Dallas Cowboys Minicamp Over, Next Stop Training Camp | Blogging The Boys

Dallas Cowboys Minicamp Over, Next Stop Training Camp | Blogging The Boys

what’s going on everybody rj Ocho here from SBNations bloggingtheboys.com hope all is well wherever you are hope you’re happy safe healthy want to wish you a very happy Thursday the third day it is June the 12th 2025 the US Open is underway we have less than a month to go until July less than a month to go until July the 4th july the 4th 4th of July it’s a weird I I realize right now I never said it as July the 4th that was very awkward that’s my bad everybody but which means we are closer and closer and closer to football season officially beginning the best time of the year obviously but not trying to rush things we all want to enjoy the summer in fact got a glass of sweet tea right here cut up a watermelon you know what I’m saying like we got to soak up the summer fun while we can cuz there will come a day even though we love football where we miss the the rays of sunshine but uh here Thursday for the uh weekly Bleach Report show I do you can watch these live every single Tuesday 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Nation so had an interview with Grant Hill uh son of Calvin Hill so there is a Cowboys connection there interviewed the great Anukica Sornam that’ll be dropping on Monday so lots of fun golf stuff coming your way and lots of other things so go down and subscribe to my YouTube channel but let’s go ahead and get into it this is kind of our uh now what right this is the like we finished the meal and we’re trying to like wave down the waiter and like come over to bring the check please uh so we can start heading home not quite the same thing but it’s that type of vibe because the Dallas Cowboys concluded their mandatory mini camp on Thursday no drama we’ll get to that in a moment um and that’s it like this is it this is this is the last time this is break and go and the last deep breath you take before it all starts for real you get to training camp obviously the end of July and from training camp on as we all know it’s training camp preseason roster cutdowns regular season beginning hopefully the playoffs Super Bowl right all that kind of stuff so um these are the last you know six or so weeks without any daily football activity across the NFL as a whole and certainly college football coming back i mean the best time of year is not quite around the corner but it’s you know we’ve we’re passing the exit signs and it’s like 200 miles still a bit to go but not an ungodly amount of time that being said uh the Cowboys did hold a mini camp and I think it’s worth mentioning that there was no drama we somewhat kind of maybe anticipated that there would be now I maintain that that even though there wasn’t any drama it still is not cool that the Micah Parsons deal is not taken care of my colleague here at Bleach Report Micah Parsons i don’t know why it’s not done i mean there’s we’ve been through this a million times there’s absolutely zero reason there’s no justification there’s absolutely nothing you can say to justify the Micah deal not being done but I digress that being said Micah kudos to him and I hate to say kudos to him because I don’t believe there’s a right or wrong way to do this like I I don’t mean like good for Micah obviously i I genuinely mean that but I don’t believe that TJ Watt is wrong i don’t believe that Jay Hendrickson is wrong i think the players should be allowed to do whatever they feel is best for them in situations like this so I don’t mean to say good for Micah for showing up as if I would have said “Man Micah be a leader if he had decided to stay away because I think he’s fully within his rights to do whatever he wants.” But the fact that Micah chose to show up kept things chill kept things kumbaya for the Cowboys um you know Akuna Matata all that stuff and that was great because you know there have been some headlines around these other teams this week things that you wouldn’t want to kind of be hanging over you as you break for the final six weeks like we mentioned you think it’s it feels good to be a Cincinnati Bengals fan i mean like like that’s that’s a a tough situation and then I mean you’ve got multiple situations right now going on with the Bengals and even the Steelers you know they’ve got the TJ Watt thing going on and it depends I I guess you know how people feel about the Aaron Rogers thing but my point is like this time last year no debate nobody was down worse than us we had it the absolute worst of every single NFL fan base there’s zero question about that relative to 2024 but I would venture to guess that we feel pretty good relative to a lot of teams i think that we feel pretty good relative to a lot of fan bases there are a lot of reasons for hope there are a lot of reasons for optimism there are a lot of reasons for excitement and again they cleared through the mandatory mini camp without any wouldbe drama just with everybody feeling good about things but what happened on the final day of the mini camp let’s jump to the members of the local beat let’s start with Joseph Hoy joe is great everybody follow Joe on X joe J Hoy is how you do so Cowboys had a walkthrough for their final mini practice again this was on Thursday if you’re catching this video later some notes micah Parsons worked in team drills for walkthrough you and I did not chat about the Wednesday mini camp practice but Micah Parson’s Allah Dez Bryant a decade ago even though he was you know Micah never used the term hold in or anything like that but you know if we’re if we’re you know calling it what it was he was there he was present so he couldn’t be fined but he was obviously being careful but that couldn’t or that didn’t I should say prohibit or inhibit Micah from putting on a helmet and getting involved he’s the kind of player you just love to root for but back to Joe’s point Micah worked in Team Jos for walkthrough which makes sense considering it’s about install so again if if you do believe if you’re getting intense about the fact that Micah had to be there blah blah that’s a good thing right he’s there for the the defensive install working with Matt Ebloo working with the rest of the defense showing he’s a leader and we can you know get deep into the weeds on that how important that is especially in a world where Demarcus Lawrence is no longer on the team i know Demarcus Lawrence has fallen out of favor with a lot of people but I stand by the point that Demarcus Lawrence has been a leader has been the leader certainly for the defensive side of the ball for a decade now i mean it’s it’s been you know he’s been the only person that that’s kind of been the longest common denominator on this this team on this side of the ball and so with him gone you do need that new voice and having Micah there is important joe notes Trayvon Diggs worked in the rehab group with Brit Brown again the fact that Trayvon Diggs was president and accounted for was a big deal as well and Joe noted that he heard a here we go cadence all right now the here we go thing i do not really care about this um if I’m being completely and totally honest with you in fact I can’t really stomach um the ability i can’t really generate the ability to care um I think it’s fine i never thought it was amazing i think it’s cool dax says it it’s a gif whatever um if they want to change the cadence cool if they don’t fine by me whatever but you obviously have to have a cadence and if that’s it and if Joe Milton can do it and if Wilgre can do it then you know cool let’s go uh let’s see here um I’m sorry I was making sure my phone or my watch wasn’t blowing up let’s go back to Joe’s uh Twitter thread here kenneth Murray was the only person wearing a helmet on defense the reason he’s the green dot currently as he told Clarence Hill Jr Clarence and Joe work for DLS Sports go follow them as well kaylin Carson was working as the outside starting corner alongside Don Bland who was in the slot and Ka Elim a good sign for Carson’s recovery all due respect to Kalin Carson we did talk about this on Tuesday after the notes that we got from that session how the Cowboys were working with Don Bland in the slot kyrie Elim getting some work outside we’ve obviously seen different combinations different permutations trayvon Diggs is coming back we know he’s a boundary corner we know he’s going to be playing on the outside that’s not going to be a shock when that comes to pass but as we said then as we kind of talked out loud as we kind of fleshed out it seems it seems very clear that and look I’m not saying that this is breaking news holy crap everybody freak out but it seems clear if we just put the you know connect the two dots that we’re seeing here it seems clear and obvious that the Cowboys want to play Deron Bland in the slot they obviously have a a positional need with Jordan Lewis leaving in free agency and to be fair it’s where they wanted to play Deron Bland prior to the Trayvon Diggs injury two years ago that forced him outside and led to the record and everything and all the stuff that we’ve said a million different times this is cool and this is interesting and again you can’t take a lot away from this time of year but what you can do is you you can start to again see the pieces of the puzzle that this is going to go here and that’s going to go there and so in a very broad ambiguous way I think we are able to you know say with maybe not beyond a shadow of a doubt but with some some legitimate conviction that the Cowboys clearly want to play Deron Blland in the slot so any idea that you have any way you’re formulating your 53man roster or your you know depth chart your two deep however you’re putting this team together in your mind or on your whiteboard it should involve Don Bland and Nickel but again I know that we’ve somewhat speculated that this is going to be the case for a long time but this seems to be the the most legitimate this week the most legitimate um you know uh I don’t know uh confirmation that that that could wind up being the case nothing is official obviously because we’re in the middle of June and if we’re making some serious proclamations in the middle of June then we’ve got some deeper issues let’s get to uh the posts from Nick Harris of the Fort Worth Star Telegram nick is great everybody go follow him Nick Harris FWST for the Fort Worth Star Telegram these are his notes from the Cowboys walk through again everybody was clear to note that that’s what it was micah worked for the team in individual and team drills trayvon Digs worked with the rehab group etc no music in the Star today bummer uh so we clearly heard the here we go cadence from Dak Prescott Joe Milton and Will Greer again it does seem again if we’re trying to stretch things out whatever blah blah blah not stretched but um connect the dots that are stretched out like the here we go cadences i don’t want to say back because how like where did it go but you know here to stay I I guess is a better way to put it this is interesting from Nick let me put Nick back up on the screen here saw TJ Bass taking some snaps along with Cooper BB Brock Hoffman and Dakota Shepley i know that we we know let’s also read this next one so Austin Richards lined up as an extra offensive lineman tight end obviously Cowboys have some options if they go jumbo hakee Adenji rotated in at left tackle with the ones a lot of mixing and matching behind Tyler Giden throughout the offseason programs now um I zipped through these because one of the things that Brian Seanheimr said a few weeks ago now uh during OTAAS was he was asked uh about Tyler Giden and how much he was getting work with the ones and you know people make a big to-do about this obviously oh man he’s not working with the ones every single snap he’s a bust this was a failure you shouldn’t have done this did I say Tyler Gton i meant Tyler Booker um obviously you understand the confusion you get my point uh that being said um I think we all the point here is we all believe man this is I really have never tripped up that badly like I’ve definitely mistaken one of their names for you know the other on accident at one point in the last few months but that was a a real like it took me a long time to recognize what I did there that being said uh I think we all believe from left to right this offensive line let’s get the names right here tyler Giden Tyler Smith Cooper BB Tyler Booker Terrence Steel awesome that being said one of the things that that caught my eye that Brian Shanheimer said a couple of weeks ago now again during OTAAS to get my point back on on track uh he was asked about Tyler Booker the the first round pick this year it’s very amazing but that being said he said “Yeah you know we’re working him in this and that you know he’s getting some snaps of the ones whatever.” And people freaked out like I said oh no he’s knocking all the snaps whatever okay that’s normal right we’re cool like it makes sense you know rotate guys in whatever you can’t just have him absorb every single you know first team rep from now until the end of time whatever that’s totally fine and this could have been gamesmanship this could have been you know true in a casual general sense this could have been whatever from Brian Shottenheimer but he said “Yeah we’re moving dudes around.” He said “We’re we’re moving you know I forget the exact quote but he said you know we’re moving Booker around.” I think he said “We’re moving TJ Bass around.” He said “We’re moving Cooper BB around.” That was what he said he said “We’re moving Cooper BB around.” And again he he said it and meant it in a experimental sort of way not in a a declaration sort of way like “Yeah we’re moving him he’s no longer going to play center.” So the reason that I found that to be rather interesting the reason that I found that to be kind of huh that’s you know okay what you know the reason it perked my ears up was why i mean it it makes sense to move Tyler Booker in and out it even makes sense to to rotate Tyler Gayton in and out and in that same vein it obviously makes sense to rotate Cooper BB in and out but it makes sense to rotate him in and out to give somebody else some some shy and some some chances to you know snap and work at center etc etc where else like what would the circumstance be that would lead to Cooper BB playing starting anywhere but center what what is that world i that’s the question that I have and again I’m not even necessarily saying that Brian Shanheimer said that that world exists but that’s the question that was generated in my mind when he went down that line of thought when he walked that way was hey there is a possibility or at least we’re considering all possibilities and maybe that’s all it is right maybe it’s just we want to look at every single idea possible to make sure that we don’t miss one cuz that one could have been worthwhile i get that and I understand that and I endorse that i’m a fan of that but that’s all I I was interested in and that’s you know why we’re ultimately so antsy and excited for and and raring to go for training camp because you know these OTAAS and mini camp practices are great and walkthroughs whatever are great but you know it’s training camp when you really we’re talking we have two dots to connect that’s kind of all you get throughout OTAAS and mini camps you just get these two dots and you got to say “Okay how many ways can I connect them right you can draw a straight line or you can draw a semicircle on top or you can draw a semicircle on bottom or you can zigzag your way there and you can zigzag your way the other way you can do a sign curve you can do a cosine curve you know you can go like diagonally and diagonally on the bottom like we’re trying as many different ways as we can to connect two different dots that’s all you get that’s the you know it’s a it’s a shy it’s a drow it’s a a shallow i was going to say the words dry and shallow at the same time it’s a drow time of year where we’re trying to connect true dots in as many different ways as possible but training camp oh man you ever see like uh like one of those Tik Toks where they have like a dog and like a piñata or something and the dog it’s like kind of like a piñata and the dog jumps up and and and yanks like a rope that’s attached to like a cardboard box they do it a few times do it a few times and then finally the dog jumps up and yanks her up and like like you know 63 balls just drop out or whatever and the dog’s like “Holy crap I have no idea what to do with myself.” And you know there’s other dogs there it’s a party whatever um that being said that’s what training camp is like training camp is like we finally pull down that rope and the 63 different balls drop and we’re like “Okay we’ve got these balls and these connect this way but these connect that way and these connect this way.” You get so much more information so much more opportunity so much more data so much more information to kind of glean through and sift through and work out and figure out and ultimately help you put the puzzle together as far as who this team is going to be who’s going to make the roster who’s on the outs what are they going to look like what are the strengths going to be what are the weaknesses so we’re we have two balls that’s it it’s all we got maybe we have a third maybe like I’m I’m willing to say that maybe we have a third but ultimately I want 63 so right now we’re 60 shy um and that that’s kind of where we stand uh from that perspective but it is nice ultimately that that everything went you know hunky dory right i mean I think that um again you look at the Bengals and and they’re kind of a you know I hate to you know throw stones from our glass house like that’s kind of what it feels like to say that the Bengals need to get this this thing in order um the Cowboys don’t have an issue with you know to be fair Donovan doesn’t have his contract signed but he was there he was good all all seems like it’s going to work out this Bengals thing is very whatever but if if you know the the way that the NFL world is dunking on the Bengals right now right because we’re all saying the same thing and we’re all right we all are are correct in saying the Bengals are being ridiculous this clause they want to insert it’s silly it’s dumb there’s no reason it’s only causing drama you are incorrect in literally zero ways if that is your opinion I imagine it’s opinion i don’t know anyone out there and I’m not in Bengals Twitter but I mean I don’t know anyone out there who’s like “Y’all don’t get it the team is right here.” I just it’s a I just don’t think that that’s happening that being said Micah Parsons if you are one of the people who has said things silly like “Cowboy should trade Mike or Micah’s overrated or Micah can’t defend the run or Mike up this or Micah’s podcast whatever.” Keep in mind how the NFL world is dunking on the Bengals right now because the reason that the NFL world is not dunking on the Cowboys is because Micah showed up and again I don’t mean to say good for him as if not showing up would have been not good micah is entitled and has been entitled to do what he wants and Micah not only showed up to the mandatory mini camp micah showed up all of last year i’ve said this for now over a year micah did not have to show up to this mini camp you could have forced the issue if you wanted to he did not show up to last year’s mini camp if he didn’t want to he could have forced the issue the way CD Lamb did he did not have to show up to training camp he could have forced the issue he did not he could have sat out into the regular season we’ve seen other players do that we’ve seen that happen obviously across the course of NFL history micah has already played an entire year where he was eligible for a contract extension this is number two we’ve already done this song and dance we’ve seen this routine we’ve seen this movie yeah Doc you and Marty you’re going to get in the Delorean you’re going to time travel you’re going to leave for some reason that you can’t explain and Marty’s going to get in trouble and then you’re going to show up and try to help him fix things but you’re going to make a bigger mess out of the problem right like we’ve seen the movie before by the way Back to the Future greatest movie of all time i won’t entertain any other opinion if you think otherwise I’m sorry you’re incorrect that being said Micah saved the Cowboys because if Micah had chosen to flex and to make matters more difficult and to whatever this week it would not have been man the Bengals are cheap and the Bengals are dumb it would have been what are the Cowboys doing they could have extended him all of last year they didn’t they always doing this sidi Dak Demarcus Lawrence Dez whatever pick your player over the course of the last 10 12 years at this point in time micah I I don’t want to say fell on a grenade like let’s not you know get ridiculous about this but Micah definitely did the team a solid by not pressing the issue at this point in time and again that’s not to say that CD Lamb was wrong for forcing the issue as best as he could at this time a year ago so the way the whole NFL and its fandom and it’s it’s you know following or talking about the Cincinnati Bengals it could have easily it would have easily been that Dallas Cowboys had Micah Parsons not shown up for the mandatory mini camp just remember that again if you’re one of these people who has an issue with the podcast or whatever the case may be remember that he did the team this solid in that particular sense so you know right now I mean what is the problem like like outside of the Micah deal because I I guarantee you we all agree right if I if I gave you a magic wand if we went down to Ollivanders and you were like “This one has unicorn hair you know and I said you can you know wave it and you can do anything to to you know put a finishing touch on this offseason for the team for the next six weeks before they go to training camp.” I think the one thing you know maybe a week ago some people it would have been sign Nick Chub or whatever but you get my point that most people would say “I want the Micah deal done so this isn’t a thing this isn’t a distraction we don’t have to worry about it with training camp.” Even though Micah has already said he’s going to report to training camp with or without the deal again doing the team is solid that being said we all agree with that and if if we understand this and we put it in its own kind of special box because the Cowboys are silly um what what’s the thing like what like what do you what do you feel like they they need what do you feel like is broken what do you feel like they have to fix like what it’s kind of hard i mean I I I know these are like famous last words type you know statement here but I mean what what is the issue i think we have some questions certainly we we have some some questions as to who’s going to emerge at certain positions who’s going to become you know the primary running back who’s going to get the lion share of things what’s going to happen at corner can Elim really keep this up because he’s playing or at least you know playing to this point really well and impressing people and kind of carving out a spot and and proving the front office wise for for flipping a comp pick for him good for them and look I mean Kenneth Murray I know that you know nobody on the internet thinks much of Kenneth Murray but to the point that Joe Hoy brought up wearing the green dot like think about this for a second there there were four trades that the Cowboys executed over this off seasonason for veteran talent obviously one of them is George Pickkins which speaks for itself the others are Kenneth Murray who is wearing the green dot here in in you know the Dallas Cowboys defense which is significant caer Elim who has you know impressed people to this point and who ultimately is probably going to be a very solid and legitimate point of depth if there is some level of vagueness or ambiguity surrounding Trayvon Diggs or Don Bland and in fact his presence Cyra’s presence alone allows for Don Bland to play in the slot where the Cowboys ultimately want him to those three trades right there and we’re assuming George Pickkins is is going to work out and and and you know produce and and provide a positive return on investment all this different stuff i mean right there three of the four trades you know have already kind of proven to be legitimate here have proven to be worthwhile is maybe the best way to put this and the other one was Joe Milton and you know we all hope all respect to Joe that he doesn’t get a chance to prove that right we we do not want to to learn we don’t want the the time to be there for Joe to have to really prove to the Cowboys that the trade was was totally worth it i mean obviously we’re not rooting for him to have to play because that would mean something happened to the quarterback but um in that respect I know that we can sit here and lament and say they should have done this and they should have done that and they should have signed this player and they should have whatever they shouldn’t have let so and so walk and blah blah blah they’re never going to be perfect in free agency we understand that and they did you know some of most of what we asked them to this offseason again the Micah deal notwithstanding but they addressed positions of need they raised the floor at a lot of different places and left themselves with options ahead of the NFL draft which is why they were able to do some different things which is why they were able to take Tyler Burker when he fell to them and they got sniped and and couldn’t draft McMillan which is why they were able to take Savon Rell because they had the insurance of Kyrie Elim right these things allowed them flexibility to do what they wanted to do and while they didn’t walk away with a receiver they said okay you know what we’ll pay that future tax and we’ll get George Pickkins here today so to come back to the the initial question of like what more do they have to do what more do you want what what’s wrong with the team right now again they have a contract situation with their best player and that’s a big deal and you know we we talked about this on on Tuesday that it’s it seems inevitable that it’s going to get done so on on that you know level that you know it’s kind of like why are you worried about it and we’re worried about it because we want it to be the best deal possible for the team but dare I say that they they’re they’re kind of ready cuz this is it right like this is you know the the last stretch before it begins like we said and they seem to have done the work they seem to have done their job now the proof is is not here yet right you you cannot win people over you cannot prove anybody right and and similarly cannot prove anybody wrong um at this time you can’t do it in July when you get to Oxon you can’t do it in August you can’t do it in the preseason you can’t do it when the new Netflix documentary comes out ultimately this is all going to be justified positively or negatively by what you do during the regular season do you live up to everyone’s worst expectations is Brian Shanhammer a failure or is all of this real is the energy and the magic that he seems to speak with that has captivated a lot of people myself included is that representative and emblematic of a dude who knows what he’s doing and is building a positive culture that’s going to take root and translate into wins and if it does then holy crap we celebrate we have a good time again we all understand we We’ve all been through this like if you’re a casual dropping in or you’re a troll or a hater or whatever and you’re like “You guys are so silly.” No none of us think this way none of us are like “This isn’t a bandwagon that that anyone is jumping on like we’re we’re here because we’re stuck here and we’re trying to figure out the best way out together but you know back off if if you’re not here to you know be constructive in that that that process.” But um ultimately I I mean I I feel happy i mean and I I would even say I feel proud i mean I I really am proud of them for doing a lot of the things that we asked them to do now they could have done them out of annoyance right like it could have been a matter of like fine we’ll sign Solomon Thomas and fine we’ll trade for Kyrie and you know whatever fine we didn’t get Ted McMillan so here we’ll trade for George Pickkins i shut up already cool i I’m fine if that’s the you know uh disposition behind you know the moves that they made but it could have been a matter of look I don’t know none of us know i don’t know what you believe though about last year i don’t know if you believe they were tanking because they wanted to fire Mike McCarthy i don’t know if you believe that they’re cash poor i mean we’ve thrown out all the theories a million different times whatever it is they they seem to have writed that wrong and again whether that is the ultimate answer to the issues and the questions that have surrounded this team for almost three decades you know remains to be seen but that being said something happened whether last year was intentional and a sabotage and a coup d’eta and all this whatever I don’t know how it’ be a coup d’eta they have all the power the front office but I mean whatever had them going down one side of the fork in a road or in the proverbial road they turned around and said “Okay enough of left let’s go right let’s let’s just we’ll try this.” Whether it was again annoyance or premeditation or just you know a simple change of mind simple change of heart who knows but and the other thing that I would add on top of this the kind of cherry on top of this you know rosy little everything’s kind of going well for the Cowboys right now take is the Micah deal needs to happen again we like this is an understood qualifier but that being said that being understood what is the biggest piece of drama that surrounded this team this off season because last year last year was toxic dude i mean last year was crazy last year was like you know in a cartoon when when like um you know like Wy Coyote like kicks over the like box of fireworks and it’s like I mean it’s just like non-stop and and it’s like it happens in a moment where he’s trying to be quiet and it’s it’s hilarious whatever it was just like it was it was a cartoon level chaos and and toxicity what is that what what what was even the lone firework this off season i mean it it definitely was the uh Stephen Jones all-in thing the the air quotes like that i would offer and we’ve I made this point before but everything that happened prior to hiring Bratton Shanheimer Shenheimer excuse me was kicking over the box of fireworks disaster toxicity whatever and almost from the moment after the air quotes because Steven got dunked on like nationally got dunked on i mean it wasn’t just a you know local people talking about this whatever i mean he got eviscerated for this from the moment remember remember it’s it’s a while in the rearview mirror at this point but remember the NFL combine how Brian Shanhammer kind of impressed us remember Jerry Jones canceled the bus um you know Jerry you know court holding that he often has i guess the only firework I would offer as I kind of unpacked the offseason in my head was Jerry saying he didn’t know David Mule get his name that’s kind of the one thing but that all falls under the Micah extension thing which is stupid right like we we acknowledge that this is silly that you’re still at this point with Micah when this should have been done a long time ago but that being said they have not really stirred the pot this this this off season so it’s been kind of nice it’s been kind of pleasant i mean that’s why I think we’re here at the middle of June and we’re kind of antsy for training camp this time last year i do not want to speak for you but I think if I could that this time last year we’re like whatever dude i mean like you know College World Series is on NBA Finals like Stanley Cup finals i you know when training camp comes it’ll be fine but like I’m I’m not itching for it but right now we’re kind of itching right now we’re kind of into it right we’re kind of hungry and and I would say starving for for Dallas Cowboys content on a regular basis and it’s kind of nice having that back again because the last time we felt this way and again not to speak for you but if I may was the week leading up to the wild card round game against the Green Bay Packers that week we were on Cloud9 we We were puppy dog eyes not puppy dog eyes we were brideeyed you know like bushy tail like “Oh my gosh I can’t wait this is so exciting.” That loss happened and everything after it last year chaos dysfunction toxicity etc you know the drill and they have finally I mean we are truly Andy Dofrain breaking out in the rain and I don’t know that we’ll make it to paradise all right i really don’t I don’t know if Morgan Freeman is going to meet us there whatever but all I know is we’re out and we’re no longer in in the stuff that we were crawling through at the very least at the very least we’re in the rain we’re getting washed rinsed around and uh I’m grateful for that i’m grateful for all of you thank you so much for hanging out watching these shows whether you do in the Bleacher Report app or on the Blog on the Boys YouTube channel or if you hang out with me on social media you mean the world to me and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day i hope you have a wonderful weekend and uh to those of you who are fathers or father figures or you know celebrating with your father a very happy Father’s Day from from me to you uh my dad is the reason that I’m a Dallas Cowboys fan my dad’s my best friend and and helped me fall in love with the team and uh helped me realize I wanted to do this for a living and so I’m I’m I owe everything to my dad and so I want to wish him a very happy Father’s Day uh and I’m a dad myself my son is three years old and and is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me him and his mother i just uh I can’t believe I’m I’m so you know God has blessed me abundantly and I I really just wake up every day with you know my dream wife my dream son my my dream family my dream job and um I’m I’m just eternally you know grateful for for the life that God has given me and I hope that same spirit of happiness and joy surrounds you and and your family however you’re celebrating if you’re celebrating this weekend um and um yeah let’s go ahead and let’s get out of here thank you so much everybody for hanging out and uh we will see you next time

The Dallas Cowboys wrapped up their mandatory minicamp on Thursday and we will not see them again until training camp begins later next month.

How do we feel about the team at this point? Have things gone well enough for us to be excited?

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