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Speaker 1: M Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.

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Speaker 1: This is Radioheads, broadcasting live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the official Dallas Cowboys app. Now your hosts Tyler Klutz,

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Speaker 1: Christie Scales, and Brad Sham. I'm Christie, He's Tyler. Bradsham

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Speaker 1: sends his apologies with our crazy short work week from

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Speaker 1: a Monday night football game to a Sunday night game

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Speaker 1: and change in practice schedule. Brad got called by Cowboys

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Speaker 1: Marketing to some last minute MC duties in grape Vine.

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Speaker 1: So Tyler, it's it's you and me today, and we

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Speaker 1: already have a question from Jane down in Brian, Texas,

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Speaker 1: who says, Tyler, have you ever had a cat run

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Speaker 1: on the field when you played? If not, what's the

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Speaker 1: craziest thing that ever happened in one of your games

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Speaker 1: or practices. No cat. I've had squirrels a couple of times,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like it's always New York because we

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Speaker 1: played the it was in the Meadowlands, not the Metal Lands.

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Speaker 1: It was still MetLife, still in MetLife. But yeah, squirrels

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Speaker 1: on the field, but never had a black cat. And

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Speaker 1: the power went out at MetLife too. That was the

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Speaker 1: first year that met life. Actually that was it when

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Speaker 1: the first year. It was the nine to eleven game

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Speaker 1: against the Jets. Yeah, and it was kind of scary

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Speaker 1: because it was like the ten years or anniversary of

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Speaker 1: the Oh. So that was my very first game in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. I was in Chicago at the time. Really, yes,

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Speaker 1: the very first game. Wow. But yeah, but what about

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Speaker 1: didn't you have like dogs and stuff in the park

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Speaker 1: when you were playing for was that Sacramento? Well that

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Speaker 1: was practice, yeah, because yeah, because we had to we

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Speaker 1: had to all carpool over to the local park in

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Speaker 1: order to practice for the Arena Football League, and so yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we tripped over a couple of dogs and I

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Speaker 1: don't know whatever the whatever the support animals are now

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Speaker 1: a little mini horse or something like that. That Well,

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Speaker 1: we want to talk about some key plays besides the

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Speaker 1: black Cat on Monday night game and then look ahead

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Speaker 1: to going against Mike Zimmer and the Vikings defense and

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Speaker 1: Cook and Cousins with the Vikings offense. But a couple

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Speaker 1: of plays that really stand out in the game. Obviously

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Speaker 1: the opening play for Cowboys offense. First play that interception

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Speaker 1: and I know that people look at it and think

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Speaker 1: what was Dak doing. He threw it exactly into the gut.

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Speaker 1: It was Antoine Bethet, the safety number forty one for

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Speaker 1: the Giants, who made a great play. Yeah. Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: a couple of things happened on this play. One it

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Speaker 1: was it was a run pass option, so safety comes

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Speaker 1: but they comes down into the box and Dak then

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Speaker 1: checks out of the run play because it looked like

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Speaker 1: it was going to be a weak run right into that.

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Speaker 1: So when that happens, you've got to check out of it.

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Speaker 1: So also when the safety comes down, you're gonna try

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Speaker 1: to sneak a route out behind the safety. Because he

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Speaker 1: comes into the box, you're gonna you think that, Okay,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna play the run. He's gonna be run heavy. Well,

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Speaker 1: he just stood there and stayed so a couple things. Yes,

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Speaker 1: his eyes were not great and he could have seen that.

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Speaker 1: But it's it's also hard because you saw him. He

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Speaker 1: takes his quick drop back and then he pass the

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Speaker 1: ball a couple of times and waits and then throws

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Speaker 1: the ball and he was just there. He just kind

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Speaker 1: of snuck up behind a guy and he was there.

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Speaker 1: When he's tucked into the box like that, it's hard

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Speaker 1: to see now if he's you know, if he's five

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Speaker 1: seven yards off the line of scrimmage, like, you can

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Speaker 1: see that. But he was like three or four just

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Speaker 1: get two upset over something like that. It was a

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Speaker 1: freak deal, you know, very rarely is that ever going

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Speaker 1: to happen? Yeah, And sometimes you just have to tip

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Speaker 1: your hat to the defender because but fet she baited

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Speaker 1: him on it, and he did it looked like he

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Speaker 1: was coming down and then dropped back just enough to

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Speaker 1: be right in the passing lane. I mean right in

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Speaker 1: this right in his chest. But I will say that,

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Speaker 1: you know obviously the first place. So it's sudden change defense, right,

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Speaker 1: And they go out there and the Giants have the

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Speaker 1: after that they're having to settle for a field goal.

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Speaker 1: So great job of stopping Barkley on a couple of

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Speaker 1: He came in and I don't think it was that drive.

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Speaker 1: really the entire defense. Jalen Smith blitzed a lot, but

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Speaker 1: it's something that we were talking about. I like Daniel

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Speaker 1: about that we saw from him. It's something that Rod

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Speaker 1: Marinelli predicted on the sideline with me a couple hours

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Speaker 1: before kickoff. And this is common among young quarterbacks. But

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Speaker 1: he said, when you can pressure him, particularly up the middle,

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Speaker 1: but anytime you get some pressure, his eyes go down.

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Speaker 1: In football parlance, what does quarterbacks eyes going down? So

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Speaker 1: when you look at the veterans, you look at the

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, the Tom Brady's, Ben Roethlisberger's, the Philip Rivers,

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Speaker 1: right the were almost when he was here. Their eyes

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Speaker 1: But a young quarterback is anytime they feel pressure up

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Speaker 1: in their face, they're going to take their eyes off

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Speaker 1: of their target. And once you take them off, this

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Speaker 1: game is so fast. Once your eyes are off of

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Speaker 1: and their athletic ability. But the second his eyes come

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Speaker 1: is usually late. It's off timing. And you know, inches

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Speaker 1: his eyes to come down, and you saw it a

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Speaker 1: lot in this game. Anytime he'd feel a little bit

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Speaker 1: of pressure, he'd take off to run. That's exactly right.

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Speaker 1: Hence the fumble and hence you know, a couple of

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Speaker 1: mistakes that he made through this game because his eyes

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Speaker 1: came off the target. Like we're talking before the show, Brady,

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Speaker 1: his eyes are going to be on his target after

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Speaker 1: he gets sacked, right, you know, because his eye he's

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Speaker 1: disciplined and he trusts his guys and he understands like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Daniel Jones having the fumble on one of

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Speaker 1: those keepers. Xavier Woods had the forced fumble. He had

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Speaker 1: the interception off Daniel Jones, and Xavier Woods honored today

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Speaker 1: with NC Defensive Player of the Week, also sparked the

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Speaker 1: on that sideline. Yeah, that sideline incidents. That is the

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Speaker 1: the sideline. Luckily, I was about two feet away from

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Speaker 1: the ESPN guy, the parabolic mic operator, that's the dish

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Speaker 1: one that went sprawling, but so much so that the

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Speaker 1: perabs actually hit my feet. But yes, it was literally

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Speaker 1: ringside for the melee that happened. And I know that

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Speaker 1: Cowboys Nation, certainly the entire sideline very upset that Xavier

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Speaker 1: Woods was called for taunting haunting on that and everyone

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Speaker 1: felt that Will Hernandez, the guard for the Giants who

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Speaker 1: the melee there by the way, it kind of set

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Speaker 1: the ref was pulling the flag before Hernandez even got there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so something was said right when they called taunting and

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Speaker 1: not you know, unnecessary roughness or personal foul or anything

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Speaker 1: like that. You're you're on it, Tyler, because when with

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Speaker 1: the tawning, he said something. And what had happened was

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Speaker 1: Xavier Wood was actually face to face, mask to face

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Speaker 1: mask with Evan Ingram the tied end for the Giants,

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Speaker 1: because Ingram was the closest, so he was the first

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Speaker 1: one over to take exception to Daniel Jones being pushed. Um,

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Speaker 1: it was not late. Jones was in bounds when he

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Speaker 1: was totally illegal, but actually it was the line judge

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Speaker 1: who was throwing the flag and he was already reaching

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Speaker 1: for it and trying to break up Woods and Ingram.

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Speaker 1: And that's when Hernandez came in and then things really

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Speaker 1: got crazy after that. But there's there's one other play

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Speaker 1: real highlights from the game, and that's the Michael Gallup

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Speaker 1: One of the most amazing athletic plays that you'll see,

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Speaker 1: the way he was able to tight rope down the sideline,

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Speaker 1: catching the ball eight yards out and then diving and

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Speaker 1: somersaulting into the end zone. But it's pre snap with

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Speaker 1: that particular play. It looked like it was called to

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Speaker 1: be maybe a short quick out to Michael Gallup, but

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Speaker 1: that was actually a run play, and the Cowboys thought

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Speaker 1: that they had a free play on that. Dack and

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Speaker 1: Travis Frederick, the Giants had encroached. They thought that they

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Speaker 1: on that, but Travis went ahead and snapped it early

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Speaker 1: just over the outstretched arms of the defender and Gallup

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Speaker 1: caught it on the sideline. But can you take us

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Speaker 1: through the points of a play. It's not just the

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Speaker 1: center and the quarterback that have to be on the

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Speaker 1: same page when you quick snap, Can you tell us

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Speaker 1: about what the rules are for all the offense? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So so on that play. And by the way, I

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Speaker 1: mean everyone that's listening, like the great reporting that you

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Speaker 1: just did and finding out, Okay, that wasn't that wasn't

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Speaker 1: a cold pass route right with Kellen in this offense,

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Speaker 1: he was motioning Zeke back into the backfield for a

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Speaker 1: run play. Yeah stopped. Yeah, Zeke hadn't even motioned back yet.

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Speaker 1: He literally stopped. And then and then Travis obviously snapped

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Speaker 1: anytime they jump offsides, Travis has free rein to snap

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Speaker 1: the ball to catch him, to get the off side,

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Speaker 1: to get the free play. So when that happens, everybody knows, Okay,

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Speaker 1: if it's off Cadence, we've just got we're going for it.

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Speaker 1: We're throwing it up. And then you know, Michael Gallop,

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Speaker 1: you know, went down the sideline, gave him a target.

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Speaker 1: Dak just got it over the fingertips and actually I

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Speaker 1: think it was tipped into Gallops finger into his hands.

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Speaker 1: But what happens is anytime it's an off timing play

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Speaker 1: And obviously the athleticism afterwards when he jumped over him,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was unbelievable. But it's one of those

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Speaker 1: it tyler as eerie how close they are in total defense.

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Speaker 1: The Cowboys are number six Minnesota's number seven. Total defense

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Speaker 1: is yards per game, it's less than two yards difference.

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Speaker 1: Now the run defense, the Cowboys give up ninety seven

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Speaker 1: point three yards per game, the Vikings ninety five point eight,

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Speaker 1: less than two yards pass defense, Cowboys are number seven.

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Speaker 1: Vikings are number eight two hundred and twenty yards allowed

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Speaker 1: and two hundred and twenty five yards allowed respectively. Scoring

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Speaker 1: defense bottom. You know, those are just numbers. What matters

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Speaker 1: is scoring. The Cowboys defense is number five, allowing seventeen

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Speaker 1: point eight points per game. The Vikings number four, seventeen

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Speaker 1: point six. The differences sacks now, granted, the Vikings have

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Speaker 1: played one more game. They're six and three. The Cowboys

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Speaker 1: are five and three to one more game. They have

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Speaker 1: twenty eight sacks on the season. The Cowboys have twenty two.

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Speaker 1: The difference is with the takeaways, in particular interceptions. It

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Speaker 1: goes to the ballhawking, you know, getting good pressure upfront

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Speaker 1: and ball hawking safeties and cornerbacks on the backside. They

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Speaker 1: So it's eerie how close it is, and I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: that it's going to be a pretty low scoring game,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you. You know what makes me

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Speaker 1: I think it reminds these defenses of each other is

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Speaker 1: you look at the quarterbacks. Right, Dak had a little

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Speaker 1: year and he had a couple a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: where he didn't look like himself like he did the

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Speaker 1: first three weeks. You know, Kirk Cousins was the same

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Speaker 1: earlier in the season. He did not start off strong,

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Speaker 1: and these the defense carried them, and when they did

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Speaker 1: not play well, the team didn't play well. And so

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Speaker 1: it's very similar where the defense has had to carry

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Speaker 1: this offense, both offenses, um, when when they didn't play well.

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Speaker 1: So it'll be I mean, this matchup will be really

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Speaker 1: fun to watch. I mean, I'm glad it's a night game.

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Speaker 1: Kirke traditionally doesn't play well at night. Um, you know whatever,

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Speaker 1: have to sit around all day, you know, whenever. I

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Speaker 1: do not like Monday night games or Sunday night games

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Speaker 1: in terms of having to wait around all day. So

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Speaker 1: when Carrie Underwood says, been waiting all day for Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, and yes, it's not fun. I'll say

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Speaker 1: I was the same way. I did not like night games.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the atmosphere is cool and it's great, but

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Speaker 1: I really like I wake up our minuy to go

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Speaker 1: like I don't want to. I don't want to wait around,

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Speaker 1: and then then you've got to like temper yourself through

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Speaker 1: I would turn on the clock. Really. I started on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: It was kind of my day. But uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: a long day, a Sunday night game or Monday night game,

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Speaker 1: it's like, okay, please, let's go. So I'm always at

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Speaker 1: the stadium like six hours earl. Yeah, yeah, wait, yeah,

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Speaker 1: yet a lot of nervous energy truck if it comes

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Speaker 1: down to the very end. Dan Bailey and Brett Maher.

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Speaker 1: Dan Bailey, by the way, having a very good year

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Speaker 1: for the Vikings after struggling the previous couple years. He's

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Speaker 1: thirteen and fifteen this year eighty six point seven percent,

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Speaker 1: So hard to root against. Stan Bailey such a great guy.

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Speaker 1: But Brett Maher is as well, and he had won

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Speaker 1: Special Teams Player of the Week the week before. Before

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Speaker 1: we get out of here, Tyler, I know that you're

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Speaker 1: going to leave here and head up to prosper to

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Speaker 1: speak to the high school football team. Now, tell us

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Speaker 1: about who you're working with and your message. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: I have the privilege of being a part of a

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Speaker 1: group called New Friends, New life here in Dallas, and

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Speaker 1: what it is it's an anti trafficking organization that helps

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Speaker 1: women that have been involved in human trafficking in some

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Speaker 1: sort or another. You know. Unfortunately, in Dallas there's four

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Speaker 1: hundred teens on the street that are trafficked every night

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Speaker 1: in Dallas. These are teens, under age teens. So it

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Speaker 1: really is you know, Texas is the second largest population

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Speaker 1: so it's an issue. And I'm a part of a

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Speaker 1: group called the Men's Advocacy Group that supports New Friends,

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Speaker 1: New Life, and we have an initiative called the Man

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Speaker 1: and we talk to young boys junior high in high

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Speaker 1: to be a man, right, what it looks like, and

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Speaker 1: what our responsibility as a man is, and what it

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Speaker 1: looks like to respect a woman and the activities that

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Speaker 1: you engage in that culture says is okay to do

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Speaker 1: at this age, what that can turn into and the

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Speaker 1: addictions that that can cause later on. But ultimately we

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Speaker 1: just want to go and show them, like you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, and let's be let's be frank here, a

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Speaker 1: sexual conquest does not make you a man. And it's

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Speaker 1: and at that age, you know, hormones and all that,

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Speaker 1: like that's something that you battle with and I think

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Speaker 1: every boy does. And so just talking through like okay,

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Speaker 1: you know what is it? What does it sound like

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Speaker 1: in the locker room? You know, in a typical locker room,

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Speaker 1: And you can be different and you can change the

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Speaker 1: trajectory of someone's life and then ultimately not be the

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Speaker 1: driver of the demand for those victims that are being tracked. Right,

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Speaker 1: it's it's supply and demand, that's exactly right. So if

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Speaker 1: if there are men that don't have that addiction that

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Speaker 1: needs to be filled by a victim of trafficking, then

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Speaker 1: the industry goes away. And so it's it's it's one

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Speaker 1: of those things. My wife and I were passionate about

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Speaker 1: it when uh, you know, we serve an international group

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Speaker 1: and then also this one locally and um just go

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Speaker 1: speak to speak to them and then it's also just

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Speaker 1: speaking life into them too. It's not just about it's

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Speaker 1: about what what is it? What's your responsibility as a

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Speaker 1: man as you grow grow older and you know, serving

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Speaker 1: the community and doing things beyond yourself, And it's not

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Speaker 1: all about just selfish ambitions. Well, that's what makes this

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Speaker 1: sport so great, is the it's really more the lessons

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Speaker 1: off the fields or how you apply the lessons of football.

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Speaker 1: That's right, and you know, and here and I'll wrap

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Speaker 1: up with this is is it's so great because the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys are such an incredible organization. But with that it

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Speaker 1: becomes the exceptional platform to do some things. And that's

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Speaker 1: what's so great about these guys. I mean, you look

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Speaker 1: at Dak and you look at some of the Witten

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Speaker 1: and a lot of Witten does so much in the community,

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Speaker 1: but he's just so quiet about it and he doesn't

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Speaker 1: want to like advertise in your face and the things

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Speaker 1: that he does. But there's so many other guys in

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Speaker 1: that locker room that have taken the platform of the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys and gone and done something and made a

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Speaker 1: change and affected lives for the positive. And that's what

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Speaker 1: it's all about. Because football goes away, But what's the

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Speaker 1: eternal impact that you make on people? Well, thanks for

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Speaker 1: doing that this afternoon and all the other things. On

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Speaker 1: behalf of Tyler, on behalf of Yay. He deserves it.

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Speaker 1: For William and for Bradsham, who'll be back with us

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Speaker 1: on Monday. We miss you, Brad, see you Monday. Thank

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