August 1, 2024 • 13 mins
Sark on his thoughts about how the first practice went and his opening comments. Craig also talks his impression of how the first practice went.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Probably my favorite Steely Dan album of all time. I
mean it's hard to pick. I mean, Can't Buy a
Thrill is fabulous with you know, reeling in the years
and do it again on there and Dirty Work. I
mean there's so many good ones on that Countdown Ecstasy
(00:20):
with Bodhisatva on it, several other ones, Uh, Pretzel Logic
that has Ricky Don't Lose.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
That Number on there.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I mean, Katie Lyde that has Doctor Wu on there.
I mean there's so many, so many good ones, but
the totality of the sound for me as a as
a Steely Dan fan. And I got a chance to
see them in early February open for the Eagles at
Moody Center.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It was fabulous, great show.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Lynn and I saw him five years ago when they
were doing the residency at the Venetian in Las Vegas
and it was a fabulous show.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
At Donald Fagan, it's still.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Going so strong and he is always the first to
pay tribute to his late partner Walter Becker, who was
the end of the yang, the two of them, the
genius behind Steely Dan and Becker is no longer with us,
but Donald Fagan always in concert page tribute in because
their partnership was amazing. As we mentioned, Long Worn Football
(01:18):
team gets back on the practice film. They'll be on
there in just a few minutes. They have another I
want to make sure I'm looking at this right. It's
going to start around two forty five actually today, So
it's going to start about two forty five this afternoon.
That's about the time they started yesterday afternoon. So they
started around two forty five this afternoon. So they've got
(01:41):
one practice in the books. They got the first one
out of the way in the heat in the upper nineties.
And I heard my broadcast partner on Long Worn Football
broadcast that you hear right here on sports Radio AM
thirteen under the Zone, Roger Wallace, talk about it in
a sports cast that folks have asked him, And I've
(02:04):
been asked about it a couple of times, but I
think he's been asked several times by people saying, why
are they practicing it two forty five, two thirty in
the afternoon, Why are they practicing in this just this
deadly heat? Well, remember when the kickoff of the season
opener is, and we're thirty days away from it.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Here it is August first, we are.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Actually now officially officially in the month of the start
of football season. How about that high school football will
actually start on Thursday. There'll be some games on Thursday night,
August twenty ninth. There will be some teams who will
(02:48):
open their season. All that, I think west Lake is
opening against prosper on Thursday, the Taco Shack Bowlers that
night for McCallum against Anderson. Uh, there's you know, there's
there's a handful of games that will actually open on.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
August twenty ninth.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
There is there is, as I digress for a moment here,
there is a pro football game tonight tonight, Hall of
Fame game. Can't Ohio Houston Texans Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You will not see c J. Stroud take a snap
tonight in the game.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You will not see Caleb Williams take a snap in
the game tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You'll see other guys, but.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You will see guys in representative National Football League attire Tonight.
You'll see guys dressed as Houston Texans. You'll see guys
dressed as Chicago Bears. And they'll play at Fawcett Stadium
there in Kanton, Ohio. And I've said this before, and
I will continue to say they flip the format on
(03:55):
this with the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and it
is the Pro foot Hall of Fame. It's not the
NFL Hall of Fame. There's a difference. The reason there's
a difference is Pro Football Hall of Fame encompasses all
the history of pro football in the United States, not
just the National Football League. There have been other leagues,
(04:16):
of course, the AFL, which later merged with the NFL.
Before that, the All America Football Conference where the Cleveland Browns,
the Baltimore Colts, and the San Francisco forty nine.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Ers came from that. They came out of that league, and.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So there were other leagues as well, back in the
twenties and thirties and things like that. So it's the
Pro Football Hall of Fame in kend Ohio. But I've
said this before and I'll continue to say it was
one of the best assignments I've ever had in my life.
And I had it two consecutive years nineteen ninety and
nineteen ninety one working when I was working at KRLD
up in Dallas. That was when Tom Landry went in
(04:52):
and when Tex Shram went in, and it wasn't just
when those guys went in, it was there were other guys.
Jack Lambert, the anchor that steel or defensive linebacker, he
went in, Randy White went in, there were there were
you know, great players that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Went in as well as.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Those guys Tom Landry and Tech Shram who went in
in those years in nineteen ninety and nineteen ninety one,
and they it was a much more I don't want
to say it was an intimate gathering, but it was.
It was a little more of a community, communal gathering.
For example, you'd go to the dinner on Friday night,
then Saturday morning on the steps on the front lawn
(05:34):
there of the Pro Football Hall of Fame is where
they had the ceremony. Moved it now into the stadium
because it draws. It's so much bigger now. And then
afterwards there was a picnic, like an actual outdoor cookout,
barbecue type picnic, and you'd go through and you'd get
your plate of ribs or this or that and a
(05:56):
chicken and into the corner on the cobbe and green
beans and potatoes, salad, whatever, and you'd sit down and
in my case is sit down, I'm sitting next to
Hall of famer Buck Buchanan, who played for the Kansas
City Chiefs, and it was just a wonderful conversation. It
was a very much more of a community kind of
style of it. It's huge now, obviously, but it was
a great event at the my radio station.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Program director.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
As program directors are wont to do, they're they're thinking large,
big picture for the entirety of the radio station promotionally,
not just when you're on the air. And I get that,
asked me, he said, can you And they handed me
a card that said, Hi, I'm and there was a
fill in the blank and you're listening to Cowboys coverage
on news radio ten eighty k r l D. Can
(06:43):
you get as many Hall of famers as you can
to do that liner for us? I said, I'll try,
And of course I had a tape re quorder back then.
You do it, and and most everybody was pretty cool
about it, and I got Buck Buchanan to do it.
And I had a couple others. The best one of
all was now the late Ray Mitski, Hall of Fame
(07:04):
middle linebacker the Green Bay Packers in the Lombardi area
in the sixties. He personified that Vince Lombardi Toughness number
sixty six.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
The linebacker was great.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
But he never and this was always said of him,
You never would have guessed he was a Hall of
Fame linebacker. If you saw him in the off season,
he looked just like a banker or an insurance agent.
He had horn rim glasses and dressed impeccably in a
suit and tie.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And so that was the case as well that night.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And it was before the activities got going with the dinner,
and I went up to him and I said, mister Nisky,
my name is Craig Way. I'm with KRLED radio in Dallas,
the Cowboys station.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh yes, yes, I.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Said, would you be so kind to read this liner
forcing me to looked at it? And he said, yeah,
I can do that. I said, okay, great, and he
said let me know when you're ready. So I started
a tape recorder and I held the microphone and he said,
he said are you ready? And I said yes, and
he was very pleasant. He said you ready and I
said yes, ready, and he goes, it is this Hall
of Famer Ray Nitsky. Then you were listening to Cowboys
(08:08):
coverage on news radio today carry RLD.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
He goes, is that does that work for him?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And it was just great because that's the kind of
guy he was when he played, So it was really cool.
That was one of the best assignments I ever had.
And then after the cookout, the barbecue thing, whatever, then
you'd have the Hall of Fame game later that day,
and so you'd have that Hall of Fame game. Well
(08:36):
now they flip the format. You do the Hall of
Fame game first, that's on Thursday night, and then you
go into the Hall of Fame weekend ceremonies over the
course of the weekend. So that's really cool and we
have that to look forward to, even though the game
tonight will have a bunch of guys just trying to
make a roster. So let's hear a little bit from
Logorn's head coach, Steve Sarkishan, because they're thirty days away
(09:00):
from kickoff.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Here's some some sound one.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Sark was first, starting off with the opening comments he
had after the first Fall Camp training camp workout of
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Adams felt great to be back on the practice field.
First of all, I thought that, you know, especially early on,
we had really good energy and the guys were came
out with really good intent to work and a lot
of guys. I mean, we have a lot of guys
to evaluate on this team. I've talked about it. I
talked about it media days, just about the depth on
(09:37):
our team, and sometimes you have to get back on
the field with them to see them all out there
and watch special teams and to see so many guys
running around that it's it's a it's a it's a
real positive and quality of this team, the depth that
we have, but it's it's definitely difficult on the fly
on the field to evaluate. So looking at the tape
is going to be critical.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I think one thing about training camp now, this being
our fourth one, with the heat and the reality of
the heat. You know, just got done telling the team
we have to embrace this the heat that we have,
and it needs to become our friend, it needs to
become our ally, it needs to become something that we
can lean into because early in the season, that's the
(10:20):
way it's going to be played. And you know, the
from the first kick of the first game at two
thirty on August thirty first, we're gonna have to deal
with those elements and we need those elements to be
a strength of ours. And so as we work ourselves through,
especially this early portion of camp, we have to do
better than just get acclimated to the heat. We have
to embrace it and uh perform at a high, high level.
(10:42):
So today it was a good challenge for us that way.
I did think there was a lot of guys that
got a lot of reps. We two spotted everything, and
so like I said that, the film.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Is going to be really important to evaluate.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, and and not only is it important for them
to evaluate, what they're also had having to evaluate is
the fact they've got so much more depth now. He's
been building this slowly starting in twenty one, and here
he is now starting his fourth season. And Sark will
tell you the depth of the roster really can make
(11:14):
a difference, especially when you're trying to get the preparations
in the August sun before you get the season underway.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
A year ago, we probably weren't as deep of a
team as we are this year. Now, we had some
real front line line players, you know, at wide receiver
and on the interior defensive line naturally, and they're they're
on in the NFL and doing their thing. But I
do think at both of those two positions. We probably
have more depth than we had a year ago, and
so probably one of my bigger challenges is going to
(11:43):
be just that how do we find that right rotation
to utilize that depth. And that's something that is a
little bit different for us from where we've been the
previous three years. But that doesn't mean that we won't
get it right.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It's just it's gonna take us a little bit of time.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
So yeah, there'll be some time they'll need to do that.
So anyway, that's a little bit from Sark. We're gonna
hear more from him throughout the course of the program.
This afternoon and again they take the field for their
second practice of training camp Fall Camp workouts. Coming up
(12:19):
in about fifteen minutes is when they will hit the
field on that all right, Coming up next, we're gonna
have Inconceivable again. A reminder if you're interested in picking
up a copy of Dave Campill's Texas Football magazine, all
you have to do is leave us a message on
the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. You download the
app if you haven't already, and you just click on
(12:41):
AM thirteen under the zone little red button with a
white microphone and you click it, leave us fifteen twenty
twenty five second message on what you look forward to
the most of this magazine. You're gonna win a copy.
It's that simple, pretty easy stuff, all right. Coming up,
we've got Inconceivable. That's next here on sports radio AM
thirteen under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
Probably my favorite Steely Dan album of all time. I
mean it's hard to pick. I mean, Can't Buy a
Thrill is fabulous with you know, reeling in the years
and do it again on there and Dirty Work. I
mean there's so many good ones on that Countdown Ecstasy
(00:20):
with Bodhisatva on it, several other ones, Uh, Pretzel Logic
that has Ricky Don't Lose.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
That Number on there.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I mean, Katie Lyde that has Doctor Wu on there.
I mean there's so many, so many good ones, but
the totality of the sound for me as a as
a Steely Dan fan. And I got a chance to
see them in early February open for the Eagles at
Moody Center.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It was fabulous, great show.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Lynn and I saw him five years ago when they
were doing the residency at the Venetian in Las Vegas
and it was a fabulous show.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
At Donald Fagan, it's still.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Going so strong and he is always the first to
pay tribute to his late partner Walter Becker, who was
the end of the yang, the two of them, the
genius behind Steely Dan and Becker is no longer with us,
but Donald Fagan always in concert page tribute in because
their partnership was amazing. As we mentioned, Long Worn Football
(01:18):
team gets back on the practice film. They'll be on
there in just a few minutes. They have another I
want to make sure I'm looking at this right. It's
going to start around two forty five actually today, So
it's going to start about two forty five this afternoon.
That's about the time they started yesterday afternoon. So they
started around two forty five this afternoon. So they've got
(01:41):
one practice in the books. They got the first one
out of the way in the heat in the upper nineties.
And I heard my broadcast partner on Long Worn Football
broadcast that you hear right here on sports Radio AM
thirteen under the Zone, Roger Wallace, talk about it in
a sports cast that folks have asked him, And I've
(02:04):
been asked about it a couple of times, but I
think he's been asked several times by people saying, why
are they practicing it two forty five, two thirty in
the afternoon, Why are they practicing in this just this
deadly heat? Well, remember when the kickoff of the season
opener is, and we're thirty days away from it.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Here it is August first, we are.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Actually now officially officially in the month of the start
of football season. How about that high school football will
actually start on Thursday. There'll be some games on Thursday night,
August twenty ninth. There will be some teams who will
(02:48):
open their season. All that, I think west Lake is
opening against prosper on Thursday, the Taco Shack Bowlers that
night for McCallum against Anderson. Uh, there's you know, there's
there's a handful of games that will actually open on.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
August twenty ninth.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
There is there is, as I digress for a moment here,
there is a pro football game tonight tonight, Hall of
Fame game. Can't Ohio Houston Texans Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You will not see c J. Stroud take a snap
tonight in the game.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You will not see Caleb Williams take a snap in
the game tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You'll see other guys, but.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You will see guys in representative National Football League attire Tonight.
You'll see guys dressed as Houston Texans. You'll see guys
dressed as Chicago Bears. And they'll play at Fawcett Stadium
there in Kanton, Ohio. And I've said this before, and
I will continue to say they flip the format on
(03:55):
this with the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and it
is the Pro foot Hall of Fame. It's not the
NFL Hall of Fame. There's a difference. The reason there's
a difference is Pro Football Hall of Fame encompasses all
the history of pro football in the United States, not
just the National Football League. There have been other leagues,
(04:16):
of course, the AFL, which later merged with the NFL.
Before that, the All America Football Conference where the Cleveland Browns,
the Baltimore Colts, and the San Francisco forty nine.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Ers came from that. They came out of that league, and.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So there were other leagues as well, back in the
twenties and thirties and things like that. So it's the
Pro Football Hall of Fame in kend Ohio. But I've
said this before and I'll continue to say it was
one of the best assignments I've ever had in my life.
And I had it two consecutive years nineteen ninety and
nineteen ninety one working when I was working at KRLD
up in Dallas. That was when Tom Landry went in
(04:52):
and when Tex Shram went in, and it wasn't just
when those guys went in, it was there were other guys.
Jack Lambert, the anchor that steel or defensive linebacker, he
went in, Randy White went in, there were there were
you know, great players that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Went in as well as.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Those guys Tom Landry and Tech Shram who went in
in those years in nineteen ninety and nineteen ninety one,
and they it was a much more I don't want
to say it was an intimate gathering, but it was.
It was a little more of a community, communal gathering.
For example, you'd go to the dinner on Friday night,
then Saturday morning on the steps on the front lawn
(05:34):
there of the Pro Football Hall of Fame is where
they had the ceremony. Moved it now into the stadium
because it draws. It's so much bigger now. And then
afterwards there was a picnic, like an actual outdoor cookout,
barbecue type picnic, and you'd go through and you'd get
your plate of ribs or this or that and a
(05:56):
chicken and into the corner on the cobbe and green
beans and potatoes, salad, whatever, and you'd sit down and
in my case is sit down, I'm sitting next to
Hall of famer Buck Buchanan, who played for the Kansas
City Chiefs, and it was just a wonderful conversation. It
was a very much more of a community kind of
style of it. It's huge now, obviously, but it was
a great event at the my radio station.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Program director.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
As program directors are wont to do, they're they're thinking large,
big picture for the entirety of the radio station promotionally,
not just when you're on the air. And I get that,
asked me, he said, can you And they handed me
a card that said, Hi, I'm and there was a
fill in the blank and you're listening to Cowboys coverage
on news radio ten eighty k r l D. Can
(06:43):
you get as many Hall of famers as you can
to do that liner for us? I said, I'll try,
And of course I had a tape re quorder back then.
You do it, and and most everybody was pretty cool
about it, and I got Buck Buchanan to do it.
And I had a couple others. The best one of
all was now the late Ray Mitski, Hall of Fame
(07:04):
middle linebacker the Green Bay Packers in the Lombardi area
in the sixties. He personified that Vince Lombardi Toughness number
sixty six.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
The linebacker was great.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
But he never and this was always said of him,
You never would have guessed he was a Hall of
Fame linebacker. If you saw him in the off season,
he looked just like a banker or an insurance agent.
He had horn rim glasses and dressed impeccably in a
suit and tie.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And so that was the case as well that night.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And it was before the activities got going with the dinner,
and I went up to him and I said, mister Nisky,
my name is Craig Way. I'm with KRLED radio in Dallas,
the Cowboys station.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh yes, yes, I.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Said, would you be so kind to read this liner
forcing me to looked at it? And he said, yeah,
I can do that. I said, okay, great, and he
said let me know when you're ready. So I started
a tape recorder and I held the microphone and he said,
he said are you ready? And I said yes, and
he was very pleasant. He said you ready and I
said yes, ready, and he goes, it is this Hall
of Famer Ray Nitsky. Then you were listening to Cowboys
(08:08):
coverage on news radio today carry RLD.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
He goes, is that does that work for him?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And it was just great because that's the kind of
guy he was when he played, So it was really cool.
That was one of the best assignments I ever had.
And then after the cookout, the barbecue thing, whatever, then
you'd have the Hall of Fame game later that day,
and so you'd have that Hall of Fame game. Well
(08:36):
now they flip the format. You do the Hall of
Fame game first, that's on Thursday night, and then you
go into the Hall of Fame weekend ceremonies over the
course of the weekend. So that's really cool and we
have that to look forward to, even though the game
tonight will have a bunch of guys just trying to
make a roster. So let's hear a little bit from
Logorn's head coach, Steve Sarkishan, because they're thirty days away
(09:00):
from kickoff.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Here's some some sound one.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Sark was first, starting off with the opening comments he
had after the first Fall Camp training camp workout of
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Adams felt great to be back on the practice field.
First of all, I thought that, you know, especially early on,
we had really good energy and the guys were came
out with really good intent to work and a lot
of guys. I mean, we have a lot of guys
to evaluate on this team. I've talked about it. I
talked about it media days, just about the depth on
(09:37):
our team, and sometimes you have to get back on
the field with them to see them all out there
and watch special teams and to see so many guys
running around that it's it's a it's a it's a
real positive and quality of this team, the depth that
we have, but it's it's definitely difficult on the fly
on the field to evaluate. So looking at the tape
is going to be critical.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I think one thing about training camp now, this being
our fourth one, with the heat and the reality of
the heat. You know, just got done telling the team
we have to embrace this the heat that we have,
and it needs to become our friend, it needs to
become our ally, it needs to become something that we
can lean into because early in the season, that's the
(10:20):
way it's going to be played. And you know, the
from the first kick of the first game at two
thirty on August thirty first, we're gonna have to deal
with those elements and we need those elements to be
a strength of ours. And so as we work ourselves through,
especially this early portion of camp, we have to do
better than just get acclimated to the heat. We have
to embrace it and uh perform at a high, high level.
(10:42):
So today it was a good challenge for us that way.
I did think there was a lot of guys that
got a lot of reps. We two spotted everything, and
so like I said that, the film.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Is going to be really important to evaluate.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, and and not only is it important for them
to evaluate, what they're also had having to evaluate is
the fact they've got so much more depth now. He's
been building this slowly starting in twenty one, and here
he is now starting his fourth season. And Sark will
tell you the depth of the roster really can make
(11:14):
a difference, especially when you're trying to get the preparations
in the August sun before you get the season underway.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
A year ago, we probably weren't as deep of a
team as we are this year. Now, we had some
real front line line players, you know, at wide receiver
and on the interior defensive line naturally, and they're they're
on in the NFL and doing their thing. But I
do think at both of those two positions. We probably
have more depth than we had a year ago, and
so probably one of my bigger challenges is going to
(11:43):
be just that how do we find that right rotation
to utilize that depth. And that's something that is a
little bit different for us from where we've been the
previous three years. But that doesn't mean that we won't
get it right.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It's just it's gonna take us a little bit of time.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
So yeah, there'll be some time they'll need to do that.
So anyway, that's a little bit from Sark. We're gonna
hear more from him throughout the course of the program.
This afternoon and again they take the field for their
second practice of training camp Fall Camp workouts. Coming up
(12:19):
in about fifteen minutes is when they will hit the
field on that all right, Coming up next, we're gonna
have Inconceivable again. A reminder if you're interested in picking
up a copy of Dave Campill's Texas Football magazine, all
you have to do is leave us a message on
the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. You download the
app if you haven't already, and you just click on
(12:41):
AM thirteen under the zone little red button with a
white microphone and you click it, leave us fifteen twenty
twenty five second message on what you look forward to
the most of this magazine. You're gonna win a copy.
It's that simple, pretty easy stuff, all right. Coming up,
we've got Inconceivable. That's next here on sports radio AM
thirteen under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
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