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Speaker 1: Good morning to you. Happy New Year's Eve to you, Hey, coach, Hey,

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Speaker 1: Good morning Kevin and Chris. Happy New Year's Eve to

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Speaker 1: you. You You guys got big plans for tonight, Lay and low. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna chill out and uh and get ready for

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Speaker 1: this h this weekend here coach McCarthy, brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Ford, Built for Texas, Built for you, Mike. What

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Speaker 1: a difference a year makes this time last year, finishing

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Speaker 1: off a disappointing season with a loss on the road

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Speaker 1: to the to the Giants, and now a year later,

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Speaker 1: this team locked into the NFC playoffs fighting for a

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Speaker 1: potential number one seed. For you personally, coach, what have

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Speaker 1: you learned about yourself as a person and as a

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Speaker 1: coach over the last year that's either changed your approach

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Speaker 1: or reinforced your beliefs and how you feel and how

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Speaker 1: you deal and approach your players and your coaches. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think clearly that. I mean, this past year has

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Speaker 1: been just a reminder and really reinforcement of you know how,

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Speaker 1: you just have to stay the course and stay true

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Speaker 1: to your beliefs. You know it, All year I was

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Speaker 1: here and you know, in Dallas without my family. Um.

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Speaker 1: Then obviously you've already stated the production of our football

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Speaker 1: team last year. Um, you know, it was it was

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Speaker 1: a it was a difficult year. But I think, like anything,

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Speaker 1: there's always so much to learn and there's always, you know,

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Speaker 1: so much that can come out of tough you know, experiences,

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Speaker 1: and you just got to believe you're always paying forward

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Speaker 1: because you know, just to have the opportunity to compete

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League is it's truly, truly is

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Speaker 1: a privilege because of not only what you get to

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Speaker 1: do on Sundays, but you know, the relationships and everything

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Speaker 1: that goes into you know, creating the team dynamic and

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Speaker 1: pulling it all together. So even when you're going through

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Speaker 1: those tough times, there's things you can carry forward. And

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Speaker 1: I think that clearly is something we were able to

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Speaker 1: build off of last year, and you know, I think

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Speaker 1: it's part of our foundation for our success this year.

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Speaker 1: It's ironic you mentioned that he said the foundation, because

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of players on the team last year

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Speaker 1: that said they don't ever want to go through anything

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Speaker 1: like that again, and they don't take anything for granted

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Speaker 1: because of what they went through and like you said,

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Speaker 1: they've used it as a foundation and no, we're not

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Speaker 1: gonna we're not gonna take any plays off or we're

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Speaker 1: not gonna coach because anything can happen. I love the

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Speaker 1: way that you've been totally I mean, you've you've probably

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Speaker 1: done this whole year, whole coaching career, but a lot

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Speaker 1: of people haven't seen this, that you're totally involved in

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Speaker 1: a lot of people got a chance to see that

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Speaker 1: in training camp. Where I'm going with this is you

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Speaker 1: probably wondering, Okay, what kind of coach is he going

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Speaker 1: to be? You select your own staff. But you kept

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Speaker 1: but you selected most of your own staff. Stephen Jones

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Speaker 1: Last week when we talked to you, I mentioned Tom Landry.

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Speaker 1: players and the coaching staff. Well, I think, just like

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Speaker 1: I were just talking about this, uh, you know, last

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Speaker 1: And I think when you're you're looking for, you know,

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Speaker 1: for them, I wanted to ask you, coach, what we

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Speaker 1: Oh that's okay. What would you say as your approach

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Speaker 1: like a lot of things in life, consistency and efficiency

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Speaker 1: having an incredible rookie season. Mike McCarthy, your head coach

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Speaker 1: and RJ coach. As we moved toward this week in

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Speaker 1: But this is the team that was nine and two

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Speaker 1: But last year you guys used the spy on Jalen

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Speaker 1: most important aspect about Dak Prescott's success on Sunday night

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Speaker 1: I like everything else that we're doing. Hey, coach, speaking

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Speaker 1: they just camped out at the Army. Have you thought

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Speaker 1: uh you know that we called family and friends testing opportunities.

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Speaker 1: now with the COVID. Michael will get you out of

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Speaker 1: here on this and the New Year's resolutions you care

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Speaker 1: When I hear you, yeah, I'll keep it easy for you.

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Speaker 1: So well, we appreciate the time. Michael is always. Happy

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Speaker 1: New Year's to you and your family. Hope you all

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Speaker 1: have a safe and happy New Year, and we look

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Speaker 1: forward to seeing your cowboys on the field on Sunday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: I guess the Arizona Cardinals thank you for the time today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thanks coach, Oh, thank you. Happy New Year, Kevin, Happy

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Speaker 1: New Year, Christy, Happy New Year, Buddy,