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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones joining us here on your home with the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys one or Fire through the Fan. Good morning Jerry,

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Speaker 1: Good morning Kevin r. J. Good to be with you today.

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Speaker 1: Good to be with you also this morning. I do

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Speaker 1: want to ask you it is the bye week for

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Speaker 1: you and your Dallas Cowboys. What is Jerry Jones's favorite

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Speaker 1: bye week activity if he has one? Well, I stay

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Speaker 1: pretty scheduled simply because we really put a lot of

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Speaker 1: things in that bye week. If I'm going to have

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Speaker 1: to travel as to really work, I would call it business.

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Speaker 1: And so it's really one of my busier weeks. But

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Speaker 1: it does feel good, and I'm always thinking when we

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Speaker 1: play that game before the bye week, or wouldn't it

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Speaker 1: be nice to have these next two weeks and be

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Speaker 1: saving a victory. Of course, to have it happened against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots who have their storied Frida going up there

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Speaker 1: really makes it special. So I'm walking with a little

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Speaker 1: better staff. My jokes seem funnier to vote. Get a

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Speaker 1: lot of paddle, get a lot of paddle on the backs,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of things forgiven. How do you consume

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Speaker 1: football this weekend? Are you gonna do? You go to

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Speaker 1: Arkansas for for a razorback game. Are you gonna how

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Speaker 1: do you consume the NFL? You just gotta the ten

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Speaker 1: TVs in the room and watch them all. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I'll probably do the Arkansas. Think that's going to be

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Speaker 1: a relaxed time I've been as far as a schedule

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Speaker 1: easy to do. Absolutely. I watched a lot of football

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Speaker 1: owned by week and no matter where I am, And uh,

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Speaker 1: that's that's what you can do. And I'll be all

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Speaker 1: over the place and looking at the individual games. But

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Speaker 1: before it's too I'll probably watched more football over a

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Speaker 1: two day period than any other time. Chair. Remember when um,

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Speaker 1: you know, when coach Parcels was he would always say

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Speaker 1: like he would he'd be scared of the bye week

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Speaker 1: idle hands, devil's workshops kind of thing is what he

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Speaker 1: used to say. How do you, like, you know, deal

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Speaker 1: with distractions that players might have distractions or you know

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Speaker 1: they will be distracted by free time. You know what's

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Speaker 1: the message of the players during this week? Hey, I'd

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Speaker 1: wink Caddy Mitchy said that to me and smile and say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: looks And you know I can handle temptation. I can

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Speaker 1: be with it. Give me to give me that little

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Speaker 1: extra freedom, and I know how to deal with it.

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Speaker 1: And if to me that shows insecurity, that shows not minute.

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Speaker 1: I'm messing with him. Match sound like if you were there,

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Speaker 1: I'd be talking to him. I'd think it more secure. Man,

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Speaker 1: you can make good decisions. Jerry Jones joining us right

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Speaker 1: here on your home of the Dallas Cowboys one oh

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Speaker 1: five through the fan. Jerry, if we could get an

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Speaker 1: update with Dak Prescott, tyrnst Is, Michael Gallut. Where do

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Speaker 1: they stand as far as Derek preparation and getting ready

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Speaker 1: to take on the Minnesota Vikings. Well, the best way

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Speaker 1: I can say it is picture of big old thumbs up.

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Speaker 1: I think we're all progressing. You can go down the

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Speaker 1: list of our guys that we have coming in the

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Speaker 1: near term Gallop of course, and of course Dak. I

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Speaker 1: feel good about his status and as we had planned. Really,

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Speaker 1: when I go down to all of the players that

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Speaker 1: we expect to be joined us in the near future,

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Speaker 1: substituent players, I can give thumbs up across the board

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Speaker 1: on it. I don't have any any setbacks and any

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Speaker 1: surprises on any of them. Have you guys started ramping

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Speaker 1: up as you get nearer to the trade deadline. I mean,

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Speaker 1: are you constantly fielding and taking and making phone calls about,

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Speaker 1: you know, possible upgrades to players and positions as the

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Speaker 1: tradeline to approaches open for business year round. Absolutely, and

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Speaker 1: that's common knowledge, but absolutely, And talk to any numbers

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Speaker 1: of people on the other and we're I think, got

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Speaker 1: a unique situation because we've got players coming that we're

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Speaker 1: going to have to have roster spot room for. And

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Speaker 1: so we're you know, we're busy. We always say, well,

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Speaker 1: that usually takes care of itself. We'll have a spot

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Speaker 1: opened by undetermined or an unidentified injury situation. But still

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have some real roster challenges to get our

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Speaker 1: guys that are that we are planning on coming back,

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Speaker 1: players that have to be out there. Lawrence. People like that,

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Speaker 1: and I say that grateful. So we've we've really got

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Speaker 1: a little bigger problem than trading for somebody right now, Jerry. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the week and the bye week comes with a certain distractions,

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Speaker 1: and at times things can happen to a team that

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Speaker 1: necessarily doesn't want to have happen. Obviously, with the situation

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Speaker 1: with Demantekzy, have you heard from the NFL as far

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Speaker 1: as any potential discipline and how the you and this

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Speaker 1: team will handle that situation going forward. For him, well,

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Speaker 1: I have not heard from the NFL no, and that

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Speaker 1: has a protocol, And frankly, I haven't seen the reports.

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Speaker 1: I haven't personally seen the reports. But we'll get into

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Speaker 1: that when it comes. And I, as we speak, do

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Speaker 1: not know the nature of or the type of way

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Speaker 1: you would address his situation. And I'd say, I don't

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Speaker 1: know the particulars of the arrest, so we'll wait to

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Speaker 1: see how that goes. Jerry, There's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: talk this week, and this is this is not about

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, but you know about a potential trade of

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, like philosophically, you know, trading for somebody who

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Speaker 1: might be punished under the league's you know policy conduct

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Speaker 1: policy versus like a franchise changing player, which which he

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Speaker 1: can be. Like, how difficult of a decision is that

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Speaker 1: as a general manager to weigh those two you know,

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Speaker 1: those two differences, Well, let's take him out of the question.

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Speaker 1: You know that I can't talk about another team's player,

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Speaker 1: but if you looked at the equation, you wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: looking at it. If you didn't see an opportunity, something

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Speaker 1: that would improve the long term, and you have got

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Speaker 1: to understand that. You've got to look at it as

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Speaker 1: though there's positive there to look at as well. I

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Speaker 1: remember Lyle Collins in the Green Run and he had

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Speaker 1: to go home at the draft because his girlfriend unfortunately

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Speaker 1: tragically lost her life. Well that impeded him being drafted.

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Speaker 1: Well we were. I was there within minutes right after

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Speaker 1: the draft getting him over here and so but I

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Speaker 1: had to us So of course I didn't know the

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Speaker 1: details of the allegation, but I've acted this though. I

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Speaker 1: can always turn them turn the car if I get

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Speaker 1: right to the to the point of making the decision

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Speaker 1: and always shut that down. So I look at it

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Speaker 1: and I start with the optimistic idea that it's going

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Speaker 1: to work. Jerry Jones joined us here on one oh

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Speaker 1: five through the fan. I know FIFA, the soccer organization,

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Speaker 1: is in town this weekend about at and T maybe

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Speaker 1: being a host site for the World Cup. As Jerry

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Speaker 1: Jones the master negotiator, what is your sales pitch? I

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Speaker 1: always wanted to know, like, what is this? What is

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Speaker 1: like the opening line of a sales pitch that you

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Speaker 1: would do to an organization like this for such a

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Speaker 1: monumental sporting event, Well they won't. They won't meet anybody

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Speaker 1: that has ever benefited from the great sports region that

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Speaker 1: we're in North Texas, like Jerry Jones. They will never

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Speaker 1: meet a person that's benefited more. This is the greatest

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Speaker 1: sports area there is in the world in my mind.

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Speaker 1: And you say, well, that's arm wagon, Well it's really not.

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Speaker 1: The influx of soccer fans that we've had since nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety four when we had the World Cup is unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: The just the climate for sports in this area. It

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Speaker 1: trends INDs the immediate participation in the region and goes

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Speaker 1: nationally and internationally. I can speak to that, and that's

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Speaker 1: what they want to have soccer benefit from our stadium

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Speaker 1: the region. I know for a fact that those guys

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Speaker 1: they're going to millions of people that are not here,

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Speaker 1: and so that's who you're talking to, and the Dallas

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Speaker 1: area at at and T Stadium, we can bring that

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Speaker 1: to soccer. Soccer is a fabless point of interest around

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Speaker 1: the world, and of course for this region, it's a

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Speaker 1: wonderful promotion of the region. This is truly a case

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Speaker 1: where we not only have the facilities, we not only

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Speaker 1: have the interest, but we are so close. You know,

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Speaker 1: I have over fifteen hundred season taken overs. It come

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Speaker 1: from Monterey, Mexico, and of course Mexico is a huge

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Speaker 1: interest here. And when you're playing in at and T Stadium,

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Speaker 1: you're appealing to the Mexican Hispanic fan everyway from Sunday.

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Speaker 1: All of those things leading towards why intangible. No I

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Speaker 1: can show them it's tangible. That's why the Cowboys are

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Well, Bessel, luck to you with the pitch

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Speaker 1: with FIFA this week weekend, and we hope that you

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Speaker 1: have a safe and happy weekend as the Cowboys enjoy

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Speaker 1: their off week before getting started for preparations against the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikas. Thank you so much for the time. Jerry

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Speaker 1: really appreciate it. Thanks guys, good being Bye,