00:00What's the most Cowboys thing the Cowboys have ever done?
00:04Let's talk about it here in Below the Belt, which is sponsored by Academy Sports and Outdoors and Window Nation.
00:09I'm not above some thievery, as long as it's properly credited thievery.
00:13So shout out to Lucius Alexander for what I thought was a great topic starter last week.
00:19It was his question of the day on LA Live last week or the week before,
00:23where he had asked, every day he does his question of the day for LA Live,
00:26where he asked the question to the Tolos and they give their answers on Facebook or Twitter or whatever else.
00:31And his question was, what's the most Cowboys thing the Cowboys have ever done?
00:35And there were some great answers and it went a million different directions.
00:39And so I threw it up on Twitter and Reddit as well.
00:42Like, hey, get some answers here because I'm fascinated to see which direction people take this.
00:47So let us know on the fan text, 877-881-1053, 877-881-1053.
00:52What is the most Cowboys thing the Cowboys have ever done?
00:55And before I read some of these answers, I'm curious for your answers.
00:59What is just like, because people say that's so Cowboys, or that's such a Cowboys thing to do.
01:04I'm going to answer this with some thievery of my own.
01:07Do it.
01:07Over something that went viral over the weekend from, I feel like this is a name that Bobby would text
01:13the nosebleeds,
01:16Ian Hartitz.
01:18Oh.
01:18Yeah.
01:19Yeah.
01:19I like him like that.
01:20I'm verified with a lot of followers.
01:22And his tweet detonated X.
01:27Being a 35 or younger Cowboy fan is pretty brutal because you're simultaneously viewed as a bandwagon frontrunner,
01:35and you've also literally never seen your team even make the NFC Championship.
01:40Oh, yeah.
01:40So that just popped into my mind when it comes to this topic of what is so Cowboy, and this
01:45thing went crazy.
01:47David Hellman and so many other people chiming in.
01:49That you're simultaneously viewed as a bandwagoner, but you haven't sniffed the ultimate glory for 30 years.
01:56My own personal answer would probably be firing Jimmy.
02:00That's the most Cowboy thing ever because it goes back to Jerry and all the credit.
02:06Yeah.
02:06Like that's that is a Cowboys thing.
02:09Equally, it is a thoroughly Cowboys thing to me that they didn't prep really at all the week of Super
02:16Bowl 30.
02:17Felt like they weren't really trying very hard.
02:21Had like all the stops pulled out by the Steelers and everything else.
02:24And then they still won by double digits because they were just well, they were that good.
02:27And then that was just the Cowboys in the 90s.
02:28That's a Cowboys thing.
02:29It's also a Cowboys thing to get smacked up and down the field by the Green Bay Packers when you
02:33just went 12 and 5 and should have beat them in that wildcard game.
02:37Chop, your answer to what is the most Cowboys thing the Cowboys have ever done?
02:40I think a lot of it revolves around coaching.
02:43Like, you know, not trying harder to bring Bill back.
02:46You can argue that was a bad idea.
02:49They interviewed Mike McCarthy and one other guy, Marvin Lewis, and that's it.
02:54It's very Cowboys.
02:55Right.
02:55And honestly, and I love them, but like hiring, you know, shoddy is a very Cowboys thing.
03:01Like you have Dak at a small, finite window and you hire somebody that nobody was looking to hire that
03:07didn't have head coaching experience when you could have.
03:10And is that because they didn't want to go out and break the bank?
03:14Not going out to hire threats.
03:16That's that that that's such a Cowboy thing.
03:18Threats to the regime.
03:21Yeah.
03:21Threats to the way of doing things.
03:23Bill Belichick putting Steven out of a job upsetting.
03:27The apple cart is more important to them than than actually, like if you told them you can get Belichick
03:35in here and this ended up being a good thing.
03:38But Vrabel, there were some thoughts that Vrabel would come in.
03:40And even though he gets along, I've heard with the front office, anyone else who would come in and say,
03:46we have to do it this way.
03:47And if it got you, if I told them it got them a championship, one title in four years, they
03:52wouldn't do it over keeping their hierarchy.
03:54That's so Cowboy.
03:55And that is so depressing.
03:57817 making Mitsubishi pay to put their name on the big screen that they built by threatening to put their
04:03competitor's name on the big screen.
04:05Firing a coach after back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to
04:07back to back to back to back to back to back.
04:07Actually, come on.
04:10It's the company that built the damn thing.
04:13It's a look.
04:14Everything's for sale.
04:16972 Jerry telling y'all he'll find someone else to ask these questions.
04:19The most common answer that was out there on social media, already on the fan text, on Reddit, everywhere else
04:25is the curtains.
04:27Oh, gosh.
04:28Building the stadium in the direction.
04:29It's putting up curtains for every other event.
04:31And then they go, you can't put up.
04:33You know what?
04:35Confusing to acknowledge the mistake.
04:37Sorry, I can't do it.
04:38It isn't even – it's not even the curtains that are the problem.
04:43Because it is so, Cowboys, the direction it was built,
04:48not having the foresight or doing that extra step to study how you've got to build these things,
04:56looking at every other stadium in the sport,
04:59realizing that the only ones that are not built north-south that are open air,
05:06one is Buffalo, which was built a million years ago,
05:10and they don't even have the sun in Buffalo after about September 1st.
05:13And the other one was the old L.A. Coliseum, and the Rams obviously moved out of there.
05:18That's it.
05:19I'd say – no, that is a – the curtains thing is definitely – strikes me as like,
05:24yeah, that's a Cowboys thing to do.
05:25Some of the other answers here on the Fantex, 254,
05:28letting Jason Garrett hang around for two weeks before finally telling him you're fired.
05:32Yeah.
05:33Similar sort of thing that went on with Mike McCarthy.
05:36Hiring buddies.
05:37Over on Reddit, Romo throwing five picks in one game and still winning it.
05:41That was against the Bills years ago.
05:44This is a common one that we get.
05:46This is over on Reddit.
05:47Having the workout area for the players behind the glass so the tourists can watch them.
05:51They care more about the brand.
05:53Also, the stupid windows that blind the players.
05:56You've also got the – there was a game, I believe, against the Giants.
05:59This is on Reddit.
06:00End of the game, Dallas throws a Hail Mary, and somehow Dez gets behind the defense
06:03and goes up to catch the ball.
06:04And on the way down, puts his hand out to break his fall and his pinky fingers out of bounds
06:09and the first part of his body to touch the ground.
06:10Everything else lands in bounds, so it's incomplete.
06:12The Dez catch feels very much like a thing that would happen to the Cowboys.
06:17I think that the famous Phil Knight-Nike sideline halftime on Monday Night Football, that feels very Cowboys to me.
06:26My answer for this, though, of where I was just like, what encapsulates the way the Cowboys have just –
06:33like, what it's like to be around the Dallas Cowboys and follow the Dallas Cowboys.
06:38And to me, I texted this into Lucius when they were doing this topic on GBag.
06:42And I said, the most Cowboys thing the Cowboys have ever done is have Lucky Whitehead accused of robbery,
06:47cut him in the middle of a training camp practice for it,
06:49because they were already annoyed about his pit bull being held for ransom on social media,
06:53and then find out it was mistaken identity, and he didn't even do it.
06:56That is like – everything about the Lucky Whitehead situation was like, yeah, that's the Cowboys.
07:00That's everything involved with the Cowboys.
07:02Weird stuff like, why is some local rapper holding his dog hostage on Twitter and posting videos about it,
07:08and then you're cutting Lucky because, well, he burglarized a store.
07:11And it's like, well, no, it was a different Lucky Whitehead, I guess,
07:14or somebody just claiming it was Lucky Whitehead.
07:16That is thoroughly Cowboys to me.
07:19And pivoting over from that, and this is one of the reasons why I wanted to ask the question,
07:23is because we've talked about that's such a Cowboys move,
07:28or that's the most Cowboys thing the Cowboys have done.
07:31I think that whether it works out or not remains to be seen.
07:36But it does feel like Brian Schottenheimer getting here and trying to do things a different way
07:48is starting to try and shift what it is that's a Cowboys thing to do.
07:52So, again, whether it works or not remains to be seen.
07:56But some of the different things he does where it's the running the laps in practice
08:00because he doesn't like them fighting,
08:01or the various things that they've done to go through the process of hiring a defensive coordinator
08:07like they did with Christian Parker and going through that whole thing.
08:10The fact that they sign Oso Odigizua and then trade him a year later
08:14and actually win a negotiation.
08:16They actually win a trade negotiation for the first time in what feels like forever
08:19where somebody came back and said, fourth round pick, and they went,
08:21nah, we're good, we'll hold on to him.
08:22All right, all right, fine, fine, we'll give you third.
08:24Okay, cool.
08:24You think Brian Schottenheimer had something to do with that?
08:26No, no, no.
08:26I'm saying that starting with the Brian Schottenheimer higher
08:28and then Brian Schottenheimer doing some different things
08:31and then the Cowboys approaching things a different way,
08:33it feels like it's a head coach that's finally tapping into,
08:37I can have a little bit of power here that maybe others haven't realized they had.
08:41The geeks still thought we didn't get enough.
08:44On who? Osa?
08:44Yeah.
08:45And look what happened to them yesterday.
08:47Well, those different geeks.
08:48Yes, but yes.
08:50You know what?
08:51It's been a tough two years for the nerds in their business platform.
08:56Chris Collinsworth selling you down the river.
08:58The football outsiders, my people.
09:00Those are my people.
09:01And now PFF.
09:02Look, and yeah, that's the PFF reference.
09:05Yesterday they sell to, what, Teamworks or whatever their name is?
09:08What is that?
09:09I don't know.
09:10I mean, what a generic name.
09:10Just name your company after Office Cohesion.
09:13So Chris Collinsworth sells it.
09:15I wonder if we're still going to see on the Sunday Night Football broadcasts their PFF grade
09:19or their rank anymore now that Chris Collinsworth has sold that.
09:21But they're going through this whole change now at PFF.
09:25So there were a number of analysts and commentators who got let go at PFF yesterday,
09:31which as much as I hate PFF, I hate seeing people lose jobs.
09:34We're going to owning.
09:35And that's the big one that I wanted to say.
09:37I've always hated PFF.
09:38PFF is like a super enemy to me now.
09:40I've always just thought they were douchey.
09:42They're like a super enemy to me now.
09:43I think they're – John Owning is one of the best analysts and content creators that
09:51exist in the Cowboys sphere and is such a good dude and is so smart and is one of the
09:58guys that I think is just – if that guy's on your team, you're probably doing things
10:03the right way and the fact that he just gets cold cut yesterday by PFF in some massive
10:10transaction to make douchey-ass Chris Collinsworth richer than he already is so that he can pick
10:15up more 18-year-old girls in clubs like he used to talk about on TV.
10:20I'm not going to follow that up.
10:22That's what he said.
10:23He did it.
10:24Have you seen the video?
10:25I've seen it.
10:26It's a real thing that he said.
10:27And so that's what – I think that wherever John Owning lands, they're going to be better
10:31for it, but that's a Cowboys thing to do.
10:34That would have been a Cowboys thing to do is to let a John Owning walk out the door.
10:37Well, they hire all the assistants.
10:39They've started to figure it out.
10:40Just not strength coaches.
10:41They got Christian Parker.
10:43They got Christian Parker.
10:45They've done –
10:46It's not a shot at you, Britt.
10:47Don't be up in my phone, Britt.
10:48Not enough.
10:49It's a numbers game.
10:49They're not helping you out with enough staff, Mr. Brown.
10:52Numbers game.
10:52I think that they've done a pretty good job, though, circling it back to the idea of what
10:58is the most Cowboys thing the Cowboys have done.
10:59I think this offseason has felt different.
11:02Don't know if it's good.
11:03We'll see.
11:04But I think they are doing things differently than what we normally expect that's a Cowboys
11:08thing to do.
11:09I'll be back with the return of B-Lo.
11:11B-Bell.
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