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Speaker 1: At the start, what wouldn't OBJ do for the wide receivers? Round?

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Speaker 1: I make it even more competitive? And then I mean

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Speaker 1: it's like you know what heaps and here like those

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Speaker 1: are those are both you know, Hall of Fame wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: So it's like, yeah, I'm bring him in the wrong.

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Speaker 1: We can learn something from him, but all he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be out here doing is helping the teams. No, it'd

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Speaker 1: be awesome. What did you think when you heard how

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Speaker 1: real the Cowboys interest was. I'm just excited. It's like

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Speaker 1: that just makes our own way more competitive, more fun.

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Speaker 1: He's a good person. Um yeah, you guys are so quiet,

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Speaker 1: ob J's not. Are you excited about like that sort

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Speaker 1: I think it worked really great for the Cowboys. You

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. That's just the way he is.

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Speaker 1: How much you grains in the table? Um? So I

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Speaker 1: don't think it'd be you know, crazy fit. Have you

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know he talks to us all the

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Speaker 1: time still, but I haven't reached out to him about

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Speaker 1: him yet. Personality and do you think that he would

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Speaker 1: make a lot of sense in this locker room? No? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm friend of O b J. Huh. You know,

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Speaker 1: he definitely will fit in this locker room. I don't

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Speaker 1: but he definitely would fit in. I mean he's a competitor. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he plays hard and obviously very talented. You know that.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, shoot, we want him, We want ob Jay.

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Speaker 1: I've just been saying stuff and we could use him.

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Speaker 1: You know. I think he's a great player. He'll expend

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Speaker 1: I mean, side of other critics stuff that people make

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Speaker 1: and how us do what we want to do. Welcome

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Speaker 1: into Girls Talk, Boys Talk, brought to you by Jigsaw Dating,

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Speaker 1: the official dating partner of the Dallas Cowboys. Ladies, I've

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Speaker 1: missed you. So it was a nice little bye week

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Speaker 1: and one of the bigger storylines during this bye week,

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Speaker 1: and I know you guys talked about it a lot

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Speaker 1: and extensively. Yesterday was this courtship of O. B. J.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of times all have fans come to

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Speaker 1: me anytime we hear names like von Miller or in

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Speaker 1: The Cowboys typically in good faith do their due diligence,

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Speaker 1: but I'll sort of get a pushback like a we'll

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Speaker 1: see where the money's at, or I don't know. And

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Speaker 1: nine years old. Yeah, multiple picks. A second, not to

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Speaker 1: It's literally been a wide receiver group by committee. I

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Speaker 1: with you, as I've done my long winded opening here Aisha,

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Speaker 1: why wouldn't you go all in when you look at

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Speaker 1: to Star in Frisco dot com. Actually, let's a girls

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Speaker 1: Staying I Love? That's the classic. Y'all want to see me?

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Speaker 1: What is it? A cop finer home? Can we all

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Speaker 1: wear like the Christmas onesies? Too far? We have got

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Speaker 1: some injury updates, Haley. Yeah, So I'll start with the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys first, nothing super unexpected. Anthony Barr did not practice

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Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury. I was gonna say energy, but

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Speaker 1: Noah Brown was limited with that foot injury he's been battling.

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Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott was also limited with a knee, and Donovan

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Speaker 1: Wilson had a tooth injury, which I'm interested to talk

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Speaker 1: to McCarthy about, just to figure out what that's about. Um.

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Speaker 1: And then looking on the other side, I Sha, I

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Speaker 1: know you mentioned this yesterday. When it comes to the Packers, y'all,

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Speaker 1: the injury list is substantially have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

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Speaker 1: ten players on their practice injury report that did not practice.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even going to get into all of the

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Speaker 1: names because there's so many of them. I'll put them

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Speaker 1: on Twitter. But a banged up Packers roster, to say

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Speaker 1: the least, and the biggest one, Rashaun Gary I think

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Speaker 1: is going to deeply affect what they do. And David

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Speaker 1: Bactieri's another one, so we'll see what's up with him.

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Speaker 1: What was his status today? Did not practice? Rashaun Gary

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Speaker 1: also did not practice. The only couple of players on

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Speaker 1: here who were limited Mason Crosby was limited with a

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Speaker 1: back injury. Russell Douglas was limited with a calf Aaron

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Speaker 1: Jones at ankle injury, which we touched on a little

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Speaker 1: bit yesterday. His status still up in the air. He

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Speaker 1: was limited today. Alan Lazard was limited with a shoulder,

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Speaker 1: Preston Smith limited, and John Runyon also limited. And then

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Speaker 1: there's just Aaron Rodgers, Like, if you really want to

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Speaker 1: make a campaign for MVP, this is there to do it,

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Speaker 1: a rod And when you juxtapose that about the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: are doing, I mean, we'll see what happens with Ezekiel

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Speaker 1: Elaton again deep teasing that that'll be after our next break,

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Speaker 1: because I've I've got questions, ladies, but they are getting

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Speaker 1: back their safety m A lague hooker Sam Williams who

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Speaker 1: had the two SAT game here recently. So I think

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Speaker 1: that's big. But leave it to Jerry Jones the front

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Speaker 1: office to bury the lead this week, because look, the

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Speaker 1: story is Dallas is six and two. Raise your hand

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Speaker 1: if when you looked at this game coming off the

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Speaker 1: bye week that you would be talking about a six

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Speaker 1: and two Dallas team facing off against a wait for it,

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Speaker 1: a three and six Packers team that are spiraling after

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Speaker 1: a fire game industry. First it was I mean to me,

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Speaker 1: it was. And don't get wrong, I think Heineke's a

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Speaker 1: pretty good quarterback of the Commanders the loss of them,

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Speaker 1: but then the loss of the the Lions, and then

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Speaker 1: you've just kind of heard Aaron Rodgers. I love how

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Speaker 1: transparent he is on the Pat McFee show, shout out

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Speaker 1: to those guys, um, but he just seems frustrated. He

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Speaker 1: seems and I know he brought up something and I

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Speaker 1: wasn't going to go here on I shall get you

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Speaker 1: away in on this. You know, he brought up those

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Speaker 1: comments earlier this season about you know, all this pre

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Speaker 1: snap motion and just throw the ball, just run the ball.

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Speaker 1: And I actually had an interesting conversation with somebody around

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Speaker 1: here about that that the Cowboys as sort of started

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Speaker 1: moving away from some of that pre snap motion stuff too,

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Speaker 1: because if you've got a good offensive line that's blocking

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Speaker 1: for you up front, just throw the dam ball, run

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Speaker 1: the dam ball. It's football is really simple. But you've

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Speaker 1: got a lot of these like wonder kids out there.

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Speaker 1: And I'm talking not just Kellen Moore, We're talking Sean

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Speaker 1: McVay and whatever. But these teams were getting to figure

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Speaker 1: it out. So I thought that was a really interesting

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Speaker 1: discussion that I had as it relates to the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: sort of simplifying it and Aaron Rodgers literally telling Matt

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Speaker 1: Lafloor simplify the offense, particularly when we don't have some

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Speaker 1: of these weapons. You do the pre snap motion so

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Speaker 1: you can sort of see what the defense is going

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Speaker 1: to show you, but they're saying, look, impose your own will.

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Speaker 1: So I thought that was an interesting side note. But

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Speaker 1: what was more interesting to me was we heard all

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Speaker 1: about and trust me, I've got a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: When you're at Combine, they start running their mouths about

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Speaker 1: you know, what it was like when Mike McCarthy was

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Speaker 1: in Green Bay and the relationship with Aaron Rodgers, and

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Speaker 1: even when Mike came here, he said, prior to the CBA,

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Speaker 1: he got a lot of time with Aaron Rodgers, you know,

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Speaker 1: you would be able to sit around and watch film

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Speaker 1: with them, and how he wishes he could do that

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Speaker 1: with Dak and how that helped them. But it did

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Speaker 1: feel like there was a bit of a falling out,

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Speaker 1: and I think that typically happens when you've been around

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Speaker 1: somebody for a long time, the message gets lost. But

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Speaker 1: listening to Aaron Rodgers talk this weekend, unfortunately weren't able

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Speaker 1: to clear the audio from the Pat McAfee show. He

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Speaker 1: talked about wanting to give Mike a hug. They want

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl together, he was excited to see him.

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Speaker 1: And I have noticed even just around here and Jazz,

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Speaker 1: we do have the sound from some of the players

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Speaker 1: talking about Mike. Correct. Thank you, my lady. I asked

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Speaker 1: the players because I was genuinely curious. First year things

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Speaker 1: did not go well for Mike McCarthy and a lot

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Speaker 1: of that I was told how to do with the

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Speaker 1: fact that it is, you know, COVID, everything was virtual,

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Speaker 1: and I think what Mike does really really well is

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Speaker 1: the one on one stuff, you know, And it was

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Speaker 1: It was Aaron Rodgers who also in this one article

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Speaker 1: said they would get into these disagreements, raise their voices

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Speaker 1: and at the end hug it out and say, I

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Speaker 1: love love and I'm going to tell a story. And

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Speaker 1: Mike may not like this if I tell the story.

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Speaker 1: But there was a there was a former coach who

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Speaker 1: told me that he would sometimes get emotional with them,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, that's a fellow scorpio. Hi, Mike,

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Speaker 1: I see you. But there is this very vulnerable side

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Speaker 1: to Mike loves his family gets very worked up about it.

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Speaker 1: But I think he's beginning to show that really endearing

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Speaker 1: side to the players. So I caught up with them,

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Speaker 1: and here's what a couple of them had to say

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Speaker 1: about their head coach in year three. Just his his

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Speaker 1: dedication to the players. This whole schedule is just around,

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Speaker 1: you know, keeping us freshen and having us ready to

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Speaker 1: go once playoffs come around. And and I'll say, you

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Speaker 1: know he's taken when we have a leadership group and

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Speaker 1: uh and he he he. We can give him some

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Speaker 1: some we can give him some feedback, some feedback, and

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Speaker 1: you know, he takes he takes the constructive criticism. How

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Speaker 1: many bosses have you, guys, ever worked for that take

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Speaker 1: constructive criticism? Um from you as an employee? Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was a confusing at first. I was like, oh, several,

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Speaker 1: But then I realized the way you said it was

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Speaker 1: the your boss getting criticism for you, And yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know that I've ever Yeah, so I thought I'm

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Speaker 1: not That was really really interesting. I had somebody in

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Speaker 1: the in the building sort of talk about Mike McCarthy

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Speaker 1: versus some of the coaches in the past, and it was,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I won't name who the coach was,

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Speaker 1: but the coach would ask for your feedback, but not

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Speaker 1: really want your feedback, whereas I have we've listened to

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is dan quinn, We've listened to Mike McCarthy,

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Speaker 1: we've listened to players. It feels very collaborative around here,

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Speaker 1: like if we don't like something in the playbook, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it was dan Quinney once said this, then

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Speaker 1: we'll throw it out. So I thought that was very,

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Speaker 1: very interesting. The other thing that stood out to me

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Speaker 1: and I I had my suspicions about it in this week,

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Speaker 1: the guys are sort of lending some credence to it.

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Speaker 1: It's all about protecting your body. I mean, these guys

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Speaker 1: have they only have so long in the league, they

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Speaker 1: only have so much time to make their money. A

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Speaker 1: lot of these guys want to get to that second contract.

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Speaker 1: And it sounds like he does such a good job

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Speaker 1: of making sure that it's not forcing you on the

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Speaker 1: field to win games. It's let's make sure we play

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Speaker 1: the long game. We heard Zeke talk about that and again,

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Speaker 1: I'm teasing deep ahead of that talking about the long game.

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Speaker 1: I just as much as I feel like Mike was

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Speaker 1: misunderstood in his first and second year, we begin to

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Speaker 1: see those guys pair at him, rally around him. Even

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Speaker 1: last week, the fact that he gave all these players

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Speaker 1: an entire week out and I won't say who the

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Speaker 1: player was, but the player went out of the country

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Speaker 1: on vacation. That's unheard of during a bye week. But

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Speaker 1: as the player described it to me, he trust us

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Speaker 1: to be adults. He trust us, you know, we're grown

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Speaker 1: amen treat us like such. And I don't know about

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Speaker 1: you guys, but I've at the NFL network is one

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Speaker 1: of the first places I've been where I have bosses

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Speaker 1: that treat me that way, and I want to run

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Speaker 1: through a wall for them. So I just thought that

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Speaker 1: was interesting some of the insight from some of the

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Speaker 1: players this week as it related to Mike McCarthy going

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Speaker 1: back to Green Bay, when there was so much discussion

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Speaker 1: about how he wasn't that involved. He was difficult to

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Speaker 1: get along with. I don't know if the old dog

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Speaker 1: has learned some new tricks, but it seems to be working.

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Speaker 1: Is Matt Laflour talked about Mike McCarthy and his press

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Speaker 1: conference for a little bit today and he said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, we we've talked here and there, but I

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Speaker 1: want to get a beer with the guy. And he

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Speaker 1: talked about how everybody that talks about Mike McCarthy and

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Speaker 1: Green Bay, which is actually surprising considering all the things

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Speaker 1: you heard back then, has so much respect for him

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Speaker 1: and things that they talk about when it comes to

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, as far as how good of a guy

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Speaker 1: he is, what he does for others, what he does

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Speaker 1: for players, how he helps other coaches. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: talked very highly of Mike mccarth, even saying, you know,

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Speaker 1: how can you not respect a guy that has legacy

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Speaker 1: like that in this city? And he said, the guys

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Speaker 1: want a Super Bowl. He has a street named after him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he has so many things in this city.

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Speaker 1: So for him, for Matt la Floor to be the coach,

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Speaker 1: you know, within that same realm, he said, it was

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Speaker 1: even just an honor for him to be in the

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Speaker 1: same conversation as somebody like Mike McCarthy. You take me

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Speaker 1: back to his intro press conference when he felt so

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Speaker 1: out of sorts he looked awkward, he didn't look like

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Speaker 1: he'd quite fit in with the group. But it was

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was Steven or Jerry that

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Speaker 1: talked about the way they bonded over dinner and at Middaly,

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Speaker 1: Mike and I got off to a bad start. That's

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Speaker 1: when I came out with the report about the defensive

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Speaker 1: players not being a fan and I questioned a little

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Speaker 1: bit of the hiring your best guy friend who and

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about Mike Nolan not being the best guy

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Speaker 1: necessarily for the job, but he did you a solid,

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Speaker 1: so you hired him as a solid and he sort

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Speaker 1: of took exception with were my source was coming from. Whatever.

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Speaker 1: We weren't able to talk it out, and there was

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Speaker 1: there was a minute there where I didn't think Mike

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Speaker 1: and I during his duration here we're going to be

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Speaker 1: able to get along. But we've been able to talk

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Speaker 1: it out, figure it out. And we were at a

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Speaker 1: Kinney Chesney concert this summer and I took my mom

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Speaker 1: and dad there and my dad was like, dad gone wild,

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Speaker 1: And I said, don't go up to Dak, don't go

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Speaker 1: out to Mike, don't take pictures, act like you've been there.

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Speaker 1: And of course my dad does that. My Dad's like,

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Speaker 1: I'll make you drinks, Mike McCarthy, and he's like behind

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Speaker 1: the bar, like making everything. Mike couldn't have been more

642
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: down to earth. My parents walked away with the best

643
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: experience with Mike. And it was in that moment that

644
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: I saw the Mike that I hadn't seen as a reporter,

645
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: especially like I said the first and second you were

646
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 1: kind of squirrelling with these COVID restrictions about how he

647
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: was endearing himself to these players, and I thought that

648
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: was interesting. Go ahead, Hey, yeah, No, I was just

649
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: gonna say, I'm taking a book from Patrick Walker's or

650
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: taking a page from Patrick Walker's book. And his big

651
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: thing is science and facts, right like facts don't care

652
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: about your feelings. Facts or facts, And I think the

653
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: facts are that Mike McCarthy has proven who he is.

654
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: He doesn't need to walk into a room and ask

655
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: you to like him, because facts or facts. You see

656
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: his resume. We don't need to spew out his record

657
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: and go through all the things he's accomplished. He's done that.

658
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: That's why he's a head coach and he's one of

659
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: the longest tenured head coaches. So I think when you

660
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: factor that in, sure there's an adjustment period. There was

661
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: weird transition with Jason Garrett leaving and then a new

662
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: guy coming in. There's always going to be weird, sometimes

663
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: bad blood. It's it's new. People don't like change, and

664
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: the Cowboys take no exception to that. But I think

665
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: the fact that he's been able to accomplish the relationships,

666
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: you know, you talk about it personally. He's been, you know,

667
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: really polite to me and I've only been here for

668
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: a couple of months. To you guys, yeah, yeah, he does.

669
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: He does too. French. Yeah, he put me aside. We

670
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: were in a Giants game and his oldest daughter was there,

671
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: who is, by the way, absolutely stunning, and he said, hey, Jane,

672
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: I want you to meet my daughter. And given where

673
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: we started three years ago, to that again, it went

674
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: back to the you can have your disagreements, but he's

675
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: the type of guy you can talk and not all

676
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: coaches are like that in the league. A lot of

677
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: people take things very personally. It's an affront to what

678
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,479
Speaker 1: they're about, and so I love it. That's been your

679
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: insight about Mike and just your short time here. Yeah,

680
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: I just think it's just I'm not questioning his coaching experience,

681
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: you know, because coming into this, what I know of

682
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy is that he's a winner. So I don't

683
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: need to dig into you know, why don't people like him?

684
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: Why this? Why that all I know of him is that,

685
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: you know, prior to working here said he's a winner,

686
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: and so I just think it's really special that he

687
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: has been able to build those relationships in a short

688
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: amount of time. We're talking two years and you know

689
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: that I guess three, but that first year it was COVID,

690
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: so it was impossible to build relationships. And so now

691
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: the fact that you've got players like jay Ron Curse,

692
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: like Zeke, like all of these guys who were saying

693
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: like that's our dog, you know, like yeah, he can

694
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: come to the cook out like you know what I mean,

695
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: Like they just they want to go to war for him.

696
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: I think every year he set the precedent. I love

697
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: what he said today about dropping little fun facts with

698
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: the players, and it's just it's just another way to

699
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: show like he's going out of his way to make

700
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: sure that they feel seen, they feel heard, they feel protected,

701
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: and they feel confident that they can trust him to

702
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 1: lead this organization. Haley, he went to Prescott. Boom take

703
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: that he went to Deak Prescott in this draft and said,

704
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: call up these wide receivers. Talk to Jaln Tilbert. That

705
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: is I think, because remember the big knock. Aaron Rodgers

706
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: kind of felt like he was out of the you know,

707
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: the draft process and having a say. And there's a

708
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks in the league that feel like, you know,

709
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: this is my team. And there's two schools of thought

710
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: on that. But the fact that and I had asked

711
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: Dak this, has that ever happened to you before? And

712
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: he said no. But I think that's a big deal

713
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: to entrust your guys and say, hey, it's not I'm

714
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,439
Speaker 1: not taking it to basketball games. And I think that's

715
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: a look. I think that's what was And I heard

716
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: it from a lot of players how divisive that was

717
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,240
Speaker 1: when Jason would go with Cole or DeMarco or Tony

718
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,760
Speaker 1: or Witten, and you're sending the message that Mike doesn't

719
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: do that. I don't see Mike go into the stars

720
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: games with the players. And I had a coach for

721
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: another team tell me it's the wrong thing to do

722
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 1: because it sends the wrong message. And I think Mike

723
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: gets that. He allowed his players to sort of lead

724
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: by example. Let Micah invite these guys, and so I

725
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: think he's long story short, I think he's built a

726
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 1: very interesting culture here. I think he's rewrote a narrative

727
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,879
Speaker 1: about him as he was leaving Green Bay. I don't

728
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: know how long he's going to stay here. What I

729
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: do know about him, it seems that he really values

730
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: his family, and so I could see him at some

731
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 1: point saying, you know what, I've accomplished plenty. But what's

732
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 1: more important to me is he's just really stood out

733
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 1: to me as a guy that puts his family first.

734
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: And I think that's interesting in the game of football.

735
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: But also, you've already got to your point, what do

736
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: you have to prove? Yeah, you've got a Lombardi and

737
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: you've lost so many players the last couple of years,

738
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: and now we're looking at it was a winning record

739
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,760
Speaker 1: last season, and you're looking at being about five hundred

740
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: right now. Now. I just wanted to input on just

741
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: the conversation of Mike McCarthy and kind of what he's

742
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: done here culturally. I remember saying to Jess last week

743
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,800
Speaker 1: during the by like when was the last time the

744
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 1: Cowboys had to buy? You weren't holding your breath that

745
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: someone was going to get in trouble or something. And

746
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: I think it trickle trickles down from even looking at

747
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: the attendance from rookie minicamp OTAs the attendance has been

748
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: one hundred percent almost since he's been here. I think

749
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: all of that has to do is that even him

750
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: right and the wrong with firing Mike Nolan after making,

751
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: you know, seeing that he was wrong there, getting dan

752
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: Quinn in here before the draft so dan Quinn could

753
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: have an imp like could implement what he wanted defensively.

754
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: I think that is a big part of, you know,

755
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 1: the step forward is a man saying like or just

756
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: a human in general, saying I was wrong here, let

757
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: me fix this, and so to me, that's when things

758
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: start to turn the tide. I this offseason, I really

759
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 1: started to understand him completely the install, how serious he

760
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: was about the install. Everything has reason with him and

761
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: people ask questions, what does he do? What does he do?

762
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: He keeps these players mentally and emotionally, they're very whasically basically,

763
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: they're very aware and when you're talking about the NFL now, right,

764
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: these players are younger coming in, Like I think sometimes

765
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: we forget that these are twenty two, twenty three year

766
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: old some of these guys. And you even heard Joe W.

767
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,280
Speaker 1: Junior last week talk about in the assistance of interviews,

768
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: like he's even learning and he's taken he's taken a

769
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: page out of Mike McCarthy's book on how to talk

770
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: to these players and approach them, because just think about it,

771
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: just because they're football players doesn't mean they're not human.

772
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 1: Think about every twenty two twenty one year old, you know, yeah,

773
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: and imagine how to gauge, how to gauge, how to

774
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: mentally and emotionally relate to them and understand them. And

775
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: I think you're seeing this shift in coaching I think

776
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: is important for this game. And what how if we're

777
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: gonna be aware of mental health, physical health and bettering

778
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: players and concussion all this stuff or whatever, you have

779
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 1: to have coaches that actually give it down. Jayron Curse

780
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,399
Speaker 1: told me a couple of weeks ago in Cowboys Hour,

781
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: just you know, I said, how special is it to

782
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,760
Speaker 1: have a coach like Mike McCarthy and just spewed nothing

783
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: but compliments about you know, he's an easy guy to

784
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: play for. You know, he makes you want to win.

785
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: He makes you feel like you're taking care. He makes

786
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 1: you feel like a person, which is what I talked

787
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: about yesterday. It's so important to remind these cowboys fans

788
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: and remind the NFL fans that they're all people first. Yeah,

789
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:19,919
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. At MIT this point, they're

790
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: grown men. Yeah, you know. It's not college, you know,

791
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: And you don't have to yell at somebody like I

792
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: always would tell my sister, and my sister and I

793
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: get into some famous debates, the loudest person in the

794
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: room doesn't get hurt. And you see some of these

795
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: coaches that are their way of getting their point across

796
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,919
Speaker 1: is to yell at you and shame you. And it's

797
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: just it's been interesting as we've gotten more access with COVID,

798
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: because we didn't really get that and Mike unfortunately wasn't

799
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: getting the benefit of the doubt. But he did something

800
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: with us that I hadn't been a part of. He

801
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: would do with the beat writers, but he opened it

802
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: up to those of US national Ed and I at

803
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,359
Speaker 1: ESPN and NFL Network where we had this entire off

804
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: the records sit down, and he did every Friday. Yeah,

805
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: but he couldn't have been more transparent and vulnerable and

806
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: allowed us to sort of bury the hatchet and sort

807
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: of turn the page. And there are coaches. I mean

808
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: that report led to one of his best friends losing

809
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: his job. He could have helped the grudge. And he

810
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 1: didn't respect how I sourced it. I respect how he

811
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: felt about that, but we were able to have a

812
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: very run on his conversation, and so I thought, if

813
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: he could do that with the media member, he's doing

814
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 1: that even more so within his own organization of players.

815
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just think it's interesting. And even if

816
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 1: you look at the way that the media covers him

817
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: this year and the way he interacts with them, he's

818
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: settled in. I think even just him changing like I

819
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: should I had wrote down here, he changes the status

820
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: quo of the conversation of mental health and players mental

821
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: health being a priority to him because a lot of people,

822
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:53,280
Speaker 1: unfortunately we live in this world where it's so stigmatized

823
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: and you have this mentality of up just deal with it,

824
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to sports, and Mike McCarthy would

825
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 1: never put a player in a position to just deal

826
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: with it, even if it's not a physical injury. You

827
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 1: can see I mean you've seen that way Michael Gallup

828
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: and how many how many coaches would honestly have that

829
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: conversation and say, okay, you can sit this week instead

830
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: of they would do there's coaches who leaked to the

831
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 1: media that this player is soft or there's like right,

832
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: So it's it is an interesting dynamic. I enjoyed this

833
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: conversation pivot because I think it was there were some

834
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: interesting points. It was almost like justice for Mike got

835
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: it for a while and I felt a little responsible

836
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: for it that in year one. Um. But on the

837
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: other side, I was teasing the fact that Ezekiel Elliott

838
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,240
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones told us that he was playing on Sunday.

839
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:44,000
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840
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Speaker 1: a lesson in trash talk. And I'm not talking about

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Speaker 1: Boys Talk, brought to you by Jigsaw Dating, the official

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Speaker 1: dating partner of the Dallas Cowboys. I've got about five

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Speaker 1: minutes to breathe through this segment, and I'm sure it's

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Speaker 1: very important to a lot of Cowboys fans. I don't

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Speaker 1: know of Zeke's playing on Sunday, y'all. Here's why. Normally

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00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:50,240
Speaker 1: he's pretty bullish, like I'm gonna play. When he walked

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Speaker 1: off from the media scrum, it was me and Clarence

878
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Speaker 1: Hill Jr. And he said the plan is to go.

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00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: I said, what did you do during the bye week?

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00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: He said he worked on the underwater treadmill. He was

881
00:42:58,080 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: working with the ice. He even told us in the

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Speaker 1: scrum if I play, which I thought was interesting, it'll

883
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Speaker 1: be with a smaller brace. But he kept mentioning the

884
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Speaker 1: long game and even though we got some practice in

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Speaker 1: this week. I said, well, you know you had said

886
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Speaker 1: you don't necessarily need practice in order to play. He's like, well,

887
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,240
Speaker 1: the staff wants to see me do a couple of things.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting. More importantly, the run defense

889
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: that they're facing this week, it ain't good. It's poress.

890
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: I mean it's not good. It's it's bottom of the barrel.

891
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 1: What is it? Twenty six? The run defense for the

892
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: Vikings is stout. We're talking tenth in the league. So

893
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: you were able to get the job done with Tony

894
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Speaker 1: Pollard against the Bears and their porous rundy. I don't

895
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: think it's a terrible idea to give Zeke three weeks

896
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: to totally hill up. And then, as I made the

897
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 1: argument ahead of du buy, it's a Tony Pollard contract here.

898
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,720
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard told me after that game that more reps

899
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:56,879
Speaker 1: for running backs are a big deal because it gets

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00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 1: you in a rhythm, you get going. This allows the

901
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: front office to see what they're getting from him, and

902
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: this also allows you the opportunity to have the one

903
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Speaker 1: two punch of Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts. Do you want Zeek playing in this one?

905
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: Whatever's best for him? I mean, I think Black we

906
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 1: just talked about, thinks schematically you could get away with

907
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,879
Speaker 1: it again, just like with Detroit or whatever the case

908
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: may or the Bears. Rather you could get away with it.

909
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: Is he gonna want to sit that long? Or because

910
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 1: I mean it's too if you're going to gets another

911
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: not so good Russian defense and TP goes off again

912
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: the ridiculous amount of just conversation and whatever happened. So

913
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 1: it's just for me, I think they can get away

914
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Speaker 1: with it, And I just want him to take care

915
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Speaker 1: of his body if it's something that's bother him right now,

916
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna need him later. Yeah, that's exactly what I

917
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: was going to say. Think where my concern comes from is,

918
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 1: you know, December twenty fourth is approaching really really quickly

919
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: for this team, and I really really believe that this

920
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: is a Cowboys team that can win out As a

921
00:44:56,280 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 1: approach that game, do you want Zeek in your lineup

922
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: every time? Right? I think the value that he brings

923
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: to this franchise is immeasurable. Are you facing a run

924
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: defense that you could do without Zeek? Another week, absolutely,

925
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: especially if Noah Brown coming back well and Rashaun Gary

926
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:15,919
Speaker 1: being out is huge because he's one of the best

927
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Speaker 1: edges against the run. And then when you obviously the

928
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Speaker 1: conversation comes up with Zeke, like, Okay, well he's not

929
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Speaker 1: there for pass pro you may need with this team

930
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 1: help from your Titans. Finally, definitely get some help from you.

931
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: But that's always the argument of him not being on

932
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: the field pass pro press. You may not need it

933
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Speaker 1: with what's going on over the right now. I think

934
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Speaker 1: you said him, and I'm gonna be the one to

935
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Speaker 1: say it. You sit him. He doesn't need to play

936
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Speaker 1: this week. Sit Zeke. If you don't believe me, go

937
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 1: watch the Lions game against Green Bay because I wrote

938
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Speaker 1: this down first things First, takes it that the Lions

939
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: were on track to give up more points than any

940
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Speaker 1: team in the history of the NFL before this game. Okay,

941
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: so statistically this means the Lions defense were possibly the

942
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: worst in the history of the NFL and Aaron Rodgers

943
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: couldn't find a way to score. So you do not

944
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 1: need to play Zeke this week period. I think if

945
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: you get away with not playing gags, don't two weeks

946
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 1: he can get away, you can forget it. And I

947
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 1: think what we're saying here, it's not being disrespectful to Zeke,

948
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: but I felt Bobby about my producer for NFL Network

949
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: also want to five through the fan shout out. He

950
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: found a fun little nugget ahead of pre game last

951
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: week that the Cowboys were five and oho in games

952
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: without Zeke. They are now six and ozo in games

953
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: without Zeke. And again that's not a shade, that's not

954
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,240
Speaker 1: saying Zeke shouldn't be on the field. But the point

955
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: is against their opponent this week, they can get away

956
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: with it. Yea. And I feel like this team is

957
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: doing a better job of saying, how can we look

958
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 1: at at the long game? And also if Zeke was

959
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 1: struggling last year, and you know it showed at times,

960
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: you know when he got injured in Week four, then

961
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 1: reinjured it and it really limited his explosiveness. Give him

962
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: those three weeks to get healed, because I do think

963
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,399
Speaker 1: that that game against Minnesota is going to be it's

964
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: gonna be a good one. Well, Also, I would rather

965
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Speaker 1: have a healthy Zeke against the Eagles, who have a

966
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Speaker 1: very easy schedule as compared to the Packers. Who have

967
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: a losing schedule already or a losing record and then

968
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 1: a very hard schedule ahead of them. So the likelihood

969
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 1: of the Packers winning out is very low, the likelihood

970
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: of the Eagles winning out very high. So, well, you

971
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,839
Speaker 1: might battling with Minnesota for a spot at some point

972
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: and if you're both seven in two heading into this game.

973
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: So yeah, I and I think we're all circling that

974
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving game rematch with the Eagles. Well, the Christmas Day,

975
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, Yeah, it get Christmas Day. That's a game

976
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: that everyone says, that's the game that's everyone's circling, and

977
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:44,439
Speaker 1: that's when you want Zeke to be at his best.

978
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: That's what I would rather have Zeke for a very

979
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: merry Christmas as compared to a Sunday where they could

980
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: easily win this game with or without him. All Right, well,

981
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound like we have time for past interference

982
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 1: to save it for tomorrow for me, jess um, but

983
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Speaker 1: enjoyed the discussion with you, ladies. This is gonna be

984
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 1: a fun game this weekend, and we will see you tomorrow.

985
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