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Speaker 1: Kurt Daniels, and Shannon grossher Hello and goodbye. Last show
Speaker 1: from Oxnard, California. Man, can't wait? Who no more Rice
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Speaker 1: more Rice pel make sure Jared and put it on
Speaker 1: this on the pregame meal for you guys. Man, we
Speaker 1: are coming to your live from the tennis courts at
Speaker 1: the Residency in Marriott, Oxnard, California. Kurt Daniels, Nate Newton,
Speaker 1: Shannon Gross and we have a very big literally guests
Speaker 1: on the show today. Well built, Yes, yeah, because I
Speaker 1: was big. See well built big what I'm saying, Yeah,
Speaker 1: built like a four truck. Yeah one, Tyrant smith Man,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on the show. It's no problem gonna
Speaker 1: come on. I know you don't like to talk, especially
Speaker 1: the media people. We're not media people, your friends, we're
Speaker 1: real people. So anyway, we got you on the show.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little bit of football, but not much. Nate,
Speaker 1: We're gonn letting Nate talk about football, because you know,
Speaker 1: you guys have something in common. I had something in
Speaker 1: coming what you do now, So we'll talk a little
Speaker 1: bit of football and then we'll talk a whole lot
Speaker 1: about just life. Got hold on, who is that dude?
Speaker 1: Kurt already introduced, I'm not Smith intentionally, I'm waiting on
Speaker 1: my tweet to tweet. Come on, man, put me on now, man,
Speaker 1: I want to say tag. Yeah, I just retweeted the show.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Sorry, So what's up man? How you doing good? Uh?
Speaker 1: You guys just kind of woke me up from the naturals? Now,
Speaker 1: sorry about That's all good. I got get some treatment
Speaker 1: right now for first practice starts get going. Okay, you're
Speaker 1: practicing today. Today's a VET day for me? That day?
Speaker 1: What is a VET day? Nate said he didn't, he's
Speaker 1: never even heard of that before. I thought so. When
Speaker 1: they said vet day, I'm like, man, they got dogs.
Speaker 1: I thought it's like a vet there. They say, nah,
Speaker 1: the veterans. I'm like, then I saw a big dude
Speaker 1: walk out there. Dude, I saw some others. I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: it is really a veteran a couple of years ago ahead,
Speaker 1: you know, Wow, but hey, problem man, it puts time
Speaker 1: on your career when you if you can get those days,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna beating Nate to the punch.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask the first football question, do it? Do it?
Speaker 1: Who have you been the most impressed by defense training? Ki? No, overall? Overall? Yeah,
Speaker 1: defensive or defensively? Who Who's Who's who's showing up that
Speaker 1: that kind of you were like, okay, all right, I
Speaker 1: say right now, I say Loyle Collins um else. He's
Speaker 1: been doing the heco job. He's really picked up along
Speaker 1: the way for us offseason, coming into camp for his
Speaker 1: right tackle spot, and he's been working hard for it
Speaker 1: and he's been showing it off every day. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: showing his physical trade and showing that he's willing to
Speaker 1: learn and wouldn't pick up any kind of things he can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're helping him out as he asking you for tips
Speaker 1: and he asked me all the time now, trying to
Speaker 1: continue to remind him every day. Yeah, patience in that
Speaker 1: right hand yep. Hey, but hey, you know what, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to get his question. Tell us as
Speaker 1: far back as you want to go, if you want
Speaker 1: to go back to the elementary. How did you start
Speaker 1: and how did you start getting into football? When did
Speaker 1: you find out that you love this game? Was going
Speaker 1: to dedicate yourself to being who you are today forwards
Speaker 1: this game well, and you can add anything to tremens
Speaker 1: if you want. Well. For me, I started football until
Speaker 1: late and so I got to high school. I wasn't
Speaker 1: able to play when I was younger. I was too
Speaker 1: big for pop warn or anything like that. And then
Speaker 1: I was also so when I got to high school,
Speaker 1: started playing around, playing around a little bit. Then my
Speaker 1: sophomoreyere and my coach Pete Duffy, he kind of showed
Speaker 1: me along the way and kind of just show some
Speaker 1: different camps things like that and help me get to college.
Speaker 1: And once I got there, I kind of still trying
Speaker 1: to feel the way, so trying to get understanding the game.
Speaker 1: Then probably like my sophomore year until college. Is you
Speaker 1: talking about, man that sets right down straight? We want
Speaker 1: these people to know that they sucked a lot of state.
Speaker 1: That's your brother's southern calf. Yeah. Um yeah. Like my
Speaker 1: sophomore year in college and started feeling like I could
Speaker 1: really do something with this and I'll just happy to
Speaker 1: go to college for you know, full scholarship, but started
Speaker 1: seeing like, really do something with this and started to
Speaker 1: really love the game and started really love when I
Speaker 1: was doing it. So after that, just that sis her,
Speaker 1: you came here. What peak were you in the draft
Speaker 1: for the California It was nice? Yeah, and then you
Speaker 1: started out at right tackle. Now coming from right, I
Speaker 1: was mad when they moved to left. I'm like, he's
Speaker 1: dominant it right. I didn't know he was gonna be
Speaker 1: that dominant left. How when did you start feeling comfortable
Speaker 1: over that left? Um, let's see my second year when
Speaker 1: I moved over to the left. Um, you know, he
Speaker 1: tried me a little bit of left my first year
Speaker 1: when I was here and um, you know, Doug came
Speaker 1: back in and um he took over the left. I
Speaker 1: was at right, still learning, and then they switched me
Speaker 1: over my second year and then Callahan, he helped me
Speaker 1: along the way. He took me after practice in between periods.
Speaker 1: He you know, he beat me down tide and you
Speaker 1: know I had left tackle enemy right and and then
Speaker 1: you know, still take you know what he taught me
Speaker 1: and still you know, trying to use it, you know,
Speaker 1: to this day. And then you know our coach now
Speaker 1: he still uses it the same way too. So can
Speaker 1: I ask a dumb football question, ain't um other than
Speaker 1: I mean left and right, other than the footwork and
Speaker 1: having to go officsite directions? Is there much difference between
Speaker 1: the two positions and what you're responsible for. Uh, it's,
Speaker 1: you know, it feels different. It's you know, they're both
Speaker 1: had their different traits of them both sides. But you
Speaker 1: have this it's really hard to kind of switch from
Speaker 1: what you do from one side the other. You have
Speaker 1: to twitch everything in your brain around and that's including
Speaker 1: plays and so. And you know nowadays you get both
Speaker 1: you know, the best pass records on both sides, and
Speaker 1: so it's kind of like this being on the same side.
Speaker 1: So if they ever some crazy notion Jason Garrett lost
Speaker 1: his head, Kellen Moore's in there and they wanted you
Speaker 1: to protect his blind side, they told you to go
Speaker 1: the right side, would be crazy. I'm sure else can
Speaker 1: still take care of that job. But you know, anyway,
Speaker 1: we listened to our coaches whatever he want us to do.
Speaker 1: Back in my day, when you played right tacker, you
Speaker 1: played the Bears Christmas over. When you played on the
Speaker 1: left side, you get Prima Donna battle, really better athlete
Speaker 1: to be on that left side. But I still think
Speaker 1: to some cases you still have to be a better
Speaker 1: athlete to play that left tackle. Somebody's okay, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of the game's changing changed. Yes, I agree, I agree,
Speaker 1: because you can get on the right side just just
Speaker 1: good athlete now. But boy, I'm talking about it in
Speaker 1: Dinodstaur days. That's how I went for us. Is Malik
Speaker 1: mad at you from the other day because you set
Speaker 1: him down a couple of times in practice that you
Speaker 1: know what, man? You know what I want? It was
Speaker 1: so funny to cause, you know, league trying to get
Speaker 1: better every day. You can see it in his attitude
Speaker 1: and when you kind of wow, that wasn't right. So
Speaker 1: what do you like to do off the field? Man?
Speaker 1: And besides, you know, not shoot pool very well? He
Speaker 1: ain't that bad at you actually really good at pretty
Speaker 1: good um for the most part, kind of you know,
Speaker 1: hang out my son, um tracking some rests, play video
Speaker 1: games and then um hang out the dogs. How old you?
Speaker 1: How old your son's five? He's five? In video games?
Speaker 1: What kind of video games? You into? Everything? I just
Speaker 1: don't play any sports games. I suck. Suck at sports games. Really,
Speaker 1: I felay, it's way too many controls, so you had
Speaker 1: to shoot him up type games. Yeah, game with anybody
Speaker 1: on the team, or just um a little bit with
Speaker 1: LC a little bit. And I tried to play with Madden.
Speaker 1: I just get frustrated, like every time. Really, yeah, better
Speaker 1: play your son now you can still be because a
Speaker 1: couple more years David Irwin got this game that he played, Siege.
Speaker 1: I think is that what he called Team Up? No,
Speaker 1: it's like it would ah. He said, it's like real
Speaker 1: life because like if you get shot, you got to
Speaker 1: sit there and wait till the game's over before you regenerate.
Speaker 1: Nate was a Nate spent like five minutes just like, okay,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, explain this. Does this work? Because they
Speaker 1: that call of duty? You know you you you know,
Speaker 1: I watched them play that a little bit. You can
Speaker 1: just get wrapped back up almost. Oh yeah. But he
Speaker 1: said you go down in this game, you go down.
Speaker 1: So I was wondering, did you did you get off
Speaker 1: into that a little bit? Uh? Oh no, I'm more
Speaker 1: of a I say, you're usually in call of duty?
Speaker 1: And I forgot what I was playing lately. Um, it's
Speaker 1: like Horizon or for Rising something like that, and the
Speaker 1: writing sign It was kind of like a venture game,
Speaker 1: but you shoot everything with a bone arrow. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: all you have as a bone arrow. Are you going
Speaker 1: to get like the big machines or whatever? And you're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how they go through this whole thing?
Speaker 1: I've seen, I've seen that game. Do you ever played
Speaker 1: like just random people? Uh? Yeah, I play on I
Speaker 1: play online to get like kind of confused and kind
Speaker 1: of just don't forget who's who, Like grant the auto,
Speaker 1: I just forget what's going on the same people. The
Speaker 1: world's too big. You got some animals, Yeah, you got
Speaker 1: three dollars. I got a great name pitbull, a little
Speaker 1: French massif, and then um, a little border Collie mix.
Speaker 1: So you can't just get one dog. Two got three
Speaker 1: dogs and six breeds. But they they rescue dogs, is
Speaker 1: that right? Yeah? Oh well sept for one one of them.
Speaker 1: I didn't know about the whole rescue thing when I
Speaker 1: first got the Dallas and I bought them, and then
Speaker 1: I started kind of understanding in the whole rescue thing
Speaker 1: going on. The Dallas at the DFF Rescue and you
Speaker 1: know they helped me alone getting a couple of dogs
Speaker 1: I do have right now. And you said, a massif
Speaker 1: and what else? Um, a great dame pitbull and a
Speaker 1: border college. What is your great between you and a
Speaker 1: massive and a great dame? What is your grocery bill?
Speaker 1: Like a week? Ain't that mad? It ain't that bad.
Speaker 1: It's just the Great Dame. She eats a lot. I
Speaker 1: still food from other dogs. Man, I bet your yard
Speaker 1: is plenty fertilized. They got the out side of the
Speaker 1: yard on the side. You're looking forward to getting back home,
Speaker 1: getting in your own beds, I really do. What is
Speaker 1: your favorite part about camp? It's uh, you know it's
Speaker 1: a thing. It's not so bad because everything is so
Speaker 1: routine and it goes by a quick one blows. You're busy,
Speaker 1: don't you forget what day is? Roundhog day? Every day
Speaker 1: pretty much. And you know the bad thing is, you know,
Speaker 1: basically always so so great for everybody actually has big
Speaker 1: people and uh, but you know that at this time,
Speaker 1: you know, get closer to your teammates and you're working together,
Speaker 1: and um, it's always a great deal. You find more
Speaker 1: about you find out more about your teammates as you
Speaker 1: go along when you hear you, we're here for our
Speaker 1: whole month? And who who? Who's your Who are your
Speaker 1: best friends on the team? Who do you hang out
Speaker 1: with outside of work? It's usually old line Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: occasionally you and Jeremiah whatever. All other options are exhausted.
Speaker 1: So hey, we need to get a nickname going. Nate
Speaker 1: started the nickname for H for h Zach. He calls
Speaker 1: him the President. Yeah. I got to man, why are
Speaker 1: you calling the president? They It seemed like he just
Speaker 1: he didn't have to work on thathing. I don't know
Speaker 1: how I came with him, and I'm like this, this
Speaker 1: dude like the President. He got it all, you know,
Speaker 1: button right of his hand. So and I and coach
Speaker 1: people heard me saying, like a boy, the president the
Speaker 1: whoop ahead and it jumped. So I didn't change it.
Speaker 1: I ain't. I ain't learn his name, but I just
Speaker 1: out a year. I didn't even know that. I probably
Speaker 1: as said the President. And I said the kid that
Speaker 1: played right guard, Zack. I said, okay, Zack, yeah Zach.
Speaker 1: But bro, I'm gonna tell you something, man, how do
Speaker 1: you stay humble knowing that? Uh? You one of the
Speaker 1: top players, especially offensive line, top players in the league.
Speaker 1: How does how do you stay humble? Who keep it you?
Speaker 1: How do you stay humble? It was just more of um,
Speaker 1: you can't pay, you don't really pay attention to outside noise,
Speaker 1: and keep you people are that you can't trust, keep
Speaker 1: them close to you. And you know this game doesn't
Speaker 1: doesn't last forever, so you kind of kind of take
Speaker 1: every everything you can out of it and enjoy it
Speaker 1: because a lot of people can't be doing what you're
Speaker 1: doing right now, right now. Yesterday, one of my favorite guys,
Speaker 1: he smashed a couple of times. Malik, I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: talk about that, but when you just stop a guy
Speaker 1: cold blooded, man, I noticed you never say nothing, you know,
Speaker 1: like Jason Witten catch a touchdown the world, he letting
Speaker 1: the world or you've sun you can't stop me. I
Speaker 1: mean you just that calm guy all the time. Man.
Speaker 1: Is it that you don't want to embarrass your teammates
Speaker 1: so that just ain't your game? Um? You know, usually
Speaker 1: I'm not now here embarrassing anybody. It's usually just for
Speaker 1: me just trying to do better, do better at my job,
Speaker 1: and get better at my job whatever. And that's basically
Speaker 1: it is. And I'm you know, hopefully our teammates getting better,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's a time for the turn on
Speaker 1: where you want to you know a little bit that
Speaker 1: selfishness comes out where you excited when you made this
Speaker 1: something good. And that's that's game day. That's not enough
Speaker 1: time to do it best in your team. Has everybody
Speaker 1: trying to get better out there something and some people's
Speaker 1: like in some people, you know, everybody's different. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the way I kind of do it. Some game
Speaker 1: days are a little more trash talking going on. I
Speaker 1: still don't say anything. It's just more you know that
Speaker 1: person whoever you know, you feel it, you know, can
Speaker 1: you look at them and know mentally you've you defeated
Speaker 1: them like they know they're done for the day. You know,
Speaker 1: Sometimes you can't feel it, and U sometimes I think
Speaker 1: the game is so tired you can't recognize it. Who
Speaker 1: talks the most trash on the Cowboys? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I usually don't even pay I swear to you, I
Speaker 1: don't tute it out. Yeah, it's got to be a
Speaker 1: receiver or a corner. It's gonna be damn when Jason
Speaker 1: in there, you can hear them, ain't whether you're guessing
Speaker 1: you can hear these two guys. Uh, he will getting
Speaker 1: where he's getting a little more vote, because sometimes he
Speaker 1: will get so far down the change you'd be like,
Speaker 1: come on, man, you know but I had those type
Speaker 1: guys too, So I'm with you. You let it go
Speaker 1: because I used to be so tired brought to I had,
Speaker 1: Like I told quit, I got forty five plays. Either
Speaker 1: I can do him on the field, I could do
Speaker 1: it talking either way, I ain't gonna be able to
Speaker 1: do you know what I'm saying. Yeah, well, man, we
Speaker 1: know you gotta go. You gotta go get treatment before
Speaker 1: a practice and everything. So we just appreciate you coming
Speaker 1: on the show. And one quick thing, Hey, Kurt, I
Speaker 1: want you to do something special. Talking this can't be good.
Speaker 1: Let him stab you with his left hand and yeah,
Speaker 1: get around that. Let him you Hey Nate. Nate was
Speaker 1: showing me some kind of move the other day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he slapped me so hard, almost tell out of
Speaker 1: the chair like Rick Flair, And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I had to go back and watch the broadcast, like
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, he really hit it good. So how
Speaker 1: do you need to get he just playing? Yeah, we
Speaker 1: appreciate you coming on the show man. We'll go try
Speaker 1: to get you on during the season a little bit
Speaker 1: when we get back to the Star. So go go
Speaker 1: get treatment, and uh, we'll see you on the see
Speaker 1: you on the plane, I guess Friday, and uh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a quick break. And do we have another
Speaker 1: special guest coming up? We do have another guest coming
Speaker 1: all right, we'll let you get so y'all kicking me off?
Speaker 1: Says something I'm getting kicked off? Yeah, but who is
Speaker 1: the guest I got? Who is the guest we got? Oh,
Speaker 1: we've got Don merediths son Michael because he's working on
Speaker 1: the party. Ain't baby, the party is not old cool.
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Speaker 1: Boys are back live from Oxnard, California. The tennis courts
Speaker 1: at the Beautiful Residence in Marriott Practices about to get
Speaker 1: underway here Shortly, Kurt, Daniel, Shannon Gross, Nate pieced out
Speaker 1: on us. He had to hit the road. He's he's
Speaker 1: not a big fan of flying, so he tries to
Speaker 1: drive everywhere that he can. So he uh, he's on
Speaker 1: his way back to Dallas, and uh he's gonna do
Speaker 1: our our broadcasts from be our sideline reporter for the
Speaker 1: game on Saturday. So we'll catch back up with Nate
Speaker 1: on Monday when shows resume. This is our last show
Speaker 1: from from Oxnard, last day on the air. Kurt wait,
Speaker 1: can you man? I'm telling you, I don't mind this.
Speaker 1: I have no I don't believe I hear you all talking. Girlfriend,
Speaker 1: I have no family in Dallas, I have no pets.
Speaker 1: I get free food here, I can sleep late, I
Speaker 1: don't have to shower when I come to work. I
Speaker 1: do not mind this at all anyway. I don't have
Speaker 1: to wear pants. Well, I got my Tommy John underwear
Speaker 1: by the way, Yes, sir, there you go, Sir Kurt,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you do the honors. I'm mailing it
Speaker 1: in for the for the rest of our Yeah, I'm done.
Speaker 1: Nate just he left, and you're just I'm gonna sit
Speaker 1: here with you, but I'm not gonna do any work.
Speaker 1: So let me first plug our training camp preview. UM
Speaker 1: Star Magazine training camp here is wrapped up, but it's
Speaker 1: just kicking off in Frisco on Monday, and uh, there
Speaker 1: will be some available you can get ready for the
Speaker 1: Seatson this year. UM got scattering reports on all the guys,
Speaker 1: Projections on who's gonna make the fifty three man roster,
Speaker 1: great story on Jalen Smith, who's actually gonna play this Saturday.
Speaker 1: Everybody's pretty excited about that pick one up training camp
Speaker 1: here at Frisco next week. So yeah, UM wanted to
Speaker 1: go old school here. For those of you who do
Speaker 1: not know, Don Meredith was the original All America Cowboys
Speaker 1: quarterback long before, Tony Romo, Dak Prescott, Troy Aikman, Roger Stauback,
Speaker 1: Don Dandy, Don Meredith, and we are fortunate today we
Speaker 1: have Michael Meredith here. Yes, so and son, welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. Thank you very much. Don is excuse me,
Speaker 1: Michael is working on a documentary about his father. And
Speaker 1: there are some wonderful stories out there that we all
Speaker 1: know already about Don and some of his uh wild escapades.
Speaker 1: But apparently you've got a whole stash more anyone right
Speaker 1: off the top of the head you'd like to share
Speaker 1: with us, Well, I know, I'll tell you training Camp
Speaker 1: for him. He actually always wanted us to do a
Speaker 1: movie based in Training Camp a Thousand Oaks. I was
Speaker 1: obviously back in the day, and he wrote a screenplay
Speaker 1: and worked with a guy named Jason Miller who did
Speaker 1: Championship Season. Want to Pulitzer Prize for that play in
Speaker 1: that movie, And one day maybe I'll look into that.
Speaker 1: But there was there were some amazing stories just within
Speaker 1: the Thousand Oaks world. And you know, curfew wasn't always curfew.
Speaker 1: And to give you one story, I'll tell you there.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a long, storied history of Landry and
Speaker 1: my dad having different kind of outlooks on life and
Speaker 1: sport and sometimes drastically different, sometimes drastically and you know
Speaker 1: they I love both of them. But the story that
Speaker 1: Kim comes to mind was there was one practice and
Speaker 1: Landry kind of come down hard in the guys and
Speaker 1: he was, you know, we went and buckled down, We're
Speaker 1: gonna get disciplined. Curfew's curfew all this. The next day,
Speaker 1: in the middle of practice, I don't know the make
Speaker 1: of the car, but it was convertible, had the Texas
Speaker 1: horns on it, music blaring, pulls onto the field, drives
Speaker 1: right down the middle of practice and it's it's Willie
Speaker 1: Nelson behind the wheel. And everyone stops, obviously, and Landry
Speaker 1: knows exactly who's behind it, but my dad plays innocent
Speaker 1: and Willie just drives straight asked and keeps on going. Really,
Speaker 1: they started practice up again, and I'm really looking for
Speaker 1: that footage if I find that. That was the smoke
Speaker 1: bowling out of the car, right, yeah, yeah, the manifold
Speaker 1: was loose, But I just want to see the looks
Speaker 1: on the faces of you know, the players and my
Speaker 1: dad Landry. That would be awesome. So how how was
Speaker 1: it growing up as as you know, Don Merrit's son,
Speaker 1: were you around football all the time? Where you you know,
Speaker 1: were you kind of away from it? Walk us through
Speaker 1: how that was to grow up around. I was, well,
Speaker 1: I'm coming up on the Big five. Oh. I was
Speaker 1: one hundred days old when the ice ball was played.
Speaker 1: Fiftieth anniversary of the ice Ball, and in a way
Speaker 1: the first winning team because sixty seven was January first,
Speaker 1: was the end of their first season. That was a
Speaker 1: winning season with the Packers, and then the last day
Speaker 1: of the year the same um. And I was too
Speaker 1: young to remember all that obviously, So I kind of
Speaker 1: grew up into booth money football with Howard and Frank
Speaker 1: and my dad, and that's what I remember more. And
Speaker 1: this has been a journey of discovery for me, learning
Speaker 1: a lot that I didn't know because it wasn't talked
Speaker 1: about a lot in my house growing up. It was
Speaker 1: more just Monday Night was such a big deal and
Speaker 1: it was coming on the scene, and that was what
Speaker 1: people asked about and what I remember. So you see
Speaker 1: the football, I wonder bad, you know. For Troy Hickman,
Speaker 1: there's a whole generation that sees him as a broadcaster,
Speaker 1: you know, those of us old folks know what a
Speaker 1: great player he was. I think it was a lot
Speaker 1: that same way with with Don where he was the
Speaker 1: Monday night football guy. He wasn't the quarterback of America's team.
Speaker 1: You know, he wouldn't the Cowboys guy. So I wondered
Speaker 1: if growing up you didn't see a lot of that
Speaker 1: football stuff then it was all the TV. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I did not even know until I started this
Speaker 1: project actually that my dad was the first Dallas Cowboy.
Speaker 1: But you know that that to me just seems phenomenal
Speaker 1: when you think of where the team is and how
Speaker 1: far it's gone, and it's the most valuable franchise and
Speaker 1: all that just little trivial thing to very significant things
Speaker 1: helping the city overcome the JFK years and moving from
Speaker 1: that dark chapter into the home of America's team. And
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't they didn't go the distance with
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, but they definitely paved the way and did
Speaker 1: a lot for the city and gave a lot, left
Speaker 1: a lot on the field. And I'm incredibly proud of
Speaker 1: my dad and that team and bringing them all together
Speaker 1: maybe one last harah, you know, big reunion. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: before we get into that he was one of the
Speaker 1: tough when I've heard from talking to older players, he
Speaker 1: was one of the toughest guys I ever played. I
Speaker 1: see those old pictures, always got the old one bar
Speaker 1: face mask and he played with broken noses, this and that.
Speaker 1: I mean, from what I understand, they didn't come much tough,
Speaker 1: tougher than him. Yeah. That I've talked to coach earlier
Speaker 1: today and that was one of the first things he said,
Speaker 1: is you know, one of the toughest guys I've ever
Speaker 1: heard of. And even the old footage, you see, it
Speaker 1: was late hits were kind of a thing of part
Speaker 1: of the game. There was no protective quarterback then. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know Dad could just get off the ground
Speaker 1: sometimes with injuries that I know I couldn't. Yeah, longs
Speaker 1: punctured with ribs and still playing and doing good. Um,
Speaker 1: definitely tough. I think all the players were. The team
Speaker 1: started off with their piece together. You know, they missed
Speaker 1: the first draft and they had they had an expansion draft,
Speaker 1: so they they they went through some some brutal times
Speaker 1: and walked out the other side. And my hats off
Speaker 1: to him. So that's kind of what the film's about.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to be working on How did this
Speaker 1: project come about? Was as it been a long time
Speaker 1: in the making, as it just you woke up in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night and was like, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do a documentary, or how did that? How did
Speaker 1: that creative process work? It's it. Yeah. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of different moments that I think I look back on. One,
Speaker 1: I was working on a I'm a narrative film director
Speaker 1: and I usually work with actor and I was in
Speaker 1: embedded with the troops in Afghanistan doing research and writing
Speaker 1: a script. And we were up in the Hindu Kush mountains,
Speaker 1: way off the grid, talking to the village elders, and
Speaker 1: I'm I'm being protected by some guys Tenth Mountain Division,
Speaker 1: amazing soldiers. I look over in this little hut and
Speaker 1: this kid's kind of leaning out and looking at me
Speaker 1: and ducking back, and I take my camera and I
Speaker 1: get a shot of him. I look at it and
Speaker 1: he's wearing a Dallas Cowboys jacket. Everyone else is in
Speaker 1: traditional garb and they're sold They asked if we were Russians.
Speaker 1: They didn't even know who was, you know, And I
Speaker 1: just thought, wow, that to start with an idea in
Speaker 1: Dallas and go global like that In years later, I
Speaker 1: just thought, this is the trickle down the residents, you know,
Speaker 1: the Doppler effect of it all was just I had
Speaker 1: to look into it. So that was that began a
Speaker 1: journey to Actually I started on the ice bowl I
Speaker 1: knew the fiftieth annivers who was coming up, and then
Speaker 1: the players led me to a bigger story and the
Speaker 1: ice bowls an important chapter of that. Yeah. Um, but
Speaker 1: so yeah, I started sixty seven and now it's six
Speaker 1: basically the span of my dad and Don Perkins's career.
Speaker 1: They came together and left together. You sound like you, lily,
Speaker 1: you lead a very boring life. Yeah, yeah, we did
Speaker 1: get shot at Is it different for you working on
Speaker 1: a state, working on a story that's so personal, that's
Speaker 1: so close to what you're doing, is it is it
Speaker 1: harder or is it? I use your four phone, It's
Speaker 1: it's hard to know what is um meaningful and important
Speaker 1: to me? Like I'm touched by some things, I'm more
Speaker 1: proud than others. But the part that's been easier than
Speaker 1: expected is just the support and almost the will of
Speaker 1: people in North Texas that have just some the initial
Speaker 1: announcements of talking about We've done fifteen interviews so far.
Speaker 1: We're just kind of getting things under way. Um emails
Speaker 1: and calls and just a overwhelming sense of support makes
Speaker 1: it easier. So I feel like I'm almost just facilitating
Speaker 1: something that wants to happen on its own. Right. What's
Speaker 1: one really neat thing that you learned about your dad
Speaker 1: that you had no idea through this, through this process,
Speaker 1: well that you can tell publicly. Yeah, yeah, neat. Let
Speaker 1: me think of that one. One thing he always told me.
Speaker 1: A significant moment for him was the first commercial time out,
Speaker 1: and that was since fifty years ago. They didn't have
Speaker 1: it down. They just say it was a fixed time
Speaker 1: five minutes into the third I don't know what it was,
Speaker 1: but it interrupted a really good momentum shift and it
Speaker 1: was third and short. I don't know. They called the
Speaker 1: time out and all the guys I've heard this from
Speaker 1: a bunch of his teammates were standing around. They had
Speaker 1: no idea what to do. Usually go to the sidelines cut,
Speaker 1: but they just said stand there and wait, and he
Speaker 1: he thought it was a kind of a pivotal moment
Speaker 1: in the sport where they were waiting for commercial from
Speaker 1: Tied or whatever it was, and he wasn't really happy
Speaker 1: about it, so and he kind of suspected that maybe
Speaker 1: tex Stramas mothers were involved, and you know, he was
Speaker 1: a creative guy. So not long after, they were playing
Speaker 1: the Saint Louis and a really beautiful woman started walking
Speaker 1: down the steps with her popcorn rubbers she had, and
Speaker 1: my dad looked up and noticed her, and then the
Speaker 1: players looked up and noticed her, and pretty soon the
Speaker 1: whole Cotton Bowl is watching this guy walk down and
Speaker 1: the camera's turn and she owns the moment like she
Speaker 1: sees everyone. That she does is kind of you know,
Speaker 1: sexy walked down there front fifty yard line seat, sits down,
Speaker 1: but the game clock's running out before she gets to
Speaker 1: her seat, so my dad's looking at it, looking at her,
Speaker 1: calls a time out to allow her to get to
Speaker 1: her seat. And that and that was I think. And
Speaker 1: I never knew that story from him, but I think
Speaker 1: it's if you're gonna stop the game for Ted, and
Speaker 1: I understand the big picture, it's a business, but you
Speaker 1: can stop the game for a beautiful girl. At the
Speaker 1: same time heard that story, I didn't know all the details.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize was a commercial thing. Here's the beauty
Speaker 1: punch line. Her name was Bubbles Cash, and tex Shram,
Speaker 1: from what I've heard, was inspired by her and her
Speaker 1: power over the audience, and that was one of the
Speaker 1: things that kind of kind of led to the Dallas
Speaker 1: couch earlier. Wow, great Bubbles Cash. Look at Bubbles Cash.
Speaker 1: Sometimes she was one of the premiere of show girls
Speaker 1: in town back in the sixties or whatever. I've never
Speaker 1: heard that story, dude. We have a picture of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have a picture of her walking down down the
Speaker 1: stairway and everybody's turned. It's just like, well, I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you, I need to see that she's She's alive
Speaker 1: and well from what I hear somewhere in the Austin area,
Speaker 1: and if anyone has a connection to her, I would
Speaker 1: love to talk to her and just I'd love to
Speaker 1: around her. I've always wanted to do a story on
Speaker 1: that moment because I've heard that too. That that was
Speaker 1: kind of put the seat in tex Shram's brain to
Speaker 1: to bring about the Dallas come with wo and if
Speaker 1: text could flip it back on my he that was
Speaker 1: that was you know, Texts, It was a genius in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, so he so my dad might
Speaker 1: have been trying to get get one on him, but
Speaker 1: it was there's that social element as part of the film,
Speaker 1: and there was a real shift in women's admiration in
Speaker 1: civil rights and the players and the cowboys, and a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff was trail plays in the decade of
Speaker 1: the sixties that I think was overshadowed by JFK, which
Speaker 1: was a huge part of it. But there was some
Speaker 1: really fascinating things going on in Dallas. Was an interesting
Speaker 1: place and it was boomtown. Yeah. So and your dad
Speaker 1: really took a beating from not just on the field
Speaker 1: but in the media and from fans because they were
Speaker 1: next year's champions. I mean, for as much criticism as
Speaker 1: Romo has had to go through in his career and
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff, Meredith really took unwarranted criticism for
Speaker 1: what he did. And then once he retired, I think
Speaker 1: people regretted they wanted him back. Yeah, when they're when
Speaker 1: they're a Monday night game where they he was in
Speaker 1: the booth and they were chanting his name to Yeah.
Speaker 1: My cousin Joe Aredith was at um one of the
Speaker 1: last games where they were chanting not happy stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's usually my dad's fault. And then his first
Speaker 1: game back, I believe Monday Football in seventy one or
Speaker 1: maybe seventy back in the Cotton Bowl and they were
Speaker 1: getting pummeled and they started we want Meredith, we want Mereth.
Speaker 1: And it was within a few years and I think
Speaker 1: he said that there's there's no way you're getting me
Speaker 1: back down there. I don't know if you could have
Speaker 1: made it back down. Yeah, but well you've got you
Speaker 1: get there's a couple events coming up that you're getting
Speaker 1: some of these old timers together. I think you said
Speaker 1: there's gonna be one game in October, is at right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you become an alumni reunion type thing. Yep. So it's
Speaker 1: it's penciled in for October first Rams game, and so far,
Speaker 1: every single player I've talked to is and it's more
Speaker 1: just love of team and love of my dad, and
Speaker 1: they're that old camaraderie is still there, which is impressive too,
Speaker 1: because free agency was you know, the teams stayed tighter,
Speaker 1: and the families and the wives and all that. Um.
Speaker 1: It sounds like there may be a fifteen twenty guys
Speaker 1: that are going to come in do an on field ceremony,
Speaker 1: honoring moment, and then some type of reunion a dinner
Speaker 1: m um, and then this home movie campaign that we're
Speaker 1: doing to gather any kind of footage that's related to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys or Dallas culture in the sixties. Um, first
Speaker 1: from the players and then from the from Cowboy Nation.
Speaker 1: We'll do a little screening and uh, and I think
Speaker 1: it would be cool. I don't think they've been together
Speaker 1: for a long time and there's probably not gonna be
Speaker 1: a seventy fifth anniversary, you know, yea, So it feels
Speaker 1: good to be a part of that too. And next
Speaker 1: week they're unveiling at the Star, uh, the Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor kind of walk of fame out there, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna be involved in that, aren't aren't you as well?
Speaker 1: I am? Yeah, M the Cowboy Organization Charlotte Jones asking
Speaker 1: me to represent my dad, um, and I'm not exactly
Speaker 1: sure if it's a plaque or or a statue statues
Speaker 1: that will be an unveiling and all the ring on
Speaker 1: guys are coming in there. Yeah, that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: need to need deal. I'm not sure what day that
Speaker 1: is next week, but um, it sounds like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be pretty cool with a lot of those greats on hand.
Speaker 1: You need to work on getting us some tickets to
Speaker 1: that screening. Do you know a guy that can work
Speaker 1: on that. I can bribe the right people. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can work on that, some fellas. All right, Hey, I
Speaker 1: just want to share my favorite Meritis story that I've heard,
Speaker 1: ever heard. And I probably don't have the details right,
Speaker 1: but you so you fill them in for him. But
Speaker 1: from what I understand, there was a plane ride back
Speaker 1: to Dallas. Horrible weather. They're just getting bounced around, and
Speaker 1: then these days the planes were not near as safe
Speaker 1: as they were and people guys are grown men or
Speaker 1: panicked and screaming and yelling, and there's Dandy don Mere
Speaker 1: just the back with a drink in hand. He's like,
Speaker 1: been a good one, boys, I've heard that, heard that
Speaker 1: from pretty much everybody on board. Yeah, he just said
Speaker 1: it's been a good name it And I don't know
Speaker 1: if you was faking or not, but even to be
Speaker 1: able to fake when your plane's going down and not
Speaker 1: spill your drink, you know that that takes some special character.
Speaker 1: So I think his thing oftentimes was to his ABC's
Speaker 1: always be cool. Like if the team was down and
Speaker 1: everyone was panicking, he would come in and do something
Speaker 1: like that that would sing a song or you know,
Speaker 1: just lighten the huddle up and the guys would kind
Speaker 1: of relax and get back into their groove and back
Speaker 1: into that zone. So that was a real, real gift
Speaker 1: he had that I admire and I'm proud of. But
Speaker 1: he may he may just been trying to get everybody
Speaker 1: to calm down. Stay where where will this? Uh this,
Speaker 1: I guess it's a documentary. Yeah, where will this be available?
Speaker 1: And when will it be available? How we watch it?
Speaker 1: So we're we we have a website first, cowboys dot
Speaker 1: com that's the name of the documentary, And the rest
Speaker 1: of this year we will be finishing up interviews. Um,
Speaker 1: like I mentioned, we did fifteen already and we're gathering more,
Speaker 1: and then we'll be asking for all this home movie
Speaker 1: footage and sort of crowdsourcing the archival. So this city
Speaker 1: will hopefully help make this film and guide me a
Speaker 1: little bit as a director with what they've seen or
Speaker 1: what their grandparents shot on old super eight cameras and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So the goal is to finish it
Speaker 1: up this year release it at some point next year,
Speaker 1: and the dream is to have on the heels of
Speaker 1: the documentary a scripted television show. And that's mainly because
Speaker 1: there's so much amazing just information coming in as stories,
Speaker 1: and the drama just gets more. The plot thickens every
Speaker 1: time I talk to someone. There's too much to put
Speaker 1: in a two hour doc. Yeah, so there might be
Speaker 1: next year a Madden Men meets Friday Night Lights set
Speaker 1: in Dallas in the sixties and kind of the s
Speaker 1: seen through the eyes of the team. And so hopefully,
Speaker 1: hopefully next year will be some some good mode mojo
Speaker 1: for all of that sounds like a really cool project.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a lot of people watch, you know,
Speaker 1: the show Ballers that's out on HBO, and you know,
Speaker 1: some of my friends are like, man, that shows so ridiculous,
Speaker 1: like there, you know, that's not real life, And I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: you don't understand, Like the real life stories are more
Speaker 1: ridiculous than made up stories sometimes. So I can only
Speaker 1: imagine back when you know that there wasn't social media
Speaker 1: and people weren't worried as much about you know, their
Speaker 1: image and getting caught doing something. I can only imagine
Speaker 1: back in the day, the kind of stuff that went
Speaker 1: on that you know, unless you were there to document it,
Speaker 1: you know in your memory, you know, And I'm sure
Speaker 1: you've uncovered a lot of that stuff through this process.
Speaker 1: And it's just like, really that there's no way that
Speaker 1: that's true, you know, like the Willie thing, like that's like,
Speaker 1: that's not real life. How does that happen? So yeah,
Speaker 1: and every time I talk to someone, it's a new story.
Speaker 1: I think the guys are getting a little bit older
Speaker 1: and maybe they don't care as much about, you know,
Speaker 1: being close to the vest and then they're just telling
Speaker 1: you so that that's just are you Are you allowed
Speaker 1: to tell the Howard Coastell story? Rob was telling me earlier.
Speaker 1: Rob and Tom over there they're gonna get get in
Speaker 1: trouble that one might get me. I want to hear this. So, Kurt,
Speaker 1: how did you too link up? How did how did you? Guys? Me? Well,
Speaker 1: I know the guys helping out the PR side of
Speaker 1: this project, Tom Fire and Rob Hickley. I've known them.
Speaker 1: I used to work with them long ago, and so
Speaker 1: they're involved with this kind of on the publicity side,
Speaker 1: and they're out here at camp today. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're here tomorrow or not. But today kind of
Speaker 1: shooting some stuff and getting some beef rolling and kind
Speaker 1: of putting the word out and so yeah, it's been great.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we got to meet. And like I said
Speaker 1: earlier today, you know we what are we gonna do?
Speaker 1: You photo of bubbles? Cash, We might be able to
Speaker 1: help you out with that bubbles. Please give me a call.
Speaker 1: I want to after that, after this, I want to
Speaker 1: photo of bubbles. You do? You do want to see
Speaker 1: what this is all about. I love her story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great. That's really cool. Well good, should we throw
Speaker 1: it to a break. Yeah, let's take one last break
Speaker 1: and we'll come back and uh, I don't know what
Speaker 1: we'll go. You know what, let's play a game when
Speaker 1: we come back. Kurt, you're gonna do that? All right?
Speaker 1: All right, we'll be back in a few minutes. Thank you, guys.
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Speaker 1: are back one final time. Can you last this long?
Speaker 1: You make it one more second? Final time? I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can make it. Waving at you Kurt
Speaker 1: from Oxnard, California. Kurt Daniels, Shannon Gross hanging with the boys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Big Nates already mailed it in. Yes, he gave up.
Speaker 1: He high tailed it back to uh back to Dallas already.
Speaker 1: And I was gonna play a game, Kurt, Oh, all right,
Speaker 1: but I lost my paper. Okay, all right? You like games? Well,
Speaker 1: depends on the kind of game you got planned here.
Speaker 1: It's a fun game, Okay. Have you ever no not.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna go out tonight, Kurt, I'm waiting on you.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go party tonight. Let's go part Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead to town. All right, all right, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I can hang with you anymore. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: can your hardcore. I'll have you back before four in
Speaker 1: the morning. Sometimes the bus leave tomorrow. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Are you going back tomorrow or yeah, you're flying back
Speaker 1: tomorrow with the rest of the year. Yeah. So me
Speaker 1: and I believe Kent and Jeremiah and I believe one writer.
Speaker 1: We're all staying back to make sure nothing crazy happens
Speaker 1: in the walk through Friday morning. Um, the rest of
Speaker 1: our crew is heading back tomorrow afternoon, and then we
Speaker 1: will follow Friday on the team charter. I think we
Speaker 1: get back into Dallas about four o'clock and then the
Speaker 1: team goes straight to the omni out at the Star
Speaker 1: to spend the night, and then the game is at
Speaker 1: six o'clock on Saturday. Get to see a little preseason football.
Speaker 1: It will be fun, and then we'll be back on
Speaker 1: the air. I believe Monday. The time is going to
Speaker 1: be to be determined. We're gonna try to have our
Speaker 1: show around open locker room when we get back, so
Speaker 1: we can continue to bring some players on throughout the
Speaker 1: week and have him on the show and hopefully keep
Speaker 1: that going throughout the season. Um, it's been a lot
Speaker 1: of fun out here this week. We should have the
Speaker 1: whole crew. We should Josh you be back? Is this
Speaker 1: bubbles cash? Oh wow, that's pretty awesome. We need to
Speaker 1: tweet that out, tweet that out from the show handle.
Speaker 1: We'll tweet that out after after the show. So all
Speaker 1: you guys, thank you. Um, hey, kay, how are you anyway? Okay,
Speaker 1: let's play a little game. We got about ten minutes left,
Speaker 1: all right, and I thought it would be fun to
Speaker 1: play a little Let's play a little over under first. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: this is regular season only. Do we need to keep
Speaker 1: track of this? We can? We can um regular season only,
Speaker 1: no playoffs included. UM, let's start with dak Okay Dakota
Speaker 1: Rain Prescott four thousand yards passing this season over under
Speaker 1: last year he had three thousand and six one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty seven. I'll take the under because I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys relied too much on the running game and
Speaker 1: I think that hopefully they'll be playing with leads so
Speaker 1: that we weren't want to work the clock. So I
Speaker 1: will say under, you're gonna go with the under. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the over because the uncertainty with with Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: I think they may get in some some more passing
Speaker 1: situations earlier in the in the season. And I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna have more weapons this year, and he's got
Speaker 1: a year under his belt where he's got some experience
Speaker 1: with these guys, and I think they're all kind of
Speaker 1: clicking on the same page, and you're thinking alike, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the over on that. I could see
Speaker 1: that though, that you hope that well. They've been saying
Speaker 1: out here that him and Dez have already found a
Speaker 1: pretty nice uh. Um communication and they're working even better together,
Speaker 1: so that that's encouraging. Yep um touchdown passing touchdowns. Last
Speaker 1: year he had twenty three, and I'm gonna set the
Speaker 1: over under at thirty thirty. Um. I will again take
Speaker 1: the under, but just barely under, like twenty eight, twenty
Speaker 1: nine something like that. Okay, but I think again, the
Speaker 1: ground game is gonna gonna kind of cut into his
Speaker 1: stats a little bit. I'm gonna go I'll take the
Speaker 1: over on this one as well, just because of what
Speaker 1: I just said. I think he's he's gonna be more
Speaker 1: comfortable in the red zone. If he could get any
Speaker 1: more comfortable in the games. Amazing last year and uh,
Speaker 1: super budding superstar Rico gathers. I'm gonna make a bold
Speaker 1: prediction and say he's gonna become one of his Uh
Speaker 1: not only is he gonna make the team, he's gonna
Speaker 1: become one of his favorite red zone Really you think so? No,
Speaker 1: But I'm just throwing that out there because I know
Speaker 1: the fans. The fans are really high on Ricos. So
Speaker 1: who is it a gavitt Escobar we kept here for
Speaker 1: the last two or three years. Oh, he's such a
Speaker 1: red zone thread. He's got such great hands, he's gonna
Speaker 1: score touchdown and what he scored two his whole career
Speaker 1: or something like that. Okay, and the last one for
Speaker 1: for Dak interceptions he threw four last year. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: set the over under at eight just because I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any way that he can throw as few
Speaker 1: interceptions as he did last year. There were a couple
Speaker 1: that he should have thrown that were dropped. UM, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set that at eight. I will probably take
Speaker 1: the over on that. You are a dacater I loved
Speaker 1: not go throw for touchdowns and he's gonna throw. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean he's gonna have a bad fifty interceptions, that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean he's gonna have a bad season. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a great season, but he's he's not
Speaker 1: gonna have to carry the load. He's got other guys
Speaker 1: there that can help um the running game off its
Speaker 1: line making space. But conversely, I think his second year
Speaker 1: he's more comfortable. They're gonna take more chances too, So
Speaker 1: I think those downfield throws are in doing that it's
Speaker 1: gonna possibly lead to more picks. Now I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's gonna throw twenty and be horrible. But I just
Speaker 1: four last year was ridiculous for anybody, much less a rookie,
Speaker 1: and so I just think he can't help but go up.
Speaker 1: H Yep, that's I'm gonna take the over on that
Speaker 1: one too. She'd call me ye sure him. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's move on to Desmond demand Bryant, Yes, sir, all right.
Speaker 1: He missed three games last year. Yeah, Um, receiving yards
Speaker 1: last year he had seven hundred ninety six. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: set the over at eleven hundred receiving yards. I'll take
Speaker 1: you over. I think, uh Um, if he's healthy, he'll
Speaker 1: get there. Okay, that's the I think that's the question. Margats.
Speaker 1: If he right, he's if he's out, But as long
Speaker 1: as he's in the game, I think I think a
Speaker 1: thousand and eleven hundreds doable for sure. I do too.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the over just because Um, like we
Speaker 1: touched on earlier, and he's got a year under his
Speaker 1: belt with dak Um. He looks great out here. You know,
Speaker 1: if he can stay healthy, I think he I think
Speaker 1: he I think he could have a fourteen hundred yard
Speaker 1: season if he's on the field for every game, so
Speaker 1: um receptions last year he had fifty. I'm gonna set
Speaker 1: the we're under at seventy five. Yeah, I guess we're gonna.
Speaker 1: We're saying he's gonna have a eleven hundred yards. He
Speaker 1: better have a bunch of catches. So I guess I'll
Speaker 1: take the over to to stay in line there. Same,
Speaker 1: I will take the same. And passing attempts for Dez Bryant.
Speaker 1: He had one last year. I'm gonna set the over
Speaker 1: under at one. Do you think they will try to
Speaker 1: let him air the ball out again this year? He
Speaker 1: threw one pass for a touchdown to Jason Witton last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was an awesome play because I know he's he's
Speaker 1: been wanting to throw the ball in the game. I
Speaker 1: think ever since he got here. He can actually throw
Speaker 1: the ball about seventy five yards in the air. If
Speaker 1: you've ever seen him, he has the best arm of
Speaker 1: the team. Oh, no doubt like effortlessly too. It just
Speaker 1: lets it sail. I'm gonna I'm gonna say, oh man,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. Pass attempts or completions or what
Speaker 1: are you saying here? Pass attempts attempts. Yeah, man, yeah,
Speaker 1: can you push No? Nope. Um, I'll go under because
Speaker 1: and I'll blame that on Garrett because he's still conservative.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go over just because it's fun. I agree,
Speaker 1: it is fun. I hope he does go over. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on to let's get into let's get into
Speaker 1: some rookie talk. All right, Ryan Switzer. Which this is
Speaker 1: assuming he makes the team, which, yeah, he'll make. I
Speaker 1: think he'll make the team if for nothing else, just
Speaker 1: for special teams. Yeah, und picks make the team. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: forty yards or more, either kick returns or pump returns.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set the over under it two oh over.
Speaker 1: I think you'd be over. I think you'll have more
Speaker 1: than two returns. Yeah, I'll give him no over. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's hope his hamstring is good, but okay, I'll take
Speaker 1: the over on that one too. Um. Let's move on
Speaker 1: to Jaylen Smith. How many games will he start? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna set the over under at six start. Wow. Um,
Speaker 1: I'll take the under. I don't think he'll start that many.
Speaker 1: I think he'll playing a bunch and I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna start that many. I agree, I agree. I
Speaker 1: think he needs I think he's gonna be a little
Speaker 1: bit more experienced to hope that wrong job. Yeah, it'd
Speaker 1: be awesome if Um who will have more touchdowns? Bryce
Speaker 1: Butler or Terrence Williams. Bryce had three last year. I
Speaker 1: think he had a couple that he dropped that he
Speaker 1: should have had, and Terrence had four last year. Bryce
Speaker 1: or Terrence. Um, you know, I'm gonna go Terrence. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't even know. Bryce is intriguing. He's got such
Speaker 1: speed and you keep kind of thinking he's gonna have
Speaker 1: this breakout year, right, you know, and you we're still
Speaker 1: sort of waiting for it to happen. And I guess
Speaker 1: until he proves it, I'm gonna go with with Terrence.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Bryce because he's been on the show
Speaker 1: and he's a friend of the show, and he's taking
Speaker 1: over our Instagram and he's taking over our Instagram story
Speaker 1: on Friday. Yes, oh yeah, yeah, I'm definitely kissing straight
Speaker 1: up to him on the ride home or something. He's
Speaker 1: gonna yeah, We're gonna let him. Uh. Um. Doctor Pepper
Speaker 1: is gonna sponsor it, and uh gonna give you a
Speaker 1: behind the scenes look at what his day is on
Speaker 1: our travel day Friday, which will be pretty cool because
Speaker 1: we're just gonna hand him a phone and just kind
Speaker 1: of let him document the whole trip home. And then
Speaker 1: you know, they'll go straight to the hotel, so maybe
Speaker 1: we'll get some of that footage as well, maybe uh
Speaker 1: have him walking into meetings or something, and then you
Speaker 1: know kind of what their nights like before the game
Speaker 1: and and it should be pretty cool. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be dead. I'm gonna take I'm gonna take Bryce just
Speaker 1: for that simple um. Let's see defensive interceptions last year
Speaker 1: the team had nine. I'm gonna set the over under
Speaker 1: at twelve. God, you wish man. I did good setting
Speaker 1: these times you did? You did real good defensive interest options?
Speaker 1: Can anybody on the defense? Anybody on the defense? Yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go over, are you? Just because
Speaker 1: of the way they've been flying around the ball out here,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think some of these young guys
Speaker 1: I think are gonna step up and I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the under. Just Hater, I know Hater gets one of
Speaker 1: those things again. Just haven't showed it. You know who
Speaker 1: on that who back there has had any kind of interceptions.
Speaker 1: You know, I think the leading uh interception guys Jeff
Speaker 1: he yeah, you know, I mean that him. Great for him,
Speaker 1: but you know he'd like to see a little more
Speaker 1: out of now. Guy. You know, Anthony Brown is in
Speaker 1: his second year. You can expect more from him, and
Speaker 1: Sean Lee. He usually picks up one or two. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. Nine, it's a tough number to over
Speaker 1: under twelve. I guess you said that we're under Okay,
Speaker 1: last little bit of game here. Who makes the team.
Speaker 1: But between these three guys James Hannah, Jeff Swaim, Rico Gathers,
Speaker 1: not the practice squad actual fifty three, Well, I would
Speaker 1: think all three. You're keeping all three up? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: rolling with four tight ends this year. We've done that
Speaker 1: in the past. I think, yeah, But then do you
Speaker 1: do you carry a fullback? If you do that, Keith,
Speaker 1: does that mean bad? And they like Keith Smith? I
Speaker 1: mean that's tough. I guess, I mean they can't. I
Speaker 1: don't think they get Gathers back on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: He showed too much potential, So they're done there. Cats
Speaker 1: out of the bag, yeah and Swam. I guess if
Speaker 1: you had to pick of those three, it would be
Speaker 1: Hannah just because he's the oldest and has battled some injuries,
Speaker 1: and I think they're happy with You saw last year
Speaker 1: with Swam he does a little bit in the passing
Speaker 1: game and he actually they had a drop off, They
Speaker 1: had a little bit of a struggle in the running
Speaker 1: game with him when he went out of the lineup. So, um,
Speaker 1: so you're saying all three, Well, it would be my
Speaker 1: first choice, all three. My second choice would probably be Hanna.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't be the auto man out. Oh so you're keeping Swain.
Speaker 1: That's a good that's a good call because his parents
Speaker 1: watched the show and they stopped by the set every
Speaker 1: day when they walk out of practice. So I don't
Speaker 1: have to rat you out. Who makes the team with two?
Speaker 1: Who do you think? Would you? I would roll with four? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm with you. I think uh, I
Speaker 1: think Swain is really underrated when it comes to the
Speaker 1: to his blocking ability, you know, and and he's actually,
Speaker 1: you know, he has a few drops here and there
Speaker 1: in practice and in preseason, but on game day he
Speaker 1: shows up. You know, he's he's got pretty good hands
Speaker 1: for a big guy and a guy that's you know,
Speaker 1: especially he's a blocker. Um. And then Hannah, I don't
Speaker 1: you know they've kept him around. You know, he's a
Speaker 1: good guy. He's a good guy, and you know he's
Speaker 1: he's got some speed on him. And you know Witting.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much Witton's got left in the tank.
Speaker 1: And you know how often they're gonna sub in. If
Speaker 1: it's up to him, he wouldn't come out any place,
Speaker 1: you know. But Um, I think I'm with you. I
Speaker 1: think you roll with with all those guys. A couple
Speaker 1: more here real quick before we get out of here.
Speaker 1: Who do you keep Hillman or Rod Smith? Makes that team? Smith?
Speaker 1: For sure, he's younger and he's showing something's the upside. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he looked really good. Good, he's looked really good. I
Speaker 1: like him. Um. And then who you keeping Andy Jones
Speaker 1: or Noah Brown or doing the one of them make
Speaker 1: the team? Wow? Oh that's a tough one. Um. You
Speaker 1: know Andy Andy Jones, you know, looks like his his
Speaker 1: arrows definitely pointing up. Um. You know Nate's brought it up.
Speaker 1: He last year the lights got a little too bright
Speaker 1: for him on game day. Um, he seems to be
Speaker 1: doing a better job this year. And but Noel brown Man,
Speaker 1: he's a big body and he can go get the ball.
Speaker 1: So so you know, you know there's Beasley, Butler, Williams Bryant.
Speaker 1: So you're only probably looking at one more guy and
Speaker 1: that well Switzer, and it might be tough for you
Speaker 1: to one. Um maybe both practice squad squad. I would
Speaker 1: guess probably depends the two on how much they contribute
Speaker 1: on special teams. Yeah, yeah, that's for sure. They're gonna
Speaker 1: no matter what, they're gonna have to do something on
Speaker 1: that in that regard, and I don't know how they
Speaker 1: how they'll do going that s all right, Well that
Speaker 1: is it for us. Yeah, you made it. We made
Speaker 1: it through. I stuck this whole show out, Kurt. It's
Speaker 1: been a pleasure. Glad you came out. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: out and party like it's nineteen ninety nine and Oxnard,
Speaker 1: California tonight. Thank all of you that have tuned in
Speaker 1: throughout training camp, training camps. Not over no, just over
Speaker 1: in Oxnard as far as we're concerned. Well, we will
Speaker 1: be back on Monday, back in Frisco. The shows will resume.
Speaker 1: Can't thank you so much for putting up with us
Speaker 1: these past three and a half weeks. Couldn't have done
Speaker 1: the show without you. Shouts out to Nate and Josh
Speaker 1: that are that aren't here. We'll all be back together
Speaker 1: on Monday. Thanks for tuning in. Catch it then