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Speaker 2: Club is here and they get to actually they wave

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Speaker 3: So that's a great thing.

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Speaker 3: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: If you're listening anywhere on the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network

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Speaker 2: dot com. And momentarily we will have the arrival of

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Speaker 2: our very special guest, Eric Kendricks, the Cowboys new middle linebacker,

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Speaker 2: and Nicole. That's a great way for us to start

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Speaker 2: because I think he just must have just walked in.

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Speaker 3: So let's hear it for Kendricks.

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Speaker 2: Now, huh, here we go, Here we go, welcome it.

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Speaker 2: Slip that headset on.

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Speaker 3: Very good. I know you've done that before. Can you

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Speaker 3: hear us?

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Speaker 4: I can hear you a clear and we can hear you.

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Speaker 2: Now give Eric Kendricks an official welcome, will you please

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Speaker 2: like the one he deserves.

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Speaker 4: What's up?

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Speaker 2: We were just dipping a toe into how great you

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Speaker 2: guys were as a unit yesterday. You've got ten years

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Speaker 2: or something like it did yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Surprise you at all?

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Speaker 2: Did you do better as a group then you expected to,

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Speaker 2: or did that kind of meet what you thought?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 5: I feel like that that met you know, met what

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Speaker 5: it's like, we have a lot of stuff to clean up, too,

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Speaker 5: So the perfectionist in me is kind of like leaning

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Speaker 5: on that. You know, obviously we had a good performance

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Speaker 5: effort was there, you know, the want to you know,

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Speaker 5: the stop stopping, the run, things like that. So you

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Speaker 5: know there's a lot of good things that happened, for sure,

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Speaker 5: but you know, reflecting on it earlier this morning, you know,

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Speaker 5: it's like, we can be better, you know, And that's

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Speaker 5: that's what the standards gotta be.

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Speaker 6: When you say you have things to clean up, what

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Speaker 6: does that look like? Because you know this Brown's deep

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Speaker 5: Just communication alone, you know, I feel like the things

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Speaker 5: gonna be some games down the line. It's it's inevitable

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Speaker 5: in the NFL that are just like really close games.

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Speaker 5: And in those close games, it comes down to the

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Speaker 5: very small details and and that comes down to little

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Speaker 5: and make everyone react a little bit faster and get

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Speaker 2: Those of you who did not play in any preseason games,

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Speaker 2: tell me about how that impacts when you start for real,

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Speaker 2: because in a sense, it's kind of like preseason in

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Speaker 2: Accept it counts. It can't be like preseason. So and

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Speaker 2: that's probably changed since you came in the league. How

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Speaker 5: Man, if you're a pro, you know, if you're a

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Speaker 5: you prepare in practice. And you know, obviously preseason is important,

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Speaker 3: How good.

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Speaker 6: How has your preparation for games changed over the years

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Speaker 4: No, it's definitely changed. Shoot.

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Speaker 5: Uh, I've learned a lot, you know, obviously throughout the time.

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Speaker 4: Of games are just gonna.

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Speaker 5: Be you know, you relying on your fundamentals, playing fast

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Speaker 5: something that I've learned. You know, it's taking care of

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Speaker 5: You know, through college, and I've developed a great routine

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Speaker 2: I want to get more into whatever you want to

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Speaker 2: share with it about that routine a little bit later.

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Speaker 2: But I want to follow up on Nicole's first question

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Speaker 2: about when you say you go in and clean it up.

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Speaker 2: I've been at this for a while, so you'll excuse

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Speaker 2: me if I throw in a reference or two from

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Speaker 2: decades gone by. The Cowboys used to have a receiver

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Speaker 2: film room. On Monday, they and they want a lot

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Speaker 2: excuse me, we're about to go into this film and

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think that it's just from a mindset standpoint,

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Speaker 5: we went out there and we executed regardless, it was like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: To you know, clean it up.

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Speaker 5: So even with film, it's kind of like the same thing,

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Speaker 5: you know what I mean. The standard is always a standard,

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Speaker 3: If the standard.

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Speaker 2: If you keep playing like you did yesterday and especially

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Speaker 2: in the first second half, things got.

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Speaker 3: Kind of sideways. They had they ran forty eight plays

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Speaker 3: But if you keep playing well, will the standard raise.

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Speaker 5: I think inevitably, right, I think that you know, this

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 5: you know, we're still learning a lot about each other,

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Speaker 4: But we still you know, we know what we got.

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Speaker 6: What is Mike Zimmer's standard for you guys as a defense?

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Speaker 5: You know, I think that's just like, you know, good

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Speaker 5: it's just like that's what we want. You know, we

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Speaker 5: want to get off on third down. We want to

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Speaker 5: stop the run. That's what makes it fun. So you know,

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Speaker 5: we should each have that standard.

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Speaker 3: The run defense part.

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Speaker 2: Why is that something that if a team is coordinated,

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Speaker 5: It's just the makes it. It makes it a certain

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Speaker 4: But at the same time, run defenses is fundamental.

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Speaker 4: Stopping the run is like, how do I explain It's.

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Speaker 5: it's like you stop the run and it's obvious, but

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Speaker 5: You know, even though things were favorable yesterday, you know,

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Speaker 6: Speaking of stopping the run, how much has bringing in

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Speaker 6: guys like Linval Joseph, Jordan Phillips, Uh, that interior defensive

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like, you know, those guys are just

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Speaker 5: want to play good defense man. They just want to

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Speaker 5: you know, do their job, play their role and and win.

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Speaker 3: Phillips.

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Speaker 2: Phillips the fascinating guy to be. He's built like a

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Speaker 2: plays the same position osa Odigi Zua does. In his

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Speaker 2: first day in training camp, he told reporters he said, look,

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Speaker 2: I don't My statistics are when my linebackers make and

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Speaker 2: when you have two guy looked up one time yesterday

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Speaker 2: and there they both were Joseph and Phillips next.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, you know, I played with them voll for X

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm looking forward to Cowboy fans getting to know

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Speaker 2: How are you gonna do one of those going in?

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Speaker 2: Brian Sham along with Nicole Hutchinson our very special guests

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Speaker 2: this evening. It's Eric Kendricks, the Cowboys middle linebacker. Want

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Speaker 3: People to get to know you a little bit.

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Speaker 2: First three sports star in high school, and apparently you

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Speaker 5: I played h I played shortstop in my senior year

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Speaker 3: And you were on a championship team right.

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Speaker 4: No, not for baseball, no, no.

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Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, I feel like I put the least

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Speaker 2: Did you get recruited by anybody to play baseball in college?

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Speaker 5: So my senior year, I started having people come and

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Speaker 5: Committed to go play football UCLA and my brother, I

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Speaker 5: So I was kind of like, you know, you could

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Speaker 2: Did anybody whisper in your ear? You know, you can

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but baseball is boring.

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Speaker 5: It's like, okay, you know, it's just you know the

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Speaker 5: it's fun when you're hitting and doing you know, getting

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Speaker 5: It was just kind of like a bunch of people

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Speaker 3: And you were a short. You could have never played

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Speaker 4: Out loud, probably I probably would have been an outfielder

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Speaker 2: And then I look at your college career, by the way,

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Speaker 3: Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Speaker 2: This is the winner of the Buckets Award as the

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Speaker 3: Did you get to meet him?

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Speaker 5: One of my favorite things about that the whole experience,

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Speaker 5: Award was presented, and we had a workout with my team.

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Speaker 5: It was like between the end of the season and

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Speaker 2: And I'll never forget that, to be honest, did you

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Speaker 3: Did you know who Dick Buckets was when you started

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Speaker 4: Absolutely?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, especially you know, being a linebacker. You know that's

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Speaker 5: You know it's like it's like and Mike's you know,

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Speaker 2: So the reason I'm asking, and this is, this is

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Speaker 3: I've told you this.

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Speaker 2: Ye I've loved watching you play for all these years.

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Speaker 2: Some people are born, I think to the positions that

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Speaker 3: Because it seems to me, tell me.

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Speaker 2: If I'm wrong you you you embrace the leadership role.

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Speaker 5: You know, I feel like the one of the one

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Speaker 5: Kind of you know, was on that taking that you know,

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Speaker 6: Who was your football growing up or even when you

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Speaker 3: Do not say Michael Kendrick.

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Speaker 4: It was for first of all, it's one hundred percent

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Speaker 3: Then talk about it.

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Speaker 4: My brother was just.

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Speaker 5: Like the trailblazer, you know, you know when they say

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Speaker 4: And absolutely I learned from him.

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Speaker 5: It was like he was going through everything I was

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Speaker 6: And when you talk about the leadership role that you

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Speaker 5: So jeff Olbrick was my first college linebacker coach with

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Speaker 4: The fire too.

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Speaker 3: Michael was two years ahead of you.

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Speaker 4: My brother was, yeah, two or three, I'm not too sure.

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Speaker 2: I remember watching him play, and then you came into

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Speaker 3: To myself, how the hell many of these guys are

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Speaker 2: Because you you had similar styles.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we kind of we're kind of just kind of

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Speaker 5: like sneaky, Like I don't know how to explained that.

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Speaker 5: We we both, you know, we both grew up playing

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Speaker 2: But I don't know, Well, speaking of sneaky, and I've

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Speaker 2: be good for that. And I saw Michael Michael, I see,

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Speaker 3: And I thought, look at that.

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Speaker 2: He can still do that, And it's so instinctive. And

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Speaker 2: the more we watch of you, the more we see it.

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Speaker 2: Do you does you get your back up? When people

446
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Speaker 2: say where'd that come from?

447
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Speaker 4: Or do you have I'm like, where's it gone? Like

448
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,880
Speaker 4: what do you mean? Where has it coming? It hasn't left,

449
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Speaker 4: you know.

450
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Speaker 5: But at the same time, I take such such good

451
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Speaker 5: care of my body, and I think that that's why

452
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Speaker 5: people have a common misconception of like, you know players.

453
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Speaker 4: Now you know, I've.

454
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Speaker 5: Seen I seen Patrick Peterson have the best like season

455
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Speaker 5: I've like ever seen out of any corner and just

456
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Speaker 5: like casually just get you know, overlooked. I mean my

457
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Speaker 5: last year with him in Minnesota, and it was just

458
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Speaker 5: because he you know, he was getting up there in age.

459
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Speaker 4: But like if you look at you know, the year

460
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Speaker 4: he had, it was incredible.

461
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Speaker 5: But Patrick Peterson takes care of his body. You know,

462
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Speaker 5: he does things right. He changed the way he's he's played,

463
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Speaker 5: and he's and he's developed with the game as it's

464
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,959
Speaker 5: as it's went along. And you know, those are some

465
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Speaker 5: of the guys that I've looked up to and learned

466
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Speaker 5: from as I got in the league. Also, like there's

467
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Speaker 5: there's the guys who play used to play. I feel

468
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Speaker 5: like they didn't take care of their bodies as well

469
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Speaker 5: as we do.

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Speaker 3: Now, well that's exactly right.

471
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Speaker 4: Have you ever talked to any they're all psychos?

472
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Speaker 5: Like the routine is like like it wouldn't even like work.

473
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Speaker 2: Now, well what was it? And how has years evolved

474
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Speaker 2: over ten years?

475
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Speaker 5: You know, I just you know, you just find stuff

476
00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 5: that works for you. And you know, a lot of

477
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 5: it's body work, a lot of it's you know, these

478
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 5: these these wonderful people that have come into my life

479
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,399
Speaker 5: and helped me throughout the season to be you know,

480
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Speaker 5: you know the player that I am.

481
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Speaker 6: You clearly still got the juice right. And something that

482
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 6: you mentioned when you signed here with account UH this

483
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 6: off season was that you still have something to prove.

484
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,400
Speaker 6: You know, what does that look like?

485
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Speaker 4: I don't know.

486
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Speaker 5: I'm just you know, it's more of a you know,

487
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 5: more of a me versus me think. You know, I

488
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:27,639
Speaker 5: just want to you know, prove it to myself, you know,

489
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Speaker 5: first and foremost. You know, I I love this game.

490
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 5: It's fun to me. So you know, if it's not

491
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Speaker 5: for if it's not for me, then you know who

492
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Speaker 5: am I doing for? So I think that's that's the

493
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Speaker 5: main thing.

494
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Speaker 2: Who were the Vikings linebackers when you were drafted check

495
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Speaker 2: and round pick.

496
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Speaker 5: It was Chad Greenway, it was Anthony Barr, it was

497
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Speaker 5: Audie Cole, it was Maddie, it was Edmund Robinson, and Uh.

498
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Speaker 4: I think there was one more.

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Speaker 2: Uh and Bar was here a couple of years ago,

500
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Speaker 2: had a year here.

501
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Speaker 3: And Greenway.

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Speaker 2: When I remember of Greenway, especially later in his career,

503
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Speaker 2: he was so smart that what if he lost anything physically,

504
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 2: he made up for it by anticipation and understanding the game.

505
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Speaker 5: And I remember definitely, I mean, uh, I say people,

506
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Speaker 5: I tell people all the time, I think that when

507
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 5: I go back and look at my rookie film, I'm

508
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 5: moving around so fast, like left and right, this and there.

509
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 4: But it's like these are all sometimes wasted movements, you

510
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Speaker 4: know what I mean? Like did you know where you

511
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 4: were going? I was just like frantic, where am I going?

512
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Speaker 4: Where am I going?

513
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Speaker 1: Oh?

514
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna run this way, and it was like, you know,

515
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 5: now it's just much more of a calm approach, and

516
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 5: it's like, now, my, my, I'm much more efficient.

517
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Speaker 2: We're going to follow up on that and get your

518
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Speaker 2: opinion of some of your young teammates. We are delighted

519
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Speaker 2: to have Eric Kendricks with us. The Cowboys middle linebacker

520
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Speaker 2: is on The Cowboys Hour at Sidecars Social and Frisco.

521
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Speaker 3: We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: Don't come wards, No Cowboys, No Cowboys.

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Speaker 8: Tis the Millers Cowboys Hour, supported by Albertson and broadcasting

524
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Speaker 8: live from Side Cars Social at the Star Infra Scoll.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back, Welcome back to the Cowboys Hour with our

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Speaker 3: special guest, Eric Hendricks, the Cowboys middle linebacker. I'm Brad

527
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Speaker 3: Sham with Nicole Hutchinson.

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Speaker 2: We'll have some of your questions for Eric a little

529
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Speaker 2: bit later in the show, and first, with my apologies,

530
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Speaker 2: I got to make a personal observation. You have got

531
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Speaker 2: the best head of hair.

532
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Speaker 3: I have seen in the longest damn time. That is

533
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Thank you, I mean seriously. I mean

534
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 3: I've still got a little bit of hair, but I

535
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 3: mean that that's a great head of hair. What do

536
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Speaker 3: you do to maintain that?

537
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Speaker 5: Wow, it's funny you asked, because I have my own

538
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 5: hair product and it's called Switzerland's is it?

539
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 3: Are you? Do you sell it? Yeah, let's sell it.

540
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 4: Come on curl cream.

541
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Speaker 5: And guess what I use it on my day to

542
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 5: day you know, And that's what I use in my hair.

543
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 5: You know, I have an active life, and it's it's

544
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 5: a product fit for my lifestyle.

545
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Speaker 6: And fun fact, I actually have it in my hair

546
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Speaker 6: right now.

547
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Speaker 3: You did you? Did you write that yourself an active lifestyle?

548
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 5: And I mean, this is true, It's true, all of

549
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 5: it's true. I created it for myself, but you know,

550
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 5: obviously with the intentive sell.

551
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 3: And where do people buy it?

552
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 4: They buy it on switch lanes dot.

553
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 3: Us, switch lanes dot us.

554
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 4: All right, I had nice plug.

555
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 3: We did not arrange that in advance. I handle no idea.

556
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 3: I had no idea. Love it all right?

557
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 2: You so you've talked a couple of times about the

558
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Speaker 2: way you take care of yourself. Talk please about the

559
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 2: way whatever your physical regimen was when you came into

560
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 2: the league and how it's evolved to whatever it is today.

561
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 5: So when I first got in the league, I would

562
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 5: get two massages. So I would get one on Tuesdays

563
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 5: and then I would get one on Fridays. And I

564
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 5: would see a doctor like probably once a once a

565
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 5: week to like pop my ankles, adjust my ankles, like

566
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Speaker 5: make sure I'm aligned, that kind of stuff. And then

567
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Speaker 5: it went from that to where I'm at kind of now,

568
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 5: and it's kind of like now I'm I'm getting you know,

569
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Speaker 5: two to three massages a week I get. I got

570
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Speaker 5: Just like I said, I just saw my acupuncturess. I'll

571
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 5: see my acupunctures again before the game.

572
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 4: What else? Uh I see? I got pilates.

573
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Speaker 5: Every Tuesday, I drive out, you know, Uh, I drive

574
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 5: out like forty minutes to see a chiropractor.

575
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Speaker 4: So I'll be doing that every Tuesday.

576
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Speaker 3: I hope that doctor Fred.

577
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Speaker 5: And then I you know, I'm just nutrition and everything

578
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 5: is just completely changed.

579
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Speaker 2: Like what I eat, Yeah, so what what you used

580
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 2: to eat that you don't eat now?

581
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Speaker 4: Shoot?

582
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Speaker 3: I mean better not say fried foods? Because I heard

583
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 3: you order French fries.

584
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, French fries.

585
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, French fries are potatoes, though, But I want to

586
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 5: I want to order anything that would be like, you know,

587
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 5: like like fried chicken with like wheat on the on

588
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 5: the outside of it. So I try to cut that

589
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 5: out a little bit gluten you like you, Yeah, I try.

590
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 4: To do that. You know, it's mainly just eating good.

591
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 4: You know, how much of.

592
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 6: This regimen do you kind of uh tell the younger

593
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 6: guys in this defense to kind of help the importance

594
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 6: of taking care of your buddy, Oh for sure.

595
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Speaker 4: I mean I think that. You know, you look around

596
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 4: at all the guys who have been playing a long time,

597
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 4: and there's no question why they're playing. You know, they

598
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 4: take care of their bodies.

599
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 5: And and you know there's a couple of freaks out there,

600
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 5: you know, but you know the NFL will always like,

601
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 5: you know, harness those guys. At the same time, you

602
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 5: know you're gonna be banged up. It's a physical game,

603
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 5: so you got to take care of yourself.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me, I'm just reeling.

605
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Speaker 2: It's the fact that I brought up his hair and

606
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 2: you've got the product in your hair, and you did

607
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 2: not give him a plug.

608
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Speaker 6: I sorry, you know what, make sure to go check

609
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 6: out switch Lanes. It's amazing. It works great on my hair.

610
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 6: The curls are popping all the time, so make sure

611
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Speaker 6: you go check it out.

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Speaker 3: Wow, there we go, because that's a plug. I'm not

613
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Speaker 3: gonna benawitch Gears.

614
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Speaker 6: I didn't want to.

615
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I mean, I'm just still kind of

616
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 3: reeling at that. All right, let's talk about some of

617
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Speaker 3: the some of your young teammates.

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Speaker 2: You've got a couple of guys. Obviously, I think everybody's

619
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 2: eyes immediately are attracted to number thirteen. We saw a

620
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 2: lot of that yesterday. But you've got some young teammates,

621
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Speaker 2: and I'd love to hear your thoughts about how they

622
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 2: are progressing and what you see as their potential and

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Speaker 2: what you do to mentor them.

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Speaker 5: Man, I just try to be I just try to

625
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 5: be myself. You know, I'm trying to do too much.

626
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 5: You know a lot of you know, when I get questions,

627
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:25,720
Speaker 5: I'll always give them answers.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 5: I always like I'm an open book to them. They

630
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Speaker 5: you know, I hope they know that, you know, like

631
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 5: anything they want from me or need for me, I'll

632
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 5: be there to talk with them or anything.

633
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Speaker 1: Like.

634
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Speaker 5: I'm never trying to like hold anything back from them,

635
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 5: you know, to you know, put myself up. It's never

636
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 5: like that. It's like anything I got you could have,

637
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 5: you know. So you know, I hope they know that

638
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 5: first and foremost. But you know, they're inspiring me. I'm

639
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 5: seeing their effort, you know, especially you know, on tape

640
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 5: and you know, in practice, and I'm and it's and

641
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Speaker 5: it's getting me more motivated, like to match their level,

642
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 5: you know, match their level of my tenth year in

643
00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:58,399
Speaker 5: the league.

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Speaker 4: You know. So it's it's been great be around.

645
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 5: And you know, we have a lot of young guys,

646
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 5: but you know a lot of really good, good talent

647
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:05,879
Speaker 5: in our room.

648
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Speaker 6: What stands out the most about a guy like Mayor

649
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 6: slufou Man just.

650
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 4: How you know, he just knows it.

651
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 5: He knows his role and he's gonna be like maximizing,

652
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 5: you know, just playing like you know, he's just he's smart,

653
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 5: he understands it. He you know, is never gonna do

654
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 5: too much. You know, he's never going to do too

655
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 5: little by any means. But you know, he knows right

656
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 5: or he's supposed to be at and he's just working

657
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 5: to be better every day and you gotta love.

658
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 2: It a little bit along the same line of Demona Clark,

659
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 2: because he obviously had injuries at LSU, but everybody saw

660
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 2: the player that he was, and his positional role has

661
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 2: kind of evolved in a couple of years since he's

662
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 2: been here. He seems to be in a position now

663
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Speaker 2: that suits him a little bit better. What do you

664
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Speaker 2: what have you talked with him about? What do you

665
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Speaker 2: see when you look at him? Man?

666
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Speaker 5: I just you know, I what I just what I

667
00:35:58,280 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 5: just talked to him about is just like you know,

668
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 5: just it's only the controllaballs, you know what I mean. Like,

669
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 5: obviously this game is a crazy one, and you have

670
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 5: that he has a talent, he has a skill, and

671
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 5: he has a mindset to be in this league. So

672
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 5: it's just about doing it every day, day in and

673
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 5: day out, and just trusting the process.

674
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Speaker 4: Right.

675
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 2: I saved overshown because people around here who watched him

676
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 2: play at Texas, you know, knew what he was.

677
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 3: But yesterday, I mean he and he and Michael Parsons

678
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 3: are kind of in the same rough general area, and

679
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 3: he beat Parsons to the quarterback and you know, we're

680
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 3: not used to seeing people beat Mia mic is so fast.

681
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 2: What is there about overshown that is different than other guys?

682
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 5: That speed is crazy. I mean, he just he's his

683
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 5: stride is insane. But the effort, you know, I mean,

684
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 5: like just looking back at my in my career and

685
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 5: even you know, just to get to just to get

686
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 5: to college. The things that got me to college was

687
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 5: just being around.

688
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,760
Speaker 4: The ball, you know what I mean, and and and.

689
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 5: Building those habits of just into the ball and being

690
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 5: physical and and and it's gonna pay off.

691
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 6: A little fun stat the play that you're talking about,

692
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,399
Speaker 6: the sack on Watson, he covered fourteen yards and two

693
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 6: point five seconds. Pretty sick just saying that's fast.

694
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 3: Say that again because I saw that today. I saw

695
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 3: you tweeted that.

696
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 6: I said, wait, covered four yards in two point five seconds.

697
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 3: I think that's go home and try that later.

698
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 2: Mark out fourteen yards and see how fast how far

699
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 2: you can get in two and a half seconds.

700
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 6: But when you had a chance to look back at

701
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 6: the film of the linebacker play last year, and of

702
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 6: course it was a little different circumstances, but would you

703
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 6: say that speed separates this twenty twenty four linebacker corps

704
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 6: from the rest of the NFL.

705
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 5: I honestly don't know. I want to I didn't even

706
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 5: look at that. I mean, I've seen some stuff, but

707
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't know if speed was what we're

708
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 5: trying to go for. You know, we're just trying to

709
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 5: be We're just trying to be the best we can

710
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 5: be and do our job and help our teammates along

711
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 5: the way, you know, so we can all be our best,

712
00:37:59,160 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 5: all right.

713
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 2: If if this was a sensitive area, say that next question.

714
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 2: A couple of times I've heard people try to ask

715
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 2: you about you because you were ticketed to go to

716
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 2: San Francisco. Everybody thought you were going to San Francisco,

717
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,879
Speaker 2: and then you wound up here. And what I've heard

718
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 2: you say about it is this was the opportunity to

719
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 2: wear the green dot, be the middle linebacker, be the

720
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 2: boss out there.

721
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 3: Is Is there any other.

722
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 2: Part of the story about why you came here instead

723
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 2: of going there?

724
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 3: And thank you for doing that, by.

725
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 5: The way, No, I mean to be honest, I was it.

726
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 5: You know, it was a it was a hard decision

727
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 5: for me, one of the hardest I've.

728
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 3: Ever had to maney. What did they want you to do.

729
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 5: I mean, it was just you know, obviously Fred is

730
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 5: their middle linebacker, so it was just like I was

731
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 5: going to be playing, you know, alongside of him, and

732
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 5: you know, it's it's over with now.

733
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 4: So I'm I'm, I'm this is all. I'm ready to

734
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 4: close the book on it.

735
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 5: I mean, it's I've had to answer questions about it,

736
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 5: and you know, it is what it is. You know,

737
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 5: obviously I made the decision, but I'm ready to just

738
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,720
Speaker 5: get you know, just grounded here.

739
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:03,320
Speaker 2: So that I'm circling back to something we talked about before,

740
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 2: but that leadership, the ability to be in charge and

741
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,800
Speaker 2: get guys in place. Is that sounds like it's something

742
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 2: you have grown into through the years that you now

743
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 2: feel is a real part of your football identity.

744
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 5: I love it, you know, and I feel like, you know,

745
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 5: this defense is just so much fun.

746
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 6: Something that I remember this in training camp is that

747
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,439
Speaker 6: a lot of the guys were sitting in on Mike

748
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 6: Zimmer's meetings. Treyvon Diggs Michael Parsons said it.

749
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 4: Do you do that as well.

750
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 6: Like coaching meetings or have you done that in the past?

751
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 6: Since you have positives, I.

752
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 5: Feel like we have so much communication at all times.

753
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 5: So it's like, you know, things that things that need

754
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 5: to be communicated always end up going through me. So

755
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 5: you know, I would like to think that that line

756
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 5: is always open with the guys.

757
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 6: That do sit in those meetings. Have you seen that

758
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 6: kind of help them as far as their game?

759
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 5: I mean, I feel like one thing, one thing I

760
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 5: got from being with them early on was that I

761
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 5: learned more football than I had ever ever known. So like,

762
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 5: hopefully these guys are getting that same type of game

763
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 5: every week. Has he mellowed, Yeah, I mean he's always

764
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 5: gonna be He's always gonna be the same fiery mic.

765
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 5: But you know, I feel like we're all just we're

766
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 5: all just living and learning and getting and getting you know,

767
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 5: advancing and getting getting smarter, stronger.

768
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Speaker 3: He said.

769
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Speaker 2: He said today that some guys he didn't say who,

770
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 2: but he said some guys came up to him after

771
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 2: the game and said, and I know this would not

772
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 2: have been you because you already know the answer, but

773
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:33,919
Speaker 2: a couple of guys come up to him and said, Coach,

774
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 2: is that is that how you're gonna be calling games?

775
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 3: And he said, yeah, pretty much. Why did you not

776
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 3: like it? And they said no, no, No, it was good.

777
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 3: We just want to kind of know what to expect.

778
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, shoot, like I said, you know, it's

779
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 5: gonna be a long year. Man, We're gonna be learning

780
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 5: a lot together and we gotta just stay together.

781
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 6: When you first heard the theme rooted for this team

782
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 6: heading into this year, what was your thoughts on that

783
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 6: that theme?

784
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just like it just feels strong. I

785
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 5: feel strong, you know what I mean. So, like, you know,

786
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 5: there's gonna be you know, growing that needs to be done,

787
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 5: you know, with that rooted and growing. I mean, I'm

788
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 5: trying to kind of keep it like cohesive. But it's

789
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 5: gonna be fun.

790
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:21,720
Speaker 2: Well, yesterday was fun.

791
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 3: Yesterday it was a lot of fun to watch.

792
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, great, good defense is just always fun to watch,

793
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 2: and and yours seems to be fun to watch in

794
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 2: a way that's a little bit different because a lot

795
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:39,240
Speaker 2: of people around who watch professional football, they they think

796
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 2: fun is seeing four guys up front, dominate, get in

797
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 2: the backfield, get a bunch of sacks.

798
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 3: You had two yesterday. There's a there's a lot of

799
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 3: ways to to control the tempo of a football game,

800
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 3: but yours seems to me to be like from a

801
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 3: front to back kind of deal.

802
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 5: It's just like, uh, it'll always change depending on who

803
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 5: we're playing, you know what I mean. Like, that's what

804
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 5: I was trying to tell everybody. I'm like, man, there's

805
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 5: no better feeling than playing good defense because it doesn't

806
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:09,280
Speaker 5: matter who's is getting stats.

807
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,399
Speaker 4: Yet yesterday, you know, I had a good day.

808
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 5: But maybe there's gonna be some times where I'm forced

809
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 5: to you know, cover and you know, chase things down

810
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 5: and not really receive the credit.

811
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 4: But you know, maybe I'll propel somebody else to have success.

812
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 5: And you know, as long as we're winning, as long

813
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 5: as we're playing good defense, I do not care. And

814
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 5: that's how it has to be, because that's how that's

815
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 5: when it's the most fun.

816
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 2: Although you did keep the interception ball, right I did.

817
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 4: That was my first one with with with with with

818
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:34,359
Speaker 4: the star on my helmet.

819
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 2: Right there you go, Eric Kendricks, the Cowboys middle linebackers,

820
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:39,240
Speaker 2: our guests, your.

821
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 3: Question for Eric when we come back.

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Speaker 4: There is last.

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Speaker 1: Cow Cowboys, no Cowbaws, no Cowboys.

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Speaker 8: Tars in the Miller Cowboys Hour, supported Mike Albertson and

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Speaker 8: broadcasting live from Side Cars Social at the Star Infrasco.

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Speaker 3: On victory Monday, the Cowboys having beaten the Cleveland Browns

836
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,760
Speaker 3: yesterday in the season.

837
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 2: Opener, And uh, I'm Brad Sham along with Nicole Hutchinson,

838
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 2: our very special guest Eric Kendricks, and the Cowboys middle

839
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 2: linebacker Mike McCage. You have no frame of reference for

840
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 2: this particular thing, but Mike McCarthy changed the game day

841
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 2: schedule on the road because the road record wasn't what

842
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 2: everybody wanted it to be last year. I've said a

843
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 2: couple of times, I've never seen the road beat anybody,

844
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,879
Speaker 2: but it can get in people's heads. So how that

845
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 2: being the case, how big a deal is getting a

846
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 2: road wind to start the year.

847
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 3: Moved that a little clank you.

848
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 4: It's huge.

849
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously just getting to just getting a win

850
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,319
Speaker 5: in the NFL is so hard to come by, so

851
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 5: one on the road, you know, hostile environment, you know,

852
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 5: you know it's the matter of traveling and you know

853
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 5: all the extra stuff you have to do. But in

854
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,479
Speaker 5: the same breath, you know, there's nothing better than winning

855
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 5: a row game. You know, That's that's like some of

856
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 5: the best feelings I've had.

857
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,840
Speaker 2: In football when when they when the when the stadium,

858
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 2: when the fans are booing the home team, and then

859
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:31,280
Speaker 2: in the third quarter everybody's leaving as the visiting player

860
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:32,800
Speaker 2: who's causing that to happen.

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00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 4: It's amazing. It's like it's like on top. Yeah, it's like,

862
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 4: I don't know how to explain it.

863
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 2: It's like, so you weren't that kid that like took

864
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 2: people's lunch money and their sister's bike and that kind

865
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 2: of thing.

866
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 5: No, But I mean, in the same breath, you know,

867
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 5: when you go when you go to an away game,

868
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 5: you want to ruin some people's day, you know, you

869
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 5: want to be you want to make some people mad.

870
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 6: This was your first time actually playing in the Brown Stadium,

871
00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 6: So what was that atmosphere.

872
00:47:58,480 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 4: Like for you. Honestly, it was great.

873
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 5: You know, like I said, I'm I I actually love

874
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 5: away games. You know, I love being a hostile environment.

875
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 5: But it was a really cool stadium, a lot bigger

876
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 5: than I thought. You know, I had a lot of fans,

877
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 5: you know, I know, I know Cleveland's has a great

878
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 5: fan base. So, uh, it was a lot of fun.

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00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 2: And whatever your experience has been as a visiting player

880
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 2: at AT and.

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00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 4: T Stadium, it's been great.

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00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 1: You know.

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00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 5: I feel like I came here, uh for the first

884
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 5: time when I was in college actually, and.

885
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 4: We beat ut SO and that was in AT and

886
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 4: T So. Uh. I don't know if anybody remembers that

887
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 4: or as a ut fan, but hey, go Brewing.

888
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 3: If the Texas fans aren't good to admit it. Have

889
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 3: you played many here in the NFL?

890
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 4: Had I played?

891
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 6: Uh?

892
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 5: I think I played a preseason game and then I played,

893
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 5: I played, I played another game here. Yeah, I played

894
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 5: Sunday night, Sunday night game. A lot of fun.

895
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see the reaction on Sunday.

896
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:52,959
Speaker 2: We'll ask you about it again.

897
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 3: Let's get some questions from our audience.

898
00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:00,839
Speaker 9: Every Monday is Corey being like the middle linebacker. When

899
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 9: you're watching a film, like, are there certain things that

900
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 9: you look for that the offense may give away, or

901
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 9: like maybe the old line that you feel like can

902
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 9: be like an advantage to advantage for the defense that

903
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 9: you know you can help out as well as get

904
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 9: everybody in the right place, or you can kind of

905
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 9: see what's coming.

906
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 5: I think that is a fine line between you know,

907
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 5: trying to you know, trying to guess things that are happening.

908
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 5: But yeah, there's there's a lot of tendencies you can

909
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,720
Speaker 5: look at. I feel like some are more obvious than others.

910
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 5: But you definitely don't want to cloud your mind with

911
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 5: certain tendencies that aren't.

912
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,720
Speaker 4: Gonna mean anything, you know what I mean. So like if.

913
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 5: Something is you know it's important, but you know I

914
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 5: need to just react to it. I'm gonna rely on

915
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 5: that versus you know, a cut split by the wide receiver.

916
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 5: Like I need to know if a team has a

917
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 5: cut split like this past weekend, if he's gonna come

918
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 5: shallow or not, because that directly affects my job. So

919
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,399
Speaker 5: I better be looking at that kind of stuff on film,

920
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:55,879
Speaker 5: you know what I mean?

921
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,720
Speaker 2: How long does it take you to learn the window

922
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,399
Speaker 2: dress saying that a lot of offenses put out there.

923
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 2: They do a lot of show you a lot of stuff,

924
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:07,880
Speaker 2: then winds up not meaning anything. They're just trying to

925
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 2: convince you not to be where you want to be.

926
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 2: How long does it take to learn how to study

927
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 2: for that?

928
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just there's so much always and the

929
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,280
Speaker 5: like you're always gonna see a little bit of unscouted

930
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 5: looks too, So it's based on like reaction and like

931
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 5: just muscle memory. But especially when you're in the middle,

932
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 5: you know, it's a lot of counting going on, a

933
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 5: lot of you know, people going left and right in

934
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 5: front of you, so you have to you know, your

935
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 5: count changes, and if you're in split coverage, that's when

936
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 5: it kind of gets a little bit tricky. But you know,

937
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 5: I've been, like I said, I've been playing linebacker for

938
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 5: you know, middle linebacker for a while now, so I

939
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:40,760
Speaker 5: really feel comfortable.

940
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:43,320
Speaker 6: Oh, I don't know if we had another fan or not.

941
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Oh we do.

942
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. We didn't when I looked over

943
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:47,240
Speaker 3: there before.

944
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 7: All right, Larry from uh McKinney, Texas. The name come

945
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 7: across to you familiar as Robert Rodriguez. Can you tell

946
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 7: me how much you know about him? And was he

947
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:01,359
Speaker 7: really tough with you all?

948
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:03,360
Speaker 3: Who's Robert?

949
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 4: Robert Rodriguez?

950
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 7: He was the assistant defensive line coach with Minnesota.

951
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 4: Okay, how do you know him? That was like a

952
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 4: very specific question.

953
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:16,879
Speaker 5: I'm like, wait, I'm like Robert from where I thought

954
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 5: I was talking about Robert from here? Yeah, you know

955
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,280
Speaker 5: he was with Dre Patterson and you know they always

956
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 5: was here.

957
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

958
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 5: They would always teach me hand moves and stuff when

959
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 5: I would go over there during special teams.

960
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 4: So you know, I had a good relationship and we

961
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:29,879
Speaker 4: had a good run.

962
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 7: Okay, yes, he was his dad and I were co workers.

963
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 4: Awesome.

964
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,720
Speaker 3: And what did you learn from Andre Andre?

965
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 5: I mean a lot of my steps, you know, as

966
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 5: far as being in the split and things like that

967
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,359
Speaker 5: when you do get get on a running back quick

968
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 5: or something like that.

969
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 4: We worked on that a lot with him.

970
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 6: What's something that you've learned from al Harris because I've

971
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:52,799
Speaker 6: kind of peeped how you spend a lot of time

972
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 6: during practice just getting coached up or whether it's having

973
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:57,319
Speaker 6: conversations with him. What's it been like?

974
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,879
Speaker 5: I mean, if there's if if it's anything I've known

975
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 5: from you know, like like I said, I was on

976
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 5: different teams and you know, I was the outsider looking

977
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 5: in until this year. But it's if anything I learned

978
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 5: from being on the outside looking into the Cowboys, it's

979
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 5: the fact that you know, him and his little crew guys,

980
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 5: they know how to get the rock, you know what

981
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 5: I mean. So like I think as soon as I

982
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 5: got here, I kind of just was gravitory, gravitating towards

983
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 5: him in my free time, you know, with uh with

984
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 5: with Bland and Trey and you know, doing ball drills

985
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 5: and stuff, pre practice and things like that.

986
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 4: You know, I think that it's only gonna.

987
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 6: Help me disting the other interception.

988
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 5: I mean, like that' said what I'm saying, like these

989
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 5: these boys, I know, you know, I mean I think

990
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 5: I don't even Trey has a lot of picks, you know,

991
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 5: I don't even like I always knew that from outsider, Like, man,

992
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 5: what the he has a lot. So I'm like, you know,

993
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 5: if I can hang out with him and see how

994
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 5: it happens, hopefully that reps off a little bit on me.

995
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 2: It will Well what what what do you think it is? Hell,

996
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:50,320
Speaker 2: secret sucks.

997
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 5: I don't know, you know, I think that you know,

998
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 5: that's something that you know when when you got the sauce,

999
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 5: you know, you just have it. You know, it's just

1000
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:02,240
Speaker 5: you know, I don't Yeah, it's just like it's not

1001
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 5: not he's not trying to do much, you know, it's

1002
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 5: just it is all right.

1003
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 2: So your interception yesterday fascinating play. An interesting play because

1004
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 2: just like you and Micah were playing volleyball. He went up,

1005
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:15,279
Speaker 2: he went up to hand tipped. He would look, I

1006
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 2: don't think he's got an interception, He's got fumbled.

1007
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 5: Yeah, we we talked about that. I think he's gonna

1008
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 5: get one.

1009
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:21,760
Speaker 4: Oh especially the coverage.

1010
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 3: What did he say, you got my interception?

1011
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 4: Oh no, No.

1012
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 5: But that play was cool because you know, you know,

1013
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 5: it was like the the lineman could either block one

1014
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 5: of us, and he kind of came down to block me.

1015
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:35,760
Speaker 4: So as soon as he did that, I knew Michael

1016
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 4: was free.

1017
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 5: So I kind of started like peeling back to like

1018
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 5: maybe I thought the ball would be released. So I

1019
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:41,879
Speaker 5: was just kind of like peeling back to the maybe

1020
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:43,799
Speaker 5: run of the ball or you know, just turn around

1021
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 5: and see what was kind of happening, and it was

1022
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 5: just like boop right there, and it was like kind

1023
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 5: of like I just peeled right back into it.

1024
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 6: The ability for Zitber to place Micah anywhere, right, how

1025
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:56,359
Speaker 6: much do y'all feel like y'all have an advantage when

1026
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 6: it comes to taking on other offices?

1027
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 5: I mean it's just uh uh we work, We work

1028
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 5: for that advantage, you know what I mean. It's not

1029
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 5: like it's not like it's easy because Micah has to,

1030
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 5: you know, now, learn all these different positions and you know,

1031
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 5: different blitzes, different coverages and different you know, everything in

1032
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 5: between and alignments, and it's just like that if that's what,

1033
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 5: if that's what we're gonna do. You know, that's how

1034
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 5: we have to progress. You know, like I said, we

1035
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:21,439
Speaker 5: talk about standard. You know, we got to just get

1036
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 5: better and involved with that as well.

1037
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 2: Let's we got just a couple of minutes left. Let's

1038
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 2: uh give people a little more of a peek into

1039
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 2: your life. You talked about on Tuesday. You'll do pilates

1040
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,399
Speaker 2: and you'll do acupuncture a couple of times a week.

1041
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 2: When you're relaxing and you're trying to get away from football.

1042
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 3: What are you doing?

1043
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 4: I usually do a lot of stuff with cars.

1044
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,359
Speaker 5: Cars and cars and food are like the common thing,

1045
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 5: you know, Me, Me and me and my my WIFEI

1046
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 5: we like to go out to.

1047
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 6: Eat a lot.

1048
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 5: I do, yeah, I do so yeah. I love love cars,

1049
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 5: big car guy. Even to even washing my cars.

1050
00:54:58,120 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 4: I enjoy.

1051
00:54:58,840 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 3: How many do you have?

1052
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 4: Half off? And uh?

1053
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:02,839
Speaker 2: Can you what are they?

1054
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 3: What you have?

1055
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:06,399
Speaker 5: I have a I'll just tell you about one. I'm

1056
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 5: one of my favorite cars that I have right now.

1057
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 3: That but but now I want to know about the other.

1058
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 4: But I just I can go on and on about it.

1059
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 5: But I have an R thirty four GTR that's from

1060
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 5: Japan and it's a lot of fun to drive, makes

1061
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 5: all the turbo turbo sounds and it just gives me

1062
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 5: all this nostalgia.

1063
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 4: And that's what you know. That's one of the.

1064
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 5: Dream cars I really thought about as a kid, like

1065
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 5: I'm gonna grow up, I'm gonna go to u c

1066
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 5: l A. I'm gonna make it to the NFL, and

1067
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 5: I'm gonna buy this car like I'm not even playing.

1068
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 4: And I was like in the in the in the

1069
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 4: in the raft.

1070
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,719
Speaker 3: Somewhere, how long ago did you buy that car?

1071
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 5: I bought it three or four years ago, but it

1072
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 5: just got just got imported this past year.

1073
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:43,280
Speaker 3: Do you drive all five of them?

1074
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 4: Yeah? I do.

1075
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 3: How do you decide when to drive which one?

1076
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:48,760
Speaker 5: You know, it's just kind of it's kind of a feeling,

1077
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 5: you know, it's it's a little bit of a feeling.

1078
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 4: You know, what kind of music I want to listen to?

1079
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 4: What's the weather like?

1080
00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:59,800
Speaker 2: So you listen to certain kinds of music and certain

1081
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 2: of the cars for sure?

1082
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 6: For sure, what music do you listen in that car?

1083
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 4: In the GTR?

1084
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 5: I don't listen to any music in the GTR because

1085
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 5: it has a Japanese radio on it, and I don't

1086
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 5: want to swap it out. So it's like all the

1087
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:17,360
Speaker 5: radio stations are kind of jacked up, and the turbo

1088
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,280
Speaker 5: sound is so good in it that I don't listen

1089
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 5: to the radio. And if I'm a Mustang, I listen

1090
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 5: to all old schools. I listen to all old school songs.

1091
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 5: And then when I'm in my my Porsche, it's like

1092
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 5: always upbeat, you know, rap, because I feel like that's

1093
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:30,879
Speaker 5: my like race car type of thing.

1094
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,440
Speaker 2: Okay, And now you know a little bit more about

1095
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 2: Eric Kendricks and and you said you are foodiges.

1096
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 3: I got thirty seconds.

1097
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 2: Do you cook also?

1098
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 4: Yes?

1099
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do? You cook together?

1100
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 4: Yes, we do.

1101
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 2: This was a fascinating man. He's a he's a renaissance man.

1102
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 2: Thank Eric Hendricks for being with us tonight on the

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Speaker 3: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Thank We will be back next Monday right here at

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Speaker 2: Sidecars Social. Hopefully another victory Monday on the Cowboys Hour.

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