Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy joined Shan & RJ for his first weekly appearance of the 2024 season to talk about why the team chose "rooted" as their phrase for this year, how much prep goes into the first game of a new football season, how he feels starting multiple rookies against an imposing Cleveland defensive line, and more!
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00:00Yeah, definitely. I think, you know, just, you know, the origin is year five, you know,
00:20the story of the Chinese bamboo tree, you know, you plant it and you basically water
00:26it for four years and, you know, and you see nothing really above ground. But the reality
00:32of it, it's what's growing beneath it. And if you know that the story of it in year five
00:39within a, you know, within a five week period, you know, it goes from zero to 80 to 90 feet.
00:45So, and the reality of it is, you know, it's not that it grew to 80, 90 feet in five weeks,
00:52you know, it's, it's really the root system that's been being, that's been built over
00:56the five-year period.
00:57You steal one of your old kids textbooks for that? How the heck did you find that little
01:01nugget out?
01:02Um, no, actually, you know, a friend of mine just told me the story, frankly, back in February
01:07and, you know, just my personal experience. Um, and the last opportunity I had, you know,
01:14won a Superbowl in year five. So that kind of generated the conversation. And then, you
01:18know, and we also, every year, you know, we have a theme, but we have, you know, sub
01:22themes to it too. And, you know, we've done a lot of work with O2X, a human performance
01:27group out of Boston. And they, you know, I thought they did a really good job with our
01:31football team and they had a slogan of, you know, improving 1% every day. So we also accompanied
01:37that as part of, part of the theme. And then in the third component is, you know, how are
01:41you going to do it? And that's, you know, be where your feet are and stay in the present.
01:44So, um, thought it was a good message this year.