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McCarthy and Dak Prescott. We got the coordinators later this afternoon. But we're burying the lead there. The lead story is what did Mickey do at the media party last night? I had a good time, you know, no boo in Malibu and see you there. I was not there. Some of us had to work last night. You mean, I know some people can still work stations. Were there? Yeah, but come on, we got there. I think Dale apparently did his live show from outside. He did outside of

the parking lot. I think because when I saw him leave, I said, and he's talking about Dale Hanson Channel eight, and uh, I thought that was it. He was going. And then because he was coming back this morning and then I saw him show up again. I go, I thought you had to do your show. He goes. We did out in the parking lot. Things that technology has changed over the years. He had certain priorities as he came to his last training camps. That party was number one on his priority lell and he got a go

and away heard from the owner. I heard that that was I went viral on social media last night as soon as I had a bow on it and opened it up, and it was a box of socks and jocks and they looked dirty too, but well, and Jerry had his personal that that he was gonna put on a head. But that's right. It was pretty funny. So does everybody kind of behave themselves kind of anybody jump in the ocean or anything like that. Everybody made it back safely. Of course, there's a team bus that takes

everybody back. They had a bus for us if you chose to write it, and we wrote it and got back and everything went fine. Yeah, it was good. Jerry was in rare Form and Steven and Charlotte and Jerry Junior. So I don't I didn't see any celebs. The only I heard there was a Sean Penn sighting at NOBU. But that was basically it for me. Okay, all right, so is that what all we need to know about that? I think the highlight was the present. Yeah, but Jerry

was good. Jerry was It's like Vegas though, everything that happens at the media party, stay there taking notes and come back and report on it. Okay, right, all right, it's a party, but it is something that Jerry and Stephen for that matter, love every year, right they Jerry, I mean he missed it last year, right, so this was making up for lost time. And I think he did. Yeah, he seemed to really really enjoy it, and he stopped

when he got there. He stopped everything down and had a toast and you know, welcomed everybody and so yeah, it was good. So, uh, you were here when tech Shram was running the show. Yes, what how would you compare the relations with the media that Texts had compared with Jerry? You know, I think he took some notes and learned from Jerry to learn from text kind of

from text and yeah, and I mean texts. Text would go out every night almost and Mickey was right, there was a well I was only here during his time for one week of training camp each year um and then took over when Jerry took over, But yeah, he would. There was a place and outside a Thousand Oaks on

the other side of the one oh one. It was in Westlake and was called the Iron Horse, and that was kind of the meeting place after everything was said and done at night, got your work done, and you could about find texts there most nights, holding court, debating

with the media. It was great. It was the it was the great, great theory sessions we used to have with And then what I also remember in Thousand Oaks is that techs would be up on the tower and the difference between texts being up on the tower and Jerry being in the owner's tower here is Lee Martin Productions would also be there. There were Blue White Scrimmage, not just the Blue White Scrimmage, but there was one year that Lee Martin and they did daily television report

that might have been before my time. That was it was It was on what was then what Okay, Fox Sports it's Fox Sports Southwest is now Bally Sports Southwest. Prior to that, it was Home Sports Entertainment. Prior to that, it was like Prime something and it was back in the early days. All right, bring us up to speed on this team. This is a rejuvenation day. It's not an off day for the players. In fact, the as I walked in, the injured crew was out there and

suited up, doing rehab, doing stuff. Yeah, and they had their what they call mock game. Might cause it mock game, it's basically the walkthrough. So they did have a walk through this morning for about an hour and a half, I guess. And then they're gonna have meetings and as you said, probably gonna have to cut this short. We had it planned. They were supposed to do the press conference twelve fifteen, twelve thirty, but it sounds like it's going to be closer to twelve o'clock. Yeah, two o'clock

Dallas time. And then and then Dak's supposed to also speak from the podium today. So yeah, it's not a day off. They just don't have the full padded practice the way they have in the past two days. All Right, this is our first chance to get your thoughts after watching the team in the pads this last couple of days. Of course, they've had three straight days of practice as the last two and pads. Last time we did one of these mix shots was on Monday. So what's your

overriding impression what you've seen right now? How competitive everything seems to be. I think there's a lot of competition going on between the two units offense and defense. Got pretty pretty pretty heated there for a while. I thought that, you know, defensively, we've talked about all the open competition and all the different spots, and I think that's going on.

And then offensively now with Dack out for what they said a few days, Mike McCarthy said a few days, and his definition of a few days is two to three days, but it could be longer than that. Well, and that's the thing. And he's out there on the practice field, he's just not throwing with his right arm anyway.

Occasionally you will see his But if you if you look at the schedule ahead, all right, you got two practice is Saturday and Sunday, a day off on Monday, a practice on Tuesday, which is their only practice next week leading up to Canton travel on traveling on Wednesday, and then they're back here the following h Saturday when the Rams will be here to practice with them and in my opinion, there's no reason here over the next three practices, Steven tested it buys you basically a week

and then we'll see where he is when the RAMS come here. Now I can't remember if there's a practice on Sunday after the RAMS or if there's another day off and then they have I think, yeah, so yeah, I would think after the RAMS, I think that's probably as as long as everything clears up. So it's a muscle strain in your upper arm here shoulder, and you know he's able to run, so it can't be too painful.

Otherwise you wouldn't be jogging and running around running routes for the quarterbacks when they're doing their individual drills and throwing the ball underhand with his left arm. So yeah, I thought that was encouraging. And then he did conditioning work too, so he was on the chords. So yeah. We had our photographer CBS eleven Bill Ellis was positioned in such a way that on one of Dack's runs to the end zone, you could hear him say that you're going to see a lot of this scrambling today.

That was early in practice yesterday, and he was able to, you know, take snaps and you know, hand off and do stuff like that, so it can't be that painful. So you know, he termed it bill as it was tight. So I don't know, you know what his definition of tight is, but I think the MRI I termed it as a strange mus muscle. And he said it happened. It started showing up on Tuesday, and then Wednesday he decided, okay,

probably need to shut it down and be careful. So and to what Mike McCarthy said in the press conference yesterday, I guess it was yesterday. You know a lot of times you'll see quarterbacks a week nd five practices in where they might have some arm fatigue whatever this sounds like, because there was an MRI that shows a strain would be a small tear right in the muscle, that it may be a little bit more than that. But the thing is just the most work he's had since the injury.

Right it was a ball pitcher where you'll go a few days into it and you know, they just set it back for a couple of days and then go back at it. And so there's no there's no cause for alarm right now. But and it's early enough it's still July. To proceed with caution. And in the meantime, Micky, you get a good look at the situation behind that

at quarterback. Yeah, you get an opportunity. And the other thing was going to point out before I get to the backups taken over, it's five weeks before they have to get into game week for the season openers. So they're now just under six weeks before the season opener against Tampa Bay, so less than a week away from the first preseason game next Thursday in Kenton. That's right. Are you going to be in Kenton? I will not

be in Kenton. Yeah, well maybe we're We're up in the air right now, we are we're making the trip or not. But yeah, it gave you know, they were rotating snaps with the quarterbacks, and it was hard to say, well, Garrett Gilbert's number two, Denucci's three rushes four or whatever, and then yesterday basically Garrett Gilbert's number two, I think Mike McCarthy said it. And then the way they practiced, he took all Dak snaps, so he was the he was the first one up, and then Denucci and rush

Um kind of traded going next. So yeah, it gives gives gil I mean, think about it. When Gilbert got here last year, Bill, you know, he was here what two weeks, and then all of a sudden he gets thrust into a starting job and he had never started a game, uh in the NFL. I think he only had thrown a hand full of passes over the years he had been in the NFL on the practice squad or Barry does the third quarterback or the second they

didn't get to play. So his ability to get time in practice with the first team is invaluable at this point. If indeed he wins the backup job, so is the backup quarterback on this roster. I would not bet your money on it because I think that while they're competing against each other, they're also competing against what might show up on the waiver wire. And I think that's probably

been the master plan along. Now. If someone emerges and they look like that they can be the guy and they can save money, right, great, Yeah, that would be great. But at some point the end of August, I guarantee you some team releases a quarterback that has more experience. It probably has his connection to one of these coaches, one of these numerous coaches on this stage, because you know they talk about Kellen Moore and Mike McCarthy taking

of the quarterbacks. Will you have Doug Nussmeyer who's been around and even Scott Tolzine who's kind of the assistant how do you how do you put it? He's the helper guy, helper guy hit the quarterback room. Uh, and he's been around too. So they've got a lot of quarterbacks here to kind of help out. Um. So yeah, I think with all the new quarterbacks that got drafted in the in the first round, I would imagine there's going to be some veteran quarterback that's let go and

we'll have more starting experience than all combined. As as much as people like the little bit that they saw from Gary Gilbert and against the Steelers last year, as far as taking care of the ball and putting the Cowboys in a position to win a game against what was then an unbeaten team last year, the fact of the matter is he does not have much experience, even at the age of thirty, to be counted on that this is a guy that can win multiple games for

you in a regular and as we know, backup quarterbacks have to rely on their experience because they don't get once the season starts, they don't get many snaps. So the fact that Gilbert's going to get these snaps in preseason, he's gonna get snaps in practice, which he didn't have any of that last year. He just kind of showed up and it was, you know, he was baptized right away.

Just go in and play. So yeah, that'll help out, and it'll help do Nucci out too, because he didn't get any of that, and he was a seventh round pick and as a rookie you need reps in the offseason and he didn't get any. Hey, can I give a shout out to loyal listeners of all the podcast here on Dallas Cowboys dot com. These are two guys I met in the hotel lobby, Yeah, way over here.

They're from Dallas. They've been here since Tuesday at practice, their first time at training camp, and they're headed back today. Mike Garner and Mark Dunne. Mike Garner the pride of Dallas Carter High School and Mark done out of Dallas Pinkston High School from way back in the day. And so I shout out to them. I heard I saw where your reporting skills came in to play yesterday you

found the Ralston's. That's right. Well, it wasn't that hard because there was a lady with a Ralston jersey yard and he figured, yeah, and what Bicky is getting at this is a player that is not getting any attention at camp. Nick Ralston out of Argyll High School and he went to Arizona State and then transferred to Louisiana Lafayette and he's a fullback on the roster number forty six. And so I saw mom with the forty six jersey and what I presume was dad turned out it was.

And so I said, okay, we're doing an interview right here, and now I got to go track down Nick to do an interview with him. And there was also Brad sham Ran into Kevin Sweeney. Oh really yeah, oh yeah, practice the UH strike team quarterback and then they kept him, got a start and kind of didn't do all that well, and but quarterback fresh texts, yeah, I think it was.

And tech Shram was just enamored with him, right to the point where he got Landry to start him in a game, right in a real game, not the the UH was at here. Yeah, he was out here yesterday. Yeah. And then Michael Irvin showed up at the party lesson I've heard that, yes, yeah, and then that raised the level of excitement at the party just having Michael there.

So but you know what, Mike did talk about the fullback position yesterday when he was talking about and he was the one that said, you know, teams are kind of going more back to two tight or two running back sets. Uh, And he said, not only can you know we benefit from that if indeed he's good enough to make the team, but it also gives the defense a chance to uh go up against two running back sets.

May be close to a press conference Mike McCarthy press conference tentatively set for high noon California time, well two o'clock Dallas. I see, Uh, the tendon ninus in the elbow didn't stop Tyran Smith from walking around. Yeah, but but you know, somebody asked me about it, and I said, well, yeah, he's got that knee brace on his arm that he's had for the last couple of years on his lee.

That's just amazing the thing he has. But anyway, back to the fullback thing, who knows, you know, And I saw I saw somebody interpet that as, Oh, they're gonna run Pollard and Zeke at the same time he was talking about a fullback. Mcke mentioned that, you know what this means, We got a Mike McCarthy press conference coming up next year on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.