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Speaker 1: Right now. Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones, Sir,

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Speaker 1: how are you this morning? I'm doing just fine, Mike,

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Speaker 1: you and Corey and Kevin, and it's great to be

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Speaker 1: on with you guys. Well, I actually have a non

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Speaker 1: us some insight. Connor McGregor said he wants to fight

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Speaker 1: about having his fight against Dustin Pourier at at and

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Speaker 1: would you be open to this? Very much open to it,

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Speaker 1: very open to it. And I'm a real admirer of his.

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Speaker 1: He's he's one of the neatest individuals I think I've

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Speaker 1: I've met, period, And he has an unbelievable to be

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Speaker 1: as physical as he is, he has an unbelievable personality

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Speaker 1: in the charisma and he's special. And uh, it would

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Speaker 1: be quite a day for AT and T Stadium to

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Speaker 1: have him. Jerry, what was what was the week like

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Speaker 1: this week? Look it out there and not seeing for

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Speaker 1: practicing on the field. Well again, Uh, it was expected.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't a surprise obviously, and uh it was a

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Speaker 1: need yesterday to get to a saillo to him when

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Speaker 1: chance touch base there. But you know, I think that

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Speaker 1: we all have, uh and then did in the months

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Speaker 1: what he brings to the table, and deservedly so. I

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Speaker 1: I was particularly la thrilled and impressed without pouring from

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Speaker 1: all over many different constituencies, whether it be fans, players, contemporaries,

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Speaker 1: mother sports, farmer players. I think that really tells you

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Speaker 1: a lot about the reach that he has and the

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Speaker 1: the player. Jerry the Gbag Nation does a weekly with

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Speaker 1: Joe Looney and he was on yesterday and he was

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Speaker 1: talking about the new protocols for injuries for the ir

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Speaker 1: and not being able to go to games. Dak is

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Speaker 1: going to want to be a thing the football game

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Speaker 1: Monday night. What is what's your plan for Dak and

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Speaker 1: does he want to be around? Can he be around? Well,

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Speaker 1: you've You've really asked a question that I'm not so

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Speaker 1: sure that I know the answer to. In general, the

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Speaker 1: being around each other, and that's been pretty far reaching,

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Speaker 1: that's been pretty bright. I've got some very bright lines there,

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Speaker 1: and everybody is not having to to really dig deep

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Speaker 1: to adhere to them, because we all want to keep

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Speaker 1: this thing as free from the virus as we can,

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Speaker 1: because we know how much it means to the league,

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Speaker 1: the fans, everybody. Bob, so I would say that it'll

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Speaker 1: be a bright line, it'll be a clean line as

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Speaker 1: far as whether or not he can be involved. But

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Speaker 1: you know, the COVID doesn't make any exception any place.

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Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with that, and so we've

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Speaker 1: got to do the very smart thing, and that's for everybody. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: contact with it, but it's also for the benefit of

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Speaker 1: the whole, and I think we all understand that at

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Speaker 1: this time. Well, Jerry, you get Layton vander esh back.

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Speaker 1: We're excited about that, but as a fan, I'm also

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Speaker 1: nervous about that, just because he, you know, at times,

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Speaker 1: optimism for Layton vander esh and for him to be

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Speaker 1: He will not go back out there if he's vulnerable

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Speaker 1: to go out. We would not risk additional injury because

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Speaker 1: most others. Andy was an opportunity for us. We are

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Speaker 1: well aware of dax durability, but he was an opportunity

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Speaker 1: He's legitimate. Go get him designed starting quarterback in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and I'm proud that we have him. Under these circumstances

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Speaker 1: Dack then to have Andy Dalton step in, I'm really

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Speaker 1: glad to hear you say that, And that actually leads

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Speaker 1: perfectly into the next thing. I wanted to ask you

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Speaker 1: as I'm sure you can guess, with both the tackles

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Speaker 1: What is your optimism level going forward? But we should

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Speaker 1: adjust expectations different than optimism, but we should adjust our expectation.

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Speaker 1: Dac is a very a very incremental part of the

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Speaker 1: if we don't reach where we want to go ultimately,

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Speaker 1: will not be because of Andy Dalton. It will not

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Speaker 1: capable of stepping in and playing at that level. So, Jerry,

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Speaker 1: able to make. He's an impact player, always has been,

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Speaker 1: he's impactful. Told, we use the word with that in mind.

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Speaker 1: He is uh. He is obviously smart, has high football

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Speaker 1: But Gregory has a unique physical abilities and has unique

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't want that. I joke a lot, just the process of,

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Speaker 1: Being our head coach. Unfortunately, that's like shooting yourself in

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Speaker 1: the foot. But seriously, I'm really proud that Murray's having

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Speaker 1: it too much. What I'm talking about is the physical

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Speaker 1: does that and that's a challenge. Well, we appreciate visiting

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Speaker 1: great night Monday night. We'll are going to try and

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Speaker 1: exciting that we can play in that atmosphere at the stadium.

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Speaker 1: Hope to have a and we'll have a for the times.

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Speaker 1: Great crowd, Thank you very much, good sir