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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones. Good afternoon, sir,

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon Gas. How much more excited are you to

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Speaker 1: ago today? I think that goes without saying. Obviously, we

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Speaker 1: and it wasn't just one or two people, it was

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Speaker 1: we just you know, it's not what we expect out

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Speaker 1: across the board, and just hats off to the response.

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Speaker 1: Starts obviously with coach McCarthy and his staff getting the

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Speaker 1: team then stepping up and having a great week of practice,

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Speaker 1: great energy, and really felt like they would respond. But

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Speaker 1: obviously you want to you want to see it happen.

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Speaker 1: But I really thought our team, uh you know, from

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Speaker 1: top to bottom, all three phases, came to play the

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Speaker 1: game on Sunday and certainly showed when we uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: most of the year other than one week, uh you know,

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Speaker 1: when you played good football. I was hoping that you

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Speaker 1: could walk us a little bit more just specifically your

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Speaker 1: mindset throughout the week. I know everybody said the right

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Speaker 1: being an anomaly and the worst game of the season,

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Speaker 1: But do you was there ever a time throughout the

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Speaker 1: this is that. Like, how how do you keep maintain

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Speaker 1: your confidence in focus? Well, you certainly have concerned whenever

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Speaker 1: you play like that, but have a ton of confidence

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Speaker 1: in h you know, and the team we put together

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Speaker 1: here and whether it's our coaching staff led by coach McCarthy,

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Speaker 1: whether it's uh, you know, sports staff, whether it's our

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Speaker 1: player just really felt like these guys would respond and

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Speaker 1: overall you felt good about it. But you got to

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Speaker 1: go out and do it. And all you have to

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Speaker 1: do is look around the league. I mean there's teams,

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Speaker 1: uh you know, I think every team in the league

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Speaker 1: now has lost two games. And you look at those

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Speaker 1: teams and you know, if you don't come out with

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Speaker 1: And certainly, unfortunately we didn't come with that edge and

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Speaker 1: with that energy against the Broncos, and that's we got

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Speaker 1: the results. That is what happens when that happens, and

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Speaker 1: different result. And I think it's a great experience. We

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Speaker 1: have a lot of young, young guys on this team.

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Speaker 1: The good news is we got great leadership and some

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Speaker 1: those guys came to play and uh certainly set the

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Speaker 1: But did you happen to just kind of, you know,

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Speaker 1: flag something that said let's use Dak Prescott more as

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Speaker 1: a fullback in goal line situations when we're up by

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Speaker 1: twenty something points. It was actually the opposite. Let's don't

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's Dak. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: we have to protect Dac from back. But he's the

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Speaker 1: He's gonna play the score. Uh, you know that's what

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Speaker 1: makes Dac back. And uh, he's a fierce competitor. He's

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Speaker 1: a great leader. He said, it's the tone for this team. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you could be like in him all week long that

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Speaker 1: I will say, I hope we don't see that much

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Speaker 1: the rest of the year. So, Stephen, you have three

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Speaker 1: block punts this year. We were talking about it earlier

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Speaker 1: And this year, you guys keep getting these situations where

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Speaker 1: And you know, you want to take advantage of opportunities.

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Speaker 1: And I do think our staff does a great job,

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Speaker 1: you ever want to come on here and gloats and

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Speaker 1: sometimes we give you a hard time about Dorance Armstrong

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Speaker 1: I told you you jokers should have listened to me

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Speaker 1: all along. Well, he's a great football player and uh

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Speaker 1: But he also showed yesterday make big place for us

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Speaker 1: him on our football team. He's got great football character.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's been going through some things personally that

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Speaker 1: we're all rooting for him in terms of losing a

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Speaker 1: Stephen Jones joined us here on the Kansie Masterpiece on

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Speaker 1: one oh five Through the Fan, your home of the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. We kind of were discussing this at length,

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Speaker 1: and I know you'll talk about self scouting, self assessment,

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Speaker 1: by what's going on with Connor Williams on some of

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Speaker 1: Do you think the quality of play for him is

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Speaker 1: what's going on there. Well, we've got to clean up

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Speaker 1: know he's going down that line a little bit where

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Speaker 1: And you've got to improve as the year goes if

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Speaker 1: you want to be a championship caliber team. Certainly, penalties

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Speaker 1: I know Mike's gonna stress that with our team. He's

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Speaker 1: the whole team was so fired up for DQ. I mean,

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Speaker 1: to be their quick turnaround. But how do you how

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Speaker 1: Smart answer, Sarah, Thank you very much, congratulations on a

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Speaker 1: huge win and a huge weekend. We will catch up

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