Did you ever in your wildest dreams they wind up? Um? I didn't. I didn't. I'm definitely. I'm glad and fortunate to be here. UM. Great organization, UM, UM, and I'm excited to be here. UM. I wanted to thank UM, Jeffrey Lurie, UM, Howie Rosman and Don taking a chance on me, Coach Kelly, UM, the entire organization here is it's a privilege and honor to be here. UM. Standing before you, guys said, I'm excited about the future, and you know, I'm definitely ready to get started. Don't leave
in Dallas. You didn't talk that a little bit, right, I did? I did? Um. Obviously I'm Dallas. Um. UM, they have a special place in my heart. You know, I had an incredable four years therego and as a person, a man, a father, a husband, UM, and and a football player. So UM, I can't thank that Jones um enough for taking a chance on me how to come out of Oklahoma. And UM Coach Garrett Um, unbelievable guy, unbelievable person, and UM the things he's taught me over
the last four years. I hope to continue to carry on and and continue to try to be great and it helped this this organization win. And UM, just to the players, UM, Who'll always missed those guys, the bond that we had, UM through the four years, Jason Witten, UM and us a lot of great relationships. And you know, like I said, I'm excited to be here. And UM, it's a great organization in Dallas. So with all that, UM, I felt that, UM, this was a great opportunity for
me to win the Super Bowl. At the end of the day, UM, it wasn't a UM it wasn't about financial security or anything like that. Obviously, you want something that you deserve and something that is respectful. And UM, I felt that, you know, those two things were important to me and I was able to accomplish that. Here have a better chance of leader shop involved in the Dallas gut. I think the Eagles have a great chance to win the Super Bowl, and UM, it definitely doesn't.
It's not easy. So I know there's a lot of hard work that has to be done and UM standing it's easy to stand up here and say that, but you know, we got to go to work here very shortly. Here influence you said you wanted to go to a team you can win the Super Bowl. So you think this team has a better chance in the game. I think they have a great chance to win Super Bowl. How much did Sam Bradford coming here or influencial? And how much has he even trying to recruit you a lot? Um, Obviously,
Sam's a great friend of mine. Um, it's like a brother to me as well. And we spent some time in Oklahoma, were roommates there and we played played, um a lot of great games in Norman. So, um, it was a huge influence. Once I heard that he was getting traded here. Um, he immediately text me and told me, Hey, jump on board, let's let's go win it. And UM, you know, I'm excited to get back with him. He's a close friend of mine, and you know, I'm excited
to play with him again. Started ways that sounded like Eagles didn't think you'd be in their price range. At what point did this become a realistic option for you? Huh? I mean as soon as I got the phone call. Um, obviously I got a phone call from Chip yesterday and UM, you know we talked about a few things, and um,
Bill Johnson and Pat Day, my agents. You know, they discussed with me that you know, there's some interest here, and I obviously had interests in the team, and um so and from there it kind of you know, snowballed and and here I am throughout this process when you confident this kind of contract is out there for you. I was confident, Um, you know I was, and um like I said, it was it wasn't. It definitely wasn't
the biggest contract. Um. But it was something that about this organization, about the team that that that caught my eye. And I felt that there was a great chance to win here. And that's what you want. You want to be in a place that that has you know, great fans. You want to be in a place that has a great coach in Chip Kelly, and you want to be in a place that you have a chance to win and be successful. We're going to clarify. You just said
it definitely wasn't the biggest contract. Does that mean you had better offers Olfre, Yeah, I did, I did. Yeah, we're better than the Eagles. There's a couple geology clar So, you were you were clearly letting looking more for a place where you felt you can win a Super Bowl. Definitely, of course, how much did you research or talk to the CHIP and the coaches about the sports science the routine here. Uh, you know, they're different things that they
do we compared to other teams. Yeah, we spoke about it shortly. Um. You know, we had to visit and um, and I'm familiar with some of the things that they do here, and it's it's you know, it's it's great. It's great. It's someone who as as mister Laurie he you know, he allows Chip in the in the organization to do this to help the players for longevity and make them feel fresh and made them, um, play better on Sundays. I think that's huge. Um, you know as a player, I mean I love it, and and that
excited me more than anything. The workload you had last year, how do you follow up on that and and and maintain out of that base or which stay home? I feel great, I feel great. Um. I take care of my body at work extremely hard. So UM, I know we have Darren Spoils here who just signed Ryan Matthew, So I know the those guys will definitely UM, if I ever need a little break, I know they can handle the load. So I'm excited to you know, Um, work with those guys and it's gonna be a bright future.
Was attractive specifically about chipping this offensive scheme for I'm the same scheme, you know, similar to what I played in Oklahoma, and and I love the spread and I love running this from the gun, and um, he's a smart coach, smart guy, and and you know, just his effective effectiveness around the players. I've been able to have some short conversations with a couple of players, Malcolm Jenkins, and everyone loves him. And you know, after Sam met him, and I got the chance to talk to Sam and
he loved him. And you know, I'm excited to be here on Wednesday. I guess it was last week when McCoy was trained and twiz him, was that the first time heals went on your radar? Um, Honestly, I didn't know they were interested. So even when that happened, I was just like wow, you know, I couldn't believe it. And Um, then once I was actually out of town, and then once I got back to Dallas and my agent contacted me and and said there was some interest there.
So I mean I was like, hey, well let's see if we can work something out. You mentioned the phone call with Jeff yesterday. What did you guys, He said, the Dallas when he realized that good really interesting. What kind of things did you talk about? Obviously we talked on schemes, we talked sports signs, and we just talked another city and we talked about, you know, um, the things that he wanted to accomplished, and we had a lot of similar interests. And um, he was all about winning.
He was all about um, just being a guy. At the end of the day, he's a great coach. Um, just just being a good person and being able to have a relationship with all the players and the staff. Here is something that you know that inspired me and that I enjoyed about him this past season for you. Um, obviously, I think we had a lot of great players in Dallas. Um, you know and Das Brian and Jason and Tony Rummer.
Those are great, great football players. So um, whenever you have a light whenever you have those guys, you can you certainly get a light box at the time. So, um, you know, it's a great great players you know on that team. Touched on this earlier, but historically the number of carries a running back has gotten and like you did last year, the next year is not followed up with the same production and they run into some issues. Are you aware of that history? And I mean, what
do you need to do to avoid that? I think I just need to continue to work hard, just kind of build my craft, you know, start back from ground zero, work on the small things, and make sure that I'm mentally physically ready to, um do whatever they ask me to do. So I'm excited about the future and I'm definitely not worried about that. The other backs I have here, there's kind of a tandem three running back system right now. That's something you're open to to maybe have a lot
of areas. Yeah, I mean that's that's kind of how we did at Oklahoma. That's kind of um you know. And and like I said, whatever they asked me to do, I'm all forward, you know, as long as we're winning. You know, I'm not much of a stats guy or things like that. Obviously, I want to be out on the field and play as much as I can and try to help them and do certain things and um, but you know, I'm not a selfish guy. And you know,
I'm excited about the future. Is that a little said that you know, when you're on the field and if it's third and one and the ball goes to sit down for somebody else for Ryan, I mean that that's a spot that you were that was you all the time last year, or that when you're in the moment, do you think that that will be difficult at all? Only if they don't get the first down? But but no, I think, um, like I said, you know whatever, I think.
You know, they have a great game plan, they having great coaches, and you know those guys made the decisions and you know, whatever they decide to do all back under very small group of running guys have produced the numbers he did last year to start with another team in the division and your perspective, their cowboys and you wanted to be here. But how much more incentive or emotion will that be facing them twice a year? So knowing that you know they let that happen that you're
not there. Um, you know that's what a lot of people have been thinking. You know, I got a lot of respect for those guys there, um um. And I approach every game the same. You know, there's not one game that I look forward to more than the other. I go out there every every Sunday and try to you know, put them off my heart out there and play my heart is So it's definitely I'm sure the emotions will be a little high, you know, doing those
those games. But you know, I'm excited to just get here and you know, just start working out and get better with this team. Father do the Cowboys and value you more. No, I understand the business side of it, and you know, like I said before, maybe before all the negotiations were going on, there's no hard feelings. And you know, those are great people in that organization and I'm very, very blessed I spent four years. They're learning a lot from those guys, and you know, some things
just don't work out. And just got to move on the car right over here from the airport, there were choppers overhead. There's a lot of excitement in the city about you that Have you been able to sense that at all in the past twenty four hours? Yeah, a little bit. Um. You know, like I said, I've been kind of spent a little world win for me a little bit. I haven't eight or slept much the last
couple of days. So I'm excited to get get all these things done and ironed out and ready to get back to what I do best, and that's just playing football. When last season ended with your sense that you were going to be back in Dallas, like, um, you know, I didn't know, honestly didn't know. And um obviously you know, um, spending four years there, you would always you know, hope
to remain with the same team. But you know the business side of things, and um, you know, one one one opportunity closed, another one opens, and I felt like, this is a great opportunity for me, and I'm excited to be here. Give but given them that had such a profile there and you were such a star for that, people's hard to give up on the idea. Yeah, of course,
of course it is. You know, like I said, four years being there, the relationships you you grow throughout the years and the people you meet and uh they become your family, and um, you know, I think those guys will always be my friend. Jason Gate would always be a great friend of mine. Um, Jason Wood and Romo and Deaz and um, all those guys. Know. Um, you know, it's a brother brotherhood there and you know, so those guys would never be forgotten today, Like bands, burden depreci great.
Did you see any of bad what you made? I haven't. I have it, you know, and I don't take it personal. You know, I know, I'm sure you know. Their feelings are hurt, and like I said, I apologize for that. And so I'm ready to move on and I'm glad to be a part of this organization