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Speaker 1: that you are playing professional football at the extremely high

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Speaker 1: level you're playing it with that list of injuries just

432
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Speaker 1: within the last three or four years. To me, it's

433
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Speaker 1: a tremendous testament to your determination and your work ethic.

434
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Speaker 1: What do you think about it when you look back

435
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 1: at it. Honestly, I look back at it and I

436
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 1: just think, like, man, it was just hunger. Like, you know,

437
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 1: I knew what I was capable of. I knew the

438
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: talents and know the gifts that I was blessed with,

439
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: and I wanted to show everybody else that. So it

440
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 1: was like every time that's something like that I happened,

441
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: it was like, all right, well, now they didn't they

442
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: really don't believe I'm going to come back from this injury.

443
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: So now I gotta fight back twice. It's hard to

444
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Speaker 1: get back from that. And you know, it wasn't just

445
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: necessarily that. I know, I had a great support team

446
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,160
Speaker 1: as well. Behind that. Even some of the guys from

447
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:25,919
Speaker 1: the colds I still was talking to and there was

448
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,439
Speaker 1: no pointing directions as far as my rehab and stuff

449
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: like that. So it was like I had a great

450
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 1: support system of resilient and you know, like I said,

451
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 1: I just kept my you know, my head down and

452
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: believed in my faith and knew what I wanted to accomplish.

453
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: And that's what really got it done for me. So

454
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,640
Speaker 1: it's not the motivation that kind of keeps you going

455
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,120
Speaker 1: now that same kind of i'll prove you wrong type mentality. Yeah,

456
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: it's it's like now for me, like it's like I've

457
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,959
Speaker 1: been here, I've been a worser positions, you know, Like

458
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Speaker 1: you said, I list the injuries, A lot of guys

459
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Speaker 1: you know that they don't come back from that. So

460
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 1: one of them I've done it for the major injuries.

461
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: Had a lot of people don't come back from like said,

462
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Speaker 1: I had to at least and I had the aclo

463
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: and people don't come back and him I forget that.

464
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: So it's like now for me, like anything anything else

465
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: is small, like I ain't got nothing else. Really in

466
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: my mind, I look at it as I don't got

467
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,439
Speaker 1: nothing else that can be harmed in that way. In

468
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: that way, you know, I've done all my bad harm

469
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: or whatever you want to call it, as far as

470
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 1: that my bad juju. I got it all out. So

471
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: now you know, I just go out there with a

472
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: clean mind, clean heart, And you know, I know what

473
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: it took back to getting me here. You signed you

474
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you signed just before training camp last year?

475
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: At what point after that? Because you I knew, I

476
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: know you were confident, but you got to prove to

477
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,879
Speaker 1: yourselves because you know what you are when you're not hurt. Yeah,

478
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: when did you realize? Okay, I really am back and

479
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 1: now I'm fixing the show. Folks whom Malay Cooker is.

480
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of like, I'll say two things. When

481
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Speaker 1: you make a play, when you finally make a play

482
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Speaker 1: in practice, believer, or now you come back from that

483
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: injury and you're getting the guys coming, they're jumping on

484
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Speaker 1: your stuff like that, that kind of is a welcome homent, like,

485
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 1: all right, I'm back from an injury, and you know,

486
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: just saying certain bursts and stuff that you've seen from

487
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: yourself before. Once you get to you, because you'll know

488
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: your body and stuff like that. Once you've been through

489
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: so so so many injuries and stuff, like I said,

490
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: you learned the body. You start to realize and know

491
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: the stuff that ain't right, you know. So once it,

492
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: once it came down to that, I already knew that. Uh,

493
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,439
Speaker 1: I forgot what I was about to say. So when

494
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 1: when did you know you were back to being all

495
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 1: of mala? So once it once it came back to

496
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 1: me kind of knowing that I was gonna be a

497
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: fooled back was once, like I said, once I've seen

498
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 1: the plays and me bursting on the field and the

499
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: plays that I made, that was when I kind of

500
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 1: knew that I was gonna be bad. Now that you

501
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: kind of we've gone through the laundry list of all

502
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: the injuries you've been through, how does your approach change

503
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 1: when it comes to that prehab. I think jay Ron

504
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 1: Curse was the one to talk about the importance of that.

505
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: But just you're approaching that and it's crazy because I

506
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: used to go off a saying I used to be

507
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: like Cheeta's own stretch, you know, when you're I used

508
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 1: to tell I used to say that I was, and

509
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: I used like, man, I'm che I'm gonna just wake up.

510
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: I ain't got a stretch. I'm able to just get

511
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: out there and run. But the older you get, you

512
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: really start to realize. So it's like, now, like I

513
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: got a good friend, you have no idea. So it's like,

514
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: now I gotta go through like a whole process of

515
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 1: like warming up in the hot tub and getting stretched

516
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: out before I even get a stretch on the field.

517
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 1: So you know, that's kind of you know, the thing

518
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 1: that I noticed more about myself now. You know, I

519
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 1: take that a little more seriously than I did when

520
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: I was younger, because you know, you you had that

521
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: mindset I'm be young forever. And then the injuries having

522
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: be like I ain't superman. Now, Uh, you now see

523
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: why we were so anxious to have Malik Hooker here

524
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: this evening. We will have your questions for those of

525
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: you who are here at Kinne Russo uh for Malik

526
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: a little bit later in the program. But first we're

527
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: gonn take one more break and we'll be right back

528
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Speaker 1: on the Cowboys Hour to the Miller like Cowboys album

529
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Speaker 1: supported by Alfredson Fucome Back to the Cowboys the Hour

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00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,400
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534
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Speaker 1: the official supermarket and pharmacy of the Dallas Cowboys. I'm

535
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: glad they brought that music down. I feel like I

536
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Speaker 1: was shouting that where are your Cowboys jersey? To Albertson.

537
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: I think that's the idea perfect. Were joined here with

538
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: Melie Cooker. We've been talking football injuries. Emilie. One thing

539
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, and I'm glad that you

540
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: brought it up. When we were talking about your injuries,

541
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: you mentioned the support that you had and getting through

542
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: that and that was helpful. Just talk to me about family,

543
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: how important that is to you, How important your family

544
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: has been to you in this journey up until this point. Yeah. No,

545
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: once you I'll say, like from the recruiting process, once

546
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: you go through a process. For me, my mother she

547
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: was like my my agent, I guess you say. And

548
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: my mom she's a basketball of fense, so she didn't

549
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: really know that much about football, so she had to

550
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: do a lot of like research and study in and

551
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: really to understand the game to kind of provide the

552
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: stuff that we needed at the time for me to

553
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:06,959
Speaker 1: get to where I wanted to be as far as

554
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: the NFL and stuff like that. So when we got

555
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: to the NFL, we already kind of been through the

556
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: process of eliminating, you know, the people that you know,

557
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: we felt like wasn't around and you know, the guys

558
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: the people that come around once you end up making

559
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: money and stuff like that. So that kind of helped

560
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: me a lot through that process because of the fact

561
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: that I already knew who I was able to trust,

562
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: to tend to know, already have my salt, my solidified

563
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: you know, team for me in my background, and it

564
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: it's still it's funny because my team, when I say

565
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: my team is my siblings, I got two sisters, two

566
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: older sisters. My older sister she's like my might as

567
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: well save my business managers, might as well say, And

568
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: my middle sister, and I got two younger brothers, and

569
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: you know, with whatever decision I make, you know, we're

570
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: in a group chat and we talk about stuff like that.

571
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: So that was more so the support that I needed

572
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: and stuff like that just keeping me out of my mind,

573
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: off of you know, going to that deep place, because

574
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: once you have something significant like that happened, you can

575
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: tend to get into a deep place. And you know,

576
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: like you said, we were just talking about some guys

577
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: might have no retired or stopped playing after that. But luckily,

578
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: you know, they kept giving me that motivation. I keep

579
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: pushing it and that mindset that they knew that I

580
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: can do it more than I could myself, you know,

581
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 1: And that's all somebody most of the time needs. What

582
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: do they do for a living. Your siblings my seventh

583
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,240
Speaker 1: so my oldest sister, she works at a school kids

584
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: or I'm an oldest sister. My middle sister, my oldest sister,

585
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: she's kind of like a like I said, she's all

586
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: around you might as will say my businessman because she

587
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: helps a lot of stuff from me on the side

588
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 1: too as well. So my mom, she's a teacher as well.

589
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: My youngest brother, he's more like he works like a

590
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: nursing home. And then my youngest brother right now, he

591
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: transferred to why he's playing football there right now? Wow?

592
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I already knew. I did not want to

593
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: mess with your mother or but so much respect for them.

594
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: So during the break, I asked the league if after

595
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: the Achilles, the Achilles, that ends a huge percentage of

596
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: the careers of any athlete who has that injury. You

597
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: had it after the HL and the MCL and the

598
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: labor them and the look, and a lot of guys

599
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: would have shaid up, okay, God, I hear you have

600
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: listening and you said, no, I've got one more in there.

601
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: I got I got more fighting, and like I said

602
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: this back to my mom, and I'm like they was

603
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: more so when I say I got one where they

604
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: was like, man, you got this, you can you can

605
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: check back from this so you can make you be

606
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: the player that you want to be. So when I

607
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: said I got one more of me, I was like, man,

608
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: if something significant like that would have happened again after that,

609
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 1: then maybe I probably wand up. But the fact that

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00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: you know, my mother and then was able to give

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00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: me that the words of encouragement believing myself. Like I said,

612
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: at that time, it was a dark spot for me

613
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 1: as far as you know, dealing with the injury. So

614
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: for them to have that light and you know, just

615
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: you got this, you got this, and then on top

616
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: of seeing the progression at the time, that's what kind

617
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: of helped me get through. That's away tight. Yeah, we

618
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: always been tight because like I said, it's always been

619
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: me and my Selman's all under the same household and everything.

620
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: So we've always been real close knitted families up from

621
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: since we was young. Because it's family, they can be

622
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: supportive and say you've got this, we know who you are,

623
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: we believe in you. And you could say, yeah, you know,

624
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,439
Speaker 1: I love y'all, but this is my body that I'm

625
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: in over here and you don't know what this feels like. Yeah,

626
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: but that's my why, you know, like I said, my family,

627
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: that's my why. That's why. You know a lot of

628
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: the stuff that I fought through, that was what was

629
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: helping me get through that because I know, you know,

630
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: once they put that you know, belief in me, and

631
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: they're who I'm doing it for, you know, why wouldn't

632
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: I get out there and try, you know, give it

633
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: another shot. You know, that's how I looked at it.

634
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't I not another layer to that you just

635
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: talked about earlier as well, your new baby girl. How

636
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: has that shifted your mindset her focus? As far as fatherhood? Oh? Man, uh,

637
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: let's say this first off, I forgot about the part

638
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: of parenthood that you got to you gotta teach the

639
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 1: kids how to use the bathroom. I forgot about that part. Yes,

640
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: yes you knew, why, yes you knew? Right now? Just

641
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: to update my daughter, she's seventeen months right now, so

642
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: you know, she's roll right now in the phase of

643
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: where we're trying to teach her how to use the

644
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: party and it's fun and that's a problem sess as well.

645
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: So fatherhood for me right now, man, it's actually what

646
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: makes games like the Green Bay Game a lot easier

647
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: to take because you go home, and you go home

648
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: and you put these these young you know, human beings

649
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: in your arms and you're like, man, this is really

650
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: a younger me, you know, a little me. So that's

651
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 1: why I'll say fatherhood, Man, it's everything for me right now.

652
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: You know. It's was keeping smile on my face even

653
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: when days feel longer you know things like that. So

654
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more thankful than you know, having my

655
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: baby girl. The great thing about them is for a

656
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: few more years, you've got this where when you come in,

657
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: they don't know if you want or lost or care. Yeah.

658
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: That's another thing too, because I mean right now she's

659
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: just smiled. So she get older, I feel like she's

660
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: going to be an athlete and stuff, and you know,

661
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: based off of how many her mother's were real competitive,

662
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: so she might you know, get the trash talking if

663
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: I lose down the rows. Oh, I wouldn't say that

664
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: based on everything you said about all of your family.

665
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: Uh that you you may you might have until she's

666
00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:01,399
Speaker 1: about seven before you come in the door and she Dad,

667
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: what were you thinking on that character? That's what I

668
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: was gonna say, she's gonna have. We had to go

669
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: through the film at that point because she get on

670
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: me like that. I'm hat to correct my mistakes and

671
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: let her know. I love getting to talk to you guys.

672
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: I think every single guy who we've had on Cowboys Hour,

673
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 1: and then guests that I've had on First and Ten

674
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: as well, have all been fathers. And it's so my

675
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: favorite part of asking that question. It is just seeing

676
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: the way you guys immediately light up any chance you

677
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: get to talk about your baby. I think most of

678
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 1: you guys except Mica may or not Mica um Michael

679
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: has a little boy. But everyone else so I've talked

680
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: to I think has a little girl, and I say,

681
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: it's a lot. It's a lot of girls. There was

682
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: a lot of girls, I want to say, for the

683
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: last two year has been a lot of girls all

684
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: the team. So you know, it's been special for a

685
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: lot of guys because now we can really relate and

686
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: you know, go on there have our funny stories about

687
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: our kids as well. So do y'all share stories with

688
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: each other about man, We talk about that all the time,

689
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: you know, because it's funny because you know, for us

690
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 1: right now, we're not used to having the kids a

691
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: lot like that, you know, because you know, depending on

692
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: how it would you it is like my daughter goes

693
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: to school and everything in the morning, and she comes

694
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: home in the afternoon, and by that point I'm just

695
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: now getting home from work and she has a bed

696
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: time and everything. So when I come home, it's like

697
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: I gotta try to hurry up and get all my

698
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: fun and stuff, and in that little short of time

699
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: before both our bed times because we both got to

700
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: get up early the next day. So it's like you

701
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: just appreciate stuff like that in that little process and

702
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So she does she know yet that

703
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: it's Christmas time and all the I mean, I think

704
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: she kind of knows something specials going on because my daughter,

705
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: like she she she realized. Notice its a lot of

706
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: stuff that I wouldn't think she would at this age.

707
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: So I think she knows that it's like a holiday

708
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: because she keeps asking for a lot of candy. I

709
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 1: think she shot but I think she knows it's a

710
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,720
Speaker 1: holiday going on. But you know, well, we'll start putting

711
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,240
Speaker 1: up the Christmas decorations and you know, the Christmas movies

712
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: and everything, and starts showing her that you know that

713
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: Christmas spirit. What's been your favorite moment of fatherhood so far?

714
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: I don't honestly say when I had her. When I

715
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: first had her, they letting me know, go through the

716
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 1: whole process. I don't even think needed the doctor. They

717
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: let me put Yeah, let me point out, you didn't

718
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: do any of the work. I did everything this time, honestly,

719
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: Like they let me. I literally hand delivered my daughter

720
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,879
Speaker 1: and everything from I was the first one to touch

721
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,839
Speaker 1: and everything. So I mean you were the second one

722
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: to touch her, well other than her mother. Yeah yeah, yeah,

723
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 1: but yeah, yes, So for me, that was the main

724
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: thing for me. I mean I knew that was gonna

725
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: be the most special thing for me because you know,

726
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: I said, I, uh, as far as fatherhood, I knew

727
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 1: that this was like planned out from eight as as

728
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,439
Speaker 1: far as for me and my lady. So it made

729
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,280
Speaker 1: it that much more special and I wanted that special

730
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 1: moment to be the best one. Sam, when I asked

731
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 1: him that same question, he said something along the same lines,

732
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 1: but he goes, yeah, when he came out, it was weird.

733
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 1: For see, Now I was cool. I was cool because

734
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 1: I man, I already prepped myself forward. You know, I

735
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: had seen a little a couple of videos stuff like that.

736
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: So when the time came, I was pretty you know,

737
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,439
Speaker 1: pretty calm when time came. And it wasn't that bad.

738
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: It wasn't that bad, all right. Um, Before we have

739
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:01,240
Speaker 1: to share our next break, Hailey was asking about bowling

740
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: before we were on the air. Talked to him about that. Yeah,

741
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: it just seems it's so interesting the things that you

742
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: guys are interested in outside of the field. Bowling has

743
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: been the reoccurring theme. Jay Ron Curse told us he

744
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: has five custom bowling balls. You mentioned Micah has custom

745
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 1: bowling ball. So what is it with bowling in the Cowboys.

746
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like no one of hits

747
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: a certain point that well, in the off season when

748
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: we're not playing football, we all think we're professionals in

749
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: every other sport. So you know, this had the past

750
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: offseason we had professional corn hole players professional bowling, So

751
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 1: right now, I feel like bowling's the sport where we

752
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 1: know that we can kind of be good obviously because

753
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 1: we have strength and we can kind of you know,

754
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 1: throw the ball accurately. So this off season we went

755
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: bowling and Mica he brought his own ball. JK brought

756
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: his own ball and everything. So we definitely had to

757
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,919
Speaker 1: get another session because I feel like without my own ball,

758
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: I'm better than those guys. So we're definitely got to

759
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 1: get our own sessions. So now you have to get

760
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 1: your own bowling ball, and then all of y'all are

761
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 1: going to have to do if it gets to that

762
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: point where I feel like they're looking too good for

763
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 1: me as far are throwing the ball and everything, I'm

764
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna definitely had to get my own ball

765
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 1: because I don't like losing and I know they ain't

766
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: going to losing that either. Because you're losing something like that.

767
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,439
Speaker 1: They talk about that for the rest of the years.

768
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: You don't here to end up until you so I

769
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: can't let that happen. But Lake Hooker's our guests this

770
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: evening on the Cowboys Hour. We are at Conne Rosso

771
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: in Frisco, the Star District. Your questions for the Lake

772
00:42:21,200 --> 00:45:25,479
Speaker 1: when we come back to the Miller Like Cowboys Hour

773
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: supported by Albertsons, we are back here at Kane Rosso

774
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: for Cowboys Hour, presented by Papa John's, Better Ingredients, Better Pizza.

775
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:38,720
Speaker 1: Papa John's, the official pizza of the Dallas Cowboys. I'm sorry,

776
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: can I interrupt you? From one? Isn't it great? This

777
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: is you? You? You I'm stylish. If you are not

778
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: following I'm Stylish Hayley on Twitter and Instagram, yeah then

779
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 1: you should because you are style. This is nice. This

780
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: is actually shout out to you because you told me

781
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:01,240
Speaker 1: I never wear any cowboys so this is my jacket

782
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: this is a very slick jacket. It's a it's got

783
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: this cool doomsday patch on the inside too. So shout

784
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: out to my boyfriend marself for buying this for me. Okay,

785
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's it's good. It's warm. I was told

786
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: I don't wear enough cowboys gear. So, um, are you

787
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: a Are you a what ones was known as a

788
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:22,879
Speaker 1: clothes horse? Are you big into clothing? No? No, if

789
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 1: I could, I'll wear sweat sweats every day, my man.

790
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:29,280
Speaker 1: If I could, because j Ron Jay Ron I found

791
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: out last year. Oh man, he he thinks he is GQ.

792
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: Oh man, Ron does dress nice though. I ain't gonna

793
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: lie here. Oh I ain't gonna lie. He definitely he

794
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: can definitely dress. I mean some of the stuff that

795
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: he wears, I wouldn't be able to pull pull it

796
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 1: off myself personally, But I feel like, no, JK. He

797
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 1: definitely has his own style. What's What's something you've seen

798
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: him wear that you would not even try to wear?

799
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: Oh man, I don't know. I can't. I can't even

800
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 1: say go to think of something that maybe maybe when

801
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: he wore the last home game, I was gonna say sweater,

802
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: the sweater I could do the sweater, but the rest

803
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: of the fit, like I just ain't that stylish for

804
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 1: me to pull that off. Like that's him Jak, he

805
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: can pull that off like that. Jay Ron is much

806
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 1: more like his fashion is not like trendy fashion. It's

807
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: very much like what you would see. I'm like New

808
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: York fashion. Yeah, like it's very that niche of like

809
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: designer fashion versus like I think Dak has good fashion,

810
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 1: but he's very much more like buttoned up fashion. Zeke

811
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: I think is a little trendy. Yeah, I'm more just

812
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: a lot needed some sweatpants and a sweater. PD is

813
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: very trendy. He CD. I think it's like a blend

814
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: of trend and designer. I am a total Malik hooker.

815
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 1: I'm more so like I like sneakers more so like

816
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: I'm more in the sue how many pairs I used

817
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,280
Speaker 1: to have, man, I used to have a bunch. I'm

818
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: actually not that bad now. I'm probably I probably gotta

819
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 1: like forty pair right now. But before I probably I

820
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 1: gave a lot of way because I had so many

821
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,720
Speaker 1: of them starting to overfill my clothes out. It's probably

822
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: at like seventy pier and I was still in coming

823
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 1: like I'll have boxes of shoes and stuff. But I

824
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: mean I'm more so now, like I'm just more so.

825
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: I don't even want to say sneakers. It's more so

826
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: the color frame of the sneakers, like the color frame.

827
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 1: How many of them are still in boxes that have

828
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:24,359
Speaker 1: never met your feet? Oh, I don't like them. Don't

829
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: like that out of forty, I'm not even gonn lied

830
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: about thirty out of forty like I'm because because you

831
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: figure my routine, I don't really do nothing outside of

832
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: my routine. Like I got the same routine even in

833
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: the offseason, Like I'll go work out after my workout,

834
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 1: I do family time, and I like to just be

835
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: around the house like I'm real laid back and like

836
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: being in my own space, you know, stuff like that.

837
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: I would have more questions along this line for you,

838
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: except that I know my own habits and I have

839
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: no room to ask you. No, no, no no. I

840
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: collect other things. It's yeah, how many pens do you

841
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: think human being can use at one time? I use

842
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: a lot of pens. Yeah, so probably as I like you,

843
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: I like fine writing instruments. I am way too many.

844
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: That's fair. You want to know this one that's not

845
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: That's not a strange thing though, because I catch myself

846
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: like that too, Like I like, I like utensils that

847
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: kind of have like a real neat right into it too,

848
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: like pain. Yeah. Yeah. And then if it's really if

849
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: it's something in the craftsmanship and what it's made of

850
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: and all of that, it almost becomes an accessory. Yeah,

851
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: talking about pens. Hey hey, hey, hey, hey, all right,

852
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 1: we've got Cowboy answered with questions for Malie Hooker. Good

853
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 1: evening with Lea. My name is Rambo. Great, thank you.

854
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: So the NFC East race is very very tight right now,

855
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: and I think I could speak for a lot of

856
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: the Cowboy Nation fan base, but we're all holding our

857
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: breath waiting for Philly to hit a slump. I know,

858
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: we were cheer running out of calendar, Rambo, We're a

859
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: cheer for Aaron Rodgers last night. So last night were

860
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: you and Aaron Rodgers or Jalen Hurts fan? Man? I

861
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: honestly didn't even watch it, Honestly, I uh man. At

862
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,280
Speaker 1: the time of the game was going on. I think

863
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 1: I was putting baby girl to bed. But I mean,

864
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 1: if I had to pick, I would have been Aaron

865
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: Rodgers fan for sure. I would have been Aaron Rodgers

866
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: fan for sure because we need that. And then they

867
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,720
Speaker 1: got to see us again the second half of the season.

868
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: What's up, lad, My name is Cory Um. My question

869
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: is what's the difference between year one, Um and year two?

870
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: Just being on the dan Quinn system, not only for

871
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: you as as well as a team. And do you

872
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: think you got a little a little motivation on the

873
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,879
Speaker 1: Sunday placing your whole team Sunday night. Yeah, I'll say

874
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 1: the comfortability, Like like I told them earlier, once you

875
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 1: get to being in the building and you know, knowing

876
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:48,839
Speaker 1: the characteristics of a lot of the guys that you're

877
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: working with, and you know, building that karatie and that

878
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: comfortability with those guys, you start to be able to,

879
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,399
Speaker 1: you know, come out on the field and like I said,

880
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: do stuff that you normally a lot of guys wouldn't

881
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 1: be able to do, just for a simple fact that

882
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: we have a great defense here, we have a great

883
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 1: team here, and we got a lot of great athletes

884
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: here as far as that, so that that takes away

885
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that we well, other guys

886
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,439
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to do. So I feel like going

887
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: into Sunday though, Uh, you know, I'm just looking forward

888
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: to playing man, I'm not you know, looking forward as

889
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: no other team. It's it's just, you know, I want

890
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: to be wanting to know and just keep this thing going.

891
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 1: My name's Tanner, Go Cowboys. My question is, uh, the

892
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:33,760
Speaker 1: intensity playing in the NFL versus playing in a championship game?

893
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 1: Which one is more intense when you play? Say it again,

894
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: I didn't hear you say it again, when you play

895
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: in the regular NFL game? What was more intense than

896
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: playing in your championship game? My championship game in college

897
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: or yes, yes, in college, I'll probably say the NFL

898
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:54,359
Speaker 1: because I mean, obviously, you know, like fans know you're

899
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:56,760
Speaker 1: you're grown and you know you're an adult, so they

900
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: don't hold back from you in the NFL. But in college,

901
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 1: you know, you don't get as bad. You might get

902
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 1: a couple of fans that you know, have a little

903
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: bad mouth here and there, but it's not as bad

904
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,240
Speaker 1: as that. So I'll say more so that So even

905
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:13,320
Speaker 1: in Columbush Yeah, yeah, I mean I luckily I started

906
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 1: off on the right foot, so they loved me and

907
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: I didn't have to deal with that. But I mean

908
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:18,760
Speaker 1: they can get pretty ugly in Columbus too. Man. If

909
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,319
Speaker 1: you're not winning that championship game, correct me if I'm wrong.

910
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:25,839
Speaker 1: Was it at and T Stadium Stadium? What did you

911
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: think of it then when you went in there with

912
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: Ohio State for that championship game? When I went there, man,

913
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 1: I was so shocked then because it's like when you

914
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 1: walk into there, it's so bright, and you know, you

915
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 1: hear about you know, America's team, and you get in

916
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: there and you see it and it's like, man, this

917
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:41,359
Speaker 1: is what I see on TV all the time, and

918
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:44,439
Speaker 1: you know, we start thinking about the people that played

919
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 1: on that stadium and then you finally go there. Man,

920
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,399
Speaker 1: it's just like a life a dream come true. Man.

921
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: It's it's something that's unexplainable. And I mean at the

922
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,280
Speaker 1: time I wasn't playing, so I got the fully cherished

923
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 1: and you know, and take that whole moment and you know,

924
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 1: so it was just as beautiful as it was Dan,

925
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: it is now. And how do you feel about it

926
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:04,839
Speaker 1: now that you that's your office now? Man? Like I said, now,

927
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: like it's still smearre to me to be able to,

928
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 1: like I said, call myself a Dallas Cowboy because you know,

929
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:13,879
Speaker 1: I'm coming from another team. It's not like it's too

930
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: much different as far as how things are ran, but

931
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: just the buildings, it's not all the same. So you know,

932
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: we're very we're very you know, thankful here and very

933
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: blessed to be able to walk in this bill here

934
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: because it's beautiful and like I said, even just this

935
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: outside of here is very nice. So yeah, by which,

936
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 1: by the way, an excellent point any of you listening

937
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 1: who have an opportunity to during the Christmas season what

938
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:40,439
Speaker 1: they do here at the Star is in the whole

939
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 1: Star District. It's just magnificent. I mean, it's just gorgeous.

940
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: In fact, I just turned around and looked and realized

941
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:48,399
Speaker 1: that on the big screen on the Ford Center we're

942
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: on there, and I, oh, we are. Yes, I almost

943
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 1: fainted when I saw myself that I'm big, but that's

944
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,319
Speaker 1: that's too big. Yeah, it's beautiful. You really need you

945
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 1: need to come out, bring the kids, bring the family.

946
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 1: It's just beautiful here. Hi, guys, I'm super honored to

947
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: be here. I'm actually visiting you guys from Oxnard, California.

948
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 1: Oh man, we love oar appreciate. I do too. That's

949
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: why I live there, and I'm super stoked when you

950
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: guys come and visit us over there. Have great practices

951
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: and the fan interaction is always amazing. It's how I

952
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: became a Cowboy fan in nineteen to eighty actually was

953
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: through practice my cap. My dad's a Raiders fan. It's right,

954
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:35,359
Speaker 1: it is hey, okay, okay, so excited to be here.

955
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: How does it feel to wear number twenty eight for

956
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. It's funny because when I first when

957
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: I first knew that I was coming here and I

958
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:45,399
Speaker 1: was told that I was getting the number, I'm like, man,

959
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want all the backlash from

960
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 1: this number, because you know, everybody in Dallas Cowboys Nation. No,

961
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: this is a special numbers, a unique number, and it's

962
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: a number that I feel like, you know, should be retired.

963
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: So when I first came here, I honestly didn't want

964
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:58,839
Speaker 1: the number, and you know, but at the same time,

965
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: when I was putting it, it was like, Man, the

966
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 1: standards high, and it's like I want to uphold the

967
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 1: standard as much as I can. Hopefully he means proud

968
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 1: of how much how good I play for him so far?

969
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 1: Do you know, Darren, I don't know him. I mean

970
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 1: I don't know him personally, but yeah, you met him. No,

971
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 1: not yet, not yet? What he I'm fixing to text

972
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: him right now. That's that's just wrong because he was

973
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,359
Speaker 1: a second round pick A. He'd done a lot better

974
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: than me. Man, that's hoping. I'm up holding the jersey. Okay,

975
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 1: that's a photo off waiting to happen. Darren Wochond and

976
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:33,800
Speaker 1: Malay Hooker right now. Um, okay, so we've got about

977
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: we got about a minute left. Um. Beginning of the year,

978
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: Dak gets hurt. You guys are phenomenal, and I think

979
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 1: it allowed Cooper Rushed to have the success that he

980
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 1: had and he was great. He didn't and we've had

981
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 1: Cooper here. Um, how is it different for you guys

982
00:55:55,320 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 1: in the month since Dak's been back. Honestly, it hain't

983
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,399
Speaker 1: been there. Were still prepared the same way as if

984
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:04,239
Speaker 1: you know, Dak wouldn't be out there, because at the

985
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, we feel like if

986
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: we uphold our end of the game, I mean on

987
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:08,959
Speaker 1: our side of the ball as far as not letting

988
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 1: team scored, and you know, it's easy for the offense

989
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: because all they gotta do is, you know, score, So

990
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: whether Dak's out there or not, we just always had

991
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 1: the same mentality that we wanted to be the most

992
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: dominant team in the NFL. And you know, we're still

993
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 1: working towards that and right now I feel like, you know,

994
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 1: we're pretty on pace for it. You know, based off

995
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 1: of the steps we've been taking these last couple of weeks.

996
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 1: What's the biggest lesson that you've learned about yourself throughout

997
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 1: this five six year process? H adversity, Man, you gotta

998
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 1: be able to handle it. You gotta take your wins

999
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 1: with your losses, because they're definitely gonna happen, you know,

1000
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 1: whether it's on the field or off the field. You know,

1001
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: plays are gonna happen. Guys get paid just like I do,

1002
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: so I know players are gonna be made on me.

1003
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,840
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna make plays, so I gotta be

1004
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,880
Speaker 1: able to stay pretty much complacent when I make the plays.

1005
00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: There if I don't make the plays, I'm getting you

1006
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: together with Darren what that's my mission now, I'm gonna

1007
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: try to make it happen this week. Thank Malay Cooker

1008
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:03,439
Speaker 1: for being with us. Really appreciate you. Thanks for being

1009
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 1: here on Victory Monday, and we'll see you next week

1010
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 1: right here at the same time, on the Cowboys Hour.

1011
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

1012
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,240
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