WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Present & Future 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:18.600 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.439 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:34.960 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brons, Rob Phillips, 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:39.519 and Bill Jones. And here we are on a Thursday 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.920 at the Star in Frisco. This is Talking Cowboys and 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.800 Mickey with a fine salute as he settles in a 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.840 grand entrance. I tried a grand entrance. He just got 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.000 here in time. Rob Phillips has been sitting here for 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.160 several moments anticipating the start of the show. Hello are 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.560 how are you? Rob? I'm great, I'm ready, I'm ready 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:03.319 all right. And then here's Brian. Brian has brought us 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.320 that did they send him to the emergency room? He's here, 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.479 he's here, he's in the emergency room. Is he really? Yeah? 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:13.880 What happened? Somebody attacked Twitter? I think? Oh? Oh, Here 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:19.600 he comes. He's in the virtually here he is. Here 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.840 we go in the grand entrance. Here he is. They're great. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.720 Brian brought us, joins us here on talking Cowboys. How 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.840 we doing, guys? Good? How you doing? Are you? Are 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.280 you any better? No? Oh, no, I'm not. I haven't 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.759 heard you don't even have your phone, do you? Nope? Gosh, 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:44.360 that's why I hate Twitter. I hate Twitter, folks. I 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.600 hate Twitter. I gotta go. How are you folks that 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.760 answer or send me questions? I appreciate you. I hate Twitter. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.559 I've taken the Mickey Spagnola approach. He's lying. No, I don't, 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.720 I don't. This is I told Derek Eagleton, this is 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.559 my opportunity to delete Twitter now. I'm done. Too many 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.080 people rely on you, buddy. No, you have to be 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.560 at one forty in the morning while I sleep. Some 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:14.040 robot got me or something. I apologize to the Russians. 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:15.960 It might be Mickey. I didn't want to point the 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.359 finger at them. Right now. What happened to your Twitter? 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.320 Yeah exactly, Bill, I haven't looked. I'm afraid to look 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.360 at it. Don't you might get the virus. Oh, I 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.519 gotta get off it. Yeah exactly. There's something. There's something 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.679 weird about that thing going on room. Yeah, I don't know. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.400 It's me. It's yeah, it's awful. And I apologize to 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.880 all you folks to follow me. I apologize, I really 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.080 really do. I did not your fault. I didn't mean 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.160 to ruin your evening. So did people put like weird 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.720 stuff out? Know what happened? It was like a robot, 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:49.360 just a repetitive message, just the same one. Yeah, but 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.080 I was to be honest, I'm so grateful it wasn't 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:56.600 any derogatory racially remarks any and that stuff something that 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.639 I would that it's not me, you know, kind of 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.240 a thing. And so this is my this is my 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.480 way of never having to deal with Twitter again. Wow, 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.120 I had no idea. I appreciate that close up Kent 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.360 right there, folks, What are you looking at? I just 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.640 looked at his Twitter and what are you seeing? Nothing? 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.320 I'm saying, well, it it does not it has it 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.880 doesn't it? What was your image that you had? It 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.560 might picture of me and Bennett in San Francisco. So 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.720 it's an alid blank or yeah, it has to be 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:25.799 an egg. I don't know what they are now. It's 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:30.440 just a person like immersive silhouette of a person. Might passwords, 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.480 you know, yeah I would, yeah, I would. Next it 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:39.280 has a dot and a check mark, yeah, which is verified. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.960 I'm about to not be verified anymore. This this This 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.160 makes me so mad. This makes me mad. I just 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:47.960 and I don't mean to start. Here are five minutes 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.920 and a showing bitching about Twitter. You know, I just 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.360 hate it. I hate it with people. You know, people, 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.800 but you but no, no, no people. How you enjoy 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.640 answering people's questions? Right? I do, but they're But the 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.760 problem is when it when it when it back? You 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.000 know when it when it when it gets to the the 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.920 point where now someone's timeline is completely jacked because of 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:14.400 my stuff. That's not that's not what kind of crap 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.920 is that. That's where I'm mad. I'm mad because people 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:19.960 are looking at going, oh brought us you got hacked? 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.080 Oh yeah, yeah, I know it. I got hacked. I 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.360 woke up this morning. I got hacked. And then then 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.159 you try and get it with Twitter. I'm sorry, this 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.360 is Mickey's minute. Can't give me it. Hit the sounder, yeah, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.680 it's play. Hit the sounder. Bays brought us those two minutes. 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:33.599 I don't have it. I'm locked out of that machine 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.640 right now. You got that, Yeah, I got the issues. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.680 You got the virus too, exactly happening around. Okay, I 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.360 try and change my password and Twitter says, oh, you've 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:46.720 used too many opportunities, you've gone, you've exceeded your Oh 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.960 so somebody was trying to figure out Yeah, I don't 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:56.080 know anyway, maybe they changed your password. They probably did, 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.120 can't you know? And it just gives me good reason 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.400 not to deal with it. I'll figure it out. Don'll 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.320 be back online before you Yeah, I get you know, 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.719 you know, I gave it to everybody doing, gave it 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.440 to him today to try and figure out Jason, Garrett channone, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.880 it's not Garrett channone? What's that? What's that? Barabotic? I 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.400 got this? Yeah, don't worry about Twitter's on fire of hell? 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.640 Is he better today, Shannon? Yeah, I don't know he 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.240 he was. I don't making his whole building's fault. It 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.480 was out falling. Yeah, it's falling down around. It's a 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:31.000 bad omen for Cowboys, Eagles. I hope it's because I 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.600 apologize everybody out there for coming in. They're all pissed off. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.280 My bad. Well, it's understandable. Yeah, I just don't. I 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.760 hate it when it makes other people's lives kind of 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.760 what they kind of look like, what what do they 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.960 have to do with all that? You know? I don't 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:45.840 want to so they got to get rid of broad Us. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.799 They should so they don't get a bad tweet. They should. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.200 They should have many followers? Did you have? I'll say 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.240 it past tense now that you have kid. I didn't 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.280 know this number because I actually do care about it 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.880 because it was closing in on one hundred k. It's 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.800 it'd say, almost at ninety nine thousand. Yeah. Yeah, it's 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.039 interesting that we bring this up off the top because 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.280 I was going to ask you, do you know what 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:13.000 has what has been your most liked or retweeted tweet? 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.320 It's always stuff to do with the draft, right, people 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.320 love the draft. Do you remember about how many it 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.000 might too? I don't, but I just it's anything to 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.720 do with the draft. Folks love the draft. How would 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.280 you know that? Well, you just you tweet something and 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.720 then it shows you the number of people who have 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.320 liked the tweet tweeted. In fact, the reason I asked 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.840 I had a tweet this week about Kyler Murray is 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.799 the Heisman Trophy is the fifteenth Texas high school football 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.160 product in the last fifteen years to be named a 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:46.200 Heisman Trophy finalists. Right, and somebody there was somebody with 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.839 a lot of followers who must have retweeted it because 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:54.520 it has two thousand, two hundred nine likes on it. Yeah, okay, 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.760 which is I mean? For me, I've got like eighteen 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.680 thousand followers. I mean. The only other time that I've 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.040 had a tweet that Matt came close to that and 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.680 probably exceeded that was when I was covering the Rangers 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.040 in spring training. It was the day after you Darvish 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:12.520 tore his is ucl is ultra ulner collateral ligament, had 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.960 to have Tommy John surgery. The next day, he was 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.280 out on the field throwing left handed. Yeah, and I 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.800 had video of him throwing left handed and he I said, okay, 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.960 you Darvish tours ligament in his right elbow, so he's 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.080 now a left handed pitcher. And there were I got 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.880 so many Japanese followers, and I guarantee you it had 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.840 like three thousand retweets and head, Hey, that's whatever. But anyway, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.240 so with you with one hundred thousand followers in the trap, 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:44.240 there had to be so many. We're gonna get this 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.040 thing fixed and we're gonna get you back on. I 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.560 appreciate that because because we need you on there, because, 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.080 like you said, draft related stuff even this season, like 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.520 just pisses me off. Yeah, fix, I didn't know that 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.360 counter was on there. Yeah, so, Mickey, no telling how 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.080 many you've had absolutely yeah, Eagles, right, Oh, I know, 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.640 I know followers I didn't know likes. Yeah, yep, yep. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.120 And the only thing people like what I do and 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.560 somebody has a derogatory comment about me and I say 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.960 bye bye, and then everybody thinks, ha ha, that's funny. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:12.720 That's my favorite. I always like that one too. And 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.040 by the way, since you're no longer on Twitter, Brian, 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:20.239 you can't see this remark, but Reuben Cardona says, sorry 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.960 to hear you don't like Twitter anymore. Yeah, just so 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:27.120 you know, I really appreciate you answering my dumb questions. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.559 You don't have dumb questions, Trueman. I appreciate your questions. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:35.040 All right, all right, Eagles, everybody doing great. Give us 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.800 enough for that. Give us an injury update, Mickey, what 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:39.920 do you know? I'm sorry about that. Took ten minutes. 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.080 That's way too long for that. Go ahead and make you. Um. 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:50.120 I think the most critical ones are that think about it. Yeah, 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:55.880 let me think about it. Jump, I'm sorry, he limited, Yes, 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.000 so that was a step in the right direction. Cole Beasley, 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.800 I think everybody was infinitely worried about him and his 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.600 sprained foot that he finished the game with was limited, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.079 so that was a step in the right direction. And 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:14.360 uh literally slew a Philo was limited so he was 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.720 able to practice. And Zach Martin was listed as full 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.960 and that might be the first time it's been full 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:28.319 since before Thanksgiving. Yeah, and wait before a DNP and 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.880 that didn't change, and Irving didn't change, and Tavon Austin 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:38.400 didn't change. Uh. Chitabeowoozi was DNP but he was sick, 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.640 so that I don't want to say that's a good thing, 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.199 but it's not an injury. Yeah, And the Eagles have 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.000 their problems also, by the way, to walk through yesterday, 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:51.360 to walk through, well, Jalen Mills couldn't walk through. Yeah, Maddox, 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.800 their backup corner couldn't walk through. The costn't walk through. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.280 They're compromised there. This is this is where this game 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.160 is going to hinge for me. In the secondary. Yeah, 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.280 let's let's see if Dallas can take advantage of the secondary. 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.680 You get some protection. Again, we talked about this yesterday. 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.959 Bill if Mickey's offensive line can hold up in this 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.719 game if they can, if they can just kind of 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.960 hold up, you know, if it means keeping it tied 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.440 in or keeping whatever you have to do, hold up 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.000 because you can make some plays against the secondary. I 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.240 do believe that that. And it might be early to 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.440 back people off, you know, so you can be able 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.959 to run the football a little bit. The team always 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.160 strives for balance, but it might be the good plan 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.240 to go early pass and try and get some things 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.679 going that way with a secondary. It just comes down 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.440 to finishing drives, though talked about it yesterday. Been awful 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.839 red zone goal to goal their thirty first bill. We 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.600 talked about that yesterday. In the league, in finishing drives, 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.320 goal to goal situations, Philly hasn't been great at it either. 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.920 But you know, we talked to Cold Easily about things yesterday. Offensively, 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:53.559 he said, you know that we're happy to win the game, 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.080 win the Saints game last week, but offensively, we were 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.800 frustrated with the way we played. Didn't score enough points 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.240 and so there wasn't and it was a weird vibe 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.439 in that locker room after that game. I mean, guys, 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.559 weren't about one of the game. They weren't elated with 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.400 the victory. I think a lot of the guys expected it. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.360 They expected to win the game. Maybe that and the 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.960 fact that they didn't think they played well enough. They 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.600 thought they should have maybe blown them out. Honestly, we've 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.960 had that happening. How much how much do you think 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:28.640 players are in tune with what us outsiders are standings 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.360 and stuff. Yeah, about the perspective of VERI early little 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.280 Brad Sham and I sat there and talked with Tyrone 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:42.560 Crawford the other day and we were explaining the standings 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:47.080 and everything, and he was he was, oh, oh, okay, 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.640 and it's like, well, who do they have to play? Yeah, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.600 It's like, well the Rams the Texans? Oh really yeah? Uh? 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.960 And and so where are they compared? And he had 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.160 no clue. See, I can understand that a player not 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.079 understanding who the Eagles have left to play, but you 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.480 would think they would understand who they have left. Oh, 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.120 I think he no. Here's what I heard an interview 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.360 with somebody after a game. It was another team I've 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.000 been like Courtland Sutton or somebody with the Broncos or 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.880 I can't remember who it was. And they literally they 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.920 were being interviewed after the game, and he said, whoever 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.719 we play next week, I'm gonna do whatever. And I 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.679 could not believe that this player. It sounded genuine that 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.240 this player really did not know who their next opponent 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.000 was going to be. Jason Garrett tries not to let 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.600 them live in that world, right, I mean he truly 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.040 like what he says to us day to day. I 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:39.839 think that's what he preaches to them too. Now. I 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:41.600 think there's a point in time where he will say 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.480 to them, all right, this is what we've got to do. 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.720 But that time hasn't come yet. I mean, really, all 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:50.560 they need to do is keep winning. So how could 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.439 you not know when you're talking about the Saints last week? Okay, 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.280 we all know what the Saints have been tearing it up, Yes, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.439 but maybe in the perspective of the guys in the locker, 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:07.240 around the world attention and so they are, they knew 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.640 how good they were, but they were stopping it. Yeah, 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.560 unless Marinelli goes into the meeting and says it starts 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.280 talking about the Saints offense and says, now they've won 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.400 ten games in a row, we got to buckle down 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.360 something like that. Remember, on the remember on the Amazon show. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.560 They were on Amazon. Yeah, like Dez, It's like, well, 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.120 aren't we any good? Yeah, Derek dood. I mean we're 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.559 talking about the Broncos secondary and all the All pros 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.480 and Pro Bowlers and the Broncos secondary last year, and 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.840 Dez took offense to it and say, what about us. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:37.800 I guarantee you they got sick of here? And how 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.240 good the Saints were from us? From us, from the media, 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.040 they they got they got tired without question. Um. But 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.439 Tyrone told us the other day too, like he he 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.280 doesn't really watch football outside of film studying for the week. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.040 So you know, maybe guys aren't. They go home and 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:53.959 they have lives and they do other things. And the 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.719 other thing is, which we can even see when we're 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.440 looking at coaches film and stuff, that there's a fine 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.480 line a lot of times between getting up on a team, 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.520 winning a game whatever. There comes down to certain plays 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.080 and you know that they've been coached during the week 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.160 that these are the weaknesses that the Saints have. If 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.520 you can take advantage of this, then we have a 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.720 chance to win the game. So that builds confidence that okay, 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.000 we can do this, and so then they expect to 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.720 score touchdowns rather than kick field goals against the Saints 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.200 on offense. To put in the perspective of our conversation, 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.680 somebody made a comment. They were asked about a team 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:36.000 and the answer was, well, I haven't started watching tape 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.480 on them yet, but as we were getting ready for 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.720 such and such game, we saw them on tape. And 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.520 it's not like they sat at home and oh, it's 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.480 Thursday night. Let me set the DVR because I'm watching 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.600 this game tonight, you know, and picture this. Do you 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.760 think Zeke has sat at home and looked at the 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:59.360 standings and said, you know, if we win two more games, 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.240 we're going to plane the NFC East, you know, because 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:06.200 I can do the math on sitting there. Why don't 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.920 want to believe? Why don't want to believe that these 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.160 guys do know? Why do I want to believe that 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.880 because people probably tell them. I think, guys, here are things, 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:17.600 but just I don't know. I just don't know how 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.920 you could play a whole season or get get to 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.600 a certain point and not know what you have to do. 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.120 It's actually a pretty good deal if you don't, well, 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.320 oh no, it will, trust me. I mean, it's a 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.080 great deal if you. I mean, I would rather go 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.720 cook crawfish. Guys sit there and have to do it. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:34.920 Let me ask you this. When you were in high 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:38.560 school playing for W. T. White College, I knew, I 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.280 knew how we were going to get into a bowl game. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.200 I knew you had to be to win a conference championship, 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.840 you had to beat Mississippi State, you had to be. 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.400 You figured it out in general. I drove real quick 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.040 for us to get into Sugar Bowl. In nineteen eighty four. 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.080 I drove with two other buddies from a bar in 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:01.160 Baton Rouge to Birmingham, Alabama, so I could watch Alabama 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.360 be Auburn to us to get in the Sugar Bowl. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.400 That's on a on a Friday afternoon. I did that. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.760 Maybe I'm weird. Maybe I want to because if I'm 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.480 in scouting, I did in scouting. I knew, Okay, you 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.120 gotta win ten games. How what's the combination to get 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.720 to ten to get you in the playoffs. Sometimes it 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.560 doesn't work, but a lot of times it does. I 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.640 think if guys are on Twitter, they probably read some 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.120 of this stuff or people tell them. But yeah, it 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.040 doesn't surprise me that guys don't know the Eagles schedule 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.800 the rest of the way. They their head coach tries 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:37.360 to lock them literally on what they're doing on Thursday today, 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.320 and that's it. And I think they buy into that. 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.520 I really do believe that. Now. Do they know the 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.320 other standings in the division? Yeah, but going like deep 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:49.200 dive next gen type crap. No, they don't. And I 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.720 wouldn't either go out and play. Okay, I'll take it 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.280 down to step further. When you were in the youth league, 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.800 did you know who you're playing next week? No questions 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.320 you guys had about you guys listening to you, guys 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:05.000 driving around night blue, questions about Patrick, Yeah, Patrick Crayton. Yeah, exactly, 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.760 that's a good question. I knew my batting average. Okay, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.240 he goes. I had a little book and every day 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.000 came home and they're better. Not have been a couple 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.480 of zeros for something, right, It's time to see funning 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.640 and beating it out. I just don't when the player 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.080 always says we just tuned it out, we don't listen. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.400 Here's my I've had players walk up to me and said, 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.600 why did you say that? That's a different comp you know, 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.040 And and I look at them like, okay, you're telling 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.280 me you don't listen to what we say. All right, 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.400 that's a different thing. Here's it. Yes, here's what I've contended. 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.000 Really well, yeah, that's different than standings and all that 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.000 kind of stuff. Knowing what you have to do to 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.320 get in the playoffs. I bet this is what Zeke knows. 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.639 He knows that he's twenty five yards behind tired Gurley 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.920 for the rushing. Yeah, yeah, he would be. He would 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.360 know that. I think he knows that all right. When 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:59.520 I limited amount that I played, Okay, I knew that stuff, 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.639 but I would a budding sportscaster. Okay, yeah, I was 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.159 a journalist at heart, and so I was into that 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.520 sort of thing. But I think with these professional athletes, 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:12.119 I mean, if you're if you're that good, how about baseball? 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.400 They get down to the end, they know how many 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.760 games they've got left and how many they've got to win, 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.119 and Matt why they have magic numbers. I think that 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.600 they are so good at what they do that they 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:23.920 don't have to They don't even mess with a lot 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:27.600 of the periphery stuff that we do because you guys, 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.800 I think you guys are getting fooled here not getting fooled. Yes, 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.760 I like I just said, I think general stuff they 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:37.760 probably know deep dive into what how many games this 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:39.720 team has against this team? Like now they don't know 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.400 that stuff now this day and age of I mean, okay, 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.240 I would say in nineteen ninety two when Bill and 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.480 Mickey were covering the team, and Mickey would walk up 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.119 and say, well, they've got you know, Mickey would know 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.840 the schedule of the Philadelphia Eagles, and then maybe that 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.320 you know, maybe Nate Newton didn't know exactly who the 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.560 Eagles were going to play. But with the way that 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.440 social media is nowadays, if they see you can, you 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.040 can follow. I mean these guys follow like writers and stuff. 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.359 They know what's going on. Some of them do, some 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.040 of them Crawford follows me. I think on Twitter. I 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.560 think they know when they clinch a division title, somebody 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:16.040 gives them a hat. Now one I can't believe. No. 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.320 I just think that they are so into, like what 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.800 Mickey says, with their own personal stuff that they don't 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.320 It's like with players at this point in time of 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.200 the year. You don't think I think they know what 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.320 the standings are. I think they know who they're gonna play. 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:34.560 I don't think they compute the ramifications of this game, 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.800 this game and how it affects us. How you sit 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:39.240 down and watch Sunday Night football and the third fourth 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:45.440 quarter they put up playoff picture division leaders. Then maybe 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.960 that's there. There's another question. Maybe that's when Dak fell asleep. 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:53.000 How many of the players on the team know all 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.760 the what the names of all the players on the 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:59.480 team are? No, their own teammates, Yeah, their own teammates. Oh, 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.280 I I guarantee you. There are a bunch of guys 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:05.119 in there. And I'm talking about the girls. What are 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.200 you doing here now? No, No, I'm talking about that. 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.600 I'm talking about the guys that get signed during the season, 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:15.479 you know, okay at the beginning, Okay, you're talking about uh, 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.359 the coup the corner, Yeah, something like that's like that 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.159 who have been signed or maybe practice squads, guys on 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.920 that end practice squad. I didn't know how man, Okay, 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.479 how many of the players on the fifty three man 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:32.199 roster can name all of the practice squad guys? If 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.119 they could walk into the locker room and they know 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:38.879 their name? Now, yeah, that I don't think. Hey, I 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.560 was sitting very very few. I bet. I was sitting 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.480 in the locker room next to Nate Newton. The Cowboys 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:48.360 had traded for Dale Hellistry, and he came walking through 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.760 that curtain on the on the west side of the 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:54.240 locker room, and he looked up and he saw this 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.160 guy coming in with just not a very flattering body. 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.920 And Nate looked at me and goes, hell is that? 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:04.760 And I said, you just traded for a deep snapper. 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:09.240 He goes, we did no clue. That's before Twitter and 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:11.840 all that. But where I will where newspapers where I 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.560 will agree with Brian that I don't think players read. 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:18.480 When players tell you they don't pay attention to stuff 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:22.400 that now maybe they try not to. Oh Bob, don't, 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:24.159 but don't ride the fence on this year. I'm not 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:26.359 riding the fence. Will you let me talk, let me 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:29.600