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Speaker 1: I'm MIKEA. Are you there, MIKEA, are you there? Yes? Hey, Michael,

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Speaker 1: congratulations you're the newest Dallas Cowboy. We're here with the

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Speaker 1: Draft show. What are you? What's going through your head

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Speaker 1: right now? And a lot is going through my head?

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Speaker 1: But now, you know, I'm feeling a blessed. I'm feeling

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Speaker 1: extremely grateful and I'm feeling ecstatic to be a part

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Speaker 1: of the Cowboys. Hey, Mica, congrats. Man. I'm curious. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you just said it, but you know, and people are

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Speaker 1: talking about it on Twitter going all the way back

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Speaker 1: to December. You know, you tweeted out that you wanted

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Speaker 1: to be here? What what was it about the Cowboys?

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Speaker 1: What was it about Dallas that that you felt that way?

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Speaker 1: And I mean it's got to feel wild that something

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Speaker 1: you've wanted for so long actually happened. With everything that

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Speaker 1: happened in the first round. Um, you know, uh, people

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Speaker 1: don't realize, like you know, I think, you know, just

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Speaker 1: being in America then playing at playing for you know,

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Speaker 1: the best team in America. You know, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: playing at atenc Stay then when I did, I fell

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Speaker 1: in love with it. I knew who Jay Jones is.

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Speaker 1: I know when he represents he's a serious man once

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Speaker 1: to win games. And you know, I knew what I

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Speaker 1: was stepping into, and I wanted to be in blue

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Speaker 1: and white again. And I said, the place where I

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Speaker 1: feel like they got there are a couple of pieces

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Speaker 1: away from being a really good team was the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: And you know this is where I wanted to do.

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Speaker 1: So we've obviously watched a lot of your tape and

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Speaker 1: studied you leading up to the draft. But for all

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Speaker 1: those Cowboys fans out there listening, tell us a little

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Speaker 1: bit about your game. You know, your demeanor on the

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Speaker 1: field a linebacker. You know my de bean on the

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Speaker 1: linebacker is, you know, play physical, play fast, and make

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Speaker 1: a lot of tackles. I like to fly to the ball.

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Speaker 1: I think the best thing anybody can ever do is

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Speaker 1: play with effort. And when you play with effort, a

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Speaker 1: lot of great things happened around the ball. So that's

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Speaker 1: kind of how you're gonna get me. You're gonna get

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Speaker 1: a competitor. I'm never gonna go down easy, never gonna

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Speaker 1: go down sweet, and I'm gonna come into regul to place. Now,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned some of those pieces on the defensive side

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Speaker 1: of the football, Mica, where do you feel like you're

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Speaker 1: gonna fit in with this defense? Do you think there's

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Speaker 1: a specific spot for you as you come in and

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Speaker 1: get to get to work. Yeah, I mean I could

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Speaker 1: play anywhere on the field. I think I'm gonna use

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Speaker 1: my versatility early on to find out how they want

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Speaker 1: to use me, and you know, take my opportunity and

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Speaker 1: run away with it. You know, I think I'm here

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Speaker 1: just based off our opportunities my whole life, and this

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Speaker 1: is another great chance for me to take advantage of one.

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Speaker 1: Kind of going off that, Micael, You know, we haven't

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Speaker 1: really had a chance to talk to your new defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator Dan Quinn, but watching your tape, you know you

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Speaker 1: can't help. But notice, like you said, your versatility you

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Speaker 1: can get after the quarterback. You can. You know you

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Speaker 1: had a big strip sack here at at and T

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Speaker 1: Stadium a couple of years ago. Have you talked to

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Speaker 1: Dan Quinn about how he wants to use you or

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Speaker 1: what your role could be when you get here now? Yet?

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I talked to the cowboys one time.

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Speaker 1: I guess that one time was the best time the

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Speaker 1: cowboy that's how to get to work. Well, we're excited

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Speaker 1: to have you here and to see you get to work. Mica. Congratulations,

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Speaker 1: we will see you soon and Aliston, hopefully sooner rather

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Speaker 1: than later. We'll get to shake your hand whenever all

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Speaker 1: this COVID nineteen is over. How about that? Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: sounds of amazing. Michael Parsons on the phone. Appreciate your

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Speaker 1: time and well, of course he is the newest Dallas cowboy,

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Speaker 1: and you know it is intriguing and like you said,

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Speaker 1: it never gets old hearing from these prospects as their

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Speaker 1: dreams are realized. And like you said, his last collegiate

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Speaker 1: game the Cotton Bowl against Memphis close to New Year's

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. That was his last time on a

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Speaker 1: collegiate football field. Guess where it was? Stadium baby,