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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk with the Cowboys CEO Stephen Jones

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Speaker 1: about that topic and others as he joins us for

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Speaker 1: the Stephen Jones Show Friday's right here on your Home

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Speaker 1: of the Cowboys. Thanks for joining us, our good afternoon

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Speaker 1: to you, Hey guys, great being on. So, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: were talking a little laton in Randy earlier. How much

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Speaker 1: for the defense? Well, they both looked great. Obviously Randy

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Speaker 1: but Layton, we feel like has a great opportunity. It'll

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Speaker 1: be final game time decision. The boy, he's sure looked

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Speaker 1: really good out there. You know, he hadn't only played

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Speaker 1: him back into the mix. But you know, hopefully he's

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Speaker 1: go and hopefully we'll get him, uh, you know, some

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Speaker 1: significant playing time, Stephen. I keep trying to tell me,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, Now I was I was going

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Speaker 1: to say, had a great, great week of practice, and

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Speaker 1: you know, Randy really really stood out. And you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously with the new staff, they were pleasantly surprised in

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Speaker 1: terms of uh, you know, what his skill set was.

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Speaker 1: And then of course Layton goes without saying he's one

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Speaker 1: of the top players on our team, a leader, and

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Speaker 1: it's great to have him both back. Yeah, sorry about that.

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Speaker 1: I think we got a little bit of a delay,

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Speaker 1: so I'll be aware of that throughout our conversation. But

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Speaker 1: it is, it's getting kind of late after five weeks,

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Speaker 1: but there's still plenty of time for this defense to

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Speaker 1: think there is. I think we're only going to get better.

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Speaker 1: I mean, anytime you got a new staff and no

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Speaker 1: excuses here, I mean everybody had the same situation. But

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Speaker 1: you know, in particular defense, we put in a new system.

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Speaker 1: The offense, uh, it's different. We went with this with

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Speaker 1: Kellen and you know, for the most part, a lot

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Speaker 1: of the same verbiage and language, and you know, a

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Speaker 1: lot easier transition in my mind, on the offensive side

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Speaker 1: we're getting a lot of them back, and I think

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Speaker 1: though we got off to slow to start again with

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Speaker 1: I do think this defense has a chance to improve

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Speaker 1: what do you think are reasonable or fair expectations to

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Speaker 1: set for Randy Gregory with as much football as he's missed. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's been a guy who's missed before we

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Speaker 1: come back and played well. And uh. At the same time, though, uh,

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Speaker 1: We've got to be smart about you know, how he

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Speaker 1: really well. But I don't think it's fair to hold

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Speaker 1: But uh, you know these guys are you know, whether

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, you got to be smart

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Speaker 1: they make progress, given more. And Steven I brought this

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Speaker 1: up before about how you like to protect yourself with

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Speaker 1: your roster and the way you try and build it.

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Speaker 1: You know, you walk us through when Andy Dalton became

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Speaker 1: he understood our cat situation and that we you know,

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Speaker 1: He makes plays with his feet at the same time

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Speaker 1: within reason. You've told us that before. Are you finding

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Speaker 1: more interested in what you have with draft capital with

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