DALLAS — Tight end Dalton Schultz spent his first five seasons with the Dallas Cowboys before signing with the Houston Texans ahead of last season.
And after one year with his new club, Schultz this week appeared on The Pat McAfee Show, where he discussed playing for the Texans, playing alongside C.J Stroud and some of the differences between playing for the Texans and the Cowboys. Schultz's answer – specifically the part describing his experience with the Cowboys – has caught the eyes of many national media outlets, including the New York Post, Yahoo! Sports, CBS Sports, Pro Football Talk and others.
McAfee, a former punter for the Indianapolis Colts, asked Schultz if the two organizations were "vastly different," to which the former Cowboys tight end unequivocally agreed.
“The focus is just football,” Schultz said of playing in Houston on Wednesday's show. “Going back and telling some people about being around the Cowboys’ practice facility and game day, describing some of the interactions and stuff that you see on a day-to-day basis, it surprises a lot of people. They’re like ‘Holy crap, that actually happens at a practice facility?’ You think it’s normal, and then you come to a place like this.”
"(Dallas is) literally a zoo, dude," Dalton continued. "There’s people tapping on the glass trying to get people’s attention while they’re doing power cleans or whatever. It’s different. That’s the brand that they’ve built, that’s what [owner] Jerry Jones likes, that’s the way that they run things and there’s nothing wrong with that. You don’t realize how many eyeballs and how much that can maybe distract in the locker room, just being in the facility until you go somewhere else and you’re like, ‘Holy crap, there’s none of that.'”
McAfee and his co-hosts felt the coverage of Schultz's comments in the national media was misconstrued and taken out of context, and re-played his comments on their Thursday show:
McAfee said he felt bad for the reaction that ensued to Schultz's comments and added he believes Schultz was not intending to "bury the entire organization." Schultz said on the show he enjoyed his time playing for the Cowboys. Schultz's final three seasons in Dallas was where he broke out: getting 198 of his 270 career catches, 2,000 of his 2,757 career yards and 17 of his 22 career touchdowns.
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