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Speaker 1: Stephen Jones, Good afternoon, sir, Good morning. How you guys doing.

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Speaker 1: We're good, man, We are good. So I know that

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Speaker 1: But is it okay if I start looking at this

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Speaker 1: Cowboys team and thinking that something special is afoot? Well,

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Speaker 1: he certainly, you know, we think a lot of our

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Speaker 1: football team, but we also know in the NFL disappointments

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Speaker 1: right around the corner. So you got to take each

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Speaker 1: game one week at a time. I never forget the

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Speaker 1: words coming out of Texas rams Maut, he told Jerry

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Speaker 1: when we first were getting involved in the team. Remember,

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Speaker 1: they pay their their guys too, So there's no such

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Speaker 1: things as you know, somebody you're playing this week or

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Speaker 1: anything like that. You've got to come with you a

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Speaker 1: game every week. And we're a young team that you know,

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Speaker 1: we feel like we can keep getting better, but a

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Speaker 1: lot of work ahead of us. It sounds, it sounds, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: like you have killed the twenty four hour rule, and

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Speaker 1: We get like four hours and then we had to

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Speaker 1: focus back again. No doubt about it. I think we

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Speaker 1: But as Zach Martin said, hey, we've done our business

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Speaker 1: and at three twenty five, that fun day ahead of us.

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Speaker 1: I love everybody got to enjoy that win. I got

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Speaker 1: to enjoy that win yesterday afternoon and last night, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure all the players are back focused on the giant. Stephen,

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Speaker 1: it seems like you're getting so much out of your talent. Specifically,

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about your rookies on defense. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was very optimistic to think that rookies can

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Speaker 1: make as big of an impact, especially kind of outside

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Speaker 1: your front from this draft. How excited are you that

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Speaker 1: these guys are able to produce at an NFL level

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Speaker 1: this quickly. Well, it certainly is encouraging. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: whether it's free agents that we picked up with a

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Speaker 1: nice to see those guys step up. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the encouraging thing is all those guys I just mentioned

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Speaker 1: you know, we've got some guys who will be working

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Speaker 1: back in. We all know it's a long season and

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Speaker 1: you certainly need the numbers in this league. I think

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Speaker 1: I've mentioned on this show before that you know, when

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Speaker 1: Mike won the Super Bowl, I think he played eighty

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Speaker 1: seventy eight different players played in games, and so you know,

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Speaker 1: it is a journey, and uh, certainly you need this

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Speaker 1: some challenges out there in terms of week to week Stephen,

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Speaker 1: right now, like everybody's giving Kellen Moore and Dan Quinn

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Speaker 1: success of this team right now? Well, it's it's the

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Speaker 1: So Stephen. As we are watching the game on television,

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Speaker 1: be great to get him back, and how how do

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Speaker 1: He continues to grow and progress here. Yeah, he continues

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Speaker 1: to shut the door just now? Yeah? Sorry about that.

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Speaker 1: You were like, hell, no, you're being too loud out there, guys,

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Speaker 1: All right, Steven, So now I need you to be

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Speaker 1: big challenge on Sandy. Awesome. Thank you so much, Stephen.

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Speaker 1: Love talking with you every Monday. We'll catch up with

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Speaker 1: you next week, sir. Sounds great, guys, Thank you,