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Speaker 1: Like, what are your thoughts as you acticially begin your

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Speaker 1: sixteen season from New York, China. Yeah, just excited, excited

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Speaker 1: to uh, excited about this team, about the players we have,

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Speaker 1: about the work we've been able to, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: accomplished these last five weeks and looking forward to you know,

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Speaker 1: making you know, making all that count towards the first

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, great opportunity for us to go

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Speaker 1: out there and play well you like cut your say,

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Speaker 1: he's looking, he's excited to see what happened at the

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Speaker 1: end of last year carry over to the series. It's

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Speaker 1: months and months and sometimes at work sometimes, but do

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Speaker 1: you feel it you can happen like that? Well, I

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Speaker 1: think it's just a comfort comfort, you know level in

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Speaker 1: the offense and uh, you know a lot of those

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Speaker 1: same guys, um are part of this offense and have

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Speaker 1: a few new faces which you know should hopefully help

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Speaker 1: us out and and uh you know kind of get

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Speaker 1: on track early and play at a high level. So um,

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Speaker 1: you know, you never nothing, yeah, nothing is guaranteed from

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Speaker 1: one year to the next year. But I think it's

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Speaker 1: more just in you know, um, you know what we're

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Speaker 1: doing offensively the uh you know, and and the style

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Speaker 1: we can um kind of established that identity soon that

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Speaker 1: how to be seeing Corn talked about this team concept,

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Speaker 1: the mentality you go in with that. How does that

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Speaker 1: impact the way that you execute? Like you carried it

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Speaker 1: over from the Atlas Weason. Yeah, man, I think it's

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Speaker 1: just a matter of, um, you know, just trusting everybody

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Speaker 1: just we're calling calling good plays. Uh that you know,

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Speaker 1: guys know how to run, they know where they're gonna be.

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Speaker 1: They can play fast. We can react, um you know,

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Speaker 1: we can you know, get you know down in distance,

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Speaker 1: avoid the negative plays, the bad plays, and um you know,

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Speaker 1: well we'll find find the opportunities, um you know, to

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Speaker 1: hit the big shots in the long plays. When when

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Speaker 1: wait for him and and then uh you know execute

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Speaker 1: and when you have you know, when you have the

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Speaker 1: right looks for this offense. We Shepherd only please didn't

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Speaker 1: play We're only played one series and we haven't seen

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Speaker 1: probably three playmakers. Yeah, and obviously, um, you know, we

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Speaker 1: gotta get all of those guys involved. And so it's

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Speaker 1: just a matter of um, you know, everybody doing their job.

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's you know what a team is. It's

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Speaker 1: eleven guys, uh and all all everybody on the same

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Speaker 1: page to have success if and um you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it starts up front the offensive line, then then controlling

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, um, you know, finding running lanes

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Speaker 1: uh me you know, finding finding the open receivers, and

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Speaker 1: then executing, um you know, run the ball, catching the ball,

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Speaker 1: and doing the fundamentals correctly. So uh you know, um,

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Speaker 1: it's just uh, you know, I think guys, I think

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Speaker 1: you know they can make make, you know, great plays

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Speaker 1: when you give them opportunity. Have you busted those three

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Speaker 1: young kids about how you laid in the pre season

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Speaker 1: more than they did? No, No, I mean I understand

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Speaker 1: we had you know, I had some guys had some

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Speaker 1: in a rhythm. How amy STUFFI wh do you think

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense will be without DeMarcus Lawrence coming back

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Speaker 1: from his surgery. He's a dominant FLA. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: they know, you know, they're very disciplined in their assignments

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Speaker 1: and so we just got to know their scheme. Um,

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Speaker 1: Or this or that? With your offensive line, do you

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Speaker 1: I think I think the offensive line is strong, and

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately sometimes you gotta kind of have some mistakes,

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Speaker 1: a real game again. What is there Is there a

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Speaker 1: level of excitement for you to see what this offense? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think there's always an excitement for the

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Speaker 1: important is you guys to get off to a good

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Speaker 1: So it's just, you know, right now, we got we

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Speaker 1: on what they're doing, and what we need to do

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Speaker 1: to go out there and play well. But you've started

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Speaker 1: When you're in that spoke, you feel the wait a bite, right,

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Speaker 1: Well we'll worry about we're about this week. Do you

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Speaker 1: room and coaches and organization and fans and everybody that

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Speaker 1: you know put so much effort into having a great year.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that's what pushes you more than

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Speaker 1: um you know who who who's uh you know else

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Speaker 1: go into every game with the same mentality. It's a

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Speaker 1: it's a you know, it is obviously in the division,

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Speaker 1: and so I think those division games, um, you know

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Speaker 1: just mean more and you know in the in terms

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Speaker 1: of winning your division is the kind of the only

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Speaker 1: So they you know, they kind of look ecture they

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Speaker 1: to play them, um, you know, most years, the first

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Speaker 1: lot of um, you know, special memory is uh, you know,

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