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Speaker 3: is Nicole Hudgson, Aisha Warson, Jes Navares and Christy Scales.
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Speaker 5: I'm not saying who it is.
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Speaker 5: It's a surprise. Yeah, that's the Hinch surprise.
Speaker 4: I just know that.
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Speaker 3: But for now we've got other news to discuss, Ladies.
Speaker 3: No Tyron Smith, no Uncle hank Is I used to
Speaker 3: likes to call him. Uh yeah, Cowboys are losing Tyrannt
Speaker 3: Smith to the New York Jets, of course, Jonathan Hankins
Speaker 3: signing a one year.
Speaker 4: Deal with the Seahawks.
Speaker 6: Let's y'all just take aways, man, I mean, and this.
Speaker 3: Is obviously two big losses for this Cowboys franchise and moving.
Speaker 4: Forward, big shoes to fill for both of them.
Speaker 6: Yess.
Speaker 5: I tweeted this because when I got the notion the
Speaker 5: Tyrone would be now protecting Aaron Rodgers, the first thing
Speaker 5: that came to my mind was that scene in The
Speaker 5: Grinch when he's like hate hate hate, double hate loth
Speaker 5: entirely That's how I feel about it. And then you
Speaker 5: read the details of how the money for him is
Speaker 5: going to be kind of spread out, and Christy and
Speaker 5: I talked about this on another podcast, but with incentives,
Speaker 5: how much he can make. I guess what's very frustrating
Speaker 5: about this is that it was a very doable deal.
Speaker 5: Bless you, that the Cowboys could have gotten done to
Speaker 5: keep your hall of Fame, future Gold jacket tackle in
Speaker 5: that offensive line that is going to need all the
Speaker 5: help it can get. Already losing your starting center, people
Speaker 5: again can say and discredit the amount of I guess
Speaker 5: impact that not having Tyler Biattish will have, But being
Speaker 5: a center is a difficult job. That's going to impact
Speaker 5: to your offensive line enough. Now you're losing a veteran
Speaker 5: All Pro future gold jacket tackle.
Speaker 6: I can't.
Speaker 5: It upsets me. It was doable. They didn't find a way,
Speaker 5: and it's from strading. And now you have more holes
Speaker 5: than you did at the end of the loss of
Speaker 5: the Green Bay game. You have more holes and you
Speaker 5: already had a lot of holes. So how do you
Speaker 5: feel it? Just the draft, free agency, that's not that's
Speaker 5: not going on. So I'm frustrated with how you fill
Speaker 5: the holes that are now here, because, like you said,
Speaker 5: big shoes to fill. But you need a plug and
Speaker 5: play player in these positions. These are it's vital for
Speaker 5: the success of the team. So I'm frustrated and I
Speaker 5: wish him well and the Jet's better take care of him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it goes to show you how much lack
Speaker 3: there of money we really did not have right, you know,
Speaker 3: or we're just, in my opinion, not spending it in
Speaker 3: the right areas.
Speaker 4: They're being very prudent.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but they were prudent last year too, And and
Speaker 7: two of the big additions last year came via trade.
Speaker 7: And it was about this time of year when they
Speaker 7: brought in stuff on Gilmour.
Speaker 4: And Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 7: So it was mid to late March, like March twentieth,
Speaker 7: March fourteenth, something like that, March nineteenth and so but
Speaker 7: it caused you what fourth excuse me, fourth and fifth
Speaker 7: rounders and so now that's that's coming back this year.
Speaker 4: But a ship. What did your take on the Hankins,
Speaker 4: because I know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she's still struggling with struggling with it because they
Speaker 7: also lost Neville Gallimore.
Speaker 4: So two of your defensive tackles are gone.
Speaker 5: Ye have Galiless now.
Speaker 1: At the door.
Speaker 6: If I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 8: Your DT depth is also a Diggiezua, Carl Davis, Mazzie
Speaker 8: Smith and if you want to get a little fancy,
Speaker 8: Chauncey Golston. But I could definitely see Mike Zammer moving
Speaker 8: Chauncey back to d.
Speaker 4: N because you've lost Dante Armstrong.
Speaker 6: The DT depth is very concerning.
Speaker 8: If I'm not mistaken, Even when you look at you know,
Speaker 8: a lot of people are like, I mean, they felt
Speaker 8: like Hankins took a step back last year. He did
Speaker 8: deal with some injuries and things like that, but it's
Speaker 8: no mistake that when he was on the field, there
Speaker 8: was it was a difference in how this team played defense.
Speaker 8: And as far as DT goes, I just cannot believe
Speaker 8: that after that performance defensively like that, you don't prioritize
Speaker 8: getting veteran defensive linemen or tackles in this room. Teams
Speaker 8: not only attacked your edges, they did attack your interior.
Speaker 8: And to lose probably one of the best things that's
Speaker 8: happened to your defensive line. They went out and got
Speaker 8: Hankins because they knew they were not getting yeah.
Speaker 6: And to lose him.
Speaker 8: But also to to your point, just the details of
Speaker 8: his of his could change haven't come out, but it
Speaker 8: sounds like he's gonna be doing some veteran minimum stuff.
Speaker 6: So when you.
Speaker 8: Talk about that, even so, it's like, all right, baby,
Speaker 8: we clearly ain't on no target budget.
Speaker 6: I thought maybe it Walmart budget. Oh no, it might be.
Speaker 4: On a.
Speaker 6: Family dollar.
Speaker 5: You might not even be on budget at this point.
Speaker 5: At this I'm concerned I might not be on that budget.
Speaker 8: That's how my mind operates. But it's it's concerning. It
Speaker 8: is concerning the lack of urgency that I feel from
Speaker 8: this team, Like it would be different if they did
Speaker 8: not lose the way they lost to Green Bay, but
Speaker 8: that was arguably the worst loss of the year.
Speaker 6: And then to.
Speaker 8: Turn around and century the urgency and again, like we
Speaker 8: can talk about the cap and all this stuff. Hey, respectfully,
Speaker 8: we see other teams around this league do it. So
Speaker 8: I'm I'm I'm very concerned with the defensive line depth
Speaker 8: because like to your point you said, Christy, you did
Speaker 8: lose two of your backup ends too, so it's like
Speaker 8: you lost a backup d tackle Neville Gallimore and now it's.
Speaker 5: Just you can even scale it back. You lost Leyton
Speaker 5: van der Esh.
Speaker 7: I mean officially, right, I think what's disappointing to me
Speaker 7: is and I want to talk a little more about
Speaker 7: Tyron's contract and that when he restructured last year, it
Speaker 7: put dead money into this year's cap. So so Tyron
Speaker 7: Smith is counting second most dead cap. Zeke is still
Speaker 7: counting a six point one million for us and dead
Speaker 7: cap and then and then excuse me six point yes,
Speaker 7: let's see Zeke is six point four and so Tyron's
Speaker 7: counting just over six million dollars. Leyton Vandersh is counting
Speaker 7: two point twenty five million, and then Dorance Armstrong, who's
Speaker 7: going to be playing against you twice as a member
Speaker 7: of the division rival commanders, is one point five million.
Speaker 7: So it's not just that you don't put the money
Speaker 7: towards Tyrone or Dorance. Layton's a different thing because of
Speaker 7: the neck issue. But still you're paying so much money
Speaker 7: for them not to play for you.
Speaker 9: Nine.
Speaker 7: I know that that happens every year, but the Cowboys
Speaker 7: had been pretty clean with the dead cap the previous
Speaker 7: coup of years, like in twenty two and the like.
Speaker 7: The one thing about Tyrone, though, is we see that
Speaker 7: it's one year deal six.
Speaker 4: Point five million. That's what's reported for the Jets, And
Speaker 4: that's true.
Speaker 7: But well it's so it's heavily incentivized, right because but
Speaker 7: here's the thing. The incentives work in a couple different ways.
Speaker 7: The likely to be earned incentives meaning that we expect
Speaker 7: you to achieve them, mean that they count against this
Speaker 7: year's cap and then unlikely to be earned count against
Speaker 7: next year's cap. Well, he played over seventy percent of
Speaker 7: snaps this year and it ended up being like an
Speaker 7: extra four million dollars from the Cowboys for reaching his
Speaker 7: playing incentives. Well, the Jets, with all of the incentives
Speaker 7: that they put towards Tyrone into playing time now, because
Speaker 7: he played so much last year, you have to anticipate
Speaker 7: that he'll play that much this year. His cap charge
Speaker 7: is actually twelve point two five million, So I know
Speaker 7: it's reported as one point six one year for six
Speaker 7: point five, but you have to account for those part
Speaker 7: of those incentives that are likely to be earned. So
Speaker 7: it's twelve point twenty five now to me for a
Speaker 7: future Hall of Famer, a quality, proven left tackle in
Speaker 7: the NFL like Tyron Smith to me, is easily worth
Speaker 7: twelve point twenty five million, but having to fit within
Speaker 7: the budget there. But last year from the Cowboys he
Speaker 7: earned seven point three. That was with a three million
Speaker 7: dollar base, with a signing bonus and reaching four million in incentives.
Speaker 7: So just to put things in perspective, you got a
Speaker 7: a Pro Bowl season out of Tyron for seven point three,
Speaker 7: but it's counting six million against your dead cap this year.
Speaker 3: And expect him to honestly seed that because when the
Speaker 3: Cowboys figured out his whole practice regiment and making sure
Speaker 3: that he was off no veteran rest days of course included,
Speaker 3: and then Thursdays Fridays, he didn't practice till what Friday, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 6: So I do wonder what they're going to.
Speaker 8: Uphold that though, because it's not that's not the norm
Speaker 8: at all, and uh, you know, the Cowboys figuring that
Speaker 8: out for him was great. Well, another team follows suit,
Speaker 8: possibly if they want to get the best out of them.
Speaker 8: But there are some coaches who want their offensive linemen
Speaker 8: to practice, especially since they get limited time.
Speaker 6: As it is. I mean, he is, he is the
Speaker 6: veteran of all veterans.
Speaker 8: But at the same time, now he's going to a
Speaker 8: new system, you know, new coaching. He has to thank
Speaker 8: he has to gain continuity with that offensive line. I'm
Speaker 8: not sure that's going to be a thing we'll see,
Speaker 8: but it was a very unique situation. The way that
Speaker 8: they practiced him yesterday. You don't see that across the
Speaker 8: lead that often.
Speaker 5: I feel like it'd be foolish of them not too though,
Speaker 5: because you clearly saw the higher success rate that he
Speaker 5: had by doing it in previous seasons. I mean, again,
Speaker 5: you're talking about a guy that hadn't played a full
Speaker 5: season since twenty fifteen, right, and so this year you
Speaker 5: got the best tyrant that you have gotten in years.
Speaker 5: And I credit Mike McCarthy for being willing to do
Speaker 5: that with his guys to say, look, I'm thinking about
Speaker 5: the longevity. I'm not thinking about right now and all
Speaker 5: of that. You guys know what you're doing. And it
Speaker 5: goes back to not micromanaging. So it is an interesting
Speaker 5: point to see if the Jets will do it, but
Speaker 5: they'd be foolish not too considering you saw the success
Speaker 5: he could have with.
Speaker 3: It, and if you're paying him, you might as well.
Speaker 5: Yep, you know, you know he can do it.
Speaker 7: It's just so frustrating that cares. You can try and
Speaker 7: manage as much as you like. But the year before,
Speaker 7: but the year before with the hamstring injury, that was
Speaker 7: here at the Star in the evening training yeap, and
Speaker 7: he walked off hand string injury and gruesome. Yeah, and
Speaker 7: it was not it was not a contact practice, it
Speaker 7: was not a wear and terry. It hardly done anything
Speaker 7: in camp really, so you can manage it as much
Speaker 7: as you like. But that's the thing with these players.
Speaker 7: They there's a lot of age and mileage, well in
Speaker 7: Tyron's case, mileage on that body, you know, so it's
Speaker 7: it's certainly a risk.
Speaker 6: Now do you.
Speaker 3: Move Tyler Smith to left tackle?
Speaker 4: Do you think it all depends on what happens in
Speaker 4: the draft?
Speaker 7: Yep, you know it's it's heavy in offensive tackles and
Speaker 7: ayisha Is are draft expert on this show, but there
Speaker 7: are other teams that also have big needs at offensive tackles.
Speaker 7: So if you're targeting, if you're targeting someone in the
Speaker 7: first round, there, it's not a guarantee that you know
Speaker 7: at twenty four that he's going to be available.
Speaker 8: I mean, I guess the thing is, it's like and
Speaker 8: we talked about on the Draft show yesterday. Now as
Speaker 8: you guys mention it, this team is putting themselves in
Speaker 8: a position to have to draft for need.
Speaker 6: And again I think everyone.
Speaker 8: Does draft for need based on BPA. Okay, and they'll see, Okay,
Speaker 8: this is the best player available. We'll see where that
Speaker 8: fits in our needs and they'll draft from there. But
Speaker 8: they're kind of showing their hand here, and I don't
Speaker 8: think that's helpful going into the draft. They have not
Speaker 8: really replenished a lot of the positions that they've lost.
Speaker 8: You've lost five starters, five, not like one or two, baby,
Speaker 8: you and lost five and to go into this draft,
Speaker 8: I'm concerned about, you know, the fact that they are
Speaker 8: going to probably be drafting for the needs.
Speaker 6: They need to fill.
Speaker 8: And also too, it's so odd that they're handling free
Speaker 8: agency again like this and just the way that things
Speaker 8: are happening because you didn't get a lot from your
Speaker 8: draft class last year, so that puts you in another
Speaker 8: place to where you're kind of playing catch up. So
Speaker 8: we I mean, like, whoever their first three draft picks are,
Speaker 8: you're almost asking for immediate impacts.
Speaker 6: You're asking for almost immediate Like you definitely need to get.
Speaker 8: Something from them right away. Christy, you mentioned that this
Speaker 8: tackle class is deep. It is, but once you start
Speaker 8: getting to the mid rounds, it's like, I don't know about.
Speaker 4: That, So it's gotta be a first or second day.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And I do think there's more There are more
Speaker 8: guards in the later rounds, so maybe they do decide
Speaker 8: to just go guard in some of the mid rounds
Speaker 8: and they moved Tyler out there, I will say, and
Speaker 8: I've said it before, if they moved Tyler this year
Speaker 8: where he is.
Speaker 5: And I was just about to say, put him somewhere
Speaker 5: and keep him there, him around.
Speaker 6: He's the ultimate team player.
Speaker 8: He has been very, very open about the fact that
Speaker 8: he enjoys being reliable, is being called upon. But for
Speaker 8: the betterment, yeah, but for the betterment of the of
Speaker 8: the athlete, of the player, he needs to go somewhere
Speaker 8: where he can develop.
Speaker 6: This will be his what fourth year, third year, third year?
Speaker 5: I would hope that.
Speaker 8: I would hope that he would that the team, wherever
Speaker 8: they put him this year, they would keep him there
Speaker 8: and allow him to start developing and perfecting his craft
Speaker 8: because there's a difference between guard and tackle. There are
Speaker 8: so many differences, the kicksteps, the spacing, the way they strike, everything,
Speaker 8: and so I love that he's versatile, but I don't
Speaker 8: want that to be a crutch consistently for them to
Speaker 8: not draft accordingly and to be aggressive with that. Now,
Speaker 8: do y'all wonder if this has if the letting go
Speaker 8: of Tyrant says anything about maybe what they think about
Speaker 8: Austoin Richards or maybe what they think about also too.
Speaker 8: I totally forgot so when of my homies brought it up.
Speaker 8: They brought in Lao Collins late last year. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 8: they're going to try to make him the swing tackle
Speaker 8: and get him in shape and have him ready to go.
Speaker 8: I'm wondering guard to Yeah, I think you've got more
Speaker 8: depth at guard than than tackle.
Speaker 7: Know you're assuming that, well, let's go. You know, may
Speaker 7: may be able to give you something, or ball could
Speaker 7: could give you something. Honestly, I'm I'm more concerned about center.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, you got brock h Hoffman who presumed like
Speaker 7: if you had a game tomorrow, he'd be.
Speaker 4: Your your starting center.
Speaker 7: But it's just seems like there is more depth and
Speaker 7: moving parts not only with what you have but what
Speaker 7: you can get in the draft or free agent at
Speaker 7: garden tackle then at center.
Speaker 4: Does that make sense.
Speaker 8: There's some guys in the draft that are some of
Speaker 8: the later rounds that are I think will be good
Speaker 8: center options for good centered like.
Speaker 4: Like day one plug and play possibly yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I will we'll be there twenty four.
Speaker 5: I also think that later Day three, Yeah, day three.
Speaker 5: I also think though too, it's one of those things
Speaker 5: that I personally didn't realize until this season how much
Speaker 5: of a chemistry has to be built with your center
Speaker 5: and your quarterback. And yes, you can have a player
Speaker 5: go in and do what a center needs to do,
Speaker 5: it doesn't necessarily mean him and Dak will be on
Speaker 5: the same page day one. Yeah, like that's that's just
Speaker 5: the reality of the position is. Tyler Beyottish and Dak
Speaker 5: Prescott had a very good friendship outside of football that
Speaker 5: they grew so they could communicate. So we talked about
Speaker 5: that in terms of CD and Dak, how Dak and
Speaker 5: CD worked on the dockyard to do that Beyondish and
Speaker 5: Dak were doing the same thing, so their communication would
Speaker 5: be on points, so it would all be connecting dot
Speaker 5: you know, during games and not figuring out in game
Speaker 5: time situation. So again I'm with you, Christy, I'm I'm
Speaker 5: I don't like that they didn't try to reacquire Beatdish
Speaker 5: more because again, people can say what they wanted about him,
Speaker 5: and yes there was issues with with coverage and allowing sacks,
Speaker 5: we all know that, but also it's he you didn't
Speaker 5: notice a lack of communication from your quarterback in your
Speaker 5: center because they worked their tails off to make sure
Speaker 5: it was there.
Speaker 6: So it is concerning.
Speaker 8: This is my last thing when you look at the
Speaker 8: NFC as a whole, when you look at I think
Speaker 8: if you look at a lot of teams, man listen,
Speaker 8: that interior of the defensive line is what That's where
Speaker 8: a lot of teams strengths are right now. Is like
Speaker 8: the good teams is that they have good interior defensive linemen.
Speaker 6: The interior of your offensive.
Speaker 8: Line needs to be a little violent, needs to be,
Speaker 8: you know, ready to go wrestle every day. And so
Speaker 8: for me, I'm also too looking at their lack of
Speaker 8: running of run efficiency last year. A lot of that
Speaker 8: had to do with the center not being able to
Speaker 8: get to the second level consistently and things like that.
Speaker 6: Centers are tone setting as well, and there's.
Speaker 8: A temperament that comes with being a center, and so
Speaker 8: I do think that this team does need to look
Speaker 8: at that position in itself to see how they can
Speaker 8: run the ball more efficiently. Because if your center can't
Speaker 8: get to the second level, nobody cares. I'm just being honestly,
Speaker 8: and so it's limiting also as well with how you
Speaker 8: can do different run plays and stuff like that. The
Speaker 8: run game Stopping the run and running the ball are
Speaker 8: two of the reasons why you got kicked out the playoffs.
Speaker 6: And I don't understand what.
Speaker 4: Y'all they've said. The emphasis is on that.
Speaker 5: But that kicked you out of the playoffs just once
Speaker 5: twice two years in a row. Need not forget. It's
Speaker 5: a recurring issue. Everybody's are to.
Speaker 4: Be patient, that's for sure.
Speaker 7: It's pay patient for the first couple of weeks, fatis,
Speaker 7: but hey, you know, just just pay it. Pay attention
Speaker 7: to recent history. And this is the way the Cowboys
Speaker 7: have operated.
Speaker 6: And that's what's so upset. And because it's not getting
Speaker 6: you nowhere, it's.
Speaker 4: Got you three wins to three straight and twelve wins.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's fine and dandy.
Speaker 4: Measured measured in the playoffs.
Speaker 8: I mean, and it's it's not even that as measured
Speaker 8: in the playoffs because the issues that you had this season,
Speaker 8: they showed up in the regular season.
Speaker 5: The Bills not like it was like surprise, Like that's
Speaker 5: what I'm talking about, Like I knew it. Yeah, we
Speaker 5: called it before the game. We said, if they lose
Speaker 5: this game, it's because they didn't stop the run. Aaron
Speaker 5: Jones just ran all over the place. Look, he pretty
Speaker 5: much ran from one side of Texas to the other
Speaker 5: during that game. And again, where was your run game?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 5: Non existent like it had been all season, And that
Speaker 5: it was not because of the lack of effort from
Speaker 5: the players, it was it just it wasn't something that
Speaker 5: was normal because it wasn't there all season. Don't get
Speaker 5: us started, but you don't.
Speaker 6: That's my thing, is like my therapist tell me all
Speaker 6: the time. I used to like you, and hey, therapy
Speaker 6: is healthy.
Speaker 10: It is.
Speaker 5: We love therapy.
Speaker 6: She always asked me.
Speaker 8: She's like, I think you know the answer here to
Speaker 8: what you're asking me. And like, because I found out
Speaker 8: I've done if I'm making the same mistakes over and
Speaker 8: over again, she don't.
Speaker 6: She's not giving me insut. Yeah, she does not give
Speaker 6: me input. She's just like you out.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I'm waiting for them to figure it out on their own.
Speaker 8: That maybe drafting and developing is fantastic. I appreciate that
Speaker 8: they're a team that likes to draft and develop because
Speaker 8: I think there's a lack of that in this game. However,
Speaker 8: you have to marry it to doing some things in
Speaker 8: free agency. Free agency, especially depending on the position you
Speaker 8: don't want no baby coming in hehere and detackle. Most
Speaker 8: of them take time to develop.
Speaker 4: Like Mazi Yank told us, he's going to.
Speaker 8: Take time to get to the point to where he's
Speaker 8: gonna be able to efficiently stop the run consistently.
Speaker 6: Guys don't do that, Jordan Davis.
Speaker 8: Those guys over there, Jalen Carter for Philly, highly talented.
Speaker 8: Everyone was really excited about them. See what happened to
Speaker 8: them towards the end of the year. They're play tapered
Speaker 8: off because they didn't have the depth that they needed,
Speaker 8: and they're still they still got similarc behind their ears.
Speaker 8: It's it's just like you, I just don't understand the
Speaker 8: thought process, and that's.
Speaker 6: All you kind of said.
Speaker 3: You touched on them basically showing their hand for this draft. Christy,
Speaker 3: has there been a time that you remember the Cowboys
Speaker 3: just showing their hand like this heading into a drive?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they do it all the time. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: every year off. Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 7: But you know what their podcast thirty one, other podcasts
Speaker 7: for thirty one, other teams that can most of them
Speaker 7: can say the same thing. Yea, honestly really so uh
Speaker 7: but yeah, you talk about therapy.
Speaker 4: I feel kind of like I'm.
Speaker 7: On the on the receiving end of the one eight
Speaker 7: hundred number, where you know you've got the cowboys woes,
Speaker 7: and it's like, can't even walk the dog without people
Speaker 7: walking up to me and saying.
Speaker 4: What are we doing?
Speaker 7: Like when the guys go and not signing. And again,
Speaker 7: I understand it's hard to be patient.
Speaker 5: That's why I went to Disney. I said, look, I
Speaker 5: need some space from this. This is unhealthy. I need
Speaker 5: to relax. Yeah. Here I am relaxed. No patience, but relaxed.
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Speaker 3: I got here. We got a special guest in the building.
Speaker 3: Welcome in the girls, top boys. So we got Damont
Speaker 3: Clark week in the studio.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for your usban.
Speaker 1: So excited.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got a nice off season.
Speaker 12: I'm the saving right too much.
Speaker 10: I mean, back to Louisiana, spent time with family. Love that,
Speaker 10: that's about it. Got back to work, that's it.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Have you been starting to train on stuff like that
Speaker 6: over the past couple of weeks?
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, Well I took like maybe like a week
Speaker 10: and a half off and then I just went back
Speaker 10: to work because I mean, I I hit some goals
Speaker 10: that I wanted last year. But you know, the only
Speaker 10: way that I know how to to really just like
Speaker 10: get the bad taste out of my mouth from last
Speaker 10: year is just to go back to work. And that's
Speaker 10: pretty much all I really been doing.
Speaker 4: What goals did you not hit?
Speaker 7: You led the team tackles, you played over seventy percent
Speaker 7: of snaps. I mean, it was really really a wonderful,
Speaker 7: question great.
Speaker 4: Season for you.
Speaker 10: I used to tell you, Bro, I'm really hard on myself.
Speaker 10: So me personally, I don't really need nobody else to
Speaker 10: be hard on me. I'd be so hard on myself already.
Speaker 10: But I mean it's like for me, I just hold
Speaker 10: myself to such a standard that I just feel like
Speaker 10: I didn't meet what I wanted.
Speaker 1: To do last year for myself.
Speaker 10: You know, you know it was a wild season last year,
Speaker 10: and you know a lot of guys like going down
Speaker 10: and a lot of guys having to step up.
Speaker 1: But I mean that's all a part of it.
Speaker 10: But I mean, like I said, I just went back
Speaker 10: to work and just looking to improve on the things
Speaker 10: that from last year, just to take the next step
Speaker 10: this year.
Speaker 5: And demon obviously something that altered the course of the
Speaker 5: season was lighton going down so early on in week five,
Speaker 5: And you and I had talked about this and kind
Speaker 5: of how he was your big brother and not even
Speaker 5: just on the field but off of the field, and
Speaker 5: he was with you through your rehab process and kind
Speaker 5: of how difficult it was to see the empty locker
Speaker 5: next to use your locker buddy as well. So talk
Speaker 5: about how that altered what you had to do on
Speaker 5: the field, because I feel like there's not really an
Speaker 5: understanding of how much your role changed with Layton not
Speaker 5: being there anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean, Laighton's the guy. He was the leader of
Speaker 1: the defense, you know.
Speaker 10: Obviously him going down after the Sant Frank game, you know,
Speaker 10: I had to step up. It wasn't nothing different. I mean,
Speaker 10: the linebacker spots are really interchangeable. I mean, so it
Speaker 10: wasn't that it was just me having just to step
Speaker 10: up and knowing that, you know, Layton went in the game,
Speaker 10: so it was like somebody got to, you know, get
Speaker 10: the front set up and somebody got to get the
Speaker 10: calls out and stuff like that. So I mean that's
Speaker 10: pretty much it. Other than that, everything else was the same,
Speaker 10: you know. And I think back about my time at LSU, like,
Speaker 10: I mean, he grew me to the points of where
Speaker 10: I'm at right now, and even sitting back now, that's
Speaker 10: a lot of things that I think about last from
Speaker 10: last year of his past years. What can I have
Speaker 10: done better to help the defense? You know, And that's
Speaker 10: that's why I say, like, you know, I ain't really
Speaker 10: have much of an off season, I really just went
Speaker 10: back to work.
Speaker 7: Layton wrote a beautiful note to everyone, teammates, coaches, fans,
Speaker 7: the organization. I thought it was very heartfelt and so
Speaker 7: well written and emotional. But and I think it hit
Speaker 7: a lot of fans in the heart, you know, because
Speaker 7: we remember when he came in. It's this young rookie
Speaker 7: from this small town in Idaho. But what do you
Speaker 7: want fans to know about Layton and what he specifically
Speaker 7: meant for this team.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of.
Speaker 10: Guys might just know Layton from the football aspects, but
Speaker 10: I had the opportunity to do a lot of off
Speaker 10: the field things with Layton and just build their relationship
Speaker 10: with him.
Speaker 1: Even last year.
Speaker 10: Last offseason, and I was coming off my rookie year
Speaker 10: and I worked out with Layton all off season. It
Speaker 10: just really just spent time and just picked his brain
Speaker 10: because he's super smart. You know, a lot of people
Speaker 10: might not know Layton off the field, but he's an
Speaker 10: even better person off the field than he is on
Speaker 10: the field. And obviously he's gonna be missed, you know.
Speaker 10: And I read his heartfelt message, and I mean I
Speaker 10: felt it myself, because I mean, I know the work
Speaker 10: that he put in and then just from talking to
Speaker 10: Layton on the side outside of his message, you know
Speaker 10: what I felt for him because obviously nobody wants to
Speaker 10: walk away from the game.
Speaker 1: That they love, you know.
Speaker 10: But it was just the circumstances, and you know the
Speaker 10: same thing that I told him. Know, everything happened for
Speaker 10: a reason, and I told him for sure that we're
Speaker 10: gonna hold it down for him.
Speaker 3: How did you kind of handle that news? I mean,
Speaker 3: this was someone that's like a brother to you on
Speaker 3: and off the field.
Speaker 10: I mean when he went down, like Leighton and I
Speaker 10: was talking and obviously, like I mean, I pretty much knew,
Speaker 10: you know, the options that he had in hand, you know,
Speaker 10: and obviously I just told him to do his best
Speaker 10: for you. I can't sit there and tell you, yeah, bro,
Speaker 10: I would do this, I would do that, like, because
Speaker 10: that's not me, you know. And I just told him, like,
Speaker 10: obviously he had to make the decision that was best
Speaker 10: for his wife and for his little girl.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I feel he made the right decision.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 10: Obviously, having kids, you want to be able to play
Speaker 10: with your kids and enjoy that time, you know, And
Speaker 10: that's the biggest thing with me that you know, you
Speaker 10: got to put yourself in his situation. You know, Like
Speaker 10: I have a little girl myself, so I know at
Speaker 10: the end of the day, I want to be able
Speaker 10: to play with my little girl, you know. And obviously
Speaker 10: football is going to be here whether we leave or not,
Speaker 10: you know. And obviously it was hard on Laighton, but
Speaker 10: just knowing the type of guy that lighton is, you
Speaker 10: gonna see l around again.
Speaker 1: He's not going to just sit there and just be
Speaker 1: in the house.
Speaker 10: And you know, just obviously he's gonna spend more time
Speaker 10: with his family, but Lady's the type of guy like
Speaker 10: he wanted to be out there, so he's going to
Speaker 10: pour into me, He's going to pour into other guys
Speaker 10: to you know, because he wanted to be out there
Speaker 10: with us.
Speaker 7: Well, the one thing that's constant in the NFL is changed,
Speaker 7: and not just roster but coaches and the like. And
Speaker 7: so I want to ask you about not only Mike Zimmer,
Speaker 7: but Eric Kendrick's coming in and how much or how
Speaker 7: many interactions have you had with Eric so far, if any,
Speaker 7: and do you think he'll be an even greater resource,
Speaker 7: not just as a veteran, but the fact that he
Speaker 7: played for Zimmer for so many years.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I'm excited to have e kN Obviously he's
Speaker 10: played in the system already, So having a guy like
Speaker 10: that with experience coming in, I mean, I'm super excited
Speaker 10: to work with him. And as as far as Zim,
Speaker 10: I mean I had conversations with him. Obviously changes change
Speaker 10: is good, you know. And from the things that, you know,
Speaker 10: talking to Anthony Barr, like I'm going to really like him,
Speaker 10: Like I love coaches that's hard on you, Like, that's
Speaker 10: that's it. Like I come from LSU coach, Oh was
Speaker 10: hard on us. So it's like that's what I'm used to,
Speaker 10: you know. And he's a guy that's going to demand
Speaker 10: a lot from you, and I mean that's what I like.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 10: Obviously d Q held us to a standard as well,
Speaker 10: and he put a lot on us, and it.
Speaker 1: Was up to us to respond, you know.
Speaker 10: And the biggest thing, like I mean, it's it's the
Speaker 10: same thing, you know, it's it's just two different coaches
Speaker 10: you know that's coming in.
Speaker 1: You know. Obviously it's it's fun.
Speaker 10: You know, you can't make it no more than it
Speaker 10: really is, because at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 10: still football, you know, y'all know. I mean, it's the NFL,
Speaker 10: so things happen. But I'm super excited to work with
Speaker 10: e K this year and just to pick his brain
Speaker 10: because I'm going on your three thing. It's like you're
Speaker 10: that's what I'm saying. I'm going on three and it's
Speaker 10: a big gap between three and ten. So I mean,
Speaker 10: I'm just going to pick his brain and learn. I'm
Speaker 10: sure that the rest of the guys in the line
Speaker 10: background will do that as well.
Speaker 3: Is there anything Is there anything in particular that you
Speaker 3: are most excited about learning from Eka?
Speaker 10: Really just know, learning the defense. Like I said, he
Speaker 10: played he played with Zim you know, for a good
Speaker 10: while in Minnesota. So obviously when you have a chance
Speaker 10: to come and you know, come in with somebody that
Speaker 10: you played under their system already, I mean that's a
Speaker 10: no brainer.
Speaker 1: So I'm super excited.
Speaker 10: And just from talking to Anthony Bar like he's another
Speaker 10: Anthony bar but like they both are good dudes, man,
Speaker 10: you know, And that's the biggest fam me lot. I mean,
Speaker 10: obviously I'm laid back. I don't I don't do too much,
Speaker 10: you know, and I like guys that's like similar to that.
Speaker 8: I'm actually excited for you because with Zim, he does
Speaker 8: a lot of different things in his system. He'll show
Speaker 8: and go and do things where you're dropping the covers.
Speaker 8: He might play close to the line of scrimmage. You're
Speaker 8: gonna have opportunities to put the passor I mean, he
Speaker 8: does shake it up a lot for your the linebackers
Speaker 8: to be involved in stuff. But I'm also excited for
Speaker 8: you because you know, you and I have had conversations
Speaker 8: but and maybe you won't say it, but I'm glad
Speaker 8: that you're gonna have another teacher, another person to lean on.
Speaker 6: I think that's something that in.
Speaker 8: Yours the start of your career, it's been, you know,
Speaker 8: kind of guys being here and then they're gone, and
Speaker 8: then guys being here and then you're gone. And then,
Speaker 8: like you just mentioned, you need mentorship as a young player,
Speaker 8: and you really need mentorship as a linebacker.
Speaker 6: There's so many things that.
Speaker 8: Go on, and so I'm excited for you and your
Speaker 8: development to have Kendricks and to like know he's going
Speaker 8: to be here this season and like you said, for
Speaker 8: you to pick his brain. I've been covering the draft
Speaker 8: and we talk about the combine and we talk about
Speaker 8: pro days and things like that. I had the pleasure
Speaker 8: of going last year and just talking to some of
Speaker 8: the guys just in passing. I don't think that you
Speaker 8: get a real idea of how much pressure it is
Speaker 8: and how hard it is until you talk to those guys.
Speaker 8: Can you talk about a little bit just how it
Speaker 8: feels going through that process and how strenuous it is
Speaker 8: on you really?
Speaker 10: I mean, uh, just training for the combine when I was,
Speaker 10: when I was going through, I mean, it was a
Speaker 10: fun experience.
Speaker 1: You know, you meet guys from different schools and you.
Speaker 10: All have one common goal in line. You know, it
Speaker 10: was I mean I went to California. That was that
Speaker 10: was really was my what my second time going to California.
Speaker 10: I mean the first time we played U C. L
Speaker 10: A on my senior year, so that was only my
Speaker 10: second time going. And you know, I had the privilege
Speaker 10: to meet a lot of good guys that I still
Speaker 10: talk to to this day, do jersey swaps with them
Speaker 10: and everything. So I mean, you all have one common
Speaker 10: goal in mind. But I mean, obviously once you get
Speaker 10: down to the combine, it's.
Speaker 1: Guys from everywhere.
Speaker 10: You know, guys from verywell, which we all have the
Speaker 10: common goal in mind. We all want to showcase our
Speaker 10: talent and just just the things that you.
Speaker 1: You do when you go there.
Speaker 10: You know, you have meetings, you gotta you have like
Speaker 10: meetings with the nfl PA. You know, you got meetings
Speaker 10: with the different teams and stuff like that, which it
Speaker 10: could be nerve racking, but really when I went, I
Speaker 10: mean it was it was easy when I went because
Speaker 10: I was training that Proactive Sports Performance in California, and
Speaker 10: they really prepped us for everything, you know, and it's
Speaker 10: just like you really just going in the meetings and
Speaker 10: just having a normal conversation like some coaches going to
Speaker 10: be you know, just like having a normal conversation and
Speaker 10: some of them gonna just trying to see how you're
Speaker 10: gonna react. You know, You're just going down and just
Speaker 10: have a conversation. The biggest thing is just be who
Speaker 10: you are.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 10: That's what I did when I went in there. Like
Speaker 10: I remember meeting with the Cowboys. I mean I sitting
Speaker 10: there talking to Queue. I remember Will McClay was in there,
Speaker 10: a couple other guys, I think Scotty was in there,
Speaker 10: a couple of guys.
Speaker 1: I just went there.
Speaker 10: You just have a normal conversation. You know, they they
Speaker 10: already know everything that they need to know, right, they
Speaker 10: obviously just won't see if you're gonna tell the truth
Speaker 10: of something so crazy gonna happen. So I mean, I
Speaker 10: just say, like it is nerve racking, but you going there,
Speaker 10: You just sit down, just be yourself. They're gonna put
Speaker 10: you on the board like ask you like questions like that.
Speaker 10: But it's it's really, it's really simple. The moon.
Speaker 5: My question for you is, so, like you just mentioned,
Speaker 5: Layton was this big brother for you and really took
Speaker 5: on that role and you got to learn from him. Well,
Speaker 5: there's a younger guy coming in behind you with the
Speaker 5: Marven over shown who his season got cut very very short,
Speaker 5: very early in preseason. What is it like for you
Speaker 5: to be able to take over that big brother role
Speaker 5: for a guy like Demo who has so much potential
Speaker 5: that we didn't get to see yet it's also going
Speaker 5: through a rehab process. What's it like for you to
Speaker 5: be able to be that big brother for him?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 10: I mean I knew, like obviously he got he had
Speaker 10: the chance to, you know, get his feet wet. Obviously
Speaker 10: he got hurt the Seattle game. But he you know,
Speaker 10: he comes with a positive attitude every day. You know,
Speaker 10: obviously I'm I'm a young guy myself, so i can't
Speaker 10: really sit there like I'm a big brother. But I'm
Speaker 10: still learning myself too. But I mean it's like he's
Speaker 10: a great guy man. He's stay engaged.
Speaker 1: All the time.
Speaker 10: And I remember just it was the Jaguars game and
Speaker 10: some of the Seattle game from the preseason.
Speaker 1: We was just out there just flying around, you know
Speaker 1: a lot of times.
Speaker 5: You remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, we always talk about that. You know.
Speaker 10: We like obviously, you know, things happened for a reason,
Speaker 10: and you know, we both just super excited for this
Speaker 10: year just to go out there and just you know,
Speaker 10: just ball out together, you know, and that's obviously, like
Speaker 10: that's the biggest thing. That's what that's what we want
Speaker 10: to do, you know. And like you said, his season
Speaker 10: got cut short and he could have easily wavered, but
Speaker 10: he took it under the ten and he just like, Hey,
Speaker 10: I'm gonna do whatever it is that I gotta do.
Speaker 10: He still came to meetings last year when he still
Speaker 10: was standing gage, and he come every day and he
Speaker 10: ready to work every day.
Speaker 7: Love that, Yeah, I got something for you demon and
Speaker 7: that is right now, Cowboys Nation.
Speaker 4: Demoralized.
Speaker 7: That might be a little strong, but you see all
Speaker 7: of these players that we're losing in free agency and
Speaker 7: Tyrone and you know, Layton and Michael Gone and so.
Speaker 4: Many Hankins and Dante and Durrance.
Speaker 1: Or so.
Speaker 4: What do we have to look forward to? What do
Speaker 4: you feel good about?
Speaker 7: I guess what I'm asking you is to talk to
Speaker 7: Cowboys Nation because right now everyone's ready to jump.
Speaker 4: Off the bandwagon. If they haven't already, I.
Speaker 10: Say, just be patient. You gotta just trust the process.
Speaker 10: I mean, I'm I'm in the same boat that everyone
Speaker 10: else is in. Like, I don't know myself, you know,
Speaker 10: I don't honestly, I don't be on.
Speaker 1: Social media because you know it's yeah, yeah, you're.
Speaker 6: Kind of wild on this, so you know I don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't be on social media. So I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously I see things.
Speaker 10: Obviously if someone asked me about it or if someone
Speaker 10: tell me, you know, that's when I find out a
Speaker 10: lot of things. So, I mean, my biggest thing for
Speaker 10: me is just to control the things that I control.
Speaker 1: And that's the.
Speaker 10: Way I come to work every day. And I mean
Speaker 10: it's it ain't like within the play a game next week.
Speaker 10: You know, you gotta just obviously, you got to just
Speaker 10: trust the process. It's easier said than done, but I mean,
Speaker 10: you really got to just trust the process.
Speaker 1: I mean, this, this is not their first rodeo.
Speaker 10: You know, you gotta let My biggest thing, you just
Speaker 10: let the front office do what the front office do.
Speaker 10: You know, I don't I'm staying on the player side.
Speaker 10: I ain't in the front office. I don't get paid
Speaker 10: to it. I get paid to, you know, be on
Speaker 10: the player side. So that's the biggest thing that I do.
Speaker 10: And I mean, I just say, just trust the process,
Speaker 10: you know. I mean obviously, like we all want to win.
Speaker 10: You know, I know every player on this team to win.
Speaker 10: You know, we're gonna do whatever it is that we
Speaker 10: have to do. But obviously, you know, it's the off season.
Speaker 10: You know, it's got a lot of time. We just
Speaker 10: got like I said, just let the front office do
Speaker 10: what they do.
Speaker 1: We just do what we do.
Speaker 3: I've got one final question for you. This linebacker room,
Speaker 3: there's I would say it's kind of like a little unknown, right.
Speaker 3: You have Eric Kendricks coming in demo fresh off an injury,
Speaker 3: first year back, haven't really seen what he can do
Speaker 3: at the NFL level and you you know, taking on
Speaker 3: a role as well.
Speaker 8: What are you.
Speaker 6: Most excited about as far as just in.
Speaker 1: That room alone, I said, we all have the will.
Speaker 1: You know, we all have that will too.
Speaker 10: We all want to be great, and we all want
Speaker 10: to do whatever we can to contribute to the team winning.
Speaker 10: And you know, I can't sit here and not bring
Speaker 10: up Marquis Bell.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Just the road that he took
Speaker 1: on last year.
Speaker 10: And just being in uncomfortable situations and him just being
Speaker 10: the guy that's just going out there and him being
Speaker 10: the team first guy, and he, i mean, whatever he
Speaker 10: had to do to help the team win. And I mean,
Speaker 10: like you say, it's a lot of unknowns in the room,
Speaker 10: but that kind of goes back to let the front
Speaker 10: off his.
Speaker 1: Work and.
Speaker 10: Make it hea he's gonna make something shake.
Speaker 1: And it's like, I'm super excited.
Speaker 10: You know, obviously it's still it is a lot of unknowns,
Speaker 10: but I mean you just gotta play the cards that
Speaker 10: you know at the end of the day too, Like
Speaker 10: you know, So, I mean I'm super excited. I know
Speaker 10: the guy is super excited to, you know, get going,
Speaker 10: and I mean, like you say, we'll see from there.
Speaker 10: But we got a lot of time, and I mean
Speaker 10: I'm eager to get started, because the only way to
Speaker 10: get a bad taste out your mouth is you just
Speaker 10: gotta gotta turn the page. Obviously, that's something that I'm
Speaker 10: telling myself. You gotta turn the page from last year,
Speaker 10: because I mean, I think think back about last year
Speaker 10: all the time, but you gotta just turn the page
Speaker 10: and learn from the mistakes and just don't make those
Speaker 10: mistakes again.
Speaker 3: We're excited to see what you're doing, your three, what
Speaker 3: the Cowboys do next year. Thank you so much the
Speaker 3: Moon for joining us and taking the time out to
Speaker 3: come over here. Girls boys talk, so we're gonna take
Speaker 3: our second break right back.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
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Speaker 5: So? I went to his concert at AT and T
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Speaker 5: also through my name in the hat. So I'd like
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Speaker 6: A little wow. Actually I love that.
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Speaker 7: Hey, life is what happens to you while you're making
Speaker 7: other plans. Yeah, it was fun, good, Absolutely, it's a
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Speaker 12: We've got a couple of minutes and how cool was
Speaker 12: that to have demon Oh yeah, does everyone feel a
Speaker 12: little better, not just kind of in terms of we
Speaker 12: were saying it's hard to be patient, and he acknowledged
Speaker 12: as well.
Speaker 5: But he's very chill, chill focused.
Speaker 6: Surprised.
Speaker 8: I was laughing to myself when he because the i'ms
Speaker 8: over her like the.
Speaker 6: Combine be stressful. Well, you were fun if.
Speaker 4: You get to spend a couple of months in California
Speaker 4: getting ready.
Speaker 5: I also think he gives you a good perspective.
Speaker 4: That's where the team.
Speaker 5: Is right now following the loss, and I'm so glad
Speaker 5: he said, like, look, it's my job to be a
Speaker 5: player and not dictate what happens in the front office. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and given do they have another choice? No, But at
Speaker 5: the same time, he's focused on him and what he
Speaker 5: needs to do next year. And that gave me a
Speaker 5: little bit of a hope raise if you will, to
Speaker 5: know that these guys are focusing on getting that bad
Speaker 5: taste out of their mouth.
Speaker 3: And I love the question that Christy had asked, I mean,
Speaker 3: how do you even exceed your goals when you were
Speaker 3: the team's leading tackle list last year? But I mean
Speaker 3: that just says a lot about the type of player
Speaker 3: he is right now. He wants to just continue to
Speaker 3: get better and do whatever it takes to make this
Speaker 3: team better.
Speaker 6: He's a perfectionist.
Speaker 8: Like there's times I've went up to him and I'll
Speaker 8: be like, you're all over the place to game because
Speaker 8: I'm watching the film.
Speaker 6: He's like missed like three tackles, bro And.
Speaker 8: It is exciting though, because Mike Zimmer has a way
Speaker 8: of getting the best out of linebacker corpse.
Speaker 6: He's very creative and how he uses his linebackers.
Speaker 8: And so I'm excited for him to get teaching. But
Speaker 8: I meant what I said about the fact that he
Speaker 8: needs mentorship and he has not really had it consistently.
Speaker 8: Not again Leyden has been injured and stuff like that.
Speaker 8: But linebacker is so much up here. Absolutely if you
Speaker 8: don't have a veteran teaching you, He's learning on the fly,
Speaker 8: and quite honestly, I think it was December of last
Speaker 8: year that was considered a full rookie year for him,
Speaker 8: So he's still very fresh in this game. Yes, so
Speaker 8: the addition of Eric Hendricks is very important to the
Speaker 8: team overall, but I think for him, he truly needs it,
Speaker 8: and so I'm excited for him. And Demarbion over shown
Speaker 8: to have someone that's played the game this long around
Speaker 8: and stuff like that, because that's the thing about he mentioned,
Speaker 8: Layton's IQ is crazy high. It just was a point
Speaker 8: where his body was, you know, not allowing him to
Speaker 8: do the things that he wanted to do. So I'm
Speaker 8: i'm I'm excited for the linebacker corps to improve, and
Speaker 8: I think they know that they have to improve.
Speaker 7: The other thing that I really liked what he said
Speaker 7: was in regards to Zimmer, I like to be coached hard,
Speaker 7: because I think that's one of the storylines or one
Speaker 7: of the things that media and fans are talking about
Speaker 7: this offseason is the old school style hard nose of
Speaker 7: Mike Zimmer and young players.
Speaker 4: You know, you young.
Speaker 7: Players this generation. Then you know you can't treat players
Speaker 7: like that. They don't respond well. Most of the players
Speaker 7: are like down and that they they they want to
Speaker 7: be better. And so whether it's from a big brother
Speaker 7: type mentor Eric Kendricks or Layton Vanderesh type of thing,
Speaker 7: but specifically a defensive coordinator or an and or position
Speaker 7: coach to drive you hard. So I think that that
Speaker 7: what Damon said today dispelled a little bit of that
Speaker 7: thing about oh coaches and the young players.
Speaker 4: They're not going to respond to a guy like Mike Zimmer.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 7: No that the pros, the guys who are truly professional,
Speaker 7: respond to anyone who can put them, put them in
Speaker 7: the right spot and help them to improve individually.
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