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Speaker 1: It is now time for the return of the Mike

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Speaker 1: McCarthy Show, every Friday at six thirty Here with Sean

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Speaker 1: and RJ. Your Home of the Cowboys is one oh

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Speaker 1: five three of the fan and coaches joining us on

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Speaker 1: the Buyers Barricades phone line. Good morning, Mike, How are you, sir?

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Speaker 1: Doing well? How you been? How was your break been?

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Speaker 1: We haven't talked to a while. We were very disappointed

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Speaker 1: that you, uh somebody or you opted out of your

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Speaker 1: bye week radio appearance. Opt out, opted out? I mean,

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Speaker 1: what happened? Where were you COVID challenge? I'm blaming on

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Speaker 1: the COVID challenge. There we go, trying to be funny.

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Speaker 1: What's very difficult? But yeah, sorry, sorry, didn't work out

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Speaker 1: that way. Coach, in all honesty, what type of refresher

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Speaker 1: can you get during a bye week just getting away

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Speaker 1: for it for a second. I know that you're living

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Speaker 1: over there literally, but well, what can the buye Weeek

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Speaker 1: do for you for your football team in terms of

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a reset. Well, I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: The bye week is very important. I mean it is

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Speaker 1: every year. I mean, frankly, when when the schedule comes out,

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Speaker 1: I'm always curious to see one. That bye week plays

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Speaker 1: into it because it definitely gives you the reset opportunity

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Speaker 1: as a football team, but it also gives you a

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Speaker 1: chance as a staff to really go back. And you know,

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Speaker 1: every every year, you you go into a training camp,

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Speaker 1: and you know, there's normally an offseason, you have a

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Speaker 1: direction that you feel like you're you want to set

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Speaker 1: chance to just to make sure you're you know, you

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Speaker 1: don't want to get too far away from your home base.

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Speaker 1: And and I've always appreciated and enjoyed the process of

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Speaker 1: self scout. I mean, you're you're self scouting every week.

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Speaker 1: It's it's not like your way to the bye way

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Speaker 1: to do that, but it gives you a chance to

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Speaker 1: go back through some things. And you know, you look

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Speaker 1: at the way our season lays out in front of us.

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Speaker 1: You know, we have we have a you know, three

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Speaker 1: it's given us a chance to really set in on

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Speaker 1: these these next three games because you know, obviously they

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Speaker 1: are there of high importance. I when I saw the

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Speaker 1: story the report that you guys were gonna you were

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Speaker 1: going to implement it across the hall coaching, I fell

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Speaker 1: in love with that. I think it's a great idea.

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Speaker 1: What what are some examples of where that's worked, like

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Speaker 1: of how that's worked with you in the past. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's been extremely productive in my past. Uh, it's it's

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Speaker 1: definitely one of the you know, one of the things

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Speaker 1: exit interviews and it's and it's clearly it's one of

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Speaker 1: and it's different, you know, I think like anything, it's

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Speaker 1: probably done six seven years in my past, and and

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Speaker 1: really that the origin was to develop coaches. You know,

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Speaker 1: I was part of a you know program that was

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Speaker 1: football IQ of your football team, and you know, the

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Speaker 1: smartest players that you know are usually the most distinctive

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Speaker 1: frankly they're it's given our players another repert too through

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Speaker 1: how much has COVID affected those personal relationships that a

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's really you know, broad and everybody surrises.

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy here on the Fan via the Buyers Barricades

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Speaker 1: houtline with Sean and rj uh coach, did you go

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Speaker 1: back in review? I know you're evaluating everyone, what did

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Speaker 1: of self evaluation before the buy Well, that's a great question.

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Speaker 1: not that's not true evaluation, because there's calls that you know,

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Speaker 1: far this week. Does the Viking horn annoy you? Absolutely

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Speaker 1: got Also, this is an annoyance test. Yeah, a lot

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Speaker 1: cool though, but I do think it's annoying because you know,

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Speaker 1: you always hear it at the wrong times, you know. Coach,

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Speaker 1: it's great to have you back. This was tremendous. Have

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Speaker 1: a great rest of your Friday and good luck on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the time, Oh you bet, thank you man.

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Speaker 1: Take care