00:00Cowboy OTAs yesterday. Bobby, you can take on the field. I will handle Brian Schottenheimer.
00:07Shoddy, the number one audio clip that I loved was him talking about Jaden Blue.
00:13Candid exit interview. Jaden did not like being inactive. He was told why.
00:18He has come back with a great work ethic. Said he's football brilliant.
00:22Intelligence is off the charts and it's night and day from last year.
00:26Joe Milton, what's the biggest difference from him last year to this year?
00:30Understanding of protections.
00:34Kobe Durant, communication is elite. Thrilled with where the pass defense is right now.
00:40With flexibility, versatility, and disguise.
00:43He wants P.J. Locke. Schottenheimer's been taking about 10 players out per week to a dinner.
00:50And P.J. Locke apparently blew him away in terms of talking to the rookies about his experience.
00:56And Schottenheimer called one of his colleagues within the building and said,
01:02You need to get P.J. to talk to everyone. Not just these couple of rookies.
01:09Tyron Smith has been helping out.
01:11And Schottenheimer went back and forth between the words hope and expect George Pickens to show up for the next
01:18phase.
01:19But George has not communicated what's going to happen to Schottenheimer.
01:24Yeah.
01:24Or he doesn't want to tell us what has been communicated.
01:27He does like to conceal things.
01:28That was what he was first given.
01:30He was given hell for that yesterday.
01:31The clearance question, technically I cheated when I said it was the third question.
01:35Because it was just a broad question, General.
01:37But all those guys you left off last week, what the hell's up with that?
01:40Jalen Thompson, minor pec injury.
01:42Jonathan Mingo, minor groin strain.
01:45Seedy not practicing for personal reasons.
01:49Yep.
01:49And so no Seedy Lamb yesterday.
01:50No George Pickens, obviously.
01:52That meant your first team wide receivers were Ryan Flannoy, Kevante Turpin, and Marquez Valdez-Scantling.
01:58Which if you had to go into a football game with that, you are losing that football game.
02:01And I don't care who they're playing.
02:02They could be playing, you know, UNT, Chop.
02:05And they would probably lose that football game.
02:07They would even win that game.
02:08Dak, yesterday, these are from Nick Harris.
02:10First notes from Nick Harris over at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
02:12Dak Prescott went 11-for-16 in the 7-on-7.
02:15Which people love the stats in the 7-on-7.
02:17Especially the Philly reporters who want to tell you that Jalen Hurts didn't have any picks during their offseason work.
02:22But Malachi Lawrence had a sack on Tyler Guyton.
02:26That's obviously the more we watch some of their reps that the offensive line are taking.
02:29Left tackle is going to be a big part of that.
02:31Kenny Clark and Rashawn Gary, who are supposed to work in tandem together.
02:34And they're supposed to be a coupling that everybody has had, you know, playing well together.
02:39They both had a good play together where it may have been a sack.
02:43It's just tough to tell with the way they do things.
02:45But you mentioned Jaden Blue there.
02:46Took a handoff inside.
02:47That opened up briefly.
02:48But it was quickly met by Caleb Downs in the hole.
02:51Said if they would have been in full contact, it would have been a loud thud.
02:54And Downs also got work as the personal protector on the punt team.
02:57And speaking of Downs, Dak was asked initial impressions of this rookie class.
03:03Yeah, very, very mature rookie class.
03:06I don't know if it's a part of, I mean, just the age, right, just being blunt that the guys
03:11are coming in much older than they were in the past or haven't they were in the past
03:14and have a lot more experience.
03:16And so, like, you feel that.
03:17You know, you can feel they're not the young 19-year-olds or whatever it is or just trying
03:23to learn.
03:24They're coming in.
03:24They understand that there's a way here.
03:26These guys have been managing money.
03:27They've been doing a lot of the pro things now for a couple of years.
03:29So, I credit them.
03:31They've come in with the right mindset, with the idea to listen, to earn my respect.
03:35But at the same time, I've got to go and put stuff on the field to make sure that I
03:39can
03:39impact and help this team and every one of them.
03:43I credit Caleb and Malachi, obviously, being the first rounders.
03:46The first rounders usually kind of, you know, call the leaders of that group.
03:49But I can tell you there's a lot of gems in that group, whether it just be talent or
03:53whether it be personality and men.
03:54And they're going to help this team.
03:56I hadn't thought of that angle of it before.
03:59Like, I mean, I know we've all talked about NIL and the impact that this era has in terms
04:04of potentially, like, giving players money too early.
04:08And, like, do they get a little too wild with it?
04:10Do they get a little too, like, loose and crazy?
04:12And does it, like, does it lead to entitled players?
04:14But that's another aspect of it, too.
04:16Sounds like something Nick Saban would say.
04:18Is that it can be on the flip side of it of where they have, it also has given other
04:22guys experience doing it.
04:23I just don't acknowledge anything relating to Nick Saban.
04:26It gives guys experience doing it.
04:28So it does also reveal professionalism.
04:30And that was the thing we heard.
04:32Both the first-round picks this year, when they got picked on their conference call, one
04:35of the first things they talked about was how Texas had no state income tax.
04:37Malachi Lawrence and Caleb Downs were both aware of that.
04:40And that may be something that guys, like, the more experience they have, the more times
04:44that they've got to deal with their own money and things like that, they start becoming
04:46aware and a little bit ready to be pros because of that.
04:49Boy, the money stuff, it is sad, I see, when guys get their friends.
04:53And I get it.
04:53You've been living without things for your entire life.
04:55You finally get some money.
04:56You want to spend it.
04:56But I do find it sad when somebody gets, like, a big signing bonus as a rookie and they
05:00did spend 80% of it in the first weekend.
05:04Have you seen how Dak Prescott has been injected into the NBA Finals?
05:08Mm-mm.
05:09How has he been injected into the NBA Finals?
05:11You aware?
05:12Trying to draw a correlation.
05:14Oh, oh, oh, I think I know, because they were doing it during the, are you talking about
05:17the Spurs before the game?
05:19Yep.
05:19Yeah.
05:19They've been doing the little.
05:20Oh, the hip thing.
05:22Spurs pregame hip thrust.
05:25Is Dak aware?
05:26Yeah, I've definitely seen it.
05:28Definitely pulling for him.
05:30Obviously, not only because of that, but because of Texas as well.
05:32No.
05:33It was just super cool.
05:34I mean, obviously, I got sent to me numbers of times from different people.
05:38But it was just funny.
05:39Obviously, they added their own mix into it.
05:41Yeah, and they've got some good hips.
05:42And hopefully, they get some game, game four.
05:46No.
05:47That's a big miss.
05:48That's a miss.
05:52That's not understanding the dynamics.
05:53Yeah, definitely pulling for him.
05:54They're Texas.
05:55No, no, no, no, no.
05:55Although, Jerry does consider himself as, like, the Cowboys on San Antonio.
05:59So, you can't go offending Cowboys fans in San Antonio.
06:02Got it.
06:02You got to think of it.
06:03You got to think of it.
06:04And also, I used to do the Mavs postgame show.
06:08Whoa!
06:10We would get a ton of Spurs calls.
06:12And they were local.
06:13I would bet of, like, not of all the population, but of NBA fans.
06:18That sounds like something you allowed more than Wally Lynn would have, I think.
06:23Well, no, I don't know.
06:24But of NBA fans, I would say probably 20% are Spurs fans here.
06:29That's a lot.
06:30The Mavericks were awful, like, in the 90s.
06:32And the Spurs were a competitive team.
06:34People liked watching them.
06:36It also, I mean, look, just go to a Ranger game when the Astros are here.
06:39I mean, they don't drive up from Houston.
06:40They're here.
06:41Give your update, Bobby!
06:43Savone Revel.
06:44I know you guys have all been waiting for this with bated breath.
06:48Savone Revel, by the way, and Jay Sean Barham, according to Nick Harris, both worked with
06:51the first and second team units, kind of rotated a little bit.
06:54But Revel does have a competition that he's, I guess, engaged in, or that the cornerbacks
06:59are all engaged in, in terms of how the rotation's going to be stacked.
07:02But Revel is a boundary corner.
07:03He's an outside guy.
07:04He's not going to play the inside nickel corner very much.
07:08And so that leaves limited options if you're not somebody who can play inside and have that
07:11flexibility.
07:12And he's obviously coming off of what was a tough rookie year.
07:14He has ditched the brace.
07:16No more playing with the brace.
07:17He was healthy enough to play without it last year.
07:19He actually, what was interesting to me is that when you watched him, he kept fiddling
07:23with it.
07:23And it's like, man, he's, he doesn't like this brace.
07:26I thought that later, he was, he did not have to wear it.
07:28He was wearing it on his own, which tells you he probably was not comfortable mentally
07:34with where his knee was, even though it's, hey, you're medically cleared and you don't
07:38have to wear that if you don't want to.
07:39And if it's bugging him that much and he still kept it on, that tells you he just didn't
07:43have a lot of confidence in it.
07:44But he says that this first off season, this full off season that he's had, he said it's
07:48been very beneficial.
07:49This is what he told Tommy Arish, just because I can clean up a lot of things.
07:52A lot of errors I didn't see last year, or I did see last year that I could clean up
07:56this year.
07:57He said, we've got a new coaching staff.
07:58They're very detailed and very technical when it comes to things each day is intentional
08:02to get better.
08:03That's what I feel like I've been doing.
08:04Of course, there's some things I need to work on.
08:06My knee is a hundred percent now.
08:07So it's time to focus on situational ball and the things I got to fix to get better at.
08:11Now, the only thing here that made me a little bit hesitant that I was like, I don't know
08:15that that's totally the purpose of the defense was Christian Parker is a big fan of his.
08:20Apparently liked him when he was coming out of school, when he was at Philadelphia and
08:23legitimately does have a plan to use him from what I've heard.
08:28But he said that what he's learned under Christian Parker so far within this defense is play
08:33your game.
08:34Don't think too much.
08:35Don't overthink.
08:36At the end of the day, you're going to have errors.
08:37You're going to have time where you feel like you didn't do it right, but play fast.
08:40Play 110%.
08:41The biggest thing he focuses on is the intent to be violent, run to the ball.
08:45How much do you want it?
08:46I feel like he really want it.
08:47If you really want it that bad, that's what I've gotten out of him.
08:50So that's true.
08:52Like, I know they don't want you focusing on errors too much when something happens,
08:56acknowledge it, move on.
08:57And I know they want guys playing fast and give an effort.
09:00That's a big part of what Christian Parker's talked about.
09:02But I would not just say, yeah, just react.
09:05Don't think at all.
09:06That is not what that defense is.
09:07That defense is not just solely react to whatever and play on instinct.
09:11That is actually a way to get in trouble with this defense.
09:13So I think it's more, hey, play at a fast level of exertion and make sure that you're
09:20not focusing too much.
09:21Don't overthink the mistakes you've already made, but absolutely be on your P's and Q's
09:25when it comes to what you're seeing in front of you.
09:27The update, the rest of the NFL did not want to hear from Adam Schefter.
09:33Nobody is coming out right now and saying Aaron Donald is coming back.
09:37But everybody is acknowledging that it is a possibility.
09:40And the fact that it is even a possibility in June tells me that I think there's every
09:46possibility it will become more real in July.
09:50And I think if and when they present a plan to him as to how he would be used, I
09:56think
09:56it's more likely than not that he'll be back.
09:59Now, nobody said that.
10:00Nobody said that.
10:01Everybody thinks, well, see, it's possible.
10:04We're talking about it.
10:05He has to commit to it.
10:06It still sounds like we're a ways away.
10:09He has not gotten there yet.
10:11The fact that this is even coming up and the fact that the Rams have the team that they
10:16do and the fact that Aaron Donald will get to play with Miles Garrett and the fact that
10:20the Super Bowl is in L.A. this year, I just think the ingredients are there to make it happen.
10:26They're there to make it happen.
10:28And we'll see whether or not it actually does.
10:31But the fact that there's so much talk and the fact that people are thinking about it
10:34tells me that in the end, if I had to guess, I would guess it does happen.
10:38That's just a guess.
10:42Do I, you know, it's been, it'll be three years almost since he last played.
10:48Mm-hmm.
10:49Are we just, oh, this is interesting.
10:51You'd be the only one.
10:52Are we just assuming he's going to go back and be first team all pro?
10:55Yep.
10:55Why?
10:56Because he's Aaron Donald.
10:58So what?
10:59Plenty of guys have stepped off the field.
11:00He has stayed in shape.
11:01He was incredibly young.
11:02Gronk came back out there and was Gronk.
11:04After two, three years out?
11:06Gronk, yeah.
11:07Was he out there?
11:07Gronk was away for, I think, two years.
11:09I like this take, Choppy.
11:10I just don't know.
11:12And I don't even know, like, was Gronk the same as he was?
11:17I'm not agreeing with it, but I like it because I don't want the Rams to be invincible.
11:20Yeah, I don't think, I'm not saying he'll be a bum.
11:23Yeah.
11:23But we're just assuming that he's going to be prime Aaron Donald.
11:27That's a wild assumption.
11:28I don't even think anybody's assuming he's going to be prime Aaron Donald.
11:30They assume he's going to be...
11:31First team all pro seems prime Aaron Donald to me.
11:33Because prime Aaron Donald was like...
11:35Yeah, but first team all pro is...
11:37Let's just say, can he be first team all pro?
11:39He could be, yeah.
11:40I think he could be.
11:41He'll be what he will be.
11:42He has all pro capability right now.
11:44But the thing was, when he was playing, he was not just...
11:46No, like, I'm saying, like, I think...
11:48We don't know.
11:49Three years ago, he was a first team all pro for Aaron Donald was...
11:53You're trying to say his regression is still first team all pro.
11:56Yeah, that's the highest you could go, but he was way above anybody else.
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