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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. Up next,

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. The Commanders had to Dallas for their second

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Speaker 1: straight Division matchup Washington Greats. London. Fletcher in Santana, Ma

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Speaker 1: share who they think could be the difference makers in

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Speaker 1: this game. They looked at the film, they know what

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Speaker 1: they need to do. It's a matter of doing it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let me, let's kind of simplify this break down a

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Speaker 1: little bit, right Santana, Yeah, who is that guy? Who

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Speaker 1: is that unit that needs to just go out there

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Speaker 1: and do it? Honestly, don't think it's one unit. I

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Speaker 1: think collectively this has to be one of those group efforts. Coaching,

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Speaker 1: you know, the players, I want to see us out

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Speaker 1: skiing the next offense or defense. And then as a player,

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Speaker 1: as a man or two man, you beat your guy,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And I just feel like

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Speaker 1: at times you see different sides play well and the

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Speaker 1: other side don't give them a break. Offensively, we haven't

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Speaker 1: gave about defensive breaking the first half in the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks. You have to be better, But that might

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Speaker 1: leaves over us to a little coaching. It might leave

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Speaker 1: you over to the players. It's making plays. But I

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Speaker 1: think this effort has to be from the entire team

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Speaker 1: for us to go out and get the job done.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get more specific and talk about the group,

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Speaker 1: and it has to be the offensive line, Julie. When

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Speaker 1: you look at the first half of the game against

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Speaker 1: the Detroit lines, the entire game against the Philadelphia Eagles,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't good enough and they know that, we know that,

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Speaker 1: and what I would love to see them do is

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Speaker 1: from a play college standpoint, allowed them to come out

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Speaker 1: and have a set a physical tone. How do you

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Speaker 1: do that. You run the football, and I'm not talking

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Speaker 1: about outside zones those type of thing. I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: coming downhill, running some powers, some duo type blocks where

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Speaker 1: you're double team and guys, and that allows the mindset

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Speaker 1: to change or shift for that offensive line where they know, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a physical football game. That allows them

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Speaker 1: to get into that mindset and set a tone for

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Speaker 1: our team and our offense in general. You know, the

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Speaker 1: offensive line has been struggling. Of course, the sacks that

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is taken starting in Detroit and then also

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Speaker 1: with the Eagles, and we saw what the Cowboys were

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Speaker 1: able to do on Monday night as well, getting to

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones a whole bunch of times to Marcus Lawrence

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Speaker 1: was out there. We'll see how injured he may or

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Speaker 1: may not be from that game as well. Michael Parsons

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Speaker 1: even said he's on sixty percent, but he says, my

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Speaker 1: sixty percent it's gonna better than anybody's one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: No matter what he goes, I will be out there.

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Speaker 1: They will be hungry, they will be coming for him.

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Speaker 1: What are some things you can do to try and

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Speaker 1: his sister, where do you assess the Cowboys are well?

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Speaker 1: From the same point of just looking at the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: defense and just attacking this defense. Hey, let's do some

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Speaker 1: quick pass I mentioned to run game. Also, you may

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Speaker 1: have to have a situation where you're adjust your game plan.

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Speaker 1: If what you have in your first fifteen is not working,

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Speaker 1: Let's make those adjustments between series. You can't wait till

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Speaker 1: you get the halftime to make the adjustments. Sad time,

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Speaker 1: and it has to be serious and series where where

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Speaker 1: you're making those adjustments. That's one of the things that

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Speaker 1: stand out to me. You know, I've been a player

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Speaker 1: for a while in London as well, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you know, London seemed offenses where they came out with

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Speaker 1: something and you just had their number, you know, but

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Speaker 1: what you do as a offense if they have our number,

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Speaker 1: let's go to you know, offense one on one, you know,

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Speaker 1: the basic, the basic of the basic, beat your man.

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Speaker 1: You know, let's go out here and put three man's

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Speaker 1: in the route and run the ball. And so I

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Speaker 1: think we had to do some things like that at

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Speaker 1: a time. These two have been a part of some

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Speaker 1: historic moments in this rivalry. London and Santana recap their

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Speaker 1: greatest memories against the Cowboys. Okay, you had seven touchdowns

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Speaker 1: against them, but everybody remembers for that fourth quarter miracle

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Speaker 1: game that you had. What is it about the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: that you get up for? I think it's just to

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Speaker 1: build up to the game. I mean one of the

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Speaker 1: things that I found out early. You know, when I

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Speaker 1: got had that first year, it was the second game

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Speaker 1: of the season. I didn't know that the whole DMB

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Speaker 1: gets up for this game. I remember the whole week long,

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Speaker 1: it was beat Dallas on shirts everywhere and you go

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Speaker 1: to different stories, you see people with Dallas stuff on them.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know how many fans are there as it

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Speaker 1: was here. But when you get into that game, it's live,

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Speaker 1: it's action packed. It's like a playoff atmosphere. And you know,

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Speaker 1: to say the least that game that I had those

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Speaker 1: two touchdowns, it didn't feel that way for us offensively

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Speaker 1: or for the whole whole game until those last two minutes.

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Speaker 1: But to come away with that victory, man and just

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Speaker 1: united everything else going forward from my career playing against

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Speaker 1: discuss also to show the game is never over until

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Speaker 1: that final whistle. Right. Meanwhile, this guarrt here three interceptions, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Tony Romo, he throws a nice catch up a ball.

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Speaker 1: I enjoy going against the Kyle Boys, and like Santana,

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize how I knew about the rivalry, but

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Speaker 1: the intensity and when you get into that game against

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Speaker 1: the Kyle Boys and you come into the stadium, you

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Speaker 1: just the energy just feels different. You mentioned it felt

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Speaker 1: like a playoff atmosphere. It feels like that when you

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Speaker 1: go against the Kyle Boys. I can remember in twenty

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Speaker 1: and twelve we go down to to Dallas play them

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Speaker 1: on a Thanksgiving needing to win that game. We beat them,

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Speaker 1: and then the final game of the season where it's

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Speaker 1: winner take off for the division crown. We were able

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Speaker 1: to come away with that victory, but I love Plan

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Speaker 1: of Cowboys. It's just an intense, physical matchup, our biggest

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Speaker 1: rivalry by far. For all your news and analysis, be

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