 Back in, run it up. Tony Pollard is just a big play waiting to happen. I do too. Yup, yup, we like the high-stepping right there. Here he is, Tony Pollard from the Dallas Cowboys. I knew he would be happy, so here it is. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Feel good? I feel amazing. Feel great. All right, important stuff first, because you play in Dallas, you're from Memphis, your parents have a barbecue restaurant. As Texans, we also think our barbecue is top. So where are we on the barbecue wars? Memphis or Texas? Definitely Memphis. But it's a close second. Why is it better? Because there's a different vibe altogether. It's like a different flavor, like I don't even, I can't really explain it and break it down. Is it sweeter, Memphis barbecue? We can go dry rub too. Kansas City's got good barbecue too, right? They're not in the mix? Nobody's talking about Kansas City. I'm just saying they're not in the mix with Texas? No, we're talking, I wanna ask you this, at your family restaurant, do y'all put barbecue sauce in the spaghetti? What? Is that a thing? Yeah. That's a Memphis thing. You put barbecue sauce in the spaghetti, instead of tomato sauce. I didn't even know you could get spaghetti at a barbecue restaurant. Yeah. Really? Memphis, that's how I think. Can Taylor go to your parents' restaurant in Memphis? Yeah, he could. They won't be good. They won't jump me, I'm good with them. Nah, I used to be good with them, man. You heard that, Memphis? Yeah, but you're gonna have to carry me. Hey, shit. I'm coming back. Look, he's about to fuck it up. I'm coming back and I'm going to Paulers. It's totally fine. Okay, NBA-wise, who gets the best of all into this? Did you root for the Grizzlies? Is that your team? Do you have a team? I did when I was a Miami fan. Oh, okay. So, if it went wrong with Miami and, or if Miami wasn't playing Grizzlies, we were playing, then I'm cheering for the Grizzlies. Were you a Miami fan before the big three, or were they kind of like? Before the big three. D-Wade. Oh, I remember him. D-Wade, Lones O' Morning. Yeah. Do you remember him stealing money from the Memphis Grizzlies at all? Yeah, I was going to bring that up. I didn't know if it was on my list. Can you imagine another real question? I don't know what you're talking about. Do you remember Chandler stealing money? Fine. That's hilarious. So, who, if you, do you watch a lot of basketball still or not really? Not really. Okay, I was going to ask, who would be the Tony Pollard of the NBA? All power. It'd be D-Wade. I'm thinking Westbrook. I like both. I like, bro, what do you think? Westbrook, D-Wade? Because you got power, you got speed. I would say, give me the young D-Rose. Oh. Ah, there we go. Young D-Rose was electric. There we go. There we go. Now we talk. Speaking of a young D-Rose, who would you say is the best basketball player on the Cowboys right now? On the Cowboys? Yeah. You all play? Oh, you just, the tight end or the, he played at college basketball. I don't know if he's stealing the Cowboys. Who? Oh my, what's his name? If he went to, he played at Oklahoma, I thought. Who? Can you tell my dad's brand? No. He played college basketball. Oh no, I forgot his name. Oh, we're basketball. Yeah. I see a big guy, like a. Yeah, Gallop. Didn't Gallop play college basketball? Did he? I thought so, maybe I'm trippin'. I don't know, I don't think so. Obviously not, because he would say. Yeah, I think you would know. You would make him say Gallop. The best Hooper on the Cowboys? Let me see who can Hoop. See, not in any plans, so weird. I would have thought there'd be guys. Can CD Hoop? CD can Hoop. CD can Hoop. CD can Hoop. Our quarterbacks allowed to play basketball. That can Hoop. Look at my man real quick with the goggles on real quick. I'm distracted. No, that's what I'm saying, it's a lot going home. TP, let me ask you this. You know, we both Whitehaven guys. We both from the city. I'm also a die hard Cowboys fan. You know in Memphis, Cowboys have a big following. I grew up in it. I never had an opportunity to ever root for anybody else. Wow. Bro, what can we do? We gotta get over the hump. Oh God, here we go. We gotta get over the hump. Listen, not to get it. It's only more touches from starters. No, cause let me vent. I gotta get this off my chest. Help me. Because we gotta get there. We gotta shed everybody up. I'm sick of all the noise. Not to get into specifics, but what do you think some things that we can address? And I'm saying we, you know, cause that's how we get down Cowboys Nation. What do you think we could do to get over the hump? Is it a chemistry thing? Do we keep building with the same group of guys? I feel like chemistry wise, everything's on point. Like all the guys, we all cool. We all mess with each other. All defensive guys, we get along. Is it a locker room thing? Is there something going on in there? No, we just, Is it the quarterback? Is it the coach? Cause we're right there on the brink. Every time. We're right there on the brink. We gotta get over there hump. We gotta win a big game, man. I can't wait to see you on the parade and we get there. But it's just, it's something missing. I can't figure, I can't put my finger on it. We just gotta make it happen. That's all I, Let me ask you guys this. Cause you have, you have your perspective. You are a fan. So you have your theories, but is it the same thing each year that seems to be that wall? Or is it changing? For me, for me as a, for me as a fan look like we're not a great road team. Okay. We love our dome so much. It's, Who are you right now? I don't know. Listen, I'm a real, Yeah. How you doing, man? Lou will. Who is Lou today? I didn't know you were such a cowboy fan. How did you not? I even knew that. What's wrong with you? How did you not? But I think that dome is so nice. Yeah. And it's so lively when you're a Dallas Cowboys fan. Sometimes we go on the road, we don't travel as well and we don't play as well on the road. And I think that's one of, that's been one of our Achilles heel as a, as a fan. Would you, would you agree or would you disagree with that? Yeah. I could agree with that. Yeah. How do we fix that then? How do you get better on the road? Cause some, I don't know. We got to put, we got to put grass down in a practice facility. We got to put some grass down in a practice facility. We mentioned the team, Dak Prescott polarizing player. What's it been like playing, playing with him? I mean, it's just a normal day for me. Yeah. I've been with Dak since I got drafted. So, I feel like I've been knowing Dak though before I got drafted cause he went to Mississippi State. And I feel like I used to see him around a lot. Yeah. You know, that's not far from Memphis. So, I feel like I've been knowing Dak and he's always been the same cool, chill, down the earth guy. Like I've always been the same. Yeah. You know what's funny is that you use the word polarizing with Dak. But, he also just seems like a nice kid who happens to be the quarterback of one of the most famous teams in the world. So, we say polarizing, but you must see him completely. Do you see anything about him that should make us be so hard on him all the time? I mean, he's a cowboy. That's the only thing. Yeah, that's it. He's the starting quarterback of the Cowboys. That's it. That's like being the best player on the lake. He's going to get braised with the good, that's good. He's going to get shit on when they lose. And that's exactly what keeps happening here and you're out. All right, Lou, I'm going to ask the question for Lou. If he had your O-line blocking for him, can he gain a couple yards in a game? Can Lou? Yep. Yeah. No way. Well, no. I appreciate it. Listen, I appreciate the boat of confidence, but hell no. I don't want to gain no yards. You don't want to get hit, right? I don't want to get hit. That's all you got to do is run away from him. Get out of bounds, make it happen. You would not. Now, Chandler, you want to ask your question? I just said, I said, I'm tall, right? I'm a tall guy. If I'm in the end zone, couldn't you just throw a jump ball up to me with a smaller cornerback? Like, I can't catch. Yeah, like a fade ball. Yeah, exactly. I get the physicality. They're going to pop me in the first. Why are you being so nice to me? T-Pets over. I'm saying, like, if I had him on my team, I would throw a ball in the end zone. There's no corner. I can guard someone 6'10". And then we mess these guys on the jets. We were like, no, they can't. Somebody, like, somebody can guard you for sure. Is that he would die? Well, likely, it's not a lot of people that can. I think we both getting pushed out of bounds, Chandler. I agree. I am just simply saying, once I'm in the end zone, just throw it up. Once I'm in the end zone. You don't even think I'm getting in the end zone? I don't think you're getting in the end zone, bro. I really want to line up out here somewhere with somebody. I'm telling you, tomorrow, we got Joe Hayden. I'm going to run around. I'm going to just bully him. I really want this to happen. You just go right here, over there. So one of the highest-paid corners of all time, you're going to wake up out of your bed and just bully him. I'm not going to go to sleep. Who are we kidding? He's not sleeping this entire night. Let's not be ridiculous. Hold on. Are your families actually Steelers fans? Like, they were? They were. So how did that conversation go? OK, I'm a cowboy now. We're changing. Kind of, basically. Really? Yeah. Because my dad is a Steelers fan. I couldn't imagine sitting him down and being like, we are Dallas fans now. They said it. Like, when I got drafted, they with the mind said, like, all right, I was a Steelers fan, but now I'm Dallas. But it took a minute for it to, like, I call sometimes, and I still kiss them like, Pittsburgh hat, Pittsburgh jersey. And I'm like, come on, man. Is that something like when I was a free agent, I'm from Orlando. I didn't really want to go back and play in Orlando. Is that something that if you're a free agent, obviously, you'd probably want to stay with the Cowboys. Like, just Pittsburgh, are they in the mix because your family's such big fans? Or does it matter? You're going where the bag is. Wherever is right. Wherever is right, man. Let me ask you, what was your welcome to the NFL moment when you realized I've arrived? I want to say I've arrived. Or was there a moment where you just got tackled and were like, shit, this is, this is, this is crazy. This is not for me. I'm here. Yeah. I haven't got hit a couple of times. Got hit so hard. Got hit so hard I can't remember. That's a tough fight. It's hard to pinpoint it. I remember my first, my first game, this I'm crazy. My first game of my rookie year, I got fine for like $25,000 before I even had it. For what? Why? Why? For a Targeter. Oh, OK. And I was running the ball. You were too. One of my, one of my, one of my welcome to the NBA moments was walking in the locker room, my first preseason game, and looking at my locker, like, oh, wow, like, this is, that's my jersey. That's sweet. That's my jersey. Those are my shoes. Like, I'm really, I'm really here. You never had one of those experiences where it was like, oh, this, oh, and this is the Dallas Cowboys. Like, once you, once you get, like, signed or picked up by the Cowboys as a rookie, like, it's a different, it's two locker rooms. You got the main locker room, then you got, like, a little small side locker room where, like, the guys that we signed late or the rookie. OK, OK, I got it. So, like, sitting in there. Got the same thing, yeah. Then I'm just like, this is my locker, but this ain't the real one. So when I got to the real locker room, that's when I'm like, oh, I made it. Yeah, that was it. That was it. That's kind of mean that there's like a tease locker room. No, because in preseason, you might have 20, 22 guys in there. Yeah, you have a lot. Yes, we, in the NBA, you might have guys in the bathroom. Oh, for sure, even like a 10-day guy, they don't have like a full locker room. Yeah, you might have it just have a chair. They get like a cubby in the hallway. Yeah. All right, that's fair. I'll buy that. Oh, we got a moment here. It went viral in 2022. It was against the Vikings. And you did the MJ Shrug. Do you remember that? I do. What made you do that? Do you think ahead of time, this is what I'm going to do when this month comes? All right, that was just a spare of the moment. It felt like I was hot. Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, so it was just like a 20-year-old ball. I'm going to tell you, it's my day. I mean, Tony, do you practice? Yeah, there it is. Do you practice touchdown celebrations? Not at all. You never, because we were talking about it like when they see the team, all the teams, they get involved, but like clearly this has been rehearsed. Yes, I mean, sometimes like when it's a group thing, yeah, you got to practice that. But when does this practice happen? Like, it's like a dance. Like in the locker room, you're just fucking around. You're like, hey. They told us yesterday they got a week to prepare. So one of these days, you got a bunch of time. And it's a confidence thing, too, like a confident team. Like you feel like a team that doesn't stand a chance. Like you're going to be like, yeah, we can. Who's the originator of the day? Like is there one guy that's like, I have an idea. Like hear me out. Let's try this. And then you all learn it. How's that work? That's funny to me. I mean, sometimes we'll have like means like we call it a signal call of means with just the players. And then that could come up with an idea and be like, shit, who got an idea for a touchdown dance? That's funny to me. That just the visual of that makes me laugh. I mean, he scores a lot of touchdowns. You got to have a deep bag of dances and celebrations. A lot of ideas. Like can you cross the line and get fine like for a certain dance? Like the T.O. back in the day, he put the phone there. You can't thrust, right? It's more than thrust. You can't do one and three. I knew that. Everybody's more than three. Everybody's going to thrust it. Joe L and B, he does the second. Three thrusts, that's the law. Oh, I would do two every touchdown. Two thrusts. Two good. You're good with two. Boom, boom, I'm halfway down. You didn't give it half. You're fine. No, I just can't. I'll make the last one. Got you. Serious question, man. Free agency is coming up for you. You are a free agent. You want to return. You're going to play the game. What's on your mind with that? I mean, I would like to be a cowboy. But at the end of the day, I know it's a bit. So it is what it is. Wherever the money's right, wherever it's right for me, that's where I'll be at. Makes sense for me, man. I like it. I like it. Oh, we got sleep number. You're doing something with sleep number? Ooh, I like this. What is it? Yeah, I've been telling that with sleep number for a minute now. It was pretty much a no-brainer when you just think about the effect that getting good sleep has on your performance the next day. It's a direct correlation between the two. So just having them in my corner, getting better sleep, being able to adjust my bed at night, I came out for the ankle injury. So some days, I'm practicing all day on my feet. My feet will get swollen, my ankles. So I can elevate the bed at night and then wake up feeling better. Ankle's not swollen anymore, so it's dope. Will you tell them to call me? Because I need some severe sleep. He hasn't slept yet. He's been here like three days already. Tony, this has been awesome. I wish you luck. Whatever happens, rest of the way is good stuff. And arm guards for your visit to his parents' rest box. I'll be there. I'm coming. Going to Pollard's barbecue, babe. I'll make it. Well, take it quick and great. We'll be back with some more in a minute. You need to go. It could be a road trip. I don't think of a scenario where I don't know. No, you don't. To make it happen, man. Make it happen. To run it back, yeah, yeah. Run it back, run it back, run it back, run it back.