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Speaker 1: Right now, brought to you by four Built for Texas,

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Speaker 1: Built for you. Dallas Cowboys Executive vice president Stephen Jones.

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, sir, Good afternoon. How you guys doing. We're

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Speaker 1: doing okay. I'm sure you can understand that as supposed

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Speaker 1: to be great as usual. We were talking about this

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show. Was there a moment

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Speaker 1: during the game where you just had to sit back

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Speaker 1: our day. Well, I'd probably started to feel that way

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Speaker 1: after we blocked the punt, made got them three and out,

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Speaker 1: made great plays on defense, playing fast, and then blocked

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Speaker 1: the punt, got done what we wanted to get done,

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Speaker 1: and then to lose that ball on a you know,

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Speaker 1: on a tough rule. I mean, it's a tough rule

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Speaker 1: we have there where you get penalized for making a

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Speaker 1: great play, and it's just a hard one to swallow.

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Speaker 1: You were starting to thankful, starting to wonder if it's

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Speaker 1: just not everything's gonna can't go wrong, we'll go wrong.

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Speaker 1: So I'd say that was the first time you started

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Speaker 1: letting the letting it creep in a little bit. But still,

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Speaker 1: you know, we had a lot of ball to play

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Speaker 1: at that point, but you were certain certainly starting to

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Speaker 1: feel that way a little bit at that point. See, okay,

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Speaker 1: let's go ahead and dive in on that part of it.

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Speaker 1: You are on the competition committee, do you want to

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Speaker 1: try and take a look at the way that that's

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Speaker 1: done and say, you know what, maybe we should adjust

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Speaker 1: that one just a little bit. Yeah, I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: certainly something to look at again. I mean, it's never

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Speaker 1: an intention, you know, in the NFL to penalize a

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Speaker 1: good you know, to you know, have something bad happen

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Speaker 1: against making a good play. And obviously a block kick

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Speaker 1: and then you know, especially that particular block kick. I'm

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Speaker 1: fortunately we all remember the Lei and lat one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you know that one's a little more. Hey, you

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Speaker 1: got to coach it up and you gotta know where

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Speaker 1: it is and that type of thing. But obviously that

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Speaker 1: one's a tough one right there in the traffic five

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Speaker 1: yards down field. But you know, once it crosses that

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, then that is the rule. And you know,

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Speaker 1: certainly it will come up and we'll discuss it at

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Speaker 1: Lenked again and go back through the history of it

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Speaker 1: and why we have it in and you know, is

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Speaker 1: there any reason to discuss a change in the rule.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously we were going through different massinations. Should

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Speaker 1: at least have to go past the first down marker

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Speaker 1: or you know those type of things, but all those

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Speaker 1: are things that you discussing the off season. It was

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Speaker 1: certainly applied the correct way and we have to accept that.

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Speaker 1: Stephen Jones here on the Kacie Masterpiece on one oh

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Speaker 1: five three the fan Steven after something like that, when

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Speaker 1: you look at kind of what happened, what's your take

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Speaker 1: on why this team didn't look like the team we've

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Speaker 1: been watching for the last six games or even seven

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Speaker 1: games in a row. Let's start with given the Broncos credit.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they came ready to go. H you know,

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Speaker 1: Big Fangio is one of the top defensive minds in

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Speaker 1: our offense, and certainly, you know, did a great job

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Speaker 1: obviously we had some things in there where I think

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Speaker 1: we can execute and play better. Uh you know, I

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Speaker 1: say it wasn't probably his best game. We obviously our

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Speaker 1: You don't want the all to happen in the same game,

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Speaker 1: but uh, you know, and you know, obviously you know

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Speaker 1: they got pressure on us. Well, we were uh you know,

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Speaker 1: they probably we were keying on and uh, you got

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Speaker 1: what might be a better option for us. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: see what's the best way to go attack the Falcons

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Speaker 1: in terms of improving on how we played on As

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Speaker 1: I said, in all three phases, what's a typical timeline?

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Speaker 1: And there might you might just be like, well, there's

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Speaker 1: no such thing as typical when it comes to injuries,

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Speaker 1: tyrants looking going forward? Well, you certainly like to get

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Speaker 1: But certainly hadn't ruled that out. It's certainly a possibility

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Speaker 1: go against the Falcons. But that's yet to be determined

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Speaker 1: what tyrant fit under the quality of somebody who could

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Speaker 1: it's just hard to simulate going one hundred and ten

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Speaker 1: factor all that in not unlike we've done with other

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Speaker 1: the fourth down attempts? Well, we are are aggressive by

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Speaker 1: and I certainly support that. I mean that's you know,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, really feel like with the offensive

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Speaker 1: those make those fourth and ones. I mean, you're obviously

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Speaker 1: and these coaches are more and more aggressive on these

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Speaker 1: and I certainly understand that, but we're very supportive of

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Speaker 1: curious any insight you could provide for the fan base.

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Speaker 1: We're definitely interested. Is you talk about, you know, the

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Speaker 1: the process of it seemed as though the game was

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Speaker 1: over at that point. Well, you know, all these guys,

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Speaker 1: that's in every coach's vocabulary, that's in every player, his engine,

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Speaker 1: his heart, his makeup. That's Dak Prescott, and the last

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Speaker 1: So there's obviously a fine line you walk there between

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Speaker 1: it's a competitive group in there, and certainly, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: make that Stephen yesterday. And I'm kind of curious how

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Speaker 1: day to make him. You know, we kind of got

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Speaker 1: game like that? You know, it's one where you it's

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Speaker 1: difficult to you know, to lose one like that at

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Speaker 1: and of course, uh, you know, especially you know sometimes

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Speaker 1: like I said, handed to the Broccos. They showed up

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Speaker 1: just go through it and see where things could have

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Speaker 1: for a while. I'm really disappointed, said, maybe I like

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Speaker 1: A few times. I was really hoping you were about

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Speaker 1: to tell us about a secret pickup game between you

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Speaker 1: then you know you'll you'll have that. Certainly, Kansas City

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Speaker 1: And you know that's just can happen on occasion. In general,

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Speaker 1: more more the other team than usual did a great

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Speaker 1: the future. And we've got to learn from this one

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Speaker 1: but better than our rearview mirror and move forward. I

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Speaker 1: think one of the things that we discussed this morning

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Speaker 1: what essentially as we essentially get to the halfway point

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Speaker 1: of the season. I do. I feel really good about

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Speaker 1: overcome it. You got to give the Broccos credit that

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Speaker 1: came with a great defensive game plan, a great offensive

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Speaker 1: game plan, and you know, they kicked our button. All

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Speaker 1: the phases, so you got to give them credit. And

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Speaker 1: we've got to certainly learn from this, and I go

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Speaker 1: back to the drawing board to prove I really like

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Speaker 1: our football team. We've got a lot of guys that

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Speaker 1: that are really good football players. And we got of course,

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Speaker 1: we missed hiring yesterday. That was a tough one to

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Speaker 1: have him out, and getting Michael Gallop back more than

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Speaker 1: likely this week, and you know, I think we lost me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, all right, awesome, Thank you very much, Steven.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate all the insight. As always, love talking with you

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Speaker 1: on Mondays. We'll catch up with you next week. Thank you.