April 27, 2023 • 26 mins
It's that time of year again and lots of talented young men are about to have their dreams made or broken. Nate and Zai break down if the Dallas Cowboys will make the right draft picks this year and who might go where.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:00):
Nate and I would like to thankthe Niagara Corporation for sponsoring today's episode of
Let Me Tell You Something. Niagarais the country's leading manufacturer of water conserving
plumbing products, including toilets that reducedwater usage by up to sixty per Niagara
products were originally designed just for plumbingprofessionals, but they're now available for homeowners
as well, so if you're remodelingyour home or constructing new, checkout niagaracorp
(00:24):
dot com to get long lasting watersavings. What's up, Y'all's your boy?
As they stand back back for anotherepisode of Let Me Tell You Something?
(00:45):
And it wouldn't be okay if Ididn't have my big dog with me,
big Nate dog in the building,sitting there with the start's chefs.
What's up, n Hey, main'tnot man? I look at you man
and land week dude, I hadto do with a big old head Kevin
mentioned had to do with a massivehead. You're here they the size of
cavins out problems. I'm not feelingout the whole frame, not feeling out
(01:06):
the frame like he did. Yeah, how you've been doing what you've being?
Isaia man ripping and running ripping andrunning. So I was gone last
week because I went to go takeadvantage of some of the resources that the
NFL provides to us. In theNFL, for those that don't know,
we have about a gazillion different resourcesfor post you know, for former players.
So we got the you know,I know, the NFL PA,
(01:29):
that's our that's our union. Thenyou got the NFL Trust, and we
got the NFL Players Care So Association, we got the Former Players Association,
we got the I don't even knowNate. It's just about twenty dug on
things. It's hard to keep up, but you have to. We have
the resources, you just have togo search a little harder for them sometime
to find out exactly where they're located. Yes, but they have a program
(01:52):
that allows for you to They pairedup with the with the Cleveland Clinic and
for every five years you're a lotat an opportunity to go do extensive checks
with all the medical care that youcan imagine, MRIs, cat scans,
echoes, ekg's blood work, neurologists, psychologists, it's a whole gambit.
(02:15):
We literally go on site and youknow, to a location of your choosing
and they do all these tests foryou for free, and they get all
the reports, you meet with allthe doctors, and it's pretty much a
it's an opportunity to find out whereyou're at. So if we have those
resources, they you got to takeadvantage of them, you know. Yeah.
And now, so I understand thatthey touch every part of your body.
What part did they not touch?I mean, I you know,
(02:37):
I can tell you what they didn'ttouch the yeah, man, man,
But but I mean I checked outfor the most part. I mean,
my body's beat up as you canexpect it, you know. But I
was more so concerned with the cholesterolsand the heart, you know, and
all the things that you really thethings that you can't see, you know,
(02:58):
our backs and our knees and areasare all of our extremities. Those
are all gonna be jacked up fromthe physicality of our sport. But it
is what it is. It iswhat it is. Yeah. Yeah,
I'm sitting here with my wife.I'm trying to text her tell her not
to talk so loud. I don'tknow if we can hear nothing because she
was my home. Yeah, andit's a new platforms checking us out.
(03:22):
We're from the crib right now,we're gonna be popping in the studio,
out of the studio as we are. I see you got the nice little
paintings on the wall, Nate though, Okay, did you do that when
yourself? Yeah? Man, mywife picked that. Man right now,
I don't even understand what that is. I never was an art guy,
you know, so I don't understandwhat that is. Like a big some
glob on the wall. To me, it looked good. It look good.
(03:42):
But color man, what you've beenup to over last week? Man,
just chilling, man, just chilling. You know, I've been traveling
out. What I'm trying to dois clean up my backyard. It took
me seventeen years to jump up inmy backyard, to jump up the inside
of my house, to junk upmy storage. So I you know,
I stopped traveling. I said,you know what I'm paying on my backyard.
(04:05):
I'm get grass back in my backyard, get all these junk. I
mean, I can't even explain it. I'm a junior horder. That's all
I can tell you. To getmy fault, Yeah, it's my fault.
And then I got a house that'sfull of stuff. I've had since
I moved in here, talking aboutmy son, this, that another.
(04:25):
So I told my wife, I'mI'm fenn to stop traveling. Get all
this junk out of my house,man, get all this stuff out of
my storage, and I'm not gonnareplace it. She's been talking about the
garage sale for three months now,and I'm like, come on, man,
you either gonna come get some ofthat old cowboy gear. Let me
know when you do the garage there, I'm coming to steal all of it.
(04:46):
Cowboys year, I ain't got noneof that. That's all been sold,
yes, sir man. But otherthan that, Zay, I'm just
living a life man and waiting onhis draft to see what the Cowboys do.
Is they're gonna do anything different thisyear and then they've done any past
years. How are you feeling?What are you thinking about it? I
just what I'm what I'm thinking,and I'm looking right and I'm looking right
(05:09):
into the make. What I'm thinkingis, whoever you decide to drive,
whoever that best player is. Ifwe're gonna go best available player, I
don't care who you pick in thefirst, second, or third round,
even the fourth, Please do notlet that person come out of college injured.
(05:31):
Our football is the second love.We need some guys that's dedicated to
the game and has not had abad history of injuries. It's one thing
to get here and get injured andit's but it's another thing to come off
of injury and then we have torehab. You may have you for the
season, may not have you.That's not a good thing. The window
(05:56):
of opportunity is quickly closing on theCowboys, So we need impact players.
These players that are gonna play fortyfive percent or more of the time they're
here in the first year. Ifeel that. I feel that so as
a as a draft we're here onDraft week now, Kay, the draft
about to go down Thursday night.It is popping off. The Boys are
gonna be taking their pick and thatwhat number twenty six in the first round,
(06:18):
and I believe they have a pickin every round, right one through
seven. I think that's that's correct. Um. There's been a lot of
speculation as to who they're may beinterested in and what they're playing on doing.
Blase Nay, I think we hiton it a couple of weeks back
in terms of what they need todo. Has your perspective changed on what
you feel the Cowboys need to dogoing into this draft in twenty twenty three,
(06:41):
No, sir, because I stillthink we need offensive lineman. Yeah,
well, I know we need offensivelinemen. There you go. I
know we need a tight end anduh, then you can go with a
linebackers with me, maybe another offensivelineman or defensive tackle. But those are
(07:02):
positions that can anchor you and thenif the injuries hit in those areas,
you don't have to you don't haveto go into a mad scramble. Yeah.
I feel there's a conversation that wehad over on a Cowboys platform,
and I say we it was myselfand a few the other guys or you
know, Kyle and and some ofthe fellas. What we went back and
(07:25):
forth at a name. And I'mnot sure if you got an opportunity to
hear the show, but there wasa conversation that came up in regards to
if be Jean Robinson and sitting thereat number twenty six for whatever reason,
if he seemed if he happens tofall or even if he falls down to
number fifteen or something like that,below the fifth top fifteen, the guys
(07:45):
on the show, no Ce andKyle, we're saying that you can't pass
on that type of talent, thatyou have to go get this guy.
You have to add them to yourroster, even though you don't need high
caliber running back, you just can'tpass on a player that good. And
my perspective was, is there abeast of an office alignment available at that
(08:07):
same time? That's that question.They looked at him like I was crazy.
They They're like, we're talking aboutBajan Robinson, Like this dude is
a piece. I'm sitting there,no no disrespect, But if I was
building out a team, I amnot gonna bypass a necessity for a one
that that is the problem a passwith the Dallas Cowboys. They want the
(08:33):
big bang and not the longevity ofsaying wild, Okay, this guy's been
Martin uh Tyrone Smith before he startedgetting injured. I mean, when you
can have a piece that can lastyou anywhere from eight to twelve years versus
a piece that's gonna go for fouryears and he's gone, and and and
(08:56):
you're gonna share the backfield. Now, if you're telling me you're gonna get
this dude, he's a three domesback, and he ain't coming out of
the game no matter what longest daksstanding in there, he's standing in there.
That mean Tony Pollar's gone and wegot Jones and another draft pick,
a little draft. That was myother argument, you're gonna he's gonna share
the backfield. How many running backsin this league don't really share the backfield?
(09:20):
I can think of one, yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe one.
And I can't even think Henry KingHenry. That's only and King Henry
had needs a breather, you know, because they're trying to trade King Henry
up out of there, because theyeverybody sees the value, even a knucklehead
like me who like a one backsystem, sees the value of why would
(09:45):
you spend thirteen million dollars minimum thisyear on running backs when you can spend
six million dollars, Go out andget you a beast stubble offensive lineman off
to the free agency and in secureyour line for the next four or five
years, because I don't care howgreat your talent is on the outside and
in the backfield. Actually, thegreatest player on earth on the planet right
(10:09):
now that plays with Kansas City.How he felt in the super Bowl without
his offensive line. Absolutely don't dothat. You can insert you could put
talent around goons up front, That'sright, you can. There's no there's
no lack of talent at the receiveror running back position. Never has been
(10:31):
there. You never You've never beenin the league and be like, ah,
there just aren't any good running backsfor a good receivers in the league
anymore. It's never came, hasnever been a conversation. There's more skill
players that are capable than there arealignemen that are capable. That's just the
facts. That's just the facts.So knowing that that's a fact, and
knowing that you heard you've been hearingDouble Jay talk. Double Jay's been talking
(10:54):
about Double Day's been talking about how, um, how what do you say?
He said, running backs have abouta five year window that you can
get them, right, He said, you really really can't. You want
to secure guys for five years.After that, they're probably going you're not
gonna want to repay them. Soif that's your mindset, go get the
dudes that that you're gonna keep forten years. To your point, Nate
(11:16):
Cody, if you want you togo ahead, I'm sorry, No,
just when you find a beast ofan offensive alignment, he gonna be around.
Yeah, Cody Mitch is Uh,I'm looking at the best available and
Cody Mitch out of North Dakota andI hope I'm pronounced it's m ace,
you see it. H His firstname is Cody out of North Dakota State.
(11:39):
Uh. He's a tackle. He'sat fifty three, so that means
he's a mid round, second roundpick something like that. And I would
rather get a guy like that that'sgonna give you every down, gonna come
in and play for you. Andthis is not a maybe a first round
pick, this is a round pick. But you you solidified the offense line.
(12:05):
And especially if you go out andpay dak a whole lot of money
and you got a social offensive line, what what did you just do?
You just went in the hole.You you just took. Now, if
you if you're not gonna pay Dakand you're gonna try to get some young
Wilper snapper that gonna be out thererunning all around, don't know nothing,
(12:28):
and you're just trying to you know, tank it. That's one thing.
But if you're saying that you havea chance to win, you got to
look at your present offensive line asit stands. We have probably five starters,
probably five starters, and a lotof question mark and a lot of
who is that guy? Wow?What can he do? Please? Tell
(12:52):
me? What? What? Whatwere you? What were your thoughts on
double Jay saying that he's moving ballto the guard position? Did you that
in the press conference? I needI need to hear from you. I
need to hear from the man himself, mister Nate Dog, what are your
thoughts on that? Okay, youplay right tackle and you was semi swing
tackle. Guys are not as bigand as strong on the edges. You
(13:20):
know they are strong, they areall athletic, but they're more quick.
They're more speed turning into power.Now what you're gonna do with straight power?
Are you telling me? Josh balland got one hundred percent stronger?
I ain't talking about a hundred onehundred because if a because if a diva's
(13:41):
a man at two sixty two seventycan push him back into the quarterback.
But a three hundred and thirty poundor three hundred twenty pound bull rushing tackle
gonna do so you're saying, hesee Mike Salari I love you, man.
I remember you as a pup cominginto the league, into the Dallas
Cowboys, was a worker. Well, bro, you must be here.
(14:01):
You must got god like tendensis.Boy, you must got god like bad.
You're laying hands on dude over there, right, I hope. So
that's what I believe. Wow,so you're saying, you're saying is like
a dumb and dumber chance, likelike one of a million, or like
what what's the chances that you thinkhe can bump down and be successful.
(14:24):
I'm not saying that Josh Ball can'tbe a service of a player in this
league, but his first few yearshas not been what you say on the
uptick. Yeah, he's just beena guy. And then so until he
get out there and one thing Iwant to say, the smaller year window
(14:46):
of success and getting and get intothe second round of the playoffs. The
more training camp means to you ifwe go out there in a bunch of
guys are just running around, especiallyyoung guys. I'm talking about special A
young guy running around, Well he'sgot he need a rest day. Wow,
he need a rest day. Hethis is third year. He need
(15:09):
a rest day. So if I'mone of them young guys. If I'm
Josh Ball, I'm like, no, coach, ain't on rest day.
I'm working every day. I'm workingon my craft every day because that is
what it's gonna take if you're gonnaput you know what, I saw him,
Nay, I forgot how big hewas. That's a large human.
(15:31):
Now, don't do that. Lord, you know I hear that so much.
He's a large human. I sawhim at the coffee machine another day.
I was like, Oh, that'sbig. Complete the sentence. He's
(15:56):
a large human. But he's notdone anything yet. I'm not saying he
can't do anything. But training camphas to mean something to these younger guys,
the funny acts and all of theseguys that even our second team tight
end and wanted to play behind himthe shot. The training camp has to
(16:18):
mean something to you. You haveto go in and work on your craft.
You know when when when nobody's onthe field, you gotta be out
there doing your steps. You gottabe out the running route, you gotta
be out there hitting dumbies. Guyswalk around now, they have eight days
before they stop putting on a pad, and then when they put on pads,
they complained, Yeah, for real, listen, the generation is different.
(16:45):
They were here the football, we'rehere in basketball. I don't understand
it, but it is what itis. Man. That's that's the generation
that we're in. And I havemore questions about generational uh influences and generational
what's the what's the word? I'mlooking for them. How do you raise
a young in in this generation tohave work ethic? All right, that's
(17:07):
a whole other conversation, Nate,because I've I've been, I've been tussling.
You can't. It's hard. Youcan't. Let Menna tell you why.
Because forty percent of society works fromhome. So when your kids see
you get up and in your pajamas, half brush your teeth, don't wash
(17:29):
your face, and walk to acomputer and turn it on. Go,
get you some coffee, fix yousome breakfast, some instant breakfast, whatever,
and then walk to your computer andthen return it on. Because you
took so long before you, ittimed out on you. And that's what
your kids see. I know.Yeah, that's what your kids. We'll
hit on that topic one day.But Uh, draft drafts here OTAs?
(17:55):
What does OTAs mean to somebody?Some of these second and third year guys.
It should mean I'm gonna show thecoaches that I'm ready, and I'm
physically physically ready, I've mentally grown. You're gonna have to tell me to
slow down because I'm coming to getsomebody's job. That's what OTA should mean
(18:17):
to draft picks, that's what youknow. And then when the coaches out
there, we don't want to hurtone another. We don't want to do
this right here. Then when youget the training camp, we don't want
to hurt one another. We don'twant to do nothing. Then we get
to the regular season, what suchasuch out for eight weeks? Hold on,
Well, the reason they out fadeweeks because we didn't do nothing for
(18:37):
the first eight weeks. So nowwe outfade weeks because we turned it up
one hundred miles an hour. Youcan't do that when you don't have a
proven team, and people say,yeah, they do it. It was
twelve in this last year. Theyear before that, it was tending this
right. Yeah, but each yearyou get younger and younger and younger.
You don't have enough horses to showthese guys. I don't know, I
(19:03):
may be over speaking. We gotGilmore and Cook two successful players. You
know, I hope they are workersbecause they come in and pull that mama,
daddy, I'm going to get thecomputer thing. We're in trouble,
Yeah, we're in trouble. Yeah. So what I'm serious? Do you
expect to take place during OTAs?I expect for the young guys come in
(19:29):
and do what they have to do. I expect for everybody that can practice,
they should practice. Because coach mccarthuris putting a little bit more of
his offense into it, so it'sgoing to take a little bit of extra
work. The players are gonna haveto be smarter. So that means you
have to put it in a littlebit more tape work. You don't have
to put it in the more,a little bit more taking them notes.
(19:51):
Everything can be taken for granted.You want to you want to get in.
Like I said, we got sixoffensive line of five and a half
offensive line, and so these guysgonna be up and running if they can't.
Who's the half late, you said, But Josh Ball is the swing
guard. So that's that's a quarter. So you find you another guy,
get you another quarter. And wegot to have come on all right,
(20:15):
hey, all right, last questionfor you, Nick, what what would
make Nate elated coming off of thisweekend's draft, Like when we come back
and we sit down and we talknext week, what what is gonna have
you hype? What would have totake place if you come in said man,
(20:38):
I probably I probably run over tothe cowboy. I probably do the
press coming in somehow somewhere. Wecan get down there watching them from Georgia.
The big tight end. We canget him. Oh, I'm running
up in there, bro, I'mrunning up in there. We can run
two tight ends with him in firstone of those if one of those two
forty pound tight ends that they sayhave sure hands, that that's ranked above
(21:02):
him, what if they are availablebefore him, if they can't block,
what good does it do? Whatyou say, you know, we need
people that can do both. Ifyou got a tight end that can get
in the way and that can fightand block a little bit and possibly dominate.
Now, now that can be everythinghe needs to be. And you
(21:26):
don't understand how much that opens uptight end with that ability, how much
that opens up your offense? Yes, yes, I mean uh Lamar Jackson
Andrews. That is why Lamar Jacksonhas been so successful. A guy that
can get in your way block holdis block long enough to get the running
(21:49):
help with the running game, andthen be able to run those routes.
And you can put him on rightat the end of the line, wrap
it beside the tackle and he canrun his routes from there. You how
do you cover a tight end that'son end of line? You know,
you can go out to that slideor you can go out wide. I
mean, you know, unless you'rea top two tight end. The kid
(22:11):
from the forty nine ers of thekid from the cant set it. I
mean them only two, not therest of them. The rest of them,
y'all can. Y'all can make itact like that, But you get
physical with the rest of them,they're shed it down. You get physical
and nasty with him, they'll shedit down, all right. So to
make big Neat Nate Newton happy,and they laid it ready to jog around
(22:32):
the block all the way to thisCowboys facility. From Tim Buck two,
you said, you just need biggwashing, that's all you need. So
we don't need alignment, you knowwhat, because he is alignment. This
dude is six but eight two hundredand seventy five pounds. Yeah that yeah,
set that edge, baby, likethey say on defense, set that
edge. We will be set thatedge. Now we can let tune the
(22:55):
polo duty won't and then we goget that that kid gives from my from
Alabama. Oh yes, sir,come on nine, get Cody from North
Dakota State. Come now, I'mwith you. I will do a cartwheel,
and i will attempt it back.No, I ain't gonna tip,
no backflick because I'm gonna be endup right back at the Cleveland clinic.
(23:15):
But I'm I'll do a cart wheel. If the Cowboys get big Darnell Washington
and they get a beast of anoffensive linement, if they can check those
two boxes, I will be ahappy human. I'm not saying that's all
they need, but I'm saying,if they check those two boxes, Nate,
this team is gonna be so muchbetter than they were last year.
(23:40):
Yeah. Yeah, then we'll haveseven offensive a linement. Then we'll have
seven offensive a linement cause Darnell watchingit is offensive aliment. We'll have seven
offensive a linament to five starters.Cody, Darnell down, Josh Ball,
can take another year to develop.Y'all heard it here, man, that's
big Nate Dark speaking to you guys. Man. We uncom for the crib
(24:00):
and let you guys know the realcoming up on Draft week. You guys
enjoy the draft. We're gonna comeback next week and let you guys know
how we feel about it. Andof course I'm gonna hit on some other
things um as always. And thenit's at that time of the year of
course, to start bringing in someguests, so y'all be ready for that.
Oh one more thing, I'm sorry, I hate how's your hockey team
(24:21):
doing up there? Tell me howy'all do you want to talk about some
of them? Seattle cracking? Baby, what's cracking Nate down? Yeah,
hey, Seattle cracking. We offand popping the series as at the time
of this filming, all right,the series is two in two, all
right against the world defending Stanley Cupchampions in Colorado Avalanche. That's right.
(24:45):
The new kids on the block areholding it down, Nate, and we
got their backs up against the wall. The last three games, color rights
in Colorado, back to Seattle,and if game seven is needed, it
goes back to Colorado. We're gonnafind out what these boys is about.
I'm proud of them what they've doneso far, but the work's not done
yet. Yeah, okay, allright, I just want to know,
(25:08):
you know, you know, youknow, you know what. This is
my hope, This is my hope, Nate, Okay, and this is
what we might have to do ifbecause we'll know by this by by the
time we film again. If theStars and the Cracking both win their series
in this first round, they willmeet starting next week what it will meet
(25:33):
in the second round of the playoffs. So what you're saying is we need
to Cracking to flush what we needwe need we need to Cracking the flush
another one, but the dog avalancheand the toilet ball you dog all right?
All right, yeah, yeah,thank you for sponsor already. That's
another episode, y'all. Let metell you something that's myself, Isaiah the
(25:56):
big name dog thing to build it. We'll see y'all next time. We're
gonna ghost seljects
Nate and I would like to thankthe Niagara Corporation for sponsoring today's episode of
Let Me Tell You Something. Niagarais the country's leading manufacturer of water conserving
plumbing products, including toilets that reducedwater usage by up to sixty per Niagara
products were originally designed just for plumbingprofessionals, but they're now available for homeowners
as well, so if you're remodelingyour home or constructing new, checkout niagaracorp
(00:24):
dot com to get long lasting watersavings. What's up, Y'all's your boy?
As they stand back back for anotherepisode of Let Me Tell You Something?
(00:45):
And it wouldn't be okay if Ididn't have my big dog with me,
big Nate dog in the building,sitting there with the start's chefs.
What's up, n Hey, main'tnot man? I look at you man
and land week dude, I hadto do with a big old head Kevin
mentioned had to do with a massivehead. You're here they the size of
cavins out problems. I'm not feelingout the whole frame, not feeling out
(01:06):
the frame like he did. Yeah, how you've been doing what you've being?
Isaia man ripping and running ripping andrunning. So I was gone last
week because I went to go takeadvantage of some of the resources that the
NFL provides to us. In theNFL, for those that don't know,
we have about a gazillion different resourcesfor post you know, for former players.
So we got the you know,I know, the NFL PA,
(01:29):
that's our that's our union. Thenyou got the NFL Trust, and we
got the NFL Players Care So Association, we got the Former Players Association,
we got the I don't even knowNate. It's just about twenty dug on
things. It's hard to keep up, but you have to. We have
the resources, you just have togo search a little harder for them sometime
to find out exactly where they're located. Yes, but they have a program
(01:52):
that allows for you to They pairedup with the with the Cleveland Clinic and
for every five years you're a lotat an opportunity to go do extensive checks
with all the medical care that youcan imagine, MRIs, cat scans,
echoes, ekg's blood work, neurologists, psychologists, it's a whole gambit.
(02:15):
We literally go on site and youknow, to a location of your choosing
and they do all these tests foryou for free, and they get all
the reports, you meet with allthe doctors, and it's pretty much a
it's an opportunity to find out whereyou're at. So if we have those
resources, they you got to takeadvantage of them, you know. Yeah.
And now, so I understand thatthey touch every part of your body.
What part did they not touch?I mean, I you know,
(02:37):
I can tell you what they didn'ttouch the yeah, man, man,
But but I mean I checked outfor the most part. I mean,
my body's beat up as you canexpect it, you know. But I
was more so concerned with the cholesterolsand the heart, you know, and
all the things that you really thethings that you can't see, you know,
(02:58):
our backs and our knees and areasare all of our extremities. Those
are all gonna be jacked up fromthe physicality of our sport. But it
is what it is. It iswhat it is. Yeah. Yeah,
I'm sitting here with my wife.I'm trying to text her tell her not
to talk so loud. I don'tknow if we can hear nothing because she
was my home. Yeah, andit's a new platforms checking us out.
(03:22):
We're from the crib right now,we're gonna be popping in the studio,
out of the studio as we are. I see you got the nice little
paintings on the wall, Nate though, Okay, did you do that when
yourself? Yeah? Man, mywife picked that. Man right now,
I don't even understand what that is. I never was an art guy,
you know, so I don't understandwhat that is. Like a big some
glob on the wall. To me, it looked good. It look good.
(03:42):
But color man, what you've beenup to over last week? Man,
just chilling, man, just chilling. You know, I've been traveling
out. What I'm trying to dois clean up my backyard. It took
me seventeen years to jump up inmy backyard, to jump up the inside
of my house, to junk upmy storage. So I you know,
I stopped traveling. I said,you know what I'm paying on my backyard.
(04:05):
I'm get grass back in my backyard, get all these junk. I
mean, I can't even explain it. I'm a junior horder. That's all
I can tell you. To getmy fault, Yeah, it's my fault.
And then I got a house that'sfull of stuff. I've had since
I moved in here, talking aboutmy son, this, that another.
(04:25):
So I told my wife, I'mI'm fenn to stop traveling. Get all
this junk out of my house,man, get all this stuff out of
my storage, and I'm not gonnareplace it. She's been talking about the
garage sale for three months now,and I'm like, come on, man,
you either gonna come get some ofthat old cowboy gear. Let me
know when you do the garage there, I'm coming to steal all of it.
(04:46):
Cowboys year, I ain't got noneof that. That's all been sold,
yes, sir man. But otherthan that, Zay, I'm just
living a life man and waiting onhis draft to see what the Cowboys do.
Is they're gonna do anything different thisyear and then they've done any past
years. How are you feeling?What are you thinking about it? I
just what I'm what I'm thinking,and I'm looking right and I'm looking right
(05:09):
into the make. What I'm thinkingis, whoever you decide to drive,
whoever that best player is. Ifwe're gonna go best available player, I
don't care who you pick in thefirst, second, or third round,
even the fourth, Please do notlet that person come out of college injured.
(05:31):
Our football is the second love.We need some guys that's dedicated to
the game and has not had abad history of injuries. It's one thing
to get here and get injured andit's but it's another thing to come off
of injury and then we have torehab. You may have you for the
season, may not have you.That's not a good thing. The window
(05:56):
of opportunity is quickly closing on theCowboys, So we need impact players.
These players that are gonna play fortyfive percent or more of the time they're
here in the first year. Ifeel that. I feel that so as
a as a draft we're here onDraft week now, Kay, the draft
about to go down Thursday night.It is popping off. The Boys are
gonna be taking their pick and thatwhat number twenty six in the first round,
(06:18):
and I believe they have a pickin every round, right one through
seven. I think that's that's correct. Um. There's been a lot of
speculation as to who they're may beinterested in and what they're playing on doing.
Blase Nay, I think we hiton it a couple of weeks back
in terms of what they need todo. Has your perspective changed on what
you feel the Cowboys need to dogoing into this draft in twenty twenty three,
(06:41):
No, sir, because I stillthink we need offensive lineman. Yeah,
well, I know we need offensivelinemen. There you go. I
know we need a tight end anduh, then you can go with a
linebackers with me, maybe another offensivelineman or defensive tackle. But those are
(07:02):
positions that can anchor you and thenif the injuries hit in those areas,
you don't have to you don't haveto go into a mad scramble. Yeah.
I feel there's a conversation that wehad over on a Cowboys platform,
and I say we it was myselfand a few the other guys or you
know, Kyle and and some ofthe fellas. What we went back and
(07:25):
forth at a name. And I'mnot sure if you got an opportunity to
hear the show, but there wasa conversation that came up in regards to
if be Jean Robinson and sitting thereat number twenty six for whatever reason,
if he seemed if he happens tofall or even if he falls down to
number fifteen or something like that,below the fifth top fifteen, the guys
(07:45):
on the show, no Ce andKyle, we're saying that you can't pass
on that type of talent, thatyou have to go get this guy.
You have to add them to yourroster, even though you don't need high
caliber running back, you just can'tpass on a player that good. And
my perspective was, is there abeast of an office alignment available at that
(08:07):
same time? That's that question.They looked at him like I was crazy.
They They're like, we're talking aboutBajan Robinson, Like this dude is
a piece. I'm sitting there,no no disrespect, But if I was
building out a team, I amnot gonna bypass a necessity for a one
that that is the problem a passwith the Dallas Cowboys. They want the
(08:33):
big bang and not the longevity ofsaying wild, Okay, this guy's been
Martin uh Tyrone Smith before he startedgetting injured. I mean, when you
can have a piece that can lastyou anywhere from eight to twelve years versus
a piece that's gonna go for fouryears and he's gone, and and and
(08:56):
you're gonna share the backfield. Now, if you're telling me you're gonna get
this dude, he's a three domesback, and he ain't coming out of
the game no matter what longest daksstanding in there, he's standing in there.
That mean Tony Pollar's gone and wegot Jones and another draft pick,
a little draft. That was myother argument, you're gonna he's gonna share
the backfield. How many running backsin this league don't really share the backfield?
(09:20):
I can think of one, yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe one.
And I can't even think Henry KingHenry. That's only and King Henry
had needs a breather, you know, because they're trying to trade King Henry
up out of there, because theyeverybody sees the value, even a knucklehead
like me who like a one backsystem, sees the value of why would
(09:45):
you spend thirteen million dollars minimum thisyear on running backs when you can spend
six million dollars, Go out andget you a beast stubble offensive lineman off
to the free agency and in secureyour line for the next four or five
years, because I don't care howgreat your talent is on the outside and
in the backfield. Actually, thegreatest player on earth on the planet right
(10:09):
now that plays with Kansas City.How he felt in the super Bowl without
his offensive line. Absolutely don't dothat. You can insert you could put
talent around goons up front, That'sright, you can. There's no there's
no lack of talent at the receiveror running back position. Never has been
(10:31):
there. You never You've never beenin the league and be like, ah,
there just aren't any good running backsfor a good receivers in the league
anymore. It's never came, hasnever been a conversation. There's more skill
players that are capable than there arealignemen that are capable. That's just the
facts. That's just the facts.So knowing that that's a fact, and
knowing that you heard you've been hearingDouble Jay talk. Double Jay's been talking
(10:54):
about Double Day's been talking about how, um, how what do you say?
He said, running backs have abouta five year window that you can
get them, right, He said, you really really can't. You want
to secure guys for five years.After that, they're probably going you're not
gonna want to repay them. Soif that's your mindset, go get the
dudes that that you're gonna keep forten years. To your point, Nate
(11:16):
Cody, if you want you togo ahead, I'm sorry, No,
just when you find a beast ofan offensive alignment, he gonna be around.
Yeah, Cody Mitch is Uh,I'm looking at the best available and
Cody Mitch out of North Dakota andI hope I'm pronounced it's m ace,
you see it. H His firstname is Cody out of North Dakota State.
(11:39):
Uh. He's a tackle. He'sat fifty three, so that means
he's a mid round, second roundpick something like that. And I would
rather get a guy like that that'sgonna give you every down, gonna come
in and play for you. Andthis is not a maybe a first round
pick, this is a round pick. But you you solidified the offense line.
(12:05):
And especially if you go out andpay dak a whole lot of money
and you got a social offensive line, what what did you just do?
You just went in the hole.You you just took. Now, if
you if you're not gonna pay Dakand you're gonna try to get some young
Wilper snapper that gonna be out thererunning all around, don't know nothing,
(12:28):
and you're just trying to you know, tank it. That's one thing.
But if you're saying that you havea chance to win, you got to
look at your present offensive line asit stands. We have probably five starters,
probably five starters, and a lotof question mark and a lot of
who is that guy? Wow?What can he do? Please? Tell
(12:52):
me? What? What? Whatwere you? What were your thoughts on
double Jay saying that he's moving ballto the guard position? Did you that
in the press conference? I needI need to hear from you. I
need to hear from the man himself, mister Nate Dog, what are your
thoughts on that? Okay, youplay right tackle and you was semi swing
tackle. Guys are not as bigand as strong on the edges. You
(13:20):
know they are strong, they areall athletic, but they're more quick.
They're more speed turning into power.Now what you're gonna do with straight power?
Are you telling me? Josh balland got one hundred percent stronger?
I ain't talking about a hundred onehundred because if a because if a diva's
(13:41):
a man at two sixty two seventycan push him back into the quarterback.
But a three hundred and thirty poundor three hundred twenty pound bull rushing tackle
gonna do so you're saying, hesee Mike Salari I love you, man.
I remember you as a pup cominginto the league, into the Dallas
Cowboys, was a worker. Well, bro, you must be here.
(14:01):
You must got god like tendensis.Boy, you must got god like bad.
You're laying hands on dude over there, right, I hope. So
that's what I believe. Wow,so you're saying, you're saying is like
a dumb and dumber chance, likelike one of a million, or like
what what's the chances that you thinkhe can bump down and be successful.
(14:24):
I'm not saying that Josh Ball can'tbe a service of a player in this
league, but his first few yearshas not been what you say on the
uptick. Yeah, he's just beena guy. And then so until he
get out there and one thing Iwant to say, the smaller year window
(14:46):
of success and getting and get intothe second round of the playoffs. The
more training camp means to you ifwe go out there in a bunch of
guys are just running around, especiallyyoung guys. I'm talking about special A
young guy running around, Well he'sgot he need a rest day. Wow,
he need a rest day. Hethis is third year. He need
(15:09):
a rest day. So if I'mone of them young guys. If I'm
Josh Ball, I'm like, no, coach, ain't on rest day.
I'm working every day. I'm workingon my craft every day because that is
what it's gonna take if you're gonnaput you know what, I saw him,
Nay, I forgot how big hewas. That's a large human.
(15:31):
Now, don't do that. Lord, you know I hear that so much.
He's a large human. I sawhim at the coffee machine another day.
I was like, Oh, that'sbig. Complete the sentence. He's
(15:56):
a large human. But he's notdone anything yet. I'm not saying he
can't do anything. But training camphas to mean something to these younger guys,
the funny acts and all of theseguys that even our second team tight
end and wanted to play behind himthe shot. The training camp has to
(16:18):
mean something to you. You haveto go in and work on your craft.
You know when when when nobody's onthe field, you gotta be out
there doing your steps. You gottabe out the running route, you gotta
be out there hitting dumbies. Guyswalk around now, they have eight days
before they stop putting on a pad, and then when they put on pads,
they complained, Yeah, for real, listen, the generation is different.
(16:45):
They were here the football, we'rehere in basketball. I don't understand
it, but it is what itis. Man. That's that's the generation
that we're in. And I havemore questions about generational uh influences and generational
what's the what's the word? I'mlooking for them. How do you raise
a young in in this generation tohave work ethic? All right, that's
(17:07):
a whole other conversation, Nate,because I've I've been, I've been tussling.
You can't. It's hard. Youcan't. Let Menna tell you why.
Because forty percent of society works fromhome. So when your kids see
you get up and in your pajamas, half brush your teeth, don't wash
(17:29):
your face, and walk to acomputer and turn it on. Go,
get you some coffee, fix yousome breakfast, some instant breakfast, whatever,
and then walk to your computer andthen return it on. Because you
took so long before you, ittimed out on you. And that's what
your kids see. I know.Yeah, that's what your kids. We'll
hit on that topic one day.But Uh, draft drafts here OTAs?
(17:55):
What does OTAs mean to somebody?Some of these second and third year guys.
It should mean I'm gonna show thecoaches that I'm ready, and I'm
physically physically ready, I've mentally grown. You're gonna have to tell me to
slow down because I'm coming to getsomebody's job. That's what OTA should mean
(18:17):
to draft picks, that's what youknow. And then when the coaches out
there, we don't want to hurtone another. We don't want to do
this right here. Then when youget the training camp, we don't want
to hurt one another. We don'twant to do nothing. Then we get
to the regular season, what suchasuch out for eight weeks? Hold on,
Well, the reason they out fadeweeks because we didn't do nothing for
(18:37):
the first eight weeks. So nowwe outfade weeks because we turned it up
one hundred miles an hour. Youcan't do that when you don't have a
proven team, and people say,yeah, they do it. It was
twelve in this last year. Theyear before that, it was tending this
right. Yeah, but each yearyou get younger and younger and younger.
You don't have enough horses to showthese guys. I don't know, I
(19:03):
may be over speaking. We gotGilmore and Cook two successful players. You
know, I hope they are workersbecause they come in and pull that mama,
daddy, I'm going to get thecomputer thing. We're in trouble,
Yeah, we're in trouble. Yeah. So what I'm serious? Do you
expect to take place during OTAs?I expect for the young guys come in
(19:29):
and do what they have to do. I expect for everybody that can practice,
they should practice. Because coach mccarthuris putting a little bit more of
his offense into it, so it'sgoing to take a little bit of extra
work. The players are gonna haveto be smarter. So that means you
have to put it in a littlebit more tape work. You don't have
to put it in the more,a little bit more taking them notes.
(19:51):
Everything can be taken for granted.You want to you want to get in.
Like I said, we got sixoffensive line of five and a half
offensive line, and so these guysgonna be up and running if they can't.
Who's the half late, you said, But Josh Ball is the swing
guard. So that's that's a quarter. So you find you another guy,
get you another quarter. And wegot to have come on all right,
(20:15):
hey, all right, last questionfor you, Nick, what what would
make Nate elated coming off of thisweekend's draft, Like when we come back
and we sit down and we talknext week, what what is gonna have
you hype? What would have totake place if you come in said man,
(20:38):
I probably I probably run over tothe cowboy. I probably do the
press coming in somehow somewhere. Wecan get down there watching them from Georgia.
The big tight end. We canget him. Oh, I'm running
up in there, bro, I'mrunning up in there. We can run
two tight ends with him in firstone of those if one of those two
forty pound tight ends that they sayhave sure hands, that that's ranked above
(21:02):
him, what if they are availablebefore him, if they can't block,
what good does it do? Whatyou say, you know, we need
people that can do both. Ifyou got a tight end that can get
in the way and that can fightand block a little bit and possibly dominate.
Now, now that can be everythinghe needs to be. And you
(21:26):
don't understand how much that opens uptight end with that ability, how much
that opens up your offense? Yes, yes, I mean uh Lamar Jackson
Andrews. That is why Lamar Jacksonhas been so successful. A guy that
can get in your way block holdis block long enough to get the running
(21:49):
help with the running game, andthen be able to run those routes.
And you can put him on rightat the end of the line, wrap
it beside the tackle and he canrun his routes from there. You how
do you cover a tight end that'son end of line? You know,
you can go out to that slideor you can go out wide. I
mean, you know, unless you'rea top two tight end. The kid
(22:11):
from the forty nine ers of thekid from the cant set it. I
mean them only two, not therest of them. The rest of them,
y'all can. Y'all can make itact like that, But you get
physical with the rest of them,they're shed it down. You get physical
and nasty with him, they'll shedit down, all right. So to
make big Neat Nate Newton happy,and they laid it ready to jog around
(22:32):
the block all the way to thisCowboys facility. From Tim Buck two,
you said, you just need biggwashing, that's all you need. So
we don't need alignment, you knowwhat, because he is alignment. This
dude is six but eight two hundredand seventy five pounds. Yeah that yeah,
set that edge, baby, likethey say on defense, set that
edge. We will be set thatedge. Now we can let tune the
(22:55):
polo duty won't and then we goget that that kid gives from my from
Alabama. Oh yes, sir,come on nine, get Cody from North
Dakota State. Come now, I'mwith you. I will do a cartwheel,
and i will attempt it back.No, I ain't gonna tip,
no backflick because I'm gonna be endup right back at the Cleveland clinic.
(23:15):
But I'm I'll do a cart wheel. If the Cowboys get big Darnell Washington
and they get a beast of anoffensive linement, if they can check those
two boxes, I will be ahappy human. I'm not saying that's all
they need, but I'm saying,if they check those two boxes, Nate,
this team is gonna be so muchbetter than they were last year.
(23:40):
Yeah. Yeah, then we'll haveseven offensive a linement. Then we'll have
seven offensive a linement cause Darnell watchingit is offensive aliment. We'll have seven
offensive a linament to five starters.Cody, Darnell down, Josh Ball,
can take another year to develop.Y'all heard it here, man, that's
big Nate Dark speaking to you guys. Man. We uncom for the crib
(24:00):
and let you guys know the realcoming up on Draft week. You guys
enjoy the draft. We're gonna comeback next week and let you guys know
how we feel about it. Andof course I'm gonna hit on some other
things um as always. And thenit's at that time of the year of
course, to start bringing in someguests, so y'all be ready for that.
Oh one more thing, I'm sorry, I hate how's your hockey team
(24:21):
doing up there? Tell me howy'all do you want to talk about some
of them? Seattle cracking? Baby, what's cracking Nate down? Yeah,
hey, Seattle cracking. We offand popping the series as at the time
of this filming, all right,the series is two in two, all
right against the world defending Stanley Cupchampions in Colorado Avalanche. That's right.
(24:45):
The new kids on the block areholding it down, Nate, and we
got their backs up against the wall. The last three games, color rights
in Colorado, back to Seattle,and if game seven is needed, it
goes back to Colorado. We're gonnafind out what these boys is about.
I'm proud of them what they've doneso far, but the work's not done
yet. Yeah, okay, allright, I just want to know,
(25:08):
you know, you know, youknow, you know what. This is
my hope, This is my hope, Nate, Okay, and this is
what we might have to do ifbecause we'll know by this by by the
time we film again. If theStars and the Cracking both win their series
in this first round, they willmeet starting next week what it will meet
(25:33):
in the second round of the playoffs. So what you're saying is we need
to Cracking to flush what we needwe need we need to Cracking the flush
another one, but the dog avalancheand the toilet ball you dog all right?
All right, yeah, yeah,thank you for sponsor already. That's
another episode, y'all. Let metell you something that's myself, Isaiah the
(25:56):
big name dog thing to build it. We'll see y'all next time. We're
gonna ghost seljects
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!