been recently lost his mother. And for Jerry Jones 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.080 to come up to him like that and and I 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.960 don't care what if he did it for the cameras 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:12.520 on I don't care. Was the first time he saw 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.520 saw him and he gave him, you know, nice condolences. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:16.880 I thought that was my favorite part of the prest 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.960 And not only that, but you know, you talk about 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:21.800 the cameras might have been there, but that's beside the point. 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.440 Because he has has Clarence put out on social like 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.040 he actually sent to his mother's channel. And so now 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:28.840 you got you gotta know this, when it comes to 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.040 turning around and and and giving shots to the media, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.480 Clarence is always one that gets it from you know. 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.520 That's because he can take it. Dale Hanson was one 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.600 like that and now he passed around them like Doocey 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:40.600 and all that. That's that's a that's a you know, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.160 that's a sign of respect. Really what it was. So 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.120 that was my favorite part of the press commerce. Um, 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.520 you know, just like like they said, the vaccination numbers 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.880 where it were interesting and you know, even though it 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.240 has nothing to do with the current state of the team, Uh, 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.840 it was it was very eye opening to hear his 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.480 remarks about Jimmy Johnson's you know, I had not heard 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.520 that part. I had not heard him actually say that, 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.839 you know, um, and you know, it'll be interesting couple 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:08.360 of weeks with Jimmy going in the Hall of Fame, 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.680 and we've heard some talks about how how their relationship is. 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.280 Is it, Is it good? Is it bad? It's kind 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.800 of you know, it's taking more twists and turns than 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.319 six flags. So but I hopefully it's it's better. And 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.960 I thought what Jerry said yesterday was was something that 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.079 was you know, it was interesting for sure, which and 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.400 I don't I don't want to make it too more, 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.439 but I have I do that sometimes. But and but 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.440 Jerry said this himself, so I'm not putting words in 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.280 his mouth, but that was shocking, right like, and like 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.439 you know, people were saying, like I've been waiting decades 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.120 to hear him say that, you know, like it's it's 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.200 my fault. And I'll never understand why I did that 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.800 and messed up with you know, everything with Jimmy Johnson. 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.120 And then at the very end of the press conference 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:50.319 he said, um, he said, you know, I was sitting 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.280 in there this time last year wondering if I'd ever 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.280 have a chance to do this again, if I you know, 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.040 will I ever be in public talking to the media 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:58.800 the way that I'd love to do and I've been 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.360 doing for thirty years, that ever gonna happen again? Would 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.839 you know, get to Jerry Jones's age, That's probably at 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.720 the forefront of your mind a lot. And so you know, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.640 I wonder this is gonna be It's gonna be interesting 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.360 times because maybe Jerry Jones has a lot of stuff 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.240 on his mind that he wasn't sure that he'd ever 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.439 have a chance to say, and you know, you get 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.480 the chance to do it, and you're like, well, no time, 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:20.560 Like the president, I guess, let's be honest. I think 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.720 that this pandemic has probably changed all of our perspectives 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.160 on life and the things that you took for granted 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.280 maybe and some of those things that now that you 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.040 have back, you feel like you really want to cherish 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.000 them and appreciate them. So I think Jerry's probably no 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.319 different in that way. Sure, let me throw one more 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:42.679 thing about it, Jimmy Jerry. I think, you know, it 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.400 shows growth for both of them, because Jimmy said a 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:47.720 lot of things to it. I think from what it 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.720 sounds like he's gonna say, it's a lot more and 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.840 during his speech, you know, I think that they they're 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:57.720 trying to bury the hatcher or whatever. But you know, Jimmy, 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.920 I think there was some fault there too. It was 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.880 before I covered the team, but it wasn't it was 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.280 both of them. I mean, he goes for both, and 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.200 that's that's what happens in a lot of situations like this. 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.640 I think they both have understood that, you know, they 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.959 could have done something great. But Jimmy said several times, 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.200 look at this track record, didn't stay in a place 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.520 more than five or six years. I mean that's kind 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:17.920 of the way as he was looking to kind of 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.080 move on to. But they I think that they've learned 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:21.559 a lot from each other. But a lot of what 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.880 you read on the comments from the fans, it's like okay, okay, 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.200 I'll fine, you admit that. What about the next twenty 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.319 five years? You know, like, like what about lately here, 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.480 what men? Why can't we haven't we figure that Outum, 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.880 that's that's something Jerry said yesterday. He'd give anything to 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:37.640 do that. Yeah, we're gonna get to that a little 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.600 bit later. They did say something I was very interesting. 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.760 I thought about some of the reasons as to why 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.640 they think they can be optimistic about this year, and 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:45.600 we're gonna talk about that a little later in the 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:49.240 show before we go directly into the vaccinations. We're at 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.120 a point we could probably take our first breaks. Let's 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:52.840 take our first break. When we come back from that, 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.320 I want to dive a little deeper into the conversation 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.360 regarding the vaccinations. I want to talk a little bit 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.959 about how much that helps the team if they can 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.360 get more of these guys vaccinated. 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It's 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.640 back in Oxnard. Check out all the excitement for free 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.640 as fans can enjoy daily practices, activities and more on 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.880 the River Ridge Fields now through August twelfth, and don't 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:33.400 miss Cowboys back together on July thirty first featuring live music, 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.880 exclusive merchandise, deals, prices, and more of his The Dallas 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.240 Cowboys dot com slash training Camp for more information and 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.600 practice times. Welcome back to the second segment of Breakley 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.160 or Life, Oxnard, California. It's a day one of training 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:48.040 camp here in Oxnard. Let's talk about the opening press conference, 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:53.360 particularly the vaccination issue. Yesterday, Jerry said something that jumped 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.160 out to me. Said, you know, there's only a handful 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.560 of guys, and he mentioned he said, when I say 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.280 a handful, there's five fingers the hand, not telling us 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.680 that that's five, but giving us a strong indication that 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:08.280 that's similar to the number I would guess of players 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.560 that at this point are not committed to being vaccinated. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.880 What he means by that are guys that don't already 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.880 have at least the first shot or waiting period for 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:19.480 their second shot, or maybe David committed to it, haven't 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.880 gotten the shot, but they're committed to doing it right 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.120 right that all being said, and I'll go further than that. 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.840 Stephen Jones also said that he thinks not only will 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.760 they hit the threshold, he thinks still exceeded. That's the 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.400 eighty five percent that that's been talked about. He said, 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.800 that has not been approved yet completely by the NFL, 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.200 but that's at least being talked about. That all being said, 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.680 talk to me about what this means for the team 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.640 then being able to get over that threshold with the 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:48.480 NFL and if there are any limitations of the for 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.360 the time that they haven't hit the threshold here in 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.200 camp before they get to that point. Well, that's that's 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.360 a really good question about the limitation like here in camp, 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:57.960 because I don't think it should be a big deal 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.120 because you're not traveling until you go to the Hall 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.760 of Fame game, You're not interacting with anybody other than 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.320 guys that are here. They have a testing center on site, 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.320 so I think they should be fine as long as 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:12.600 they're here in this bubble it And I guess complications 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.960 are whatever comes into play when you start traveling to 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.399 Ohio and get deeper into the preseason and when the 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.520 season comes up. But that's the interesting thing, and that's 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.000 what Stephen Jones said, is to your point, like you know, 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.040 you got your waiting period between shots, you got your 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.520 waiting period after your shots where you're waiting for it 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.720 to take full effect. But Stephen Jones said, like, taking 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.080 all that into account, he thinks they'll be at or 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.160 above that threshold in due time, which is, like I said, 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:41.919 that's really impressive and undoubtedly gives them an advantage, Like 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:43.919 it's a big deal because of the way the NFL 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.879 is sort of what's the word I'm looking for, the 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.119 way the way the NFL is handling this, Like being 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.879 at that threshold means a lot just in terms of 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.240 your ability to be available. Yeah, I mean my understanding 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.560 is that the difference between the guys that are that 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.280 are vaccinated and not, it's just it's just more on them, 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.360 the nuisance of what they have to do, test more, wear, 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.879 mask more. It cannot be in the same meeting room, 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.040 or at least in the same spot in the meeting room. 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.240 They couldn't be like this. They'd have to be over here, 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:17.200 you know. So, and I think those players were warned 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.720 that beforehand and said this is how it's going to be. 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.439 Are you sure this is where your stances on this, 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:25.880 because this is what's going to happen in a training camp, 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:27.760 and this is how things are going to be. And 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:32.119 you know, maybe I'm sure more vaccinations were done based 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.200 off of that. Now there's some that are still for 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.760 whatever the reasons not you know, not doing it, which 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.880 and you're right, and like you know, the conversation changes 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.080 when you get closer to the season, and I believe 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.960 like if you're not working on it and by now, 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.360 then you're subject to those protocols until we get back 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.480 from training camp, right, yeah, so you could go get 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.520 the shot tomorrow and at this point it doesn't matter 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.040 now I camp not for camp. Yeah, But what's interesting 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:00.800 and I look this up like I was writing a 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.520 story about it yesterday. When we get closer to the season, 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:08.000 it matters for more than the players personal convenience too, 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.720 because you know, I'm reading off of the memo right here. 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:15.000 Fully vaccinated individuals exposed to a COVID positive person will 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.600 not be labeled to a high risk contact and will 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:21.440 not have to self isolate. So being vaccinated matters in 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:23.679 the sense of remember last year where on Tuesday it 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.600 was so and so yeah was in contact with somebody 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:29.760 and will be out for the game on Sunday, Like 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.000 if you're vaccinated, that doesn't happen. Which and That's what 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.800 I'm talking about when I say it's important to competitive advantage. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.399 It's unfortunate that this issue has become politicized, But regardless 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:43.040 of your political feeling on it, guys being vaccinated means 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.680 guys have a much less like a much lower chance 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:48.280 of missing game time, which at the end of the 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.120 day is what people care about. Essentially, unless you test positive, 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.840 you won't have to miss a game, right, Yes, and 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.520 so that and that's what I'm keeping an eye on. 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.560 So again, the fact that if it's really only five 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.720 out of nine that haven't done anything on the first 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.600 day of training camp, that is amazing news for the 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.159 Cowboys when first of all, you cut the roster from 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:10.680 ninety to fifty three anyway, Yeah, and then on top 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:12.760 of that, you got you know, we still got what 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.680 eight weeks until they actually are practicing for a game, 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:19.280 six weeks whatever it is. So if they're there here, 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.720 like if they're at this point in July, that's great 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:24.000 news for September. Yeah. One of the interesting things. I 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:25.800 don't know if you guys saw it, I assume you did. 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.000 Michael Irvin had some comments last week I think it was, 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.080 or maybe even earlier this week, where he was talking 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:36.439 about his idea of or his impression of players that 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:40.000 decide not to get vaccinated. His argument was he doesn't 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.639 think they're completely committed to winning. And Jerry was asked 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:46.480 about this yesterday, and Jerry's retort really was around the 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:49.920 idea that, yeah, he says he thought he was spite 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.159 on spot on, He thought it was influential, But he 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.040 also believes that the point of what Michael was saying 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.679 is that players expect one another to do things that 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:59.840 are above and beyond for the purposes of the team. 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.359 And this is one of those things that gets beyond 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.320 whatever your selfish desire might be. And I don't want 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:07.840 to say it in the wrong way when I say selfish, 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:10.439 I'm not meaning that a negative terms. I'm just saying 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:13.280 whatever your desire is as a person, as an individual 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:15.879 has to be in a lot of instances for the 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.920 purposes of football in the NFL, and how teammates look 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:21.240 at one another has to sometimes we put to the 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.200 side and you have to do what's good for the team. 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:25.480 And as you were saying, this has some benefits for 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.840 the team if more people are vaccinated. My question for 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:32.119 you guys is do you agree with michael stance on this? 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:36.840 I do absolutely, which, again, like you know. I'm sorry 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:38.840 if it offends people that are listening, Like I don't. 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.040 I don't see this as a political issue. I just 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:44.800 think it's smart and easy and the American healthcare system 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:47.760 has put like crazy resources into making this thing available, 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.440 and like buy and large, there's going to be risk 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:53.159 for all of this stuff. There always has been, by 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:56.399 the way, for like every vaccine. But it's minuscule and 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:00.800 it does wonders to I've had it since March and 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:03.159 I've been out living my life a lot more than 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:05.960 I have been the last year. No complaints so far. Um, 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:08.760 you have a little extra growth over there. Yeah, yeah, 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:11.439 I have an extra I have an extra appendage. Yeah. Um, 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.280 I don't. I don't see it as a debate. And 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:17.960 that's I mean, if you do, I hope, Okay, I 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:20.439 got nothing for you. I don't know, but it's a 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:22.440 minor thing that you can do to make your life 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:25.240 easier and the team's life better and you know, give 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:27.880 your team a better chance. I went the fuller context 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:30.760 of Michael's quote. I thought it was interesting too, because he's, uh, 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:33.280 you know, he said, this could be a healthy guy 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:36.720 missing two games because of this, and in this league 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:38.960 that could be it for you, like and if the 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:41.760 right person misses two weeks, that's it. Your ass is 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:45.640 out and the Lord knows that's true, and that would 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:48.600 be that would suck for the Cowboys or for anybody 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:50.879 else if you know you had an easy path to 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:54.320 making this all easier and didn't do it. So Nick, 0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:59.680 I mean, I love Michael Irving. I mean he's passionate 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:01.920 about it, but I mean, I don't know. It's hard 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:07.159 to speak for everybody in this situation. I understand that 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:09.760 part right there. I do get it, but you gotta remember, 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:12.600 like everybody here knows three to four or five maybe 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:15.680 more people that haven't taken it. We all have a few. 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:18.680 When you think about that, what are the reasons why 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:21.840 they're not taking it? They're they're all over the map. 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:26.440 There's different reasons. So it is hard to say, well, hey, 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:28.800 you know, why aren't you doing this? You should be 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:31.760 doing it all for the betterment of the team. In 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:35.480 some cases, you could say, well, I'm willing to do 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:37.560 all of these things. I have to test every day, 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:39.520 I wear a mask, I can't sit with my team, 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:42.439 I can't do certain things, So you're saying I'm not 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:44.639 all in and I'm sticking to my guns on what 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:47.680 I believe in. Maybe you could argue that I'm actually 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:49.520 more all in than any of them because I'm doing 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:52.280 all this despite that, because because I you know, they 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:54.720 believe in the reason why they're not taking the vaccine 0:23:54.800 --> 0:23:56.720 or whatever, they're still willing to do all of the 0:23:56.760 --> 0:24:00.639 other things. So but that's why this is so tricky, 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:05.400 because that person could be doing everything right and their 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:07.760 wife and their kids to come home from school and 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:09.320 then they have it and next thing you know, you're 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:12.399 out two games. Yeah, so it's just hard to say 0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:15.280 what not taking the vaccine is going, how it's going 0:24:15.320 --> 0:24:17.240 to affect the team. I think it's very general for 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:22.720 Michael to say that, and you know, it's I agree that, 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:24.159 you know, you should be kind of be all in. 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:27.000 We have to do things for their work. Some people 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:29.840 do it, some people don't, and you know, it comes 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:31.800 down to the different reasons. So it's very hard to 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:33.879 kind of say you're right you're wrong, because it's certainly 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:36.920 not a black and white issue, I guess, and good 0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:39.800 reasons for not getting it do exist, and I'm willing 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:43.880 to listen to those, but buy and liar and not 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:45.719 to go off on a tangent, but there's just so 0:24:45.840 --> 0:24:48.560 much bad faith discourse around this thing at this point 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:51.439 in time, it gets frustrating. Yeah, I mean it is, 0:24:51.560 --> 0:24:53.640 and not again, I don't want us to get too political, 0:24:53.720 --> 0:24:57.200 but it's gone from being a medical question in some 0:24:57.200 --> 0:24:59.600 people's minds to being more of a political question, and 0:24:59.640 --> 0:25:02.760 so anytime that happens, then you're going to have just 0:25:02.800 --> 0:25:06.520 splits because people ideologically and from a political standpoint are 0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:09.480 split right and probably more now in our country than 0:25:09.520 --> 0:25:12.360 ever before. So that's a problem with all of this 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:14.919 is that it has become a political issue instead of 0:25:15.000 --> 0:25:17.280 rather just a medical issue, where we may have had 0:25:17.320 --> 0:25:19.680 a lot less division on this if it was just 0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:21.960 a medical question. And like you said, Nick, there's some 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:26.040 people that have some very legitimate medical concerns that preclude 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:28.120 them from wanting to be vaccinated. And some of those 0:25:28.119 --> 0:25:30.200 I've heard from people, and I say, oh, yeah, kind 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:32.880 of get that. I kind of understand that. Yeah, let's 0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:35.000 move on, though, I do want to talk about we 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:39.000 had mentioned a little earlier, Nikki. I think Dave might 0:25:39.040 --> 0:25:42.960 have thrown something out there talking about the championship level 0:25:44.240 --> 0:25:47.360 the Cowboys. Getting back to that championship level of the nineties, 0:25:48.080 --> 0:25:51.240 and Jarry was asking about that yesterday, and it actually 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:53.919 it spun off into a thought that that Nick, I 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:57.840 think you were making or Dave you were making next. Okay, 0:25:57.840 --> 0:26:00.119 So basically what happened was Jarry's asked about and you 0:26:00.160 --> 0:26:02.359 get back to the nineties days, and the first thing 0:26:02.400 --> 0:26:04.760 you mentioned was, well, first thing, can you give me 0:26:04.760 --> 0:26:07.840 another Charles Haley? And then he went on and he said, okay, 0:26:07.840 --> 0:26:10.720 and you know that Dion Sanders, I'll take another one 0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:14.240 to him too. And by the way, absolutely great players, 0:26:14.359 --> 0:26:17.280 Hall of Fame players, some of the best to do 0:26:17.320 --> 0:26:19.440 it at their positions. For what they did, I think 0:26:19.480 --> 0:26:22.040 you'd be I think it's a fair statement to say 0:26:22.119 --> 0:26:23.960 Charles Haley is one of the best pass rushers in 0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:25.400 the history of the NFL. And I think it's fair 0:26:25.440 --> 0:26:28.320 to say Deon Sanders may be the very best cornerback 0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:30.640 in the history of the NFL. Coach prime, careful, coach 0:26:30.680 --> 0:26:33.240 prime here. I can't call him Deon anymore in particular 0:26:33.280 --> 0:26:34.840 about that. That's what I've heard. Well, he can come 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:35.960 and talk to me about that if he has a 0:26:36.000 --> 0:26:39.760 problem with it. But anyway, those two things I get 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:42.639 all that. But my question for you is do you 0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:45.200 think the Cowboys have done all that they can do 0:26:45.680 --> 0:26:48.640 in order to get that caliber of player, because those 0:26:48.640 --> 0:26:51.239 are both free agent signings. Have they done all they can? Know? 0:26:51.320 --> 0:26:53.280 They haven't at all. CJ good one, I think was 0:26:53.320 --> 0:26:55.840 their best free agent signing this year. No offense to him, crazy, 0:26:55.800 --> 0:26:59.440 he takes a good specialties player exactly he is. He's like, no, 0:26:59.560 --> 0:27:04.240 I'm very special he is. But to like try to 0:27:04.320 --> 0:27:07.400 even jokingly, but like it's a great you know, but 0:27:07.680 --> 0:27:10.000 the huge step and that was a great signing. It 0:27:10.200 --> 0:27:12.760 was that was good. That was their best one. That 0:27:12.760 --> 0:27:15.440 that's what they do. They have taken a different approach 0:27:15.520 --> 0:27:18.240 to this. They they were they were going to get 0:27:18.280 --> 0:27:21.119 those guys, uh, you know, Don and Charles Haley. And 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:23.480 now last year they signed a bunch of names. That's 0:27:23.480 --> 0:27:28.000 all they were were names former first rounders, Don Tari 0:27:28.119 --> 0:27:32.480 Poe ha ha. I mean, you know we knew who 0:27:32.520 --> 0:27:34.880 was laughing at the end of all that. And that's 0:27:35.040 --> 0:27:37.400 that's the fans that don't like the Cowboys and Mills 0:27:37.400 --> 0:27:41.960 are from really bad. But they're not making splashes. They 0:27:42.000 --> 0:27:44.080 don't do that in free agency. They haven't gone to 0:27:44.119 --> 0:27:45.960 do that. They haven't gone all in to do that 0:27:46.040 --> 0:27:47.719 kind of stuff. So there's no way you're going to 0:27:47.760 --> 0:27:49.960 get a d on Charles Haley those type of guys 0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:53.080 in free agency, because that's not their approach. That is, 0:27:53.359 --> 0:27:57.119 it's ironic with and I'm young, I'm sorry, Like they 0:27:57.240 --> 0:27:59.520 Charles Haley was a trade, right, so they took a 0:27:59.520 --> 0:28:02.560 big swing to get Charles. And then how many times 0:28:02.560 --> 0:28:06.560 have we heard the story Stephen Jones was so incensed 0:28:06.640 --> 0:28:09.000 at what Jerry wanted to pay Dion to get him 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:11.679 here that they like thought he pushed him up against that, 0:28:11.840 --> 0:28:15.680 like that's it's like, are you crazy? It turned out? 0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:18.919 It turned out, it turned out great. But I'm what, 0:28:19.160 --> 0:28:21.560 when have the Cowboys done something like that. I've been here. 0:28:21.560 --> 0:28:23.960 This is year nine, by the way, I still think 0:28:23.960 --> 0:28:25.719 of myself as the new guy, and it's just not 0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:28.760 true anymore, and they haven't done anything like that in 0:28:28.880 --> 0:28:31.040 the whole time I've been here. But in all fairness, 0:28:31.560 --> 0:28:34.800 I think they would probably say we took shots they 0:28:34.840 --> 0:28:37.560 didn't work out there, took shots at Galliwae, they took 0:28:37.560 --> 0:28:40.560 shots at Roy Williams, who they thought were great players. 0:28:40.840 --> 0:28:44.120 It didn't work out. Those things happened like twenty years ago. 0:28:44.400 --> 0:28:47.280 I get that I'm saying, but the ones that Greg 0:28:47.320 --> 0:28:50.360 Hardy was close. But listen to point. My point is 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:54.000 that doing those things back back to back in the 0:28:54.120 --> 0:28:57.160 early two thousands, late nineties, maybe that made them say, 0:28:57.280 --> 0:28:58.960 I don't know if we can keep doing this right, 0:28:59.160 --> 0:29:01.120 we can't. Maybe it's not the same day as us 0:29:01.160 --> 0:29:03.400 being able to get it Charles Haley, us being able 0:29:03.400 --> 0:29:06.040 to get a Dion Sanders. We just like, that's not 0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:07.920 working for us. We got to do something a little 0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:11.720 steadier than doing that and then screwing ourselves for years 0:29:11.760 --> 0:29:14.400 after that because it doesn't work out right but right. 0:29:14.480 --> 0:29:16.200 But I mean, that's what I'm saying though, that you 0:29:16.280 --> 0:29:18.720 can't You can't say every morning that I hope I 0:29:18.760 --> 0:29:22.600 win the lottery and you don't ever play. That's what happens. 0:29:22.760 --> 0:29:24.440 People say, God, if I win the lottery one day, 0:29:24.440 --> 0:29:26.160 it's like, have you ever bought a scratch off ticket? 0:29:26.200 --> 0:29:28.560 Like no, not really, so you're not gonna win. They 0:29:28.600 --> 0:29:31.520 don't knock on your door. It's not publisher's clearinghouse. And 0:29:31.680 --> 0:29:34.120 that doesn't work that still, I don't know even if 0:29:34.120 --> 0:29:35.760 it does, I think you had to sign up for 0:29:35.840 --> 0:29:38.560 something to get the guy coming in here and the 0:29:38.600 --> 0:29:44.120 bottom I was sorry, go ahead, photo, that's gotta be 0:29:44.120 --> 0:29:48.480 ready for the right the crushers coming by. Bone crusher. Um, 0:29:49.520 --> 0:29:51.720 I don't even where we were talking about, just oh oh, 0:29:51.760 --> 0:29:54.320 the drafts. I mean, that's just not the approach. The 0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:57.160 approach isn't to go and get that guy and so 0:29:57.200 --> 0:30:00.520 they can luck into it and they're always looking for bargains. 0:30:00.760 --> 0:30:02.520 I think one of the best free agent signings that 0:30:02.560 --> 0:30:04.880 they've had since I was here. I've been here twenty 0:30:05.080 --> 0:30:08.680 something years, Leroy Glover. Even Leroy Glover was a two 0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:12.000 week into free agency, his number went down, they went 0:30:12.040 --> 0:30:14.000 and they got him, you know, trying to be a 0:30:14.200 --> 0:30:20.000 phenomenal player. I mean Brandon car so much Saints fan Dave, Yeah, yeah, 0:30:20.360 --> 0:30:23.120 I would imagine, you know, they went out and made 0:30:23.160 --> 0:30:25.680 a splash for Brandon car That's what that's one of 0:30:25.680 --> 0:30:28.080 the that's one of the few that they've gone, you know, 0:30:28.200 --> 0:30:31.200 right off the start of free agency. And Brandon Carr 0:30:31.240 --> 0:30:34.680 was a good player. He was a good player. People 0:30:34.720 --> 0:30:38.040 remember for Odell making a ridiculous catch around him, by 0:30:38.040 --> 0:30:40.200 the fact that he didn't get interceptions or whatever. He 0:30:40.360 --> 0:30:43.600 was a good player. He's an outstanding person in the 0:30:43.600 --> 0:30:46.800 community and all that. No one cares about that, but 0:30:46.840 --> 0:30:49.400 they they cared about him making plays and all that, 0:30:49.640 --> 0:30:52.320 and he was just he was Okay, it really wasn't 0:30:52.320 --> 0:30:54.760 worth the ten million a year. They tried, they put 0:30:54.760 --> 0:30:57.320 it out there. But again, those are those a kind 0:30:57.320 --> 0:30:59.320 of things that maybe make them say, we have tried, 0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:02.000 it just didn't we didn't get the result. That's that's fine, 0:31:02.000 --> 0:31:06.080 and and you know what, and it comes with the dinner. 0:31:06.120 --> 0:31:08.240 We love to say that, like Jerry Jones has a 0:31:08.280 --> 0:31:10.400 lot of great things going for him. He's he runs 0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:13.880 the Dallas Cowboys. He's got a boatload of money, he's 0:31:13.880 --> 0:31:16.640 got an actual boats. I mean, he gets to be 0:31:16.720 --> 0:31:18.840 like he you know, he's the most powerful owner in 0:31:18.840 --> 0:31:22.000 the NFL. But the one bad thing of all of 0:31:22.040 --> 0:31:24.200 that is until he gets back to the mountaintop that 0:31:24.320 --> 0:31:27.320 it's just you're gonna get anytime you say anything like that, 0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:31.320 you're gonna get dogged because generations, like how many generations 0:31:31.320 --> 0:31:33.520 of Cowboy fans now are just rolling their eyes at 0:31:33.520 --> 0:31:35.920 this point saying like, yeah, we hear this every July 0:31:36.240 --> 0:31:38.520 and that's just that's just the story. That's just what 0:31:38.560 --> 0:31:40.920 it's gonna be. Until you do it. Hey, it wouldn't matter. 0:31:41.160 --> 0:31:43.920 They could have gone out, they could have gotten Earl Thomas, 0:31:44.080 --> 0:31:46.640 and if they still had the same results, people be like, well, yeah, 0:31:46.680 --> 0:31:49.520 you're stupid. You should have known Earl Thomas was washed up. 0:31:49.800 --> 0:31:52.680 So it's just you're it's not damned if you do 0:31:52.720 --> 0:31:54.720 and damned if you don't. Well it is, you're but 0:31:54.800 --> 0:31:58.240 you're just damned until you do it. It's the result doesn't. 0:31:58.280 --> 0:32:00.800 But that's okay though, I mean, like you wouldn't really 0:32:00.840 --> 0:32:02.280 want to be the way you could roll your eyes 0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:03.960 and say, I've heard this before, but I mean think 0:32:03.960 --> 0:32:07.360 about it, like like even for us working stuff like that, 0:32:08.040 --> 0:32:10.880 everybody's even if they know you guys know how I 0:32:10.920 --> 0:32:13.040 am or how you are. You know, like I'll get 0:32:14.080 --> 0:32:17.440 mad about the stupidest stuff, right, the little things that 0:32:17.480 --> 0:32:21.520 have it'll it'll annoy me the day that stops annoying me, 0:32:21.520 --> 0:32:23.520 and get me out of here. Get me out of here. 0:32:23.680 --> 0:32:26.240 If I stop caring, then then it's over. And that's 0:32:26.240 --> 0:32:28.640 the thing. If Jared didn't keep that thing that's saying, 0:32:28.640 --> 0:32:31.800 if if he comes to train camp one year and said, 0:32:31.960 --> 0:32:34.440 you know, I don't I don't know, I don't know William, 0:32:34.800 --> 0:32:36.800 I don't know, it's gonna be kind of tough this year. 0:32:37.320 --> 0:32:39.640 Then you know, maybe it's like, all right, this this 0:32:39.680 --> 0:32:43.440 isn't time, which is ironic because one of the best seasons, 0:32:43.440 --> 0:32:45.640 one of the years memories. I knew you were gonna 0:32:45.640 --> 0:32:47.880 say that. Jerry was like, we got an uphill battle, 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:50.120 that's probably not gonna be a very good team. And 0:32:50.160 --> 0:32:54.360 then thirteen and three, No. Twelve and four, twenty fourteen, 0:32:54.480 --> 0:32:57.400 Romo could have been MVP and just a great year 0:32:57.480 --> 0:33:02.440 all around. So maybe he should try to help man, 0:33:04.040 --> 0:33:06.160 Like I said, it's he did say is the most 0:33:06.200 --> 0:33:09.200 challenges they've ever faced before entering a season. I don't 0:33:09.200 --> 0:33:12.760 know if he said, yeah, yeah, no, that was protocol 0:33:12.880 --> 0:33:15.440 stuff or whatever. Probably a little bit of everything, yeah, 0:33:15.560 --> 0:33:18.320 find everything, But I would I would suspect that's you know, 0:33:18.760 --> 0:33:20.480 it's hard for me to think that anything was worse 0:33:20.520 --> 0:33:23.480 than or harder than last year. Like last year probably 0:33:23.600 --> 0:33:26.200 was the hardest that any of us, including the team, 0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:28.800 including the coaches, have ever experienced. It for me of 0:33:28.880 --> 0:33:30.760 doing your job here in the inn, and yeah, I 0:33:30.800 --> 0:33:33.560 just it reminded, you know, we live in Dallas. I 0:33:33.600 --> 0:33:36.320 know not everybody listening does, but you know, the Mavericks 0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:38.640 are kind of in a similar situation where they have 0:33:38.680 --> 0:33:41.360 a very hands on owner and everybody's stressed out about 0:33:41.360 --> 0:33:44.560 how Mark Cuban's gonna handle putting a good team around Luca, 0:33:44.640 --> 0:33:46.960 And it's Mark cuban Or problem. Does he talk too 0:33:47.000 --> 0:33:49.200 much and for like drive people away? Like It's very 0:33:49.200 --> 0:33:52.320 similar for Jerry Jones. And I've always said, give me 0:33:52.360 --> 0:33:54.600 the guy who cares too much over the guy who's 0:33:54.640 --> 0:33:57.320 just using this as a way to make money and 0:33:57.400 --> 0:33:59.680 have a tax right off, Like, give me, give me 0:33:59.800 --> 0:34:03.640 Jerry Jones every single time in terms of like, I 0:34:03.680 --> 0:34:05.440 want the owner that wants to win as much as 0:34:05.440 --> 0:34:07.680 I do. But at the same time, you're gonna get 0:34:07.680 --> 0:34:09.560 criticized until you get the results. It's just it just 0:34:09.640 --> 0:34:11.759 is what it is. Parted And at this point, is 0:34:12.080 --> 0:34:14.359 it twenty six years now, I don't even know it's 0:34:14.360 --> 0:34:17.839 twenty five, twenty six, Yeah, something like that. With the 0:34:17.880 --> 0:34:21.479 best intentions doesn't matter. Whatever you say is just gonna 0:34:21.520 --> 0:34:23.360 get an eye roll at this point, You're just the 0:34:23.400 --> 0:34:25.239 fans are just gonna roll their eyes until you proved 0:34:25.239 --> 0:34:27.279 that they shouldn't. It is what it is. We're gonna 0:34:27.280 --> 0:34:29.120 take a final break when we come back from that break, 0:34:29.160 --> 0:34:32.719 we're gonna jump a little bit farther into this nineties conversation. 0:34:32.760 --> 0:34:34.719 He said there were there were some things that he's 0:34:34.760 --> 0:34:38.000 pointed out. No, no, no no, not talk football. 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That'll be You 0:37:21.719 --> 0:37:23.719 can catch it live on all of our channels from 0:37:23.800 --> 0:37:27.279 Dallas Cowboys dot com, Cowboys Mobile are Connected TV app 0:37:27.320 --> 0:37:30.960 on rokup, Amazon Fire, and Apple TV, as well as 0:37:30.960 --> 0:37:33.160 on our social channel, so it'll be everywhere and you 0:37:33.160 --> 0:37:35.600 can check it out that they're coming up today. We 0:37:35.680 --> 0:37:36.960 might have a little bit of a little bit of 0:37:37.000 --> 0:37:39.399 news there. Nick, you're hearing some things well, I mean 0:37:39.719 --> 0:37:41.759 this is the time where they first press commers. They're 0:37:41.760 --> 0:37:46.680 gonna announce some injury. You know, a designation's pup physically 0:37:46.760 --> 0:37:49.640 unable to perform. It's an active pup list, which means 0:37:49.880 --> 0:37:52.279 it's not the list that they'll be out for six 0:37:52.360 --> 0:37:55.479 games or something like that. They can always like count 0:37:55.480 --> 0:37:57.360 to the ninety man roster. They're not going to be 0:37:57.400 --> 0:37:59.359 able to practice until they're healthy. Then they get off 0:37:59.360 --> 0:38:01.520 the pups. So there's gonna be some names like that, 0:38:01.520 --> 0:38:03.440 guys that are coming off some injuries, some surgeries. I 0:38:03.480 --> 0:38:06.959 think Amari Cooper will be in there. D law Um 0:38:07.400 --> 0:38:10.560 didn't really hear a lot in the summer about Greg Zirline, 0:38:10.560 --> 0:38:12.520 but I think Greg Zerline is dealing with a back injury. 0:38:12.520 --> 0:38:14.520 It's going to keep him on there. Which you know, 0:38:14.680 --> 0:38:17.399 there's a lot there's backups at receiver, in defensive line. 0:38:17.440 --> 0:38:21.040 There's not a backup. Kick gonna say that's yeah, that's 0:38:20.320 --> 0:38:23.880 so yeah, looking for a hunter. Nice wonder to be 0:38:23.960 --> 0:38:27.600 doing some of that. Um, he can do everything, kickoff, 0:38:27.600 --> 0:38:29.520 punt and all that. Um, we'll see if he's a 0:38:29.600 --> 0:38:31.640 jack of all trades, master of none, or he can 0:38:31.719 --> 0:38:34.480 be a jack of all trades everything. So that's wonderful 0:38:34.760 --> 0:38:37.960 to battle with with anger for the pun and all 0:38:38.000 --> 0:38:39.760 of a sudden he has to kick off and who's 0:38:39.800 --> 0:38:43.280 holding anger? I don't you know, Like I don't know. 0:38:42.960 --> 0:38:45.359 I mean, it's gonna be interesting to how that how 0:38:45.360 --> 0:38:47.799 that plays in. And I guess we'll see on the 0:38:47.840 --> 0:38:50.560 severity of it, because I mean, people get worked up 0:38:50.560 --> 0:38:53.680 about pup and training camp, but like and and sometimes 0:38:53.719 --> 0:38:55.920 it is serious. But sometimes you're on it for like 0:38:55.960 --> 0:38:58.120 four days, Like they just don't want you out there 0:38:58.200 --> 0:39:01.040 until you're ready. Sometimes it's because you're out Yeah, exactly, 0:39:01.080 --> 0:39:03.600 you have the yesterday they had. They're they're testing where 0:39:03.600 --> 0:39:06.040 they kind of figure out where everybody is physically, and 0:39:06.080 --> 0:39:07.440 so you might come out of that and there may 0:39:07.440 --> 0:39:09.200 be some things they're like, get him some work with 0:39:09.239 --> 0:39:11.640 the trainers, just just kind of getting him in shape, 0:39:11.640 --> 0:39:12.880 and then we'll put him out on the field. But 0:39:13.000 --> 0:39:16.719 if it is serious with zirline, again, you know, I 0:39:16.719 --> 0:39:19.720 don't I don't care. If Amari Cooper's practicing, he's fine, 0:39:19.960 --> 0:39:22.480 he'll be good to go. And there's eight other receivers, 0:39:22.520 --> 0:39:27.279 but Zeroline, you only have one kicker, and they also 0:39:27.360 --> 0:39:29.440 have a roster spot right now. They waved a receiver 0:39:29.520 --> 0:39:31.440 when we got here, or like the day we left, 0:39:32.040 --> 0:39:34.239 and so I wonder if they would bring a guy 0:39:34.280 --> 0:39:37.520 in to help with that, because that's awesome that Hunter 0:39:37.560 --> 0:39:40.319 can do everything, but probably don't want him to, yeah, 0:39:40.360 --> 0:39:41.920 or maybe want to see what somebody else can do. 0:39:41.920 --> 0:39:45.680 I don't know, that's interesting, zirline. He's been in the 0:39:45.760 --> 0:39:47.520 league for a while. If he's a too, yeah, he's 0:39:49.560 --> 0:39:52.279 he's an older guy. I guess he's thirty three. Yeah, 0:39:52.360 --> 0:39:55.239 that just you know. I've said this before on this show, 0:39:55.280 --> 0:39:58.080 and it was typically we were talking about offensive lineman. 0:39:58.440 --> 0:40:01.279 But I get really nervous when when players start having 0:40:01.280 --> 0:40:05.960 back issues because it's that's not something that necessarily, necessarily, 0:40:06.000 --> 0:40:08.839 I'm gonna say, gets better over time. Even if you 0:40:08.880 --> 0:40:11.000 get you know, whatever you're going to get done to it, 0:40:11.000 --> 0:40:13.600 it doesn't necessarily get better over time. And so that's 0:40:13.600 --> 0:40:15.960 something worth keeping an eye on. If he's starting the 0:40:16.400 --> 0:40:19.360 starting on pup and and uh, you know, just seeing 0:40:19.360 --> 0:40:21.319 where that all develop, seeing what there they think the 0:40:21.360 --> 0:40:23.279 prognos is, and I think we also should follow the 0:40:23.320 --> 0:40:27.120 t leaves they start bringing in guys. Oh yeah, then 0:40:26.840 --> 0:40:29.399 you really start wondering kind of what's the long term 0:40:29.560 --> 0:40:34.040 just the Uh this is important to note too. And 0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:37.080 I don't know how many practices are going to be unpadded, 0:40:37.280 --> 0:40:41.799 because that's it's a normal total of thirteen practices and 0:40:42.080 --> 0:40:45.360 the first padded practices next Wednesday, the twenty eight. So 0:40:45.719 --> 0:40:49.960 they have a practice today, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, So they're 0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:53.800 four practices that are unpadded. Back in the Garrett tenure, 0:40:53.840 --> 0:40:56.040 it was normal to do two unpadded just to kind 0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:59.120 of get everybody acclimated. It's gonna be more than that. 0:40:59.200 --> 0:41:01.319 And so that's not a league because I know, no, no, no, 0:41:01.520 --> 0:41:04.680 it's it's not. I just I designated it by Garrick 0:41:04.760 --> 0:41:08.080 upcake care. Now it's a league rules, right. Yeah. But 0:41:08.200 --> 0:41:10.359 the point is we're gonna have a much longer wait, 0:41:10.600 --> 0:41:12.359 We're gonna have a much longer way than we're used 0:41:12.360 --> 0:41:16.080 to for the real deal. And so I'm even less 0:41:16.080 --> 0:41:20.080 worried than I normally would be about this and one 0:41:20.120 --> 0:41:23.800 of these injuries I bet is actually significant just playing 0:41:23.800 --> 0:41:26.480 the numbers, but I'm not gonna sweat about it until 0:41:26.520 --> 0:41:28.799 we have a chance to see some practices and see 0:41:28.800 --> 0:41:31.880 what's going on. Okay, we will also u and I 0:41:31.920 --> 0:41:33.920 think that the conversation we were going to get into 0:41:34.000 --> 0:41:36.279 is going to be a little bit deeper than the 0:41:36.280 --> 0:41:38.799 four men said. We have little stuff, so we'll say that, 0:41:39.400 --> 0:41:41.160 but I do want to give everybody an idea of 0:41:41.160 --> 0:41:43.200 what they can expect during the time that we're your 0:41:43.239 --> 0:41:45.839 training camp. We will be doing a podcast like this 0:41:45.880 --> 0:41:48.600 one every morning at nine am Pacific time, that's eleven 0:41:48.640 --> 0:41:52.560 am back Central time. It will alternate between our group 0:41:52.880 --> 0:41:56.640 and Talking Cowboys. Talking Cowboys with Kyle Yeomans will host 0:41:56.640 --> 0:42:00.440 that show with Rob Phillips and with Mickey Spagnola. We 0:42:00.480 --> 0:42:03.839 will also in the afternoons or actually it's afternoon back 0:42:03.840 --> 0:42:06.920 in Dallas, will be ten thirty here after Coach McCarthy's 0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:10.520 press conference. Every day, we will have two shows that 0:42:10.560 --> 0:42:13.840 are that will also be alternating. 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