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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk to Dallas Cowboys CEO Steven Jones right

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Speaker 1: here on one oh five three the fans, Steven, how's

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Speaker 1: everything going to day? Man, We're hanging in there, and uh,

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Speaker 1: just disappointed we didn't get to finish that game off there.

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Speaker 1: I thought, I just heard you guys. I do think

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Speaker 1: to do defensively, and they're able to play more wide

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Speaker 1: open and you know, obviously Gilbert came out there and

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Speaker 1: had a hell of a day and you know, move

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Speaker 1: the ball well. And I think we're just getting better

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Speaker 1: as a team. But we've got to keep chopping wood

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Speaker 1: and going to work every week. Stephen, you talked to

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Speaker 1: us a while back about the evolution. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: go back to this, you know, probably every week for

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Speaker 1: the rest of the season. But you talked about you

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Speaker 1: you thought that the teams, the fans out there, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be able to watch a team evolve over the season.

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Speaker 1: Do you think this was the defense turning a corner

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Speaker 1: into what they're evolving into. Yeah, I think we you know,

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Speaker 1: that makes two games. We played a lot more solid

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Speaker 1: you know, we just got to keep putting these games together.

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Speaker 1: But I do believe that we're getting a real good

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Speaker 1: feel for what we're trying to do. I think our

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Speaker 1: guys are playing fast. You know, we were playing a

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Speaker 1: great quarterback in Ben Roethlisberger, who gets the ball away

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Speaker 1: certainly pushing that as well in terms of what he

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Speaker 1: move the ball. So you know, it's just we got

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Speaker 1: to continue to go to work every week. We will

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Speaker 1: get better and you know, hopefully getting Andy Dalton back

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Speaker 1: to and so that'll be a big deal. Although you

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Speaker 1: I don't see, uh, you know, certainly there was no

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Speaker 1: defense right now. And Gallimore jumped off the screen to

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Speaker 1: us quite a few times. How excited are you that

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Speaker 1: your third round defensive tackle looks like he can play

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Speaker 1: in the NFL right now? Well, it's no different than triesting.

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Speaker 1: I think these things evolve and the more playtime they get,

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Speaker 1: and that was a little bit you know behind the

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Speaker 1: move with Poe is to let these young guys get

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Speaker 1: after week, day after day during practice and get the

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Speaker 1: a big time tool kid in terms of his physical ability,

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Speaker 1: more reps he gets, the better he's going to get.

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Speaker 1: When you look at the future of the Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: defensive tackle position, do you believe Hill and Gallimore can

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Speaker 1: or do they play a similar position. I think they can,

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Speaker 1: I think Tristan was having a great year before he

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Speaker 1: Gallimore stepping up with I know you talked about Andy

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Speaker 1: that's just remains to be seen. Obviously, Andy's our quarterback

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Speaker 1: You said it best. Just seems like Pollard so close

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Speaker 1: What was the decision to put Joe Looney back in

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Speaker 1: it's still okay to call him badass. That lets us

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