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Speaker 1: Mike, Good morning to you, Happy holidays to you. How

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Speaker 1: are you morning, Coach, Good morning, good morning, Happy holidays,

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Speaker 1: Chris and Kevin, thank you so much for joining us

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Speaker 1: this morning. Coach, let's get started here. You're Cowboys in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs for the first time since twenty eighteen. How

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Speaker 1: do you now balance now the opportunity with being back

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to clinch the NFC's by virtue of winning

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Speaker 1: over Washington. I mean, I mean, obviously, you know, stay

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Speaker 1: in the obvious, just keeping our eye right on the

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Speaker 1: target and the targets toe on the winning division Sunday night. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I obviously last night we qualified clearly for

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. I think you know now it's about winning

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Speaker 1: your division and you know, obviously watching what's going on

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Speaker 1: around you. But as long as we take care of,

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Speaker 1: you know, take care of what's in front of us,

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Speaker 1: you know, that will definitely heighten our opportunity to climb

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Speaker 1: you climbing the ladder as far as being to get

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Speaker 1: to the highest seat. Hey, coach, let me give you

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Speaker 1: a credit right here, right off the top. It is December.

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Speaker 1: The Cowboys are three and oh in December. I've been

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Speaker 1: covering this team since nineteen eighty that's forty one years,

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Speaker 1: and coach Landry used to stay back in the day.

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Speaker 1: You want to be rolling into the playoffs. So props

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Speaker 1: for getting this team undefeated in December so far, and

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Speaker 1: those three victories will all road victories. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: give you a cliche, but it's obviously true. Props to

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Speaker 1: your defense because what do they say, defense travels? Can

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Speaker 1: you can you talk about the excitement in that building

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Speaker 1: because the defense seems to have a lot of swagger

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Speaker 1: right now. Definitely we're defensively, it's definitely playing with a

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Speaker 1: ton of confidence and rightfully so um, you know, you

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Speaker 1: can just really see it coming all together, and you know,

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Speaker 1: and as we've been able to get some of our

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Speaker 1: huge boost for us. And I think just really the

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Speaker 1: Its just been has been exciting. So we gotta keep

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Speaker 1: that momentum because as you said, defense travels and it's

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Speaker 1: really it's always, in my opinion, been you've been the

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Speaker 1: thermostat of a football game. You know, when you're when

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Speaker 1: you always have good defense, you're always you know, you're

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Speaker 1: always right there and have the opportunity to win the game.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of health, coach, one of the things that as

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Speaker 1: the health of the football team. When you look at

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Speaker 1: and how he's been progressing in what his availability looks

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Speaker 1: like going for just you know, information from the training

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Speaker 1: you know he'd always targets yesterday, so he's getting better. Um,

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Speaker 1: see how he comes in here today. And you know, frankly,

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Speaker 1: if you know, if he doesn't practice tomorrow, that's always

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Speaker 1: So if you know, if he practices tomorrow, will have

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Speaker 1: a chance. But if he doesn't practice, to Martin, you

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Speaker 1: know he won't be available Sunday night. Now, Tyren also

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl this year. There were none last year. Last year,

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Speaker 1: oh that was an anomaly. He was a bad season altogether.

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Speaker 1: Although you guys were three and one in December. Props

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Speaker 1: kind of rally about little things like that. Oh yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 1: So um, we didn't points, we didn't have a team

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Speaker 1: Can you talk about how he's been so effective for

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Speaker 1: of people may not appreciate, especially helping out the defense. Absolutely, No,

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Speaker 1: You can see it right away. Very consistent, obviously, very talented.

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Speaker 1: Everything he does in the locker room was so forth.

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Speaker 1: But you know, just look at the last game, just

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Speaker 1: to echo your point. You know, he was a big

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Speaker 1: What's a big part of our victory? Mike McArthur, year,

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Speaker 1: head coach of your Dallas Cowboys. Joining is right here

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Speaker 1: on Shan and RJ right here on one oh five

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Speaker 1: I think, like anything, the starting point really offensively is

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Speaker 1: You know, that's the focus each and every week. You know,

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Speaker 1: You know, you say execution. And by the way, I

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Speaker 1: I covered Time Landry for ten years, and you are

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Speaker 1: going into your Time Landry bag of tricks. I know.

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Speaker 1: He would do this in December, and he would do

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Speaker 1: this on a lot of road games. In particular, he

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Speaker 1: would make sure they get their basics down on execution,

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Speaker 1: doing it this way. Are you kind of basically going

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Speaker 1: back to old school saying let's get our basics down

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Speaker 1: we secerely appreciate it. The time this morning with us

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