WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: How Do You Feel Now? 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:16.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's Loungel, 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:21.360 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:27.040 Now your hosts, Married Church, Danny McCray, and NEWI scrugs. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.080 Is that time we thank you all for tuning in 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:39.640 to this championship edition of the Players Lounge. Bared Church 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:45.080 is author So Cowboys stafford Ben Bullock is in Maga 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:49.599 Sci five Dog Team. He's in the house. LSU national 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:54.600 champion Danny McCray is in the house, a former championship 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:58.440 player for the Tigers himself. He's here. I am NEWI 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.480 scrugs like Ben. Dog team makes hip Hi Purpell and 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.280 Gold All. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do like Boots. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:12.880 I'm not I'm not gonna go buy you know what 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.560 I'm saying. I was looking. I'm not looking like. I 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.440 love Boost though. Yeah, but he knows he knows where 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.520 to stop. He know where to stopped. Said he gonna 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.560 start his own step team. Yeah, the Boost and Step 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:32.240 getting paid for the news can go all right, So 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.440 we've got a lot of cowboy your shoes to get 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:36.560 to the coaching staff. So there's lots of things. They're 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.200 Kellen Moore, it's going to be the play caller. But 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.679 before I do that, I will allow Danny to have 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.039 his triumphant room. First thing, I want to are you, Brooke, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.800 because I saw the itinerary that you were posting on 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.160 social media about all the spots hitting. I saw you 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.240 aided dragging you. They should know you by naming drag goes, 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:55.760 you might be able to go back and cook the meal. 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:57.760 You were there so much so, so go ahead. Tell 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.720 me the whole experience of being in New Orleans where 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.960 LSU has won another national championship. Correct me if I'm wrong. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.800 Haven't they won all four in New Orleans? I know 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:11.679 three for sure, Yes, all four? Yeah, I know. I've 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:16.160 been there for two now, and the atmosphere this time 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.880 was much more intense and amazing than the first time 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.880 I won. I think the the excitement around the team 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.080 and Joe Burrow and all our number one receivers and 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:29.680 running back that was all that I think it was. 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.280 It was it showed up and in respect to Clemson, 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.560 they had a lot of fans out there. I mean 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.120 in New Orleans, it was a lot of large out there. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:39.880 There was a lot a lot of orange out there, 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.680 and they tried their best to hang with the with 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.160 the bat Rouge and Lsu folks. They didn't know how 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.320 to handle New Orleans. I saw a lot of orange 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.760 sleep out there on Bourbon Street throughout the weekend, and 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.280 we saw it at the end of the day. They 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.919 weren't about that, like, they weren't about that like they tried. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.320 They tried. They had their own little bout for me 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.360 on one hand, on one half of Bourbon Street, and 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.000 I saw him and it just didn't look the same. 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.440 It didn't look the same. Well. It is definitely one 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.120 of those situations where when you go to New Orleans 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.079 there is a difference between the natives and the visitors. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.400 I know, I know, I've been there myself. You know, 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:15.840 when you're trying to get the land of land and 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.200 understand everything. But there's a difference between those those who know, 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.600 they know definitely definite. They know. They know when the 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.119 horse is getting run down Bourbon Street, they know when 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.880 they get out the way, they know where to go eat. 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.280 They know how many hand garnads they can have and 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.120 how many is too much. They know all that and 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.920 Clemson didn't, and that's why we came back and beat them. Man, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:38.240 I think I think the fans might have got a 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.000 little sleep, but they have been in New Orleans too long, 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:42.920 too long, and they died out a little bit and 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:46.200 the LSU woke up, and then those fans took over 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.760 seventeen seven and then we score how many un answered? 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.960 Too many? Essentially it's a blowout. They almost got to 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.520 put off the sticks twenty one. Well, you could definitely 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.720 tell the first two or three drives that they were 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:00.880 just off. And that's that lay the layoff to meet. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.720 It's too long between the semi final championship game because 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.040 to me, that the whole first quarter we didn't see. 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.640 We didn't see both teams doing what they've done all 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.360 year long, especially with Joe Burrow. They they were just 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:14.680 off and then they got towards the end. But that's 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.640 just my funing. So so I give you this for them. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.520 I think the defensive game plan for Clemson, the way 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:23.000 they came out, so this is scripted. The first fifteen plays, 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.680 I think that defensive plan was amazing. They only had 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:29.960 one linebacker playing. They ran three one seven and then 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.000 so for LSU, I think what happened was if you 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.760 go back, If you go back to Georgia, a lot 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.080 of those players were out after halftime. If you go 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.520 to Oklahoma, a lot of those players were out after halftime, 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.760 and then you got two weeks off, and then you 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.760 come out and you start the game off on your 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.720 own goal line with these first fifteen scripted players that 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.960 looked crazy that they've never seen before, so they were off. 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:55.960 Then they see some stuff that they really have never 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.560 seen before. Then Joe Brady figures it out, Joe Burrow 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.000 is on with them, and we just take off. I 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.960 look back. Honestly, the bigger part of the most important 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:05.320 part of the game was at the end of the 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.799 first half, that last drive, so it was third and nineteen. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.320 It was an incomplete pass, but it was a PI 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.000 on Clemson, okay, so it was like maybe like thirty 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.040 second stuff. And then later on in the drive it 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:16.960 was another third and ten. That's when they called that 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:18.840 draw play to Joe Brow and then he get out 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.120 of bounce and then the next play they hit Thaddist 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.039 Moss for a touchdown. That completely changed the entire momentum 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.359 one of the game because it went from Clemson getting 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:27.919 the ball back and maybe scoring at the end of 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:29.440 the first half, and then getting the ball back in 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.160 the second half to being down even more and then 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.039 you saw what happened. They were unfortunate unable to recover. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.000 And even Davo said a halftime he was like, look, 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.240 it was just a very sloppy into the first half 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.200 and it pretty much cost him. Listen, they almost came 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.920 out the gates getting blew out. We don't have a 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.360 legal linement downfield. Yeah, I forgot about that. We got 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.320 a forty yard bomb going on. We got two drop passes, 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:55.240 one from my best receiver, one from Justin like we 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.400 like he said, we came out slow, but we still 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.120 come up with a forty yard pass and the office 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:00.400 a linement is a couple of year was down the 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:05.040 field that yeah, yeah, that changed it for us. Well, 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:11.000 this is a historic football team, LSU defeating seven teams 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:12.960 ranked in the top ten. That's never been done for 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.640 a national champion. And looking at the game and now 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.000 that it's over, we go back. I just think about 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.960 this team had issues in the first quarter and they 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.479 still came out and just blew the doors off Clemson 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.240 in the second half. We're talking about a team that 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.520 had at twenty nine game winning trick, a team that 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.040 had a national championship, that had beat in Alabama. I mean, 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.760 this was as good an opponent as you were going 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.719 to face, and they took them apart. That to me 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.840 was very, very impressive about what they did. So congratulations 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:44.960 to you guys as LSU alums. And well, hold on, 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:46.960 let me let me clarify something real quick. I'm not 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.800 an alum. Just for Danny, Okay, this is for you 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.440 both of y'all. I'm not an alum. I worked there 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:54.800 for a year and a half. So I'm gonna adopt 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.440 a son. If we have any LSU fans listener to this, 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.040 I listen. I just quick story new my man being. 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.520 I saw him on the show. I was like three 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.960 episodes ago, and I wanted to call in because I 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:11.000 wanted him to tell y'all his story. He says that LSU, 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:15.200 I mean Florida is his one A school and LSU 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.880 is his one B team. Yeah, that is not legal 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.680 in the Yes, can I explain each West team? Yes? 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.960 Pretty much? A Rod we played him every year, Please, 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.720 I have to he all right? So growing up, what 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.600 I'm thirty about to be thirty two. So mid nineties 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.840 is where I really started watching football, like Steve Spurrier, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.160 like all the guns slang that I used to do. Okay, 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:43.960 So but at the same time, I never had a 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.520 problem with LSU. Never. I always followed that's obviously one. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.120 Let me finished Broka, all right. So so then twenty 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.000 sixteen I had the opportunity to work for LSU. Okay, 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.360 So once I got the opportunity and crazy things coming 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.680 into it. So when the floods in twenty sixteen, my 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.440 current my boss at the time, actually let me get 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.720 a house but it got flooded out. So because they 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:07.480 were able to do a lot of different things for me, 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.880 including coach, the head coach for the baseball team, um, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.920 he was able to give me a discounted apartment. So 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.560 LSU means a lot to me. So that's why they 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:24.600 beat all right one watch Florida one because I'm loyal. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:30.000 That's my team. I'm not gonna just because tomorrow watching them. Absolutely, Okay, absolutely, listen. 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.080 Let me tell you something. You out of your one 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.839 B slot, that's nobody's one bat. NEWI tell them that 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:41.319 nobody's one bat will never I'm a grown a man. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.720 So they're gonna be my one B team. That's there's 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.080 only one. I got an old seven Polos, only one. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.560 Who's your who's your sec edition team? Is it? Texas? 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.679 Ain't even resoo? I mean, who's your man? They don't 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:57.439 even count three East Team West Team as well. I 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:01.960 don't count them man. Okay, Okay, So so it's now 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.320 ten minutes into the show. We're done. We're not because 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.400 we're gonna go right back to it because somehow you 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.720 think we'll get to the let us dive into the 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.840 convoys here on the players last, because we have coaching news. Okay, 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.040 this is something that we wanted if the initial press 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.440 conference that coach Mike McCarthy was not ready to tell 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.679 us exactly everything he had going on, the staff is 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.320 pretty much rounded in the shape. Let's start with Kellen Moore, 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.360 who remains on the team, and Mike McCarthy in a 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.920 one on interviews one on one with the Beat writers, 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.120 let everyone know something he canna do with the TV 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.960 guys last week when I was there. Um, Kellen's gonna 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:43.040 call plays, thoughts I like it. Um, I'm sure he's 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.199 going to call the plays. But I'm sure Mike is 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.720 going to have a big say in the plays that 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.480 are on the sheet, but I think that I don't 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.480 think Kellen did a bad job last year. Minus his 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.320 fourth down flour down like gotta having plays, I thought 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.680 they were very questionable. But other than that, he got 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.760 he got guys open, he got guys in uh in positions, 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.200 in positions to make plays, and for the most part 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:08.840 when it when it was on the line, we just 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.199 didn't make those plays. There were throws that could have 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.760 been made to guys that were open and in coverages 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.240 and the seams, and we just didn't make those. So 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.679 I think he called good games. His fourth down got 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.240 to have it plays to me, where where the weak 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.440 point where you know, we saw the out route that 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.480 we talked about this whole time, with Zeke running five 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:28.520 yards five yards, fire yard outs, quarterback keepers by dak 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.280 Uh Coope not being on the field on fourth down. 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.720 It just it was consistent all year for that for 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:35.480 that down. But other than that, I think he did 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.839 he did well, especially for his first year calling plays. 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.599 I think um with Kellen, I thought he did a 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.440 solid jobs, especially for his first time calling plays on 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.199 this particular level. Um, I really like the fact that 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.880 McCarthy is adjusting to him because they're going to keep 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.320 the same terminology even though they're going to move to 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.600 a West Coast style of offense. So that's the most 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.520 interesting part to me because I want to see how 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.520 all that message together while McCarthy's trying to blend in 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.679 while Kelling and Dak and us those guys try to 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.040 kind of fit and for him together. So I don't 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:05.600 mind it, and I think Kelly Moore will do a 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.840 really solid job. I hope he just builds on and 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.560 can stays consistent with the run going forward minus the 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.160 fourth downs. So one of the things I explained to 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.000 people is a guy like Mike McCarthy is going to 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:20.120 be there basically walking and talking with Kellen throughout the 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.760 game as a head coach. There they'll come up point 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.439 in time. Let's say it's third and two. He may 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.520 tell Kellen, all right, have two plays ready to go, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.880 meaning he's gonna want to go for it on fourth Doweman. 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.240 These are things that coaches say. Let's say, for instance, 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.960 the defense has been on the field a lot, there's 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.440 gonna be a point in time where the head coach 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.680 will tell the play caller, look, we need to we 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.760 need choose some clock here, Let's get some run. So 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:42.600 these are the things that a head coach will do. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.440 All headach, any head coach worth the salt, is gonna 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.760 make sure he's telling his guys what to do. Parcels 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.959 would do me. Every good head coach, it's gonna say 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.640 to their offensive and defensive coordinators some things that they 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.280 want to see in the football game, because the end 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.440 of the day is your football team. Yeah, and he should. 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.280 We talked about the pressure. The pressure will be on 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.200 him because the assumption is we have everything in line 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.839 to make a real run at a Super Bowl, right, 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.240 So him coming in here and losing would be a 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:16.280 real knock on the hire. So he has the responsibility 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.760 to come in here and win. So for him to 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.920 put that all in Kellen's hands, I don't think that happened. 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.560 I think, like you said, he'll be in his ear. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.480 But I think it would be a little bit more 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.559 than you know, third and two. You know, we might 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.080 go for it on fourth. I think that that scheme 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.320 is going to be a mix of McCarthy and what 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.280 he figured out in the offseason and the year that 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.720 he was off and Kellen and what he did last season. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.560 All right, Danny McCrae helped me and our Cowboy fans 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:47.400 out there listening understand why Doug nuss Meyer becomes quarterback 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:51.560 coach and John Kittner's let go. You know, you know what, 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.240 I honestly, I couldn't tell you. I really would say 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.320 that I love Kitten. I thought he was a good coach. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.839 What's he a Jason Garrett guy? Is this like a 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.840 cleansing of most of the people that were here they 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.760 were under Jason Garrett. Because I thought that John Kinnatt 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.480 did a great job with that, uh minus some of 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.000 the throws and being behind late and early in games 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.640 and him having to throw fifty and sixty times. I 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.679 think his progression under John Kintner was there. I think 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:20.199 he was getting better. Um. But John Kittner did play 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.960 for Jason Garrett and then he coached for Jason Garrett. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:25.840 And we're seeing a lot of guys that coach for 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:32.480 Jason Garrett office rop. But stay here with that, John 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:38.400 Kittner played for Mike Holgren. Yeah, and and you know, 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.800 so understanding a West Coast offense and what they do, 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.840 kid hasn't understand. So anyway that this is it's the 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:50.120 connection mention. This is interay, So Duck, that's myer goals 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.680 from coaching tight ends to coaching quarterbacks. Tight end coach 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.000 is a guy Lunda Wells. I'm not familiar with. Lunda 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.720 was an LSU when I was at LSU, uh and 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.440 then and my rookie year. I believe he went to 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.560 the Giants and he was like the quality control guy 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.240 and he's just been kind of moving up in the ranking. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.760 So when he was when I knew him, he was, 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:13.400 you know, he was he was lounded, right, he was, 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.280 you know, kind of a ga and all that stuff. 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.560 So just to see that he's gone from that to 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.480 now being the tight ends coach and he had been 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.800 coaching in New York for a while, so apparently he's 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.160 doing something right. So I know him personally, as far 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.720 as what he's done in the coaching in the coaching room, 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.400 I'm not entirely sure, but somebody likes him. All right. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.960 Let's speak of a guy you also know who's now 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.600 on going to be on the staff. Skip Pete. Skip 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:42.680 Pete was Skipp was here earlier in his tenure and Uh, 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.720 he worked with Jason Garrett, but he was here beforehand. 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.800 I'd go back to Skip back to his UCLA days 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.240 when I worked out in Los Angeles and knowing Skippy 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.520 and his brother Rodney Pete, who used to be a 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.480 Dallas Cowboys quarterback. So the pet family, the Pete family 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.520 has a connection with the Cowboys. I think this is 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.120 a good heart now. Stan Drayton was a name that 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.720 was connected with this job running backs coach run game 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.880 coordinator Texas. He was making five hundred and forty thousand dollars, 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.640 a lot more than what they paid Gary Brand two 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.640 hundred grand more. Basically for what I was told two 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:21.680 hundred grand more. I'm sorry, you're not taking a two 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.840 hundred thousan dollar pay cut. Nah, like the Cowboys all 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.680 day long. But you know you don't, you don't look that. Yeah. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:32.160 I like, like I were talking about this before we 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.680 got on air, about Skip Pete and he was here 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.920 in my rookie year and he would really because I'm 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.120 on defense. So he really took it upon himself to 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.280 reach out to me in church and sell us down 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.480 and talk to us as men before each game, probably 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.360 like an hour and a half two hour conversations which 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.000 is wild because y'all on the other side of the ball, 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.240 outside the ball. But he saw us as young guys 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.760 undraft the free agent, so he told us what we 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.280 need to do to continue to stay on the team, 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.160 what we need to do to have careers, what we 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.160 need to do to be good man. He could see 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.200 you to do that his whole entire time here. I 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.080 love Skip Pete, so I think it's a great higher. 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.680 I love GB. If I had to choose between the 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.680 two would be super difficult. But I don't think we 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.440 lose anything here. As a matter of fact, I think 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.200 we probably gain game a little bit, especially with history 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.880 and experience. And I think, if I'm not mistake, McCarthy 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.720 and Skip actually were worked together at pitt so that's 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.040 where that connection kind of comes together. And I think 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.000 with Skip coming here, him working with Gurley before and 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.640 kind of have a familiarity of what the Dallas Cowboys 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.280 organizations and what, you know, the expectations. So I think 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:31.720 it's a really good fit. And like you said, we 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.480 both wished nothing but the best for Gbing. He's a 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.360 great dude. I got to work with a couple of 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.080 times on a couple of things, but I think the 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:39.760 addition of Skip Pete is gonna be really good to 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.320 this team. One of the things that really modes well 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.360 for Skippy that I go back to. Skipp was in 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.840 Oakland and they had Garner and I forget that I 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.360 think Wheatley might have been the big back, but then yeah, 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.760 they had that. One of the things that had was 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.840 that ability a big back and a shifty back, so 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.400 they had kind of a two and Enrich Gannon was 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.920 very well in terms of mixing that run pass play. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:01.960 So when they got here, they had Marian Barber and 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:03.240 the when they had number one pick, they ended up 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.040 drafting Felix Jones and they were trying to get that 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:09.320 kind of balance back and that yeah, the three running backs. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.440 But to me, it just kind of I think of 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:13.840 what they did in Oakland and had a lot of success. 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:15.879 So you got Zeke, you know, the bigger back, and 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.800 then you got Tony Potter coming in here. So Skippy 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:19.520 is going to be able to really, you know, work 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.879 with Kellen Moore and Mike McCarthy a vision of how 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.480 to really get those guys going. So I think they 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.760 made a good call there. Linebacker coach is going to 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:32.639 be Scott McCurley. He knows Mike McCarthy. They worked together. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.960 Jeff Blasco is going to be the assistant offensive line 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:41.560 coach to Joe Philburn, So Philbin and Blasco are people 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.199 that also have worked with Mike McCarthy. Mike Woisick no 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.080 longer the strength coach. He is going to retire there, 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.919 so this is kind of and Mike Nolan is going 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:52.760 to keep the four three defense. I don't know if 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.480 they'll eventually switch it, because we saw what Bill Parcels 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.440 came in here. They stayed with three four and eventually 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.960 went for three that eventually switched to a three four 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.639 because they're definitely different types of players and pieces you're 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.600 using that defense. So I'll be very interested to see 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.000 boy here two or three what they do defensively if 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.399 they try and change. If you've got Tom Seuelan too, yes, 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:16.280 Jim tom Seuelan defensive line coach, a very respective defensive 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.440 line coach. So we're still kind of waiting on Leon 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.320 like to see Leon let me have some good cat 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.320 come back, man. Yeah, we love big Cat. Like you 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.159 were saying about the defense, I'm not even sure to 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:27.679 take two years to figure out if you want to 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:31.360 switch to the three four. I think we got some 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:36.720 some good outside linebacker type guys that yeah, that can rush. 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.879 It depends on what you do on the other side 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.920 with him, what you do with the with your three technique, 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:43.880 or you knows whoever gonna be that two gap guy. 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.800 But it could. It could change sooner than than we 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.159 possibly expect, depending on the draft and who we pick up. 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.120 Maurice Linguist, by the way, leaving Texas a and m 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.200 local guy to come coach. He's also our frat brother 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:04.120 to Knui. Really yes, yes, but congratulations. Well, you want 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.440 a champion in here. You want somebody to understand manhood, scholarship, 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:12.840 perseverance up and this is fantastic, he said, champion we 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.240 just talk about for the first two minutes of the show. Hey, 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.560 this is what I really liked though. But um, that 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.880 McCarthy has done. He's brought in like three or four 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.760 former head coaches, so he's going to have some leadership 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.240 across his entire coaching staff. I don't know if you 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:26.840 guys agree with that or not, but I really like 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.480 that aspect of it. Yeah, I'm not I'm not really 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:33.480 sure how that works like that. Yeah, no, I create conversation. 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:35.679 And yeah, I'm not saying I'm not saying it's a 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:41.280 bad thing. You know, how it, you know, pertains to 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.080 how the coaching styles and how they run it in 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.320 the hierarchy of of who gets to say what, and 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.359 you know how serious they take each conversation. I'm not 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.000 sure how that works. I think he's doing a good 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.720 job of rinking in guys with the experience guys guys 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.439