Cowboys 93 Cowboys, do you think you guys go on? Like you
said right there, do you think you go on and win the Super
Bowl? If you didn't win that game right there and I don't
have I'm not sure if we doing it. Yeah,
because I'm not sure how well I would have been able to perform
if I did not have the week off, there we go. Right? Because
I mean, almost seven days after that, I still had swelling in
my shoulder and in my trap and it was still uncomfortable,
right? Yeah. So I don't
Oh no. Yeah that's sort of a hot. Well I would have been
able. Yeah. Right.
Do it some other way that we were good but I don't know. I mean,
yeah, we had to do some other way, right? You have to have
superpowers to be a professional athlete, but you
had a higher level. I've told you this before, but it really
is amazing. We've talked to guys all week about what it
means to play running
back and go between the tackles against those giants, that are
trying, literally trying to throw you to the ground and and
land on top of you. And you just had a knack for playing
through anything and everything is not like you avoided it.
You just found a way to play through it. Well you have to
find ways to play through certain things. I mean, at
least some things you can play through, then there are others
that you just absolutely cannot do anything with. There's
a difference between being hurt
and injured
hurt, you should be to play right. Injured, you're on
the sideline. All right. But
in games
like this,
that means so much and I still have my legs. I got to have my
legs to get away.
You can manage through some of the other stuff.
Some other stuff things are manageable, right? Yeah. All
right. My passion Mahomes was that? Yeah, right. Ankle sprain
right? He managed, right. The last week's game or two weeks
get two weeks ago. Yeah, managed
through it. Got its got the ball. We need to get it
and they perform well, right? He could do the same thing.
Come Sunday, right?
Well, you know why we're on them.
Like I know you guys had a dynasty. They're not a dynasty
yet but it's three out of four years. Like you guys, right.
You know what what
What jumps out to you about their run that kind of makes
the Chiefs magical right now. Yeah. Is the fact that Tyree
Hill is not there. Yeah and they made an adjustment to
bring in other guys to fulfill that role and they are doing it
right
the consistency
and the expectation of the team. It's impressive
impressive. Yeah.
The focus in a discipline of that team is impressive.
The nucleus of that team is still dear. Yeah so they are
Going to play in and growing and building
with new people. Yeah.
And those people are becoming
more comfortable and more effective than what they're
doing in this office and on this team. So I'm surprised.
No, not really, right? Because you still have a great
quarterback
tie it in at other players that are making plays and that
defense has, you know, they haven't been great all year but
they've been good enough. They rise in the right occasion,
right, right, right.
We're now E seven years removed from the last time the Cowboys
even played in an NFC Championship game. Obviously,
you were on that team two weeks before beating the Steelers and
Super Bowl. 34, your third one and four years I would never
dream of somebody and Chris
and I've talked about this
if somebody would have told me
that year
that early 2023 the Cowboys still haven't been back to one
of the games to get to the super boss. There's no way
these are the Cowboys, the Cowboys are always in it.
What needs to happen now
to punch through
next year or the year after?
Stir well.
There's a lot of valuation that needs to take place, not
necessarily just on the players side of the equation, but also
on the even a coaching side. I think, Dan Quinn has done
an excellent job with our defense. Excellent job. He got the guys
playing
at a totally high level
the playing. Now, let me confidence, but they planned fast
and, and they're playing even to some level
of discipline there.
Physically. I'm not sure we're playing at a high level of yet,
right?
And
there are coordinators
that try to achieve. I want to run 90 plays a game. Right? How
they get the name. 90
may not be in line with the talent that you actually have
on the tape. Yeah. Got you. And so I think there's a
there's an opportunity to reduce
a lot of those 90 plays it come up with 25 30
Staple plays that we run and we run them with perfection,
right? And it's hard for somebody to stop at anything
know it's coming. You were built like that your Cowboys
teams right now, kind of like the dad always taught. We knew
a diva's they're going to line up with, they just are so good
at it and so
good, it didn't matter, there's no matter. And
so, you guys were some of your running plays, like, you had
four, or five running plays, right? It didn't matter. Yeah.
You had to stop him. But you execute an imperfectly,
executing perfectly every day and, and I think from that
point forth,
then you can start.
Working your way, in building your way to little things off
of it right? Yeah. Right person Nails, grouping right thing
else I say I can run the same 25 plays
nine different times with
different formation Personnel, whatever. Right right. I don't
see that. I don't see that. I don't see. I don't
see that at the college level. Yeah. I mean
to me I think coaching has gone down in those areas because
there's so caught up in trying to run so many different plays
and RPO this and RPO there. Yeah, that
they did. They are leaving the basics and the fundamentals
alone right there. So you probably respect like the 49ers
and what they do because they kind of do that. Yeah. Like
what you're talking about?
Exactly. They're old school very much old school. Yeah.
And yet very effective
even in today's world, right? That old-school Westco system.
Yeah. Work work at the night, right? And it works with
Shanahan. Yeah. And and you know what, he can flip
the switch at any point in time and go downhill at your behind ya
and run it
with daggone Debo. Samuels a wide receiver.
Yeah and Chris McAfee right. And another guy all going
running back. Yeah,
gosh, I have so many things I want to ask you right now.
Alright, first off, what's your feel for? This current state of
running backs in the NFL. Do you wish they'd do something to
help these guys out financially, a little bit like,
earlier, on in their career? Why not?
Why not, right? I mean, would you getting killed? And then
it's time for second contract. They don't get paid. This is
this is why you have a to system running back system.
Yeah, it's to reduce the money. Yeah.
Because if I can go to a high-paying dollar Guy, that's
worth it.
Where's the money, right? And I said, well,
you can track up.
Yeah. You only get this. Many carries you only get in the at
900 yards or thousand yards, right? And the other guys
getting 800.
Well, you're not in the top five. Yeah Elite yeah.
Well, is that my fault right?
You just didn't give me the pieces then. Give me the ball
in the right. Right. So you trying to
break my money up amongst two guys? And that's what I'm
starting to see. Yeah. There's versus there's a lot of that
going on. I mean, but and again I understand why to because
The running back position.
You don't have that belko, got ya.
Do you really want to build Car Guys? Depression. Got a dairy
Henry
and you may have a Josh Jacob. Yeah, even though. Yeah, yeah.
That show. That's about it. That's about it, right? Z
used to be that, right?
But now you got Tony Pollard running
doing both. Yeah, they're both doing it that way and it's both
been a very effective.
So therefore the money comes down.
I know, I worry about it. I wish they'd help these guys
a little or they ride them too hard, in the first five years
and then they go. Well, you're not the same anymore. Yeah, we
can't pay is like, who do you think is back next?
Here,
Tony Pollard. Is he Q Elliot both? Neither I think both.
Wow. I think both because pilot because of his situation, his
ankle
not many teams are going to be flocking to get hurt his market
and horrible to. That's the thing. You're right on
the brink. Yeah, there it is. And playoff game and good. There
goes your opportunity to get the franchise tag money, or hit
the open market. Correct. He can't hit the open market,
and I think they may put the franchise tag on them
and give them a chance to recover
for next year. And so
it's going to be tough.
Yeah that's hard back to your point,
right. And I think the leak and do something about those
tackles to because you see a lot of guys time hip drop drip.
Drop you do you hear? I'm your perfect to talk about this. If
he's heard me say this
like that stuff didn't go on and your era know and one of my
things is the gloves
on the defensive guys
they don't fall off people anymore.
Like I used to watch you, step on people and they fell off.
Now I feel like if Stepped on one of these guys, they still
are on you because the gloves never let go. And then you get
put in some awkward position. Yeah.
And they got us a, if some of these tackles are just not good,
just not good. I mean these hip tackles and riding the guy
down, that's okay. Oh D. Oh it is a rodeo. It's another form
of like hard time. Is another form of
horse called Hearts.
We got down from behind and he had a leg injury, the way you
fall down and guy falls down on top of his
legs.
I mean that's the way to go. It has to get.
All right, people not tackling any longer. Yeah,
one way you help people from time to time when they drink
responsibly to have a little, her Dura tequila. Yeah, you're
back. Yeah, you got a bottle, I'm back, and it's great.
I always come bearing gifts. And when that time of year, so if
y'all
don't see me to next, you just know, next, you're gonna get
another, get all right. But obviously, the, this tequila,
the ultra and they do is a fine tequila. I didn't bring over to
last year. No, you didn't bring out an a
double-barrel Reposado.
Oh, But this right here is 0 to n a0 and Top Chef. I like to
drink Minds on a big rock. Yeah,
headed or right now is going to be the big time sponsor in
the lead sponsor
and a main sponsor at the Kentucky Derby this year. So
ramps up, this brand is on his way up. All right, I like at
the Horseshoe, on the front end, so it's fitting to be
part, hitting, sake, Derby, where we do some tequila to
kill it here. So death, I'm a crushed ice, and a little bit
of a lime in the night
to kill us, just crushed. I'm using right now.
I know, I know you sometimes. I like it a little more.
Her down just a little bit. Yeah,
what's it breathe. It's good. The big rock guy.
All right, I'll try and keep it sealed the whole time. It says,
so I listen, here's something to try to kill a mixed with
an Italian liqueur called Disaronno. It is, he's getting
all Italian Stallion idea. Now, over here some, I tried it one
night and I had one and I was
feeling good. I had a,
I had a segment and I went to Cuba. Did you do good?
Herradura, did you really? Yeah. No,
I didn't have any
now, I do. Okay, I'm not going to be drying about to get into
last year. He got through with the reposado that you use or
was it no. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Okay. Alright, yeah. Alright, one of
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