August 10, 2017 • 30 mins
Doug broadcasts live from Dallas Cowboys training camp in Oxnard, California and is joined by Pro Bowl Kicker Dan Bailey. Doug reminds us all that the NFL Preseason means nothing. Doug also stakes his claim on Aaron Rodgers as the best quarterback in the NFL and discusses the newest member of the Sacramento Kings, Zach Randolph, and his recent arrest.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the best of the Dog Gottlieb Show on
Fox Sports Radio. What Up America? Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox
Sports Radio From the Echo Chamber. Apparently that is Cowboys Camp.
I am not in a box, but I feel like
because of our set up here, it feels like, right
we have our own little kind of cabana that's overlooking
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where the Cowboys will soon have press conferences right after
their practice is done. Spent some time watching the Pokes
practice out here in sunny Oxnard, California, part of our
training camp tour. We at the Rams earlier this week,
the Chargers next week. Of course, the Rams and the
Chargers little fisticuffs. Yesterday they actually had dudes booted from practice.
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We'll get to that later on in the show. But
we are live today from Dallas Cowboys training camp. Uh.
Not the best team in the NFL, but without any question,
the most interesting team in the National Football League. And
I can tell you spending just an hour and a
half watching practice us and watching all that goes on
around practice, and then of course you think of the storylines, uh,
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the the owner being now in the Hall of Fame,
the change at quarterback, and one quarterback, going straight to
the broadcast booth, joining our Troy Aikman, who's number one
in Fox Sports broadcast. It's just different with the Cowboys.
It's just a different level, even though it's the same
league as the Rams, as the Chargers, as almost any
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other team in National Football League. You can tell me
the Patriots are better, a better organization. I wouldn't disagree
with that. It's just bigger when you have the star
on the side of your helmet. Um. Mike Fowler, who's
our social media manager, is currently hanging a banner. Dan
Buyer is here. He'll give us the update of man
Bert is trying to make sure that we sound good. Uh,
and I have nobody to make sure I look good.
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If you're watching us on Facebook Live, I will tell
you this. You have to keep telling yourself over and
over and over again. One sentence okay, which is more
of a run on sentence. It's not great syntax, but
you have to. Last night I watched the Houston Texans
take on the Carolina Panthers in a preseason game on
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the NFL Network, and great, dear Brad Nessler calling in
NFL game. He'll call CBS SEC games. What a misstep
by ESPN not bringing back Nestler. He goes to CBS,
He's gonna be awesome covering the SEC. And Deshaun Watson
looked good. It's inarguable he looked good. Um, Tom Savage
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also looked very good. Made a matter of fact, Tom
Savage probably looked better and look better from the pocket.
But I'm not trying to diminish what Deshaun Watson did
last night. I am not, but the sentence you have
to keep repeating to yourself over and over again. His
preseason doesn't matter. The preseason doesn't matter. The preseason doesn't matter.
The preseason doesn't matter, because if you look back historically,
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plenty of good quarterbacks have looked good in the preseason,
and plenty of bad quarterbacks have looked good in the preseas.
And you name the court like I can give you
look back historically and you're like, hey, remember a Chille Smith.
Remember him right comes out of Oregon. Thought it was
he could be the next kind of dynamic run past
threat in the National Football League. Go back and look
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at when he was drafted in his first preseason, he
was awesome, awesome, How good a quarterback was Achilles smith Um.
Blake Bortles is a maligned starting quarterback in the National
Football League. I don't think he's as maligned as Clay
Travis said he was earlier today when Clay Travis believes
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that the Jaguar should dump games in order to get
Sam Donald, in order to get Josh Rosen, in order
to get one of the young quarterbacks in the NFL.
But if you look back at his rookie season Blake Bortles,
remember they wanted to red shirt him, they wanted to
not play Blake Bortles, but he was so good in
his first preseason that every one since well, you know what,
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m he should probably just play him because he's more
ready than you thought he was. This is inarguable. Okay,
go back and look at his game logs. This download him.
This is not that hard to do. I go to
aading website and just go, hey, look at his his
game logs, and go back and read what they said
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about Blake Morels going back to two thousand fourteen, the
preseasion look pretty good. Better we thought probably ready. And
so while Deshaun wants it, we all want him to
be good. Like we have this incessant desire to say
what we saw for for for four years at Clemson
is going to be a reality in the NFL. We
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all want to say, like I knew everybody in the NFL,
all these teams made a mistake, and I knew it.
I knew it. I knew it. And there's a bit
of a confirmation bias. He makes a good throw, it
should be pointed out. He was very good, although he
lacks some accuracy when in the pocket, and he was
better when he was at of the pocket, and the
knock on de Shaun Watson was sometimes he's inaccurate in
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the pocket and he's better out of the pocket, which
is what's going to ultimately fail you in the NFL.
You have to be good between the tackles throwing the football.
All the other stuff is just icing on top of
the cake. It's great. It's important to keep your eyes
down the field to keep your balance. But the reason
that he was slipping in the NFL draft was actually
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apparent last night, and even if you look at the coverage,
which was which was overwhelmingly positive. I watched afterwards. David Carr,
of course, was the former number one overall pick, and
he was doing so without his left tackle was holding
out with the Houston Texans, just so you know, but
he was also playing with the twos and playing against
the twos. I'm not trying to take shots at Deshaun Watson.
I'm trying to paint a proper context, proper perspective. And
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if you look at the high number of interceptions he
had last year at Clemson, it was because one he
forced things, but two, maybe more importantly, he limited himself
and tried to show that he was a better pocket
passer than his reputation that had been put in place. Okay,
and the only time that he started to scramble and
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run and design runs for first downs and really instead
of running to throw was in the College Football Playoff,
a strength that he absolutely has, but one that you
don't really need or even want in the NFL. And
like you can tell me you have to be able
to move the pocket, that's not inaccurate. But I would
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also tell you that if you look, we've talked about
quarterbacks who have remained um in the NFL and not
been hurt, all of those quarterbacks are from the throw
from the pocket, right like Tom Brady is still doing
it at forty years old. Why he's a pocket pass
They protect you in the pocket. Philip Rivers hasn't missed
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the start since he started starting in two thousand and six.
Why he throws the Philip Rivers is slow. Okay, he's
not slow. For he's slow. He raised a pregnant woman,
came in third. When you watch Tom Brady run, it
looks like he's dragging a dead body, like it's painful
to watch those guys run. But they're nimble within the pocket,
and they're protected by the rules in the pocket. And
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so look, I I'm in must as much in love
with the idea that Deshaun Watson can be a five
star lead Clemson to a national title, evolved as a quarterback,
be this year's Dak Prescott, this year's got that's all
the Texans have needed, and he can allow the Texans
to take that next step. But I could, I could.
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If if you want to use last night as the example,
I'll point out last night he lacks some accuracy within
the pocket. Was better out of the pocket. Savage is
better in the pocket more than anything. Keep telling yourself
this sentence. Preseason means nothing. Preseason means nothing. Preseason means nothing.
Preseason means nothing, and once you start there you can
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and just watch him evolve. Like Dac was great last
year in the in the preseason, he was great, but
that that that didn't prove to hus that he was ready.
I mean, even his first couple of games, they were
still a denial within a lot of people that he
was in fact ready. So let's not go crazy about
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Deshaun Watson against the number two's and the Carolina Panthers
being very very good and even especially in his and
he has poise, he is not rattled. But the questions
about Deshaun Watson weren't whether or not he'd be rattled.
He'd be he would lack poise. The questions are would
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he lack accuracy within the pocket when he's going through
his progressions. That's the thing that he needs to prove
on and that was not proven to be incorrect last night,
And even if it was last night, is not the
gauge for if he's ready to start in the National
Football League, because if you want to say he looked good,
you'd also have to say that Tom Savage looked as
good or even better, especially from the pocket. If you
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want to say that he looked good. That's great. You
also have to balance it with Blake Bortles was great
in his preseason. Achille Smith was great in his preseason.
Blaine Gabbert was outstanding in the Arizona Cardinals preseason opener
in the Hall of Fame Game. Remember that, like damn
Blake Bortles, Blake Gabert is good. Like no, he's not.
It's the preseason. It's the preseason. It doesn't mean anything.
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Radio app. Zach randolph Um up until today, had kind
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of been the embodiment of knucklehead when he was young.
After a one and done year at Michigan State, early
on with the Portland's Jail Blazers, and then kind of
rebooted his image. He's one of the most beloved players
from any hometown in the NBA, considering or if you
consider the Memphis is like adopted hometown. You when you
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land at Memphis Airport, you'll see pictures of him. He's
he He and Tony Allen, who both came from tough
backgrounds and had issues early on their NBA career. They
were the face of the city of Memphis. And so
when he signed his contract with the Sacramento kings a
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two year, twenty four million dollar deal, you felt like
that cemented, that cemented Zach Randolph as a guy who's
gone through complete image rehab. And I don't want to
go over overboard on on marijuana arrest, right, Like, let's
not go crazy. Let's not pretend like marijuana isn't being
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decriminalized and frankly made legal in many parts of the country.
But U, this is not the Hey, he was pulled
over and there was a blunt in the cigarette, you know,
in the in like the ashtray of his car, and
we make ashtrays on cars, most cars anymore. Anyway, Um,
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this one doesn't read great. The l A County Sheriff's
Department arrested Sacramento Kingsford Zach Randolph on felony charge of
marijuana possession with intent to sell. So here's what we
did today. Um, we're in Oxnard, California, Doug Gotlip Show,
Fox Sports Radio. We're live at Dallas Cowboys Camp. You
heard the air horn go off. You know that's the
Cowboys switching from station to station to station. We're told
they have twenty five more minutes of practice, then they
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have some light work afterwards. Then the cowboys will start
to come over and we'll pop him on air. Ox
Start is fifty miles north of where we normally broadcast from,
or or thereabouts about a hundred ten hundred twenty miles
from the part of l A where uh Zack Randolph
was arrested last night and look. L A p D
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officials told ABC seven that officers on a routine patrol
when they encountered a group of drinking alcohol, smoking weed,
playing loud music while blocking the street at Nickerson Gardens
Project in Watts. The bigger story is what the hell
was Zach Randolph doing at Nickerson Projects? Right? Like this
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wasn't like it's one of those deals like you got
to Dave matthews Man concert or you go to the
Fish Got a Better Fish concert. You could arrest anybody
for weed right, like you could literally it's it's fishing
a barrel figuratively literally fishing a barrel like you could
get weed. Guys. But like, dude, you're worth a hundred
million dollars. You just signed a guaranteed contract for twenty
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four mill. You're not even from l A. It's not
like I went back to hang my boys, like you're
in the Nickerson projects. And then the cops roll up
and Zack Randolph goes running away like he's a seventeen
year old. So we drive up to Oxnard, California. All
of us kind of had the same idea, let's beat that.
You get there, beat the traffic, and we meeted at
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a coffee shop. It's called Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.
It's a it's a chain. I don't believe it's outside
of southern California anymore. Um. And when we roll up,
we're talking about the story, and there is how many
how many uh motorcycles I would say in the six
or seven varieties. I know, shocker, there cops are at
a coffee shop, right. I don't know if they were
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eating donuts, that would have been far too cliche. But
so I I pulled aside a couple of officers um,
and I asked them, I said, how much do you
have to have in order for an officer to believe
you have the intent to sell? And this was interesting
to me because we were arguing that with an ounce
is a two ounce, Like I'm not really a weed guy,
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so I don't know, like I didn't and frankly, I
didn't bring anything to measure with that. I don't know
what what what even what it even looks like. I
know what it looks like. I'm not I'm thinking I
could be that naive, but I don't know, like if
somebody said here's an ounce, like I'd have to just
at your word for it. I really don't know. So
the officers were incredibly kind, um and they were like, well,
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it's like it just kind of depends, like what do
you mean it depends like well, like he just kind
of It's like it's like the definition of pornography, you know,
when you see it, like you can usually on your person,
you can smoke an eighth of announce, So if it's
more than an ounce, you could you could probably you know,
it's a bag, you could probably get away with it
and just get a ticket. But you start to get
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a big bag or there's little baggies on you, or
he gets to two ounces or more, and all right,
now we got the intent to sell. So I'm not
sure I really got a clear answer. It kind of
feels like it's intent to sell because it said so.
And I do think that Zack Randolph, who's six ft
nine and thirty six years old, you know, he could
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probably get away with the Hey, I can, I can
smoke a lot more than the average bear, but it
it doesn't read good. And if you couple it with
the fact that Zach Randolph was rumored to being the
king in for a marijuana selling ring in Indianapolis years ago,
and then when you're like, what was he doing in
the projects with with I mean, like I hate the
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word hooligans, but like that kind of like dudes were
blocking the street, drinking, smoking, playing music, Like what are
you doing? This is when keeping it Rio goes wrong.
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Brett Farves says, obviously, Aaron being Aaron Rodgers has carried
the team for a long time. That's not going to change.
That in and of itself is not enough. At least
it hasn't been, and it's been pretty good. As good
as he is, I would have thought they would have
won more than one by now. But I don't think
if he can do anything else other than what he's
done up to this point, it's always seems like one
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piece of the pustles missing. You don't know what it
deals until you get it. Like Reggie, what you go, Oh,
that's what we needed. It remains to be seen what
it is with his draft pick, a free agent, letting
somebody go coaching change. I don't know. I think all
the pieces, from what I can tell outside looking at
all the pieces seem to be in place. They're gonna
score a lot of points defensively dom Kaper's I think
he's excellent and making defense opportunistic and may give up
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a little bit, but it's it's pretty crafty. Uh. It
will be interesting to see. A bold prediction to me
would be the Rams winning a Super Bowl. Not too
bold to say the Packers. That's not a popular choice,
but it's being realistic. He was asked, Um, he even
Rogers doesn't think, Uh, doesn't get If Rogers doesn't get
one this year, he'll have time because he can play
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until he's forty. Why stop at forty far said retired
at forty one, but left the Packers just two months
shy before he turned thirty nine in a trade with
the Jets. He moves around as well as anybody in
the game right now. That's big the less you're hit.
Tom Brady is a different player, but they'll protect him
well enough. He's not gonna scramble much. But I see
no decline in Tom as he's getting older. It doesn't
look like that. I think Aaron what Aaron is thirty
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three barring any injury, and he knows how to protect himself.
Six seven years from now is a long time down
the road. But there's no reason to see he couldn't
playt a high level. I'm not gonna say forty three,
forty four. It's up to the individual. I don't see
any decline his game unless he doesn't want to play anymore.
So in summation, far As like I can't believe they've
on anyone, only one. Aaron Rodger has been carrying the team.
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He paints the picture of Dom Caper's defense, not as
being good but opportunistic. In other words, they take a
bunch of chances because they're not that good. And I
think everybody knows that. And he thinks Aaron Rodgers can
play as long as he wants because guys don't get
hit anymore, and he's pretty smart and really good, he's
not going to decline. So um, it's pretty similar. Actually
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something Greg Greg Jennings joined us yesterday, and even though
Orlando Scandra kind of brushed off Greg Jennings is being
crumbing and being on the couch last year. Uh. Here's
the great Jenning said about the package yesterday is solely
with upper management and how they go about it, because
I get it. I know they have a system, but
it has not Yes, did we win a championship, absolutely,
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but it's like you're always one step behind in New
England or a Seattle because these are teams that are
willing to bring up throughout the through the draft. Well,
with the exception of New England, they kind of draft
terribly at skill positions, but they supplement well, and they
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supplement in a plate in a in a way to
where it doesn't affect or impact their team because they
have a culture already set that guys have to come
into and if you either embrace it or you don't.
And Green Bay has that, but they don't use it. Um. Look,
so all everybody's saying kind of the same thing without
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saying the same thing. Right, everybody's saying like, hey, look,
Ted Thompson, dude, you gotta go out and add some pieces.
You gotta spend some money, figure out a way. Um.
Everybody else goes out and adds pieces in the offseason.
Even the New England Patriots have have added pieces, and
they're not adding pieces as far as like, I don't
know if it's coaching change, I don't know if it's
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one player. I don't know if it's something. Jenny's kind
of saying the same same thing, and so it's going
to be interesting to see if Green Bay adds something
or if that's if that's what's needed. Like, look, I
I just I hate to be that guy that points
out they should have been in Seattle a couple of
years ago and they would have gone to a Super
Bowl and probably could have won the Super Bowl. Last year,
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the defense was a disaster and they still went to
the NFC Championship Game. My my, takeaways are this, I
am right about saying Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback
in the league, because everybody's saying the thing. I can't
believe it went to only one. It's not on Aaron Rodgers.
He's been awesome. The rest of his team missing some pieces.
We're all talking around the fact that, uh, something I
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said on Cowherd Show and I hosted that I'll be
ho and that tomorrow. Something I said on this show
time and again is I'm not saying that Tom Brady
is not awesome. He is, but Tom Brady is the
most successful quarterback in the league. Aaron Rodgers is the best.
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Dan Bailey, who won every award in college and was
wildly considered, if not the best right there along with
probably Justin Tucker the Ravens, the two best kickers in
the National Football League, kind of to spend some time
with this year, fresh off of of training camp here
at the Cowboys camp. Um is it was that fair
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like probably going into last year, like you and Justin Tucker.
The two consider the two best in the league, right, Yeah, sure,
I mean Justin's great talent obviously had a great year
last year and really every year. So um shoot, I
don't know, I'm allowed you make that call, but yeah,
I don't know. You're two guys to which it's like
the it's the Steph Curry effect. We st even said
this with the Dodgers, which is like when you missed,
when you missed one, missed one ast year. You're like,
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you're more surprised when you miss even a long field
goal than when you make it. Like it it's surprising.
But you've even said and percentage wise, you're coming off
your worst years of pro Have you been able to
figure out through film or just through work what went
wrong and what what needs to change? Yeah? Yeah, I mean,
just like any anybody else, you know, at the end
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of the year and then through the offseason, you're looking
at the good and the bad. Obviously mrs are bad
for our position, so yeah, you take a look at it,
see what was wrong, what the situation was, you know,
whether the operation was clean or not. Um, yeah, and
just try to try to get it figured out. It's
usually nothing crazy, So what was it? What was it?
Because I mean, you know, I mean obviously i'll report
some camp are you're kicking the ball really really well? Yeah? No,
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I mean camps been going great. Um yeah, just going
back to last year, Um, you know there were some
longer kicks, so a little bit lower percentage kicks. Um.
Not that that's an excuse, but just tougher, tougher conditions.
You know, I had one in New York that I
really I hit as good as I could and it
hit the crossbar. So you kicks like that, I mean, yeah,
you're disappointed, but you really did all you could at
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the at the time. You know, It's like it's like
in basketball when you miss a shot around and out,
You're like, I actually shot that ball better than one
that can clang in, right, the one that can you
bank one in. You're like, wait, that actually wasn't a
well shot ball, whereas you can shoot it perfectly and
it just doesn't go in because of luck. And that's
what you're saying. I mean, like it is ich, did
I I do think one of the things and sometimes
that that spider camera whatever does it more justice. I
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don't think people understand just how precise one, how small
the goalposts are, but how precise in terms of clean
everything has to be from the stamp to the hole
to the kick is a very quick and seamless operation.
Yeah yeah, I mean, you know, obviously we take a
lot of pride in that, but uh, we always have
a conversation It comes up every year about you know,
if you look at any other sport, you know, in
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basketball you have an alley you or you know in
in baseball you gotta double play or anything like that
that involves multiple people doing something at a pretty rapid rate.
And you know, we were shooting for snap hold to
a can one point three seconds or around there at
one point to five. So you know, if you look
at other sports, there's not too many things where involves
three people on one point three seconds and it has
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to be precision every time. So we take some pride
in that, and uh yeah, there's a lot going on,
but you know, those guys are dialed in on their
job and makes my job a lot easier. Dan Bailey,
John Kicker for the Dallas Cowboys, Doug Otlip Show, Fox
Sports Trading Live from Cowboys Camp. Um okay, so uh
we watch at home and like again, you're just amazed
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by the precision, but I want to know kind of routine.
So you trot out there and you mentioned, like, look,
anybody once you hit forty and inn NFL kickers, you
guys are incredible, Like the percent rates are incredible. How
much has changed since the P A T was moved back?
Because from a fans side, like, I think that's the
greatest rule change in NFL history because it it went
from giving away a point like it was a ninety
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nine point nine percent shot, you guys will never miss
that to now there's a little bit of question too.
It's like nine seven percent to ninety four depending on
the team whatever. It's little bit of question to it.
From your perspective, Uh, what do you think of that
rule change now? A couple of years in? Yeah, I
mean initially I was a little Uh I was. I
wasn't that much of a fan of it, obviously, just
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because nobody likes changed to an extent, But um, yeah,
I think it's I think it's good, you know, coming
from my perspective, it's really more of a mental challenge.
But because like you said, um, you know before it's
not like you were going through the motions. But to
an extent, you just go out there and I mean
you just kick it straight. It's ten yards twenty yards away,
and it is pretty much a give me. But now,
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you know, it's a little bit more of a challenge,
especially you get later in the year, it gets colder,
playing up in the northeast or wherever there might be
a little bit of weather. You know, all that stuff
factors into it, and all of a sudden, a thirty
three yard field goal. Yeah it's short, but um, you know,
it's a little bit more of a challenge. And and
and then the mental side of it is you can
have kicks worth three points that are shorter than that.
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So you have to understand that all the points are important.
It doesn't matter whether whether it's worth one or an
extra point or uh three. With a field goal, you
just have to go out there and do the same
thing every time. Dan Bailey joining us in the dugoutlet
you all right, So so they you you go and
you're kicking a field goal. Okay, it's a forty five yarder.
What what is the routine you're trotting on the field,
What is the mental routine? What's actually going on? Upstairs. Yeah, so, um,
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you know, mostly anytime we get past the fifty, I'm
I'm kind of I'm walking in I'm paying attention to
the game down a distance, where we're at, how much time,
time outs, all that stuff, and uh, just trying to
get a good feel for for where we're at and
and trying to just stay in the game and keep
your mind off of not necessarily or keep your mind
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off of the pressure of the situation. And uh so
how do you do how? But how do you do that?
Like that sounds really great? But like how do you
you know? I mean, you've got a game winning kick
and uh and based upon your percentage, people are like
money in the bank, money in the bank because he's
able to put Like, how do you actually do that? Yeah?
I mean a lot of it is just taking the
pressure off yourself. Um, like I said, just keeping your
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mind going with something else. You know, where we're out
on the field, where what hash are we on? You know,
what's the wind doing? What am I gonna need to
know before I get out there? So that way, when
you get out there, um, you already know what's going on.
You know where the winds coming from, you know what
the weather, what the weather is, You've you've already done
the operation on the sideline, you know, had some kicks
in the net and stuff like that, and just go
out there and execute. Um, what's it like to be
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on the sideline and watch somebody else? I don't want
to say live your dream, um, but you know, any
anybody's dream is obviously to go to Super Bowl when
or win the game winning kick in the Super Bowl.
But you're playing the Packers and with it just a
spectacular throw and catch, the Packers get a game winning
field goal to beat you in your place. But as
a great kicker and somebody who wants that pressure, what's
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it like to see somebody else in your season that way?
It's not good. It's not good. Um. Obviously you know Mason,
me and him are are good buddies, and you know
I'm happy for him personally, but definitely in that situation. Um,
you know, I wouldn't say I want him to miss,
but I don't. I don't want him to make it,
So it's not it's nothing personal. It's just more of
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a collective team saying I would rather have our team
win than uh than his. And of course you know
some people point to Jason Garrett and spiking the football
thirty five second, leaving too much time kind of on
the clock, right Like, that's and that's what led to
having enough time to kick that field goal. Yeah, I mean,
you know, if you go back and do that, you
know a hundred times, you could probably do it a
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hundred different ways. And it's just one of those things
in the moment, in the situation, you manage the situation
as best you can and give your team a chance.
I thought we did that. You know, we we tied
it up there at the end, and you know, credit
to you know, Aaron Rodgers. I mean, that's that's a
one in a million throw right there. I mean I
don't know if that too many other guys in the
league can do that. And um, obviously a good kick
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by Mason. So yeah it hurts, but uh, you know
if it was flipped around, yeah, absolutely, I'd love to
be in that situation and uh and have us going
to the SC Championship. Truth be told, what's what's the
furthest year to kick one from uh back at Valley Ranch?
You know it would get we didn't get a little
breeze out there. We hit from like seventy a few times. Um,
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but I don't really, I don't. I don't back it
up too much too too often. I just I'd rather
just try to stay as consistent. Right, You're more you're
more about accuracy right than you are about just trying
to kind of booming leg thing right. And it's it
feels a little bit like free throw shooting or whatever,
to where it's better to see it go through the
goal post than it is to show you in to
to one in five it, you know, from seventy yards out?
Is that of fair comparison? Absolutely? Yeah, Dan Bailey, Joni
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Us and the Doug gotl Litshell. I'll ask the cool
one of the questions that Orlando Scandrick didn't want to answer, Um,
does it feel any different this year? Like you've been
this is you're not your first rodeo, You're a vet.
You've been through the camps where teams have done well,
where teams have done poorly. Uh, does this year feel
different anyway from previous ones? Uh? It definitely feels it
feels different. Yeah. I mean last year, you know, we
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were coming off of a pretty bad year four and twelve,
and I mean, you know, the personal expectation was always high.
But you know, you just you're you're really want to
change your identity from the year before because you don't
want to be you don't want to be that four
and twelve team. You want to be something better. So, um,
you know, now that we had some success last year,
I'm sure absolutely the the expectation within the locker room
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is high. And you know, we've got we've got Dak
and Zeke and all these young guys that are playing
at a really high level, which is exciting. Um. You know,
when I first got here, was very much a veteran
locker room. Now we're really young, so it's it's fun
to have that youth in there. I mean not that
I'm old, but but it's fun to have that youth
in there and kind of a different energy and and
a lot more excitement. Last thing, we got about a
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minute left. You're you're also very good golfer, and I'm
just wondering for the average duffer out there, Uh, what's
harder like a put to win your buddy's money on
a Sunday or a field goal to win a game
for you? For me, it would have to it would
have to be uh, put for sure to me that
can't you use the same process of like tuning everything
out like you're just telling about how like I don't know,
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you just kind of eliminated pressure you go out there.
You could a feel Bill like all of us are
like that. I'd be freaking out. Can't you just use
the same process with the putters, you would think? So? Yeah,
I wish it was that easy because I'd feel i'd
have a few more bucks in the pocket on the
golf course. But yeah, no, I mean, I'm much more
comfortable on the football field than I am on the greens,
even though you know I can I can swing it
pretty good here and there. But um yeah, I'd rather
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have the pressure of the of the NFL game than
I than I'll play. All right, No, not high expectation,
but we expect you to make every field goal this
year for the Dallas Cowpus. That's it. That's that's pretty
much it. We expect to make everyone and if you don't,
even if it's a crossfire, even if you get a
gust from the gods at the very last second, uh,
that that's on you. That's on your process, not on
the result. Dan Bailey, of course, we kid, We appreciate
you joining us and without any question, would not be
the worst interview of the day. Here live from from
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Cowboys Camp
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I am not in a box, but I feel like
because of our set up here, it feels like, right
we have our own little kind of cabana that's overlooking
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where the Cowboys will soon have press conferences right after
their practice is done. Spent some time watching the Pokes
practice out here in sunny Oxnard, California, part of our
training camp tour. We at the Rams earlier this week,
the Chargers next week. Of course, the Rams and the
Chargers little fisticuffs. Yesterday they actually had dudes booted from practice.
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We'll get to that later on in the show. But
we are live today from Dallas Cowboys training camp. Uh.
Not the best team in the NFL, but without any question,
the most interesting team in the National Football League. And
I can tell you spending just an hour and a
half watching practice us and watching all that goes on
around practice, and then of course you think of the storylines, uh,
(01:05):
the the owner being now in the Hall of Fame,
the change at quarterback, and one quarterback, going straight to
the broadcast booth, joining our Troy Aikman, who's number one
in Fox Sports broadcast. It's just different with the Cowboys.
It's just a different level, even though it's the same
league as the Rams, as the Chargers, as almost any
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other team in National Football League. You can tell me
the Patriots are better, a better organization. I wouldn't disagree
with that. It's just bigger when you have the star
on the side of your helmet. Um. Mike Fowler, who's
our social media manager, is currently hanging a banner. Dan
Buyer is here. He'll give us the update of man
Bert is trying to make sure that we sound good. Uh,
and I have nobody to make sure I look good.
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If you're watching us on Facebook Live, I will tell
you this. You have to keep telling yourself over and
over and over again. One sentence okay, which is more
of a run on sentence. It's not great syntax, but
you have to. Last night I watched the Houston Texans
take on the Carolina Panthers in a preseason game on
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the NFL Network, and great, dear Brad Nessler calling in
NFL game. He'll call CBS SEC games. What a misstep
by ESPN not bringing back Nestler. He goes to CBS,
He's gonna be awesome covering the SEC. And Deshaun Watson
looked good. It's inarguable he looked good. Um, Tom Savage
(02:30):
also looked very good. Made a matter of fact, Tom
Savage probably looked better and look better from the pocket.
But I'm not trying to diminish what Deshaun Watson did
last night. I am not, but the sentence you have
to keep repeating to yourself over and over again. His
preseason doesn't matter. The preseason doesn't matter. The preseason doesn't matter.
The preseason doesn't matter, because if you look back historically,
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plenty of good quarterbacks have looked good in the preseason,
and plenty of bad quarterbacks have looked good in the preseas.
And you name the court like I can give you
look back historically and you're like, hey, remember a Chille Smith.
Remember him right comes out of Oregon. Thought it was
he could be the next kind of dynamic run past
threat in the National Football League. Go back and look
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at when he was drafted in his first preseason, he
was awesome, awesome, How good a quarterback was Achilles smith Um.
Blake Bortles is a maligned starting quarterback in the National
Football League. I don't think he's as maligned as Clay
Travis said he was earlier today when Clay Travis believes
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that the Jaguar should dump games in order to get
Sam Donald, in order to get Josh Rosen, in order
to get one of the young quarterbacks in the NFL.
But if you look back at his rookie season Blake Bortles,
remember they wanted to red shirt him, they wanted to
not play Blake Bortles, but he was so good in
his first preseason that every one since well, you know what,
(04:00):
m he should probably just play him because he's more
ready than you thought he was. This is inarguable. Okay,
go back and look at his game logs. This download him.
This is not that hard to do. I go to
aading website and just go, hey, look at his his
game logs, and go back and read what they said
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about Blake Morels going back to two thousand fourteen, the
preseasion look pretty good. Better we thought probably ready. And
so while Deshaun wants it, we all want him to
be good. Like we have this incessant desire to say
what we saw for for for four years at Clemson
is going to be a reality in the NFL. We
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all want to say, like I knew everybody in the NFL,
all these teams made a mistake, and I knew it.
I knew it. I knew it. And there's a bit
of a confirmation bias. He makes a good throw, it
should be pointed out. He was very good, although he
lacks some accuracy when in the pocket, and he was
better when he was at of the pocket, and the
knock on de Shaun Watson was sometimes he's inaccurate in
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the pocket and he's better out of the pocket, which
is what's going to ultimately fail you in the NFL.
You have to be good between the tackles throwing the football.
All the other stuff is just icing on top of
the cake. It's great. It's important to keep your eyes
down the field to keep your balance. But the reason
that he was slipping in the NFL draft was actually
(05:27):
apparent last night, and even if you look at the coverage,
which was which was overwhelmingly positive. I watched afterwards. David Carr,
of course, was the former number one overall pick, and
he was doing so without his left tackle was holding
out with the Houston Texans, just so you know, but
he was also playing with the twos and playing against
the twos. I'm not trying to take shots at Deshaun Watson.
I'm trying to paint a proper context, proper perspective. And
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if you look at the high number of interceptions he
had last year at Clemson, it was because one he
forced things, but two, maybe more importantly, he limited himself
and tried to show that he was a better pocket
passer than his reputation that had been put in place. Okay,
and the only time that he started to scramble and
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run and design runs for first downs and really instead
of running to throw was in the College Football Playoff,
a strength that he absolutely has, but one that you
don't really need or even want in the NFL. And
like you can tell me you have to be able
to move the pocket, that's not inaccurate. But I would
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also tell you that if you look, we've talked about
quarterbacks who have remained um in the NFL and not
been hurt, all of those quarterbacks are from the throw
from the pocket, right like Tom Brady is still doing
it at forty years old. Why he's a pocket pass
They protect you in the pocket. Philip Rivers hasn't missed
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the start since he started starting in two thousand and six.
Why he throws the Philip Rivers is slow. Okay, he's
not slow. For he's slow. He raised a pregnant woman,
came in third. When you watch Tom Brady run, it
looks like he's dragging a dead body, like it's painful
to watch those guys run. But they're nimble within the pocket,
and they're protected by the rules in the pocket. And
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so look, I I'm in must as much in love
with the idea that Deshaun Watson can be a five
star lead Clemson to a national title, evolved as a quarterback,
be this year's Dak Prescott, this year's got that's all
the Texans have needed, and he can allow the Texans
to take that next step. But I could, I could.
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If if you want to use last night as the example,
I'll point out last night he lacks some accuracy within
the pocket. Was better out of the pocket. Savage is
better in the pocket more than anything. Keep telling yourself
this sentence. Preseason means nothing. Preseason means nothing. Preseason means nothing.
Preseason means nothing, and once you start there you can
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and just watch him evolve. Like Dac was great last
year in the in the preseason, he was great, but
that that that didn't prove to hus that he was ready.
I mean, even his first couple of games, they were
still a denial within a lot of people that he
was in fact ready. So let's not go crazy about
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Deshaun Watson against the number two's and the Carolina Panthers
being very very good and even especially in his and
he has poise, he is not rattled. But the questions
about Deshaun Watson weren't whether or not he'd be rattled.
He'd be he would lack poise. The questions are would
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he lack accuracy within the pocket when he's going through
his progressions. That's the thing that he needs to prove
on and that was not proven to be incorrect last night,
And even if it was last night, is not the
gauge for if he's ready to start in the National
Football League, because if you want to say he looked good,
you'd also have to say that Tom Savage looked as
good or even better, especially from the pocket. If you
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want to say that he looked good. That's great. You
also have to balance it with Blake Bortles was great
in his preseason. Achille Smith was great in his preseason.
Blaine Gabbert was outstanding in the Arizona Cardinals preseason opener
in the Hall of Fame Game. Remember that, like damn
Blake Bortles, Blake Gabert is good. Like no, he's not.
It's the preseason. It's the preseason. It doesn't mean anything.
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It's the preseason, doesn't mean anything. It's the preseason to
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Radio app. Zach randolph Um up until today, had kind
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of been the embodiment of knucklehead when he was young.
After a one and done year at Michigan State, early
on with the Portland's Jail Blazers, and then kind of
rebooted his image. He's one of the most beloved players
from any hometown in the NBA, considering or if you
consider the Memphis is like adopted hometown. You when you
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land at Memphis Airport, you'll see pictures of him. He's
he He and Tony Allen, who both came from tough
backgrounds and had issues early on their NBA career. They
were the face of the city of Memphis. And so
when he signed his contract with the Sacramento kings a
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two year, twenty four million dollar deal, you felt like
that cemented, that cemented Zach Randolph as a guy who's
gone through complete image rehab. And I don't want to
go over overboard on on marijuana arrest, right, Like, let's
not go crazy. Let's not pretend like marijuana isn't being
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decriminalized and frankly made legal in many parts of the country.
But U, this is not the Hey, he was pulled
over and there was a blunt in the cigarette, you know,
in the in like the ashtray of his car, and
we make ashtrays on cars, most cars anymore. Anyway, Um,
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this one doesn't read great. The l A County Sheriff's
Department arrested Sacramento Kingsford Zach Randolph on felony charge of
marijuana possession with intent to sell. So here's what we
did today. Um, we're in Oxnard, California, Doug Gotlip Show,
Fox Sports Radio. We're live at Dallas Cowboys Camp. You
heard the air horn go off. You know that's the
Cowboys switching from station to station to station. We're told
they have twenty five more minutes of practice, then they
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have some light work afterwards. Then the cowboys will start
to come over and we'll pop him on air. Ox
Start is fifty miles north of where we normally broadcast from,
or or thereabouts about a hundred ten hundred twenty miles
from the part of l A where uh Zack Randolph
was arrested last night and look. L A p D
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officials told ABC seven that officers on a routine patrol
when they encountered a group of drinking alcohol, smoking weed,
playing loud music while blocking the street at Nickerson Gardens
Project in Watts. The bigger story is what the hell
was Zach Randolph doing at Nickerson Projects? Right? Like this
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wasn't like it's one of those deals like you got
to Dave matthews Man concert or you go to the
Fish Got a Better Fish concert. You could arrest anybody
for weed right, like you could literally it's it's fishing
a barrel figuratively literally fishing a barrel like you could
get weed. Guys. But like, dude, you're worth a hundred
million dollars. You just signed a guaranteed contract for twenty
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four mill. You're not even from l A. It's not
like I went back to hang my boys, like you're
in the Nickerson projects. And then the cops roll up
and Zack Randolph goes running away like he's a seventeen
year old. So we drive up to Oxnard, California. All
of us kind of had the same idea, let's beat that.
You get there, beat the traffic, and we meeted at
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a coffee shop. It's called Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.
It's a it's a chain. I don't believe it's outside
of southern California anymore. Um. And when we roll up,
we're talking about the story, and there is how many
how many uh motorcycles I would say in the six
or seven varieties. I know, shocker, there cops are at
a coffee shop, right. I don't know if they were
(13:25):
eating donuts, that would have been far too cliche. But
so I I pulled aside a couple of officers um,
and I asked them, I said, how much do you
have to have in order for an officer to believe
you have the intent to sell? And this was interesting
to me because we were arguing that with an ounce
is a two ounce, Like I'm not really a weed guy,
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so I don't know, like I didn't and frankly, I
didn't bring anything to measure with that. I don't know
what what what even what it even looks like. I
know what it looks like. I'm not I'm thinking I
could be that naive, but I don't know, like if
somebody said here's an ounce, like I'd have to just
at your word for it. I really don't know. So
the officers were incredibly kind, um and they were like, well,
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it's like it just kind of depends, like what do
you mean it depends like well, like he just kind
of It's like it's like the definition of pornography, you know,
when you see it, like you can usually on your person,
you can smoke an eighth of announce, So if it's
more than an ounce, you could you could probably you know,
it's a bag, you could probably get away with it
and just get a ticket. But you start to get
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a big bag or there's little baggies on you, or
he gets to two ounces or more, and all right,
now we got the intent to sell. So I'm not
sure I really got a clear answer. It kind of
feels like it's intent to sell because it said so.
And I do think that Zack Randolph, who's six ft
nine and thirty six years old, you know, he could
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probably get away with the Hey, I can, I can
smoke a lot more than the average bear, but it
it doesn't read good. And if you couple it with
the fact that Zach Randolph was rumored to being the
king in for a marijuana selling ring in Indianapolis years ago,
and then when you're like, what was he doing in
the projects with with I mean, like I hate the
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word hooligans, but like that kind of like dudes were
blocking the street, drinking, smoking, playing music, Like what are
you doing? This is when keeping it Rio goes wrong.
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Brett Farves says, obviously, Aaron being Aaron Rodgers has carried
the team for a long time. That's not going to change.
That in and of itself is not enough. At least
it hasn't been, and it's been pretty good. As good
as he is, I would have thought they would have
won more than one by now. But I don't think
if he can do anything else other than what he's
done up to this point, it's always seems like one
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piece of the pustles missing. You don't know what it
deals until you get it. Like Reggie, what you go, Oh,
that's what we needed. It remains to be seen what
it is with his draft pick, a free agent, letting
somebody go coaching change. I don't know. I think all
the pieces, from what I can tell outside looking at
all the pieces seem to be in place. They're gonna
score a lot of points defensively dom Kaper's I think
he's excellent and making defense opportunistic and may give up
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a little bit, but it's it's pretty crafty. Uh. It
will be interesting to see. A bold prediction to me
would be the Rams winning a Super Bowl. Not too
bold to say the Packers. That's not a popular choice,
but it's being realistic. He was asked, Um, he even
Rogers doesn't think, Uh, doesn't get If Rogers doesn't get
one this year, he'll have time because he can play
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until he's forty. Why stop at forty far said retired
at forty one, but left the Packers just two months
shy before he turned thirty nine in a trade with
the Jets. He moves around as well as anybody in
the game right now. That's big the less you're hit.
Tom Brady is a different player, but they'll protect him
well enough. He's not gonna scramble much. But I see
no decline in Tom as he's getting older. It doesn't
look like that. I think Aaron what Aaron is thirty
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three barring any injury, and he knows how to protect himself.
Six seven years from now is a long time down
the road. But there's no reason to see he couldn't
playt a high level. I'm not gonna say forty three,
forty four. It's up to the individual. I don't see
any decline his game unless he doesn't want to play anymore.
So in summation, far As like I can't believe they've
on anyone, only one. Aaron Rodger has been carrying the team.
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He paints the picture of Dom Caper's defense, not as
being good but opportunistic. In other words, they take a
bunch of chances because they're not that good. And I
think everybody knows that. And he thinks Aaron Rodgers can
play as long as he wants because guys don't get
hit anymore, and he's pretty smart and really good, he's
not going to decline. So um, it's pretty similar. Actually
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something Greg Greg Jennings joined us yesterday, and even though
Orlando Scandra kind of brushed off Greg Jennings is being
crumbing and being on the couch last year. Uh. Here's
the great Jenning said about the package yesterday is solely
with upper management and how they go about it, because
I get it. I know they have a system, but
it has not Yes, did we win a championship, absolutely,
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but it's like you're always one step behind in New
England or a Seattle because these are teams that are
willing to bring up throughout the through the draft. Well,
with the exception of New England, they kind of draft
terribly at skill positions, but they supplement well, and they
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supplement in a plate in a in a way to
where it doesn't affect or impact their team because they
have a culture already set that guys have to come
into and if you either embrace it or you don't.
And Green Bay has that, but they don't use it. Um. Look,
so all everybody's saying kind of the same thing without
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saying the same thing. Right, everybody's saying like, hey, look,
Ted Thompson, dude, you gotta go out and add some pieces.
You gotta spend some money, figure out a way. Um.
Everybody else goes out and adds pieces in the offseason.
Even the New England Patriots have have added pieces, and
they're not adding pieces as far as like, I don't
know if it's coaching change, I don't know if it's
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one player. I don't know if it's something. Jenny's kind
of saying the same same thing, and so it's going
to be interesting to see if Green Bay adds something
or if that's if that's what's needed. Like, look, I
I just I hate to be that guy that points
out they should have been in Seattle a couple of
years ago and they would have gone to a Super
Bowl and probably could have won the Super Bowl. Last year,
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the defense was a disaster and they still went to
the NFC Championship Game. My my, takeaways are this, I
am right about saying Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback
in the league, because everybody's saying the thing. I can't
believe it went to only one. It's not on Aaron Rodgers.
He's been awesome. The rest of his team missing some pieces.
We're all talking around the fact that, uh, something I
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said on Cowherd Show and I hosted that I'll be
ho and that tomorrow. Something I said on this show
time and again is I'm not saying that Tom Brady
is not awesome. He is, but Tom Brady is the
most successful quarterback in the league. Aaron Rodgers is the best.
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Dan Bailey, who won every award in college and was
wildly considered, if not the best right there along with
probably Justin Tucker the Ravens, the two best kickers in
the National Football League, kind of to spend some time
with this year, fresh off of of training camp here
at the Cowboys camp. Um is it was that fair
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like probably going into last year, like you and Justin Tucker.
The two consider the two best in the league, right, Yeah, sure,
I mean Justin's great talent obviously had a great year
last year and really every year. So um shoot, I
don't know, I'm allowed you make that call, but yeah,
I don't know. You're two guys to which it's like
the it's the Steph Curry effect. We st even said
this with the Dodgers, which is like when you missed,
when you missed one, missed one ast year. You're like,
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you're more surprised when you miss even a long field
goal than when you make it. Like it it's surprising.
But you've even said and percentage wise, you're coming off
your worst years of pro Have you been able to
figure out through film or just through work what went
wrong and what what needs to change? Yeah? Yeah, I mean,
just like any anybody else, you know, at the end
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of the year and then through the offseason, you're looking
at the good and the bad. Obviously mrs are bad
for our position, so yeah, you take a look at it,
see what was wrong, what the situation was, you know,
whether the operation was clean or not. Um, yeah, and
just try to try to get it figured out. It's
usually nothing crazy, So what was it? What was it?
Because I mean, you know, I mean obviously i'll report
some camp are you're kicking the ball really really well? Yeah? No,
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I mean camps been going great. Um yeah, just going
back to last year, Um, you know there were some
longer kicks, so a little bit lower percentage kicks. Um.
Not that that's an excuse, but just tougher, tougher conditions.
You know, I had one in New York that I
really I hit as good as I could and it
hit the crossbar. So you kicks like that, I mean, yeah,
you're disappointed, but you really did all you could at
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the at the time. You know, It's like it's like
in basketball when you miss a shot around and out,
You're like, I actually shot that ball better than one
that can clang in, right, the one that can you
bank one in. You're like, wait, that actually wasn't a
well shot ball, whereas you can shoot it perfectly and
it just doesn't go in because of luck. And that's
what you're saying. I mean, like it is ich, did
I I do think one of the things and sometimes
that that spider camera whatever does it more justice. I
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don't think people understand just how precise one, how small
the goalposts are, but how precise in terms of clean
everything has to be from the stamp to the hole
to the kick is a very quick and seamless operation.
Yeah yeah, I mean, you know, obviously we take a
lot of pride in that, but uh, we always have
a conversation It comes up every year about you know,
if you look at any other sport, you know, in
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basketball you have an alley you or you know in
in baseball you gotta double play or anything like that
that involves multiple people doing something at a pretty rapid rate.
And you know, we were shooting for snap hold to
a can one point three seconds or around there at
one point to five. So you know, if you look
at other sports, there's not too many things where involves
three people on one point three seconds and it has
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to be precision every time. So we take some pride
in that, and uh yeah, there's a lot going on,
but you know, those guys are dialed in on their
job and makes my job a lot easier. Dan Bailey,
John Kicker for the Dallas Cowboys, Doug Otlip Show, Fox
Sports Trading Live from Cowboys Camp. Um okay, so uh
we watch at home and like again, you're just amazed
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by the precision, but I want to know kind of routine.
So you trot out there and you mentioned, like, look,
anybody once you hit forty and inn NFL kickers, you
guys are incredible, Like the percent rates are incredible. How
much has changed since the P A T was moved back?
Because from a fans side, like, I think that's the
greatest rule change in NFL history because it it went
from giving away a point like it was a ninety
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nine point nine percent shot, you guys will never miss
that to now there's a little bit of question too.
It's like nine seven percent to ninety four depending on
the team whatever. It's little bit of question to it.
From your perspective, Uh, what do you think of that
rule change now? A couple of years in? Yeah, I
mean initially I was a little Uh I was. I
wasn't that much of a fan of it, obviously, just
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because nobody likes changed to an extent, But um, yeah,
I think it's I think it's good, you know, coming
from my perspective, it's really more of a mental challenge.
But because like you said, um, you know before it's
not like you were going through the motions. But to
an extent, you just go out there and I mean
you just kick it straight. It's ten yards twenty yards away,
and it is pretty much a give me. But now,
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you know, it's a little bit more of a challenge,
especially you get later in the year, it gets colder,
playing up in the northeast or wherever there might be
a little bit of weather. You know, all that stuff
factors into it, and all of a sudden, a thirty
three yard field goal. Yeah it's short, but um, you know,
it's a little bit more of a challenge. And and
and then the mental side of it is you can
have kicks worth three points that are shorter than that.
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So you have to understand that all the points are important.
It doesn't matter whether whether it's worth one or an
extra point or uh three. With a field goal, you
just have to go out there and do the same
thing every time. Dan Bailey joining us in the dugoutlet
you all right, So so they you you go and
you're kicking a field goal. Okay, it's a forty five yarder.
What what is the routine you're trotting on the field,
What is the mental routine? What's actually going on? Upstairs. Yeah, so, um,
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you know, mostly anytime we get past the fifty, I'm
I'm kind of I'm walking in I'm paying attention to
the game down a distance, where we're at, how much time,
time outs, all that stuff, and uh, just trying to
get a good feel for for where we're at and
and trying to just stay in the game and keep
your mind off of not necessarily or keep your mind
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off of the pressure of the situation. And uh so
how do you do how? But how do you do that?
Like that sounds really great? But like how do you
you know? I mean, you've got a game winning kick
and uh and based upon your percentage, people are like
money in the bank, money in the bank because he's
able to put Like, how do you actually do that? Yeah?
I mean a lot of it is just taking the
pressure off yourself. Um, like I said, just keeping your
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mind going with something else. You know, where we're out
on the field, where what hash are we on? You know,
what's the wind doing? What am I gonna need to
know before I get out there? So that way, when
you get out there, um, you already know what's going on.
You know where the winds coming from, you know what
the weather, what the weather is, You've you've already done
the operation on the sideline, you know, had some kicks
in the net and stuff like that, and just go
out there and execute. Um, what's it like to be
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on the sideline and watch somebody else? I don't want
to say live your dream, um, but you know, any
anybody's dream is obviously to go to Super Bowl when
or win the game winning kick in the Super Bowl.
But you're playing the Packers and with it just a
spectacular throw and catch, the Packers get a game winning
field goal to beat you in your place. But as
a great kicker and somebody who wants that pressure, what's
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it like to see somebody else in your season that way?
It's not good. It's not good. Um. Obviously you know Mason,
me and him are are good buddies, and you know
I'm happy for him personally, but definitely in that situation. Um,
you know, I wouldn't say I want him to miss,
but I don't. I don't want him to make it,
So it's not it's nothing personal. It's just more of
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a collective team saying I would rather have our team
win than uh than his. And of course you know
some people point to Jason Garrett and spiking the football
thirty five second, leaving too much time kind of on
the clock, right Like, that's and that's what led to
having enough time to kick that field goal. Yeah, I mean,
you know, if you go back and do that, you
know a hundred times, you could probably do it a
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hundred different ways. And it's just one of those things
in the moment, in the situation, you manage the situation
as best you can and give your team a chance.
I thought we did that. You know, we we tied
it up there at the end, and you know, credit
to you know, Aaron Rodgers. I mean, that's that's a
one in a million throw right there. I mean I
don't know if that too many other guys in the
league can do that. And um, obviously a good kick
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by Mason. So yeah it hurts, but uh, you know
if it was flipped around, yeah, absolutely, I'd love to
be in that situation and uh and have us going
to the SC Championship. Truth be told, what's what's the
furthest year to kick one from uh back at Valley Ranch?
You know it would get we didn't get a little
breeze out there. We hit from like seventy a few times. Um,
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but I don't really, I don't. I don't back it
up too much too too often. I just I'd rather
just try to stay as consistent. Right, You're more you're
more about accuracy right than you are about just trying
to kind of booming leg thing right. And it's it
feels a little bit like free throw shooting or whatever,
to where it's better to see it go through the
goal post than it is to show you in to
to one in five it, you know, from seventy yards out?
Is that of fair comparison? Absolutely? Yeah, Dan Bailey, Joni
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Us and the Doug gotl Litshell. I'll ask the cool
one of the questions that Orlando Scandrick didn't want to answer, Um,
does it feel any different this year? Like you've been
this is you're not your first rodeo, You're a vet.
You've been through the camps where teams have done well,
where teams have done poorly. Uh, does this year feel
different anyway from previous ones? Uh? It definitely feels it
feels different. Yeah. I mean last year, you know, we
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were coming off of a pretty bad year four and twelve,
and I mean, you know, the personal expectation was always high.
But you know, you just you're you're really want to
change your identity from the year before because you don't
want to be you don't want to be that four
and twelve team. You want to be something better. So, um,
you know, now that we had some success last year,
I'm sure absolutely the the expectation within the locker room
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is high. And you know, we've got we've got Dak
and Zeke and all these young guys that are playing
at a really high level, which is exciting. Um. You know,
when I first got here, was very much a veteran
locker room. Now we're really young, so it's it's fun
to have that youth in there. I mean not that
I'm old, but but it's fun to have that youth
in there and kind of a different energy and and
a lot more excitement. Last thing, we got about a
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minute left. You're you're also very good golfer, and I'm
just wondering for the average duffer out there, Uh, what's
harder like a put to win your buddy's money on
a Sunday or a field goal to win a game
for you? For me, it would have to it would
have to be uh, put for sure to me that
can't you use the same process of like tuning everything
out like you're just telling about how like I don't know,
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you just kind of eliminated pressure you go out there.
You could a feel Bill like all of us are
like that. I'd be freaking out. Can't you just use
the same process with the putters, you would think? So? Yeah,
I wish it was that easy because I'd feel i'd
have a few more bucks in the pocket on the
golf course. But yeah, no, I mean, I'm much more
comfortable on the football field than I am on the greens,
even though you know I can I can swing it
pretty good here and there. But um yeah, I'd rather
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have the pressure of the of the NFL game than
I than I'll play. All right, No, not high expectation,
but we expect you to make every field goal this
year for the Dallas Cowpus. That's it. That's that's pretty
much it. We expect to make everyone and if you don't,
even if it's a crossfire, even if you get a
gust from the gods at the very last second, uh,
that that's on you. That's on your process, not on
the result. Dan Bailey, of course, we kid, We appreciate
you joining us and without any question, would not be
the worst interview of the day. Here live from from
(30:37):
Cowboys Camp
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