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Speaker 1: and welcome everybody. What day is it? What day is it?

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Speaker 1: I think it's Victory Monday. It's Victory Monday. Give us

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Speaker 1: the let's go, Randy, Let's go. And it's like six

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Speaker 1: in a row. Ain't victory mind, It's not like six

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Speaker 1: in a row. It is six in a row. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Those are the dulcet tones of the great Randy Gregory. Well,

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Speaker 1: come in for you coming in and being with us.

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Speaker 1: And I just have to say those those of you

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Speaker 1: who listen regularly know this is our usual Monday night

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Speaker 1: stopped during the season. We are in the south concourse

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Speaker 1: of the Ford Center at the Star and we have

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Speaker 1: room for a studio audience, and some who have participated,

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Speaker 1: either on the radio or by checking out Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: dot Com or from being here in person, have caught

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Speaker 1: on to this Victory Monday thing because we've got we've

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Speaker 1: got several people who have made signs that say victory Monday.

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Speaker 1: And we're getting used to it. We like it, we

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Speaker 1: like it. Thank you many more to come Victory Monday.

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Speaker 1: And how about the defense last night? And you guys

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Speaker 1: were okay last night? Okay, yeah, if you'll do that,

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Speaker 1: I said it. It might have been at halftime, but

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Speaker 1: I said, if they'll just do this, if every week,

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Speaker 1: everybody will be very happy at the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: And that's hard to do in this league. But um,

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Speaker 1: I would like it to just talk about the team

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Speaker 1: defensive effort last night, because they on paper, that was

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Speaker 1: a matchup that could have been difficult, could have been

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Speaker 1: more problematic on paper, I said, on paper, it could

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Speaker 1: have been more problem Randy. For those of you who

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Speaker 1: are not watching on Dallas Cowboys dot Com, Randy is

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Speaker 1: smirking and biting his lip and trying not to stay

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Speaker 1: on toward and so the game plan that your coaching

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Speaker 1: all executed it was nearly perfect. Things will happen in

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Speaker 1: the game. They go out and score right away and

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Speaker 1: that's it. That's all. Thanks for shopping. To see you later.

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Speaker 1: So what was different last night? Because I'm certain it

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Speaker 1: was as a group, it was the best defensive effort

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Speaker 1: of the year at least the result. Yeah, definitely result.

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Speaker 1: That's the result you want every week. UM. I think

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Speaker 1: for us, a lot of us have been talking about

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Speaker 1: having a neutral mindset. You know, we keep preaching that

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Speaker 1: We have a little state program. We do a little

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Speaker 1: we have and uh, that's what we talked about a lot,

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Speaker 1: just having a neutral mindset. You know, they came out

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Speaker 1: you play that well defensively, and um, but yeah, I

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Speaker 1: they learn each other, Each young player certainly gets better.

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Speaker 1: It seems very clear to me that we are not yet.

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Speaker 1: self appointed role of best trash talkers on the tame

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Speaker 1: because you guys, you guys, I'm down there with you

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Speaker 1: during the games in pregame, and you guys have fun. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like y'all are really enjoying football. Like you you're like

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Speaker 1: game day, don't you. We do. UM at the end

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Speaker 1: a children's sport, but it's a it's a man's game.

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Speaker 1: It's the best way I can put it. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've been playing this game for a long long time. UM,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's always gonna be funds of the day

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Speaker 1: I will say, I think I probably talk more trash

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Speaker 1: just like any other human being, those things help shape

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Speaker 1: And I've never heard or seen you be anything other

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Speaker 1: I don't feel like I'm I'm that person that needs

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Speaker 1: to be speaking about it. You know. Sometimes I feel

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Speaker 1: like my journey or my story, um isn't going to

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Speaker 1: affect people the way I want it to. You know.

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Speaker 1: It may affect them in the right way, but not

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Speaker 1: the way I want it to, you know, And so

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Speaker 1: if I don't have control over it, then I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to, you know. But just speaking about

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Speaker 1: it and being genuine, being as honest as I can,

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Speaker 1: I definitely know that that helps and I and there's

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Speaker 1: people that tell me all the time and it doesn't

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Speaker 1: go unnotice, and it helps me kind of keep in check,

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Speaker 1: you know, because I do understand that I do inspire

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Speaker 1: some people and people do enjoy my journey and can

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Speaker 1: relate to it also, you know, so it does help

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Speaker 1: me kind of you know, putt put myself in check.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't call it pressure, but definitely motivation to keep

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Speaker 1: going and keep striving to be better on or off

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Speaker 1: the field. And on the field part is what I

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Speaker 1: would like to spend a little bit of time on

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Speaker 1: when we come back. We are delighted to have Cowboys

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Speaker 1: defensive end Randy Gregory with us this evening and delighted

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Speaker 1: to have all of you with us on the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: Randy Gregory's our Yes tonight, We'll be right back on

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys Hour for the miller like Cowboys Hours supported

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Speaker 1: by Albertsons and Omni Hotels and Resorts and welcome back

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Speaker 1: Brad Sham, Shannon gross End, Randy Gregory, the Cowboys star

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Speaker 1: defensive end who is just getting started, just getting started.

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Speaker 1: You know, I almost hate that guys who play your

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Speaker 1: position are measured by a statistic like quarterback sacks, because

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Speaker 1: I think that I think that the way you're playing.

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Speaker 1: I think one of the one of the great things

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Speaker 1: about DeMarcus Lawrence is the things that he does that

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Speaker 1: don't have statistics with them, that change a play in

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Speaker 1: the defense's favor. I see a lot of that in you.

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Speaker 1: And having said that, so you're at five sacks now

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Speaker 1: through seven games, and so you won't get to you

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Speaker 1: won't get the halfway point of the season until like

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Speaker 1: halftime of Atlanta, which is two games down the road.

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Speaker 1: Do you have statistical measurements for yourself that you that

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Speaker 1: you are trying to achieve. I I'm trying to be

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Speaker 1: the best my position, you know, and be the best

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Speaker 1: player I know how to be. Um. I know it

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Speaker 1: sounds like the right answer, but you know it's the

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Speaker 1: truth of it. Yeah, I want to lead the league

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Speaker 1: in sacks. If you know. You want to hear that, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do. I only want to hear it if it's true. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think and if it's important, I mean

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Speaker 1: it is it is. I think at this point in

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Speaker 1: my career. It is obviously for a few reasons. Um,

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Speaker 1: But like I've said, in the past. I'll say it again.

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Speaker 1: I think if if I'm playing well and those numbers

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Speaker 1: come that I want to have, that means that we're

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Speaker 1: playing well collectively as a team. So in training camp

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Speaker 1: when I watched you would of course last year training

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Speaker 1: camp was as ridiculous as everything else. But when we

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Speaker 1: got out to Oxnard and I looked at you, having

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Speaker 1: seen your whole career, no, I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: were bigger than you were in the past. Year when

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Speaker 1: you came in you had bird legs. Your legs were

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Speaker 1: so skinny. But there is muscular definitely, that's all. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I looked at you. I looked at you in Oxnard

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Speaker 1: and I watched you a little bit and I said, Okay,

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Speaker 1: first of all, he's he He just looks bigger, but

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Speaker 1: he hasn't lost a sintilla of quickness and speed. And

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Speaker 1: I said, this is the After about a week, I said,

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Speaker 1: of any player on this team who's going to have

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Speaker 1: a breakout year. Of course I had no idea Diggs

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Speaker 1: was going to lose his mind and intercept seven passes

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Speaker 1: in the first six weeks. Yeah. Um, But I said,

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Speaker 1: of any player on this team, ninety four is the

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Speaker 1: guy who's going to have a breakout year. And would

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Speaker 1: you say you're on track for that? I know you

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Speaker 1: haven't done everything you've wanted to do yet, you've even

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Speaker 1: missed a game. Uh, would you say you're on track? Man? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it took seven years, but yeah, I would. I would

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Speaker 1: say it's a yeah, I gotta keep it going, you know.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to get too satisfied with

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Speaker 1: my play and then you know, um, I have goose eggs,

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Speaker 1: you know, throughout the rest of the year. But U yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm confident my play. I'm confident my body,

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Speaker 1: you know, despite what you know, the little minor injuries

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Speaker 1: you may have getting my body to the right weight,

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Speaker 1: because it did fluctuate a lot. I think when I

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Speaker 1: came in the first time I weighed in with the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys twenty fifteen, I was like two twenty eight and

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Speaker 1: I was two thirty eight at the combine. So that

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Speaker 1: just you know, and so just get my body to

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Speaker 1: the right way. And I've played it the way that

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Speaker 1: I'm at now, even in college at one point. So

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Speaker 1: I've always been able to carry the weight and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, keep that quickness and things like that. But

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Speaker 1: I definitely feel like it's it's made me more of

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Speaker 1: a complete player. Still have some things I got to

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Speaker 1: work on as far as, you know, being an all

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Speaker 1: down defensive end, but definitely think it's going in the

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Speaker 1: right direction. Brad was talking about stats that you can't

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Speaker 1: really measure stat sacks, obviously, tackles, things like that, and

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Speaker 1: seeing a professional football game at field level is a

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00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: whole different kind of violence. And you were so fast,

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Speaker 1: and you were so quick, and this year you're playing

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Speaker 1: with violence. Can you tell when a quarterback gets scared?

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Speaker 1: Can you see that in their eyes? Do you have

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Speaker 1: what would your fear rating being maddened? No, I definitely

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Speaker 1: could see them get get scared. You know they I

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Speaker 1: don't care who you are. Um, you could be the

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Speaker 1: greatest quarterback ever. You know. You got guys you know,

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Speaker 1: you know coming from your neck every play and hitting you. Um,

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Speaker 1: eventually that kind of gets in your head and uh,

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Speaker 1: and then talking to you while you're right Yeah, it's uh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's some some crazy type of violence that

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Speaker 1: does go on out there, really is, you know. I

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00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: joked about it the Carolina game. Just the amount of

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Speaker 1: like bodies that are just flying around in the pocket.

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Speaker 1: You know, you could never pay me to be a

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Speaker 1: quarterback in the league with the amount of abuse they

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Speaker 1: take um. But I'm happy to hand out that abuse.

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Speaker 1: I will say this though, It's not just quarterbacks to me.

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Speaker 1: And I know you've got an assortment of moves and

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Speaker 1: you're always working to improve them. But the most fearsome

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Speaker 1: thing that I see you do is when you run

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Speaker 1: the inside stunt. If a center looks up and sees

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Speaker 1: you coming like a giant bird of prey flying out

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Speaker 1: of the air, that's got to get your attention. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it does. I think that's one of the things I

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Speaker 1: talked about with you know, coach a d just putting

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Speaker 1: guys in a position to make a play and understanding

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Speaker 1: what we do well. And I think for us stunts

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Speaker 1: in games, all of us on a D line can

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Speaker 1: move and got a lot of guys that can flex

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Speaker 1: in and play the tackle, flex out and play in

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Speaker 1: and with that, you know, we mix in all these

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Speaker 1: different games and stuff like that, and it creates a

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Speaker 1: pretty hectic pocket for you know, an opposing quarterback, even

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Speaker 1: if you're not sacking them. You know, like we're talking

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Speaker 1: about having those numbers just knocking them off his spot,

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Speaker 1: getting in his face, hitting them, just pressuring them of

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Speaker 1: any kind you know, is gonna throw them off his game.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the things that intrigues me the most,

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Speaker 1: and I find that fans really enjoy it. I think

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Speaker 1: fans don't understand how often when you are when you're

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Speaker 1: running a game, it's not necessarily something that came in

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Speaker 1: from the sidelines. You guys decide, Hey, so let's pick

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Speaker 1: a tackle and let's say it's osay. How does that work?

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Speaker 1: Talk us through that? Well, I don't want to tell

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Speaker 1: all our business. But no, no, no, no, we just uh,

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Speaker 1: there's there's little things. There's little subtle things we'll do. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, if we can tell that it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a pass play, Let's say we're expecting and run,

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Speaker 1: but we can tell it's going to be a pass,

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Speaker 1: it's based off of how they're lined up. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll do that. Give a little little signal or something

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Speaker 1: on aside, we'll get out. By the way, if you're

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Speaker 1: watching on Dallas Cowboys dot Com, don't look you there

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Speaker 1: was nothing to see here. This is already okay. Good.

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Speaker 1: But no, you know, we all have our own little

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Speaker 1: subtle way of saying, Okay, let's let's run this game.

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00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: Or and there's also naturals. You know a lot of times, um,

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Speaker 1: and I keep going back to this Carolina game, but

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Speaker 1: but even um, you know, yesterday's game was similar where

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00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: you know, some quarterbacks they don't drop back that deep

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Speaker 1: and they do have a real deep pocket that they

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Speaker 1: can kind of hide and step up in. And a

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Speaker 1: lot of times with that on the end, um, you

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Speaker 1: got you have a guy like Osa. Really all our

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Speaker 1: d tackers that can really get up field and penetrate,

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Speaker 1: you know, let them go to work on the D tackle.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna run a field and naturally come under and

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00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: not even touch the tackle on going there and try

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Speaker 1: to get a sack. And there's little things that you know,

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Speaker 1: I talked about earlier about mentally understanding the why and

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Speaker 1: the house and things like that. That's an aspect of

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Speaker 1: my game that I didn't have coming into the league

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Speaker 1: that I understand now that you can pick up little

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Speaker 1: sacks here and there, you know, and you don't really

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Speaker 1: have to do anything. You just fall right into it.

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Speaker 1: You know. Well, I would say anything, but I mean anything,

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Speaker 1: do you got to play? Are you too, the point

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Speaker 1: with any of the tackles he had where it's you

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Speaker 1: could just look at him like like look at each

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Speaker 1: other and maybe nod your head or something, and everybody

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Speaker 1: knows what's going on. Yeah, yeah, I mean generally we know.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's times even when you know, we'll have

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Speaker 1: our base package out there and it's up to us

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Speaker 1: to decide what we're gonna run out there, you know.

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Speaker 1: And I think that speaks volumes before is the coaches

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Speaker 1: haven't trusted us, and we haven't trusted each other, and

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Speaker 1: understanding the playbook and all those things that goes into

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Speaker 1: you know, rushing the pastor and and just playing as

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Speaker 1: a whole. Shannon, I wonder if I might um um

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Speaker 1: impose on you to make this might right now, this

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Speaker 1: part that I've come to enjoy so much of this

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Speaker 1: program every week. Ah, yes, Randy, it's that time of

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Speaker 1: the show where we read your Wikipedia page. Oh you

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Speaker 1: got to skip a lot already, did I censored it

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Speaker 1: for you? So we'll get to the stuff that, uh,

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Speaker 1: we just want to know you fact checked this with us.

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Speaker 1: We did. I didn't. I didn't put this down. This

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Speaker 1: is what the people put down. And then you fact

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00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: check it with us, and if it's wrong, I go

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Speaker 1: back after the show and I and I update that's

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Speaker 1: a lie. He's never tell Brad's already given my gig

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Speaker 1: up like this six weeks into the season. So all right,

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Speaker 1: here we go. Randy Gregory says you were born November

639
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Speaker 1: twenty third, nineteen ninety two. Yep, that's true, good so far.

640
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: And it says you're an American football defensive end for

641
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. Sounds about right,

642
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: all right. Two for two played college football at Nebraska

643
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: and was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the second

644
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: round of the twenty fifteen NFL Draft. All right, you

645
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: were born in Jacksonville, Florida. Yeah, it says, and you

646
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 1: moved eight different times. That might be our first one here,

647
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: which I thought it was interesting that they came up

648
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: with eight. It may have been seven or eight. I

649
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: was born in Jacksonville. I lived in Tennessee, I lived

650
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: in Alabama, I live in Ohio, I live in Missouri,

651
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: lived in Indiana, and technically I've lived in Michigan also,

652
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 1: and that's before I basically went to college. So that

653
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: was seven okay, all right, So I'll have to update

654
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: that seven. Okay, says you attended Hamilton's Southeastern High School

655
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: and Fishers, Indiana, where you were a two sports star

656
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 1: in football and basketball basketball. Okay, no no, no, no

657
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 1: no no no, no no no. I was all right

658
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: when a guy says I was all right, Yeah, I

659
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 1: was decent. Well, this says in addition to numerous scholarship

660
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 1: offers in football, you also attracted Division one basketball interest

661
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: out of high school. They had a couple offers. Did

662
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: you wear that from mid major like max schools like

663
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: Eastern Michigan like that, teams that make big splashes in

664
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament every year. Yeah, there was a what

665
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 1: was it, say, Peters? I don't know if you heard

666
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: of them. Saint Peter's. I think the year there were

667
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,240
Speaker 1: j Yeah, I almost played basketball almost didn't even almost

668
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: quit football my senior year. Yeah. I loved basketball by

669
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: the time I graduated high school. And uh seriously consider

670
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: going to Saint Peter's to play basketball there, and uh,

671
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 1: I just didn't work out into going to junior college.

672
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: And but they that that following year or that year

673
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: they were in the attorney for like two straight years.

674
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 1: So wow, we need to set up a one on

675
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: one game with you and Zach Martin because you know,

676
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: he was known as the butcher in high school because

677
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: of his basketball problems. I see a mocking sneer. I

678
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: see that he went to Bishop Shatard. They like recruit

679
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 1: people to play sports there. Yeah. I went to like

680
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 1: public school. You know, we just just show up. You

681
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: go to your seven classes and say you playing him.

682
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,800
Speaker 1: He he's got the tutor and all that. You know,

683
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,320
Speaker 1: it's like college for him. You know. All right, we

684
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,879
Speaker 1: got two more paragraphs to get through. Here. It says

685
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: you enrolled at Arizona Western College. Yeah, okay, as a

686
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: freshman in two thousand and eleven. You had some stats

687
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 1: here and you helped the team reach the n JCAA

688
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,240
Speaker 1: title game. Yeah all right, and you originally committed to Purdue,

689
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: but you attended. You went to You went to Nebraska,

690
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: and as a sophomore, you started ten to thirteen games

691
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: and you're ten and a half sacks led the Big

692
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: Ten Conference. You were named a first team All Big

693
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 1: Ten and was Nebraska's defensive MVP. Man and Sporting News

694
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: listed you as their preseason number five player in college

695
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 1: football for twenty fourteen, and it says in twenty fourteen,

696
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: you also won the Nebraska State corn shucking Championship by

697
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: schucking one hundred and eighty three years of corn in

698
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: five minutes. Do y'all believe that? No? Yeah, yeah, we

699
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 1: fact take it now. That's I just threw that in

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00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: a Yeah, there you go. There's a Wikipedia Randy Gregory's

701
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: Wikipedia page. You who are here at the Ford Center,

702
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: get your questions ready. We'll put the microphone out for

703
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: you to talk to Randy Gregory when we come back

704
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 1: to the Miller Like Cowboys Hour supported by Albertsons and

705
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: Omni Hotels and Resorts. Welcome back, Welcome back to the

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00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 1: Cowboys Hour. Brad Sham Shannon Gross delighted to have Randy

707
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 1: Gregory as our guest this evening. Cowboys talented defensive end.

708
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: How can you account for how you can be so

709
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: introspective and clearly one of the smartest players we've ever

710
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to visit with, and then on Sunday

711
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: just go completely berserk? How do you account for them?

712
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: That's my dad, to be honest, my dad, Yeah, my

713
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,720
Speaker 1: dad was like that. He's a He's a gentle giant,

714
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 1: he's big dude, kind of like me. I am bigger

715
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: than him, but he's a big dude. Um. But he

716
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: played football and he's he's kind of has that switch

717
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:18,799
Speaker 1: where he's got like the corporate salesman, smart guy right here,

718
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:21,919
Speaker 1: and then you know he goes into this like dark

719
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 1: place that you know, me and co j D talk about,

720
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaker 1: you know, when he when he puts his mind and

721
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: just about anything, not just you know, football, and Um,

722
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like that's that's where I got

723
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 1: it from. He's a he's a real smart guy. He

724
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: loves history like me. He loves war history like me,

725
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 1: likes crime docs he I mean, that's me and him

726
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,320
Speaker 1: are both nerds. That's how it works. Um. But you

727
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: know we have this level of competitiveness that you know

728
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: we bring to just about anything, and especially when it

729
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,359
Speaker 1: comes to sports. You know, him being a big sports guy.

730
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,439
Speaker 1: My mom too, Um. Then raising me that way, that's

731
00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: kind of how me and my brothers grew up. So

732
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 1: before we get to the fan questions, talk about I

733
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: want to talk about game day because you're one of

734
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: my favorite players on the team, probably one of my

735
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,240
Speaker 1: favorite players that's ever been on the team, just because

736
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: You're just a cool, genuine dude, like the guy that

737
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 1: you the guy you see talking up here. This is

738
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: Randy A twenty four to seven. A lot of guys

739
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:20,720
Speaker 1: have a game day character. They get into focus mode.

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00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,879
Speaker 1: The headphones come on, they lock in, they don't talk,

741
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: they don't wave. You take it all in. You walk around, pregame,

742
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: you talk, you, fans yell at you, you talk back you.

743
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: I've seen you go over and sign autographs, you talk

744
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: to us. You You're just super chill, super relaxed. Have

745
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: you always been like that or is that something recent

746
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,439
Speaker 1: that you you've learned to take all this I guess

747
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: journey in or I've always been that way. I think

748
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 1: you know. The part that a lot of people they

749
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 1: don't see, especially you, is like the you know, the

750
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: drive up to the stadium, the hour, especially like night games.

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00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 1: You know, you're just sitting in the hotel room, you know,

752
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: all day, and um, I'm very anxious leading up to it,

753
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 1: and I get more and more confident as I get

754
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: closer to the you know, the stadium, and by the

755
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,959
Speaker 1: time I get to the stadium, I'm just excited to play.

756
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: And I think I say it every week. I'm just

757
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,399
Speaker 1: like you know if the pre game like I'm ready

758
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: to just play, but let me go. You know, once

759
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:18,799
Speaker 1: I get there, I'm ready to go. And so um.

760
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:20,759
Speaker 1: But yeah, I like taking it all in. You know.

761
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:22,319
Speaker 1: There was a point in time where I wasn't able

762
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 1: to do this, you know. And it's fun to to

763
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: to go on the stadium like, um, you know Minnesota's

764
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: and beat them there. It's fun to go play in

765
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,320
Speaker 1: front of our crowd and make a big play and

766
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 1: have everyone exciting things like that. So um. And and

767
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 1: also you know the fan interaction. I've always wanted to

768
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 1: be that guy. Um, you know, that that that tries

769
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:43,800
Speaker 1: to reach out and do what I can if I

770
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: have the time, take a picture or sign something. I

771
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: want to do that. And um yeah, So I try

772
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: to take it all in on game day and as

773
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: I get closer to you know, kick off, I'm just

774
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: really zero man, not really a headphones guy. Um, like

775
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:58,720
Speaker 1: you said, I'm just real chill, just kind of sitting,

776
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 1: just wait for my time. The number you wear has

777
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 1: been worn by a couple of very distinguished players. Here.

778
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,720
Speaker 1: You have much interaction with Charles Haley and de Marcus Wherever.

779
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:14,359
Speaker 1: Charles not recently. I used to a lot, a lot,

780
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: probably more than I wanted, but a lot. You know,

781
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,359
Speaker 1: a lot of people say that about Charles. Yeah, he knows,

782
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 1: he knows, he's he's he's difficult sometimes he knows that.

783
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: But he's a good guy and I've learned a lot

784
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: from him. De Marcus. I've actually spoken to him a

785
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: little bit a couple of weeks ago, believe or not,

786
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: and I think the offseason is going to be the

787
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: time for me and him probably get together. He's a

788
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 1: guy looked up to since I was a kid, you know,

789
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 1: ever since I knew I was gonna play defensive end,

790
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 1: you know, being a high school in college and being

791
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: able to wear that number and playing the same team

792
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: that he played and kind of carry on that legacy

793
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 1: is a big deal for me. And uh, it's cool,

794
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 1: you know, very cool, Corey. Good to have you here. Hey, Randy,

795
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:57,800
Speaker 1: my name is Cory. I just want to say this

796
00:52:57,880 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: before I ask my question. I'm very proud of you

797
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,399
Speaker 1: for a fight through the university and being open about

798
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: mental health. Just continue doing what you're doing. God're gonna continue, bust,

799
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: appreciate You're welcome. My question is at your position, you know,

800
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: a lot of people talk about sacks are a parting,

801
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: but I also feel like quarterback pressures, hits and hurry's

802
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: are more just as appartant. As said, Can you talk

803
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 1: about the difference with that and how it does that

804
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 1: impact the game? Yeah, I mean, at the end of

805
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: the day, you want to, like you said, you want

806
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 1: to impact it anyway you can. So pressures are always good. Obviously,

807
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 1: the sacks or what everyone wants to look at and see,

808
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: and that's uh, that's what's glamorous, that's what's gonna get

809
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: you paid. So I want those numbers. But at the

810
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,839
Speaker 1: same time, we talk about with like the markets, being

811
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: able to do things that don't show up on a

812
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: stat sheet that still UM affect the outcome, holding calls, Um.

813
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: It just pressures, hits on a quarterback, things like that,

814
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,800
Speaker 1: UM just as big as getting a sack. It really is,

815
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: in my opinion, UM, like in the run and turning

816
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: a play back. Yeah, I mean it's a big deal.

817
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,359
Speaker 1: You know, I think the casual fan doesn't pick up

818
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 1: on that, but the ones that really understand the game, UM,

819
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:12,399
Speaker 1: can understand and appreciate a pressure as opposed to a sack.

820
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: You know, I really believe that. Thanks Corey. Hello, my

821
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 1: name's Rambo. How you doing good? Many congratulations yesterday on

822
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: that win. I have a question. So, for one, I

823
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 1: admire your hustle, and I of course I know that

824
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: maybe possibly you don't agree with some of the penalties.

825
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:37,720
Speaker 1: But how hard is it? What gave that away? Rambo?

826
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, what what made you think that he

827
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 1: didn't agree with those penalties? My question is if you're

828
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 1: going full speed ahead? Yeah, how hard is it? I

829
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: know it's difficult. I mean it's almost impossible. I mean,

830
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: I'm obviously I don't play professional football, but I've played

831
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:00,359
Speaker 1: football before. It's hard to just stop the momentum? Yeah,

832
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 1: how do you do it? Yeah? How do you? How

833
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:06,840
Speaker 1: do you? It's almost impossible, don't you look? You know

834
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: my job is to uh, you know, tackle and and

835
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 1: and you know, get the guy on the ground. You know,

836
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not in charge of the flags being thrown. Um.

837
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: Do I feel like our game's kind of gotten soft? Yeah?

838
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: Of course I really feel that way. Um. But to

839
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: answer your question, you know I played long enough to know,

840
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:29,880
Speaker 1: um when I need to slow down a little bit.

841
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 1: If I know I'm not gonna get to the ball

842
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: carry I'm not gonna sprint, you know, all the way

843
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:35,320
Speaker 1: down with the yard down the field, not gonna do it.

844
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 1: Or if the guy's close to getting out of bounds,

845
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:39,960
Speaker 1: maybe I should not hit him anymore. I guess that's

846
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: what I should do a void though, if he's in bounds,

847
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: I'll just let him, you know, just let him run

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Speaker 1: gotta follow up to that. When you when you got that,

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Speaker 1: I guess that's second that second penalty. Coach walked up

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Speaker 1: to you. Didn't yell at you, didn't scream. He kind

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Speaker 1: of put his hand on you, and he and he

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Speaker 1: said something to you. What what do you What do

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Speaker 1: you repeat that? Well? No, I mean he just basically

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Speaker 1: told me to check back in. He said, you know,

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Speaker 1: don't worry about the penalties. Just get back out there.

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Speaker 1: We need you. And and honestly, that's what I needed

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Speaker 1: talk about it, I know, but it really it's becomes

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Speaker 1: a pattern and becomes a behavior when you really talk

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Speaker 1: about a really harp one it and that was a

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Speaker 1: prime example right there. Also meant he was paying attention

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Speaker 1: to you. He was watching definitely, and he knew his

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Speaker 1: player was smart. Coach, Yeah, I'm very smart. Coach. Hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: I wish we had more time. I apologize for the

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Speaker 1: questions we didn't get in. I can't thank you enough

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Speaker 1: for taking the time tonight. Appreciate And I know you'd

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Speaker 1: you're doing that to quarterback. So we Randy Gregor, everybody,

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Speaker 1: Shannon Gross signed Brad Sham. We'll see you right back

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