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Speaker 3 (01:09):
You think Jesse had nice draft, stop is here had
a good draft. They got green on today.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Head to toe bro. Either that or some lovely lady
told him in the store this week.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
Yeah green show is your implemented on my brown though.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Yeah, yeah, that could mean a lot of stuff.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
I think the last time we did the show time
before last I was complimented on, I was compliment.
Speaker 8 (01:41):
On you just randomly get complimented on, just randomly.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Man, look at him.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
He's a he's a guy, he's a star.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Got a lot to offer. Yeah, yeah, that's a good
color on you.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
What I missed last week? Anything important?
Speaker 8 (01:58):
Draft?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Draft?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Just you know, signed the wide receiver and we're going.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
We're going to the super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
That's what we think.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I'm listening to every show.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I mean, the ten eleven wins winning the division. I'm like, whoa,
we we drafted one dude from Ohio State and now
were going to the.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Speaking of I got a chance to speak with uh
the father whoa Caleb Downs.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Gary Downs?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
All right and please tell.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Well immediately you you, however impressed you are with Caleb
Downs and his personality is answering, his football ability, his recall,
his knowledge.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You talked to his dad for five.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Minutes, and and and and like a good father and
a good husband. He gives all the credit to his
wife and to Caleb's mom. But you talked to his dad,
who was a former NFL player, played running back in
the league, was a coach. And you see where it
gets it from. Gary Downs is as bright, as sharp,
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as charismatic as they come. And you know, he just
shared a bunch of different stories about Caleb from the
time that he was young, and.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
He said, there is it. There isn't he said. One
of the he said he went to.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Uh one of the time they went to Nick to
Nick Saban's Alabama.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Camph He's still in high.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
School and Uh, they were doing a drill and the nose,
the defensive lineman couldn't get it right, and the coaches
put Caleb in there and Caleb got it right. And
so there was like you put him anywhere, you put
him anywhere. His brother is Josh Downs, who plays slot
receiver for the Coat. He's a tar heel, and he
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talked about it one time. You know, he was talking
to his you know, to his dad and said, you know,
I want to I want to get better at playing
slot receiver and his dad was like, well that's that.
Josh plays Slott like he's the better, and he was
like nah. All off season, Caleb worked on playing slot receiver.
Open up the next year in the high school football
game they're playing in the Georgia Dome. First player of
the game who scored the touchdown Caleb down from the
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slot position. So he just was talking about just the
way that he is. You know, he started playing running back,
but then the coach you know, got into high school
and the running back was already there, had nineteen hundred
yards returning. They need him to go play safety. So
that's how he went to go and play safety. And
they's like, he can play him.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Safety free strong slot. He's played corner. So yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
So he he was very, very very very charismatic man
and you can tell sharp, sharp dude. He was a
pre med major. He went to a horrible, horrible college.
Gary Downs did horrible college. Horrible university too, yeah, Ncy State.
Oh yeah, yeah, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Well, you know all that football stuff and that, you know,
that stuff's not important. What we really want to know
is what number is he going to wear?
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (04:53):
So yeah, So in the conversation, of course, that came
up with Gary Downs and like Caleb, he was on
his game and he said, you know what, you guys
saw Caleb moving from thirteen, excuse me, from eighteen to thirteen.
And he said, they're working things some things out. They're
working some things out behind the scenes. There are some
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moving pieces to potentially getting that number or not getting
that number. He said, Caleb is not trying to come
in and just take someone's number, but they're trying to
have conversations about it.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, and how much.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
But just also two things that that Gary Down said
he said. One he said, he said Caleb's very frugal,
has always has been, probably always will be. He ain't
trying to just give up frivolous money for a number.
The second thing, and sometimes it's always mama knows best
and when mama wants, Mama gets he said Caleb downs Mom,
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Gary Down's wife, he said, she wants him in number two.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
She's real big on wanting him in number two.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
And coach.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
You can see that whole interview with Gary Downs about
like thirty minutes. He stayed with us for two segments
on over on DLS Cowboys podcast, so you can check
that out with Gary Downs.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Man.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
But he was he was good man, He was good.
He answered all the questions that we asked. They were
insightful and you get a chance to see the inside
from a father's perspective on Caleb from he's telling stories
when Caleb was two years old about how one of
his friend's teammates came by the house, and he said
his teammate knocked on the door and they had a
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side window by the door. He said, I don't know
why a two year old was answering the door, but
he said his friend looked in the side part of
the glass part of the door and he growled.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
At Caleb, and he said, Caleb growled back.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
At him, and he was like, man, I don't know
what his little two year old is, he said, but
I growled at him and he grout right back at me.
And so he just giving man stories from Pop Warner,
from high school, from college. I asked him what city
was best Chapel Hill because Josh Downs went to Chapel Hill,
and of course Caleb went to Ohio state. Which city
is better Chapel Hill of Columbus. He kind of gave
Chapel Hill a nod.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
You know. He talked about the football program.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
We know that's different, but he said the city, He said,
Chapel Hill is a good, good, good college feeling city.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Even though it's an in C state. Alumnia.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Yeah, he had get great things to say. He had
great He talked about the brotherhood and a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
If you don't know.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Gary's brother in law, which is Caleb, and Josh's down's
uncle is former Tar Hill legend, NFL All Star, Pro Bowler,
All Pro j blid. So I mean they it's it's
I mean, Caleb doesn't this didn't happen by accident.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
He's a football dude.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
He's a football dude. I mean.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
His dad talks about Caleb. His high school coach what
they would have a little high school meeting like during
the game, and they would go in the locker room
and get Caleb and have Caleb come back outside where
the coaches are at and say and the coaches would ask.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Him what should we do? What do you see?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Wow?
Speaker 7 (07:53):
And so like this is and that's like, this is
how Caleb. He talked about Jamal Anderson. I don't tell
the whole and if you got chill, but he talked
about Jamal Anderson, who was the running back when he
was in Atlanta. His dad, Gary Davids, was backup running
back in Atlanta. And their sons Anderson, Jamal Anderson and Gary,
(08:15):
Caleb and ja son they've played on the same you
football team. And so Caleb will go over to Jamal's
house and his sons like, let's go.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Outside and play. It's getting the pool. Da da dah.
He's like, nah, I want to watch film.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
So he's like watching film as a youth. Like that's
what he was, That's what he was all about. So
what you're hear and see about Caleb Downs now is
not something that he just picked up yesterday from his
According to his dad, this is who he's been forever.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
So Caleb, if you're listening and we know you are
from a former merchandise guy, go ahead and stay in
the number you're in now, play for a year or two.
Then go get your number two and save your money,
make your mom happy, and then you double dip.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Because you go kill it the first year or.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Two and then you change your number and everybody's going
to buy buy another jersey. Everybody wins. So good stuff, Jesse.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Nate, back to you. We're winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Right ESPN. That's what everybody else before the.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Draft had the Cowboys rank eighteenth, and after the draft
with all these great picks we got and all this
fancy maneuver and we did and these trades and trading
up and getting the guy they had they moved us
all the way up to sixteen. So are we we
not we, but we the collective we outside this room?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Are we just super excited? And this is still just
a we?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Okay, came in progress? We okay, team in progress? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I agree until I see participation training count.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
No underwear Olympics. Yeah, you know, you know the Rams
come to town.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
When I see the Rams and the Chargers come to town
and what we doing preseason that, you know, that's more
football activity then, you know, like, but Jesse just gave us. Man,
it just gives you confidence, you know, Okay, at least
we have a kid in that we know not only
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played football, but study football, cared about football, cared about
his teammates, you know, not selfish. You know, gonna be
out here in the training camp. It's gonna be out
here in the mini camps. It's gonna be on the film,
watching the film. You know, if it is true to form.
Now can he bring others along?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You know? Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You know, Darren Woodson, James Washington, all these guys watch film,
Troy when Emmett Smith, all these guys watch film.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I have no other choice. Now I gotta watch film
because they up on their game.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
They know what where you bring guys along, will will
guys do what they need to do. If you check
with most of the teams, at least the four teams
that leading up to the Super Bowl, one thing was
consistent was they had player participation. And this is what
the Cowboys have been lacking. It's player participation. Not walking
(11:11):
out on the field fifteen minutes late, not doing your
own thing, but gathering folks up and trying to get
the mental part of this game in because the most
healthiest team with the smartest players seem to win the
Super Bowls and that's just how it go.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
And before we get this, Beam just sent me this
from the back and this might be some more help
coming the Cowboys way. Maybe possibly, But veteran safety Kenny
Moore acts for and was granted release from the Indianapolis
Coast today, So I don't know if we need any
more secondary help.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Brought in Dorri Jackson and interviewed him. Yeah, Tuesday, I thinks.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So what type of phone is that, broh? I mean,
just a case. It's a case. It's this is the case.
It's a case.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Is they got an extra battery in it?
Speaker 7 (12:03):
It's a battery case, Yeah, charges if I needed it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It's a regular I phone.
Speaker 9 (12:09):
So can a guy we've seen in the past from
Micah as a rookie came in and he made an impact,
and Teedie Lamb made an impact.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
Others have done it through the years.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
As talented as Caleb downs Is, can he make an
impact as a safety?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
And that's the question and and this is this is
the answer that I particularly don't have today. What everyone's
hope is is this is where the Christian Parker special
nests comes into play, is how can you deploy this
Swiss Army knife type player to make him impactful? Because
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that that's the and this is why there was any
knock about premium players in the draft or premium positions
in the draft. The one that's not talked about and
the reason why a lot of times they don't go
in the top ten in the draft is because safety
isn't quite deemed a premium player, but because of the
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umbrella of what they are with Christian Parker and how
the league has changed and how Caleb can play that.
You know, whether you want to say he's nickel nickel
slot or safety slot, or some people call it money
or starbacker, however you want to call that position where
he's playing down and he's covering tight and he's covering
running backs and he's covering receivers, or he's playing back.
(13:34):
He's playing you know, quarter of the field, half of
the field. That is that is the part that we're
all waiting for because traditionally you don't see and this
is why you look at even like Rookie of the Year,
a safety hasn't won a Rookie of the Year. I
think it was like in the last century or so
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like it just this doesn't happen, you know what I'm saying,
because they're just so far away from the ball and
they have to have a lot of other things that
have to transpire because I could just not go that way.
Unlike a linebacker or defensive end who is near the
ball consistently into action, tackles for losses, you know, tip
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passes and interceptions, sacks. Same thing with defensive ends. They
are always going around the corner. They go get it,
you know, they go get a rookie, go get a
ten sack, twelve fifteen sacked rookie season, You're probably gonna
win defensive Rookie of the year.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
And you're not considered a coverage guy right.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Right, And then like even the outside, when you're playing corner,
you know there's opportunities there for you to kind of
get four to five interceptions and now kind of put
your name in that. But safety sometimes it can be
one of those floating situations.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Where you more importantly.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
The league has made it that way when we got
a Durham James, or you got the kid that played
with the great hair with Yeah, you got a Reed,
the guy that passed swear with the Washington Redskins year
as well. It's been guys that have had these abilities,
but I hate to say this, but coaches lack the
(15:11):
creativity to see if.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
They got that. It's a bunch of smart safeties out
there that can do a bunch of things. But you
got your on the line safety, you got your back nock.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
The new NFL requires that this guy that the Cowboys draft,
it's gonna be more and more of these guys because
Jesse already alluded to it and it's in full effect.
Is the tight ends. Ye, the NFL is changing. If
you don't think a safety is uh and it's gonna
be kind of come out funny. If you don't think
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of safety is important, do what the Cowboys did last.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
Year several years.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah, yeah, just do it the.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Cow However, he's on the line, Well, what if you
get caught on the tight end? What if there's on
the line safety to get caught on the tight end?
Now you're looking for a during James, are you looking
for uh the kid ed Reed?
Speaker 7 (16:02):
We're looking for the Kyle Hamlets of the world that
ed thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
You know they are there, You know they are there.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But will the coaches, defensive secondary coaches go out and say,
this is the type of guy. He ain't a big hitter,
but he will tackle you and bring you to the
ground once you get once you catch the ball, he
can make a play good enough to break that up
or get an interception.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
They are there, but do the NFL.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I want to spend the time with the coaches and
the players to get them here, not only here, but
around the league. You're gonna see more of these guys
come into a fact, especially with these tight ends that
coming into the league.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
You're gonna need them.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
All right, good stuff, let's take our first break when
we come back.
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Speaker 7 (19:29):
Kind of cool a large part of it, I mean
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Speaker 3 (19:36):
At that time, I mean, I'm loving this show.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
But wow, you know, Chris and I'm not going to
challenge anything because every time I bring this up, we
get letters from up up above.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
You know that we ain't doing the right thing.
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You're fine, Ade.
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We got to be the best.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
Shannon and I were talking about this.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
We were I need to tell you all, we should
say what we were saying.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Should we?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
I don't know, you decide. We talk about the third segment.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Weir, Wow, Yes, I agree.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
I agree with everything that Tell me if you agree
with Stephen Jones's.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Statements.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
He had a few things he talked about this week.
One thing that he said, I think this was on one, O,
five three, right, the flagships.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Might have been on the I think it was serious
mad dog ready.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Okay, yeah, okay, maybe I heard them replay it on
the fan. That's where I probably heard this.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
But uh, Stephen said one obviously still trying to justify
the Michael Parson's trade, right, one good player, one player
is not worth four or five good ones. And he
said Dallas added five first round players.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And that's.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
We all know that wasn't intent. Wasn't the intent when
all this happened, but and that's not actually true.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
But I'm sorry. Go ahead, yeah, well, yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Technically you could draw the lines and say this is
actually what you what you got, But would.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
You rather have one superstar A plus player, or would
you rather fill it in with the four or five.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Anus B B and less?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Because being less B let mestay, you cannot get them
replace that kid, you cannot.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
We had two choices.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
We could have kept this kid and put some B
plus players around him, and you would have really saw
what his effect would have been would have been, or
you could have got rid of him and got what
you thought was gonna be five great players, which ain't
showed up yet.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I'm just that's how I see it, because.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
He was like Jesse I've always said, a top three
pass rushing in this league. He he dictated every We
did not know how bad our secondary was until he left.
Then we found out because you didn't have two and
three seconds to throw that ball when he was here.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
It's just the bottom line. I'm talking about the reality
of the thing. Y'all know. I used to get on
a brother Parsons and dog him out and tell him
you need to be a better this and a better that.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
But I never strayed away from he finna changed the
past game and we have not. It'd been nice if
the kid that's injured would have came in and got
ten sacks, but he didn't.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
As a rock. Yeah, So I mean, that's just my
spill on it.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
Well, I think they were. He's singings like what's still
to come? I think because they got well Clark and
the deal.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
They said they ain't showed up right Ye, well.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Yeah, I mean they got Clark in the deal, Williams.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
They they got un they got I mean, yeah, I got.
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Lawrence this year and clicking around, they you know, allowed
him to bring in all these other guys because they
didn't have that all that money tied up in the
salary cap.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
So, I.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
You know, back in ninety eighty nine, a lot of.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
People probably said trading herschel Walker was terrible, but it's
what you do after they built, you know, a franchise based.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
On I think Louis Reddick. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
They obviously haven't done that yet here.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
So Lewis Reddick has a great quote when it comes
to like this trade stuff, and Lewis Reddick said, you
don't win the trade until you win with the trade.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
That's good, right, you don't win the trade until you
win with the trade. Right. That was seven nine and
one last year.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
I don't know if that looks different if MIKEA is
here or not, but I mean there are some things
that happened in that trade. I don't you can people
will try to try to throw Quentin Williams into that
situation in scenario, but it's completely separate from that.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
Kenny Clark, But you don't think that they used that
draft pick to go get Williams.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So their draft picked to go get Williams.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
Well, they had to play with them, right, I mean
they didn't they use the one of the green Bay
picks they got from Green Bay to go get Quentin Williams.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
No, No, I don't believe. So they did, Yeah, they did.
Speaker 11 (24:39):
They use Yeah, So next year it's one Okay, there's
two picks next year. The highest pick of the two
is going to go to the Jets. So they probably
woudn't have did that trade.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
If it was only like one pick in the first
round next year.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Right, So I'm saying for this year that you know
what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 11 (25:00):
It was the second round this year and then a
first round or next year, so you could basically say
one of the picks from Green Bay.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
Yeah, that's what they're I think you're saying, is that
you use that.
Speaker 11 (25:15):
William Yes, Okay, if they only had one first round
draft pick next year, they probably wouldn't have done that
trade because then they lose They would have no picks
next year in the first round.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
But you got Kenny Clark and then you realized soon
after you've got Kenny Clark in the crede that that
wasn't it, which means you had to go and get quinnin.
And yet still you're still trying to you're still trying
to replace what you lost.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
And you haven't done it. And if we're being completely honest.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Which we are always on this show, you might not
have a ten sat guy on this team right now.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Like if the season started tomorrow as Roko was not
a ten side guy, Rashaan Garrett's not a ten side
guy consistently. I mean, he gives you anywhere between seven
and nine.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
You're gonna have to get to ten through a rotation
or a.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Rotation to guys.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
And again, this is all of this now, and I
think the Mica trade was the kickstart to what we
see here with having to now change the way you
operated and going to get a Christian Parker because you
needed someone who was going to be able to bring
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out the best at all. Completely sidebar, and I know
people hate this name, but if I'm Matt ebra Flus,
I'm sitting around somewhere and I'm cussing folks out because
I'm looking around. I was like, but y'all kept telling
me last year that I had to turn that to
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what you gave me. I had to turn that water
into wine. And now you're sitting back and you're seeing
all these pieces that they're giving Christian Parker to now
work with and it's like, yeah, you wouldn't drafted him
a force multiplier.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
You trade the mind away, you trade them mine away.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
And.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
You can't.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
You gave me a job to come work with what
you had, and then you got rid of you.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Had the main piece of what I had.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Fifteen guys and not who got at least one start
on this defense last year are no longer here. I
think only maybe four of them are currently employed right now.
So it's like when we sat here last year, I
kept saying, I know we want to blame outlus.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
There's the guys in the Jerseys too. There's a lot
of those guys in the Jerseys too, And the name
of the show is hanging with the boys would give
you the truth and uncut and clean. Yeah. So now
to look at our other Cowboys. Did they win the trade?
They didn't win the trade at the Super Bowl by.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Let me tell you about let me tell you who
want to trade. Okay, I'm gonna give you just what
you asked for. We were a good team, a solid defense,
and they looked out there and scanned the globe.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Charles Haley won the trade. The Dallas Cowboys won the trade.
Charles came in and we won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
We took B players B plus Tony tober Casilias, Chad Hennings,
Leon Lett and turned them guys into something special. Now
Woody was already developing into a stud became outrageously good.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Pup out of.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Texas, and M Cornerback exceptionally good. Now Larry Brown, scared
the death trembling in his boots, became exceptionally good because
Charles Haley came in and not only did his job,
demanded that everybody else do their job.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yeah, that's a win.
Speaker 9 (29:04):
So if you're a plus guys or Quentin Williams and
let's say Caleb Downs, are they in positions where they
can raise the rest of the.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
And that's that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Player participation in today's NFL is everything, because what separates
college players from pro players is what this kid, Caleb
Downs has been doing since he was two years old,
roaring at his dad's friend in the winter. He's been
on that level, Bro, he's been on that level. So
(29:36):
when Coach Parker started talking, he already got this kid.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
By anointment. This is my guy.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
He's gonna know what to do, He's gonna know where
to line up. He's gonna have uh, everybody, coaches and
all talking about where do you belong? I think the
big deal is we're not gonna have to question the effort.
I think they went out and every guy they drafted,
every guy they signed, it was never an effort. We
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questioned not only uh, knowledge and wisdom, we questioned a
lot of times effort. If you got a coach effort,
you can throw knowledge out out of the equation because
the dude ain't gonna never be in shape. He ain't
gonna never run hard to the ball, and so if
he ain't gonna never do that, how you expect him
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to be in the right place?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
So they trying to It was just more than ah
H wisdom. A lot of these guys. You question the effort.
That's why they're not here.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
You know, if you gotta continuously motivate guys as a coach,
hey man, come on, come on shouting, come on man,
come on, man, hustle, come on, y'all know who I'm
talking about. Shot right in the middle of I feel.
Every day I'm in training camp, I'm on watching them.
The curing is it's like, hey, hey man, nay, it
is your davy cheerities guy.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
I mean every day I a wild like, okay, who
is the cheerleader today? And that was wrong?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
So that is what I'm thinking this kid can bring
to the table along with the kid from the forty
nine ers. I'm not saying he's a great guy, but
he's an efort guy, you know, And so that's what
we're hoping.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
I mean, that's what y'all should be open.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Everything we've heard, like Caleb downs, he's a leader, right,
everything you've heard from Saban, what his dad said, what
his teammates say, why they drafted him, he's a leader.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
How long as a rookie he's going to walk in
there with the leader mentality?
Speaker 5 (31:44):
How long before that locker room accepts him as a
leader and he's a locker room leader?
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Is it weeks? Is it months?
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Is it a season?
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Honestly, when they get to when they get to OTA's
if if Caleb is who he has been advertised to
be from all of these places, from Saban, from Patricia.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
From everywhere.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
Days when he gets out there, he's communicating, he's barking
that stuff out and he's like, hey, no, you got
you at the flat now.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Guy's gonna be like.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
How does that work with how does that work with
the current leaders?
Speaker 11 (32:18):
Do they?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
What do they? First of all, you got to say
who the leaders are. Well, that's the thing. I don't know.
Jesse would know because he's he's in there talking to
the guys.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
But like, right now you have Quinny Williams, you have Clark.
They're gonna be trying to run that front end.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I think that's it. They gonna be trying to run
that front end.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
And they go come on over here, young fella, and
tell these dudes.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
And I think, and I also I think I think
the way that the coach will present Caleb. I think
I think Christian Parker is going to present Caleb to
the group as here's me on the fields, y'all follow him.
And I think Caleb will take the baton and go, yeah,
follow me, you know, I mean, and being able to.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Chris, who is the guy I can't think of the
guy we got from Pittsburgh. He was our safety and
then James Washington was other than then what it was
our third guy. I can't think of this little guy,
a little built like a not man, just all world.
He was our I'm telling you, like Jesse's saying, when
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the coach is saying, hey, Jess, okay, this is what
we need to do. This is what we need to
get done. See if we if we talking right about
this Caleb kid, he got his playbook. He already digests
in this stuff I already have, so he gonna know
a little bit about it. So when they be like, Okay, Caleb, okay,
this is our check the depth chart. They may not
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even want to call it out. Check the depth chart.
You'll just see his name there are. You'll see him
right next.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
To the guy.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Remember, everybody's learning this new defense. Yes, it ain't just
you know what I mean, Everyone's learning it. And if
Caleb has, the.
Speaker 8 (33:58):
Lot of them are new guys. I mean right, so
safety I.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
Think I think the way that they are going to
present Caleb and the way that Caleb was going to
carry hisself by the time that we leave O t
A's in mini camps, you might hear some of the
veteran guys being like, now, young fella got it.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Example, when Ken Norton, when he was with coach Landry
for that short period of time, then he got with
coach Johnson, all of a sudden, you just you just
heard his voice, you know, strong right, strong right, bunch
is over here, Da da da, and he this Ken Norton,
and then you hear wood in the background.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Making his suggestionments and just like nothing, they were they
were it.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
And if he told you the line up, you know,
Coach Johnson, I'm hey, man, didn't this man just holler
out protection? Didn't he just hollow out the the with
the coverage? And so when things went wrong, Woody did Woody,
did you make that call?
Speaker 8 (35:00):
You know?
Speaker 3 (35:01):
I made the call?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
And now you got to pay the price, cause would
he said he made the call and he could talk loud.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Darren got a soft voice with us.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
But he can get it loud now. So in the
same way with Ken Norton. It's just when these coaches
and most coaches.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Even when Jess, when you was doing it in high school,
or you weren't, you were gonna do your homework, You
weren't gonna knowing a dummy. You just weren't going And
I ain't call himself a dummy, but but they weren't
gonna let Nate be trying to make no defensive calls.
That's what I'm saying. Step who.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Is Ray Horton the guy.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, Ray Horden, and it was another guy,
These two guys, And this is how I know these
are intelligent guys. Ray Horden is a coach, was a coach,
and probably still is. Ken Norton is a coach. Benter
defensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
These guys. Coaches see something in them.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
And I'm not dictating what Caleb gonna be in twenty
years from now, but if we're still around, don't be
surprised if he's a coach.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
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Speaker 9 (40:30):
Well, we've just were talking about Caleb down and being
a leader and who are the leaders and all that.
I thought it was kind of interesting to get your
guys opinion that. Another thing Steven had said is that
in order to be a team leader in the NFL,
you have to be a great player on the field.
Speaker 8 (40:46):
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 3 (40:46):
One hundred thank you?
Speaker 8 (40:49):
One?
Speaker 6 (40:50):
Is that because guys won't listen to you if you're
not good?
Speaker 3 (40:55):
What do you want to hear from? Jesse hollyfod Like
I'm screaming, like you don't want to hear from me?
Speaker 9 (41:00):
I mean, but what if you're you know, just a
solid player, but not a You're one other You're one
other leaders.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Well go be in the player association. Yeah, like you're
one other leader.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
But you you want, you want, and you would like
for your best players, not all of them, because some
people just don't have the leadership quality. That's a real thing,
at least on the defense side of the ball, right,
because you got Dak offensively, and you know what he's
going to be as a leader. But absolutely you know
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that you want your best players to be your biggest leaders.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
You want them that.
Speaker 7 (41:38):
You want those guys to be the guys who you know,
who show up, who practice hard.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
You know they're not gonna do everything always right.
Speaker 7 (41:47):
You like to have it that way, but I want
those guys to practice hard, know what the hell is
going on, and then on Sunday perform because that's at.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
The end of the day. And you gain your respect
in this league.
Speaker 7 (42:04):
At least amongst your teammates when they see how you work,
when they see it that. I gained my respect because
I came to practice every single day and you knew
that you were getting one hundred miles an hour. You
asked Barry Church, you asked Danny McCrae, you asked you
asked Josh Brant, you asked DeMarcus. Where all the guys
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that come through it in this building. I got my
respect from players because they thought it was, oh, it's
a gimmick guy coming off the show. I showed up
every single day and I went one hundred miles an hour,
and it was like, wait a second, and you just
you when you if you're asked to do a job,
you do it.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
Now. Respect and leadership two completely different things. They didn't
want me to be their leader. They didn't want me.
They didn't they didn't want me. I the offense couldn't
come off the field.
Speaker 7 (42:48):
And I'm screaming at Tony Romo, Jason Whitten, could you
know what I'm saying? Like the defens come off the field.
They don't want to hear from Jesse Holly. They want
to hear from the Marcus Ware. They want to hear
from Marcus Spears. I had to hear from Mary about
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you know what I'm saying? Like that, like that that
so yeah, yeah, your best players you would like Again,
it doesn't happen in every place. Some people just don't
have it, of course, just mhm. By position, you always
want your quarterback to be the leader, the biggest leader.
But defensively, man, you you you you want your best
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players to be the guys who are leading charge when
you hear, when you hear like those Ravens teams are
two thousands under Ray Lewis and Edie Reed.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Yes, those was your leaders. Those two guys with the
guys are like, yo, where y'all going? We're not going
home yet.
Speaker 7 (43:45):
We got we're gonna, We're gonna bust this film down
for forty five more minutes, you know what I mean.
We joke about it, but debt seriously for those of
you who don't know, in this studio, there's a glass window,
there's a wall, and there's another glass window, and it's
right outside of the practice, so we get to see
(44:05):
who's coming in and going, and we joke about it.
Speaker 8 (44:07):
A lot of times.
Speaker 7 (44:08):
We'll come in and practice will be going on, and
then we'll be going like our show will be over.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
We may hang out a little.
Speaker 7 (44:14):
Bit and practice will be over, and you just start
seeing certain cars just flooding out of the joint, like
who's watch an extra film, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (44:23):
And then and then we go watch the game on
Sunday and you got his car.
Speaker 7 (44:29):
And you keep hearing the same thing communication, confusion, lock
of You're like, oh, we get out of here, and
it's the autobom getting out of here. Who's telling you
know what I'm saying? And that's what the leadership comes
down to. The leadership comes down to. Will you you
hear Nate talk about all the time Charles Haley wouldn't
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would not let Nate Newton be what Nate Newton kind
of wanted to fall into. Charles said, you're gonna work out,
You're gonna get in shape, and every day in practice
you're either gonna come and perform or I'm gonna wear
you out.
Speaker 6 (45:05):
And if Charles wasn't a great player, you would have been.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
Like, yeah, yeah, when Mike screamed something, Mike ry Lervis
screamed something.
Speaker 7 (45:13):
Blah blah blahhh, you listen because it's Mike, and you
know that that person does what he said he's going
to do, performs on the field.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
So you either got to get in line with that
or get the hell on. You've heard me say several times, Troy,
take that ball and throw it in the ground. Jimmy said,
don't word. Keep doing what you're doing, Troy. We can
get some more receivers.
Speaker 12 (45:36):
It just.
Speaker 7 (45:38):
Yeah, having your best players be your leaders, it's it
just works better. And like I said, there's there's there's
co leaders as well. You know, you have your guys
who you know around, been around for a while, You
respect them, you know they're knowledgeable of it, and they
may not be the star player. They may be a player, uh,
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and so you listen to them. Now those might I
be the guy that can come off the sideline and
you know, and drop a couple of f bombs on you.
But those might be the guy that go, hey, come on, man,
come on, come on. You know you got he's like,
you're right dog.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Now he can't again, like I said, he can't be
like man like, hold on, who are you talking to?
You know what I'm saying. That's not I reserve for
one of them two. You can't get that. But you
come and talk to me and be like, hey, bro,
you come on.
Speaker 8 (46:27):
Deserving reserving like that as a rookie.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
Yeah, man, right, because that losing he wasn't with He
just went with that losing. He was not with the losing. Mike.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Man, you Mike has always been vocal because he you
would see him working, bro, you would see him.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
Was a vocal leader.
Speaker 7 (46:48):
No no, right like so like that's another example of it,
like im it's your best one of your best players.
But wasn't a vocal dude. Not that people didn't respect
him want to listen to him. That his nature wasn't.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Yeah to be that and what he wasn't gonna come
at you full blast. What he wasn't gonna come at
you full blast, but like you said, he would be like,
hey man, wow, bro, what you're gonna do here? You know,
we're gonna gave you the ball twice? What is y'all
gonna score?
Speaker 3 (47:15):
You know, just simple stuff like that.
Speaker 8 (47:18):
So like defensive leaders, would they talk to.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Yes, sir, yeah, well our team was Our team was
totally built different, you know if you you know, yeah,
I see Charles be cussing, you know, but you know
that's a different story. But he he would be getting
that the offense, you know, Darren Woodson.
Speaker 6 (47:37):
Were y'all like, did y'all almost compete against each.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Other like doing training camp?
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Yes, but when training camp broke, we we we went
so hard doing training camp too. If we didn't throttle
it down with nobody to make it to the game, right,
we we brother in law because we.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
Had I mean training training camp for us was just crazy.
Speaker 5 (48:00):
But I mean more like during games, like y'all have
a good y'all have a good, good drive in the defense.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
It was all one. That's we was all one.
Speaker 6 (48:12):
You know, Uh, it's on game day at all.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
It all came week right if.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
They got that ball back to back series or they
stopped they stopped them. Uh, it got us the ball
back great field position. We didn't do nothing with it,
and they got the ball again in great fields and
then you're gonna hear you su That's what I'm talking about, y'all.
Y'all would yeah, they would go at us. I mean
the defense would go at us, and and you know,
and Mike Irvin would go out there. I would never
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say nothing. I just be looking for that bench.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
You get some red.
Speaker 5 (48:40):
You're just like, okay, it's on three's all right, fellas,
great show, great show. We will be back next week,
same time, same place. What's going on next week?
Speaker 6 (48:56):
Anything? O T When are they back in the building, Well,
they're in the building out lifting weights.
Speaker 8 (49:01):
Okay, workouts and meetings o ts are first week of June.
Speaker 6 (49:05):
First week of June, so no football in the building
till till then.
Speaker 9 (49:09):
Well, like they said, there's a lot of workouts out there.
But coaches can't correct me if I'm wrong, Chris, coaches
can't work with them on the field yet.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
Know that that's starting the first week of June.
Speaker 6 (49:19):
Is o T A nothing, meetings, nothing really exciting until
training camp. Well many camp, but Nate's never excited about that.
Many camp under.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
Yeah, I want to just see how these guys line up.
Speaker 6 (49:36):
You know, what's the dates on the fourth and ninth,
fourth and ninth. Okay, well, tune in next week. We'll
make it exciting, even though it's always Jesse Kirk.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
He'll probably blue deep blue.
Speaker 3 (49:50):
Uh, you know, giants colored. I got one of the sis. Yeah,
I know. We'll see. We'll see how you messages.
Speaker 6 (49:58):
We'll see how you're glowing. Any n f C t
see how your glow.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
Is with that well, adversity shows they boy, we got you.
Gotta go as at the Super Bowl, y'all. Chris, thank you,
thanks for keeping us on the air.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (50:11):
Thanks, if anybody's in the back, thanks for the other
back here, okay, thanks everybody for keeping them company.
Speaker 6 (50:15):
Be back, same time, same place, next week.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
Hang with the Boys.
Speaker 4 (50:20):
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