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Speaker 1: Here and North Texas four Dealers for Built for Texas,

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Speaker 1: Built for you. It is the Dallas Cowboys owner and

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Speaker 1: been an emotional day yesterday, we really appreciate you jumping

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Speaker 1: had said this earlier, but Bill Parcels used to as

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Speaker 1: And of course we have practice squad quarterbacks and we

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Speaker 1: can list quarterbacks that aren't on our roster right now.

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Speaker 1: Those quarterbacks are out on maybe even practice squad rosters,

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Speaker 1: But Lamar Hunt, Lamar Hunt, without really hanging some real

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Speaker 1: So I'm answering your question. As you know here the

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Speaker 1: You deal with what's coming. And really that, in essence

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Speaker 1: I think ahead or make do and come up with adjustments.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for that, and thank you for

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