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Speaker 1: Right now we bring on Dallas Cowboys c OO. Stephen Jones, Sir,

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Speaker 1: how are you today? I'm doing good? How you guys done?

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Speaker 1: We're good. We're good. We're just talking about and I

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Speaker 1: don't know how much insight you can share with us

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Speaker 1: or give to us on this. We're just talking about

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Speaker 1: tickets being on sale for the home opener this weekend

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Speaker 1: via ce via Dallas Cowboys dot com. Can you give

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Speaker 1: us an update on what the capacity is that you guys,

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Speaker 1: if you sold all your tickets would have for Sunday's game.

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Speaker 1: You know that's still we're working on that, wanting to

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Speaker 1: make sure we doing the correct way and certainly give

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Speaker 1: everybody an opportunity to feel safe about you know, how

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Speaker 1: this is going. So you know, at some point, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure we'll uh, you know, well, well, you know, we'll

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Speaker 1: come down where we think it's the right place to

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Speaker 1: be in terms of a capacity. Did you look at

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Speaker 1: this past weekend for the NFL or even college football

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Speaker 1: to draw anymore information about that or that's just based

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Speaker 1: on y'all's own information for your specific stadium. We're actually

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Speaker 1: doing both. It's a good point, and we certainly we're

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Speaker 1: very observant of what was going on around you know,

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Speaker 1: what Kansas City did, what some of the colleges did.

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Speaker 1: You know, in terms of people who are actually having fans,

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Speaker 1: it's obviously, you know, interesting to see how they're doing it.

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Speaker 1: But you know, the most important thing here is, you know,

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Speaker 1: as everybody's safety. So we want to do it the

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Speaker 1: increase from there. Rumors absolutely, absolutely, rumors run wild. On

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Speaker 1: the injury front, wanted to know. We heard that it

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Speaker 1: looks like Jarwin might have torn his ACL and that

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Speaker 1: Layton Vanderish with the broken collar bone will go to

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Speaker 1: injured Reserve. What can you tell us about specifically those

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Speaker 1: it's pretty clear that Jarwin is gonna have, you know,

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Speaker 1: unfortunately gonna uh you know, have to have his ACL repaired,

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Speaker 1: and we all know what that means, so uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously a tough loss for us. And then uh, certainly,

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Speaker 1: you know, the injured list to return. Okay, so what

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Speaker 1: are the what are the plans then for replacement Stephen

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Speaker 1: with uh with that position at linebacker specifically, and then

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Speaker 1: on tight end as well. Obviously Joe Thomas did an

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Speaker 1: ic job out there and uh playing for us, and

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Speaker 1: we'll certainly, uh, you know, just as we always do.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what our options are in terms of another

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Speaker 1: far as the tight end flight goes, as you know,

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Speaker 1: we were going a little heavy there anyway with four

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Speaker 1: Karan McKinnon and certainly it'll be his time to step up,

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Speaker 1: with Dalton and Bell obviously playing an even more important

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Speaker 1: tight end as well. So Stephen, offensively, yesterday you score

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Speaker 1: second half. Can you give us an idea of why

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Speaker 1: the ball wasn't moved as well in the second half? Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, you always give credit to the other

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Speaker 1: team's defense. I think certainly, you know, they did a

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Speaker 1: really you know, strong defense in front, especially Aaron Donald

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Speaker 1: just felt like we were right there. But you know,

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Speaker 1: just takes a negative year not making a play on

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Speaker 1: we certainly got to improve. It's uh, you know, we've

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Speaker 1: offensive football team this year. It's just unfortunate. We had

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Speaker 1: football game. Our theory here is actually that since you

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Speaker 1: to mcveay and his offensive game plan cricket manager, especially

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Speaker 1: several new faces and obviously a new scheme, a new staff.

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Speaker 1: You've got to work into those things. And obviously Sean

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Speaker 1: mcvay's one of the great offensive minds in this league.

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Speaker 1: And I certainly did a good job game plan in

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Speaker 1: in the first half. Did the game look crisper at

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Speaker 1: of preseason. Well, you always have your concerns about that,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think some good football was played. Can it?

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Speaker 1: uh though, Mike, that's Mike's expectations. That certainly a staff

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Speaker 1: five three the fan, I'm wondering, Steven, if you feel

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Speaker 1: and the adjustment I do think. But you know, between uh,

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Speaker 1: we don't talk about players that on our team specifically,

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Speaker 1: to make our football team better. So, Steven, if you

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Speaker 1: a win, what would those be? Hang on offense? Just execute,

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Speaker 1: a great organization. Well, we appreciate your time, sir, and

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Speaker 1: do it again next week. Thanks a lot, gentlemen. Stephen

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