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Speaker 3: first it is over for the season for Dak Prescott.

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Speaker 5: It is. I'm over here working two phones in the MAC.

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Speaker 2: And I got two nice so we make it work. Hey, Hey, hey,

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Speaker 2: hey God. One for the breaking and one for the news.

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Speaker 4: Kyle, Kevin Gates job is in the building, all right,

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Speaker 4: So all right, check out more of the details on

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Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys dot com. We just got that published. It's up,

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Speaker 4: it's live, it's breaking. Jerry Jones Tails one oh five

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Speaker 4: three the Fan. The long expected procedure is actually going

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Speaker 4: to take place on Dak Prescott to repair his partially

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Speaker 4: torn hamstring on Wednesday in New York, which is where

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Speaker 4: he went to get his final medical opinion. He sought

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Speaker 4: out several opinions on what was going on with his

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Speaker 4: hamstring with the hopes of there being a slim chance

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Speaker 4: of him possibly returning this season. But the hopes were

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Speaker 4: always going to be slim, and now the decision has

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Speaker 4: been made. So Wednesday in New York, Dak Prescott gets

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Speaker 4: his partially torn hamstring surgically repaired. He will then be

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Speaker 4: moved to IR if not today, and that's going to

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Speaker 4: do it for Dak Prescott for twenty twenty four. You

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Speaker 4: will see him in twenty twenty five. We'll get a

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Speaker 4: prognosis on his timetable for return as far as how

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Speaker 4: this will affect the beginning of the offseason program over

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Speaker 4: the next several days or so, but that's where we are.

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Speaker 4: It's officially as Mike McCarthy and Jerry Jones reiterated today

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Speaker 4: on the Fan, as it stands, it is the Cooper

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Speaker 6: Yep.

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Speaker 5: So that's where we are.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked about it a little bit yesterday, just

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Speaker 3: kind of the thought process behind Cooper or Trey. I

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Speaker 3: actually enjoyed hearing his side of it of saying that

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Speaker 3: you can't discount what he did when he went four

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Speaker 3: and one filling in for the five games for Dak

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Speaker 3: Prescott in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Of course you cannot discount it, which is true.

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Speaker 3: But I think we've all said this on this show

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Speaker 3: before that it is a different situation than twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 3: You don't have an offensive line, you don't have separations

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Speaker 3: from your wide receivers. I think at some point, if

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Speaker 3: what it did against Philadelphia offensively, I think there will

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Speaker 2: You just can't necessarily do that right now.

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Speaker 3: You can't say, hey, one opportunity, it's done, it's good, and.

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Speaker 2: Then we're gonna make a switch. Sorry Cooper. I don't

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Speaker 2: think that's fair to him and fair to what is happening.

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Speaker 4: But oh, there's more news here regarding that wasn't the

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Speaker 4: only thing that's not that's not it. You're ready for this, Okay.

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Speaker 4: This season is quite literally the definition of Murphy's Murphy's low.

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Speaker 4: So, Cooper Rush, Apparently Jerry Jones kind of let it

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Speaker 4: that that fumbled snap that Cooper Rush suffered after the

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Speaker 4: that that can't happen. Apparently he strained his neck on

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Speaker 4: of this, as we talk about having lost franchise quarterback

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Speaker 4: But now you really have to wonder how long or

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Speaker 3: I think that's the thing is Jerry mentioned the fact

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Speaker 3: He's not pulling the rope yet. But that's my question

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Speaker 3: is how long is it? How long do you have

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Speaker 4: Right so, as it stands, the Cowboys are expected to

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Speaker 4: re sign a reunion. We like our reunions in Dallas,

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Speaker 4: don't we will. Greer is expected to rejoin the Dallas Cowboys,

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Speaker 4: but not on the active roster. He's expected to design

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Speaker 4: Dackson with the ipp exception exemption. So Will Greer obviously

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Speaker 4: But now back in the building pending physical So as

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Speaker 4: Cowboys and Will Grill, Will Greer will reunite, maybe as

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Speaker 2: Interesting, good to know you weren't here for the Will

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Speaker 2: was a little emotional drama back and forth.

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Speaker 5: Interesting telling, all right.

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Speaker 4: So Greer had been fighting, fighting, fighting to get onto

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Speaker 3: They gave him one final tryout too, with Trey Lance

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Speaker 2: They went up against the Raiders in the final balled out.

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Speaker 4: He went maniac mode and then it was a very

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Speaker 5: That was a tough press conference. It was a tough

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Speaker 4: So, I mean, who knows, because you know, Trey Lance

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Speaker 4: we want to see this evaluation. It's not happening quite yet,

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Speaker 5: So you're saying there's a cheat.

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Speaker 2: Hit, we'll see he is here. So there's the state

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Speaker 2: of your quarterback room, Josh.

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Speaker 3: I want to get your thought process on on Dak

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Speaker 3: season ending surgery.

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Speaker 2: Not necessarily a surprise, but now it's actually official.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's no surprise, it's it's I'm surprised it didn't

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Speaker 5: He wasn't quitting right, He was not giving up.

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Speaker 7: He was not giving up, and he was trying to

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Speaker 7: do everything he possibly could to see the field again

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Speaker 7: this year.

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Speaker 2: That will not happen. But I am in.

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Speaker 7: A way relieved that he doesn't have to play for

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Speaker 7: the remainder of the year. With the way the offensive

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Speaker 7: were calling for him to be mobile and to pick

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Speaker 7: up yards on the ground. Obviously it just didn't work

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Speaker 7: I don't want to put it out there that he's

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Speaker 7: he's at the towards the end of Romo's career where

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Speaker 7: he's having all these injuries. But I'm just I'm worried

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Speaker 7: for the future in that. Let's hope that the Cowboys

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Speaker 7: quicker receivers getting open, receivers running their routes quickly, getting open,

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Speaker 7: creating some space. But to me, part of me is

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Speaker 7: thankful that he doesn't have to play with this current

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Speaker 8: Well, obviously, I think, like Josh put it well where

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Speaker 8: I think you're completely right in terms of this offseason

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Speaker 6: Football is a.

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Speaker 8: Line of scrimmage game, and I think a lot a

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Speaker 8: lot of the reason why the Cowboys have struggled the

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Speaker 8: talked about how those are valuable reps for a young

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Speaker 8: actually trying to bring it up, and he's playing not

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Speaker 8: He's playing it the way that he is. So you

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Speaker 8: know the pieces are there, But I think you're still

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Speaker 4: My only concern here is I don't believe that, and

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Speaker 4: don't believe this is the the sundown years of Tony

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Speaker 4: rollmoy As far as injuries are concerned, but I can

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Speaker 4: just we can go ahead and have a wake in

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Speaker 2: I love the NFL Draft.

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Speaker 3: That's part of my favorite part of this job that

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Speaker 3: Is it going to be a wide receiver or an

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Speaker 2: Again?

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Speaker 3: That's what it'll be in April. That's exactly what the

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Speaker 2: From now as we go along.

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Speaker 3: But if whenever we start the Draft show, that will

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Speaker 3: I'm kind of in between wide receiver and offensive line

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Speaker 2: Per year quarterback, and there's going to be basically going

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Speaker 4: There's going to be a curve ball, not to get

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Speaker 5: Right. Sure, so, I mean that's what But that's going

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Speaker 3: I think the astrion gent conversation would have been a

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Speaker 4: Not as you might sniff top five, you might be

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Speaker 2: Yeah, moving up, knocking on the door of top ten,

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Speaker 3: You're at eleven right now, right, So yeah, I don't

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Speaker 5: Up having a draft conversation right now, just a.

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Speaker 3: We can have a draft conversation. No, we need to

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Speaker 3: When we come back, we're going to talk to cowboys

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Speaker 2: Champ, you're on Talking Cowboys. What's going on?

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Speaker 13: Hey, gentlemen, how we doing this morning?

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Speaker 14: Doing that?

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Speaker 13: Good? Good? Oh my gosh, excuse me so much? And

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Speaker 13: He's gone, But yet Jerry refuses to fire him right now.

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Speaker 13: If that's what he's going to do, what are the

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Speaker 13: It try to sound like he came out and maybe

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Speaker 13: I don't expect that, but you know, what do you

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Speaker 13: think about that part of him? That being said, I

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Speaker 13: Patrick Uh Trayvon Steal to Pappy Steal got him one

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Speaker 13: more time. So you guys have a great day. I'll

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Speaker 3: Thanks, appreciate a Chandler, great job. Two great questions. I'm

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to sugarcoat this one bit tok effects.

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Speaker 3: Jerry Jones is still extremely calculated. Everything that he let

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Speaker 2: A calculated move.

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Speaker 3: He's doing that because he's Jerry Jones, and because he

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Speaker 3: That's a smart move from Jerry Jones and all that

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Speaker 3: We're watching our guy Isaiah standback on Good Morning Football

442
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Speaker 3: on the screen next to us right now, and the

443
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Speaker 3: bottom line is breaking news. Jerry Jones says blank. That's

444
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Speaker 3: why he says it on the radio. There's nothing slipping

445
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Speaker 3: three D chess. Yeah, and the Cooper Rush thinks same thing.

446
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Speaker 3: It's the same exact deal. That's that's calculated. And there

447
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Speaker 3: might be.

448
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Speaker 4: Things in the event Cooper Rush struggles. Absolutely, it was

449
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Speaker 4: a soft pointing.

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Speaker 5: Of Hey, I kind of told you that he was

451
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Speaker 5: dealing with something right.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and there are things that I'm sure the coaching

453
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Speaker 3: staff and the team across the hallway would love to

454
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Speaker 3: keep silent.

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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, this is.

456
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Speaker 3: The Jones Families organization, That's what it is. And they're

457
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Speaker 3: going to say what they want to say, period. And

458
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Speaker 3: so if they wanted to be out there in the

459
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Speaker 3: open and they want to use that as a nugget

460
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Speaker 3: in their weekly phone call, they're going to do it

461
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Speaker 3: like that's just plain and simple part of it.

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Speaker 7: Let me address a champ's first question really quickly, Coach McCarthy.

463
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Speaker 7: Coach McCarthy, if if you bring him back, my question

464
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Speaker 7: is who is your defensive coordinator?

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Speaker 14: What?

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Speaker 5: Al Harris?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I say that quickly, and

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Speaker 4: I say that unequivocally because he would He was a

469
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Speaker 4: top my list for defensive coordinators before they brought in

470
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Speaker 4: Mike Zimmer and gave him the position. Al Harris has

471
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Speaker 4: outright earned a shot at coordinating his own defense.

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Speaker 2: What does his defense look like?

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Speaker 4: Does it go back to takeaway takeaways?

474
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Speaker 5: And it is dan quinnesque with Remember he was hired.

475
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Speaker 3: By the McCarthy initially and was under Mike Nolan initially.

476
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Speaker 3: He wasn't hired by dan Quinn. So do you think

477
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Speaker 3: he would take that dan Quinn?

478
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Speaker 5: I think it's more dan Quinn.

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Speaker 4: I've had several conversations with Al Harris and he during

480
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Speaker 4: the time with dan Quinn, he couldn't offer up enough

481
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Speaker 4: praise for what dan Quinn was teaching him as far

482
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Speaker 4: as the knowledge that was being imparted growing him as

483
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Speaker 4: as a coach and the scheme that dan Quinn operated

484
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Speaker 4: under that allowed for an exceptional pass rush as well

485
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Speaker 4: as an exceptional defensive takeaway scheme right, And we're seeing

486
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Speaker 4: right now under Mike Zimmer even though Al Harris got

487
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Speaker 4: the promotion assistant head coaching, he's still defensive backs coach.

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Speaker 5: But with this new.

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Speaker 4: Scheme, I see very little Al Harris' fingerprints, very few

490
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Speaker 4: of Al Harris's fingerprints on this, and I think that's

491
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Speaker 4: one of the things that the Cowboys need to get

492
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Speaker 4: back to. So yeah, knowing how the front office works,

493
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Speaker 4: they love their proven head coaches, coordinators, God, they really

494
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Speaker 4: love them. They seem kind of allergic to newer, younger

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Speaker 4: faces that weren't groomed by the organization, like a Kellen

496
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Speaker 4: Moore or Jason Garrett, which is why I find it difficult.

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Speaker 4: Although I you know, looking forward, Ben Johnson would be

498
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Speaker 4: a good candidate if he becomes available. We can't talk

499
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Speaker 4: about him as if he's available because that's tamporing. But

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Speaker 4: you have those younger names, but that isn't the same

501
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Speaker 4: as like a Kellen Moore when he was within the

502
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Speaker 4: here Jason Garrett. Al Harris is a young minded guy

503
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Speaker 4: who's here and has been here several years. So I

504
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Speaker 4: feel like that part of how the Cowboys pattern works

505
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Speaker 4: coaching wise, hiring wise, and the fact that al Harris

506
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Speaker 4: has shown that he can develop guys and get them

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Speaker 4: taking away the ball Al Harris for.

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Speaker 7: Me another question though, if McCarthy is gone next season,

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Speaker 7: does Al Harrison have that chance to become defensive coordinat.

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Speaker 5: I don't see why he would not. I don't see

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Speaker 5: why he would not.

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Speaker 2: Keep in mind, depends on who they would hire.

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Speaker 5: Us agree because that head coach would have said.

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Speaker 2: Most of the time they would.

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Speaker 4: I guess my point there to answer that question would

516
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Speaker 4: be if Al Harris and now granted the Cowboys blocked

517
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Speaker 4: dan Quinn from getting Al Harris from the Cowboys, but

518
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Speaker 4: that was because if dan Quinn right, he had Joe Witt.

519
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Speaker 4: So if dan Quinn had offered Al Harris a promotion,

520
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Speaker 4: then Cowboys could have done about it.

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Speaker 13: Right.

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Speaker 4: So I say that to say, if Mike McCarthy is

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Speaker 4: out of the building, there's a love that Al Harris

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Speaker 4: has from McCarthy having played for him as well in

525
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Speaker 4: Green Bay. That obviously, realistically speaking, you have to entertain

526
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Speaker 4: the fact that maybe Al Harris is gonna go with

527
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Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy. But I've spoken with Al Harris and he's

528
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Speaker 4: ready to take a leap. Okay, he's ready to get

529
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Speaker 4: his own something, if that's his own defense, if that's

530
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Speaker 4: his own team.

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Speaker 5: He's ready to get something of his own and breakout.

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Speaker 4: And I could see it be in a situation where

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Speaker 4: he thanks McCarthy for bringing him into the organization and

534
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Speaker 4: everything he's done for him, both as a player and

535
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Speaker 4: developing as a coach, and then saying, Hey, if Jerry

536
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Speaker 4: Jones and this new incoming hit coach is going to

537
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Speaker 4: give me a chance to prove myself as a DC,

538
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to say no to that. So that

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Speaker 4: I could continue by tutelage under McCarthy.

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Speaker 2: Who would you pick?

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Speaker 3: You asked the question, But I'm kind of curious on

542
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Speaker 3: who would be here, someone outside hire or inside hier

543
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Speaker 3: which I would go.

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Speaker 2: With Al Harris.

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Speaker 7: I want to see what that looks like, because I

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Speaker 7: think you would bring back the element of like Patrick

547
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Speaker 7: just said, taking the ball away, and you would bring

548
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Speaker 7: back dan Quinn's not available, but he is, you know,

549
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Speaker 7: but the personnel that he was using. And I think

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Speaker 7: Al Harris has a better understanding of that, sure comparatively

551
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Speaker 7: obviously they work together for such a long time. I

552
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Speaker 7: think he has a better understanding, and of course he

553
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Speaker 7: knows the players that he has.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The only other thing that I could add an element

556
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Speaker 3: to in that process is if they were to hire Al.

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Speaker 2: Harris as a defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 3: A lot of times that would admit fault on who

559
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Speaker 3: they hired initially instead of al Harris In this last

560
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Speaker 3: coaching cycle of hiring Mike Zimmer as the defensive coordinator

561
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Speaker 3: instead of hiring who they interviewed for the job. Al

562
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Speaker 3: Harris is the defensive coordinator. They blocked him, they kept

563
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Speaker 3: him here, but they didn't ultimately end up hiring him

564
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Speaker 3: moving forward. And this would admit, Hey, we were wrong

565
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Speaker 3: the first time around. Are you wrong now over the

566
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Speaker 3: over the options? Who knows, because we haven't seen Al

567
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Speaker 3: Harris as a defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 7: But I think the the evidence is that you bring

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Speaker 7: Mike Zimmer in for one year.

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Speaker 2: Sure, they signed him for a one year deal.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think that into a participate nice five million dollar.

572
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Speaker 7: Favor, Yes, exactly right, Yeah, a big favor from his partner.

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Speaker 7: But I'm saying, like you probably did that for Al

574
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Speaker 7: Harris as well. Yeah, give him a chance to learn

575
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Speaker 7: besides somebody that isn't Dan Quinn and really develop who

576
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Speaker 7: he is his defensive coordinator and give him that that

577
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Speaker 7: promotion as well, you know what I mean? So, like,

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Speaker 7: I think there is a part of the grooming process

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Speaker 7: right to get him where he wants to go.

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Speaker 8: Would you think, Tommy, I'm completely on board with the

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Speaker 8: I'm on board with the Al Harris for defensive coordinator train. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: I think that you made a good point where it's

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Speaker 8: his third defensive coordinator. So that's given him some time

584
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Speaker 8: to marinate in a lot of different systems and a

585
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Speaker 8: lot of different philosophies and a lot of different coaching styles.

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Speaker 8: And I think that when you've got players coming in

587
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Speaker 8: from different philosophies, different coaching styles, more often than not,

588
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Speaker 8: that's going to.

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Speaker 6: Gel really well for you.

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Speaker 8: I think you still you take a look at all

591
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Speaker 8: your options. You see what's on the table, like you

592
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Speaker 8: do in any coaching search at any level, whether it

593
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Speaker 8: be coordinator, head coach. But if you were to tell

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Speaker 8: me tomorrow, hey, Al Harris is going to be the

595
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Speaker 8: Cowboys defensive coordinator in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 6: Five, I'd be completely on board with that.

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Speaker 8: And I'll say this too, going back to Champs thing

598
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Speaker 8: about Mike McCarthy and the injuries and whether or not

599
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Speaker 8: that would be you know, something that you know gives

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Speaker 8: him some extra time whatever it may be. Look, Mike

601
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Speaker 8: McCarthy is a great head coach. I think I think

602
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Speaker 8: he's a great football coach. You know, I think that

603
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Speaker 8: his track record shows that he went twelve and five

604
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Speaker 8: for three years here in a row. You don't do

605
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Speaker 8: that by accident. Injuries are a part of the game

606
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Speaker 8: at any level of football. You are never going to

607
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Speaker 8: be one hundred percent healthy across the board throughout the

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Speaker 8: entire season.

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Speaker 2: You want a Super Bowl riddled with any of you.

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Speaker 8: Want a Super Bowl riddled with injuries and a very

611
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Speaker 8: good quarterback. But nonetheless, I think that what it comes

612
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Speaker 8: down to in the evaluation process is how do you

613
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Speaker 8: build off of those injuries because you know they're going

614
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Speaker 8: to happen. Obviously for the Cowboys that has been at

615
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Speaker 8: an unprecedented scale and unfortunate timing left and right. But

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Speaker 8: how do you keep things afloat? And so I think

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Speaker 8: that's going to be the biggest thing that the organization

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Speaker 8: looks to when it comes to that decision that's coming

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Speaker 8: up here at the end of the season, is did

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Speaker 8: he do a good enough job keeping it afloat? Do

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Speaker 8: we think that he can keep this afloat going forward?

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Speaker 8: And that's the question that's ultimately going to have to

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Speaker 8: be answered.

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Speaker 3: And right now as we sit, as Week ten is

625
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Speaker 3: now in the rearview mirror, I don't know if you're

626
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Speaker 3: in that boat. I don't know if the Cowboys boat

627
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 3: is a float across the way or not. We're not

628
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 3: in that locker room, but we can only tell from

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Speaker 3: the outside looking in it hasn't been good the last

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: And that's where these conversations are shit.

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Speaker 8: And it also depends on their definition of what is

633
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Speaker 8: a flow.

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Speaker 2: What is a float? Is it strening?

635
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 6: Is it locker room cohesion?

636
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 2: Is it personnel?

637
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 6: Is it scheme? Could be what is staying afloat?

638
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 8: So yeah, all of that, you know, this has something

639
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 8: to think about as we go into these last couple

640
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Speaker 8: of games.

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Speaker 3: We do need to take our second break and get

642
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Speaker 3: to some more phone calls. Great call Champ, just to

643
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Speaker 3: provoke some conversation. The thought process here for me, when

644
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Speaker 3: when it comes to Mike McCarthy before we go to

645
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Speaker 3: this break, is the fact that, Mike, if you were

646
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Speaker 3: to make a switch now, how does it help you

647
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Speaker 3: further your franchise. I don't have a legitimate reason to

648
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Speaker 3: do it right now other than the fact if you

649
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 3: have lost the locker room, and I don't think that's

650
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Speaker 3: the case.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's lost me today.

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Speaker 3: That's what that was the first part of champs question

653
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Speaker 3: was why hasn't he made a move yet? If this

654
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Speaker 3: is going to happen in anyways. Yeah, the reason you

655
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 3: haven't made a move yet is because he hasn't lost

656
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Speaker 3: the locker room, at least from our outside vantage point

657
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Speaker 3: looking in.

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Speaker 2: And if you were to do it, it's.

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Speaker 3: The same question Josh has asked, who's your interim head coach,

660
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Speaker 3: who's your defensive coordinator, who's your offensive coord I mean,

661
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Speaker 3: the whole staff would have to be redone in the

662
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Speaker 3: middle of a season. I know you're not mathematically eliminated

663
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Speaker 3: from the playoffs, but you're pretty much eliminated from the

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Speaker 3: Maybe that's the respect that the front office has for

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Speaker 3: to give him a chance to write the ship, to

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Speaker 2: Unless things absolutelyely hit the absolute.

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Speaker 3: Cowboys Nation, Let's go to Nebby and Silver Springs, Maryland.

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Speaker 2: What's going on Nebby?

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Speaker 17: Hey, guys, thank you so much for taking my call. Uh.

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Speaker 17: First of all, I want to get this out of

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Speaker 17: the way. Let's seek you guys were talking about you

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Speaker 17: who you guys hate more the Philadelphia Eagles or the

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Speaker 17: Washington Commanders. Well, for me, growing up, uh me personally,

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Speaker 17: I have always uh believed uh uh that the Commanders

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Speaker 17: were or excuse me, are the more hated rivals. So

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Speaker 17: me personally, even though I obviously live in the DC area,

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Speaker 17: me personally, I hate the Commanders more than I hate

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Speaker 17: the Eagles. Although that said, I do give the Commander's

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Speaker 17: credit for being a great football team this year. Now,

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Speaker 17: having said all that, I believe we are in must

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Speaker 17: win mode for the next several weeks, and if we

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Speaker 17: don't win our next game this coming Monday night at

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Speaker 17: home against the Houston Texans, I've ben I believe that

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Speaker 17: we should be in full evaluation mode and put Trey

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Speaker 17: Lanton evaluate him, gave Deuce vun a chance to play

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Speaker 17: and see what happens the rest of the season. All

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Speaker 17: that said, before I go, I just want to say

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Speaker 17: that the season isn't over yet. But we do have

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Speaker 17: to win our next several games in order to make

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Speaker 17: the playoffs. And I hope you don't mind me being

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Speaker 17: optimistic and not giving up on the season just yet.

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Speaker 17: Take care of Thank you so much for being patient

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Speaker 17: with me, and have a great week. Bye.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Navy.

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Speaker 2: Let's start calling Neb's calls. Nebby nos ball.

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Speaker 5: To start calling his own segment.

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Speaker 2: I agree, a complete evaluation mode.

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Speaker 3: You've got eight games left a lot of times, in

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Speaker 3: order to make the postseason in this seventeen game schedule,

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Speaker 3: you need to win ten games.

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Speaker 2: At least maybe eleven, depending on what division you're in.

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Speaker 2: And of course, if you've looked lately, the Cowboys are

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Speaker 2: in a pretty good division. You need to either all

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Speaker 2: eight of your.

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Speaker 3: Next games or at the minimum seven of your next

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Speaker 3: eight games in order to make the playoffs. And it

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Speaker 3: kind of goes back to what we talked about yesterday, like,

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Speaker 3: if anybody is looking at this team right now and

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Speaker 3: saying they're gonna win seven of eight, I would call

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Speaker 3: you crazy.

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Speaker 2: I would absolutely call you crazy.

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Speaker 3: I love the optimism, but I also think Nebby brings

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Speaker 3: optimism in a realistic standpoint of let's say, hey, it doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Go our way and you do lose on Monday night.

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Speaker 3: Like you said, there, it's a valuation time which could

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Speaker 3: be beneficial to this football team as well.

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Speaker 8: I would argue that it's been a valuation time for

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Speaker 8: this team since like Week four, and they just haven't

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Speaker 8: realized it yet because they've been playing so much young talent.

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Speaker 6: And I don't say that it's a bad thing.

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Speaker 8: I mean it's evaluation from a standpoint of you get

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Speaker 8: to see what you have while also getting these guys valuable.

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Speaker 8: Will always be valuating, exactly right, but it's been more

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Speaker 8: so just because the injuries that have come up and

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Speaker 8: you've got you've got two rookies on the offensive line.

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Speaker 8: You've got DeMar Fion over shown starting a linebacker for

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Speaker 8: you what essentially is his rookie year. Caitlin Carson has

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Speaker 8: had to step up at corner. So you know, sometimes

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Speaker 8: that evaluation period comes with a negative connotation because some

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Speaker 8: would take it as Okay, the season's over, like there's

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Speaker 8: nothing to play for it anymore. Well, there's always something

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Speaker 8: to play for. There's always something to play for because

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Speaker 8: you get those guys reps and you get to see

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Speaker 8: what they've got. So I would agree with that, with

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Speaker 8: that notion, with that approach.

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Speaker 4: Well, we everyone knows I kicked into evaluation mode in

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Speaker 4: Week four, not that far back, but I did say

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Speaker 4: I wanted to see Trey Lance packages and going into

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Speaker 4: Deuce Vaughn and some of these other younger guys that

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Speaker 4: you haven't seen so that you could start the process.

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Speaker 4: And then I said, if you lose against the Eagles,

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Speaker 4: to me, it is a lost season. But again to

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Speaker 4: Tommy's point, it doesn't mean that what happens from henceforth

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Speaker 4: doesn't matter. It does matter because you now need to

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Speaker 4: see if ducevaugh needs to be on this roster next year.

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Speaker 4: You need to see more from Hunter Lipkey so that

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Speaker 4: you can build him up and get him ready for

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Speaker 4: next year.

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Speaker 5: And you know, now we'll expected to come back.

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Speaker 4: Let's see if will Grid is going to be a

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Speaker 4: viable option. So for me, you know what you having,

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Speaker 4: Cooper Rush, Now, I'm in start Trey Lance mode right now?

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Speaker 2: Okay, and then let's let's spring document.

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Speaker 4: It right and then let's sprinkle some will Gear in there.

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Speaker 4: Let's just just have some phone with it while we're

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Speaker 4: doing the evaluation. So that's the only difference between Neby

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Speaker 4: and I, and that I agree with what he's saying.

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Speaker 4: It's just that my full evaluation mode has already started,

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Speaker 4: like it started more or less after.

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Speaker 5: You lost to the Eagles. Right, So he's willing to

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Speaker 5: wait a week.

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Speaker 4: But to your point, Cayl, not only would you have

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Speaker 4: to damn near went out in conjunction with that, you

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Speaker 4: would need both the Washington Commanders and the Philadelphia Eagles

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Speaker 4: to fall flat on their faces. The Eagles have shown

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Speaker 4: that they can, but this Commander's team is just so

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Speaker 4: red hot.

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Speaker 5: And then you look at who they're playing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they got the Eagles twice, so two head butts there,

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Speaker 4: but you know.

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Speaker 5: They're playing the Cowboys.

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Speaker 4: They're playing the tight ends to playing the Saints, who

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Speaker 4: are surging a little bit, but maybe they'll mail it

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Speaker 4: in by then.

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Speaker 2: I want to get to Cynthia because Cynthia is a

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Speaker 2: real one. Come on, Cynthia is one of our.

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Speaker 3: Favorite colle on Talking Cowboys because he's offered us to

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Speaker 3: prove tex mex whenever we got the chance to go

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Speaker 3: down to Laredo, Texas.

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Speaker 2: Cynthia, you're back on talking Cowboys. What's going on?

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Speaker 14: Good morning, guys. It's about time Craig got me on

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Speaker 14: this year. Yeah, a female fan. Okay, we love it,

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Speaker 14: We love it.

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Speaker 2: Cynthia. How are you.

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Speaker 14: I'm doing well. I'm sad. Okay, I'm not mad at

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Speaker 14: the Cowboys. I'm not mad at anybody. You know who

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Speaker 14: I am so sad for.

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Speaker 2: What's that?

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Speaker 14: It's Sekiel Elliott. I just it hurts me that he's

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Speaker 14: done so much for so many years and now the

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Speaker 14: situation he's in. I just wanted to say that I

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Speaker 14: appreciate all those good times we had with him. Now

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Speaker 14: I want to do out guy's opinion about is this

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Speaker 14: is last year? Can you retire as a Cowboy? I

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Speaker 14: would love to see that. That's all I have to say. Kyle.

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Speaker 14: I just want to thank you because I met you

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Speaker 14: last year. Yeah, when we played the Giants and I

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Speaker 14: met Nate and Michelle. His life and that will always

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Speaker 14: be in my heart forever and ever and forever never

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Speaker 14: a Cowboy.

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Speaker 13: Fan, Yes, ma'am, and I'll listen to y'all.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you, miss Cynthia. Thank you, thanks for the call

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Speaker 2: as always. Yeah, she was great. We were out of

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Speaker 2: pregame life like we were last week and she came

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Speaker 2: by and said.

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Speaker 3: Hie, I told you we met Tim by the way

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Speaker 3: this past week, huge talking Cowboys fans. Tim came by

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880
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 3: gave him some freebies, gave him like a Waterburger hat

881
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 3: and the Jack.

882
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 2: Black set, some little take me homes. But no, he

883
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 2: was awesome.

884
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 3: Loved talking to Tim, Loved talking to Cynthia last year.

885
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 3: Ezekiel Elliott, the conversation was made this morning with Jerry

886
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 3: Jones and he said, we are not living in the past.

887
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 3: With Ezekiel Elliott, he said, let it be clear, we

888
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 3: are not living in the past. He's like, were currently

889
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 3: in the future, I think present future.

890
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:08,360
Speaker 2: Whatever it does that be? What does that mean for

891
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 2: his future here?

892
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 3: Because we talked about it yesterday, Josh, you talked about

893
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 3: ric O Daddle fumbles at the goal line. He's made

894
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 3: inactive next week Hunter Lipkey line.

895
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 2: But definitely less it was Oh they were actually he

896
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 2: was actually inactive. Remember, Yeah, he was sick.

897
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 13: Was over him.

898
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was there was weather there there was a

899
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 3: storm a coming. But then you had Hunter Lipkey last

900
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 3: year who didn't get to touch the rest of the year.

901
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 3: Ezekiel Elliott, who has had his struggles this year, gets

902
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:48,919
Speaker 3: the opening carry of the next drive. There's a conspiracy

903
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 3: theory out there. I'm not saying it's what I believe,

904
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 3: but they're saying that, hey, we're gonna give you one

905
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 3: last carry, so your last carry is.

906
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 2: Not a fumble with this team and in this uniform.

907
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 2: I don't know if I believe that's the case.

908
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 5: That's not his last carry.

909
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 2: I agree, but is this his last year?

910
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:07,280
Speaker 5: That was not his last carrie.

911
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 4: I do not believe Ezekiel Elliott will retire from the

912
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 4: NFL in twenty twenty five. So to Cynthia's question, you know,

913
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 4: would he retire as a cowboy this year after the

914
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 4: season He's I don't get the indication that he's the

915
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 4: people to retire. He still thinks he can play ball

916
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 4: and there's going to be a team that gives him

917
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 4: a shot to do so.

918
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 5: I don't know that that will be.

919
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 4: Here in Dallas though, Yeah, that's kind of where I'm Yeah,

920
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 4: I don't know that that will be here in Dallas.

921
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 4: I think again, I said, I said it two weeks ago.

922
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 4: Ric o'dowdo has earned the right to remain in Dallas

923
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five. But you still don't know what

924
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 4: you have in Duce. You kind of know what you

925
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 4: have in Hunter, but we want to see more evaluation

926
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 4: on those latter two guys. I just talked about you

927
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 4: got to rebuild your running backs room, and I'm with

928
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 4: rebuilding it with Rico o'dowdo in the mix. But as

929
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 4: far as Ezekiel Elliott, it's one of those things where

930
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:55,959
Speaker 4: he how's the saying go you can't go home again?

931
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 4: I think that's that's where they are with Ezekiel Ellitt.

932
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't think this is Zeke's last year

933
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 7: playing football. I think this probably is his last year

934
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 7: in Dallas, and hopefully eventually he retires.

935
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 5: With the Cowboys.

936
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 2: I would love to see that happen.

937
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 7: But if you just look at the statistics, I mean

938
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 7: this year compared to last year, where I think the

939
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 7: Patriots surprisingly had a more they obviously used him in

940
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 7: better ways for his playing style currently and we are

941
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 7: just not that team right now. I mean, if you

942
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 7: even look at his rushing yards, it's over six hundred.

943
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 2: Last season, He's.

944
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 7: Only at one seventy at the moment, and we're a

945
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 7: good portion through the season. I don't think he's going

946
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 7: to get anywhere near six hundred seven hundred yards rushing,

947
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 7: and he had almost one thousand dollar purpose yards last

948
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 7: year as well. He's not reaching that because we don't

949
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 7: throw the ball to him either. I just don't think

950
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 7: that our play style is playing to his strengths in

951
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 7: any form or fashion. I think it's a shame because

952
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 7: I think that is a tool that.

953
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,720
Speaker 2: You could use. He's a great athlete.

954
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 7: I just it's disappointing that the play calls are not

955
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,800
Speaker 7: going his way and the offense just doesn't seem to

956
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,439
Speaker 7: what he does with Ezekiel Elliott does. Now, what we've

957
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 7: talked about even in the offseason, it's like, you can't

958
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 7: expect twenty fourteen Z or twenty sixteen Zeke to come

959
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 7: in and play like that anymore. You have to expect

960
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 7: twenty twenty three Zeke, you know, in twenty twenty four

961
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 7: Z twenty four and use him to his strengths. Yeah,

962
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 7: so it doesn't seem to be that way. And I

963
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 7: but I don't think he this is his last.

964
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,919
Speaker 8: Football Yeah, I agree that I think there's still gas

965
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:27,839
Speaker 8: lucked in the tank. I just don't think the car

966
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 8: is being driven right now. And uh, you know it's

967
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 8: a bar I think.

968
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 13: That is.

969
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 8: I think I think I agree most with Josh's point

970
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 8: about you know, this is unfortunately not twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen,

971
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 8: Ezekiel Elliott.

972
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 6: This is twenty twenty four Yeah, ezekiel A.

973
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 8: The unfortunate part about Time is that sometimes he catch

974
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 8: us up to you and father Time is undefeated. I

975
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 8: think you've told me that, how about a half a

976
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 8: million times in the monk that I've been here. But

977
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 8: it's very true, and you're seeing it across the board,

978
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 8: even Zach Martin, if you feel like Time is kind

979
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 8: of catching up to him too.

980
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 6: But no, I don't think this is Ezekielli.

981
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 8: It's last year in the NFL, and I certainly hope not,

982
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 8: because I still think that there's some juice left there.

983
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 13: Yeah.

984
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,399
Speaker 4: The bottom line is it's every once in a while

985
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 4: you get back with the Knicks. You give it a shot,

986
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 4: and if it doesn't work, don't wait until it gets

987
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 4: to toxic.

988
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 5: Just let it go.

989
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this is one of those situations they

990
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 4: got back got back with their X, and based upon

991
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 4: the history, they were like, there were some good things there,

992
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 4: We had a lot.

993
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 5: Of romance, We had a lot of good things happened.

994
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 4: But then this time around, after you got back with

995
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 4: the X, you're like, yeah, we're two different people now,

996
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 4: entirely so relationships.

997
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 3: Dude's that is the weirdest metaphor that's ever worked that well,

998
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 3: Like that is the perfect metaphor, but it's also super

999
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 3: uncomfortable at the same time.

1000
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:50,879
Speaker 5: It's because we've all been there.

1001
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 2: Were you gonna add something there?

1002
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 7: No, I just think that not to tamper or anything,

1003
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 7: but it wouldn't it be nice to see Zeke with

1004
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 7: a quarterback that has some escapability, some dual threat to

1005
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 7: him so that you could actually see him out in space.

1006
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 6: Let me tell you about Trey Lance Bingle.

1007
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 2: Allright, he might be better.

1008
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll be back tomorrow. Cowboys Defensive preview. Going up

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Speaker 3: against C. J. Stroud and the Houston Texans offense, it

1010
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 3: does not get any easier for Dallas, and we're gonna

1011
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 3: try and see what happens. Defense has given you some

1012
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 3: things to build on, and we're gonna see if the

1013
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 3: Cowboys can take it another step forward. Maybe play a

1014
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 3: complete four quarters of defense, even whether or not the

1015
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 3: offense gives you any help as well. It's gonna be

1016
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Speaker 3: a tough task this week against the Texans. For Tommy Yarish,

1017
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Speaker 3: for Josh Rodriguez, Patrick No Cy Walker, Chris Beam in

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Speaker 3: the back of Kyle Yoman, saying so long from Talking Cowboys,

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