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Speaker 1: Right now, Dallas Cowboys CEO Stephen Jones, brought to you

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Speaker 1: by your North Texas for Dealers, for Built for Texas,

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Speaker 1: built for you. Good morning, sir, Good morning. How we're

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Speaker 1: We're all curious because obviously it was a rough game

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Speaker 1: last night. We're curious, how do you divvy up the

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Speaker 1: responsibility between the continued turnovers versus injuries, versus better execution

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Speaker 1: versus maybe this team was just not constructed. Well, how

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Speaker 1: do you balance that all out? Well, I think you

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Speaker 1: just take I mean, you got to take the full

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Speaker 1: body of work. You know, there's a lot of a

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Speaker 1: lot of things to go into this. As we all know,

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Speaker 1: this league is built on parody cyary caps and you

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Speaker 1: know there's a fine line there. There's very little room

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Speaker 1: for era. And right now we're making all the mistakes

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Speaker 1: and you know, we lead the league and negative turnover

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Speaker 1: margin and that's you know, that's ultimate ultimate recipe for losing.

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Speaker 1: And I'll be fortunate and we've won the two games

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Speaker 1: we've won with the turnover battle, you know, with the

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Speaker 1: turnovers the way they've been. But you know, you just uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, injuries are a part of this league. Some

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Speaker 1: years you have more than others. Obviously this year we're

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Speaker 1: getting full of those of it. But you've got to

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Speaker 1: be able to construct a team that can withstand it.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we've got a new coaching staff. They've

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Speaker 1: got to get in here and continue to work with

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Speaker 1: this group. We didn't know as unprecedented in terms of

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Speaker 1: the offseason. We just didn't have a competitive offseason program

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Speaker 1: where the coaches can be with the players. They were

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Speaker 1: able to spend time with them on you know, along

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Speaker 1: the mental part of the mental aspects of it. But

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Speaker 1: you know, we've just got to keep grinding. Man, this

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Speaker 1: is a long season, a lot of football left to

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Speaker 1: be played. Obviously, you're not gonna win many games, and

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Speaker 1: we continue to make them a stand for making and

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Speaker 1: the flip side of that is we're certainly not creating

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Speaker 1: turnovers on the defensive side of the ball. But I

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Speaker 1: don't think anybody's got a silver bullet here is exactly

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Speaker 1: what the right answer is, other than we've got to

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Speaker 1: continue to go to work every day get better. This

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Speaker 1: is a you know, a good group of players. We've

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Speaker 1: got to come together as a team and obviously we're

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Speaker 1: not doing that right now. I think Jach McCarthy said

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Speaker 1: it well last night. We're just not doing things that

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Speaker 1: good football teams do, and we'll continue to put ourselves

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Speaker 1: in a hole, which makes it even more difficult when you're, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you're playing with you know, pretty much

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Speaker 1: one of the youngest offensive lines in the league. Now

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Speaker 1: when you look at what they're doing, they hadn't played

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Speaker 1: a lot together, and we've just got to continue to

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Speaker 1: go to work. Ever, when you talk about the limited

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Speaker 1: margin for error, obviously liminate getting behind the Sorry we

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Speaker 1: lost you there for just a second. When when you

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Speaker 1: talk about the limited ability for margin of error, do

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Speaker 1: you look at any of the like off season or

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Speaker 1: contractual or personnel decisions and wish that you had done

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Speaker 1: any of those differently that you could share with us.

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Speaker 1: Not really, No, we're you know, we were really pleased

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Speaker 1: with the team. So we'll continue to evaluate, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: this football team. And as I said, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of football left to be played, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're in a division that's as a group, it's not

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Speaker 1: winning a lot of football games right now. So you know,

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Speaker 1: we're still in the mix. And I know coach McCarthy

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Speaker 1: he's you know, he's coached a lot of winning football

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Speaker 1: teams and uh, you know a lot of skins on

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Speaker 1: the wall and feel like that we can get there. Stephen,

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Speaker 1: what's it like in these in these meetings give us

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Speaker 1: a little a little reality taste, because we all showed

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Speaker 1: up to work this morning and we're talking about the

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Speaker 1: same stuff y'all are talking about. We're trying to be

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Speaker 1: the GM two. But what's it, honestly like when you're

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Speaker 1: looking in the mirror, not just you, but the whole

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Speaker 1: I think that's some mentality that is doing for failure.

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Speaker 1: We look at it that we've got a good group

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Speaker 1: You know, our turnovers, unfortunately have happened in the hands

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Speaker 1: And that's uh, you know, we all know that we

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Speaker 1: we weren't necessarily expecting to be playing right now now,

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Speaker 1: and they've got to continue to work as a group

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Speaker 1: and I think we will get better. Has has Mike

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Speaker 1: McCarthy expressed you what he's learned about this team so

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Speaker 1: all know it. I think we've attributed to you know,

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Speaker 1: got a good group of a great group of receivers.

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Speaker 1: We all know Zeke's a great back. But we're turning

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Speaker 1: continue to get better at. We've got them out, you know,

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Speaker 1: we've just got to continue to work as a team.

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Speaker 1: I know everybody has their as you said, have their thoughts,

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Speaker 1: and certainly uh not positive ones. Now when you're sitting

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Speaker 1: two and four, we deserve that we had a coach

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Speaker 1: through the doors here, Bill Parcels, who used to say

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Speaker 1: you are what you are, and right now we're a

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Speaker 1: two and for a football team that leads a league

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Speaker 1: and negative turnover margin, and we've got to we've got

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Speaker 1: to change that narrative along the turnover points. And I

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Speaker 1: certainly understand in years past why Zeke has been a

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Speaker 1: when he is having all of these turnover issues? You know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, everybody certainly deserves too and has thoughts,

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Speaker 1: I said, we're in a division that right now that

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Speaker 1: to work every day and get better. Stephen, would you

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Speaker 1: approach it any differently? I know there's just hypotheticals, and

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Speaker 1: five in one in your division, would would you kind

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Speaker 1: of have a different evaluation because two and four year

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Speaker 1: You got a great chance to win in this division. Well, No,

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Speaker 1: I just I think at this point there's so much football.

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Speaker 1: You've got ten games left to be played, and certainly

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Speaker 1: we've got a new coaching staff, and I believe as

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Speaker 1: we move forward, we're gonna get better. Things are gonna

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Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna change the narrative on this. I

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Speaker 1: think Mike McCarthy, as I said, you just go back

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Speaker 1: and look at his track record and you'll see that

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Speaker 1: you know, he's been in some tough situations. He's won

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Speaker 1: a staff that we're going to continue to improve as

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Speaker 1: a football team and and uh go to work every

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Speaker 1: day and improve. Stephen Jones joining us here on the

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Speaker 1: Kncy Masterpiece on one or five three the fan, Steven,

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Speaker 1: I know it's only been one game, but did you

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Speaker 1: miss Dak Prescott more than you thought you would after

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Speaker 1: watching last night? Well, anytime you you know you're missing

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Speaker 1: mean that that goes without saying. You do everything you

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Speaker 1: you miss Dak. I mean we're gonna miss Dak all year,

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Speaker 1: going to change anything. We've got to go to work

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Speaker 1: with with Andy, and we have a lot of confidence

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Speaker 1: going to get better. As far as Zach Martin, is

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Speaker 1: he now in the concussion protocol? And can you walk

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Speaker 1: we hope will happen. Stephen, is there any are there

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Speaker 1: at some point we believe we're going to eliminate these

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Speaker 1: that's that's the most important thing right now. I am

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Speaker 1: I'm real curious Stephen on this. This might be the

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Speaker 1: last point here, but does there ever come a point

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Speaker 1: is it too soon for this? I think it's too soon.

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Speaker 1: he addresses the team and you know it's internal. We're

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Speaker 1: his football team. Well, we appreciate you jumping on with

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Speaker 1: us every single week. I know this is tough, and

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Speaker 1: you said the next thing, just go out there and

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Speaker 1: win a football game. And that's what we're all hoping

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Speaker 1: for against Washington. Appreciate it, guys,