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Speaker 1: Tom. It's Mutt, Jerry and Dickerson this morning. How are

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Speaker 1: you guys? Good morning, Uh, this is you've you've talked

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Speaker 1: You guys got out to a great start yesterday, scored

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Speaker 1: in the third play of the game, then from there

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Speaker 1: struggled offensively. What changed after that big opening touchdown, Well,

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Speaker 1: they gave up a big play. It looked like they

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Speaker 1: by Chris getting across the field and they blitzed, Uh,

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Speaker 1: by Chris. It was, you know, obviously the way we

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Speaker 1: you know, too many, too many missed opportunities, you know,

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Speaker 1: from there on out, certainly with those drives after in

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Speaker 1: the first half, and came up short on a couple

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Speaker 1: of third downs. And I had a few other opportunities

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Speaker 1: in the past game and um, you know, just didn't

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Speaker 1: really take advantag So just a frustrating day. Frustrating not

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Speaker 1: to score. Um, you know the kind of points out

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Speaker 1: we're capable of. Scorn was obviously a frustrating finish. Tony

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Speaker 1: Romo was guessing that maybe Edelman was supposed to stop

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Speaker 1: I know you're not going to call out a teammate,

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Speaker 1: but what went wrong on that play? Well, it was

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Speaker 1: it's it's a little you're you're fighting a couple of

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Speaker 1: so you really it's hard to throw the ball, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're going to get another playoff. Even though we could

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Speaker 1: have got maybe a first down, right, you know, we

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Speaker 1: didn't have enough time. So they kind of sense the

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Speaker 1: goal line, and you know, I was just telling guys,

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Speaker 1: it's just a just a tough it's a tough play

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Speaker 1: anyway you cut it. So they got a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys looking at the ball and your guys are trying

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Speaker 1: to run vertical and you know they they played it well.

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Speaker 1: Of all the frustrating things yesterday, Tom, or maybe the

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Speaker 1: penalties the most frustrating thing for you guys. You know

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Speaker 1: those those don't those obviously those don't help. You know,

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Speaker 1: those are they're they're frustrating when you get them. I mean,

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Speaker 1: misplays on third down. You know, all those things are

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Speaker 1: are you know, keep you from scoring points. And the

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Speaker 1: games about scorn points. So anything that keeps you from

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Speaker 1: scoring points is going to be um, you know, detrimental

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Speaker 1: team negative plays in a run game or sacks or

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Speaker 1: you know, that's why you try to play a clean game,

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Speaker 1: keep the ball moving forward. And uh, you know, if

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Speaker 1: we just have too many missed opportunities, well you you

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Speaker 1: you guys think? And I'll tell you what I think, Tom.

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Speaker 1: The officiating sucks. I don't know what holding is anymore.

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Speaker 1: I obviously no one knows what pass interference is anymore.

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Speaker 1: And Jonathan Jones PI was a good example of that,

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Speaker 1: but half the holding calls, I'm going he just had

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Speaker 1: understand what they're looking for when they call holding, what

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Speaker 1: It's just it's been called pretty consistently over the years.

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Speaker 1: you know why it wasn't out there on that last

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Speaker 1: James was carrying a very heavy load for a while.

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Speaker 1: on the road, town, what what stands out? What has happened?

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Speaker 1: What has to be better on the road going forward?

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Speaker 1: And you know it's easier to do that at home.

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Speaker 1: I certainly don't feel like we can't win on the road.

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Speaker 1: But you know it's a you know, it's just a

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Speaker 1: know they're trying some different things, and you know, they've

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Speaker 1: do it. Get you on the quarterback question of the week, Tom,

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Speaker 1: you just said it there. We're still working on some things.

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Speaker 1: just you know, it's taken a while for things kind

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Speaker 1: of to to come together for us. And I think

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Speaker 1: every week you learned, and it's you learn right up

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Speaker 1: through the end of the year. And uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: we just dealt with a lot of different situations and

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Speaker 1: injuries and players coming in and out. And the one

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Speaker 1: positive if guys are healthy. And you know, anytime you

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Speaker 1: come out of a game healthy, that gives you a

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Speaker 1: pretty good chance the next week. So, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we have a lot of football ahead of us. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've just got to go play really well and you know,

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Speaker 1: try to get this one against Buffalo, which will be

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Speaker 1: a big challenge, and then we'll you know, see how

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Speaker 1: things shake out. But hopefully we can hopefully we can

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Speaker 1: have a great game this week. I'll be sawday Agellette, Tom,

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Speaker 1: Thanks great, Thanks guys,