WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Rushing Hour 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.320 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:05.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:11.160 Cowboys. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:16.520 This He's Talking Cowboys string live from the Dallas Cowboys 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:27.080 World Course at the Star in Frisco, Sticky Pawn. 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:31.880 And now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda, 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:37.479 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.720 It's a Thursday edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by a 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:45.320 Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco, Texas. 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:49.440 In the SWBC studios, we have John Machoda, Nick Harris, 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.879 Isaiah Standback, Chris Beam in the back of Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:54.800 It is a Thursday that. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:59.960 Means we're gonna preview the Dallas offense versus the Giants defense. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.120 It's no more Leonard Williams, but we'll have QB vision 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:07.320 coming up in a couple of moments. Isaiah's stand back, So, what's. 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.920 Going on, dude killing man? Yeah? I need to put 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.959 something out there. Yeah, get something off. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:17.000 I had a feeling for all those who are from Texas. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.839 I love my Texas State home. 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:23.280 Now I think it should be mandatory, Okay, whenever you're 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.960 going through driver's education that they have to go spend 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.119 at least a month in Seattle driving in the ring, 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:30.720 because I. 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:32.600 Feel as if nobody from Texas knows how to drive 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.480 in the ring. Nobody nobody. 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.120 My uber driver's Seattle when we were there for the 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:38.800 preseason game almost killed me. So I don't want to 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:39.039 hear this. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:39.839 That's true. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:42.760 That's true, Ray, Yeah, it was. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.200 It was on the way back, Yeah, on the way 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:47.560 back from your beautiful birthday dinner. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:48.600 They're probably a transplant. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.040 Probably probably oh, from the birthday dinner. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:54.320 Oh, because you guys. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.680 Were downtown and we were in Bellevue. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:56.800 Yah. 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.880 Yeah, they put us in a completely different hotel. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.120 We didn't get the high. I don't even know. 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.400 I don't even think of it as just the rain. 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.400 I just think of the fact of, like, how many 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:11.200 things in life is everybody decent to good at? Like 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.640 I can think of nothing, but everybody gets to drive. 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:15.800 Like it doesn't mean everyone's gonna be a good You're 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:17.240 gonna have to deal with you know what I'm saying. 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.120 They just imagine an NFL game. They're like, well, you 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.800 gotta let some of the fans play, and you're just 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.639 like this is gonna be terrible, Like no, but that's 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.320 just the way it is. Everybody gets to play, so 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:28.960 you gotta work some fans into the game, like just 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.760 how terrible it would be even if you have Tyreek Hill. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:33.880 But then it's like, well, yeah, but we have some 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.600 fans that block so we don't even have a chance 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.919 to get Tyreek the ball. But everybody gets to drive. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.160 Everybody like they're gonna pull me. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:42.600 Out of the press box, put me at right guard. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.200 You're like, all right, baby, it's time. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.680 Somebody has explained to me, what is this thing again? 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:51.720 Textans Yock Texas and help me understand that? What is 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.640 this thing? And Beamer maybe you know? Okay, you've been 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.000 here for your whole life. I think, right, but what 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.560 is this? What it rains people put their hazard lights on? 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.240 Oh I hate Daun because they just they're terrified and 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.760 driving a middle lane and just chill. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.000 I couldn't tell your middle lane part. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:05.799 I hate that. 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:06.720 Help me understand it. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:07.480 Well, a middle lane. 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.680 I keep trying to be safe, but that's not safe. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.160 All that is is just a roadblock. Is what does 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.480 the hazards mean that? I don't know what I'm doing exactly. 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.120 It does, but if you're in the middle lane, it 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.160 basically means that you're expecting like the water to be 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:20.959 on the sides, but if you're on like a major highway, 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:21.639 that's not going to happen. 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:22.760 Take the service road. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.040 Do you think people are concerned about flooding like that 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:27.560 They're going to get around a corner or something and 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.760 then there's going to be like a big area where it's. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:36.360 Like a tornatic type conditions. Yeah. Right, I'm coming back. 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.320 I coming back from a restaurant out in South lay Cable. 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.160 My family we're coming back from. And it was I 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.720 mean maybe two years ago. No listen, I just a vision. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.840 Now that's how I'll go when I come back. Very church, 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.920 I'm not sure church. So it's pornering. I'm talking about 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:52.440 like literally like a tornado is like about to come 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.760 through your problem right, like crazy, you can't see right, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.160 you're looking at the lines, Okay, you're literally. 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.000 Just focusing on those little lines and you're just following 0:03:59.040 --> 0:03:59.760 those wherever they go. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:04.360 People had literally stopped hazard lights on, stopped under the 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.840 overpasses on the freeway in the middle of the freeway. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:09.520 Make it make. 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.880 Sense you're not on the shoulder, because I've seen people 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:13.720 jo work on the shoulder. 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.600 They were just on the freeway hazard lights on because 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.359 it's rainy. Stop in the middle of the freeway underneath 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:19.880 the overpass. 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.839 No thanks. Yeah, I'm like, so you're. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.240 Protecting yourself, but you're gonna put everybody else at risk. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.599 Yeah, while also putting yourself at risk. 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.000 Oh my gosh, if you scoffering through some pretty bad 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.000 Heil damage in your car, you'll do whatever you're. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.279 Talking weather man, because it happens. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:35.599 Everybody stay safe out there. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:41.680 The morning, were eating at him a helicopter and he's not. 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.080 I'm not getting a helicopter in rain. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.279 Driving the I called Isaiah this morning. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:49.600 I was like, hey, are you on your way or 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.599 you at the star yet? Usually he's he or early 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:53.200 and I was like, are you at the starry yet? 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.320 And he goes no irritation. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.640 I was like, all right, sorry for asking, I'll talk 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:58.200 to you a minute. 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.680 Irritation all the time high. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.560 All right, let's hit some news and notes before the 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.240 irritation level skyrockets. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:05.040 For Cowboys fans. 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.360 They want to know what's going on. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:07.960 What's going on? 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:08.200 Neck? 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.000 Yeah, for sure. We'll start with the injury report from Wednesday. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.560 The Cowboys. They did not hold an actual practice. Yesterday 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.200 they held a walk through, super late walkthrough too. I 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.880 think they started right around four point thirty. But here 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.320 is the here's the list of guys that were on 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.800 that injury report. We got a Marquise Bell with a 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.640 calf injury was limited on Wednesday, Tyler Biattish battling an 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.960 ankle injury, he was a full participant, j Ron Curse 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.520 with a toe full participant. Also a Diggi Zoo with 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.000 the hamstring injury was limited. And then two did not 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.960 practices in Tyron Smith who's battling an illness, and Cavante 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.440 Turpin with a shoulder, which I assume that's going to 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.640 be the same injury that he suffered against the Eagles, 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.440 even though they initially called it ribs over the intercom 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.920 in Philadelphia, but I guess it's more of a shoulder 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.520 thing now. So two guys that I would probably be 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.160 a little bit concerned with moving forward, obviously turping and 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.839 not practicing today. And then, you know, typically an illness 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:03.839 would not you know, scare me on an injury report, 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.320 but it's Tyron Smith, so kind of scares me a 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:06.720 little bit. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:12.120 Mike McCarthy talked about the possibility of just completely nixing 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.800 practice right for him throughout the season. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:15.880 Yeah, he said, it's an option. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.800 He was asked I believe it was by I believe 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.560 it was Todd Archer that asked him about do you 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.719 just shut Tyron Smith down for the season on Wednesdays 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.120 and Thursdays? And he said, it's certainly an option, like 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.400 it said, something they can look forward like they could 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.200 possibly do, and not saying that they would. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:30.799 But I don't know. I guess. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.360 I guess being here thirteen years just means you can 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:34.799 miss half a week of practice. 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.080 What do you think about that, Isaiah? 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.960 I do you like that? Do you not like that? 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:41.080 Listen? 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.279 I have played with some really good players along along 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:45.599 the way. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:47.760 I played with t O. 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.240 T O was up in age at the time I 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.160 was playing with him here at the Cowboys seven o 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.320 eight to never took a day off. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:01.440 I played with Randy Moss, Okay, Randy Moss. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.760 Did take a day off, okay, but it was Wednesday, 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.039 and it was just a known thing that he was 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.120 going to be in the swim x on Wednesdays and 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.040 he was going to get his condition in and other 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.920 than that he would watch practice and that was just understood. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.800 I played with Wes Welker at the time. Wes Welker 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.240 would get beat the crap I'm talking about, like beat up, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.239 bruised ribs, all that stuff, taking shots, and he wouldn't 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.920 refuse to take the day off that the coaches gave him, 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.720 Like just wouldn't. He would not accept it, Like there's 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.280 no way I'm taking the day off of practice. So 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.320 I say that to say everybody's different, I can't. I 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.280 can't put my finger on as to why they would 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.240 want to shut him down. Obviously for prevention purposes, but 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.320 like you got games prepare for and old line is 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.640 one of those chemistry type things. You can't operate unless 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.480 you know that the dude on your left is gonna 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:53.640 be working with you hand and foot. 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.680 And I'm not sure I understand that he can. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:00.440 Be prepared for games, but unfortunately he's not playing a 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:04.960 position that doesn't require his chemistry with another man next 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.720 to him. He has to have chemistry with Tyler Smith. 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.000 And I'm not saying that they haven't had enough games together. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:11.440 As a matter of fact, him saying that they have 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.520 not have enough games together for him to be ten 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.320 days that's awesome. They need to continue to practice. They 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.280 need to continue to practice. There's all listen, there's so 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.960 many different forms of treatment and recovery tools out here nowadays. 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:27.680 Cowboys are top tier when it comes to preventative care, 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.680 when it comes to restorative care, all those things. They 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.000 have all the resources. Trust me, Okay, I've utilized them right, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.200 and they have more. Now he needs to practice. I'm 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:38.920 not saying that he needs to practice every single day, 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:40.800 but two days out the week, when you're really only 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.200 practicing two real days, then all you're doing is getting 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.920 mental reps. You're only getting mental reps and you're not 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.800 You're not just a receiver. You're not just a kicker. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.560 You're not just whatever. Like you need to work hand 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.760 in hand, hand and foot with the guy next to you. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.280 Tyler Smith is still young. He still needs to know 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.520 that when we look see these looks, this is what 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:00.880 we're going to be doing together. 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:01.640 Right. 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.040 You're not on your own island just because you're out 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.040 there on the at the tackle position. 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.120 So I'm not in. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.680 Agreeance with I understand why they will want to from 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.520 the injury prevention standpoint and the longevity and just getting 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.920 him through the year. But there there's a there's a 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.439 double Ed's sword here in terms of, yes, he might 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.840 be healthy for the game, but at what costs. 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:22.679 Yeah, I'm all about it, to be honest with you, 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.360 just because I think and then you get plenty of 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.079 time to practice reps with whether it's Tuma or whoever's 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:29.800 going to be in at left tackle, you might have 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.360 to turn to that player during the season, and I 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.400 just wear Tyron's at in his career. I think that 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.280 gives him his best chance to be there on Sundays. 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.560 And if he's not out there on Sundays, this offensive 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.559 line is in big time trouble. It's it's kind of 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.080 in trouble with him. So they're just so thin on 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:45.840 the offensive line that I just feel like, Yeah, you 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.040 can't be doing this for every player, but he is 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.240 the type of player that if I got to do it, 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:51.800 I got to do it, and I just move on 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:52.120 with it. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:52.760 It's fine with me. 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:54.480 I was going to bring up the practice reps for 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.120 Chew Madoga Awesome Richards as well, kind of on the 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.280 back side of it, because I mean, I don't know 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.319 about you guys, I have a. 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:02.600 Pretty good idea practice. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:07.520 I'm talking about practice, my confidence level that he makes 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.960 it through all the nine games left is super low. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.640 I do not think he makes it through those final 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.080 nine games, especially with a full practice schedule. We've seen 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.640 Thursdays hit him in the past. I mean, I don't 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:26.079 think he makes it through nine more games uninjured, unimpeded. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:27.720 And healthy the rest of the way. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.560 But something that might give him an opportunity to do 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.560 that as taking practice reps off. Plus it gives you 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.280 more of that continuity that Isaiah you're talking about with 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:40.800 guys behind him. So I understand the mentality of I 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.560 don't want to give up my spot. I don't want 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.800 to do I don't want to give an opportunity for 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.240 somebody else to come in and take a position or 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:51.800 to take those reps. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:52.760 But Tyron Spence at. 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.679 The point of his career where he's not losing those 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.640 reps even if he is missing, because we've already seen 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.560 him missing for the twenty four games over the last years, 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.920 and all of a sudden, he's still back. 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:03.160 In the fold. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:04.720 I get it now, And I don't think that he's 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.240 feeling like he's threatened in that regard. I believe that 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.160 he's fully confident in his position in his role. It's 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.360 just the reality is the old line. They have to 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.240 work together. So I'm not saying to not cut back 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.640 on his reps. I'm definitely saying you do that for 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.400 most veterans, right, Yeah, we'll get over ten years, they 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:22.600 don't have to practice as much. 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:23.520 That's just to understand. 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:27.040 If it was a Wednesday off Thursday practice, deal. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.120 With you one day off, but we're talking about two days. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.280 He's talking about wrapping them up, get the bubble wrap. 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:34.640 Like, I understand you. 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.360 Yes you need the other guys getting their reps, and 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.679 yes you want those guys to get some experience and 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.560 all that jazz for the just the possibility, right, what 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.040 may happen? Right, what's the probability of Tiring not being 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.800 in a game. It is relatively high over recent history. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.760 So you prepare for that by cutting his reps, not 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.560 by not allowing him to practice at all. Like, I 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:59.600 just don't see the overarching benefit of that outweighing that 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:04.520 his being available, outweighing the chemistry that he needs to. 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.120 Have with the man that's next, one that is still learning. 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:09.800 You know, I don't think we can just crowned tytter 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:11.760 Smith and say, hey, ttta Smith, You're good now, just 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.440 go take care of business. Like he's still learning and 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:15.880 he still has a lot of dogs that you gotta 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.000 face the rest of this season. And there's a lot 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:19.680 of big games coming up the rest of this season. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.559 And you could take that same point and say, well, 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:22.760 that's why you don't practice them. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.040 I get it. There's like I said, there's give and take. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:30.040 However, limit his practice reps, don't remove all practice. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:31.520 Do we have time for one or two more? 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:32.400 Uh? 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:34.000 I one more? 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:34.600 One more? 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:35.480 Let's do two more? 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:35.880 Two quick? 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.280 We could do two quick ones. Martavis Bryant spoke to 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.880 the media yesterday for the first time since being signed 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.920 on We'll signed yesterday technically, but agreed to terms on Tuesday. 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.560 It was pretty interesting. It just kind of described what 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.480 he's kind of gone through over the course of the 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.680 last five years. I had asked him, you know, whereas 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.439 life taking in the last five years. He said, to 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.319 places that you can't even imagine, some really dark places 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:58.880 and times, And he said, I didn't really want to 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.080 get into the details of that, but he said, I 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:02.680 worked so hard to get through those moments, but it 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.520 was a dark time for me. I'm so thankful for 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.000 the opportunity. It's been a long process for me, but 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:08.920 I stayed the course and didn't give up on myself. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.560 I'm very grateful to be here. So thirty one years 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.559 old Marteves Bryant back in an NFL locker room yesterday, 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.280 you could definitely tell you you could feel like the 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.440 genuine gratefulness that was kind of coming off of him. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.640 And then talking about what he can do on the field, 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.959 he said, I know I'm thirty one, but I'm still fast, 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.360 still big, and still want to play football. I haven't 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.240 lost anything, he said. The biggest thing for him is 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.000 just going to be ramping up to football speed. He 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.439 says he's still fast, but he's the football speed's a 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.000 little bit different. So yeah, I guess we'll see what 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.000 Martave's Brian has to do over the next few weeks. 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.280 Yeah, he was asked about as forty times. He didn't 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:41.720 know what that was, but he did say he's gotten 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.720 up to twenty two twenty three miles an hour, So yeah, 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:45.840 it's a great story. 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.320 Work with a GPS, right, I just don't know how much. 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.680 I don't see him making a huge impact on this season, 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.440 but it would be interesting to see if he gets 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.800 into football shape what he could potentially bring. But I mean, 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.160 the way I look at this team right now, I 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.760 just don't see, barring some injury, is where he would 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.760 make a notable impact on this year's team. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:04.920 Do you think he has a better chance of being 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.920 elevated from the practice squad over a guy like Jalen 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.480 Cropper and Tyron Billy Johnson that have both been here. 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.160 Yeah, probably, especially given like the history of the organization 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:14.719 and bringing in a big name like that like that, 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.120 he would get the chance before I think any of 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:17.960 those other guys would. 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:18.880 Yeah. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.640 Last thing, the NFL sent out a memo to all 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.440 thirty two teams yesterday saying that juniors can now participate 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.920 in college all star games. The Senior Bowl and the 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.680 East West Shrine Bowl presidents have both come out saying 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.680 that they will allow juniors in their games starting next year. 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.400 So I thought that was interesting. I think it's cool because. 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.680 Obviously juniors will get opportunities to be able to showcase 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.160 their skills for the same exact draft process that everyone 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.080 else is going through. But at the same time, I 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:44.520 think it's really going to hurt a lot of these 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.920 seniors that are coming out in the draft process as well, 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.480 and we've seen seniors explode in those type of settings 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.560 and rise their draft stock. And now you know a 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.840 few of those won't have those opportunities anymore. So I'm 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.040 curious to see how they balance that. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:55.560 Well. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.600 We cover the Senior Bowl every year, we go to 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.160 the Reese's Senior Bowl, we go to Mobile were part 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.920 of that, and we've seen some great senior quarterbacks just 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:09.040 explode out there on the field now South Alabama, Dak 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:10.160 Prescott being one of them. 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.480 Jalen Hurts another one, Justin Herbert. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.480 He was already a high draft prospect, but certainly somebody 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.360 who impressed throughout the week. I mean, it happens every 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.720 single year, and then this year especially, there's gonna be 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.920 more eyes on it because of the East West Shrine 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:23.640 Bowl being. 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.800 Played just across the hallway at the Ford Center. 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.640 So not only will the Senior Bowl have better prospects 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.600 from a top to bottom standpoint, but the Shrine Bowl 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.840 will also have better prospects. I do feel bad for 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.760 the seniors though, especially this class of seniors. I mean 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.880 you think about it, like, Okay, I'm going back to school, 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:42.240 I'm gonna have a chance to play in one of 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.480 these All Star Games, then we can maybe put our 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.239 name on the MAPP and then hit that draft process. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.440 That's I'm sure this is kind of a punch to 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.880 the gut because you've waited it out to this point 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.840 and now everyone gets an opportunity to come and join 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.000 the All Star Game roster. I mean, what do you 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.720 think about that from a general standpoint? I know you 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.680 keep up with at least Washington College football. 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.000 Yeah no, I mean, you guys just pretty much mentioned it. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.040 I mean, it sucks for those guys, especially the guys 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.200 that overcame COVID, stayed there, you know, came back for 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.800 that extra year, and they're now trying to get their opportunities. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.840 The last class that has the COVID year yep. 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:19.840 So you know, the guys have been pretty much waiting 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.240 for this opportunity. The reality is, if you have taken 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.080 full advantage of the opportunities that have been presented to 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.520 you during the regular season, then you'll still get that call. 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.400 If you're one of those bubble guys, then you're not 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.760 going to get those calls because you know, there's gonna 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.400 be plenty of juniors that can steal a ball that 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.360 will be high draft picks that are going to get 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.720 the nod before you. So you know you still have 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.520 games left to go out there and make your mark. 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.160 I mean, you can sit up there and complain about it, 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.240 but ultimately you still have time to go out there 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.560