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Speaker 1: a new week. It is Thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: are moving forward quickly, can we Okay? Can we do that? Well? Brad,

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Speaker 1: nice to see you. How are you doing momentarily? Our

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Speaker 1: special guest this week will be Cowboys running back Ezekie Elliott,

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Speaker 1: who is there. It was a little change in the

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Speaker 1: And Zeke will be along in merely a matter of minutes,

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Speaker 1: and then we're going to visit with him about what

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Speaker 1: I think for him is a really good start to

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Speaker 1: is all a schedule change thing. And yes, did you

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Speaker 1: sure I have. Eras are different because rules are different,

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Speaker 1: And when you're in the playoffs, anything can happen. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: Zeke oh Man, thanks for having me. So it's a

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Speaker 1: the mentions on your feed. Yeah, I mean I know

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Speaker 1: she does, but uh yeah, we try to we try

428
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,679
Speaker 1: to stay out of that. Do you ever do you

429
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: ever tell her mom don't read dimensions? Uh? Yeah, I

430
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: do all the time actually, and she doesn't listen to she.

431
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,399
Speaker 1: I mean, she's a grown woman. She's the mom and

432
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: I'm the son. So I can is this man we're

433
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: talking to, well, he's he's a five year NFL man,

434
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,640
Speaker 1: that's believe it. This is so funny, I know, I um, well,

435
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: the mentions, it's like you can't even escape it because

436
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: somebody that you follow in love, they could just be

437
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: saying something that might sting to read the truth. Sometimes. Yeah,

438
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 1: I've I've muted people who were responding to somebody who

439
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: I followed and I didn't want to see it. So

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00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: if that person has anything to say, I don't want

441
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: to see it anymore. All Right, We're gonna take a break.

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00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: Delighted to have Ezekiel Elliott with us on the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: Hour this evening. And it's amazing how much one win

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Speaker 1: can turn things around, Right, You win one game and

445
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: suddenly everything feels better and much more optimistic. That may

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Speaker 1: be coming on Sunday, but we will be right back

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Speaker 1: to the Miller Like Cowboys Hours supported by Albertsons and

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Speaker 1: Omni Hotels and Resorts. Welcome back Brad Sham and Taylor

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00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: Stern and our very special guest Cowboys running back Ezekiel

458
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: Elliott this evening on the Cowboys Hour. We were talking

459
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: during the break and Taylor was talking at the very

460
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Speaker 1: beginning of the show about how difficult it is to

461
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Speaker 1: adjust to life in the twenty twenty pandemic world. It's

462
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: just unnatural and everyone has And that kind of made

463
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: me think about the fact that, um, you know better

464
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: than probably anyone here what it's like to have this thing.

465
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: You you dealt with it before people before a lot

466
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: of people were taking it seriously. I guess that got

467
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: your attention though, huh um yeah, uh, I mean for

468
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: sure just getting COVID, I mean I didn't. Luckily I didn't.

469
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: I didn't get any symptoms or anything. But it just

470
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: shows you, like, um, how careful you have to be.

471
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta be safe. You never And it's

472
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: just it's it's scary because it affects everyone so differently.

473
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: You can have it and not even know You can

474
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: pass that to someone and you won't even know you

475
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,959
Speaker 1: have it, and but it can affect them a totally

476
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: different way and they can really struggle with it. And

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00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: I think that's just the scariest part. Can you talk

478
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: a little bit about it and don't tell us any secrets,

479
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: But I mean, you guys self imposed a bubble for

480
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: training camp, so you were able to stay completely healthy

481
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: and as we look around the league tonight, there's gonna

482
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: be there's gonna be two games instead of one game

483
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: because one guy on one team and one guy on

484
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: another team tested positive and they had to move it back.

485
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: And obviously the Titans are having some stuff to deal

486
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: with right now. You guys have been really good. I

487
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: know they've set up protocols for you, and but that

488
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: doesn't mean everybody has to follow them. What's been the

489
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: key to everybody kind of towing the line on your team?

490
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: I think it's the biggest things. You can't be selfish.

491
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: You gotta think about the team. One. We need everyone

492
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Speaker 1: to play. So I mean, if you get COVID, you're

493
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: out with three weeks minimum two. It's really not about you.

494
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: It's not even about the people who are directly here

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00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: at this facility. But I mean, there's there's men on

496
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: this team who just had newborn babies. There's men with

497
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: pregnant wives. There's people who live with their mothers or

498
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: who maybe elderly. You have to think about the grand

499
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: scheme of things. You gotta things like, okay, if I

500
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: behave recklessly, okay, I might get COVID, and you can't

501
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: think how I might get covid in and I'll be fine.

502
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm young and I'm healthy. But you gotta think about

503
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: everyone else. You gotta think about everyone else's families. And

504
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, that's what's really important. And Zeke,

505
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Speaker 1: I really commend you for that. But there are a

506
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: lot of people I'm not talking about football players now,

507
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about athletes, but there are a

508
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: lot of people around the country of all ages who

509
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: either don't believe that or don't think that way. And

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00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: I'm curious how you have gotten sixty players to understand

511
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: that so well, young men in the absolute physical primes

512
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: of your life. How did you get so many guys

513
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: to understand that at the same time and all buy in? Um? Well, one,

514
00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: I mean it's our job. I mean we gotta uh

515
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: make our paychecks. And if you're not, if we can't

516
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: finish the season, how are we gonna make our money?

517
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? So, um, that's that's one thing.

518
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: And uh and then two, we're a family. Uh, we

519
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: don't want to we all want to put each other

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00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: at a risk. We don't want to put each other's

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00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: families at risk. Yeah. Absolutely, And you know one cool

522
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: thing that Zeke did was he immediately jumped in and

523
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: gave back to the Dallas community. I know you had

524
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: the first round of everything you've been doing in the community.

525
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: You were giving the meals to North Texas Food Bank

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Speaker 1: with the custom shirts. I think it was or was

527
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: it the team you teamed up with the shop Center

528
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: or from um so. I teamed up with the center

529
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Speaker 1: and we did a march drop and uh we we

530
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Speaker 1: donated all the proceeds to the North to the Food Bank.

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Speaker 1: And uh, he's being modest. It was a lot of

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00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: proceeds and it we raised the seventy five eighty grand

533
00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: uh to feed feed families in a DFW area. Yeah,

534
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: and that feeds a lot of families. And then you know,

535
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: it was like after one thing after another, Zequi was

536
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: just out there helping them all. He went to South

537
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,919
Speaker 1: oak Cliffe High School and you talked to their football team,

538
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: is that correct? And it was kind of more of

539
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: a private thing. It's more of a private thing, and uh,

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00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we just kind of I went there.

541
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 1: I did a lot of clean out of my clothing

542
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 1: and stuff, and I mean I got a Nikedale and

543
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:25,760
Speaker 1: I get I got I get a bunch of shoes,

544
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: a bunch of free shoes and stuff, and I just

545
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 1: had to I had to do some spring cleaning. And

546
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: I decided. Uh. I asked my girlfriend Hallie. I asked her, like,

547
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Speaker 1: where does he think would be a good place for

548
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: me to in the Dallas here to take? Uh to

549
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: take and uh donate donate these clothes and um she

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00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: recommended uh sock and Uh, I mean it was definitely

551
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: a great experience. That's awesome. He's got a good influence

552
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: in his life. He's got a lot of good influences

553
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: in his life. And and and now you're becoming a

554
00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: good influence. When did you realize that you were not

555
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: a role model only when you came to the Dallas Cowboys.

556
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: You you had to have known there were kids looking

557
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 1: up to you when you were a Buckeye, and my

558
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: guesses there were a lot of young kids watching you

559
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,919
Speaker 1: play high school sports in Saint Louis who probably said

560
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: they wanted to be like Zeke. When did you first

561
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: realize that people were looking at you differently than they

562
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 1: were some other people? Probably college, um Conry, high school

563
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: football and my high school footballs there. It's not the best.

564
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 1: We don't have the the grand stadiums that you guys

565
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: have here in Texas, and uh, we don't have all that.

566
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: So no, it's not it's not quite it's not quite. Um,

567
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: but probably when I got to college and you know,

568
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: I just saw just the hype around the Ohio State

569
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: and uh, just the love of the Buckeyes, you know,

570
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: throughout the state of Ohio and just um, you know,

571
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: just the kids waiting outside when we do our walk,

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00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: like the walk on the way to the stadium, just

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00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: the kids and fans waiting outside there, and it kind

574
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: of I was like, Wow, this is this is real? Now?

575
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: How did that change? Sorry, Taylor, how did that? How

576
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: did that expand? If it did when you got here? Um,

577
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,760
Speaker 1: I mean it's just it's like Ohio State on steroids.

578
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: So um yeah. Did you have anyone who walked you

579
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: through those moments, like a somebody at Ohio State who

580
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: was like, Hey, here's how I've handled stardom if you

581
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: would Um No, not really, I just kind of like

582
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: figured it out. I just kind of figured it out. Yeah,

583
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: but yeah, on your own. But he had his mom,

584
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: he had his I mean I had my mom and

585
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: my family, but they didn't even know what to expect.

586
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: We kind of figured it out together. Um, I mean,

587
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 1: you have a coach Meyer at Ohio State. The coaches,

588
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,760
Speaker 1: I mean they were great, you know in college and stuff.

589
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: But I think it was just kind of something I

590
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: had to go through, you know, me and my family

591
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: go through together. Do you think of a moment and

592
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: you're like, this was the moment that I realized I'm famous?

593
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: Or do you not think like that? Oh? I don't really.

594
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: I can't say there's like a specific moment where I

595
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: was like, oh wow, I remember the one moment when

596
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: I thought Zeke is really famous. And obviously we had

597
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: already had the whole twenty sixteen season and then he

598
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: was an obvious, you know, all pro Pro bowler that year.

599
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: And we go down to Orlando and we're in Orlando

600
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: and like, there's a lot of really good guys on

601
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: this Pro Bowl team. I mean, it's the Pro Bowl,

602
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: and there was the loudest chant for Zeke I've ever heard.

603
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: I mean, it was it seemed louder than some of

604
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: the training camp aunts we see and you know, you

605
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: look around and it's like, well there's a really good guy,

606
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: and there's a really good guy. But everyone just wanting

607
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: to see Zeke and that's when I realized he's kind

608
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: of a big deal. Yeah, kind and that that comes

609
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: with the By the way, I'm I have gotten over

610
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 1: my disappointment of you know, both of Zeke's parents were

611
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: um varsity athletes at my alma mater, and I've gotten

612
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,439
Speaker 1: over my disappointment at Zeke having gone on to Ohio State.

613
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: I'm going to say probably prepared you better for this

614
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: than having gone to Missouri would have. So, um, I'm

615
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: almost over that now. Um. But um, there's an aspect

616
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: of your game on the field that I love talking

617
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: about because I just think you're exceptional at it, and

618
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,439
Speaker 1: that is the blocking part, and you've been You've talked

619
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: about it some this year. But um, you know, I

620
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: don't know fans realize when we as part of my job,

621
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: you know, you go back and look at the tape again,

622
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: not not with the same ay as you guys do,

623
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: but I mean, you spent most of the evening in

624
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: La block and Aaron Donald, I don't know if you

625
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: signed on for that, but you whatever plays Dak was

626
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: able to make, about half of them were because of

627
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 1: you picking them up. And I've seen you make plays

628
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: this year. You've always been good at it, but you

629
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: are now spilling guys. You're turning them head over heels,

630
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: You're crossing the pocket. I think that's got to be

631
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: really tough to cross the quarterback's face to pick up

632
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: the blitzer who you see on the other side of

633
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 1: the formation. And maybe someone has not heard you talk

634
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 1: about the coaches you had in college who instilled in

635
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: you that if you think you want to be a

636
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: running back, you better be able to do that. But

637
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: I'd love to have you do that, um, I mean

638
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: since college. It's just in college it was Look, if

639
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Speaker 1: you don't protect the quarterback, you can't you can't play.

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Speaker 1: I mean you can't. You can't go out there, and

641
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Speaker 1: we can't put you on the field because you can

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Speaker 1: get the quarterback hurt. But I think another thing for

643
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Speaker 1: me though, just when I got to college, I was seventeen,

644
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Speaker 1: I was little. I've never, I honestly never had been

645
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Speaker 1: in a situation where like I was on a field

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Speaker 1: with the guys that were better than me or just

647
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Speaker 1: more physically gifted than me. I mean I was I

648
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: wasn't even I wasn't eighteen yet, So honestly, blocking for

649
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Speaker 1: me was just like, Okay, I might not be as big,

650
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: as faster, as strong as that guy, but blocking is

651
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: something that takes no skill. It's all effort, it's all hard,

652
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Speaker 1: and uh, I mean, I just I think it's important

653
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Speaker 1: because I think when other guys see me out there blocking,

654
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: and when when other guys see me out there giving

655
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 1: my all, when when I'm not necessarily the one getting

656
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 1: the ball or something, I mean, I think that means

657
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 1: a lot. I do too, And I'm gonna run over

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Speaker 1: this segment just for a second because I want to

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Speaker 1: want you to do a little two minute clinic. What's

660
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Speaker 1: the what is the key coaching point for seeing the

661
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: guy on the other side of the formation and you

662
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 1: got across the pocket to be able to pick that

663
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Speaker 1: guy up and not get in the quarterbacks way or

664
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: line of vision? How do you do that? Um? So,

665
00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 1: I mean in our protections. Uh, there's a couple of

666
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: different protections. Uh. We normally I d a guy that

667
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: the line's going to and then then that's how I

668
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: know who I have all of that, and um, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just gotta the quarterback drops back, so it gives

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Speaker 1: me a little room to kind of scoot in front

671
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Speaker 1: of him, and uh, I kind of have an idea

672
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: where there where where Dak's setting up in the pocket,

673
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: probably like around like if it's gone, probably like around

674
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Speaker 1: seven or eight yards right behind the center, And so

675
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Speaker 1: I just gotta go over there and get a good

676
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: angle so he can't he can't get to him. And

677
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: that's part of the reason you spend the time in

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Speaker 1: the meetings with the quarterback and the offensive lineman during

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00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: a week, right, Uh yeah, just kind of find out

680
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: the tendency to find out what the team's blitzes are,

681
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: because I mean, you don't scout every look that you

682
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: see on Sunday. But but some of those those blitches

683
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: we try to get in you know, during the we

684
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: take them from the film and we practice them in practice.

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Speaker 1: Uh But I mean, you just gotta know what the

686
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 1: IDs are. You gotta know who you have and protection

687
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Speaker 1: and then just want to go do it one more

688
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Speaker 1: break and then we're back with more with Cowboys All

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Speaker 1: Pro running back Ezekiel Elliott on The Cowboys Hour. Yeah.

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00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna say hurdling instead of blocking, blocking

691
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 1: is better, I guess all right, yes, and we are

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Omni this year, do more than

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Speaker 1: just stay apart, stay a part of the game. Stay

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Speaker 1: a part of the Cowboys kick off football season at

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Speaker 1: Zeke was just telling us about that the Star has

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Speaker 1: to offer back with Ezekiel Elliott on the Cowboys Hour

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Speaker 1: after this to the Miller Like Cowboys Hour supported by

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Speaker 1: Albertsons and Omni Hotels and Resorts, Welcome back Brad Sham

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Speaker 1: and Taylor Stearn and our very special guest, Cowboys running

702
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 1: back Ezekiel Elliott. We mentioned at the very beginning how

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00:46:56,360 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: grateful we are for Zeke giving us part of his evening.

704
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: And it's going into the day off. And I always wonder,

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Speaker 1: especially once you've played like a quarter of the season

706
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: now that you have, do you ever feel like you

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00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: have a day off? Do you ever do you ever

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00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: really just get away from it? Can you turn it

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00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 1: off mentally and give yourself a break? Um? Yeah, I

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00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: think I can. Uh, I mean tomorrow I'll probably I'll

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00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: probably watch a little bit of film. Um, but you know,

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00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: I mean that's just like an hour out on my day,

713
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 1: just kind of looking at some general stuff on the giants.

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00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 1: But I mean other than that hour, I'll be relaxing

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Speaker 1: all day tomorrow playing video games. Uh, there could be

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00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 1: could be some call of duty tomorrow, call of duty, Champ.

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Speaker 1: Now you know that I wouldn't call us of a

718
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: chip yet you couldn't bet it. I mean, would you

719
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Speaker 1: ever consider going down that realm professionally? Um, it's a

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00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 1: big thing. I don't think I'm good enough play. I

721
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:02,919
Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't want to disrespect those guys.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I'm good enough. Um Now, I mean

723
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think Halle would be very

724
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Speaker 1: having me if I decide I want it to be

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Speaker 1: a pro another side of your growth and maturity? Do

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Speaker 1: you understand because I don't, I'm gonna tell you that

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00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: my bias going into the question the Um, do you

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Speaker 1: understand the concept of people in a non pandemic world

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00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: buying tickets to watch people play video games? Um? No,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you so very much, because I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know and I know esports is a big deal.

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Speaker 1: I understand that I get it. Okay, but here, let

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Speaker 1: me just can see maybe at home, right, yeah, Devil's Advocate. Sure.

734
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Speaker 1: A couple of years ago post Malone, who's a big

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Speaker 1: Cowboys fan, and you know his dad was around here, right,

736
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Speaker 1: he came and they played he played Zeke call of Duty? Right?

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00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:07,399
Speaker 1: I think it was. Yeah, we played some call of duty.

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Speaker 1: We played some Call of Duty. I don't know anything

739
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: about video games or anything like that, but to watch

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00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: those two interact in that situation was really cool. I

741
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: don't know how much I would pay for that. See

742
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:23,399
Speaker 1: that's because one because one guy is post Malone and

743
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: one guy is Ezekiel Elliott. Okay, now if you're talking

744
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: about uh, let's buy a ticket and go sit in

745
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Speaker 1: an arena with ten thousand people and watch two guys

746
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Speaker 1: we don't know play video games. People would watch you,

747
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 1: like do radio for a game. There's a many people

748
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: who would do a lot of where nobody who would

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Speaker 1: pay for that? I get it where free? I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's completely it's completely different. I think there would

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00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:52,359
Speaker 1: be people to do that. But what else do you

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Speaker 1: do on a day off? If that's okay? Maybe some

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00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 1: video games? What else? Um? I mean honestly, I really

754
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Speaker 1: started playing a lot video games during Quarantine after I

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Speaker 1: watched all the movies on Apple TV, all of them

756
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Speaker 1: in all the TV shows. But uh, I mean, I'm

757
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: either gonna play video games. Who might sit by the

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00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 1: pool if it's nice enough. I got my pool heater on. Yeah,

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00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: um play with the dogs? Yeah, I played with the dogs.

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Speaker 1: Or just trying to find a movie. What's the movie

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Speaker 1: that you saw that you liked the most during Quarantine? Uh,

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Speaker 1: let me think, let me think, let me think, let

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Speaker 1: me think, um Action Adventure. Recently, I really liked Mulan.

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Speaker 1: I liked it too. I liked Mulan a lot. That

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00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: was pretty cool people would you like about Mulan? Um?

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Speaker 1: But I just kind of like the story. Uh, I

767
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 1: think it might just be more of I loved it

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Speaker 1: when I was a kid, so I was just excited

769
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Speaker 1: to see the Did you miss the music though? Yeah?

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00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 1: I did miss the miss miss the music because when

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Speaker 1: and obviously Zeke and I grew up or at the

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Speaker 1: same time and Mulan, there were all these movies that

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Speaker 1: came out and they had just jam packed music. And

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00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: when Mulan came out, it had the great story or

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00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: this like what do they call it live action now?

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Speaker 1: And but they had none of the songs, and I

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00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: really did miss that. Yeah, because some of these other

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00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:21,400
Speaker 1: live actions they've kept the songs. Now, how about series

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00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: that you mentioned? Apple TV? The Apple TV's got a

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Speaker 1: lot of great stuff. Netflix has got some good stuff

781
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 1: up now, Hulu and what what series catch your attention? Um?

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00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: I rewatched Game of Thrones. I'm pretty sure the whole

783
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 1: thing casually. Dang, what have I been watching? I think

784
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: recently I've been within True Blood. I don't know how

785
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 1: much how I feel about it, but we're a i

786
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: mean highly on season six, so we're almost done with

787
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: that one. I don't know how I feel about it,

788
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:57,240
Speaker 1: but I've spent hours. Uh, let me see what else.

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Speaker 1: There are some good things you've seen for all mankind? No,

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00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that. It's honestly really good. Have you

791
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: seen it? I have not seen for all me. You

792
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: would love it? Give us a synopsis. Synopsis is it's

793
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: like it's the Space Raise back in the sixties, and

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00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 1: it's if Russia had gotten their first So it's a

795
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,439
Speaker 1: little bit of a plot twist, like what is that called?

796
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:19,240
Speaker 1: Like historical fiction? Its historical fiction. And it's actually really

797
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 1: good and interesting in very much into teamwork and female power,

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00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 1: which Zeke is a huge fan of. For all for

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Speaker 1: all man, kind of call for all like as in

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Speaker 1: the statement on the moon, one stride for all Man. Well,

801
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Speaker 1: if you like that, you might like you ever watch

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Speaker 1: The Man in the High Castle. Yeah? No, I've never

803
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 1: seen that. So that's that is built on the on

804
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: the fictional theory that, um, the United States did not

805
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 1: win World War two? Huh? And and in this series,

806
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 1: which is this is based on a book by the

807
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: late great science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, who whose

808
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: theory was in for this book and series. America is

809
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 1: divided in two and the eastern half belongs to the

810
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: Germans and the western half belongs to the hero Hito Japanese.

811
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: And then there's the insurgents, the Americans who want to

812
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 1: overthrow the people who have taken over this land. Interesting

813
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: huh oh, well, I need to be taking notes Man

814
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: in the High Castle, Zeke, We'll get you the we'll

815
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: get you the word all right? Cool? Okay, So I

816
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:39,440
Speaker 1: was looking at the schedule today and the buye is

817
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: week ten. That's a little later than it's been some years.

818
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: Do you care or is it always right on time?

819
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 1: Whenever it happens. Um, I think it's normally right right

820
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:52,919
Speaker 1: around the middle hull. It has been the last couple

821
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 1: of years it has been right near exactly mid season. Um, So,

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00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, I really don't pay attention

823
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: to that stuff that much. This kind of take a

824
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: one day at a time to be honest. That's the

825
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: best attitude for it. Right yeah, around the middle. But

826
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Speaker 1: when we asked Joe Luney that he said that he

827
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 1: liked it to be around week ten because he just

828
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: wanted to keep the momentum going. No, for sure, I

829
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: mean I think I think, uh, I think it would

830
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 1: be good against the momentum going. And uh, I mean honestly,

831
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: if me doesn't matter, I'm ready to ball. I'm ready

832
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: to who Yeah, I can tell now. One thing you

833
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: have had to deal with is a little more uncertainty

834
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: in the five guys in front of you than has

835
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:40,720
Speaker 1: been the case for most of the first four years

836
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,399
Speaker 1: of your career. Those guys are all fighting, and they're

837
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: all doing the very best they can do. You notice

838
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 1: when they're I mean, obviously you notice if Tyran's there

839
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: or if Zach is there. You can see some of

840
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: the things they're doing. But do you like when the

841
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: when the tackle changes out or Joe got hurt and

842
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: Tyler went in at center, do you even notice? Um,

843
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:03,319
Speaker 1: I mean you kind of know them coming in, but

844
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 1: once the game is going, it's like like I might

845
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,839
Speaker 1: look over, I'm like, oh, Tyler playing center or yeah,

846
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: it kind of surprised me. But uh, I mean I

847
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: would credit uh, you know, coach filming and uh and

848
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 1: this that that group because at first in camp, you know,

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Speaker 1: And so you know, it all makes sense now. That's

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Speaker 1: enough gut. Actually good thing, Yeah, yeah, no, I think so.

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Speaker 1: I think so. It's one of the requirements. Zeke. We

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Speaker 1: really very much appreciate the time, and I know what

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Speaker 1: a beating you take and how important your rest time is.

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Speaker 1: It's really fun to watch you grow and mature and

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Speaker 1: become the person as well as the football player you

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Speaker 1: are in year five and we're looking forward to all

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Speaker 1: the rest of it. And thank you again for the time. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you, guys, Raving. That's uh Ezekiel Elliott for Taylor Stern.

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