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Speaker 1: Let's bring in the head coach of America's team getting

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Speaker 1: ready for the home opener on Monday night. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: hear it right here on DFW Sports Station with Brad

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Speaker 1: Sham and Babeloffenberg Mike McCarthy, brought to you by Ford,

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Speaker 1: Built for Texas, Built for you. Good morning, coach, how

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Speaker 1: are you. I'm doing well, Good morning. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us. As always, we appreciate it. Uh. Coach Nick

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Speaker 1: Sirianni was wearing his beat Dallas shirt yesterday. Will you

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Speaker 1: be using that for bulletin board material? No, I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's necessary. Our football team clearly is in tune

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Speaker 1: with the importance of the game, the importance of the

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Speaker 1: rivalry that goes on, and most importantly, it's a division game,

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Speaker 1: and we needs to give division games Kerry so much

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Speaker 1: more weight. Um, there's a division focus, you know, template

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Speaker 1: that we that we emphasize, and we clearly see these

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Speaker 1: guys as a team that's playing playing well, new coach,

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Speaker 1: new things. We're more focused on the unscy, the looks

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Speaker 1: and you know, the you know, the challenges that they

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Speaker 1: give us, you know, throughout all three units. Coach, do

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Speaker 1: you do you agree with us that like rivalries have

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Speaker 1: kind of like faded over the years that we grew

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Speaker 1: more like fan base versus fan base. Have rivalries kind

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Speaker 1: of changed over the past twenty years with your experience,

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Speaker 1: I think free agencies changes some. I think that's fair.

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Speaker 1: But you also don't want to get cut. You know,

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Speaker 1: the short end of the emotion that goes into these games.

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, I mean, I think every division

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Speaker 1: What you do have like coach coach whenever, whenever we

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Speaker 1: we're gonna win this against the division and that and

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Speaker 1: this will be an easy win. Former players will text

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Speaker 1: us and say, the division games are just different. You

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Speaker 1: can't count. You got to count on a closer game

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Speaker 1: versus you know, a blowout or handling another team. What

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Speaker 1: You know, last week was the opposite. You're playing an

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Speaker 1: We're extremely young football team, so it's you know, it's

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Speaker 1: so this is a common opponent and everything that goes

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Speaker 1: it's there's just so much more awareness and the ability

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy every Friday with us here on Sean and

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Speaker 1: r J one oh five three the Fan, How much

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Speaker 1: like that much more difficult because there's less of a sample? Oh,

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Speaker 1: mean Sean and I mean idiot media people, um make

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Speaker 1: Zike emulates that as well as anybody I've ever worked with.

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy Jonas year, I want to fly through the fan.

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Speaker 1: We we love the turnovers. We haven't seen turnovers around

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Speaker 1: It's not something you can justs like game plan for.

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Speaker 1: You know, every every team, especially in today's NFL, everything

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Speaker 1: Guys are really into it, so we need to continue it.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a big part of winning in this league.

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Speaker 1: Big plays altogether, you can't it's it's it's too difficult

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Speaker 1: You need big play production in the NFL to be successful.

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Speaker 1: But I think he'll be fine. We'll just see what

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Speaker 1: the protocol on Kano so um. But you know, if

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Speaker 1: play Monday night. Last one coach. Uh, there's a stat

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Speaker 1: So I just think I think teams have done a

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Speaker 1: have you watched sorry about that? Have you watched or

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Speaker 1: heard of the Manning cast on Monday Night Football? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have heard about it. Um you know, you know

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Speaker 1: the Monday night games. So but no, I can only imagine,

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Speaker 1: with the personality of Peyton Eli, how good it is.

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Speaker 1: So coach, we thank you for your time as always,

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Speaker 1: enjoy the weekend and we'll talk to you next week

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Speaker 1: after hopefully a second straight win. We appreciate it. Thank

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Speaker 1: you all right, thank you