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Speaker 1: Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones, Good morning, sir, Hey,

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Speaker 1: good morning Kevin, Corey and Mike, and great to be

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Speaker 1: and that's exactly the first thing I wanted to ask

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Speaker 1: I think that we're going to have a great crowd.

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Speaker 1: Will announce what it is there at the game, but

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Speaker 1: I love our plan of safety for the stadium. The

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm really liking the way that we're approaching

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Speaker 1: And I think that makeup will give us a great

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Speaker 1: It seems as though the organization has been just a

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Speaker 1: don't want to worry people. Can you walk us through

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Speaker 1: Back when we started planning this months ago, we didn't

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Speaker 1: what we do every time. And if everything goes well

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Speaker 1: we go. So, Jerry, I want to talk about Thursday

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Speaker 1: And I enjoy watching the game last night and watching

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Speaker 1: Your offensive line last week late in the game had

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, sir, good luck this weekend. Thank

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