WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: A Huge Week Ahead 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.000 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:17.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:21.799 training live from the Dallas Cowboys World Dowquarters at the 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:36.040 Star in Frisco, sat back Today. It's a Tuesday edition 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:40.440 of Talking Cowboys as we bring you training camp updates 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.919 for the next hour here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.880 So glad you're with us as we continue to break 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:51.400 down Cowboys Camp twenty twenty and leads you into Kickoff Week, 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.880 which will actually start next week. Is this is our 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:58.560 final show, guys, booing weekly next week. It's a daily 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:04.240 occurrence starting, So let's celebrate a little bit because it's 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.039 time to talk football in a real since we've been 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.959 talking football all offseason if we're being real here, but 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.720 it's time to talk football on a daily occurrence. So 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.600 if you're sick of us, too bad. You're getting us 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.840 every day starting next Tuesday. But so glad you're with us. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.440 Kyle Yeoman's heck Ma Harrison, Isaiah stanback or residence, super 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.679 Bowl champion, and the Great Rob Phillips here from Dallas 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.080 Cowboys dot Com. And guys, it's it's getting closer. We're 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.039 under two weeks until kickoff in September thirteenth on the 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.000 road against the ram its officially Football month. The fact 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.399 that September's finally hear us, heck, well, what's that feeling like? 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.759 As you kind of get that Christmas type of feel 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.360 where you can anticipate it coming, but it's just not 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:50.000 there yet, Kylis. It almost feels as though we are 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:54.160 getting back to normal. We were right there. I mean, 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.800 we were right there, and I felt like last week, 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.520 last well Sunday, that you know, my life was returning. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.120 I was getting Cowboy football back on television. And I 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.080 need to talk to you and Rob because I thought 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.960 we were boys. I thought we were cool. But I 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:13.040 have found out otherwise through this whole process that y'all 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:14.800 didn't call me and let me know not to go 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.359 through my ritual because we were not going to be 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.240 able to watch football on Sunday. Thank you, Kyle, Thank 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:25.200 you Rob. Here's the thing, and I'll go ahead and 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.880 say this. The Cowboys still won on Sunday because there's 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.320 thirty one other teams and there's an entire fan base 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.080 and an entire nation that has zero idea what the 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.200 Cowboys are doing based off of the television scrimmage. So 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.360 the Cowboys had a w on Sunday. Can we not 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.640 celebrate that? I mean, can we not celebrate the fact 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.480 that they won that? Rob? I mean, we'll back me 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.840 up here, because we weren't necessarily sure exactly what we 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.519 were going to be able to show. Honestly, Yeah, I 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.679 didn't have one hundred percent idea until we got in 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.600 the building. Heck, just to just to back up Kyle 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.720 on that one, I will say this, there were fans 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.440 that didn't love it. You know. I think a fan 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.280 tweeted to me and said, what's with the area fifty 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:09.000 one practice we got going on right now? Nobody can 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.280 see anything that's going on, but Kyle's right. I mean, 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.080 I guess from the standpoint of they've had at that 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.880 point eleven practices to look at their own team think 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.040 about that, and so they don't want to show anything 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.359 to anybody else, and they try to give some Citan 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.280 sounds and they did that. But yeah, it's definitely playing 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.679 close to the chess right now with final cuts coming 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:34.160 up on Saturday. Mike McCarthy being secret Mike might be 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:39.360 my favorite Mike Isaiah, But whenever you're talking about secrecy 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.720 and kind of playing that next level chess game when 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.120 everybody else is playing checkers. You played for a guy 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.880 who played chess in Bill Belichick. But he pulled a 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.480 total Bill Belichick move with no numbers, no name on 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.880 Cowboys Night. That's the scrimmage quote unquote scrimmage we're talking about. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.120 It was more like a practice, but he kept it 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.200 close to the chest as ever before. Did you expect 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.000 coming from Mike McCarthy, Isaiah, Uh, you know what. I 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.920 can't say that I expected it, but he definitely went 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:07.520 blake Man on us man. We didn't know what the 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.880 heck was going on out there. I probably would have 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.560 been exposed because my dreads. But that's about it. But 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.040 I mean, I think it's I know, from the fan perspective, 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.000 I know, everybody wanted to see the guys, right they 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.960 wanted to see this team that has been that's been 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.040 talked about so diligently over this entire offseason. They wanted 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.080 to see the rookies that we've been talking about for 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.640 the last few months and all this talent and the 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.440 coaches and how these guys are gonna be work into 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.120 the schemes and and then we just saw you know, zoom, 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.440 you know zoom, zoom and no numbers. And that's fine 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.920 because as a fan, you want to set your team 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.520 up for the best opportunity possible to go out there 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.680 and win games, right starting nating what in another week 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.160 and a half right where over there? Um so um 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.200 he did that right. He protected the team, as you 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.919 always say, protect the team. Um. And he did that, 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.200 even though it wasn't at the pleasure of the of 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.720 the of the fans. I think they'll they'll they'll appreciate 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.720 it later on. And it seemed like there was frustration 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.279 from a fan standpoint, But and I understand both sides. 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.560 As a football fan, you've been itching for that moment. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.480 We would already have had four preseason games by the 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:12.080 absolute and so you're wanting that contact, You're wanting that competition. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.120 You want to see some of these young guys you've 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.600 been waiting so anxiously to finally lay your eyes on. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.120 But I also get it from a winning standpoint, you 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.240 want to take every single advantage. In a league that's 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:27.080 so parody ridden like the NFL, you want to take 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:31.000 every advantage you have to make it necessary and make 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.599 it possible for your team to come out on top 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.880 when the game's count and that's what we saw, I 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.120 think on Sunday, and that's what the decision was made, 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.400 and I can't disagree with it. I think I like 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.680 the decision because it shows that winning is coming first. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.480 Heckma yeah. I mean, look, I feel as though the 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.120 you know, the no numbers on the jerseys, that's you know, 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.599 a Chuck No, that's an old Pittsburgh thing, and Chud 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.360 Nole did that so that, you know, coaches would coach 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.120 up their guys and not be looking at the numbers. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.760 So when it came on the television and I saw 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.400 that guys who were not wearing numbers, I'm like, oh, okay, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.160 this is a new wrinkle, new fold. But that's clearly 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:12.720 Tyrn Smith, that's clearly Ezekiel Elliott Elliott. So I mean, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.840 I get it. I understand the whole you know, mystery 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.600 of it. And I'm sure once every all thirty one 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.279 teams found out that we were televising a game, especially 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:25.040 NFC East teams, they wanted to comb through everything they 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.520 possibly could just to get a hit or a clue 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.200 about what the Cowboys were doing. Well, none of us 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:34.040 know what the cow. No one knows because we didn't 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.080 get an opportunity to see anything. And so I see 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.760 the genius in it, and I understand why it was done, 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.080 but I'm pouting. I'm in my feelings that. I mean, 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:44.560 come on, I'll get over it. I don't know. I 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.960 don't blame you at all. Heck, and uh, you know, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.320 I kind of had a flashback to Bill Parcels days 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.159 from like the early two thousands when I think we 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.320 took a picture of a player writing an exercise bike 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.719 on the track out at Valley Ranch, and boy, he 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.440 got so pissed off at us for doing that, like 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.320 just he he wanted and there were no numberless practices, 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.000 but there were some some days where he wanted things. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.600 As you know, kept as close to the chest as possible. 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.960 That's what Mike McCarthy's going for. And like what Isaiah said, 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.080 actually Jerry said it on the broadcast there. You know, 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:24.400 there's sixteen practice squad spots this year and they're still 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.520 evaluating their team. And you know, if you can get 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.360 a guy to the practice squad that might not make 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.520 the fifty three, that winds up being a Miles Austin 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.920 type prospect. A guy that can develop into a special player, 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.400 then then it's a win. If the rest of the 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.400 world doesn't get to see that guy on Sunday night, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.680 Mayor Rob, let me let me add to that point, man, 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.680 just in case for the football road out there that's 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.720 listening right now. And I don't know, may Or may 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.800 not get in trouble for this. But when you're when 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.200 you're going through camp and you're going through the preseason games, 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.240 typically there's always a handful of guys that are really 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.520 talented that that just don't make them mark, right, They 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.200 just they just won't make the team, whether you're stacked 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.040 at that position, whether you have veterans at that position, 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.880 but you want to keep them close to your program, right, 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.120 You want to keep those guys close to that for 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.520 the whole purpose of a practice squad team is so 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:14.680 that if something happens to your primary guys, you can 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.600 go down and pull them up. Right. But in typical 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.200 preseason for them, if those guys are out there playing 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.760 and getting a lot of reps and they're not gonna 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.600 make your team, guess what, You're not gonna be able 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.120 to keep them close because somebody else is going to 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.320 pick them up and put them on their team. So 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.160 we used to see it all the time. Were guys 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:32.839 that should have been playing in the preseason, should have 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.640 been getting more reps. We're not getting reps, right, They 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.679 just wouldn't get reps because they were being hidden, right. 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.079 They were literally the gyms that were being hidden underneath 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.440 the rock because the scouting department wanted to keep the 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.000 guys close. So to the point, you know, continuing that conversation, now, 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:48.720 of course you don't want to show some of the 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.320 guys that you have on your ruster right now because 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.800 they're gonna get plucked. And by the way, this is 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.439 going on kind of around the league. I mean I 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.440 saw something Mike Zimmer in Minnesota, the great Mike Zimmer 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.319 saying talking about injured player and he sets up in like, yeah, 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:04.080 he's got he's got a thing. You know, he's got something, 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:09.080 And everybody is being very secretive. And it's got to 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.160 do with the circumstances this year. For sure, there's just 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.920 no time for teams to really evaluate their teams the 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.040 way they want to, and so this is just kind 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.400 of a natural course of things. Well, in kind of 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.839 going off of what Isaiah was just talking about about 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.559 those young guys not necessarily getting those reps. One thing 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.640 that I noticed starting on Sunday is we've seen a 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.080 lot of those younger guys starting to get more reps 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.800 with the starters. You see Dak Prescott out there throwing 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:33.760 to some of these bubble guys, some of these guys 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:35.880 that may or may not make the roster, and if 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.280 they will make the roster, they're an undrafted free agent 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.440 or there's something like that thrown into the mix, maybe 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:44.000 a second year guy something like that. Now, whenever you 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:48.000 keep that in mind, you also have these practices that 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.680 are indoors and they're closed, and Rob, you were a 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.240 part of these practices, you've been around it. Has there 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.400 been anything over the less last two days that has 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.400 really kind of stuck out to you, kind of in 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.480 that same sense of some of these other guys who 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.360 weren't necessarily in the mix early on finally getting those reps. Well, 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.680 I think you said it about rotating guys, but really 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.080 I think Mike has done that for the last couple 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.600 of weeks. He really has cycled a lot of different 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.480 players in to give guys opportunities, and I think that's 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.960 been beneficial. I think Dak and the offense have really 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.720 had some success the last two three days of practice, 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:25.920 two minute situations, situational team drills, moving the ball down 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.440 the field, some more competitive stuff now that they've gotten 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.120 through the installations. I think it helps to have Lyle 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.959 Collins and Tyran Smith back protecting the edges. I think 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.079 that's a big plus for him. He had I think 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.200 he led him on a seventy five yard touchdown drive 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.679 yesterday against the defense. So he's been productive and had 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.920 a really nice camp. And you said it, Kyle, guys 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:48.240 getting more opportunities in part because of some injuries and 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.160 knocking on wood. I'm gonna knock on wood here. The 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.319 Cowboys haven't had a ton of injuries anything really serious 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:57.200 besides Jerald McCoy, but you know, with some DB's been 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:02.599 sitting out lately, Cheeto, Jordan Lewis, Xavier Woods with a 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.720 little bit of a groin injury. Treyvon Diggs has gotten 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.199 more reps and has been really productive, and you're seeing 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.120 some other wide receivers step up, with Amari Cooper getting 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.839 some some limited work that's not apparently due to an injury. 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.080 They're just kind of monitoring right now. Yeah, I don't think. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:22.040 I think these unusual circumstances with COVID is what you're 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:26.360 seeing in practice with guys getting those first teams first 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.280 team reps because they would have been able to get 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.480 that in the preseason. Without it, you don't know, So 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.760 how else do you evaluate these guys, right? And so 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:39.080 it's it's almost like seem like war military war games, right, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.040 and you want to be able to get them to 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.520 the point that you understand that a guy is game 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.800 ready ready, But without any preseason how do you know? 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.280 So I don't take any weight. Well, I know what 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.520 the injuries. Guys are getting those opportunities, but I think 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.720 the rotation is what it is because you want to 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.000 get a look and see what a guy can do. Yeah, 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.800 even to that point, heck, I think while you're trying 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.600 to get eyes on players and you're getting them more 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.680 reps in practice, you still don't get a full evaluation 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.280 whether these guys are game ready. The reason being because 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:10.800 there's a whole lot of guys we call them, we 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.800 call them a scout team, Scout team warriors or seven 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.760 or seven champs. You know, guys can fly around the 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:17.640 field and even thud up a little bit right. And 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.160 when I say thud up, I mean just you know, 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.080 hit with the shoulder pass or your helmet and not 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.240 fully tackle somebody to the ground. Well, thudding up and 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.400 tackling or two different things, right, And some guys, there's 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:28.920 a lot of guys after that would thud up, But 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.360 a lot of guys aren't able to wrap up and 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.480 finish the tackle. And the unfortunately unfortunate part about a 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.240 lot of these young guys is you don't get a 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.040 chance to see how they would do in a real 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.880 game setting. And as a coach, obviously this year with 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.920 covid Um, there's no preseason. Typically you would have the 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.200 reps to see whether these guys are finishing off tackles 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:49.120 and making plays and finishing through reps. But now you 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.760 don't want to do that in a scrimmage either, because 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.400 you know you don't want to risk guys getting hurt. Right, 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.480 So you don't have a preseason, and you don't want 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.080 to do it in and get in practice because you 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.040 don't want guys to get hurt. So when do you 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:05.040 actually get a full evaluation, you don't. I was go ahead, Kyle, No, 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:06.880 I was gonna leave it up to view Rob go 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.080 for Well. I was gonna ask Isaiah on that subject 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.840 just because Michael Irvin mentioned it on the broadcast the 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.040 other night. The importance of having for a rookie, for 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.880 a veteran, just having a preseason game to get that hit, 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.960 to get that tackle, and they just haven't had it now, Kyle, 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.320 I think the first time we saw it yesterday was 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.040 uh some form tackling bringing guys to the ground and 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.280 kind of a half speed deal just to kind of 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.960 get the form down. Landing on a pad helps guys 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.560 with ball security too. But Isaiah, I mean, it's just 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.480 not it's just not the same. You don't have the 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.199 live elements until until September thirteenth. That's just the way 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.640 it is. And even some of these older guys, right, 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.160 even the veterans out there, I mean, until you get hit, 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.240 Like that's the whole purpose of camp in preseason. The 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.800 reason why you have with your veterans played the last 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.040 you know, game and a half of the preseason I 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.080 guess a game and a half and totally out of 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.520 the four games of preseason typically is because you need 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.280 them to get those hits. You need their body to 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.679 get to get accustomed to it because think about whence 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.560 the last time they've gotten tackled? Yep, when the last 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.079 time these guys have been taken to the ground. Eight 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.000 months of them, some of them twelve months. Yeah, you 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:11.880 know what I'm saying. So so, I mean, your body's 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.920 not used to it. So I think, you know, going 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.280 looking towards this for this week one, I think there's 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.800 probably gonna be a lot of turnovers. Hopefully not by 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.600 the Cowboys, but I feel there's gonna be a lot 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.800 of turnovers all across the league just because ball security. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:28.200 You can't. You can't. You can't replicate that scenario. Right. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.080 I can run them through drills all day long and 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.160 act like I'm stripping the ball and I know you're 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.560 stripping the ball, but until I know there's somebody coming 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.160 at me full speed ahead from this direction. Meanwhile, there's 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:38.880 somebody jumping on my back right here. So I got 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.280 worried about getting knocked out and hopefully not getting knocked unconscious. Meanwhile, 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:43.800 this guy's jumping on my back and I know I'm 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.520 going to the ground or I might get knocked out. 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:49.080 That's that's that's real life, this whole that's that's real. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.440 These drills. These drills aren't real because guess what, I know, 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.160 as hard as I run at this guy and I'm 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.400 running at these two linemen on kickoff, I know they're 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.440 going to stop right. But in the real game, I 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.240 got six hundred pounds of a grown man have to 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.880 try to run into and they're not going to stop, right. 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:04.960 Do I do I get up from that? I don't know. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.840 You won't know. Two week one, Well, that will not 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:13.160 be any tackling pads on the ground on against lat 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.120 we gotta get rid of and well, the thing is 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.840 back to that form tackling drill and Isaiah you mentioned it, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.240 even some of those veterans trying to get those first 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.120 hits in the most notably that the loudest pop that 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:26.920 I heard was late in Van Deresh and that's a 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.280 guy who really needs those hits. We talked about how 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.840 he hit Tony Pollard last week. That's why he's one 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.360 hit and that's why he did it exactly. You're trying 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.000 to get that collision, trying to test out exactly how 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.560 the neck feels, and some of the positives of coming 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.560 back from an injury is you do get to kind 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.720 of have a little bit more leeway. They know, that's 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.520 why you're hitting. They're young and up and coming running 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.680 back pretty hard the scrimmage. So there is that back 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.240 and forth. But now that things are changing from a 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.720 media perspective, we're not going to be in practice the 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.800 entire time. Of course, we saw what happens Sunday where 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:02.080 they're kind of closing thing off. The players though, kind 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.280 of keep that same schedule Isaiah, But what are the 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.960 next coming practices in the next couple of weeks bring 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.200 from a player's standpoint, to get prepped for that week 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.440 one kickoff. Yeah, so I think it's two parts. So 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.360 I think you have the veterans or the guys that 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.560 the highly drafted guys that kind of know that they're 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.720 going to be around. They have one mindset, right, They're 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.240 in preparation for Week one, Right, They're getting in that mindset. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.000 They're getting prepared, they're getting used to their rotations, they're 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.800 getting used to the calls, and they're ready. They're really 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.440 looking towards the first week. And then you got the 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:36.400 guys that are on the bubble, you know what I'm saying, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.280 that are fringe guys or the guys that are not 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.440 so confident that they're going to make the roster. I 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.920 was that guy a lot. I was in that position 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.400 dating there every year. Right, it's not only because of 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.400 my injuries, but because of the the situations I found myself 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:48.720 and I had to fight my way out of it. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.240 But you're you're nervous, you know, and you're not able 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.480 to play free. Right, And now I can't even imagine 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.400 to stress these guys have in practice, but can now 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:58.880 they don't get enough reps in practice. But now every 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.080 practice rep you get counts. Right. It was before you 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.760 can have okay, you know, okay practices and um and 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.600 then when you get to the game you can ball out, 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.439 you know, and and they're like, oh, okay, well this 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.640 dud's a player. Well guess what. Now you better practice 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.240 like a dog on an All Star because that's all 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:15.880 they have to go off of it. If you have 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.440 one bad rep at practice, or if you if you 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:19.960 miss a you know, if you if you have a 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.359 brain farting, you have a have a mental error, guys 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.560 are gonna be stressing over it because it's like, crap 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:26.760 is at the play that just gotta be cut. Crap. 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.200 Then I missed that as sigment. Now, man, now songs 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.200 goes in there and makes a great play, They're gonna 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.080 put him out there. And you start having these internal 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.800 mind games and it stresses you out, man. And when 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.800 you start stressing like that, you are unable to play free. 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.240 And as we know, in this league, you have to 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.360 be confident and you have to play free, otherwise you're 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:47.760 not gonna You're not gonna do what you need to do. Yeah, 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:49.640 guys know that the eye and the sky don't lie, 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:51.399 so they want to put that tape out there. They 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.680 want to be sure because guys are fighting for livelihoods. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.000 Today's Tuesday cuts come down on Saturday. So like like 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:02.880 Isaiah said, every single rep is important. And without the preseason, man, 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:07.400 it's almost impossible to try and simulate that real game 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:11.000 time experience. So look, it's going to be really tough 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.919 to make these cuts for the coaching staff. And maybe 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.320 they let go of a guy that's a quality guy 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:18.840 that if you've got in the chance to see him 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.080 in real action, he would have been the stuff that 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.080 you need. So again, guys are putting that film out 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.560 there because they understand that they are fighting for their livelihood. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:32.440 So you ask how important are these next couple of days? Yeah, man, 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.440 it's it's the difference between going to work at a 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:39.040 car lot and making you know, six figures sold. To 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:40.600 that point, Hey, I just want to add on to that. 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.520 To that point, think about it from the coacher's perspective, right, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:45.639 what's your goal? Your goals all get ready for the 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.800 next week? Right, you were in your head, you already 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.119 have probably ninety percent of your roster set. I know 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.000 guys don't want to hear that, but you have y 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:55.600 percent of your Yeah, you got ninety percent of your 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.680 roster set. So there's there's maybe three guys that you're 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.399 looking at that you know may go one way or another. Right, 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.679 So as a coach, you want to make sure that 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.040 your guys are healthy going into the first week of 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.879 the season. Right from the players standpoint, I need to 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.120