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Speaker 1: We bring on Dallas Cowboys c OO Steven Jones, sir,

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Good afternoon. So yesterday after the game, DeMarcus

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Speaker 1: you feel like this defense has a lot of talent

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Speaker 1: and do you think thus far they have been playing soft? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I just think we're you know, we're just not executing,

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Speaker 1: right now. You know, the football we're playings not winning football,

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Speaker 1: and there's a pattern to it. We're losing the turnover battle.

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Speaker 1: I think we're negative seven for the year. We're starting slow.

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Speaker 1: I think we've been I think we've only had the

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Speaker 1: and you know, we just got a lot of work

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Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean anything, doesn't mean you're a good team.

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Speaker 1: But I do think we you know, I have the

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Speaker 1: you know, we've just got to execute better. I don't

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Speaker 1: know we're moving the ball on offense, but the turnovers

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Speaker 1: So you know, this team just has a lot of

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Speaker 1: like offensively with the turnovers that you referenced that the

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Speaker 1: offense has been starting slow in these games? Absolutely. I

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Speaker 1: mean we're two games in a row where we turned

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Speaker 1: for the year, so you know, as coach McCarthy said,

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Speaker 1: this is the type of football we're playing right now,

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Speaker 1: and it's not winning football. And we have a challenge

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Speaker 1: breaking some film down of the game and showing how

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Speaker 1: they're just not talented enough. I believe they're very capable.

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Speaker 1: I just think it's getting the technique right, getting what

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Speaker 1: there's no excuses to be had here. We're not playing

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Speaker 1: I just think all the way around, when you're playing

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Speaker 1: all got to be better, are you, Steven? Are you

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Speaker 1: spite of the turnovers, in spite of some of the

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Speaker 1: all the the useful tactics to to establish a little

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Speaker 1: We knew that. That's why we had such a big

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Speaker 1: that he's put in. Stephen with the Cowboys, you've got

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Speaker 1: three straight home games here. The attendance, ay, y'all trying

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Speaker 1: same time, the number one priority for us is safety,

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Speaker 1: Stephen Early in the Major League Baseball season, the Marlins

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to sure you this, Michael having hard

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Speaker 1: at work all right, Well, we appreciate it, and we

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Speaker 1: appreciate you jumping on with us every single Monday. Thank

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