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Speaker 1: Cowboys coo Stephen Jones joining us now here on your

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Speaker 1: home with the Cowboys. Good afternoon, or thanks for joining us,

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, guys. So Clayborne out for the Browns. That's

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Speaker 1: that's a fun storyline. But Tyrne ends the big one

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Speaker 1: here to start with you, how sure are you he's

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Speaker 1: going to be able to suit up for the Sunday

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Speaker 1: noon start well marrying any setbacks. We feel pretty confident

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Speaker 1: that he's gonna be able to do it. So obviously

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Speaker 1: we're gonna work a little bit Barn, He'll warm up,

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Speaker 1: make sure he feels good at game time, and but

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Speaker 1: you know, certainly feel a lot more optimistic than we

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Speaker 1: have the last couple of weeks. And it's looking pretty

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Speaker 1: good for Tank as well. It looks like do you

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Speaker 1: think he could handle, you know, his normal snap load

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Speaker 1: just kind of gonna be week to week like that,

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Speaker 1: just kind of playing it by here and seeing how

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Speaker 1: he does. I think, you know, we'll monitor at one

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Speaker 1: thing you know about Tank is he's gonna if he

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Speaker 1: can go, he's gonna go. He's proven that throughout his

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Speaker 1: whole career, and you know times when you thought, hey,

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Speaker 1: most guys would have surgery, he played through the season.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he just goes out and does everything you

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Speaker 1: we'll get everything he's got and we'll see see how

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Speaker 1: that is. The good news is and not unlike we've

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Speaker 1: been around here for a long time. We like to

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Speaker 1: dress quite a few defensive linemen and we'll be able

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Speaker 1: to obviously take up any slack if he needs. If

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Speaker 1: he doesn't get the full load. Steven, I'd imagine you

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Speaker 1: guys have had to throw a little bit more than

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Speaker 1: you plan too because of game circumstances so far this year.

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Speaker 1: But I am curious Dak's on pace to throw for

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Speaker 1: six thousand, three hundred and thirty six yards. If he

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Speaker 1: does that, how many dollars does he get? You know?

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Speaker 1: I think usually what gets everybody's attention is how many wins.

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Speaker 1: We certainly want him to throw, you know, for whatever

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Speaker 1: it takes to win games. And if going for a

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I think our goals

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Speaker 1: some tough situations and certainly not that being doings, but

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Speaker 1: you know, between our turnovers and some special teams eras

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Speaker 1: and safety here and that type of thing, we've just

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Speaker 1: gotten ourselves behind a ball. I think we played one

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Speaker 1: you know that that leads you to throw the ball

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Speaker 1: more when you're when you're behind. But I think this

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Speaker 1: you know, when we're more evenly ratio in terms of

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Speaker 1: our run passed Stephen, you know you've got Seattle off

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Speaker 1: the field eight times last week on defense. But then

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Speaker 1: you talk about the big plays that they got. When

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Speaker 1: you sat down and watched with the coaches, what was

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Speaker 1: their explanation for why you had the bust you did

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Speaker 1: in the set second Darry to allow those receivers to

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Speaker 1: there were some tough situations in there. Uh, in terms

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Speaker 1: But we are giving them some short fields and u

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Speaker 1: gotta have. As you know, Brian, you got to you

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Speaker 1: what can help Okay, what can help make that happen? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: get it right. It's Stephen Jones here with us on

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Speaker 1: the fan. You and Jerry's so involved in the league matters.

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Speaker 1: How has the story in tennis and COVID resonated across

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Speaker 1: that story changed this week? Well, I think it just

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Speaker 1: you know, if you let up at all. Steven I

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Speaker 1: So it's certainly a good one. I think that only

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Speaker 1: Certainly that's one of them for us. And I know

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Speaker 1: Beidits will continue to improve and push and I know

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Speaker 1: Joe's going to continue to work even harder to keep

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Speaker 1: Oh Steven, don't say that, including Will and his staff.

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Speaker 1: from top to bottom, Steven, I know you got to

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Speaker 1: I like you believe that. Uh, you know, it's a

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