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Speaker 1: Closing in on the one o'clock hour as we continue

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Speaker 1: rolling through Day three coverage of the twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: NFL Draft on one oh five three The Fan and

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys Dot Com from Inside the Star in Frisco.

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Speaker 1: We are three picks in to the fifth round, and

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Speaker 1: with the final selection of the fourth round for the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at one thirty eight, they selected offensive tackle

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Speaker 1: Josh Ball out of Marshall. He's on the line, Josh, Congratulations,

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Speaker 1: A big day for you coming from Huntington all the

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Speaker 1: way to Frisco. What's going through your mind right now? Wow?

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Speaker 1: Just what an amazing opportunity. Can't wait be down there

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Speaker 1: Frisco and just to be a part of the Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys organization. And it's it's just a blessing and uh,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm ready to the work. Hey, Josh, you

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Speaker 1: know you're sitting here watching your name come off. The

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Speaker 1: scouting part on you is, you know, the natural talent

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Speaker 1: to have maybe gone yesterday higher in the draft and

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Speaker 1: maybe it's more issues with your time at Florida State

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Speaker 1: that led to you falling today. I'm just curious what

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Speaker 1: this draft process has been like to uh, for you

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Speaker 1: and what your conversations have been like with NFL teams

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Speaker 1: and with the Cowboys, Uh, to help teams get a

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Speaker 1: handle on all that. Yeah. Absolutely, you know, the pass

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Speaker 1: of the past. It's over with and done with. Everybody's

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Speaker 1: moved on. Um, And I don't really have a comment

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Speaker 1: about that. It's just uh, it's just a lot uh

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Speaker 1: you know, about getting to know me as a as

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Speaker 1: a person and getting getting to know my mental side

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Speaker 1: on the ball stuff and uh just seeing how my

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Speaker 1: mind works, uh with with with the protections, run game

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and just kind of running that

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Speaker 1: through my head and seeing how I work and put

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Speaker 1: things together. So uh, you know that's how most of

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Speaker 1: these calls went, especially with the Cowboys. And uh, yeah

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Speaker 1: that's what and you know you you mentioned calls with

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. What what's this process been like with Dallas?

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Speaker 1: Have you had a chance to talk to to Joe

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Speaker 1: Philban or just what what has this process been like

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Speaker 1: for you with Dallas? Did you did you have an

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Speaker 1: inkling they might have an interest? Right? So yeah, I

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Speaker 1: had a zoom with coach Philban and we went over

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Speaker 1: some stuff, went some uh some passing stuff and run

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Speaker 1: run game stuff. As well, and uh we went over

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Speaker 1: some things and uh, you know, I was thinking, uh

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Speaker 1: you know, I was going to be a Dallas Cowboy

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Speaker 1: today about a round one thirty and I got the

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Speaker 1: call and uh yeah, I talk coach Stilban and they're

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Speaker 1: fired up to get me down there. Some things I

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Speaker 1: definitely got to work on before I get there, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, and take just get down there in Dallas

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Speaker 1: and uh work on some things to be a better

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Speaker 1: football player. So we kind of gave you that inkling,

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Speaker 1: any kind of indication there as to where you were

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Speaker 1: going to fall with the Cowboys. Honestly, no, Uh, it

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Speaker 1: came out of nowhere. You know. It was a blessing

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Speaker 1: of disguise, and uh, I'm so grateful to have the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to be in first go. I'm just I'm just

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Speaker 1: fired up. So it did come out of nowhere. But

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Speaker 1: like I said, I'm blessing ready to go. So offensive

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Speaker 1: line is is kind of a legacy here in Dallas,

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Speaker 1: especially I mean forever, but especially over the last decade

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Speaker 1: with guys like Tyrn Smith Zach Martin. For any fans

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Speaker 1: listening that I appreciate offensive line play. What what are

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Speaker 1: your strengths. What do you like to do on the field? Absolutely, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, growing growing up and that marshal and stuff.

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Speaker 1: We watched a lot of Tyrn Smith um cutouts and tape,

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Speaker 1: and I love the way he played. Uh you know,

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Speaker 1: I think I have a little inkling of him and me.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know, I'm gonna have long arms. I get

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Speaker 1: get my arms on, hands on people really quick and

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Speaker 1: fast in the past, borrow, I have great feet, um,

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Speaker 1: and on the run game, I'm just fast, musical, physical, nasty,

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Speaker 1: uh you know. And that that's some trace that I

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Speaker 1: think I see myself along with Tyron Smith. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I really crafted my game around him growing up and

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Speaker 1: just watching a lot of films, like I said, and

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Speaker 1: uh again, just fired up to get down there and

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Speaker 1: show him what I have. So and judge. How is

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Speaker 1: she weighing right now? Um? Last week I waited in

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Speaker 1: about three fourteen. Okay, so that's that's a little bit

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Speaker 1: heavier than what you played at there this season? Am

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Speaker 1: I correct about that? Yeah? My weight has actuated up

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Speaker 1: and down in the past couple of years, two years,

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Speaker 1: both different seasons. But I feel comfortable where with on

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Speaker 1: that right now. But it is a little heavier than

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Speaker 1: what I did play in twenty twenty. Absolutely, Josh, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for spendings and time with us. Congratulations. We

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Speaker 1: look forward to watching you on the field soon. Yeah. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. Go Cowboy. There he goes his

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Speaker 1: first Go Cowboys on the air. I like that, adding

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Speaker 1: it in at the end of the phone call Josh

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Speaker 1: Ball out of Marshall