WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: It Remains to be Seen… 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:02.920 The following. 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:04.880 He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:06.680 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.600 Cowboys. 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:17.599 This He's Talking Cowboys, live from the Dallas Cowboys World 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:26.320 at the Star in Friscodown. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.800 Welcome to Talking Cowboys, presented by a Black Rifle Coffee, 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:36.479 the official coffee sponsored Dallas Cowboys. 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.760 We are live from the Star in Frisco. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.639 Here in the s WBC podcast studio, I am Josh Rodriguez, 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.120 still filling in for Kyle Yeomans here with Nick Harris, 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:49.360 Isaiah standback, John Machoda with Christopher Beemer in the back. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.520 This is the real live show that airboy should be watching, 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.200 not the dog on Tom Brady roast. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:54.959 It's like that, Yeah, it really is. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:59.520 I'm killing you for being here with you guys, seriously, 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:00.319 it's so. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:01.480 It's great to be here. 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.480 I know you had like a plan for the show, Josh, 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.400 but we should just pivot and make off the sand 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:10.080 Back roast the entire you know that. Yeah, honestly, I 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.840 think you would be like you're you're pretty easy, Like. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:23.360 You could take it John you first, Yeah, lay into him, man. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.360 It's like, that's it, that's the joke that was you 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:26.160 watched it, right. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.480 Yeah, it's amazing, so good yea, Like we were just 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.759 saying before that we started doing the show right here, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:35.959 like of all the live event type stuff like awards, roasts, everything, 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.480 anything that's like live TV, I'll put I'll put that 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.160 thing up against any of it. It was so it 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:41.759 was I mean from beginning to end. I mean it's 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.600 not for everybody. There's there's gonna be jokes in there 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:47.080 that people aren't gonna probably like here, I appreciate whatever, 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.240 but man, that thing was Who was the best? So 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.680 from a comic standpoint, I thought it was Nicky Glazer. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.400 She was She she's dead. I mean, that's her business, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.200 that's what she does. I mean, she's very good at 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.200 what she does. Now, the other people that were up there, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.960 it's just very clear that their jokes were written by 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.040 somebody professionally, but you still have to deliver them. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:04.560 Yeah. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.840 But I honestly, to me, it's not even about the best. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.920 It's that really nobody was bad. Yeah, you know they're 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.320 like I said, Ben Affleck was kind of you could 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.280 it was okay. I think they're a Patriots fan. You 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:16.920 probably liked it because he came at it for more 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:23.360 of a Patriots fan standpoint, but just you said Wes Welker. 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.240 But outside of that, like, I can't think of anybody 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.960 that wasn't there that you'd want to be there, other 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.640 than maybe Eli Manning, but I'm even Peyton Manning being there. 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:31.600 I mean, it was just he. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.880 Did tweet about me and he was like, I would 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:36.200 have shown him to the roast, but I didn't want 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:37.880 to beat him for a third time or something like that. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.480 Didn't want to roast. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.120 And I'm telling you, if you watched the whole thing 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.320 and you were ranking jokes, that thing probably runs about 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.320 number thirty seven on the list because there was just 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.360 so much stuff that I thought I figured would be 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.040 now that's gonna be off the table. They won't be 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.600 able to say this, and man, everything everything that you 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:53.600 could possibly say. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.120 Once you signed up for a roast, you signed up 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:56.279 to get destroyed. 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.239 The gentleman Aaron Hernandoz joke was wow, I would. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.600 Like that Aaron Hernandez stuff, the Alex Guerrero stuff. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.840 I would have left all Hernanda stuff off that off limbits. 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:09.560 But yeah, that's not off limbs for everybody. 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.720 Even if you're just there and you're and you're a 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:17.320 famous person. I mean Kim Kardashian caught it, uh, I 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.320 mean Honesley. There were some really good jokes that were 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:23.480 directed at Dana White that I mean about the UFC selection. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:24.880 Is very important on nights like that. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.720 Yeah, like you need to be like in the back, 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:28.200 Like you don't want to be anywhere near the front 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.440 where the spotlights are at like be tucked off somewhere. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:31.079 Yeah. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.079 I liked Tony Hincliff. I thought that he was the best. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.600 He was very gros like and he's a traditional he's. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.320 A comic and everything, and he actually has a show 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.240 very well about roasting people. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:40.800 Uh, he was the best. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.240 And then obviously his shots at Kim Kardashian, even at 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.360 Kevin Hart and Philadelphia that was good. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.840 Yeah, good stuff. Three hours. 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:48.720 I didn't go back and watch. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:49.720 I don't know. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.120 Yeah, I heard Belichick did his thing. He did that's funny. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:56.880 I don't I don't know if it's it's not for kids. 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.920 But even with it being that, like, I just really 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.800 didn't only thought there was maybe thirty minutes of fad 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:06.920 on it that you'd have to trim off maybe, but 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:08.320 I don't think that it was really like you could 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:09.640 go back to it, and if you were like trying 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.480 to cut it down, even if you try to cut 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:12.840 it down to just the best of the best, I 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.520 still think it's an hour and a half at least. 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.760 There's no there's not a single person you take off. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.160 I mean, if from a comedy standpoint, I don't think 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.200 all the players are really that funny, but there's certain 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:26.919 players that you just have to have up there because 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.200 you know they're of their connection with Tom Brady. But 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.440 I mean a lot of those Gronkowski jokes made of Gronk, 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:36.520 like it is good to have him up there, you know. 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:38.800 And then just how it was very apparent, how he 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.960 made it very clear that he was just reading the teleprompter, 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:45.479 and how like Kevin Hart's making jokes no, no, Aaron, Aaron, Aaron, 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.440 Rob Rob just sounded out, sounded out. 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:49.360 Stuff like that. 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.320 He's perfect to have up there for that, And he 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.039 seems to be a good sport about it because he 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:55.960 was the butt of a lot of jokes there for sure. 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.520 Well, it's fair to say that this was actually like 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.080 a big week in Dallas sports. I kind of wanted 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.640 to get into MAVs and Stars. How are we feeling. 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.920 About that guys. Does that put any pressure on here 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.039 Dallas Cowboys? Yeah? 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:09.720 Where are the cracking these days? 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.560 They're sitting at the crib. Yeah, we got a new 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.840 coach coming in, so I'm excited. Yeah I was. I 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.200 was never gonge hole about that coach. You know what 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:18.320 I'm saying. From the time that. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.400 They last year, I was not about the coach, not about. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.719 The coach, not about the coach, about the team, not 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:24.360 about the coach. 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.479 I disliked the coach from the time that they had 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.320 their first picks to go take somebody from every roster, 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.360 and he was picking guys that were development guys. I'm like, 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.080 go grab the dog on goons like Vegas, like the 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.039 Vegas team did the year before or two years before. 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.479 He went out there, sorry, grabbing development guys when he 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:42.680 could have grabbed superstars. 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:44.240 I was so angry from that point. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.520 It's like picking your dodgeball team and his dude was 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.080 like picking the guys that are coming off the bench. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.200 And Vegas took it to Game seven. If you see that. 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.760 They did just Seattle did it the year before, but 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.440 the Stars came out and the Stars won both years, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:56.640 So keep going Stars. 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.919 They did at the cracking, aren't planing. I'm rocking with 0:05:58.920 --> 0:05:59.320 the stars. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.840 Yeah, you think Marshaun Lynch would coach the crack in 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:02.720 That'd be amazing. 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:06.240 Bro, That'd be the most physical team in the history 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:10.480 of the NHL. I'd like to see it. It'd be entertaining. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:11.200 He's part owner. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.840 What would be fascinating? You mentioned the Kraken and the 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.080 Golden Knights. What would an expansion draft look like in 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.920 the NFL? Like, how many, like when the Texans came 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.560 in the league, how many players were the were the 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:24.560 teams able to claim? 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.840 And like, yeah, protect, protect, that's what I mean. 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.360 Yeah, that's a bean question. Yeah, I don't remember. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.760 I can't remember I was around when the Houston Texans 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:34.800 came into the league. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.400 I just know I could remember with NBA expansion at 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.599 least back when like the Magic and Hornets and Timberwolves, 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.440 I think that you could protect most guys. I think 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.480 there was only like a couple guys that were available 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.719 you could pick from on each roster. So I bet 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.000 NFL wise you probably can protect I would say seventy 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:52.960 five percent of your roster. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.920 It says all thirty two current teams could leave five 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.560 players unprotected, so I guess that would be like of 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.520 the fifty three man so you could protect forty eight 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:02.320 of the fifty three guys. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.240 Yes, But what would be interesting about that is that 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.719 some of those unprotected guys on some teams would be 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.240 some good players that the team's like, yeah, we'd like 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:10.840 to get rid of this contract, go ahead and take 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:12.760 that guy, and somebody and and and that, and that 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:14.960 expansion team would be like, yeah, that is a lot, 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.520 but we got money to spend, and that would be 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.160 a great guy to be kind of a leader or 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.080 whatever for the team. So I don't think it would 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.400 just be all nobody's or lower level guys. I think 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.320 there would be some noble guys. You'd be like, oh wow, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:27.760 I can't believe that they didn't protect that. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.040 Guy just trying to get out of the contractations there. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:31.760 Yeah, I think that's fair different. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.080 I have a different perspective on the whole uh Rangers 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.360 stars just because I'm not from here. Yeah, But to 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.240 answer your question, I just and and and this is 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:42.560 like and I have a hard time explaining to people 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.000 because I think because I cover the Cowboys, like I'm 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:45.520 a Cowboys fan, I'm not a Cowboys fan at all. 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.600 I grew up in Detroit. I'm still a Detroit sports fan, 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.160 but being from there and like looking at from Afar, 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.240 like no offense to the other teams around here, but 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.720 like there's nothing that they do that's gonna that has 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.320 any imprint on the Cowboys. Really, No, the Cowboys are 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.560 there's so much bigger than this area. Course, you know, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.840 I mean I can't give you an exact percentage, but 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.160 it's not like, okay, like when you come from Detroit, 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.600 the amount of Tigers fans that are also Lions fans, 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.280 I mean, it's got to be in the ninety percent higher. 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.280 I mean, if you're a Cowboys fan, like and I'm 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.640 not just saying in this area, I mean there's probably 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.720 a good chunk of your fan base that's Lakers and 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.880 Yankees fan and stuff like that. I'm just saying that, Yeah, 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.240 And this is coming from a perspective of like I 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.040 didn't move down here until I was twenty eight, you know, 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:31.800 I just knew about it from like Afar. You know, 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.640 I'm like, interesting, now I've been down here. I'm forty two. Now, 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.160 I've I've spent some time in the area, and really 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:37.959 i'd been great. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.199 For forty two, you're a spring chicken. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.640 Yeah, and the rest I would not have guessed that. 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:43.960 The rest of I appreciate it, the rest. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.920 Of the rest of the nice roast. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.480 Oh yeah, the rest of the teams are having more success. 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.240 You know, they've all been to at least the conference 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.600 finals or won a championship since I've lived down here. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.920 But the Cowboys brand is so big that it's just 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.520 it just they will always matter everything that they do, 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.040 just it just always matters. It's it's hard to compare 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.440 it to anything else because it's really they are really 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.120 like Lakers Yankees, where it's that there's a lot of 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.240 people that love this team that probably have never even 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:16.600 stepped foot in the state of Texas. 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.960 Would your outlook change if the Stars and the MAVs 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.680 both won championships this year, so then you would have Rangers, 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:24.280 Stars and MAVs all winning. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.760 See, he'sn changed my perspective in twenty years. It would take. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.840 Here's the thing about that, and this is something that 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:31.640 was kind of I discussed it a lot with Kyle 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.480 whenever the Rangers were going through their World Series parade 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:39.600 and everything like that. If the Cowboys won, if the 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.000 parade would last a week. Yeah, because you would have 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.840 to do one in Dallas. You would have to do 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.480 one in Arlington. Damn sure, there'd be one out here 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.679 on the Star District. There would be three different parades 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:49.160 you would. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:49.280 Have to well. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.200 And the other part of that is too is so 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.000 I didn't go to the Rangers when I watched the 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.440 you know, the coverage on TV, But I felt like 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.880 that was probably mostly local people that went to that parade. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.640 If the Cowboys won a Super Bowl, there's a good 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.880 percentage of people that would fly in from other parts 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.080 of the country and other parts of the world that 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.600 would want to be especially now that there's been the 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.600 over twenty eight years of Yeah, it would. 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.560 Be oh man, it's just such. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.840 A big brand. It's hard to compare it to anything else. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.240 New York period was crazy, but Dallas might be. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.680 That would with the weight if you compound, you know, 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.800 the years and years and years of waiting for this 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.080 to finally be a Super Bowl winning team. I think, yeah, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.600 it would last a week, but we wouldn't sleep, But like, 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:31.880 nor would you want to sleep? 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.000 Yeah, at least I would, you know what I mean, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:34.480 I don't know. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.160 I love my beauty sleep. I got to make sure 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:38.439 I look like John when'my too. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.400 The other thing I'll add in there too is that 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.360 let's just say that this is some this is a 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.520 super city. That the Lakers are also the NBA team here, 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.080 and the Yankees of the baseball team. I still would 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.920 think that the Cowboys would rain over all of them, 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.840 just because of the popularity of the NFL is just 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.320 so far. Like I mean when I say rain over them, 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.520 I mean, if those fans could all pick, like only 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.120 one of our teams can win a championship, who would 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.480 it be? Those fans I think would pick the Cowboys. 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.520 They're just they're the biggest brand, and just they have 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.320 the most fans, They have the most passionate fan base, win, lose, whatever. 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.679 I just it's hard to compare them locally because most 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.400 big cities that have four major sports teams there is 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:20.960 some similarity between those teams there, and I feel like 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.120 in Dallas, like the Cowboys are just I mean, they're 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.240 just such a huge brand that it's bigger than just 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.640 you know, the city. That's fair if they're bigger than 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:28.000 the state. 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.640 That being said, let's get into some news and notes. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.160 Yeah, from home run derby last week is that ever 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:35.600 you want to start, Josh, Yeah, let's do that. 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:36.080 Yeah. 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.560 So the Reliant Home Run Derby, it's a big charity 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.280 event that the Cowboys do every offseason. They get ten 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.280 players together and they go hit some baseballs out at 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:48.040 rough Riders Field down the street and raise money for charity. 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.959 We'll start with the charity efforts Brian Anger, which is 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.600 hilarious that the punter wins the home Run Derby. But 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.520 I saw him practicing that morning and he can rake. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.840 He was going, he can rake. It's it's quite impressive. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.160 I think we were talking to gosh, who was it, 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.200 I think it was Brandon Cooks maybe, and it was like, 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.800 are you surprised that Brian Inger's doing this? He's like 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.440 these specialists, they all got something weird that they're really 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:16.079 good at. So, but Brian Inger raised twenty two eight 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.600 hundred dollars for charity, and all the Cowboys raised one 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.319 hundred and four thousand, nine hundred for the Salvation Army. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:23.040 So a really good effort. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.360 And they're they're going on I think eight nine years 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.400 of doing this event and they're coming up on raising 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.760 a million dollars total for the Salvation Army. 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.520 So pretty cool. But also what's pretty cool. 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.680 About the event is we get to spend three four 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.920 minutes with the players and press them on their off 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.880 seasons and contracts and things of the sort. So just 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.160 kind of running down the list here that I had 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.720 for my article on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. It was 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.720 the home run derby was the same day Ezekiel Elliott 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.160 came out with the news that he's actually gonna wear 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.760 fifteen instead of twenty one. We kind of dove into 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.679 that a little bit, and he said, I just kind 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.520 of look at a look of it as a different era. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.080 I wore fifteen last year, wanted to go back. I 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.720 got unfinished. Bis I'm here to chase a ring. So 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.600 you know, I think there's a little bit more hunger 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.520 in Ezekiel Elliott coming in this year than maybe what 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.400 he was going in with last year in New England 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.280 in my eyes, just because you know, he's he's back 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.920 in Dallas, he's back with DAK. I think I don't 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.840 think he's an RB one, I'll say that, but I 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.120 think he could be a really good complimentary back to 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.240 a guy that they could bring in that has quote 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.640 unquote the juice that they're looking for. But we'll kind 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.200 of see as the off season years. And I know 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.200 there's potentially some trade candidates that could work for the Cowboys, 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:32.800 but do you want to trade assets for a running 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.360 back that you might only have for a year or two. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.600 They're in a weird kind of position when it comes 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.839 to that position group right now. Also, Brandon Aubrey kicker 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.480 kind of came out that he had appendix surgery the 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.480 day after the Pro Bowl. Going into the Pro Bowl, 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.080 he could feel it being kind of weird. He went 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:48.600 to the doctor. 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.160 They were like, yeah, you need to get that out, 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.240 and he was like, put me on meds. I'm trying 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:53.160 to get through the Pro Bowl. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.160 And so he went on the went on the meds, 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:57.840 got through the Pro Bowl, and then the very next 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.440 day got his appendix removed. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:00.720 And then and uh yeah, and. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.440 Then he's been sitting on his butt for six weeks 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.400 and he said it's uh, it's been great. And he 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.240 was able to get back to kicking rather recently and 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.080 he said it's like riding a bike. It was it 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.439 was nothing, nothing to foreign to him going back to kicking. 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.880 Because you have to think that's the longest break he's 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:20.000 taken from kicking since he started kicking from going back 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.080 to his soccer days. So we can start with those 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.160 couple of notes, y'all want to dive into some things there. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.560 Well, another one I wanted to bring up Steven Jones 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.000 on Mad Dog Radio, I think it was yesterday talking 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:31.640 about the Dak contract yet again. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:33.200 And I don't want to. 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.400 Delve too deep into this, but he did say you 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.920 wanted it to be. They're making it a priority to 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.920 resign Dak to an extension. Now, what are your thoughts 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.560 on that at this point? I mean, we're kind of 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.240 long in the tooth at this point when it comes 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:48.200 to Dak. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.800 On the mountain that I stood on a while back 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:57.000 by saying that I believe that I'm in the mindset 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:58.960 that you should allow Dak to play his last year. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.600 And you rolled the dice there and you may improve it, 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:03.560 and you understand that you might have to pay one 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.680 heck of a pretty penny, and you also understand that 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.000 you might lose lose a quarterback. You know, that's a 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.440 part of that's a part of gambling. I mean, that's 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.040 that's what it is, and that's what you do every 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.680 year that you draft. It's an educated gamble, but it 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.160 is a gamble, and I think that if if it 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.160 were me making the decisions, I want to see what 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:20.560 you're made of. 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:22.120 I want to see what you got. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:23.720 I want to I want to see the head coach 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.080 what is back against the wall, and I want to 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.600 see my quarterback with the you're back against the wall. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.080 What can you guys collectively do together to change the 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.960 outcome that we've had since we sent you stepped foot 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.400 on this team. And that's not a that's not a 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.880 that's no knock on deck, there's no knock on on 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.040 thecarth there's no knock on anything they've done. But I 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.640 want to see it because if I'm gonna pay premium, 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.080 I need to see premium. And I've seen it in 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.080 the regular season, but what you're asking me to pay for, 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.200 I'm not paying for that production for just the regular season. 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.920 And I just need to see it and that you 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.640 would do that if you guys were building a custom home. 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:00.400 If you guys have we had, you know, two million 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.280 dollars right now is here, Go build it. Go build 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.040 a custom home from from the ground. You're not gonna 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:09.120 go with people who just do good work. You want 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.400 to see show me the great work that you've done 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.320 that And that's not being disrespectful. It just like, hey, 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.160 this is this is meaningful to me. I care a 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.480 lot about this. This is my money. I want to 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.760 know that you can do the job exactly the way 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:22.960 in which I projected to be. And if you have 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.360 you can't, then I'm gonna go with the next best man. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.720 I understand the sense of it completely, like I understand 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.640 where you're coming from. And I want to see this 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.080 entire group put under a little bit of pressure too 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:33.960 and see how it kind of works out for them. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.280 Hasn't worked great in the past whenever pressure has been applied, 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.080 But let's see, you know, in a year, in a 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.200