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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Stephen. How are you? I'm doing good? Guys,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? We're doing great. We're just having

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Speaker 1: a conversation. Steven. Do you ever wear flip flops? I have? Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: but are you Are you a flip flop guy? I'm

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Speaker 1: a flip flop guy, but I feel like when I'm

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Speaker 1: on the beach of the lake, okay, but never day

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Speaker 1: to day. You won't walk up in the Star, and

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Speaker 1: I don't really if I don't really rock those during

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Speaker 1: at the Star, so I keep them to the beach

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Speaker 1: in the lake. Okay. We had another discussion here too, Stephen.

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Speaker 1: If if any time during when I was working with

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Speaker 1: you that I would have called you Steve, would you've

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Speaker 1: taken a swing at me. No, so people call you Steve.

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Speaker 1: Would She used to hate it? But I'm pretty accustomed

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Speaker 1: to answer into a lot of things. Okay, what's the

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Speaker 1: most adventurous thing you answer too? I can't say it

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Speaker 1: on air, but Steve's okay. Like if we saw you

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Speaker 1: at the Star and said hey Steve, you'd be like, hey,

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Speaker 1: what's up? Guy? It might take me a second, but

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Speaker 1: it doesn't offend me right on, right on. Well, lots

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Speaker 1: of interesting cowboy stuff to talk about here going into

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Speaker 1: the weekend and Monday Night football. The most recent was

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Speaker 1: Amari Cooper with the Cracked Ribs revealed after practice. What's

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Speaker 1: your take on it at how severe and will that

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Speaker 1: hold him back in any way? You know, we've got

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Speaker 1: a good feeling about Amory playing and think that uh

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Speaker 1: you know he's been out there practicing and feel like that, uh,

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Speaker 1: that he'll be able to work through It's. Uh, he's

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Speaker 1: we'll be able to have him for the game. I

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Speaker 1: feel like you guys are missing about fifteen defensive end

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Speaker 1: slash edge guys. How are you feeling about that position group?

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Speaker 1: And what are the odds we see Micah Parsons repeat

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Speaker 1: of how he was winding up last week. Well, it

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Speaker 1: was great to get ninety four backs, so that was

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Speaker 1: a big addition to add to it. And uh feel

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Speaker 1: good that Goldston's going to probably get his first live action,

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Speaker 1: So we we feel feel pretty good about our group.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we don't ever want to talk to much

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Speaker 1: about what we got in store for number eleven, like

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Speaker 1: to leave that to other team's imaginations, So we'll kind

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Speaker 1: of sit on that one a little bit. But obviously

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Speaker 1: Mike has shown that, you know, he can be productive

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Speaker 1: in a lot of areas, So we'll kind of see

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Speaker 1: how that unfolds as we head up to game time. Steved,

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Speaker 1: you have some sports hate for the Philadelphia Eagles on

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Speaker 1: the field. I know you like Jeff Ley. I know

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Speaker 1: Jeff Fleury is a nice man and all that. I

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Speaker 1: worked with him too, like your your family, but there's

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Speaker 1: is there some sports hate for this team? Well? There

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Speaker 1: is there is on the field. As I said, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Jeff is a great guy as a great owner, respect

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Speaker 1: him as a businessman. But you know, when we go

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Speaker 1: to the field, all bets are off with that entire

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Speaker 1: NFC East group. I'm great friends with John Marray, great

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Speaker 1: friends with Dan Snyder, but when it comes down to

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Speaker 1: there's some sports hate. Would you like Cowboys fans to

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Speaker 1: behave a little bit more like Eagles fans when it

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Speaker 1: comes to the nastiness. You know, I've got nothing but

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Speaker 1: the utmost respect for our Cowboy fans, and I think

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Speaker 1: don't think they need to change a lot. I think

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Speaker 1: they're they're damn good and we're lucky to have them,

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Speaker 1: and I know they're fired up about this game on Monday.

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Speaker 1: If you were to take a poll of the Cowboy players,

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Speaker 1: I asked this because I feel like the Cowboys are

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Speaker 1: easily the most hated rival of the Giants. The Cowboys

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Speaker 1: do you know which team is the most I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: even say hated, because I think that's a weird word,

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Speaker 1: but more rival. You know, I think that thing moves.

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Speaker 1: I think what I've seen in my thirty years is

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Speaker 1: it can migrate depending on you know, who's got the

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Speaker 1: But you know, I've seen it against the Redskins peak,

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Speaker 1: ebb and flow. As to which one's at the top

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Speaker 1: wrong about Terrence Steele? Well, I just think, you know,

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Speaker 1: it just shows you if you if you work with

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Speaker 1: get experience, and then you give them a full offseason

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Speaker 1: to work in the weight room. And of course Terrence

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Speaker 1: work that he's put into this thing over the past

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Speaker 1: twelve fifteen months really come come in and not only

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Speaker 1: pay off for him, but pay off for our team.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of things paying off, maybe some offseason plans on

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Speaker 1: defense that we weren't sure about in training camp. Through

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Speaker 1: Do you think things are starting to come together in

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Speaker 1: a positive way on that side of the ball. I do,

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Speaker 1: and I think they can get better. I mean, obviously,

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Speaker 1: next man up. I think, you know, bringing Mike and

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Speaker 1: the organization bringing dan Quinn in here was a big deal.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think he brings a great energy level.

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Speaker 1: I think he brings a lot of confidence to our

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Speaker 1: group there. And it's a younger group. I was reading

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Speaker 1: all know, there's going to be some defensive players that

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Speaker 1: list that I think we've got reinforcements that will continue

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Speaker 1: to help make us better. But I do think this

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Speaker 1: this group of men. We have on our defense right now, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: you've said two things in this interview that I wonder

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Speaker 1: because it happens to us in sports radio as well,

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Speaker 1: referring to the Chargers as San Diego and Washington is

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Speaker 1: their former team name. Yeah. How long do you think

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Speaker 1: it'll take the entire world to naturally think La Chargers

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Speaker 1: and Washington football team. Well, it'll be obviously for younger people,

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Speaker 1: the two and you're accustomed to the other names, it's

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Speaker 1: harder to uh, you know, harder to change. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: I apologize to those organizations. You're right, Uh, I think

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Speaker 1: I hit both of those today. But it is difficult

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Speaker 1: when you're used to, you know, calling you know, every

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Speaker 1: now and then it still slips you want to say

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Speaker 1: the Houston Oilers rather than the Houston Texans. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just what you grew up with and what you

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Speaker 1: grew accustomed to. But uh, certainly, you know, it just

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Speaker 1: takes some time. Okay, Stephen got the truth serum out

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Speaker 1: here though. When fifty six yard field gold was going

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Speaker 1: to be attempted, were you sitting there in the box

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Speaker 1: field goal. I watched the kicker every time, do you Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Because the kickers looking right at it and he knows it,

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Speaker 1: and he knows if he's if it's going one way

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Speaker 1: or the other. And man, when that kicker, he's usually

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Speaker 1: the first guy or give a fist, pump or start

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Speaker 1: to shake his head. Stephen, when you played football, did

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Speaker 1: you enjoy the pain? Did I enjoy pain? No, I've

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Speaker 1: never enjoyed pain. Jerry said he loves it. He said,

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Speaker 1: put it in me. I don't believe him. Well, listen him.

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Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. Best of luck against the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: Give him hell, we'll be pulling for you. Hey, Sad's

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Speaker 1: great guys, great being on with you. Have a great weekend. Hey,

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Speaker 1: good luck to your hogs tomorrow too. Oh thank you, Brian.

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Speaker 1: All right, So