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Speaker 1: the Star in Frisco. And now your hosts Isaiah stand Back,

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Speaker 1: Patrick Walker and Kyle Yeomans. It is a Monday morning

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Speaker 1: edition of Talking Cowboys presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company.

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Speaker 1: Here from the Star in Fresco in the s WBC

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Speaker 1: studios alongside Patrick No, c Walker, Isaiah stand Back from

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Speaker 1: Kyle Yeomans. We've got Cris Beam running it all in

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Speaker 1: the back. The Cowboys season comes to a close nineteen

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Speaker 1: to twelve. The final score the divisional round loss to

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Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers. Back to back playoff

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Speaker 1: runs ended by San fran And we're here to break

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Speaker 1: it down for you here over the next forty five minutes,

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Speaker 1: and we will. We'll give our takes on this one.

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Speaker 1: This one hurts. It sucks, man, it sucks, it does.

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Speaker 1: This one doesn't feel very good. You feel like every

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Speaker 1: year you make the playoffs, get into the tournament, you've

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Speaker 1: got a shot. This team had a shot, They had

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Speaker 1: multiple shots and just didn't get it done. So I'll

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Speaker 1: start with you Patrick, just thoughts overall on the game,

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Speaker 1: what went wrong for Dallas, and we'll talk about what's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen down the road. But let's just let's take

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Speaker 1: a look back at what happened last night the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: went wrong for the Cowboys. It's something that we've been

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Speaker 1: speaking about on this on this podcast for quite a

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Speaker 1: while now. It's something that I myself have really pounded

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Speaker 1: the table as it relates to I believe, and I've

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Speaker 1: been and of the consistent belief that only one team

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Speaker 1: and that is the team that has the star on

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Speaker 1: the helmet. And that's what we saw in Santa Clara

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Speaker 1: against the San Francisco forty nine Ers. Defense comes out

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Speaker 1: there playing lights out. They have purty seeing goals out there,

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Speaker 1: a couple of sacks in the first quarter, four or

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Speaker 1: five quarterback hits. They were getting penetration on the edges,

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Speaker 1: they were getting penetration in the middle. They were bottling

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Speaker 1: up the run game to a magnificent degree. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think at one point through the first half, Christian

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Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel only had seven yards rushing on several attempts,

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Speaker 1: and Purdy only had two yards. I mean going into

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Speaker 1: the half, despite what was going on with the offense,

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Speaker 1: and we'll get to that really in a second, but

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Speaker 1: the defense was playing lights out. All the offense had

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Speaker 1: to do was be at least fifty percent of what

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Speaker 1: they were we could go in Tappa didn't even have

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Speaker 1: to fire on all cylinders to win this game. That's

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Speaker 1: what's more frustrating about it. This team could have won

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Speaker 1: this game without firing on all cylinders on offense. All

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Speaker 1: they had to do was play mostly clean football. Dak Prescott,

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Speaker 1: this isn't a game with Dak Prescott would have had

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Speaker 1: to rush for a touchdown throw for four more to

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Speaker 1: beat this forty nine Ers team, Which tells me unequivocally

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Speaker 1: that you Cowboys were the better team in San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: When in Santa Clair this Sunday, however, you devolved back

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Speaker 1: to what you were when you struggled to put away

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Speaker 1: the coats for three quarters, when you took you a

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Speaker 1: game winning drive against the Texans, when you lose in

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Speaker 1: overtime against the Jaguar. The inconsistency, there's that word as

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Speaker 1: a in consistency finally came back and bit you in

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Speaker 1: the ass when you could at least afford it, because

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Speaker 1: now there is no opportunity to be resilient anymore. Seasons over,

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Speaker 1: there's no next week, and the Cowboys have not lost

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Speaker 1: two games in a row, and kudos they still have it,

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Speaker 1: and now they won't because they're not playing anymore. That's it.

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Speaker 1: So on the biggest stage and the biggest game of

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Speaker 1: They converted on two field goals off of those, which

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Speaker 1: again shows the defense was playing because Dak Prescott gives

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Speaker 1: them two interceptions on both occasions, still only gave the

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Speaker 1: The tempts made two field goal the tempts where he

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Speaker 1: Everything else notwithstanding how much did they lose by seven

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Speaker 1: The reality is the defense showed up and the offense

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Speaker 1: so you put your defense in a terrible situation. Your

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Speaker 1: that's six points that you gave up. Okay, that you

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Speaker 1: That's ten points. That's the victory without having to do

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Speaker 1: Inconsistency and even from other players as well. It's not

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Speaker 1: and kudos to him for taking full accountability. Have one

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Speaker 1: And we don't even need to recap the final the

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Speaker 1: The George Kittle play that the magnificent catch from George Kittle.

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Speaker 1: defense perfect, No, they were not. But in a game

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Speaker 1: and credit to Kyle Shanahan and credit to Damiko Ryan's

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott was not seeing the linebackers. He wasn't reading

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Speaker 1: Last year, we were sitting here on a dark Monday

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Speaker 1: because the inconsistencies were there. You were good enough talent

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Speaker 1: you weren't good enough consistency wise. They came full circle

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Speaker 1: in this season. This nineteen points is how much they

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Speaker 1: in information. As as disappointing as the result was last night,

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Speaker 1: without you, guys. So thank you so much for joining

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Speaker 1: us throughout the year. But let's get back into it.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys fall nineteen to twelve against San Francisco on the road.

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Speaker 1: Was there anything that jumped out that wasn't anticipated? Were

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Speaker 1: we surprised by anything in this game? No? That's how frustrating?

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Speaker 1: Is that very Because what I'm saying I was, I

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Speaker 1: the box score. When I watched the film back this morning,

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Speaker 1: all of it was everything that has already been talked about.

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Speaker 1: It was it was deja vu, It's groundhog Day. You

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Speaker 1: didn't you didn't convert on the same things that you

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Speaker 1: had struggled with all year. So my question on that

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Speaker 1: is where do you start this offseason? Where do you begin? Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, you have the unenviable task of trying

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Speaker 1: to keep as much of this talented roster around as possible.

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Speaker 1: And what about the coaching staff. Coach staff, don't tell

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Speaker 1: me about the coaching staff. McCarthy's not going anywhere, okay,

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Speaker 1: but what about the guys, and this this is this

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Speaker 1: is where I'm going. As far as having the unenviable

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Speaker 1: possible to extends to the coaching staff as well. No

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Speaker 1: guarantee dan Quinn stays put. If anything, it's probably an

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Speaker 1: unlikely right story that stays. But if dan Quinn leaves,

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Speaker 1: then you would like to you would love to believe

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Speaker 1: and a guy like George Edwards and a guy like

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Speaker 1: Joe Witt Junior. But you also don't know who Quinn

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Speaker 1: is going to take with you, because when coaches leave

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Speaker 1: for hit coaching positions, they like to get their guys

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Speaker 1: follow with them. So you're only gonna have one of

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Speaker 1: he's gonna take either Joe Wood or Joe Witt Junior,

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Speaker 1: rolls in coaching staff world. You might get a couple

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Speaker 1: of guys to stay if you hire within. If you

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Speaker 1: don't hire within, the entire staff is gonna be read.

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Speaker 1: If you lose dan Quinn, your only hope, your only

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Speaker 1: hope of keeping a guy like like Al Harris, for example,

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Speaker 1: is going to be if you keep Joe Witt, because

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Speaker 1: there has to be some sort of continuity at that

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Speaker 1: upper echelon of that that the upper hierarchy of that

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Speaker 1: coaching tree on the defensive side of the ball. Otherwise

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Speaker 1: you'd be a guy like Al Harris who has been

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Speaker 1: fantastic and what he's done with the defensive backs, he's

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Speaker 1: looking at and saying, Okay, well, yeah, let's go trust

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Speaker 1: something new because if DQ is in, I'm in um.

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Speaker 1: But I will say George that which presides dan Quinn's tenure,

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Speaker 1: hearing Dallas soul and George Edwards was a front runner

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Speaker 1: before dan Quinn became available as far as the DC position.

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Speaker 1: So hope there, But this, this, this is blind hope.

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Speaker 1: See now that I have a problem this there's that

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Speaker 1: word again. But this is blind hole is not evidential hope.

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Speaker 1: This is not hope based upon things that you're seeing.

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Speaker 1: This is blind hope because the evidence points to the

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Speaker 1: contrary of what you're hoping against. Evidence shows that there's

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Speaker 1: a good chance that Quinn does leave. And if he leaves,

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Speaker 1: evidence shows that those coaches tend to take their guys

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Speaker 1: with them because they don't want the guys that are

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Speaker 1: incumbent at the news at the spot they're going toward,

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Speaker 1: because then that brings in the old situations, the old issues,

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Speaker 1: the old problems coaching staff. Defensive side of the ball,

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Speaker 1: you have a huge question mark. Are you going to

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Speaker 1: be able to convince all or most of those guys

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Speaker 1: to come back? Players? You have a laundry list of

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Speaker 1: premote talent that's about to hit the free agency market.

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Speaker 1: You talk, You can say what you want about shots,

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Speaker 1: and that's fine because you got furging, you got him

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Speaker 1: in the shop. But let's let's step outside of the

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Speaker 1: tight end for a second. Donovan Wilson is about to

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Speaker 1: be Let's see, we've got Donovan Wilson, Layton Vanderish, Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Hankins because he came via tray. But he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: ups see Carlos Watkins, who played out of his mind

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Speaker 1: on the back half of this season. He was in

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Speaker 1: a walking boot yesterday. Carlos, he'll up brother and his

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Speaker 1: absence was felt when he left that game, but no doubt, um.

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Speaker 1: And this the list goes on and on. Connor McGovern,

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Speaker 1: t Y Hilton, Tony Pollard, ding Ding ding ding Ding right, Um,

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Speaker 1: Terrence Steele is a restricted free agent, so Cowboys do

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Speaker 1: have some rights there. But my point being, there's no

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Speaker 1: shortage of conversations that had to be have to be

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Speaker 1: had from just from a player standpoint as well um

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Speaker 1: from a front office perspective regarding players, to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: how are we going to potentially keep Tony Pollard and

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Speaker 1: is that going to jive with what we may or

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Speaker 1: may not have to do with the Zeke contract and

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Speaker 1: all of these uncomfortable conversations that you were trying desperately

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Speaker 1: to hold off until mid February to have, well, now

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Speaker 1: you're going to have them affected June twenty second, June

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Speaker 1: twenty second game along the same lines. I hate the

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Speaker 1: fact that I had to just pull up like spo

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Speaker 1: track for the first time and god knows how long,

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Speaker 1: because I haven't had to look at contracts and numbers

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Speaker 1: and hey, you've got it up there too. The first

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Speaker 1: But um good point, very valid. In order to retain

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Speaker 1: players the way you sit there, in order to retain players,

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Speaker 1: what do you need? Money? Money and app space base um.

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Speaker 1: Does the number forty nine ring a bell to you? No?

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Speaker 1: See nine? It doesn't Resonnate Hunh. This year is nineteen

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Speaker 1: the cap hit by Dak Prescott twenty percent of your cap,

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Speaker 1: almost twenty two percent of you this coming year, the

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Speaker 1: next season will be forty nine million dollar hit to

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Speaker 1: your cap. So you are either going to have less

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Speaker 1: money to go get and retain these plays, or you

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Speaker 1: got to do what cash them out. Those are your

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Speaker 1: two options and may make Craig if there's another one

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Speaker 1: out there, please throw it. I mean you can. You

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Speaker 1: can cash out and get them, turn it into a

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Speaker 1: siding buzz, and you can be a whole thing. So

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Speaker 1: you're either going to you can restructure, restructure, restructure. You

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Speaker 1: gotta take some cash and say, here you go, Dak,

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Speaker 1: here's some cash converted. You convert it over right now.

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Speaker 1: So if you're Jerry Jones, you're either gonna give Dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott a good lumps up of money, or you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have a roster that you can't retain and have any

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Speaker 1: depth at positions if you're going to do the former

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Speaker 1: if you have to, because what you're not going to do,

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Speaker 1: what you're not going to do. If you're Jerry Jones,

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Speaker 1: who admittedly does not quote unquote have a have time

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Speaker 1: for a bad time, You're not going to hit reset

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Speaker 1: at quarterback. That's what you're not going to do in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. So then the only thing left to

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Speaker 1: do is is have conversations stemming from that decision, and

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Speaker 1: then you say, okay, well, how do we frip this

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Speaker 1: cap space? There's a hundred ways to free of cap space.

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Speaker 1: Go as you know Loomis in New Orleans, right, there's

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Speaker 1: one hundred ways to manipulate cap space. I'm not as

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Speaker 1: concerned with cap space as I am concerned with market

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Speaker 1: price on some of these players, because cap space can

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Speaker 1: be found market price. The market is the market. And

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Speaker 1: do you think that Tony Pollard can come to an

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Speaker 1: agreement with the Dallas Cowboys. I believed that mid season.

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Speaker 1: I believe that three quarters of the season end because

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Speaker 1: I believe he wants to be here. And again, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to be in anyone's pocket, so I'm not

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Speaker 1: This is my opinion of it. I believe that Ezekiel

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Speaker 1: Elliott would be amicable. This is not the first time

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Speaker 1: I've said it to potentially taking less to retain Tony

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Speaker 1: Pollard to keep that tanem together. I'm not speaking for Zeke.

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Speaker 1: I'm not speaking for his pockets, but I could see

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Speaker 1: enough logic and reason need to believe that that's that's

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Speaker 1: a thing. Well, And Pollard loves playing with Zeke, loves

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Speaker 1: playing him deck, he loves the locker room, he loves

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Speaker 1: the culture. So there's I just hope he doesn't look

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Speaker 1: elsewhere and love the paycheck that another team. But you know,

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Speaker 1: and this is because somebody else is going to look

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Speaker 1: at the value of Pollard and they're gonna put that

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Speaker 1: money out. You understand, as Pollard, you understand that running

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Speaker 1: backs aren't getting what they used to kill or do

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Speaker 1: they have the career span that they used to have.

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Speaker 1: And you're only hot once. And he just got reminded

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Speaker 1: of that by potentially suffering a major injury on yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and he might have a long offseason ahead. He was

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Speaker 1: on crutches and in a boot, just slowly making his

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Speaker 1: could you talk about market value for a position. The

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Speaker 1: That's what it is. It's a dark Monday, and now

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Speaker 1: it's literally pissed off. I accidentally went full Magneto. I'll apologize, guys.

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Speaker 1: I'll apologize for those for those that watched the Draft Show,

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Speaker 1: you know that Magneto is an inside joke, so it's

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Speaker 1: kind of funny that really brought that up. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: called him Magneto one time on the Draft Show. Yeah

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Speaker 1: it didn't it didn't work out. Yeah, not a not

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Speaker 1: thank you all for joining us all year long. We'll

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Speaker 1: still be here throughout the off season. We'll be back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: But we just talked about some of the contract situations

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Speaker 1: up and how it kind of all together came together.

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Speaker 1: What would it be positive or negative? Either one? Whatever

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Speaker 1: you want. It could be positive or could be negative both. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So on a positive note. What McCarthy has been able

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Speaker 1: to do as far as teaching, preaching and walking resilience

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Speaker 1: in this locker room has been nothing short of amazing.

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Speaker 1: When you suffered the blows the Cowboys suffered. I mean

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Speaker 1: this season. You know, let let those outside of the

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Speaker 1: building building teller. This season should have been over Week two,

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Speaker 1: should have been over Week two. Yeah, you lose Dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott on the heels of that terrible loss against Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 1: He's out for five games, and you know what if

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Speaker 1: Cooper Rush splits that, or what if he has a

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Speaker 1: losing record in those those five games, maybe the season's over.

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Speaker 1: They overcome that and amountain of other adversity and reads

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Speaker 1: losing guys. You know, the front office, what do they do.

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Speaker 1: They saw they needed help with the run defense. They

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Speaker 1: make a trade for Jonathan Hankins, you know LV They

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Speaker 1: you know, don't exercise his FIFTHEAR option and bring him

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Speaker 1: back on a prove it deal. And guess what he does.

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Speaker 1: He freaking proves it. There's another I mentioned him as

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Speaker 1: a fraid and there you go. So from a coaching

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Speaker 1: staff perspective, from a macro stance, magnificent job. Obviously, there

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Speaker 1: are going to be things. In each game you could

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Speaker 1: point out the same coaching could have done better. More

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Speaker 1: often than not, you're probably right, But overall, this season

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Speaker 1: could have been over in the first quarter of the year.

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Speaker 1: But we're here having this conversation in mid January after

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Speaker 1: Divisional round con negative inconsistency. Inconsistency, the inability to execute

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Speaker 1: at a high level every single week. It's what kept

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys because as much as you'd love the back

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Speaker 1: to back twelve and five seasons this season, if you

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Speaker 1: eliminate the inconsistencies, they're the number one seed this season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you're not having to go through Tampa Bay and

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Speaker 1: by you were only one or two games away. If

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Speaker 1: you flip those losses to wins, you should have won

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Speaker 1: in Green Bay, you should have won against Jacksonville. Flip

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Speaker 1: those two and you're the number one seed. You hold

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Speaker 1: on to a seventeen point leading both of those days, right,

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Speaker 1: and the entire postseason is a different conversation. But because

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Speaker 1: of your inconsistency, you were punished with an extreme degree

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Speaker 1: of difficulty. This postseason to have to go through Tampa

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Speaker 1: was going to be a tough road to hold. It

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Speaker 1: didn't have to be if the Cowboys had just established consistency.

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Speaker 1: So resiliency is there, magnificent consistency lacking and that's why

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Speaker 1: I don't know a lot of people. Every time Dallas,

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Speaker 1: They're doing an amazing job. Okay, front office is doing

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Speaker 1: a heck of a job. Jerry so good to Steven

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Speaker 1: album because they didn't do it, because they don't do

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Speaker 1: enough correct. But then you get you get into the

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Speaker 1: to a conference title game. So in terms of all

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Speaker 1: huge and that front office is responsible for this coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: This coach staff is amazing coaching staff. And then I'll

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Speaker 1: have to double down on the other aspect in terms

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Speaker 1: of the team has just been inconsistent play and then

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Speaker 1: it's been mostly offensive. It's been mostly offensive defense. They

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Speaker 1: shared up for the most part parts to Hankins injury.

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Speaker 1: They started shoring up the run defense. You saw it,

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Speaker 1: So offensively, it has been super inconsistent and they did

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Speaker 1: not do a good job of putting their teams in

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Speaker 1: lot more equal relationship between offensive defense. This year it

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