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Speaker 1: to push those limits. But just about figuring out those

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Speaker 1: talk to coaches and do that. Are always a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys on the Cowboys, but do you talk to

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Speaker 1: your teammates about Okay, the herd knocks cameras are here,

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Speaker 1: but let's make sure we keep our focus her it

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Speaker 1: needs to be. I mean, we had great team meetings

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of this of this camp that I

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Speaker 1: think handled it as we said, it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a fly on the wall and it's not going to

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Speaker 1: be a distraction. Things are a distraction that you're allowed

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Speaker 1: to become a distraction. I know we've got the right leaders,

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Speaker 1: we've got the right personalities on this team to focus

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Speaker 1: and when you're coming off a season last year, you

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Speaker 1: know the importance is the work on the field. So

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's necessarily worried about them. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: allow them to do their job. We're going to focus

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Speaker 1: on our job and hopefully just go smooth Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: expectations on the outside for your offenses is going to

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Speaker 1: be one of the best offenses in the NFL. And clearly,

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Speaker 1: the way to season started last year pre you got hurt,

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Speaker 1: it was what are your expectators for the offense this year? Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: that be the best offense in the NFL, stats, scoring,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to say. We want to be the

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Speaker 1: best offense, and we want to make sure that we're

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Speaker 1: playing complimentary football first and foremost with our defense and

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Speaker 1: with our special teams. It's just not about getting out

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Speaker 1: there and throwing at a hundred times, but it's about

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Speaker 1: playing complimentary football, the run game, the pass game, the

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Speaker 1: action game, and allowing the defense to get rest, given

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Speaker 1: the defense chance to get out there and to be

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Speaker 1: their best when they're out there as well. So, but

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Speaker 1: first and foremost is to be the best offense in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. I feel you can be as explosive as

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Speaker 1: any offense, but you need to be more efficient. That

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Speaker 1: stuff the step that needs to be taken to reach

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Speaker 1: that top level. Yeah, for sure, we've got to be balanced.

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Speaker 1: We can definitely be explosive. In the past game, you

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Speaker 1: see the receivers that we have, the tight end and

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Speaker 1: then you see the two backs, so even them out

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Speaker 1: of the backfield, this pass game is going to be limitless.

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Speaker 1: But we've got to make sure that the run game

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Speaker 1: is a complimentary, and I think it starts up front

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Speaker 1: with this offensive line that we have and them setting

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Speaker 1: the tone in the run game that's going to allow

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Speaker 1: us to get the boxes, is going to allow us

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Speaker 1: to get the matchups that we want to be able

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Speaker 1: to tag teams outside. And then once we do that, um,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be trouble for whoever we're playing. We're

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Speaker 1: excited to just take step by step honestly and to

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Speaker 1: make sure that when it all counts that we're doing

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Speaker 1: exactly that the right way. He's a Cowboys fan and

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson's going into the Hall of Fame here. What

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Speaker 1: is what is he's saying that how about them Cowboys?

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Speaker 1: What does that mean to you? How about him? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Just uh obviously he said that after after winning a

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Speaker 1: big one, right, and UM, to me, that's always uh

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Speaker 1: stuck with me. I mean when I signed autographs a

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Speaker 1: lot of times that they asked for me to put

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Speaker 1: how about them boys on them? So I mean I

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Speaker 1: think that's just kind of been a label two Cowboy

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Speaker 1: fans is Um. Every team kind of has their saying

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Speaker 1: and that's stuck. That's stuck, And I think it means

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Speaker 1: a lot. But uh, I know I want to get

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Speaker 1: in the locker room and said at the same said

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Speaker 1: the same way that he said it, and then it

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Speaker 1: will mean a whole lot more than me. To me,

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Speaker 1: it's about the first game of the year going to Tampa.

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Speaker 1: Your face, Tim Brady, nobody's got more see goals than Hill.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited. What a way to start this

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Speaker 1: season off, not only for us, but for this league,

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Speaker 1: for fans. Um, America's team playing obviously the reigning Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl champions with the best quarterback to do it. I'm

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Speaker 1: excited for I'm excited for for the matchup against this defensive,

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Speaker 1: very talented defense, UM, and I know our defense is

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Speaker 1: very excited for that matchup against Tom and his guys.

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Speaker 1: So it's going to be special, as I said, not

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Speaker 1: only for for Cowboy Nation, but for this NFL, and

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Speaker 1: be a great way to kick off the season and

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Speaker 1: kick off kick off our season the right way back

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Speaker 1: at practice, Yeah, I'd like for you to see him

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Speaker 1: back out there. Oh, it was great, and Blake's Blake's

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Speaker 1: one of the many guys that I've rehabbed with along

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Speaker 1: the along the last few months. So, um, it's special

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Speaker 1: just knowing that he's back out there as well. My

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Speaker 1: first throw at practice yesterday, sure it was a walk through,

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Speaker 1: but I made sure I threw it to Blake just

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Speaker 1: obviously I know everything that he's been through. Um, fighting

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Speaker 1: his adversity, fighting his injury and getting back on that

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Speaker 1: field special not only for me, but for him and

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Speaker 1: for this offense. He's somebody that we're gonna count on.

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Speaker 1: He's somebody that we need, and he's a big time

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Speaker 1: player that uh, he's gonna he's gonna step up your

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Speaker 1: gonly seeks yesterday, did you organize anything that you could

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Speaker 1: share with us? He did talk about that game that

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Speaker 1: you gave him, and how important is that bond that

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Speaker 1: you too. Yeah, we've got a special bond. I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously we're going into year six and this game brought

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Speaker 1: us together. But we'll be friends. We'll be friends long

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Speaker 1: after we're done playing. So thankful for a guy like

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Speaker 1: that on the field, off the field, and happy to

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Speaker 1: be lated birthday to him again. We obviously we didn't

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Speaker 1: do anything because it was camp. But my birthday's coming up,

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Speaker 1: so maybe when this thing's all said and done, we've

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Speaker 1: got an off day, we'll do something so perfect. Thank you,