00:00D'Amico Ryan's talking about Dalton Schultz, who needs a bounce-back year.
00:04I think this offense needs Dalton Schultz to have a bounce-back year.
00:08Dalton has continued to improve throughout camp, just watching him from day one.
00:12He's came out with a phenomenal attitude, urgency to get better in the running game,
00:20also in the passing game.
00:21People that have been here, you've seen him make some tremendous catches in the passing game
00:25and looking like the old Dalton.
00:27And the guy we thought we would get coming from Dallas,
00:31guy who made a ton of plays in the passing game, that's who I'm seeing showing up this camp.
00:35So it's good to see him.
00:37He's looking fresh, playing fast, making plays, great catch radius,
00:41making big plays in the passing game.
00:43Expect to see more of that.
00:45The fact that D'Amico said, this is the guy we thought we were getting,
00:50that's about as close as you get to D'Amico just flat-out saying,
00:53yeah, whatever that was last year, that ain't it.
00:55Well, look, he did that with the offensive line earlier in the offseason too, right?
00:59That's true.
00:59He said there needed to be a different energy or a different improvement in the culture.
01:05I mean, that's just flat-out.
01:06That's easier because you're barely even talking about the same guys now with the offensive line.
01:11The new guys, there's enough new guys brought in that you're kind of giving some of the guys a pass.
01:18I like it.
01:19Oh yeah, I like it though too.
01:20No, that's where I think it's notable, not that D'Amico is being a jerk or anything,
01:25but it's kind of nice that it's acknowledgement.
01:26Like, look, last year, and I get and I understand why Nick said what he said last year
01:31when he talked about, hey, it's kind of a false narrative that the offensive line is a problem
01:36or the problem.
01:37Because he was partly accurate.
01:38It wasn't just the offensive line.
01:40It was the tight ends.
01:41It was the wide receivers.
01:42It was the offensive coordinator.
01:44There were a lot of things wrong.
01:45But the offensive line certainly was an issue last year.
01:48So it's nice to hear kind of acknowledgement after the season and now in training camp
01:53that we had to fix some of these things.
01:54And that one of those things is Dalton Schultz.
01:56Hopefully, he's got to look more like he did, not just back in Dallas, but I think in 2023.
02:01That was what it was a little bit of a surprise for the way D'Amico phrased it.
02:03I would take that, Dalton, in a heartbeat.
02:04Right, right.
02:05I mean, what D'Amico said that it was like the guy we got when he came over from Dallas.
02:09I kind of felt like, well, I mean, it wasn't like he was bad in 2023.
02:12Right.
02:13You gave him a new contract.
02:15But it's nice to hear.
02:17It's an acknowledgement.
02:18Yep.
02:19And Dalton Schultz met with the media on Saturday, too.
02:21This was a fun one here.
02:23Dalton himself acknowledged, I think in the very first answer at the press conference,
02:27that he was dealing with some things last year.
02:29And it sounded like it was things that were physical.
02:31So the follow- this was actually Landry followed up with this, Landry Locker, and said,
02:35point blank, he said, were you hurt last year?
02:37Here was the answer.
02:38That's hard.
02:38Everybody's hurt, dude.
02:40Like, no matter-
02:41Things you had to work on.
02:42Right.
02:42Just some, like, rehabs and some deficiencies that I had.
02:49But, like, I don't know.
02:51Everybody's hurt, dude.
02:52Like, nobody's fresh, especially in the playoffs.
02:56Like, you ain't playing somebody at 100%.
02:57That's, like, the beauty of the game is to try to find a way to give everything you have
03:03into whatever percentage that you want to call your health at that point.
03:08You know what I mean?
03:08Everybody's fighting through that.
03:10And so that's just a battle.
03:12It's the war of attrition that we play.
03:14And I was happy to get an off-season under my belt where I could just kind of refocus on getting my body back to a really nice baseline.
03:21I was trying to figure out whether it was an aggressive dude or not.
03:27And at first it sounded like that was an aggressive dude.
03:31Yeah.
03:31Dude.
03:32Dude.
03:32Well, there was-
03:33Almost like a surfer who's upset.
03:34There was a dude that didn't make the cut at the very beginning.
03:37Yeah, he started off with a dude.
03:38Started with a dude in, like, a four-second pause and a glare at Landry.
03:42And then later on, in a few of his other answers, he was using dude pretty liberally.
03:45Oh, yeah.
03:46So I don't think it was-
03:46It wasn't unique to this Landry.
03:47Would you like to hear some more?
03:49Well, let me make quick the point.
03:51Sure.
03:51I think that the way I read that was, yeah, he was definitely hurt, but he also doesn't want to get up there and use injuries as an excuse.
03:58So he's saying everybody's injured, everybody's fighting through something.
04:01Yeah, this is true.
04:01I think that it might have been above and beyond last year with Dalton.
04:04I hope it was.
04:05I hope that retroactively he was injured.
04:07Yeah, it's an explanation at least.
04:09And it's something that could be a lot better this year.
04:11Yeah.
04:11All right.
04:11So we're probably tight on time.
04:13Which of these answers do you think has more dudes in them?
04:16Okay.
04:16Him assessing his performance from last year or his talk about the improvement of the tight end?
04:25Brevin Jordan.
04:25Oh, I bet that Brevin Jordan one.
04:27Yeah, that one.
04:27Probably so.
04:28All right, let's do that one, Ben.
04:29The improvement of the tight end room with Dalton Schultz.
04:31We got a really good group of, like, of six guys, really.
04:36I think Brevin Briggs, just a-
04:39I mean, y'all saw Cleveland a couple years ago.
04:41That dude's fast.
04:42Like, he brings something that me and Cade maybe don't quite have in terms of just raw speed.
04:48Um, and dude, like, Brevin looks so good.
04:52Like, he's, like, watching him run, he looks like- I'm excited for him just to see, like, him put together, like, a full year.
05:01Um, the kid looks fast.
05:03And so, I think between, you know, I already talked about Cade, but, like, between us three, we kind of- we're very unique in, like, what we bring and, like, what we offer.
05:12And I'm- I'm really excited to see Kaylee, who's got a very strong tight end background, how he kind of employs different guys in different spots and doing the things that might suit us well.
05:25Hmm.
05:25Okay, so we got one dude used as a noun.
05:27Yeah, one dude used in its classic sense, yeah.
05:29Yeah, and another one that was an interjection.
05:32That's what we were looking for.
05:33That's what I realized, you know, as-
05:35I realized until I realized, uh, then, uh, it turned out that there were several, um, people who were insulted by me saying buddy so much.
05:43Yeah.
05:44And, uh, culture- there's a cultural difference in the black community and the white community and how we use buddy.
05:48Yeah.
05:48And sometimes when you say buddy, uh, it's- it can mean different things.
05:51Mm-hmm.
05:52So, likewise with dude, I think that's our version of buddy.
05:54It is.
05:55Dude is the white people's buddy.
05:56It's the pale buddy, yeah.
05:58Dude could be, like, hey, dude.
05:59Yeah.
05:59But it very much can be, like, dude, uh, dude here.
06:04Yeah, yeah.
06:04And I thought the same thing at the time, but I felt uncomfortable saying it.
06:08Um, Texter, I think you were thinking of Willis from Different Strokes, not Theo from, uh, Cosby's show.
06:14I just assumed that all child actors had drug issues.
06:16Todd Bridges played Willis in Different Strokes.
06:18Oh, Todd Bridges had issues.
06:19He had major issues.
06:20Yeah, yeah.
06:20So I think that might have been who you were thinking of.
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