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Speaker 1: hosts Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, Jesse Holly, and Shannon Gross. Whoop, whoop.
Speaker 1: It's Thursday, eleven thirty, Hey in Central Time. It is
Speaker 1: a big day to day. But first you have a
Speaker 1: live Oh look at the Tostitos Championship Plaza at Ford
Speaker 1: Center and at the Star Frisco at sixty eight degrees
Speaker 1: feels like sixty eight. There's a high of seventy three,
Speaker 1: a level fifty five. This is perfect Texas weather. It's sunny,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful outside. It looks like you well you had
Speaker 1: we had somebody out there working out earlier. But today
Speaker 1: is a huge day. And this is a huge show
Speaker 1: because we are the first show that gets to talk
Speaker 1: about the twenty twenty one Dallas Cowboys schedule on the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys Radio Network. Fellas, we were the last show
Speaker 1: before the draft. We're the first show after the schedules released.
Speaker 1: It's a huge day. I have the schedule here? You
Speaker 1: got a copy, Kurt, I got to copy, Nate, You
Speaker 1: know I could just I've already picked out the games
Speaker 1: that we're gonna win. It help if you talked into
Speaker 1: the microphone. I've already picked out the games that we're
Speaker 1: gonna win. Jesse, do you have a copy of the schedule? Studio? This?
Speaker 1: I do have a copy of the schedule. Okay. This
Speaker 1: is why I could not be in the studio, because
Speaker 1: I could not suffer. Oh god, the cowboy colored. I
Speaker 1: want to say this properly. Be care just drinking, be careful,
Speaker 1: just choking. That name is going to be doing on
Speaker 1: this show today when we go through this schedule, because
Speaker 1: of course, as as only Nathaniel Newton can do, I
Speaker 1: just have a strong losing four games already. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're not We're not predicted. We're not predicted. Show games
Speaker 1: right now, preseason? Four games right now, preseason you already
Speaker 1: called well, fellas, let's get it. How how are you
Speaker 1: all today? First, Kurt, I'm excited, man, Yeah, yeah, good
Speaker 1: you good? Name. Tell you why I'm excited? Why are
Speaker 1: you excited? Because they showed me a picture of mister Jones.
Speaker 1: Some young man doing a great Who put that together?
Speaker 1: Coast Malone? This thing was nice and Kurt showed it
Speaker 1: to me and I just I'm excited about's baby there. Yeah, San,
Speaker 1: it wasn't just me. There were a lot of people involved,
Speaker 1: really talented people that helped us pull that off. And
Speaker 1: they done. Was it talented on They had mister Jones
Speaker 1: and a thousand schedules. It was fun. We'll get into
Speaker 1: that later, but it was a great It was a
Speaker 1: great day. I think I think we did that on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday and we had the show the next day.
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned working on the schedule least videos,
Speaker 1: but that's that's what we were working on. We had
Speaker 1: good old post de post malone out here at the
Speaker 1: Star with mister Jones playing beer pong and making it
Speaker 1: rain schedules. Yes, it was so well, get into that later.
Speaker 1: But today, Jesse, how are you by the way, I'm
Speaker 1: doing well, man, I'm just happy to be here. I
Speaker 1: wish you were here. You're not. You're the only crew
Speaker 1: member that it refuses to come into the studio. But
Speaker 1: that's okay. You know what, the gays listen, the gas
Speaker 1: prices are going up. I'm trying to be I'm trying
Speaker 1: to be the best for them. I'm trying to do
Speaker 1: the best thing I can do for the community. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be one of the people that
Speaker 1: have to go to gas. They's a whore gas. So
Speaker 1: you know, I just felt this was best for economy,
Speaker 1: for your economy, you know, the my sanity. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying with this with the gas shortness. You know,
Speaker 1: who wants to deal with the gas shortness? You make
Speaker 1: the same ten dollars a show, whether you'll drive all
Speaker 1: the way up here or not. I do it from
Speaker 1: the officer from home too. Yeah, yeah, Why do I
Speaker 1: feel like we get left on the porch while we're waiting?
Speaker 1: But I show up. I'm here, you barely eight minutes
Speaker 1: before the show if we were having a show, and
Speaker 1: then you show up one minute after the show starts.
Speaker 1: I showed up three minutes before the show starts. If
Speaker 1: we're gonna be you know, technically, you know, but a
Speaker 1: lot of people on Twitter, because I'm like, I'm like
Speaker 1: the really the only active social one on Twitter that
Speaker 1: kind of talked to our fans. Kurt jumps in every
Speaker 1: now and again. Nate almost never, you almost never just
Speaker 1: like so when the fans reach out to me. Of course,
Speaker 1: I'm the voice of the people. When the fans we
Speaker 1: out to me and say, hey, we're having the show,
Speaker 1: we have on the show, I don't see them. I
Speaker 1: gotta make sure. Dang, you know, Shannon didn't get me
Speaker 1: at the game I had away last week, maybe a game.
Speaker 1: I spy away the show this week to make sure
Speaker 1: we were doing the show. Starts with the people the
Speaker 1: people were asking me about it, starts with the hat,
Speaker 1: and then starts Chris Breed starting flaunts the hat. Does
Speaker 1: he have the hat on? He does have the hat on? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, well we enough nonsense. Let's get into this schedule.
Speaker 1: Let's get into the Let's start with the preseason, all right,
Speaker 1: do we need to not really? But I mean we're
Speaker 1: playing in the Hall of Fame game against the Steelers
Speaker 1: in Can't, Ohio. That's kind of a big deal. So
Speaker 1: that'll be fun that that's the only preseason game that
Speaker 1: has a date. That one's Thursday, August to fifth at
Speaker 1: seven pm. Then we play at the Cardinals somewhere between
Speaker 1: August thirteenth and fifteenth in Houston, Somewhere between August twentieth
Speaker 1: and twenty second and then uh no, at home against
Speaker 1: Houston and at home against the Jaguars somewhere between August
Speaker 1: two seven, twenty ninth. Now now the game. But but
Speaker 1: before I kind of we kind we kind of we
Speaker 1: kind of dismissed preseason. But this is gonna be big
Speaker 1: for this football team, Shannon kurt Nate. Preseason is going
Speaker 1: to be huge. It's gonna be the first time that
Speaker 1: we get a chance to see Dak Prescott after his injuries. Yes,
Speaker 1: and Dak is sit in front of the cameras all
Speaker 1: he wants and say, oh, I'm one hundred percent right
Speaker 1: now if I had to go play a game. There
Speaker 1: is a mental part of coming back from a catastrophic
Speaker 1: injury that no one's talking about when it ain't. It
Speaker 1: ain't like, oh I just bought my knigue got busted up. No,
Speaker 1: when you're bone comes through your skin and you have
Speaker 1: that traumatic of an injury and you think about, but
Speaker 1: I may not ever play this game again, there's a
Speaker 1: mental part that has to play in your head when
Speaker 1: you step back onto the field in full competition, not practice,
Speaker 1: not OTAs, not any of that. When it's somebody across
Speaker 1: the line who isn't on your team who doesn't know you.
Speaker 1: The speed of the game will be at a at
Speaker 1: his maximum speed. That has to play into the mind
Speaker 1: of Dak Prescott. So that'll be the first time we
Speaker 1: get a chance to see him and one of those
Speaker 1: preseason games. And then also this will be the first
Speaker 1: time we get a chance to see this football this
Speaker 1: football team under the coaching of Freaky Mike and Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn in a preseason game, which is gonna be huge.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a very young defense. You're losing
Speaker 1: Tyrone Crawford and we'll probably get more into that. You're
Speaker 1: losing shan Lee, so you're gonna have a lot of
Speaker 1: new faces and a lot of new guys and a
Speaker 1: lot of new positions trying to figure things out defensively.
Speaker 1: Let's not just bou for the guy. For the guy
Speaker 1: that said, do we really need to go through the
Speaker 1: preseason games? He sure didn't have a lot of lots
Speaker 1: that say, didn't he You know, I think he just
Speaker 1: likes to hear himself talk whatever. We want to move
Speaker 1: on to him. I do, I do, I do. Daddy
Speaker 1: had a lot to say and you never showed up.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna make up for it by talking a
Speaker 1: whole lot of the rest of my life. All Right,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get the words, Oh Lord, have mercy.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get Derek. No, No, we no budget.
Speaker 1: We spend it all on post malone, so we don't
Speaker 1: have the money for you. Jesse. All right, we moved on.
Speaker 1: Can we move on past preseason now? Jesse? Are you
Speaker 1: good with preseason? Yes? Regular season? The game to kick
Speaker 1: off the twenty twenty any one NFL season, the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys at the Tampa Bay Buck in thes Dak Prescott's
Speaker 1: first game back against Tom Brady. Could they have picked
Speaker 1: a bigger matchup and a bigger storyline? And you know, Dak,
Speaker 1: I mean I can't. I kind of think they split
Speaker 1: hairs here. I kind of think Tampa was gonna get
Speaker 1: the ratings anyway. Cowboys are gonna get the ratings anyway.
Speaker 1: I kind of am surprised they put two huge drawls
Speaker 1: that get the biggest crowd, do they? I guess they
Speaker 1: think you put them both together. It's it's full stadiums now,
Speaker 1: let's get the problem out there. Let's go. But no
Speaker 1: matter what you think about it huge, huge game to
Speaker 1: start the season, and let you know right out of
Speaker 1: the gate what this Cowboy team is all about on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. The fact that they're
Speaker 1: gonna face such a tough challenge the first game in
Speaker 1: which they're kind of eased. No, hell no, bring it.
Speaker 1: Let's see where we're at. Let's see where we're at.
Speaker 1: What you think, Tom Bay, Who's Tom Brady? Tom Brady
Speaker 1: water and they went back. Tom Brady has a bad
Speaker 1: habit of losing early in the year. Maybe we can
Speaker 1: catch him and keep that street going. Catch check his back,
Speaker 1: his history. They have a bad half wherever he's at.
Speaker 1: They're losing first few games, and maybe we can just
Speaker 1: catch them. Jazz, right, Jesse, you like it? You like
Speaker 1: this match up right out of the gate. Nope, Hey,
Speaker 1: don't do that. Don't go there. Why Jesse I hated
Speaker 1: such a challenge because exactly part fifty of what you said, Shannon,
Speaker 1: I think the NFL bombed on this one. Because you
Speaker 1: got week one of the season. You're going to get
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys or Town or whoever, if they were
Speaker 1: playing the New York Yankees, you're gonna get the ratings.
Speaker 1: Football is king and when you start out the season.
Speaker 1: Everybody is poised and ready over ready to see it.
Speaker 1: So you were going to get the ratings regardless. Secondly,
Speaker 1: is again there are we Dak Prescott will just be
Speaker 1: coming back. He might not get many preseason rest, might
Speaker 1: just playing that one game. Same thing with Tyring, same
Speaker 1: thing with ELC, same thing with this new whatever this
Speaker 1: defense is going to be. It's going to be new,
Speaker 1: the new terminology, new system, knew what everything. Then you
Speaker 1: got a bunch of rookie that you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: play this year. I just don't want to walk into
Speaker 1: Give us to give us those old booty juice giants, right,
Speaker 1: give us there, We'll take the giants like you normally do.
Speaker 1: Give us. Give us the booty juice giants for the
Speaker 1: first game, for the first game of the year, and
Speaker 1: let us get Tampa once we get kind of the
Speaker 1: cakes worked out early on um and and Kurt said
Speaker 1: as well, Tampa's returning all twenty two starters from its
Speaker 1: Super Bowl team, muffing sively and defensively. And people, no
Speaker 1: matter if they're on top on the bottom, when that
Speaker 1: star comes to town, they want to kick your butt.
Speaker 1: So I mean, great if we win, um, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't like this week one match up. I don't
Speaker 1: and and and in defense of my boy freaky Mike,
Speaker 1: if he comes out the gate and he loses the
Speaker 1: first game, it's gonna be an indictment on my board.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be ready to fire my guy after week one.
Speaker 1: So I kind of wanted to give I wanted to
Speaker 1: buy my guys to bail and get my guysa bail
Speaker 1: week one and kind of ease into this thing. But
Speaker 1: it is what it is. But I don't like the
Speaker 1: week Jesse. I just did the math, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: give you some grace on this first game of the season,
Speaker 1: but we got seventeen of these to get through in
Speaker 1: the next That's why I'm thirty seven thirty forty seven minutes.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to be a little less worried
Speaker 1: because you're not getting paid by that by the word
Speaker 1: yet and you're rung on the first game. But go ahead, on, Kurt,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about the first game? I'm kind
Speaker 1: of come on, Kurt, it's a Kurt. Let me talk
Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, I think you need a little time
Speaker 1: to kind of build up. You have doomed that room already. Wow,
Speaker 1: you got Kurt on the other side of the fence already.
Speaker 1: I like him. I like it because let's see where
Speaker 1: we're at the first game, and then let's work on
Speaker 1: things we need to work on. Because let's go out
Speaker 1: there and win the game. We're gonna win this. Go
Speaker 1: win the game. If you don't win it, you know what.
Speaker 1: You got to see where we're at after the first
Speaker 1: game and figure out what we need to work on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you were to do that against Kurt the same team?
Speaker 1: You have the same team out there the first game.
Speaker 1: That don't different opponent though, who cares? Let's go super
Speaker 1: Bowl champs. Can you imagine you imagine this fan base
Speaker 1: and they beat Tampa the first game. They already gonna
Speaker 1: have us winning the Super Bowl. This is not Oklahoma
Speaker 1: versus sisters that are blind. Come on, man, it's a
Speaker 1: pro team. It's a pro Let's go, Come on, go,
Speaker 1: n Let's go on to the next game. We spent
Speaker 1: too much time against Tom Brady in the in the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers Sunday, September the nineteenth. You go from one coast
Speaker 1: to the other coast. That's gonna be a little bit
Speaker 1: of a challenge as players. How big a factor of
Speaker 1: that at the Los Angeles Charters playing one coast and
Speaker 1: the other coast. Now they all know they should be
Speaker 1: all they should they're all young. This is ain't y'all young,
Speaker 1: not all of them, just Tyrone as old as cats.
Speaker 1: That's about it. We ready to rock. Isn't that weird?
Speaker 1: You got rid of LP, you got rid of Sean Lee.
Speaker 1: There are no like old men on the team. Yes, man,
Speaker 1: we're ready to rock. What you think, Jess, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna take up your time. We all we're going in
Speaker 1: this game one and old. What's up the sea early
Speaker 1: in the season. Time won't time won't be it won't
Speaker 1: be an effective you're early. Everybody's kind of still rentively fresh. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with it, Kurt Victory, right, that was my concern,
Speaker 1: and we're not doing that yet. Just a different show.
Speaker 1: That's a different show. I know. I'm just got to
Speaker 1: just be my concerned. Two straight road games opposite coast.
Speaker 1: But I mean, Jesse and Nate obviously no better than
Speaker 1: I do. How effects players, So if that's kind of problem,
Speaker 1: don't affect them, sir, to make I'm excited that's going
Speaker 1: at the Chargers. Kurt and uh being made a good point.
Speaker 1: You got ten days because the first games of Thursday
Speaker 1: night games, so I'm sure you got the extra days
Speaker 1: in there. Then Monday Night football September, the twenty seven
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles prime time come to AT and T Stadium
Speaker 1: early to be starting the division. I guess not usually
Speaker 1: start off with with with the with the Giants the
Speaker 1: first game of the juicye boob or whatever you call them?
Speaker 1: What is the Eagles? Who did juice? So you got
Speaker 1: the Eagles, you got that's the beginning of a three games.
Speaker 1: You gotta make hay these like you can let that
Speaker 1: first game slide, No, sir, you can. Okay, you ain't
Speaker 1: gonna win them all. They're not going sixty to know,
Speaker 1: no matter what you think. I'm just saying, but you
Speaker 1: got Silly at home on Monday night. The following Sunday,
Speaker 1: October the third, you got the Carolina Panthers at home
Speaker 1: a noon game. And in the following Sunday, October the tenth,
Speaker 1: you got the New York Giants Jesse at home at
Speaker 1: three twenty five three game homestand right there the booty
Speaker 1: Juice Giants. Juice you gotta win all three of those
Speaker 1: three when you think about that, Nate Man, I got
Speaker 1: them right now, four and one easy. That's a different show, okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just gonna no, no, turn it back over. Okay,
Speaker 1: But do you do you have looking at the schedule, okay,
Speaker 1: because then when you get through with that, you go
Speaker 1: you go to New England and who knows what they're
Speaker 1: gonna be this year, But that's on the road New England.
Speaker 1: It's in October, so you don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: really bad weather, just kind of bad weather. So you
Speaker 1: got Tampa, New England the first one, two, three, four
Speaker 1: or five six games, So you really need to win
Speaker 1: that Chargers game, the Philly game, the Carolina game, in
Speaker 1: the New York game. Right. I thought that was a
Speaker 1: different show. We're not giving we're not giving predictions. I
Speaker 1: just said, you really need to win those games, so
Speaker 1: you gotta make Hey, like Kurt said before the bye week, right, Jesse,
Speaker 1: Yeah you're there, Jesse, Yeah, I agree. I agree. Want
Speaker 1: y'all want me to not talk or y'all want me
Speaker 1: to talk in between? For me? Okay, ain't ain't no
Speaker 1: middle ground for me, you know, I'm gonna talk, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk. Ain't gonna talk. It ain't ain't. That's
Speaker 1: kind of right, Like Jesse doesn't really have a regulator
Speaker 1: on him. It's it's all in or nothing. Okay, then
Speaker 1: you bye week. Halloween Sunday, October thirty. First you go
Speaker 1: up to Minnesota and play the Vikings Night game seven
Speaker 1: twenty and then back home for two. So what are
Speaker 1: you guys doing on Halloween Night? Like? What are you
Speaker 1: like that? That's Halloween night? So right, It's like, so,
Speaker 1: if the boys are good, do you have Halloween? If
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are bad, do you do you not? Like,
Speaker 1: if you have the Cowboys are good heading into that
Speaker 1: Vikings game, do you make Halloween Saturday? No, you make
Speaker 1: that like a metroplex. Na. You just dress up and
Speaker 1: go to the sports bars to watch the watch the
Speaker 1: Cowboy game and then go out after all the parties
Speaker 1: will be Halloween does not stop in Dallas. That's one
Speaker 1: of the biggest You understand, Shannon, you have kids now,
Speaker 1: like you have a kid now, so like trick or
Speaker 1: treating will be a thing for you, So it it
Speaker 1: ain't no more just dress up to go to the
Speaker 1: bar like you have to now like preen around in
Speaker 1: the neighborhood. Damn, I didn't factor that in. Whenever that
Speaker 1: kid that shuts like someone's someone's coming to your door.
Speaker 1: Now you know what I'm saying. Oh man, kids still
Speaker 1: a little too young. Halloween, you got another year, okay,
Speaker 1: all right? Plus the bars will be the night before
Speaker 1: it's true, true, all right. And then after you're at
Speaker 1: Minnesota November the seventh Sunday, Denver Broncos at home noon
Speaker 1: game and a Lanta Falcons the week after that at noon.
Speaker 1: It's two more you better win. But think about did
Speaker 1: you get to see quarterback can make a difference for sure?
Speaker 1: What'd you say, Nate, Lisa? Cowboys that played the two
Speaker 1: corners that they missed out on one in Carolina, that's
Speaker 1: true versus that's a great point. Yeah, Denver in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: that's those two teams. You don't know what they're gonna
Speaker 1: be like because Denver could have and Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: Atlanta they could bounce back. They got some firepower on that, yes,
Speaker 1: added that tight end, they got some firepower and off
Speaker 1: they got your tight end too, yeah, Jesse. And then
Speaker 1: the week after drift picks that we want it? Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: all the once we talked about on the show the
Speaker 1: following week, Big Game, Big Game, traveling up to the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs three twenty five in the afternoon on
Speaker 1: November the twenty one. Then they're back at home Thursday,
Speaker 1: November twenty fifth, Thanksgiving Day, game again before before we
Speaker 1: move on? Okay, can I can I declare and I
Speaker 1: need I need a commitment from Kurt? I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know Big Nate's down to do it. Can can
Speaker 1: we take the show in the road to Kansas City?
Speaker 1: Can we go to Kansas City like as a as
Speaker 1: a squad and travel up for Sunday? That's Kurt stomping ground, glad.
Speaker 1: Kurt's like Derek o'kays. Let's go, let's go, Nate, what's up,
Speaker 1: Nate Man, I'm down with it, bro, I'm in you
Speaker 1: know me, I'm all in all beam you in fun
Speaker 1: Town RV. Let's go. Hey, we can start on Thursday,
Speaker 1: get up there on Sunday. Let's go. Let's make that happen. Jesse,
Speaker 1: that's a great idea, the best in the world. Yeah.
Speaker 1: How long does that drive, Kurt? It's eight hours. That's
Speaker 1: not bad. That'd be great in an R and B
Speaker 1: just about it's easy. That's easy for Big Nat to
Speaker 1: get there in four and tell you what, No, I
Speaker 1: want to drive speed man. I'm telling man what I'm
Speaker 1: looking at that Kansas City game. Man, what what the
Speaker 1: game will be like? Ninety five and ninety nine or
Speaker 1: some fis kind of shake yea. The weather is gonna
Speaker 1: be a factor in that one late November. What's the
Speaker 1: brother like up there, Kurt? You never know. It's usually
Speaker 1: it's fine, but you never know if there it gets
Speaker 1: you get something merely sometimes yeah, okay. Then you back
Speaker 1: home for Thanksgiving lost Vegas Raiders Wow, three thirty pm.
Speaker 1: And then you go on the road for a three
Speaker 1: game stretch which this this ain't gonna be a walk
Speaker 1: in the park Thursday night game. Here's our season right here.
Speaker 1: You think this is where it comes down to, this
Speaker 1: this stretch, this is where this this is this is
Speaker 1: the makeup break of our season. And these next three
Speaker 1: games are getting ready to talk about. And those next
Speaker 1: three games are Thursday, December the second at New Orleans
Speaker 1: night game seven, twenty pm. And you're talking about going
Speaker 1: to be a madhouse with a full stadium back for
Speaker 1: the first time in New Orleans. That's gonna be nuts.
Speaker 1: Then you got Sunday, December the twelve at the Washington
Speaker 1: Football Team noon game, and the following week at the
Speaker 1: New York Giants noon game. Why do you think that's
Speaker 1: Why do you think that comes down to the season, Jess,
Speaker 1: Because it always does like that, that that stretch that
Speaker 1: thanks given that you know those ten ten days and
Speaker 1: you got three games and that whole stretch, it's it's
Speaker 1: at that point in time of the season. Remember we
Speaker 1: added another game into the season that stretch right there,
Speaker 1: and they're all road games. You talked about earlier in
Speaker 1: the year where road doesn't affect you go from one
Speaker 1: coach to the next. But when you gotta get on
Speaker 1: that plane three times in a row in a short
Speaker 1: time frame at the tail end of the season, when
Speaker 1: you're kind of beat up and you're a little bit
Speaker 1: banged up, that's when that travel begins to affect you.
Speaker 1: You're not your normal routine is kind of broken up
Speaker 1: a little bit, and that makes your break your season.
Speaker 1: You don't have as much time to recover, to prepare,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't know who's going to be
Speaker 1: the quarterback from New Orleans, but Sean Payton is still there,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna put together game plan and then the
Speaker 1: Washington football team is going to be a good football team.
Speaker 1: The ship fellas, they're going to be a good football
Speaker 1: defense for sure. And then and then you have the
Speaker 1: for sure, and then you have the Giants like the
Speaker 1: division rivals that those two games can swing the tide
Speaker 1: of you know, and then it comes, you know, where
Speaker 1: the Cowboys win the division and it'll be having to
Speaker 1: come down to week eighteen again to figure out if
Speaker 1: we're going to be division winners again or not, because
Speaker 1: this is the point where you spend the first half
Speaker 1: of your season three hundred cent just getting these young
Speaker 1: guys ready on defense, getting everybody lined up. Now they
Speaker 1: should at this point understand what coach Quinn won't and
Speaker 1: his assistance. So now the knowledge along with being able
Speaker 1: to play fast, to start kicking in right here. And
Speaker 1: this is where they'll needed going on the road three
Speaker 1: times in a row, they would need their defense to
Speaker 1: play well. It's also when they start hitting the rookie
Speaker 1: though too, hit the rookie wall. After I was getting
Speaker 1: ready to say that games Kie play twelve games, you're
Speaker 1: gonna add four preseason games and then by time you
Speaker 1: get there we're talking about now you've been in that
Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen game ragn where you add preseason. Those young
Speaker 1: guys will play in preseason. That's when they hit that
Speaker 1: rookie wall. Those bodies starts. For the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: this was when the season was ending, and now I'm
Speaker 1: in the league. This is when the season is really
Speaker 1: But they'll be right. This is where you learn. You
Speaker 1: got to play those young guys. You know, everything's predicated
Speaker 1: on it. They can play. They're gonna play the guys
Speaker 1: they drafted and the guys they brought in a free agent.
Speaker 1: Give them all the chances and all opportunities, which that's
Speaker 1: all they have is who they drafted and the friend
Speaker 1: they don't. We don't have nobody left from the old
Speaker 1: school that we can say, Okay, this guy gonna take
Speaker 1: up valuable space. It's all about these guys. Throw them
Speaker 1: in right away at the beginning of the year. Yes, sir, Sam, Yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: ramp up what no, sir, They have to play. You
Speaker 1: can't rap if you ramp up. If you ramp up
Speaker 1: and try to play games right here, you're losing valuable
Speaker 1: time time. So when we want these three games to count,
Speaker 1: we want these three road games account. We don't want
Speaker 1: to be like, okay, if they win this game, and no,
Speaker 1: we wanted to be in a point where they're gonna
Speaker 1: either win the division and have a first round by
Speaker 1: are they playing for that top spot for you know,
Speaker 1: to be in the wild card that first week. You
Speaker 1: don't want nothing else. You want to be breathing easy
Speaker 1: when you get to Washington Arizona. You want to be
Speaker 1: breathing easy, not not fighting for your life. Well, like
Speaker 1: a four games, four road games in five I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a huge stretch you gotta play though, is that
Speaker 1: today's NFL, today's players, with the training and all that,
Speaker 1: does the road games make as big a difference as
Speaker 1: they used to. They still do. They still do because
Speaker 1: like you said, they are young. And what we gotta
Speaker 1: hope is that we drafted, we got some guys and
Speaker 1: through for that's mentally tough, you know, that's mentally tough.
Speaker 1: That these coaches are gonna put enough into them, you know,
Speaker 1: early in the season, through these preseason games, put enough
Speaker 1: in them so they can so they what you want
Speaker 1: to do when you get to these games they didn't season.
Speaker 1: This is how it's always felt. Once I locked my game,
Speaker 1: my mind into the season is you want to have
Speaker 1: enough at the end of the year so you can
Speaker 1: ride it out. That you playing fast, you playing on instincts.
Speaker 1: You know you're looking at film getting your basic game
Speaker 1: playing out, but you you know who you are offensively,
Speaker 1: you know who you are defensively. You know it's just instincts.
Speaker 1: He called a play. You look at the front and
Speaker 1: you know what's happening, and you play hard because that's
Speaker 1: who you are. You don't want to be like, okay, wow,
Speaker 1: he called this play. But I got Jerome Brown. He
Speaker 1: called this playing. I got Dama con sue what I do. No,
Speaker 1: you you just play now because it's about you when
Speaker 1: the cop the thing that that this is what I
Speaker 1: always felt when you get when you get good, it's
Speaker 1: like Tampa Bay know who they are and when they
Speaker 1: line up, there ain't so much looking at you as
Speaker 1: how you can beat them, as more how they beat you.
Speaker 1: Their game plan is better. Their players are better. Not
Speaker 1: so much because they're physically better, but they've been better mentally.
Speaker 1: We've been here before and we've done that. The new
Speaker 1: thing about these guys. They haven't been there before, but
Speaker 1: you gotta make up with that, with that, with being
Speaker 1: having great athletes that know what they're doing and playing fast.
Speaker 1: This three game road stretch here towards the end of
Speaker 1: the year with two division games makes those three home
Speaker 1: games September October early October with two division games that
Speaker 1: much more important because you gotta win those three because
Speaker 1: you don't want to. You don't want to go into
Speaker 1: this stretch having to win to stay in the division hunt.
Speaker 1: So let's take a quick break. We got three more
Speaker 1: games to cover, then we'll get overall overall, I guess,
Speaker 1: analysis of what we think the schedule, and another big
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Speaker 1: go on that three game road trip and then you're
Speaker 1: back home two times in three weeks against the Washington
Speaker 1: football team the day after Christmas. That's a night game
Speaker 1: December the twenty sixth. Then you have you follow up
Speaker 1: the week after you welcome the Arizona Cardinals to town,
Speaker 1: and then you end the season surprise surprise on the
Speaker 1: road against Philadelphia, which is a noon game, which I
Speaker 1: would imagine if that comes down to anything hurting it,
Speaker 1: it will flex and I'm gonna go out on the
Speaker 1: limb again and say I think something's something will be
Speaker 1: on the line the last game of the season as usual,
Speaker 1: and it usually Philadelphia is involved in that game. So, Kurt,
Speaker 1: overall thoughts, what do you like the fact that they're
Speaker 1: playing Washington so late in the season and then so
Speaker 1: close together, or would you rather they kind of be
Speaker 1: split up a little. I'm with Jess. Youveen to play
Speaker 1: one of the best defenses in the league. I like
Speaker 1: where they're at because it's gonna be physical. I don't
Speaker 1: like the closeness of these two games. Is he gonna
Speaker 1: be physical? And but I like where it's at because
Speaker 1: that team is gonna be bringing it defensively if they
Speaker 1: and if they do it, we know coach Very're gonna
Speaker 1: do They're gonna the ball, and they're gonna be physical
Speaker 1: because they're not gonna they're gonna. I don't think they
Speaker 1: have a quarterback at this time that can do things.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be a physical game. And I like
Speaker 1: that it's late, man. I like that it's late. And
Speaker 1: I hope Zeke and whoever with him is ready to
Speaker 1: run the ball to try to keep the pressure off
Speaker 1: of Dack. It'd be two tough home games there at
Speaker 1: the end, potentially. Yeah, what do you think about it, Jesse?
Speaker 1: That is that gonna beat you up going into the
Speaker 1: hopefully going into the playoffs, playing that defense almost damn
Speaker 1: near back to back the last you know, five games
Speaker 1: of the season. Yep, that's gonna be. That's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough, Like playing that team is going
Speaker 1: to be tough. And again late in the year, guys
Speaker 1: are banged up, Guys are hurt, guys are injured, and
Speaker 1: when you playing physical football team coming down to stretch, now,
Speaker 1: those two Washington games, you may some you may see it,
Speaker 1: you may lose it. You may lose a guy or
Speaker 1: two heading into the playoffs or heading into whatever whatever
Speaker 1: that post season opportunity may be. Because of having a
Speaker 1: place that's a physical, physical, defense in Washington. And see
Speaker 1: that's why it cannot I repeat, it cannot come down
Speaker 1: to if it comes down to Philadelphia, you would pray
Speaker 1: and hope that it's for one of those top three
Speaker 1: spots in the NFC. Just for position, Yeah, just for
Speaker 1: a position. But if I was you're talking about the
Speaker 1: wild card game coming off of Washington two weeks almost
Speaker 1: two weeks in a row. You know, Philadelphia get it
Speaker 1: up for the star. They get it up for one game.
Speaker 1: They can be oh and fifteen. Yeah, hey, we go
Speaker 1: got the Cowboys to close out of the season to
Speaker 1: be the best week and be wow. What do you
Speaker 1: think about the overall schedule, Kirk, Well, you know, there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of talk about you know, this is
Speaker 1: like the second easiest schedule based on last year's results,
Speaker 1: which I don't know how much you can really put
Speaker 1: into that. So I think from a p a standpoint standpoint,
Speaker 1: excuse me, it's doable. But the I guess logistics of
Speaker 1: it all worries me because you've got you know, two
Speaker 1: games on the road, you got that stretch of four
Speaker 1: road games in five days. At the end, you've got
Speaker 1: tough matchup against Washington. I mean that to me, makes
Speaker 1: it maybe more tougher than the actual opponents. That makes sense,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah the spacing and yeah, yeah it's laid
Speaker 1: out makes it tougher in my eyes than than maybe
Speaker 1: the actual opponents do. Well you think about it, Nate.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't go by what these uh so
Speaker 1: called experts say because this is a tough schedule. This
Speaker 1: is the NFL, my friend, So I don't care what
Speaker 1: these people say. This thing is gonna be hard, and
Speaker 1: it's it's how the Cowboys mature with these young guys
Speaker 1: on defense, will they play them, whether they be smart
Speaker 1: enough to understand that the defense that coach Quinn is
Speaker 1: putting in place where they have enough guys in the rotation.
Speaker 1: Because if our offense get rolled it, we gotta offense.
Speaker 1: We gotta offense. So all we gotta den is make
Speaker 1: sure special teams are consistent and that our defensive guys
Speaker 1: just don't just don't crush us as a team, and
Speaker 1: we should be okay, we think, Jesse. I agree with they.
Speaker 1: I agree with Kurt. This this schedule is no cakewalk.
Speaker 1: Like you know, you can say, oh, the Broncos, but
Speaker 1: the Broncos at Aaron Rodgers that that comes up as
Speaker 1: a significantly different football team. Um, and Nate's right, you
Speaker 1: gotta play those young guys early because you're gonna need
Speaker 1: them to perform down the stretch. This offense, I think
Speaker 1: will be fine. You have enough playmakers, enough experience, all
Speaker 1: your true veteran leadership is on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, So it'll be fine. And you know, go
Speaker 1: punch for punch, blow for blow with anybody on this schedule.
Speaker 1: It's going to come down to what can dan Quinn
Speaker 1: do with that young defense. How can he get them
Speaker 1: to roundabout and shape and inform to to compete, not
Speaker 1: not just be out there, but to truly compete and
Speaker 1: give a significant output weekend and week out. Um, because
Speaker 1: you're going up against some dogs. This is a dog
Speaker 1: schedule right here, and you're gonna you're gonna know you
Speaker 1: would you don't know. You wouldn't have every week, Kurt.
Speaker 1: If you could pick any game on the schedule to
Speaker 1: go to as a fan, yeah, one road game, one
Speaker 1: home game. Which ones would you pick? Well? Uh, wow,
Speaker 1: you're going to Kansas City. Yeah, that'd be fun. That's
Speaker 1: a great stadium to see a game I've never seen.
Speaker 1: I've never been in the Saint set. I think that'd
Speaker 1: be a fun atmosphere to go to. And then obviously, Tamma,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a huge game on Thursday night, So
Speaker 1: I think you gotta if you're I said one, okay,
Speaker 1: one home in one way of the Saints game, I'm
Speaker 1: going to Sun. What about home home game? I think
Speaker 1: the game against Washington on the twenty sixth. All right, Nate,
Speaker 1: you get one home game and one road game as
Speaker 1: a fan, which one's you going to? Oh? Both of
Speaker 1: mine was on the road. I'm sorry, Yes, sir, I'm
Speaker 1: taking twna bay, Tom Brady a beast, so I'm going
Speaker 1: to out with it. Uh at the crib. We only
Speaker 1: join you, man, I'm want to see this Washington game.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a beat him up game. Though, Jesse
Speaker 1: get one road one home game, which one man, New
Speaker 1: Orleans sounds so funn Have you've never been in that stadium,
Speaker 1: especially for a night game that like wanted to be
Speaker 1: in that stadium too, to be a night game. They
Speaker 1: be juiced up by tom game time. Um, but I
Speaker 1: want to see I want to see Pat Mahomes. I
Speaker 1: want to see that second That was my second game man,
Speaker 1: but he took it away from this Shannon. So I
Speaker 1: would say my way would be Kansas City and my home. Ah,
Speaker 1: it's Aaron Rodgers on the Broncos. Not now all right.
Speaker 1: They didn't do the schedule with him being no, no,
Speaker 1: you want to see it Land. I want to I
Speaker 1: want to see Kyle Pitts. I want to see Cayl Pitts. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I am probably going. I gotta go with
Speaker 1: New Orleans just because the whole experience. There's a casino there,
Speaker 1: there's you can walk up nine game, you can sleep late,
Speaker 1: like just that whole I really I've been to Kansas
Speaker 1: City once when I first started doing social media, and
Speaker 1: that like that's that's a place that you want to
Speaker 1: go tailgate. That would be an amazing thing. But just
Speaker 1: New Orleans. But I love Tampa. Tampa is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite cities in the country. New England. I love
Speaker 1: that stadium. You can't go everywhere you go. I want
Speaker 1: to see the Chargers new stadium, but I would go.
Speaker 1: I would pick New Orleans just because that's gonna be
Speaker 1: the part that's gonna be the most fun. And then home,
Speaker 1: I I think I want to see I think I
Speaker 1: want to see Washington at the end of the year, man,
Speaker 1: I think I want to see them. I want to
Speaker 1: see that game. So so, nobody picked your juice team,
Speaker 1: Juicy Bot, Juice want Juice. You get to pick. You've
Speaker 1: been to all of the most most of the stadiums,
Speaker 1: if not all of them. You get one road game
Speaker 1: as a fan and one home game. Which ones are
Speaker 1: you picking? I'm gonna pick um that new soap cow
Speaker 1: or whatever it is that so five Chargers, Yeah, so five,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go there, Okay. And then the home game
Speaker 1: Philly Philly. Yeah, because that's always a good game. It's
Speaker 1: a good game. Opener Phi opener. Man if phill If
Speaker 1: Philly is a good game, we in trouble. A good
Speaker 1: game opener one hundred thousand back. I meant Jayla hurts
Speaker 1: that quarterback. We're in trouble. Man. If Philly is a
Speaker 1: good game, we're in trouble. And I know us, I
Speaker 1: know us. We No, sir, I ain't trying even giving them,
Speaker 1: no hope. Please please, Cowboys, don't make them a good game. Please. No,
Speaker 1: we can't do be doing that again where they Shannon,
Speaker 1: don't bring that on us this year. Man, yeah, you
Speaker 1: cause that every years I know them. They don't talk
Speaker 1: about people within our confidence in divisions and stuff. Phillius. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it's gonna come down to one
Speaker 1: of them getting in. They ain't got one great player
Speaker 1: and he on defense. I think it's gonna be the
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be the Cowboys and the Washington
Speaker 1: football team. But I think it's gonna be close enough
Speaker 1: that that Philly game. You know what, this may be
Speaker 1: the year that Philly doesn't play a factor and we
Speaker 1: one team just cruises in. This may be that year.
Speaker 1: And you know what. The wild card here is the Giants.
Speaker 1: The Giants have the potential to be pretty good or
Speaker 1: pretty bad from not from what I guess is he
Speaker 1: gave him a nickname. He gave him something booty, a
Speaker 1: bootist Jesse Jesse, Yeah, boot juice. Yeah, they ain't no
Speaker 1: good from what Jess? Can I change my pick? Yeah? Yes,
Speaker 1: I want to do the Giants. You want to know why?
Speaker 1: Why It's the year anniversary of DAK and its same
Speaker 1: week in same team, same stadium. That's the story. That's
Speaker 1: why they did the story. Five. I was just looking
Speaker 1: at Washington schedule, their last five games are all against
Speaker 1: NFC East. Oh wow, that's gonna be physical for its
Speaker 1: watch Philly Dallas Philly Giants. That is crazy. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun to watch it be. I like how they've
Speaker 1: sot these schedules up. I really do, man. They did
Speaker 1: a master for jib then it failed. All right, fellas,
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Speaker 1: Buddy Geo listeners all the time. He's like, we're talking
Speaker 1: about easy schedules. You think other teams looking at the
Speaker 1: Cowboys talking about easy schedules. Yeah. I'll tell you what though,
Speaker 1: but we were coming to look caveat. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to scull. You're gonna have to scull, right, It's like
Speaker 1: it's like the Brooklyn Nets. I got that right. If
Speaker 1: they all healthy you can beat them, but you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to score, am I correct? Jess correct, Just gotta
Speaker 1: just gotta score forty two. And this year we got
Speaker 1: somebody that can help us control the clock. And dat
Speaker 1: he's vetteran enough and paid enough so that you get
Speaker 1: control the cli. I'm so glad we don't have to
Speaker 1: talk about that anymore. Yeah, that's a great point. So
Speaker 1: tired of talking about that. All right, rookies are in
Speaker 1: the building. They come in today I think around one
Speaker 1: o'clock for their physicals and their head shots and their
Speaker 1: equipment fitting and all that good stuff, and then they
Speaker 1: actually get to go do some work tomorrow on the field.
Speaker 1: So quick walk clue, what are they doing Jesse, Nate?
Speaker 1: What are they doing over this weekend? First rookie mini camps,
Speaker 1: the first time being with the team. Well, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what if the position coach is doing, is they like, wow,
Speaker 1: look how great his body look? Oh we got a long, tall,
Speaker 1: intelligent guy here. They kind of just ban they're looking
Speaker 1: at the bodies and noticeable. Look at him walking into
Speaker 1: the showers. Wow he looks good. A little short, dumpy guys,
Speaker 1: fat guys like Nate noon walking around you know that
Speaker 1: doughnuts done, Terry. Okay, I took a left, but listen,
Speaker 1: Nate knew it was a six time Pro Bowl, three
Speaker 1: toime football champions. So if they look like Nate, can
Speaker 1: they produce like yeah? Wow? I'm just hey, y'all have fun. Man,
Speaker 1: I just had a bad When I think about it
Speaker 1: last year, it just throws me up. I'm sorry. What
Speaker 1: are they doing out there on the field tomorrow, Jesse?
Speaker 1: We got what the coaches are doing? Thanks for that.
Speaker 1: Inside what are the players? It's it's it's an introduction, right,
Speaker 1: players are getting out there. They're gonna see early on.
Speaker 1: Hey kind of where coach is gonna play me? You know,
Speaker 1: what's something that I'm about to be learning. This is
Speaker 1: a this is an install pier. You can take your
Speaker 1: time a little bit. Now it has changed because I
Speaker 1: remember when rookie minicamp was when I first came into
Speaker 1: the league, and it almost made you quit because it
Speaker 1: was really ye oh my god. It was like forty guys,
Speaker 1: maybe fifty guys, and it was two of days. It
Speaker 1: was full pads, and you did everything. You did every
Speaker 1: rep on kick off, you did every rep on off fit,
Speaker 1: you did every rep on special teams to every reps
Speaker 1: on defense, and so it was like there was a
Speaker 1: cruel group of guys who were doing everything and it
Speaker 1: was like, you know, coaches wanted to see, all right,
Speaker 1: which one of y'all was actually conditioning, who was really
Speaker 1: working at home or who was just talking about working
Speaker 1: at home. You're you know, you're gonna find out who's
Speaker 1: mentally tough early on, who's ready to give it up
Speaker 1: right now, who's ready to call it quits right now?
Speaker 1: When when we when we got forty guys here, So
Speaker 1: coaches kind of gage a little bit. But it's changed
Speaker 1: over time a lot of time. If it now was
Speaker 1: just the installation getting to know guys, guys getting to
Speaker 1: know you, um kind of being your foundation because you
Speaker 1: have to break them up all the old habits that
Speaker 1: they had at whatever university that they came from, because
Speaker 1: Dan quinn is gonna run things a certain way. Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy slash Kelly Boy's gonna run things a certain way.
Speaker 1: So it's like breaking some of the old habits, installing,
Speaker 1: getting them, getting them in the building, running around and
Speaker 1: just seeing what you got. It's kind of almost like
Speaker 1: you know, you purchase something online. It gets it gets
Speaker 1: to Amazon and you finally get a chance to open
Speaker 1: up the box and see what you got. And it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of nowadays, walk through installation formations, verbiage,
Speaker 1: film talk, film study, just getting guys acclimated from what
Speaker 1: they used to be doing to what they will be
Speaker 1: expected to do now as pros and getting them ready
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Speaker 1: And you know what's it's amazing. Now you're gonna find
Speaker 1: out who the smart guys are, Guys that can learn
Speaker 1: from one practice to another. Can you maintain what you've
Speaker 1: already learned, can you take it to the next practice
Speaker 1: and transition into that field even though they're not going
Speaker 1: one hundred miles an hour? Coaches are looking at that
Speaker 1: more so now than ever before. You used to kind
Speaker 1: of can walk or guy through. This thing has gotten
Speaker 1: so u upscale, so they they're they're looking at them. Okay,
Speaker 1: they guy, he's pretty smart. I mean he's retaining what
Speaker 1: we're saying here. And then as this thing builds into
Speaker 1: other camps and other situations, you'll see, man, because what
Speaker 1: I gathered and I know I'm going on the long
Speaker 1: winhad what I gather is coach McCarthy values the smart guy.
Speaker 1: It's a place on this team for the smart guy.
Speaker 1: So we'll see man. Because that that has been a
Speaker 1: big issue these last few years, not having the right
Speaker 1: guys that can adjust to the different schemes that they
Speaker 1: run to run around here. What's listen to you guys talk?
Speaker 1: It sounds like this is more about finding out what
Speaker 1: they do mentally now, sir, physically, like they finding their
Speaker 1: true talent might not be the goal this weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you this game has played so much on the outside
Speaker 1: now everybody wants to throw different schemes. If you got
Speaker 1: guys that have good talent, but they can they can
Speaker 1: give you multiple looks. Like Jess say, you're always trying
Speaker 1: to make that receive a reroute. You're always trying to
Speaker 1: make that quarterback go away from his main goal and
Speaker 1: have to come back. And that's that's called scheming, and
Speaker 1: that's called putting people in positions. So it looked like
Speaker 1: one thing and it's another. So it is about the talent,
Speaker 1: the telligence of a player, and did you get the
Speaker 1: right guy to fit your scheme to be able to
Speaker 1: do that, or did you just get another dud. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm for real for the last few years, Jesse, and
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. Even with the old regime,
Speaker 1: we're gonna play limited, limited defenses, and we're gonna play fast. Well,
Speaker 1: when you play leaving limited defenses, everybody knows what you're running,
Speaker 1: so they can always be one step ahead of you
Speaker 1: because or we're gonna get this looking, we're gonna give
Speaker 1: them this, or we're gonna run this out for this
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be the same looking play. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna do this this time. You don't want to look
Speaker 1: the same every time. I mean, I don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: Some quarterbacks are smart. The guy we're playing don't opening
Speaker 1: the season. He's smart, okay, but you're not playing that
Speaker 1: guy every week. Well, the veterans have an air interaction
Speaker 1: with them, like when they go to meetings and stuff
Speaker 1: with guy's community. This is where I talked about you
Speaker 1: guys earlier. They they're gonna lose a little bit because
Speaker 1: normally you and I don't know if they can do this.
Speaker 1: You tell me, Shannon, can they Are they bringing in
Speaker 1: the first year guys a second year guys. Are they
Speaker 1: doing that? Jesse? It depends on how many games they played.
Speaker 1: How many games you play, like the Nucci isn't eligible
Speaker 1: because he played a certain amount of snaps or whatever
Speaker 1: you got. And this is where I am so upset
Speaker 1: with our players union. You you you're not thinking about
Speaker 1: guys that under four years and under. They should be
Speaker 1: allowed to come into these camps and to be leaders
Speaker 1: for these young guys and help them along, even though
Speaker 1: that may not be the pitch on defense, but that
Speaker 1: could be the pitch on offense. You know, if I'm
Speaker 1: a fourth year guy less, I want to be here.
Speaker 1: I want to be in these camps. I want the
Speaker 1: coaches to see me because I want to let them
Speaker 1: know that I'm ready to go. Terrently come by, But
Speaker 1: you can't, like you can't participate, that you can't put
Speaker 1: you put before when I played. If you're you, you
Speaker 1: gay man, we need you, We don't know you. Come on.
Speaker 1: I know you've been here three years, but I don't
Speaker 1: know you. Come on, let's go. You gotta be out
Speaker 1: here with these rookies. Now they have changed it all up,
Speaker 1: and these veteran guys who think they're veterans get ready
Speaker 1: to lose your job. So it's like, couldn't Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: talk to you know, Joseph the second round pick. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he can walk by and talk to him, but he
Speaker 1: just can't be out there on the field. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm asking you, guys, because back, like I said
Speaker 1: when we played Spread, if you was injured the year before,
Speaker 1: like da if being injured, you know, you wouldn't bring
Speaker 1: dak out there. But I'm just saying the Nutri was injured.
Speaker 1: Hey man, come on out here, man and get some
Speaker 1: of this. Come on, han't get some of this, and
Speaker 1: it can show that if you have a free agent quarterback,
Speaker 1: rookie otherwise. Okay, this is how we do this. It's
Speaker 1: just one hand washes the other. But the Players Union
Speaker 1: ain't doing this right. You're cutting a lot of guys throat,
Speaker 1: mainly guys like me who were free agents. You know
Speaker 1: that's dumb. All right, Well, one thing that's not dumb,
Speaker 1: Amen Corner. We got five minute, Daniels, you got five
Speaker 1: whole minutes to take over the last part of the show.
Speaker 1: I'm turning this over to you. I want to want
Speaker 1: to know the inside scoop, the behind the scenes of
Speaker 1: this post Malone. What you want to know about hear
Speaker 1: it all come together. What happened? Were you there when
Speaker 1: they're filming to do the interaction? I mean, so I'll
Speaker 1: kind of give you the backstory of how it started.
Speaker 1: Every year that the NFL has done an amazing job
Speaker 1: at turning the league into a three hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: five day a year product. Look at the draft, what
Speaker 1: they've done with the draft. You go look at old
Speaker 1: footage of the draft ten ten years ago, really twenty
Speaker 1: years ago. It's laughable. Ten years ago that was nothing
Speaker 1: like it is. There's there's you know, shows built around
Speaker 1: the draft and build up. Well they've done that with
Speaker 1: the schedule release now and it's become this thing on
Speaker 1: social media with teams probably over the last four or
Speaker 1: five years where it's become probably her people call it
Speaker 1: the super Bowl of NFL social media, where every team
Speaker 1: tries to outdo the other and everybody, every team tries
Speaker 1: to have the best social media video for schedule release.
Speaker 1: And I it's tough, man, because it puts a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on all the social teams. It's you have
Speaker 1: to start planning months and months in advance for this
Speaker 1: schedule release. And I used to hate it, but I
Speaker 1: get it because the more hype you can create around
Speaker 1: these videos, the more you know, buzz you can create it.
Speaker 1: It creates buzz around the schedule release, which in turn
Speaker 1: creates buzz around ticket sales, especially a year like this
Speaker 1: where fans are going to be allowed back and I
Speaker 1: guess all stadiums or most stadiums. I guess they're figuring
Speaker 1: that out as they go that it. This is just
Speaker 1: a piece of the puzzle that creates buzz around the
Speaker 1: actual schedule and into you know, ticket dollars. So I
Speaker 1: get it now, and I understand it, and I don't
Speaker 1: hate it as much, but it still puts a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure. So we started Rainstorm in months and months
Speaker 1: ago about hey, what what can we do? How many ideas?
Speaker 1: Did a lot? We started, Actually we started with just
Speaker 1: the social team, and one of our ideas that was
Speaker 1: really low kind of on our list because we didn't
Speaker 1: think we could make it happen, was what if we
Speaker 1: got post Malone, because he's a huge fan, to get
Speaker 1: the schedule tattooed on his body, because he's so busy
Speaker 1: that he you know, he's got crazy tattoos, like he
Speaker 1: tattoos the schedule on his body. So he can remember
Speaker 1: what when to go watch the games when he's on
Speaker 1: the road. So it started there, and it started kind
Speaker 1: of with our social team, and then we brought some
Speaker 1: other other creative people in Corey Miller's team that does
Speaker 1: all the game day presentation at the stadium, brought their
Speaker 1: team in and we kind of started having some brainstorm
Speaker 1: ideas and we went through the list. One of the
Speaker 1: ideas we had was just to pull the curtain back
Speaker 1: a little bit was you know this hot Ones. Yes,
Speaker 1: they do on YouTube where they eat the hot wings
Speaker 1: and they talk to the players, and we were trying
Speaker 1: to get that guy in touch with that guy to
Speaker 1: do a version of that, and that kind of fell through,
Speaker 1: and then they were probably there were probably six or
Speaker 1: seven solid concepts, and we came away from those first
Speaker 1: couple of meetings like, hey, let's go work on these
Speaker 1: other two or three that are really solid, but the
Speaker 1: post Malone one's the winner if we could pull it off,
Speaker 1: And we kind of wrote it off as there's no
Speaker 1: way we can get one. We can't get him too,
Speaker 1: you know, we tried to do something stuff with him
Speaker 1: in the past and just really couldn't get in touch
Speaker 1: with him. Two if we pull that off his schedule
Speaker 1: and Jerry's schedule, there's no way we can get him
Speaker 1: together at the same time. So we His dad used
Speaker 1: to work for us, Rich Post used to be a
Speaker 1: director at the stadium and ran our food and beverage
Speaker 1: under George Wisai for you. Used to bring me delicious
Speaker 1: food for the pregame show. Oh my god, used to
Speaker 1: Rich is the best. He is so awesome. So I
Speaker 1: got I reached out to Rich, said, hey, we have
Speaker 1: this idea. You know, and another guy, um Alexander Poppas
Speaker 1: that's actually friends with Posts and I know him. He
Speaker 1: works with a lot of influencers. Started with him, said hey,
Speaker 1: do you think he'll be interested? And he reached out
Speaker 1: directly said yeah, man, he's interested. Let's try to figure
Speaker 1: it out. So then got Rich involved, and then the
Speaker 1: wheels kind of started turning because rich Is now works
Speaker 1: for Posts. He quit the stadium a few years ago
Speaker 1: to go work for his son to help him. I
Speaker 1: don't not even sure what he does. I think he
Speaker 1: manages his money. So the wheel started turning a little bit.
Speaker 1: We got a little traction and next thing you know, man,
Speaker 1: it started gaining a lot of traction, and then it
Speaker 1: started looking like it might happen, and then we started seeing, hey,
Speaker 1: was Jerry even interested in this? And then you know,
Speaker 1: we we we kind of pitched the idea to Charlotte
Speaker 1: and Charlotte kind of you know Meredith that works with us,
Speaker 1: and Charlotte. They kind of got the idea in front
Speaker 1: of him, and I think the grandkids were like, this
Speaker 1: guy's really cool, grandpa, and like you should do this.
Speaker 1: And then he, you know, he agreed to it. And
Speaker 1: then once he agreed to it, it was like all right,
Speaker 1: post he's agreed to it. Then we had to start
Speaker 1: figuring out dates, and you know, their schedules are so crazy.
Speaker 1: That was my biggest worries. We weren't going to be
Speaker 1: able to link them up on this on the right day.
Speaker 1: And things just fell in place, and literally probably didn't
Speaker 1: get confirmation that he was coming for sure until like
Speaker 1: a week before it happened. So we were all nervous
Speaker 1: because it was like this, We've got all our eggs
Speaker 1: in this basket. But man, he we picked him up
Speaker 1: from the airport and he was he That's one thing
Speaker 1: you always worry about when you work with talent is
Speaker 1: like you're gonna be with this person all day. What
Speaker 1: are they gonna be like? And what are the people
Speaker 1: around them gonna be like? Because you have to work
Speaker 1: with them and deal with them. The coolest human being
Speaker 1: I have ever met, just down to earth, like the
Speaker 1: greatest guy, like talked to every knew everybody that was
Speaker 1: working on the project, knew him by name. By the
Speaker 1: end of the day, was just super laid back, wasn't
Speaker 1: looking at his watch. We were supposed to have him
Speaker 1: for about an hour, hour and a half. We wound
Speaker 1: up having him for damn there five and a half hours.
Speaker 1: But that was due partly because he was taking a
Speaker 1: smoke break every fifteen minutes and we were having to
Speaker 1: go outside. So but I mean, it was the whole
Speaker 1: day was just you know, Jerry had a great time
Speaker 1: shooting it. He was down to their interaction like awesome.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you so man, so great. Jarry has
Speaker 1: never turned down that type of business. He's never started
Speaker 1: with Dion them back in the day. Mister Jones, My
Speaker 1: hats off she because he's never passed up opportunity like that.
Speaker 1: He gets it, man, he understands like, hey, this is
Speaker 1: going to go crazy and I'll be a part of
Speaker 1: it and turned to Dallas Cowboys will be a part
Speaker 1: of it, and it's going to that's why we'll beat
Speaker 1: That's why that stole. That's why we'll beat somebody on
Speaker 1: That's why the ninth right, Yeah, that's why we will. Whoever,
Speaker 1: whoever Jerry Jewels interacted with ain't got nothing to do
Speaker 1: with who we're gonna beat on the field. We just
Speaker 1: saying I'm just getting I'm just getting ready. Just visualize.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Dak and Zeke so that the you know,
Speaker 1: his song Wow was part of the reason why we
Speaker 1: kind of went down this road was because you know,
Speaker 1: he mentions Dak Prescott and the song while we're like, well,
Speaker 1: we got to get Dak in it. So Um, I
Speaker 1: actually reached out um Jeremiah that used to work for
Speaker 1: us forty Second Witness for some of you that follow
Speaker 1: him on Instagram, one of our team photographers is really
Speaker 1: tight with Dak and is kind of, you know, does
Speaker 1: a lot of personal stuff for Dak. So I said, hey,
Speaker 1: we have this idea floated by Dak, see if he's interested,
Speaker 1: and he said, yeah, he's interested. He doesn't want to
Speaker 1: be the main focus of the video. But he's definitely
Speaker 1: down to beat make a cameo. And I said, okay,
Speaker 1: let me get the details and we'll get it figured out.
Speaker 1: So then once I figured that out, I went to
Speaker 1: our PR department and said, hey, here's what we need,
Speaker 1: here's when we need it. And Joe Trehannon, our PR department,
Speaker 1: um Dak was out here working out or something or
Speaker 1: was in the locker room, and he went and said, hey,
Speaker 1: here's the kind of the concept, here's the day in time.
Speaker 1: And Zeke happened to be standing and there's equals like, well,
Speaker 1: I want to do it too, that's right. So we
Speaker 1: were like, hey, take your running back, more of the barrier,
Speaker 1: let's go. So they both wound up having a little
Speaker 1: cameo in it. Fun. Yeah, great video, ground up being
Speaker 1: really good. If you hadn't seen it, go see it.
Speaker 1: Lets A lot of great people worked on this thing.
Speaker 1: Uh we're Drew Ferguson, Connor, Ben Fallon, you know, Thomas
Speaker 1: Shannon Gross, Clay, Shannon Grows, Drew the Shannon Grows together.
Speaker 1: I would say, I kind of I got the right
Speaker 1: people in the right room to make it. Shannon Grows.
Speaker 1: So I figured out all the logistics and then if
Speaker 1: I didn't have any talent to do it, everybody else
Speaker 1: had the talent and growth to do it. I just
Speaker 1: kind of I heard of the kittens in the right direction,
Speaker 1: and it just wound up turn into a Stannon Gross
Speaker 1: a great thing. Our social hats out to our social team.
Speaker 1: They were involved in all the brainstorming in the in
Speaker 1: the beginning. So I mean a lot of people pulled
Speaker 1: together to make it half Channon Gross. If you haven't
Speaker 1: seen it, go see it's on Dallas cowboy dot com,
Speaker 1: all of our social channels. It's it was a fun
Speaker 1: project to work on. So Shannon Gross, he just laughs.
Speaker 1: I guess he's I guess he's done with the show.
Speaker 1: So thanks Jesse, see you later. Nate, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thanks for letting us go. It's over today.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Thank you. Guy who left on the porch.
Speaker 1: A lot to get too. So we will be back
Speaker 1: next week Thursday, same time, same place. I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: shout on. Take Chris Beams on the thing here. I
Speaker 1: took something from him last week. I don't take his thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah he needs his thing. I don't know he might
Speaker 1: not need anymore. He's got two kids. He may be
Speaker 1: done with that thing. Yeah, yeah, he may be. Man,
Speaker 1: Tommy John, all right, we will be back next week
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