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Speaker 1: Right now, Cowboys CEO Stephen Jones joining us on your

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Speaker 1: home of the Cowboys to talk about this and the

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Speaker 1: other big storylines to the day with America's team. Good

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Speaker 1: afternoons or how the heck are you doing great? How

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Speaker 1: you guys do it? Oh, we are doing fantastic here

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Speaker 1: on a football Friday, and we look forward to talking

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Speaker 1: about the game with you if you don't mind, I'd

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Speaker 1: love to get your thoughts on this a big storyline,

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Speaker 1: unfortunately with a skip Bayliss kind of stepping in it yesterday.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about the way a Dak Prescott

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Speaker 1: has responded to this criticism regarding his vulnerability here on

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Speaker 1: mental health. Well, first of all, you know, it goes

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Speaker 1: without saying what we think of Dak Prescott, what he's

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Speaker 1: accomplished in his life in a short period of time,

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Speaker 1: starting at Mississippi State and then running through you know,

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Speaker 1: his first four years and then I fell about to

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Speaker 1: be five. He's rare. I mean, he he never blinks

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Speaker 1: and certainly anything any obstacles that he has in his life,

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Speaker 1: which we all have them, there's not a doubt in

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Speaker 1: my mind he handles in a rare way. And uh,

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Speaker 1: that's the way Dak is and uh, certainly we have

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Speaker 1: nothing but tremendous amount of support for him and what

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Speaker 1: he's about and uh, anything that he goes through. Shoot, right,

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Speaker 1: there's no one thinking of him more than we are.

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Speaker 1: And uh and obviously are. Our thoughts and prayers are

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Speaker 1: always not only with him, but all our players, I mean,

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Speaker 1: and for that matter, everybody in our organization. Everybody has challenges,

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Speaker 1: everybody has obstacles, and everybody deals with them in their

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Speaker 1: for for anybody that we're around, involved with and have

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Speaker 1: nothing but support. He's been through some tough stuff, Steven.

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Speaker 1: Have you guys ever seen him falter or fail to

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Speaker 1: be the strong leader? Never? And uh, you know, he

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Speaker 1: obviously has. He has been through a lot. He's been

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Speaker 1: through a lot of ups and a lot of downs.

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Speaker 1: And you know, any man who loses her mother, I

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Speaker 1: can't fathom I have my mother. I can't tathom what

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Speaker 1: you know, he seems you know, he seems invincible when

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Speaker 1: you when you watch him, when you watch how he

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Speaker 1: watch him having fun, he's just, uh, you know, he's

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Speaker 1: a man's man and we have nothing but support for him. Stephen.

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Speaker 1: Last night, with the NFL season actually getting underway, it

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Speaker 1: was really kind of bizarre to me. The feeling was

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Speaker 1: so much different because we're used to having this ramp

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Speaker 1: but this one just kind of arrived. Was it was.

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Speaker 1: It's strange for you at all watching it, with how

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Speaker 1: the the ramp up to this was just something we've

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Speaker 1: never seen. Well, it was you know, actually once it

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Speaker 1: up to it. But I'll tell you what it didn't.

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Speaker 1: It didn't disappoint. What a hell of a game. Two

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Speaker 1: great teams, obviously, two great quarterbacks. Hat's off to Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's you know he is now. I think

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Speaker 1: they started off that way when the broadcast started. He's

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Speaker 1: the face of the league, and rightfully so he won

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Speaker 1: you know, he's it's all in front of him, and

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Speaker 1: in terms of who you want to representtion who you

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Speaker 1: want to be a part of our league going forward.

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Speaker 1: We feel like we got someone very similar in Dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott right here in Dallas just represents everything the right way.

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Speaker 1: Everything you want to your organization to represent, everything you

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Speaker 1: and then it was just great football too. Well coached teams. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid last night didn't look like he'd practiced with

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Speaker 1: his facial equipment. Well, I'm sure he is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: They go more for the mask and uh, but to

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Speaker 1: each his own. And uh, who's ever gonna question what

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Speaker 1: I haven't ever had the chance to ask you this

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Speaker 1: you know Guys like myself, the clowns of the world

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Speaker 1: that always say, well, why didn't they signed Dak Prescott

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Speaker 1: two years ago? You know why? Why is? You know,

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Speaker 1: you say so many positive things about Dak and all

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Speaker 1: and all that. What am I missing here? What am

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Speaker 1: I missing Black Prescott. It's so difficult for us, even

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Speaker 1: as you know, we've never not gotten the players signed

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Speaker 1: And you know, we're talking about a situation where he's

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Speaker 1: I think he understands where we're coming from. We're trying

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Speaker 1: and and that's you know, that's what we want for him.

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Speaker 1: his situation. But other than that, I mean, he's been

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Speaker 1: Taylores put some very very generous offers on the table.

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Speaker 1: and certainly we wanted to be right here in Dallas. Stephen,

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Speaker 1: continue to challenge Joe, But Joe's you know, one of

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Speaker 1: sure enjoy Joe and I'm sure you guys do too.

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Speaker 1: We just we get a tiny little snippet of his personality,

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Speaker 1: but he's outstanding, Steven. We appreciate your time as always.

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Speaker 1: Give him hell Sunday night, We'll be pulling for you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, guys. There he goes Cowboys CEO Steven Jones,

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