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Speaker 1: Elliott is sitting here just signing autographs, like can you

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Speaker 1: kind of throughout the game. You know, you gotta find

427
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Speaker 1: that within your team. And uh, I mean that was

428
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 1: definitely a big booth. I want to ask you real

429
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: quick while we're talking about Mica. He called this week,

430
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Speaker 1: or I guess the game, shark week. Do you know

431
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 1: anything about that or what he meant about that, because

432
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,360
Speaker 1: he didn't really explain it to us in the locker room.

433
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 1: He just said that Sunday was all about it was

434
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: it was shark week, which is interesting because he always

435
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: compares himself to a lion. This week, literally yesterday after

436
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: the game, he described the way that they played, the

437
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: reason why they played was because it was Shark week.

438
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: So I'm assuming you know nothing about that, you know,

439
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 1: Michael a little different, you know, right? Yeah, I mean

440
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: I'm going to assume that's because they've been stressing getting

441
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: more takeaways because they didn't get vermin in Philadelphia. Maybe

442
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: that is I don't know what it is, honestly, but

443
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: whatever it is, can it be Sark month or there?

444
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, it might be. We just

445
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 1: don't know yet, but that's why we're all here. Ezekiel

446
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: Elliott's our guest at Concrete Cowboy in the Star District

447
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: tonight on the Cowboys Hour, brought to you by Miller

448
00:27:50,320 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: Light will be right backs. Cows Do Cows, Cows Dow

449
00:30:43,640 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: cow Boys by Albertsons. Oh yeah, I can't wait to

450
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: hear this. Welcome back to the Cowboys Hour, presented by

451
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Speaker 1: Lou Pascy, the official bootmaker of the Dallas Cowboys. We're

452
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: gonna try this again. We're hanging out with Ezekiel Elliott.

453
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: Everybody Victory Monday. There, we got there? We go? Oh, Zeke,

454
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: we're talking about Micah. Before the break, we were talking

455
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: about the Shark week. Do you have an update or

456
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: do we skip past that? Um? I think he said

457
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: it was just like made up, like they just made

458
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: it up. Okay, Well, good to know. I guess up.

459
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess. I will guess two things. I will

460
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: guess one that there are a lot of things that

461
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Speaker 1: Micah says, especially right after games, that he has no

462
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: idea that he has said, and the next day he

463
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: won't even remember. Would that be a safe bet? Probably, Um, yeah,

464
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay. And and my other my next

465
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: bet would be it was like sharks with blood in

466
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: the water. Once the ball came out once, then here

467
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: they went. I don't know. There's so many animal references

468
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: on this team that I've learned in the last month

469
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: that I can't keep up. But I want to switch

470
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: gears a little bit and talk about your Buckeyes because

471
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: they're doing pretty well this year. You're no in your head,

472
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: so you're keeping up with them. Just how you feel

473
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: about Ohio State right now? Yeah, we're definitely doing our thing. Uh.

474
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: You know, we got some people questioning our schedule. Um,

475
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: but I mean all we could do every winning. Yeah,

476
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,959
Speaker 1: I mean he gets personal locker room, but you know,

477
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: we undefeat it. So all we can do is, you know,

478
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: beat beat everyone we play. You got some Michigan guys

479
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: in the locker room. They're undefeated too, aren't they. Yeah?

480
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: Is that where some of the questioning of the schedule

481
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: comes from some Michigan I mean they finally got like

482
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,479
Speaker 1: one win in ten years. But I don't know if

483
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: that's enough confidence to to to start talking crap. When

484
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: when did do do you have? You? Have you guys

485
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: looked at the schedule and know when they play and

486
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: where you are? Um? No, they always house day Michigan

487
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: game is is always the Saturday after Thanksgiving? So what

488
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: do you always can't play? So we always to go

489
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: Thursday on Thanksgiving? It in another Thursday the next week,

490
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: but not this year? Oh? Really, really you go this year?

491
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: This year. I have good news and bad news for you. This,

492
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: by the way, is proof ladies and gentlemen, that they

493
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: are not looking ahead at the whole schedule. You know

494
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: who you play next I'm not looking at okay, good?

495
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: You know who you play next week? Uh yeah, yeah

496
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: we got the Bears. Okay, very good. That's that's all

497
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: you have to do. So I am good news and

498
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: bad news. The good news is that you have a

499
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: traditional Thursday game Thanksgiving and a mini buye and play

500
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: the following Sunday. Okay, okay. The bad news is that,

501
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: uh you there's a game in Nashville on the Thursday

502
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: night between Christmas and New Year's which means you're going

503
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: to have a second short week with a Thursday game Thanksgiving,

504
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: and again on the twenty ninth of November of December

505
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: against the Titans in Nashville. I thought, we play? Do

506
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: we play on Christmas Eve? Too? Yes? I wish those

507
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: of you listening on the radio, I would pay thousands

508
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: if you could just have seen the look you just

509
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: gave me. Yes, how many days? I don't know, Well,

510
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: Christmas Christmas Eve is Saturday, yeah, and then the following Thursday.

511
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: Oh ah, so it's better than playing on Sunday. It

512
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,879
Speaker 1: actually is. I mean, honestly, I don't really I mean

513
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: sometimes I'm sometimes short week suck, but I mean I

514
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: kind of don't mind, like not really having a practice

515
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: in going to play in the games. So the Saturday

516
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving you you probably, I would bet anything, you'll

517
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 1: be completely off because it won't be if it was

518
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: a if you were playing the next Thursday, then Saturday

519
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: would be Tuesday or something like that. But you, but

520
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: you will probably have the day off. I'm looking it

521
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: up right now just to confirm it's too. I'm not

522
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: really big in planning until that's like so far down

523
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: the role we gotta get through the Yeah, that's true.

524
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: I am so I believe me. I am so with you.

525
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: Can I just get through this show and then we'll

526
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: worry about what's coming up after that. UM, go ahead,

527
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 1: November twenty six. This that game, so if you can

528
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: until they keep that in there November twenty six. It's

529
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: an eleven am kick though, so that'd be cool. But

530
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I was. Since we're talking about planning,

531
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: I think everybody who thanks to social media, you have

532
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: very little private life, especially someone as high profile as you.

533
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: So everyone kind of knows that that wasn't the baseball

534
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: game when the Yankees were in Arlington and Micah had

535
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: a suite and you were invited and you said, yeah,

536
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't drive from Frisco to Arlington. I'm sorry,

537
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: I can't be bothered. That's just kind of before drive. Um,

538
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,919
Speaker 1: I already have to make it every other week, right,

539
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: there was a time when if one of your teammates

540
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: had a suite and a moment like that was on

541
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: the horizon, you'd been You'd have been there, you'd have

542
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: gone yes or no. Um. The thing is, it's just

543
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 1: that Thursday practice. You don't understand how tough that Thursday.

544
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: So it's like it's got to be the right event

545
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: to get you out. I mean, I don't know if

546
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: there is the right event. All right, did you want

547
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: to ask him about Halloween? By the way, we will

548
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: have a microphone to pass among those of you who

549
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 1: are here at Concrete Cowboy in the next segment. So

550
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: have your questions ready and hold your hands up when

551
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: we come around. And one of them is bound to

552
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: be about Halloween. But is that enough to get you out?

553
00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: Halloween come falls on our bye week, it does matter. Yeah,

554
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: we are gonna have a Halloween party, so it's like

555
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,439
Speaker 1: we I do know that's on our bide week this year.

556
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: So do you usually go all out for Halloween or

557
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 1: you Yeah? Have you seen some of the pictures in

558
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: his Instagram history? You should look those up. I did

559
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: last year. I was a joker last year. Okay, it

560
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: was pretty sick. I'm not a big Halloween person. I

561
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: don't think um. I mean it was my first phast

562
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: year really dressing up like that. It really because my

563
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,919
Speaker 1: girl made me. Yeah, I was gonna say, what your idea?

564
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: I was a joker and I got like faith pain

565
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: and no, hey, we any of us saw the pictures

566
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: and you know, if you're if you like that kind

567
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: of thing. It was a heck of a deal. You

568
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: just you did good. Yeah, I mean some of us.

569
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: Well you just said you're not. So here's the thing.

570
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: Can you see yourself dressing up as Harley Quinn? Maybe

571
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: it would have to be for the right person. I guess.

572
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: I don't I enjoy like the fall aspect of Halloween.

573
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't do well with like scary, So

574
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: I don't want to be I don't want to dress

575
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: up scary. I don't like to see people scary. I

576
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: don't like blood. I don't. But I do like like fall,

577
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: like I like decorating for Halloween. So if I'm gonna

578
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 1: like put Halloween decorations up, I will. So if she

579
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: has costume plans for you for this year, would she

580
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: have told you by now? Yeah? Yeah, I'm gonna be

581
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 1: Edwards sisser Hands. I got my costume already. Dare I ask?

582
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: What's it? I mean? Are we do? We have gloves

583
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: with some I don't know, um, but you just do.

584
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: That's what I'm supposed to be. Yeah, I don't know

585
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: the logistics at all. You haven't you haven't got so? Yeah?

586
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: Well no, I mean you're gonna go buy a costume. Now,

587
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: buy me a costume and set up everything. Then I'll

588
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: put it on. You have a good relationship, tell me

589
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: where to be and what to do, and I will

590
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: show up. And and if you're Edward scissor Hands, who's

591
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: she the lady from I might need to watch a

592
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 1: while so you might now. Is there competition among teammates

593
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: for costumes best costume? Um? I don't know. I don't

594
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think. So you don't care who

595
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: anybody else goes as? I mean, I personally don't care.

596
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: Do you all have trick or treaters come by? Like?

597
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: Do you pass out candy? Or is that big in

598
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:35,720
Speaker 1: your neighborhood? I live in a star Wood and it's

599
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: you want to give your address out? I know, I

600
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: was surprised. I came out all the kids I know

601
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: what it is. I'll bet they do. I don't know

602
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: what house it is. You know, I give out candy

603
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: for about an hour and then I take my ring

604
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: unplugged my ring, turn my lights off and what is what?

605
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: So when when you trick or treat it as a kid,

606
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: you did that right in Saint Louis. You were I didn't.

607
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: I didn't did not, I did not, didn't want to

608
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: or mom and dad said no. Yeah, So what how

609
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: then do you know what kind of candy to give out? Um?

610
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we all know what good candy is.

611
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: You know all the good stuff. So what do you

612
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: like to give out? Um? Greece's twigs. You're gonna have

613
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: like a good mixture of the like the chocolate, and

614
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: like the sweet, like Skittles and Starburs and so you

615
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: gotta have a little bit of everything. When it comes

616
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: to candy bars, do you like to give out the

617
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: gigantic ones? Hayley started to say. Mike McCarthy told us

618
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: last week that when when they were in Green Bay,

619
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: his wife made sure that they had the big candy

620
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 1: bars to give away. Everybody in Green Bay pretty much

621
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 1: knew it and came to visit. Um. Yeah, I'm not

622
00:40:53,520 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: looking to draw a bunch of an hour and out

623
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: the lights. I want to be like screws, you know

624
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: what I mean. I'll give some candy out and but

625
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: you know, after hour from seven to eight, okay, you're candy. Okay, Well,

626
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 1: now that's interesting because uh, but it's on a Monday

627
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: it's Monday if you're bye week, so they can starting.

628
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: Oh you know what I mean. I think our Halloween

629
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: party is Monday night, so maybe not. Sorry, Okay, bad

630
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: bad news. Kids in the Star Wars need to know

631
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: that that's just not happening. Okay, yeah, yes you are,

632
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 1: Yes you are. I think it's entirely possible. Ezekiel Elliot's

633
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: our guest tonight. We are on the Miller Like Cowboys

634
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: Hour at con Crank Cowboy the Star District Can Frisco

635
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: get your questions ready if you're here, We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: Cow was no cow was was Cowboy? Supported by Albertson.

637
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Concrete Cowboy here in the Star

638
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: District in Frisco. Hayley Sun with Brad Sham and Ezekiel

639
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 1: Elliott QR Fan Club. Victory Monday. That must be the

640
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: key word. I'd be taking Victory Bunday lightly and do

641
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:18,760
Speaker 1: not take Ezekiel Elliott lightly. Zeke is here on Victory Monday.

642
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Speaker 1: Thank you and very quickly. The Cowboys Hour presented by

643
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: Papa John's Better Ingredients, Better Pizza. Papa John, Zeke, do

644
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: you have a pizza choice? Um? Yeah, Papa Johns was

645
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: such a la, especially with the new crush. You got

646
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: the crush where you get to like cheese, bread crust.

647
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: I haven't had that yet. It's really good. But I mean,

648
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: obviously I can't be like that good for you. I

649
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: can't eat much of that, you know what I mean,

650
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: I can't too much of that, especially in season, but

651
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: in the off season, but in all seasons. And after

652
00:45:56,320 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 1: we win on Sundays or Cuban, what happens on victory Monday?

653
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: We get the Papa John's there we go, did you

654
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:13,800
Speaker 1: no America? Say whatever you want, but yes, but yes, Okay,

655
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:17,919
Speaker 1: We've got some loyal cowboy fans with questions for Zeke,

656
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,439
Speaker 1: and we've got a microphone right over here, so let's

657
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: go hello, Zeke. My name's Rambo. What what's the thoughts

658
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 1: in the locker room as far as competitiveness in the

659
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: NFC East, because everybody right now, for the exception of Washington,

660
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 1: our neck and neck. Um. Yeah, obviously, our our divisions

661
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: doing doing pretty well. Uh. I mean, we have a

662
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: good division right now, so I mean it just makes

663
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,839
Speaker 1: those division games that much more important. But obviously, at

664
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: the at the beginning every year, our goal is to

665
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: win NFC East. We don't care if they suck or

666
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: if they're good. We just gotta go you beat them up. So, um, yeah,

667
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: we gotta just stay on our prething queues. I mean

668
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: everyone our the vision is really good this year, so

669
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: I mean, we just gotta do everything we can to

670
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 1: win those division games. So to see, my name is Cory.

671
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: My question to you is uh with y'all having a

672
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: healthy balance between you and polack? Um, I'm wondering like

673
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: during the games, can you tell like like the decent

674
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: defenses get tired of like tackle you because you know

675
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 1: you bring out thunder and then towards um when Paula

676
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: come in, you know they'd be eats tired of trying

677
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: to tackle them him as well as you because you

678
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 1: know you delivering the boom as well and I'm trying

679
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: to tackle you. Um yeah. So I mean like when

680
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:33,839
Speaker 1: when you run the football, it just takes a toe

681
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: on the defense. And we have two two really good

682
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: backs then, but why not run as much as you can? Uh?

683
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:43,800
Speaker 1: I mean love for me antonia touch it twenty times

684
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: so that that would be a fun game. But I

685
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: mean that those those body blows they were on defenses

686
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: and you can see, you know which he each run,

687
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: you know how how it wears on the defense and

688
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: you can really feel it, you know, late in the

689
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: second quarter and late the third quarter as as the

690
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: game goes on, just that defense, you know, kind of

691
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,839
Speaker 1: tiring out. So Corey, it's a great question, but it

692
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: does it does beg too. There's two sides of that

693
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: that if you just peel the question back a little,

694
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: it kind of suggests that no one is afraid of

695
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: Zeke's speed, and it kind of suggests that no one

696
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:23,359
Speaker 1: thinks that Tony is tough between the tackles. And uh,

697
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 1: I have my own opinion about that, but what what's yours? Uh?

698
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 1: You know, I think I think uh, I think me

699
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:33,720
Speaker 1: and Tony are both you know, balanced back more balanced

700
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: than I say maybe people people thinking, I mean Tony, yeah,

701
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: he's he's fast, he's super quick, but I mean he

702
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:41,959
Speaker 1: he get thuh you know what I mean. He loves

703
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: the block two, he loves to hit. He'll finish a

704
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: run um. And so I think, uh, I mean, yeah,

705
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 1: we have our strengths, but I mean I wouldn't say

706
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: we have weaknesses and the other category either there there

707
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: you go, that's kind of where I was doing. Thanks think. Hey,

708
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 1: my name is Maria. UM got a quick question for you. Um,

709
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:05,240
Speaker 1: you're looking really great this year. You're looking so much better.

710
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: You're looking a lot like the old Zeke from when

711
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: you first came in with the Cowboys. What have you

712
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: done differently to change that up? And I asked that

713
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: because even the other day we were watching highlights of

714
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: you and my wife was like, whoa, who was that running.

715
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, honey, that Zeke. You're looking really great. What

716
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: changes have you done to bring that back? Um? You know,

717
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:29,760
Speaker 1: just kind of you know, growing out the player, you know, learning,

718
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,720
Speaker 1: like with my training, just what works for me, what doesn't,

719
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: you know, Just take care of my body and just

720
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 1: you know, doing what everything I need to do to

721
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: be prepared to go out there and play on Sunday.

722
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:41,919
Speaker 1: You did a lot of work in the offseason, though,

723
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: didn't you. You work really hard this last off season. Yeah.

724
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of it was just you know,

725
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: getting my knee back healthy and uh, you know, and

726
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: by I would say I started feeling good right when

727
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 1: OTA started up. You know, those I would say those

728
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: first couple of months of off season, you know, I

729
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 1: still didn't feel quite myself. But when you know, we

730
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: started those OTA practices at you know, the house ready

731
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: to go. Zeke black Ext and Zep had a question, So,

732
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: when you hurdled yesterday, it looks so organic, it looks

733
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 1: so fluid. My question is, what did you run in

734
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: high school? College? Did you do hurdles that you do

735
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: the hundred, that you do the two hundred, because man,

736
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 1: you look like you were in rear form yesterday. Um. Yeah,

737
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 1: So I think I started running hurdles when I was

738
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 1: eighth grade. So I ran hurdles eighth grade through through

739
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: senior year. UM one ten hurdles, three under hurdles. I

740
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 1: ran four under hurdles. So I was a hurdler. Uh,

741
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:38,399
Speaker 1: you know growing up, you know I ran to one

742
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: and two. I wasn't, you know, as I was. I

743
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: was an elite hurdler. I wasn't an elite sprinter. I

744
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: appreciate you. It didn't look organic though, I'll give him that. Yeah.

745
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, do you consider yourself to be fast?

746
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: Like what if you were categorizing yourself? Do you consider

747
00:50:54,080 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: yourself fast? Yeah? I sound fast? Okayonding Zeke, what's the

748
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: toughest team left on the schedule that you think it's

749
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:10,919
Speaker 1: gonna give the Cowboys the hardest time. Um, keeping in mind.

750
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just gonna say, like any division division

751
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: team you know you got you gotta watch the I

752
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 1: mean Redskins too. I mean those division games are tough

753
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: because you see those guys twice a year, so so

754
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: you you know each other so well, and on top

755
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: of you know us knowing each other so well, you know, uh,

756
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 1: them being good teams too. So we gotta worry about,

757
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: you know, those division games because the fastest way to

758
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 1: the playoffs is winning your division. So if we take

759
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: care of our division, then we're one step closer to

760
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 1: to getting that to that ultimate goal. Well, they don't

761
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: play the Phillies because yeah, but they're worried about the

762
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: Bears on Sunday, and then well then we'll get to

763
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: the Eagles like Christmas after we've had Thanksgiving. Okay, zeke

764
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: all the way from Pennsylvania, so naturally a penn State

765
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 1: fan this weekend, Ohio State, penn State. What's you're on

766
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: a prediction? Where are they're playing? I believe in Penn State. Um,

767
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys got a better chance that is

768
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: that is in Penn State. But uh, you know, I

769
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: like my book Eys. Will there be sure it's gonna

770
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 1: be like white out if it's that Penn State, I'm

771
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: sure it's gonna be white out. I mean Penn that's

772
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: a crazy environment. Penn State. That's a that's a cool

773
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 1: college environment. It's probably a lot of state that might

774
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: have been in. Will there be any wagering between yourself

775
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: and mister Parsons on this game? No? No? Could he

776
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 1: want points? He don't even believe in his own points? Yeah,

777
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: he don't believe in his own team. Wow, it's not

778
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: shark week. You might bring that up to him. You

779
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: might bring that up to him. Would you bet with him?

780
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: If it was straight up? Am I allowed to bet?

781
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: I mean a friendly way for lunch? Yeah? Yeah? Good?

782
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 1: Hi teacher. Here question for seniors who are looking at

783
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 1: you as someone who's overcome a lot of hurdles, not

784
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 1: just in football, but in life in general. What would

785
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: be one of the advice that you'd give kids struggling

786
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: with mental health issues? Right now? Beautiful, I would say

787
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 1: the number one thing is just, you know, ask for help.

788
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? It's okay to ask for help,

789
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's okay to to to you know, confiding

790
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 1: your loved ones. Uh, you know people, people care about you,

791
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 1: and uh, I want to see you doing well. But

792
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: just that and and just keep grinding. Uh. You know,

793
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 1: I think you just gotta if you continuously do the

794
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 1: right things, eventually, you know, you'll get some lucky And

795
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 1: when you get that luck, if you're if you're already

796
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: building those habits to be doing the right things, you're

797
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: gonna be able to take advantage of opportunity. I love

798
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: that jacket. By the way, it's I'm gonna ask you

799
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 1: a question from all the Cowboy fans. Um you scared

800
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: us with lived like a hyper extended need. One played,

801
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: you kind of went down. How's your need going now?

802
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: He also went back in the game. You know, yes, okay,

803
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: it's sore, It's definitely sore. But it's Monday. It was Monday, Zeeke.

804
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: How you doing. Um, I feel so lucky to be here.

805
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: I just flew in from California and I got to

806
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: meet you. That's awesome. My question is, uh, after a game,

807
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 1: how long, if it happens, how long do you feel

808
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,800
Speaker 1: it takes for your body to get back to Like? Okay,

809
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 1: I'm ready to play again. Um, I think it's kind

810
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: of game the game. Uh, you know, some games, you know,

811
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: I get a bigger workload than others. Um, and you

812
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 1: know some games I might be a little more beat

813
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: up from than others. But I would say, you know,

814
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 1: hopefully by hopefully, by Saturday, I'm feeling pretty good. But

815
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 1: the schedule that coach McCarthy has on it is his

816
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: whole schedule is like direct is directly or sent it

817
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: around make our bodies and how we feel and getting

818
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,279
Speaker 1: us back to feel good for Sunday, and uh, you know,

819
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: I think it's something that definitely has helped his team. Man. Yeah,

820
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 1: jay Ron told us last week. I think it was

821
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 1: that it took him till about what Wednesday or Thursday.

822
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 1: He's like you about like you. I don't know if

823
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 1: he was in your same draft class, but within a

824
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: year or so, And I asked him, and then this

825
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:28,800
Speaker 1: might be the last thing we'll have time for early

826
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: in your career. Guys, maybe young guy, maybe by Wednesday

827
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,000
Speaker 1: he's still a little stiff, but ready to go. You

828
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: could play if you had to. And then by six seven,

829
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,719
Speaker 1: eight years I've had guys tell me, I don't feel good.

830
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 1: I don't even start to feel human until Thursday. Yeah,

831
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: that's what he said. He said the Thursday practice. When

832
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 1: I was younger, I was getting a lot more touches,

833
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: a lot, So I mean it's a little different now.

834
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 1: I'm not getting twenty five touches every week. You know,

835
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: some weeks it's fifteen, some weeks it's twenty. But um,

836
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:03,919
Speaker 1: saw me, I feel hopefully all right good, Hey, we're

837
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,799
Speaker 1: all we are all for that. Uh. Let me just

838
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: say uh. I said something to Zeke about this in

839
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: the locker room in Philadelphia after the game. But you're

840
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: such a joy to watch because the the enjoyment that

841
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 1: you have for playing the game is almost tangible. We

842
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 1: can reach out and touch it. You can see how

843
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: much you enjoy it. And Um, for me, it's been

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