WEBVTT - Hangin' With The 'Boys: Todd Williams Stops By 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.840 Before listening, ask good doctor, if your heart is healthy 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:10.280 enough for Dallas Cowboys football. He's hanging with the Boys, 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:14.680 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:19.760 in Frisco. Now your host Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, and 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:29.120 Shannon Gross Monday after the Super Bowl. Hell of a game? 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.280 Hell of a game? Where'd you watch it? Kurt? I 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.720 just was at home. I just I didn't. I kept 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:38.560 it low key. Yeah, yeah, how about you. I went 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.720 to Christie's Sports Bar hung out with my friends. Yeah, 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.240 and all the obnoxious Eagle fans that were in there 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.879 place was hopping there was it was, it was, it was. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.560 It wasn't. It was crowded. I didn't have a seat 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:52.800 and I had to stand up. I got there a 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:54.640 little bit late, a little bit after kickoff. Where'd you 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.280 watch it? Nate? In my car? First, the first three 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.440 quarters I watched in my car. I mean I listened 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.640 in my car. I drive around for the you know, 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.600 for the first two or three quarters, you know, just 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:09.200 getting them. I like to listen to a guy describe it, 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.720 you know, and so I was listening to it. It It was. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.360 It was a good game, man. Yeah, you missed so 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:18.080 you missed the halftime shows and I still ain't watching that, 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:19.880 and I went I went back this morning while I 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.720 was working on and watched the game. I fast forward 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:24.440 through all that. I don't want to see your wife. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.600 I don't want to see you, your your cousin. I 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.880 don't want to see your singing. I don't want to 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:35.440 see your commercials. I'm you know, I look at you know, 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.200 I look at the super Bowl. Like I told you guys, 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.160 if every game I can get emotional, you know, every game, 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.880 the NFC Championship game, the NFC Championship game, the divisional rounds, 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.320 I can get I can be going, But the Super Bowl, 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.320 I just look at I look at it for just 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.600 just analyzing it, you know, calling what I think is 0:01:55.680 --> 0:02:00.040 what's necessary, seeing how the coaches thinking, seeing what the 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.680 players thinking. I'm looking at it just straight up and cold, man, 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.480 just cold and emotionless. Now if the Cowboys, when the 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.680 Cowboys make it back, I'm gonna be even colder, really yeah, 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:16.400 because I like, I don't want the Super Bowl to 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.679 pass me and I don't realize what's going on and 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.360 not aware of it. And when you when you're a fan, 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.120 you just holling and you are you just screaming and 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.040 you know, and every players are you know, you're either 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.639 falling off a roller coaster or going up the hill 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.480 of a roller coast. I don't ride like that. Not 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.400 in the super Bowl. I liked. I like to feel 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.560 that super Bowl. Yeah, you know, and even when I 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.400 played in Super Bowls, I like I wanted to feel 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.840 every moment. Yeah. I listened to a lot of a 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.800 lot of former player interviews throughout the week. You know, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:49.760 a lot of the local radio stations sent guys up 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.959 to up to Minnesota and they would ask they would 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.799 ask the guys that they played in the Super Bowl before, 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.040 what's the one thing that that you would do different? 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.079 And they were all like, just enjoy it, like step 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.920 back and not let it past you so fast. That's saying. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.959 It's like be aware of what all is going on, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:10.960 because you know, I tell people you the only show 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.440 in town. You know, we were driving around like they 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.320 ain't you would think this is a holiday. And I 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.000 looked a little bit my wife, nobody on the street, 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.120 like what do you think if it's not a holiday, 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.560 what do you think it is? You got understand and 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:27.760 I don't know if we can say this, but I'm 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.600 saying Westwood One has six hundred and twenty eight stations 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.640 up under their umbrella yesterday, six hundred and twenty eight 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.720 radio stations around the world up under their umbrella, and 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.280 everyone of them playing the Super Bowl. Come on, come on, 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.280 and I tell people that it's right here. It's all 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.840 right to cheer because the people in Boston, the people 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.840 in Philadelphia, you know, have had it. By the way, 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:53.680 it's Philly still on the map. Have they burned that 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.720 place down? Yeah? So have had it. Man. I mean, 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:01.200 fans enjoyed. But as a as an ex player, I 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.600 like to I like to look at it because at 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.720 different times in that game, I'm saying, what are they 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.280 gonna do here? You know? And I'm listening to these 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.480 guys on radio time. I I wanna think it was 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.200 Phil Sims. Quit chasing points, Quit chasing you know, quit 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.880 quit doing a two point conversion. Quit. I'm like, he's 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.680 shut up soon as as soon as New England missed 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:28.360 they field goal because not the game is being played. 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.160 And one thing that coach Peterson did that I admired 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.719 about him is he realized that if I get a league, 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:41.040 it's no lead safe. It's lead safe. I'm putting my 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.920 foot on the gas and I'm just going down the 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.080 road one hundred miles an hour, and anybody to step 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.880 out there, you're just gonna get smamed. I did not 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.040 want the Eagles to win this game, just because when 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.480 Eagles fans start chirping, you can always say, you know, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.520 how many super how many trophies you got? You can't 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.040 say that anymore, and then they're gonna come back to 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.520 the Cowboys fans, Now, when's the last time you won one? Right? 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.840 I didn't want him to win, but I respected the 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.719 way that he called that game. They took that game 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.560 from New England. They did not They did not follow 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.360 in the trap that everybody else does. Get a lead 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:17.120 and then just play conservative and then you let Brady 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.880 come back and what he does, yeah exactly, you let 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.520 him wrap back in the game because you could. You 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.000 refuse to mix it up. This team here knew they 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.000 could run the ball. They ran it when they needed to. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.760 But they're more important that Nick Foles threw the ball 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:39.200 and for three weeks. Now, I gotta do some shows today, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.400 and I know what everybody gonna do here, Oh nickname 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:47.960 Rah nah nah. You know, just like with Case Kingham, 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.680 you know your day gonna you know your day gonna happen. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.799 When you melt down, do you look at Nick Foles 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:58.359 as is he uh starting caliber quarterback? Now? Not that 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.640 question has to be answered. You know, will he come 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.640 back to Philly and be a backup? Well, if you're 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.680 on the contract, he had the choice. But what if 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.440 he ain't on the contract with somebody, you know, the Jets, 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:17.719 the Cardinals, with somebody give him a decent contract to 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.840 come start for them. You know, what do you do? 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:25.120 Do you? But but you gotta understand if you get 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.040 Nick Foles, there's certain things he does in the offense 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.159 that your offense may not want to do. So you 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.240 does does nick foles abilities fit with your skin? So 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.200 that's a lot of questions. Man, we're gonna get into that. 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.680 We're just gonna enjoy this. Congratulations Nick Foles. Here's your 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:48.520 reward you get who got the MVP? Okay, because I'm serious. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:52.640 When the game was over, GeV was off. You know 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.760 that part just don't excite me. Trying to listen to 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.360 what somebody got to say. You know, I still thought 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.240 to the very end Patriot's gonna win that thing, did you. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.200 I just thought they always seem to have this mir 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.520 you know, ways to pull out. Tom Brady was gonna 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.840 work his magic again. Not to have buzzers sounded not. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.880 I think they were gonna one thing that let me knew. 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.120 And this is where Peterson was smart at He like, 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:21.680 you know what, we can go ahead and try to 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.120 score and do this clock this way and try to score. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:26.920 But he said, but nah, we're gonna get all the 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:31.000 time outside of the way. Yeah, he took all the 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.800 time outside of the way, and he said, now I 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:40.840 need for my defense the maintain, you know. And it 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.480 played out. It played out nice. They took like you said, 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.680 they took the game. Man. They made a play. Yeah, 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:50.760 they hadn't done much up until that point, but it 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:55.280 was a Graham to knock the ball loose. Let's see favor. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.920 Look on the look and see what the third nine 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.200 percentages was. This is what made this game. So look 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.400 at the third down percenters. I was telling Douglas in 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.040 the back, I would like to know the third downs 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.160 that both of these teams were in. It was sixty 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.760 three percent for the Eagles. How many of the ten 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:16.040 of sixteen and Patriots was five of ten. And see, 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.560 that's what I was telling people to say. Man, this 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.400 game here, even though it was high scoring, it was 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:26.240 good because on third down, guys were making plays. It 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.200 wasn't like this was the first second down game. It 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.600 was third and eight got Mike the first down, Third 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.640 and ten got Miga first down. Third and six got 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.240 Maga first down. And so you you you you you 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.160 sitting there tight? Oh my god, oh y'all Norman to 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.400 fill it would get y'all the field. Normally New England 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.720 get you come on third and eight, both of them 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:49.320 teams to get you out the field. But they couldn't 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.360 get they couldn't get them out the field. That might 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.480 have been my biggest surprise about this game was coming in. 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.599 The defenses were I mean, was solid. For it was 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.199 fourth and points allowed going or New England was fifth 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.000 or something like that, and they, I mean, it was 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.320 a track meeting out there times. I mean, the thing 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:13.320 about it is Philly out patrioted the Patriots. If that's yeah, 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.160 you can say it like that because you didn't make 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:20.920 your quarterback reception. My quarterback made this reception right, because 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.000 Brady could have almost went to the house. And I 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.120 don't know what to speed like, but he could have 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.960 all wented. But he's short arms it m you know. 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.000 And it was a clean game too, not a lot 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.440 of penalties. It was a it was a fun game 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.199 to watch, like I really enjoyed. And I didn't get 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.160 that part they're showing the on the NFL network, Darryl 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.920 Green's carrying the super Bowl trophy, Like what, I don't 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:43.920 get that part at the end he's the one that 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:48.000 walked it out. Well, they've never had a super Bowl champion, right, 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.720 so you you so you had to borrow Yeah, NFC 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.439 e's I mean, he's an NFC. He's red skinning, a 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.120 long time fan, so you you know, they're like, man, 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:58.760 why is there Green? But they never had a super 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.679 Bowl champion? So who you're gonna get? Getting to check 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.240 it out? Norm Broccoli Apparently Daryl Green was the MVP 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.440 the last time this year was in Minnesota. Okay, so 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.520 that's the tie. Yeah, well but the tie had to 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.560 be an NFC's team though, Yeah, I mean, because who 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.679 you're gonna get? You gonna Dann Files the ring. Hell, 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.280 they should have had Nate. They should have had Nate 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:27.280 Dudon walked that thing out. I'm I love when like 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.560 you know people, man, you hate offenses. No, I like 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.160 how this game was played because of them. Third down. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:39.400 It was an exciting game. And you've never seen so 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:43.240 many just missed field goals or extra points, you know, 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.320 just like wow, you know, do a double clutch, you 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.240 know the Patriot to kick a double clutch hit you 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.960 know it was. It was a good game. Yeah, super good. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.480 We uh, we have a special guest that's coming by today, right, Kurt. Yeah, 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.839 I was supposed to have Todd Williams, who handles a 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:03.000 lot of free agency country. And what's Todd's title? Ah, 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:04.440 you know, I was gonna look that up. I'll see 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.079 if I can dig up. It's official. It's like assistant director, 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:11.520 Player personnel or something. He's Stephen Jones's right hand man basically. Okay, 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.080 he's gonna stop buying, just talk football with us. Yeah yeah, 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.800 all right, awesome, Well let's take a quick break. When 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.040 we come back. Title be here or he'll be here 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.200 shortly after. We'll talk some more super Bowl. 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We'll have to get over it at some point, 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:01.439 but I'm just not ready to get over it yet. 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:07.360 But we are joined by Todd Williams, and Todd, I 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.400 would say what your title is, but there's so many 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.280 words in it. I'm gonna let you tell everybody what 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.680 your title is. Well, it's a senior Director of Football 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:20.800 Administration slash Football Operations. Okay, but I told these guys earlier, 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.680 sort of Steven Jones right hand man, aren't you. Yes, 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.720 that's a good way to say it. Nice, simple, We 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.360 see there you go. So what what what is keeping 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.080 you busy right now? What are you What are you 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.400 guys working on right now? Well, A lot of things 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.560 we're doing right now is we're trying to get our 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:41.040 coaching staff all set, so some contracts we've had to 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:43.960 re up and then sometimes we're trying to find some 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.960 guys to feel some positions that some guys are left. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.560 So we're still working on that. We're getting a lot 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.720 closer to hopefully finalizing that, and that'll be a good 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:55.520 thing to do and so we can get on with 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.760 more important things. That whole does that delay or in 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.440 a bit or keep you from doing anything else, not 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.160 having the coaching staff. So no, not really, because I mean, 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.920 you know, our guys in the whole scouting department with 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:13.240 Will McClay um, they're still doing their their job of scouting, 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.440 getting ready for the combine and then you know, of 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.680 course then we'll go right into the draft as well. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.640 But um, with those guys, they kind of keep going 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:27.080 in same order and their procedures, what they're doing and 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.360 going through these uh, evaluating these guys. The only thing 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.360 we are a little bit not behind. But we're just 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:38.040 as a staff of doing our own evaluation of our 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:42.560 own players. We're gonna be finishing that up hopefully this week, 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.600 so it'll be a good thing. And then too, doing 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.040 that with some of these new guys that we got, 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.440 it gave them time to really study our own guys, 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.800 which is actually really good because you're having some new 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:58.600 guys that come in from other clubs that you know, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.400 don't have an opinion about our guy. So it's a 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.400 fresh look at those guys, and it's you can get 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.160 a clear message from them. So it's a that's a 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.080 good thing, I think. You know, sometimes you get a 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.680 little happy with your own players, you get a little 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.840 clouded sometimes I think, yeah, go ahead. So we got 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.560 a new offensive line coach. We have a new uh 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:27.360 secondary coach. Okay, the new secondary coach that gentleman is 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.760 have y'all decided yet, I don't know if you can 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.360 sell us. Is he gonna be your past coordinator too? 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.560 Defensive past coordinator too? He's just gonna be the defensive 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.560 back coach. Now it's looking like he's gonna be our 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.440 past coordinator as well, and which is good because you 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.800 know with him being a defensive coordinator and he had 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:49.200 a lock success up there at Seattle's Chris Richard, Yes, Richard, Yes, sorry, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.840 it's it's a it's gonna be a good fresh look 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.200 for our guys, and I think we need it. And um, 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.080 you know, he had a lock of success up there 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.360 with when he was up there with some of those 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.240 young dbs as well, which we have a lot of 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:01.600 young dB so I think it's gonna be a real 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.560 good thing. And then him with Greg Jackson, I think 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.280 it's gonna be a real good thing. Yeah, now you 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:12.200 got we we have a wide receiver coach Sanjay sun Jay, 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.680 and then we have the quarterbacks coaches more ye, so 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.199 what what are we what are we lacking? The special 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.080 is we have a special team coach, and so we 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.480 shouldn't be lacking too much right right, we gotta need 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.359 to We're still looking at tight end coach, okay, and 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.520 then we're also looking at a probably assistant special teams coach, 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.960 and then we're probably gonna need, um, another quality control 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.399 guy on defense. I think that's more what we're looking at. 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.280 What is I always hear quality control? What exactly is 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.000 quality control? What is that coach? I would say, like, 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.959 we're gonna use that, not degrading any money. But it's 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.720 almost like when college and those gas then go for man, 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.159 they do a lot of they go for Yeah, they 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.000 do a lot of work. Uh, and they do a 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:55.600 lot of work behind the scenes. And I'll tell you this, 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:59.480 they they um, they put a lot of hours in 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.159 and they work a lot, and you try to get 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.200 really good ones and you want those guys to eventually 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:07.879 move up. I mean, it's just like we looked at 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:09.880 Ben Bloom. Ben Bloom a little bit like that when 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:11.920 he first got here, and now he looks he's gonna 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.840 be our linebackers coach. So that's a coach. Gruden started there? 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.680 It did? He really? Yeah? I sure did? Uh. Greg 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.200 Roman offensive coordinated for Hardball when he was at the 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.760 forty nine as he was he was with the paid 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.080 another paper with the Panthers. He's it's a lot of 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:30.320 coaches start there. You know. They'll tell you. You know, 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.880 because if a coach come to you and say, hey, 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:34.320 you know, you come to me and say, hey, Nate, 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.080 I need I need a percentage of what they do 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.160 when they're in the eye formation. I need a percentage 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.680 of what this quarterback like that, what is his weaknesses? 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.080 And so you go and see every bad pass, every 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.720 bad and that's your job. You come back maybe a 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.280 day later, a couple of hours later. How quick you work? 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.840 It's a hey coach here it is. Yeah. They do 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:54.840 a lot of a lot of a lot of research. Man, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.760 they do a lot of drawing cards, and yes they do. 0:18:58.040 --> 0:18:59.639 They do a lot of the dirty work, they really do, 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.320 but it's it's a good way for one to get 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.359 in there and start really learning it. Speaking of the 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.440 dirty work, you've got kind of a cool story. I 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:08.040 always have people that ask me how do you get 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:09.320 into sports? How do you get into sports? And I 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.440 always tell them do whatever you can do just to 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:16.040 be around the organizations or you know whatever. You're trying 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:17.520 to get your foot in the door. Do whatever you 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.880 can do. So you you played football at Tennessee, right, yep, yep, 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.440 And then tell us how you got involved with the 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.320 Cowboys and how that your career kind of got going. Yeah, 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.000 so it's a start off. I was supposed to be 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:34.680 here an internship. I got it through actually Larry Lacewell. 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:37.960 He actually recruited me at University of Tennessee. Well, he 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:42.080 left to come to the Cowboys. He left about three 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.119 days before I was going to report, and so I 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.400 ended up still going to Tennessee. Anyway, when it came 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.480 down I had to do an internship, finished my degree. 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.159 I called him and said, look, you owe me. You 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.080 know I need an internship, and I said that's all 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.280 I need, just so I get me a green because okay, great, great, 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.119 we'll get it. So I got it through here. I 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:02.920 was supposed to be here for six weeks during training 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.639 camp in Austin, and that was in ninety five, and 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:09.639 I've I've never left, so I guess I did something right. 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.000 I drove the car really good, filled up water bottles. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.840 Weren't you like putting up windows or something? We ten 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:17.760 fall on the windows and foil on the windows. With 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:22.080 all the meeting rooms in Austin there, um filling up 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:27.000 the big water jug five gallon water jugs, um, running airports, 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:29.800 food runs, whatever it takes, just whatever you needed to do, 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:32.879 right And see that on which my brother, cause I 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:41.080 came in uh ninety eighty six and uh and supposed 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:45.760 to be cut within the first week. But I'm I'm 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:50.560 still I'm roam ride with y'all. You do what it takes. Man, 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.480 if you sincere about your career, and if people would 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.840 notice dedicated workers, yeah, you know, if you if you 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.920 always And then he one to just here filling water 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:04.200 about it is he getting to know what was going on? 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.080 He watching and so when somebody said, hey, man, what 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:09.919 do you thought about this time? He had a vatted 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:12.879 opinion and what was your degree in sports management? Okay, 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.200 in the minor and business, but that's you know, that's 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:18.160 what I did in like that first year. He said, well, 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:20.480 once you come back, you can help get moved in 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:22.680