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Speaker 1: of Talking Cowboys. Yeah, I got it, Okay, zero zero, Wow,
Speaker 1: twelve and five. I think I'm more of the zero
Speaker 1: and zero side of twelve and five. Fish this thing off.
Speaker 1: Let's finish this thing off. I agree with that bout. Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't finish saying what I was saying, but I'm
Speaker 1: saying twelve five, twelve and five. Not bad, not bad,
Speaker 1: not bad at all. Yeah, Cowboys improved to the three
Speaker 1: seed in the NFC. Got some help yesterday from the
Speaker 1: NFC West HV HOV gots gotten an extra passage, got
Speaker 1: HOV telling you all right, y'all, come in here, y'all
Speaker 1: energy wrong, let's go. You didn't say the show, let's go.
Speaker 1: You didn't say a single word. Oh my gosh, heck
Speaker 1: my Harrison rob Studio, Robot Phillips is back. I'm sorry, Heck,
Speaker 1: I'm still I'm still gathering. It's nice to be wearing
Speaker 1: real pants, real pants. Been a while, it's been a
Speaker 1: while out of the jama pants. Still wearing peas I missed.
Speaker 1: So it's like when you come back home from college
Speaker 1: and your parents your room kind of looks at the same.
Speaker 1: Didn't touch the room, it never left to stay home.
Speaker 1: Now we got a hand sanitizer on your side. We
Speaker 1: got it all good, Thank you, thank you. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: great to have you back. We missed you as well.
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand back, sir, fresh off of a great week
Speaker 1: for you. It's go time, baby, it is go time.
Speaker 1: It is playoff time. It's our first official playoff show.
Speaker 1: Love it of talking cowboys and it does it gets different,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about the cowboys in the Eagles.
Speaker 1: But really, now, now your eyes are forward, it's it's
Speaker 1: a twelve and five record, you're the three seed in
Speaker 1: the NFC. But now eyes ahead to the playoffs. You're
Speaker 1: looking those zero and zero record turns into that's what
Speaker 1: the red's gonna be here in a couple of minutes. Uh, cowboys,
Speaker 1: was it twelve and five? Is it twelve and five
Speaker 1: or zero and zero? Because he's right, we gotta give
Speaker 1: them credit for what they've done. Yeah, last five months whatever,
Speaker 1: let's just fly right by that. Let's fly right by.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. It's awesome. But what's the ultimate goal? Year?
Speaker 1: One day and then it's been Yeah, it was ultimate goal.
Speaker 1: You gotta gonna take that from me. Were twelve and five?
Speaker 1: Twelve and five was dog crap? Last year? How must
Speaker 1: had nothing? Last year? I defense was the worst last
Speaker 1: year in history? Last year twelve and five. Let's go
Speaker 1: with it. It's all pass Yeah, all right, I mean
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Twelve and five is fantastic and it
Speaker 1: is set you up in the right PSA want to
Speaker 1: do it. But if you lose this week, what is
Speaker 1: twelve and five? I'm not talking I'm talking about victory Monday.
Speaker 1: We beat the breaks off the Philadelphia Eagles. We got
Speaker 1: everything that we wanted out of that game. Okay, based
Speaker 1: off of what we did last season in the finish
Speaker 1: off this season, I live in reality, guys. I understand
Speaker 1: what we got going on with the playoffs, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to celebrate this team for what they did today.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm with you. Heck, I'm with you
Speaker 1: because to your point, we were just talking about this
Speaker 1: before we came on the air. How many coaches around
Speaker 1: the league have been fired this morning? Oh this morning?
Speaker 1: Three Miami, Chicago, Minnesota, And that adds to the three
Speaker 1: that we're already gone at some point prior to the
Speaker 1: season and the season Denver yesterday morning with Fangio, Jacksonville
Speaker 1: and then Las Vegas vanquished Cowboys. Not in that situation.
Speaker 1: In fact, they've got two coordinators that are pretty hot
Speaker 1: commodities around the league. It is a nice place to
Speaker 1: be here on Monday morning as we start to look
Speaker 1: ahead to the playoffs Black Monday in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: you were certainly in the right at this point. Moving forward,
Speaker 1: so Cowboys get to win, they will face the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers, and we'll certainly going to talk
Speaker 1: about that coming up here in a little bit. But
Speaker 1: let's talk about the fifty one twenty six win over
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles as the Cowboys even got a chance
Speaker 1: to rest some guys late. They were already a little
Speaker 1: shorthanded to due to some different circumstances, whether it be
Speaker 1: injuries or COVID protocol. But the Cowboys just dismantled the
Speaker 1: Eagles on Saturday night. Heck, Miles, start with you, how
Speaker 1: much does that do to ease your nerves? Because there
Speaker 1: were three things you really needed to check off in
Speaker 1: that game. You needed to be healthy, you needed to
Speaker 1: get your offense back on track, and you needed to
Speaker 1: win the football game to try and help yourself in seeding.
Speaker 1: You did all three of those things and it ended
Speaker 1: up working out for We talked about that, I'm talking
Speaker 1: Cowboys all week last week and everything that we wanted
Speaker 1: to accomplish, we checked all of those boxes off. We
Speaker 1: gotta feel good about the performance It wasn't so much
Speaker 1: about resting people you talked about on offense and the continuity.
Speaker 1: Take a drink, guys, and we're back. And now I'm
Speaker 1: saying the offense and what you needed to see from Dak.
Speaker 1: You wanted to see this running game get gone. It
Speaker 1: got going. You wanted to see Dak complete some passes
Speaker 1: in coverage in between safeties and cornerbacks. You saw that
Speaker 1: all of those things that you needed from this offense.
Speaker 1: You gotta feel good, all the feel good stuff that
Speaker 1: we needed when we left Philadelphia. I think that this
Speaker 1: offense is back where they need to be again. The
Speaker 1: defense that they're going to face next week is going
Speaker 1: to be a task all in itself, and they are
Speaker 1: going to bring all of the exotic looks that people
Speaker 1: think bother Dak. But the number one thing is for
Speaker 1: all of us going into this game on Saturday, was
Speaker 1: getting this offense back on the rails. Isah. I don't disagree.
Speaker 1: I think that they needed that game. They needed to
Speaker 1: go out there and have that type of showing. You
Speaker 1: always obviously look at it and say that that Philly
Speaker 1: didn't have any of their main guys really their present,
Speaker 1: so it should have been that dominated, But regardless of
Speaker 1: who was out on the field, you needed them to
Speaker 1: walk out of there with some confidence and you wanted
Speaker 1: them to go out there and have some success. And
Speaker 1: that's ultimately what happened. Regardless of who has decided to
Speaker 1: suit up for the Philadelphia Eagles, now they can feel
Speaker 1: confident going into their next matchups. Obviously with the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers coming in, everybody out they're going to face
Speaker 1: in these playoffs are much better than this team. Totally
Speaker 1: agree they did what they should have done. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Philly was missing ten of eleven starters on
Speaker 1: defense something like that, so they did exactly what they
Speaker 1: should have done. Imagine if imagine if we walked in
Speaker 1: for this show this morning and they did not play
Speaker 1: any of their starters. I think we would have felt
Speaker 1: this way. They might have even felt this way like
Speaker 1: kind of where are we at? Guys? You know, where
Speaker 1: were we at? And I think they got a good
Speaker 1: I think that was a confidence booster for them for sure.
Speaker 1: I put a poll out there after the game, not
Speaker 1: knowing who the opponent was going to be at that point,
Speaker 1: and said, okay, Cowboys Nation, how you feeling? Got one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen responses, and it was like fifty fifty,
Speaker 1: some people feeling good, some people not so sure so,
Speaker 1: and one that really stuck out to me was optimistic
Speaker 1: wild pessimistic. And I think that's kind of how Cowboys,
Speaker 1: some of Cowboys Nation is feeling, because you know, they're talented,
Speaker 1: they're twelve and five, they've had a lot of success,
Speaker 1: but there's been some inconsistency said there, So, how how
Speaker 1: are they gonna play in this game? I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be fascinating. You want to see it. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times have you gotten to this point where
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it? Whenever the playoffs roll around because
Speaker 1: you get one shot at it, you get one, you
Speaker 1: get one bad game, may or you don't even get
Speaker 1: that bad game. If you really want the ultimate prize,
Speaker 1: you want to show out and you want to see
Speaker 1: that twelve and five translate into success in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And right now this is a team that could either
Speaker 1: go one and done or could win the whole thing.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it is. So I mean optimistic pessim
Speaker 1: or what was it? Optimistic wild pessimistic? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that could be a slogan all the way through and
Speaker 1: through But I think you're right. I think going back
Speaker 1: to Heckma's point, it made me feel better because those
Speaker 1: windows that Dak Prescott was throwing into were the same size,
Speaker 1: whether or not it was a backup or not, I mean,
Speaker 1: he was making the throws that he needed to. The
Speaker 1: throw that stood out to me was the one too
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper on the right side that got him down
Speaker 1: inside the five yard lines. That was a dime. And
Speaker 1: he made throws like that throughout the game. Of course,
Speaker 1: five touchdown passes career high for Dak, thirty seven on
Speaker 1: the year, new single season leader in Cowboys franchise history.
Speaker 1: So I thought Dak played possibly one of his best
Speaker 1: games of the year. But I guess you can take
Speaker 1: a little bit of away from that because of who
Speaker 1: was on the other side, right, agree, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, these guys they did
Speaker 1: what they needed to do, and we know the competition
Speaker 1: level wasn't as high as it could have been. That's
Speaker 1: just facts, regardless, They regardless, like I said, who stepped
Speaker 1: on the field, they needed to execute and I feel
Speaker 1: as if they did that and they should feel they
Speaker 1: should feel very confident. Kudos to Dak kudos to Zeke.
Speaker 1: Both of those guys had great monumental days. And now
Speaker 1: you know they can look at each other, you know,
Speaker 1: with their with their chain raised up high, and they
Speaker 1: can look at each other and say, Okay, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: twelve and five, but there's two other teams in this
Speaker 1: conference in the playoffs that have better records than us.
Speaker 1: If we get past this game, possibly you know, one
Speaker 1: of the teams has the same record of us, and
Speaker 1: the other team just beat us up. So the records,
Speaker 1: the pasting, this is cool. But as you look forward,
Speaker 1: you say, we got to take care of this week. Now,
Speaker 1: feel good about what you just did. But I guarantee
Speaker 1: you none of those guys were talking about what just happened.
Speaker 1: Everybody's looking at film already for the next game. I
Speaker 1: didn't make the trip, but I think the one injury
Speaker 1: that they noted was Kean O'Neil arm shoulder, So keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that. But yeah, relatively healthy going into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. That's all you can ask for. And the
Speaker 1: Bazook is coming back. The Bazook is coming back, and
Speaker 1: so pee we left the As much as they're talking
Speaker 1: about the Eagles, not the boot Eagles, not having their
Speaker 1: full slate of players. We left the big briefcase at home. True,
Speaker 1: it's true. We left Aidan's dad at home. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: left a b at home. Jern Curse was at home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean TP was at home. I mean I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it. And what they find is every caveat
Speaker 1: every gift to discredit the Cowboys in the season that
Speaker 1: they have. I'm I'm saying this, look, bring on the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. I think we're going to talk a
Speaker 1: whole lot about the team. We're gonna talk about everything
Speaker 1: that they would be objective about all of it. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, Cowboy Nation, we gotta feel good
Speaker 1: right now. It's just what it is at twelve and five.
Speaker 1: Another thing that's I think giving pause to the celebration
Speaker 1: of what was an absolute beat down in the second
Speaker 1: half against Philadelphia is the fact that they did it
Speaker 1: two weeks ago against Washington or three weeks ago now,
Speaker 1: But they did it against Washington, they turned around it
Speaker 1: and then they lost the Arizona So a lot of
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans are hesitant to really jump out of the
Speaker 1: cake and say, hey, they did everything they needed to,
Speaker 1: we got it done right, And so there's lots of
Speaker 1: hesitation there. It gives me flashbacks I got PTSD from
Speaker 1: from my rookie year here in Dallas. We went thirteen
Speaker 1: and three, felt amazing. We had thirteen Pro bowlers. Guess what,
Speaker 1: the next week after that didn't freaking matter. We're sitting
Speaker 1: at the crib. Sitting at the crib. Didn't freaking matter
Speaker 1: that you're thirteen and three, didn't matter that you had
Speaker 1: thirteen Pro bowlers. You didn't get past the next dog
Speaker 1: one week, didn't you. Yeah, and you didn't get past
Speaker 1: the next game, So it did. So you want to
Speaker 1: say so as I look back on my career and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, yeah, we bought out that season, but
Speaker 1: we didn't do crap in the playoffs, so it doesn't really.
Speaker 1: So do you feel like this team based off of
Speaker 1: the inconsistency and up and down? I guess in the
Speaker 1: season with teams below and above five hundred, that this
Speaker 1: is a team that doesn't rise to the challenge of
Speaker 1: big I wouldn't. I wouldn't put that label on them,
Speaker 1: but I would feel I do. I would put the
Speaker 1: label on them that they say they have to have
Speaker 1: a question mark over their head. Why because the teams
Speaker 1: that are in that upper echelon they have not done
Speaker 1: well with so that that's why I said they have
Speaker 1: to have that. I will believe that they have that
Speaker 1: question mark hanging over their head. Now are they capable?
Speaker 1: I put the label on them that they don't show up.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put that on them, but I don't think
Speaker 1: that they have performed well enough this season against that
Speaker 1: level of competition to feel that confident heading into this
Speaker 1: into this postseason. But even in terms of their capabilities,
Speaker 1: now they know what they're capable of, right, but in
Speaker 1: terms of it's a difference we know what you're capable
Speaker 1: of and showing up in executing. The only game you
Speaker 1: were not really close in was the Denver game. And
Speaker 1: I'm not looking at close. I'm looking at no, no no,
Speaker 1: I'm making The only game that you're not weren't close
Speaker 1: in was the Denver game. That was a complete blowout.
Speaker 1: They dismantled you and showed you that you better come
Speaker 1: to play every time. But then in those other games,
Speaker 1: let's just say Kansas City, in a game where you
Speaker 1: think the quarterback is all world, that defense they showed out.
Speaker 1: But this isn't a game where we lost fifty one
Speaker 1: to twenty six. Even with these basically what I'm saying
Speaker 1: in these matchups, they have been ultimately we were right there.
Speaker 1: We have proof that if we don't make those few
Speaker 1: bad plays, we can actually get over the hump. And
Speaker 1: if no one's gonna give us credit at all, I'm
Speaker 1: basically just saying that in this matchup versus San Francisco,
Speaker 1: we're going to be build them up all week as
Speaker 1: the juggernaut the world beat that they should be. But
Speaker 1: what is going to be the difference for this team
Speaker 1: to get over the hump versus that above five hundred team?
Speaker 1: Just basically like execution? Okay, execution, I don't have it
Speaker 1: off the top of my head, and Biemer might be
Speaker 1: have it. What's our record against teams that are now
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, well, three and four, three and four yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's what That's what I'm talking about. They have
Speaker 1: to show up, they have to execute. We all know
Speaker 1: what these guys are capable of. This roster is completely
Speaker 1: stacked off, This coaching staff is stacked now, piece together,
Speaker 1: maybe four and four, this piece together, go out there
Speaker 1: now and destroy the team. Set set a standard so
Speaker 1: high the expectation has to I mean, you have to
Speaker 1: meet that expectation. You know that you have a stacked rosch,
Speaker 1: You know that your coaching staff is trying to get
Speaker 1: picked the part right now because everybody knows that they
Speaker 1: have a great staff. Now put it together. Go out
Speaker 1: there and beat a team that everybody says should be
Speaker 1: a competitive game and destroy those guys. L Maury said
Speaker 1: that on the fan last week in so many words
Speaker 1: in terms of we've shown how great we can be.
Speaker 1: So now that's the bar yea and so and so
Speaker 1: that's valid when there's criticism or questions about their consistency level. Again,
Speaker 1: Sunday was a Saturday was a good step forward. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this is going to be more of a challenge. I
Speaker 1: think there's a question mark over everybody's head in the
Speaker 1: NFC playoffs, except maybe Green Bay because they've got the
Speaker 1: home field and all week off and it's hard to
Speaker 1: play up there. Yeah, but I think I think it's
Speaker 1: a very level playing field, except you know, you know,
Speaker 1: Philly against Tampa gonna be tough. But I don't think
Speaker 1: it's like I don't think this is a tough matchup like, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: in each team in the NFC is a pick your
Speaker 1: poison sort of situation. They are all dangerous teams, but
Speaker 1: they all have question marks. It's which team are you
Speaker 1: gonna get that week? And that's what's so scary about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in a good way. They're scary because they
Speaker 1: can be that team. They can beat anybody on the
Speaker 1: in the league right now, but they could also be
Speaker 1: the team that loses to the Broncos thirty to sixteen.
Speaker 1: I agree, And I feel like every other team on
Speaker 1: our side of the division right conference sorry, is in
Speaker 1: that same category as Stepford Green Bay. When you play
Speaker 1: Green Bay, you know that you're gonna get their best
Speaker 1: every single time, and you're not gonna catch them slipping.
Speaker 1: I feel like all the other teams, you might catch
Speaker 1: the best version of them or you might catch the
Speaker 1: worst version of them. And and that's I think that
Speaker 1: teams feel the same way about Dallas. Yeah, it's volatile
Speaker 1: right now. And you look at all the games this
Speaker 1: season that were heralded as benchmarks. Tampa Bay loss, you
Speaker 1: could probably say New England, but nobody knew who New
Speaker 1: England was at that point in the season. But you'll
Speaker 1: say that's a win. They were three and four, by
Speaker 1: the way, against five hundred teams. Kansas City lost, Las
Speaker 1: Vegas loss, Arizona loss. Those were the benchmark games along
Speaker 1: the way that you said, here's where you can finally
Speaker 1: get a chance to show that you're the real deal.
Speaker 1: And pretty much out of those five games that I
Speaker 1: just mentioned you you lost four of them. You're gonna
Speaker 1: take the Charges out of that equation. Yeah, I'll take
Speaker 1: them out of it because it's the same kind of deal.
Speaker 1: I gave the Patriots the benefit of the doubt, but
Speaker 1: the Chargers right now, can we talk about that real quickly? Hey,
Speaker 1: talk about that. You know what, this is my uh,
Speaker 1: this is my premonition. Listen to. I feel as if
Speaker 1: the Raiders were gonna allow to clock the run out.
Speaker 1: I think so too, until until the Chargers called a timeout.
Speaker 1: Once they called a timeout, he's like, oh, oh, you
Speaker 1: want to win the games? What car said post game?
Speaker 1: Oh you want to win the game? All right? We
Speaker 1: got you. I mean he was third down in four
Speaker 1: they had run the ball two straight times. Really didn't
Speaker 1: look like they were in a hurry with thirty nine
Speaker 1: seconds last, So why they call it time out just
Speaker 1: because they were trying to get the defense. They want
Speaker 1: to get the ball, they want to get back. Yeah. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: and the explanation afterwards from the Charger side of things
Speaker 1: was that they wanted to get their personnel out there
Speaker 1: because he was happening. Stop this. They had two prior
Speaker 1: run plays. No that was that was try and save
Speaker 1: your your skin sort of situation. I cannot believe they
Speaker 1: called that time out. They were they had the playoffs,
Speaker 1: They had a no lose situation. Even if they would
Speaker 1: have won, they would have been the sixth seed if
Speaker 1: they tied. They were also this, I don't think the
Speaker 1: Raiders were tribute. Raiders were like cool, let it run, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: time out? Oh yeah, we both we both win. Here.
Speaker 1: The Racers were doing you a favor by running out
Speaker 1: the clock. They were chilling. They were they were gonna say,
Speaker 1: you know what, we're both going. We played really well,
Speaker 1: got down to the final Mets tense. But shout out
Speaker 1: to coach Rich Besaccia and the job that he did.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Raiders organization was, man. They were like
Speaker 1: a vote with no sale. After all the controversy that
Speaker 1: came out and for them to be able to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs is awesome. I know, they're going to be
Speaker 1: interviewing coaches and all that for that head coaching job.
Speaker 1: But coach Besaccia show I think he needs it. I
Speaker 1: say he's done the job that the way that that
Speaker 1: situation was three situations. Yeah they had three situations. Absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't really major situations. That entire staff really, from
Speaker 1: top to bottom, has done a great job of keeping
Speaker 1: that thing and float and getting into the playoffs. Also
Speaker 1: around the league yesterday, I mean they were a multiple
Speaker 1: Game of the Year nominees. Talk about San Francisco and
Speaker 1: the Rams, the game that actually allowed the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: move into the three seed, Seattle taking down Arizona also
Speaker 1: helping with that. Isn't that this crazy st that if
Speaker 1: coach McVeigh leads by halftime, he's like undefeated or something
Speaker 1: like that. What a crazy stat to end that way.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's horrible. They were up seventeen to nothing.
Speaker 1: San Francisco looked done. They looked done, they did, and
Speaker 1: they came right back and they won that game. Which
Speaker 1: should be a point of emphasis this week in the
Speaker 1: Cowboys meetings is even if you get up early on
Speaker 1: San Francisco, do not let off the gas. Do not
Speaker 1: let that happen. Let's learn that lesson already. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a good point, all right, when we come back. Are
Speaker 1: people being too hard on Dak Prescott even to this
Speaker 1: point in the season. I'll explain my reasoning for that
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Speaker 1: we were talking about seeding in the break and how
Speaker 1: big it was for the Cowboys to move into that
Speaker 1: three seed, which most most likely puts you against Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay in the second round. Should they take care of
Speaker 1: Philadelphia as the two seed versus the seventh seed, and
Speaker 1: then he would be on the road to Tampa Bay. However,
Speaker 1: if Philadelphia were to upset Tampa Bay, you could have
Speaker 1: a second home game, so and that would be probably
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia, or no, Philadelphia wouldn't play Green Bay. It's
Speaker 1: kind of impossible to see what the scenario would be
Speaker 1: because the NFL does recede after every round. But for
Speaker 1: the most part, you're probably gonna see Tampa Bay second
Speaker 1: round rather than seeing Green Bay in the second round.
Speaker 1: Love helping things out, no doubt about it. We'll see
Speaker 1: you again. I love it road run through Green Bay anyway.
Speaker 1: My boy did just get paid though, he did. Yeah, Jesus,
Speaker 1: this is seventy eight million, seventy three MILI, four years,
Speaker 1: seventy three million dollars. Good. That's gracious for a defensive tackle. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a little money in a couple of dollars a
Speaker 1: little bit. Has Dak Prescott been over criticized because of
Speaker 1: the season that he's had throughout? I mean, he's still
Speaker 1: top five in completion percentage near nearly seventy percent on
Speaker 1: the season. He has now the most passing touchdowns in
Speaker 1: Cowboys history in a single season, had five touchdowns. Again,
Speaker 1: you talk about games where he's had over two hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety five three hundred yards three plus touchdowns. Is
Speaker 1: he getting over criticized even down the stretch with the
Speaker 1: way this offense looked at. I'm gonna saying no. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say no. And I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: look at the stats and he's setting records and that's awesome,
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm super critical. Everybody knows that already. And
Speaker 1: even in this most most recent game. Heyes, he has
Speaker 1: some good thrills, but a lot of his ball location
Speaker 1: is still off in my opinion, the velocity on some
Speaker 1: of this stuff still not there. So my expectation, my
Speaker 1: personal expectation for Dak, I feel like he can still
Speaker 1: do much better, even though he is still killing it statistically.
Speaker 1: I think he can still do much better, and I
Speaker 1: would I would assure you that he would probably say
Speaker 1: the same thing. Yeah, like you know, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: say it like it is, um you know. Well, Well,
Speaker 1: like Dak said, the pressure is a privilege. It came
Speaker 1: when he signed the contract, the money that he's and
Speaker 1: it's also a by product of being the quarterback for
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Okay, this is the number. With taking
Speaker 1: the statistics out of it, It's been an inconsist instant
Speaker 1: year for Dak. It's been up and down, but no
Speaker 1: one can argue that he hasn't you know, when he's
Speaker 1: had a down game, he's come right back and made
Speaker 1: some improvements. Defenses had adjusted. Kellen Moore probably didn't do
Speaker 1: in many favors with some of the mid season play calling.
Speaker 1: But look the things that you'll look over, the offensive line,
Speaker 1: the lack of a running game at certain points in
Speaker 1: the season. Look, these are things that you will look over.
Speaker 1: But bringing the statistics back on the table, you got
Speaker 1: the number one offense in the league, number one statistically
Speaker 1: in scoring, number two, no, no, no lower than number two.
Speaker 1: So if any other quarterback in the league not named
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott had those numbers, I don't know if the
Speaker 1: criticism would be as hot as it is constantly each
Speaker 1: and every week, or people always shining and say, well,
Speaker 1: he's not a league, he's just this, he's just that.
Speaker 1: Look you look at Carson Wentz yesterday and look, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna even use him. You know, he's garbage. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying when you look at the rest of the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the National Football League, Dak Prescott brings something
Speaker 1: to the table for the Cowboys from a leadership standpoint,
Speaker 1: just an all around player. And look the disrespect that
Speaker 1: he's gotten from the national media sometime is warranted, but
Speaker 1: not at the level that they try and put it
Speaker 1: on him. I just won't accept it. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: say yes and no. I think if you're gonna say
Speaker 1: he's the sole reason to hex point for why they've
Speaker 1: hit a dip halfway through the season and for large
Speaker 1: stretch of the second half of the season, I would
Speaker 1: say that's wrong. I think there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: that have gone into why they've struggled. You mentioned the
Speaker 1: offensive line. They haven't got the run game established, there
Speaker 1: have been miscommunications with the wide receivers. I think they
Speaker 1: could do some better things to scheme things up for
Speaker 1: the offense on Kellen Moore side. So yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of factors why an offense doesn't struggle. To Isaiah's point,
Speaker 1: Dak's got to be the guy if they're gonna make
Speaker 1: a run. He's got to play at his very best,
Speaker 1: and we haven't seen his very best every single week.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's uncommon for a quarterback. This league's tough,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he can. He could play better than he's
Speaker 1: played down the stretch, because we've seen it. We've seen
Speaker 1: it so your hope is that they're building to that. Now,
Speaker 1: when you look at the top five quarterbacks or top
Speaker 1: five offenses in whatever quarterback they have, let me run
Speaker 1: this down. Let me tell me if they've had an
Speaker 1: elite season, just not maybe elite status as a quarterback
Speaker 1: some of these are, but have they had an e
Speaker 1: lead season. Tampa Bay is number two, Tom Brady number three,
Speaker 1: Kansas City Patrick Mahomes. Number four is the Los Angeles Chargers.
Speaker 1: You've got Justin Herbert. They didn't make the playoffs, but
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert truly had a fantastic year. And then the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills are number five, Josh Allen. At the top
Speaker 1: of that list is Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So I'm with Heckma, if it's anyone else, I think
Speaker 1: he's being heralded as one of the best seasons in
Speaker 1: the National Football League from a quarterback standpoint. However, because
Speaker 1: of the roll, because of some of the things that
Speaker 1: happened on the offensive side of the football, A lot
Speaker 1: of it wasn't his fault. There are things that he
Speaker 1: could sure up. Sure, but at the same time, you
Speaker 1: feel like, I feel like he's not being credited enough
Speaker 1: for what he's done in a season, so be it
Speaker 1: also coming back from injury. Think about that too. A
Speaker 1: lot of people forget about what he went through to
Speaker 1: get to this point, having an injury mid season and
Speaker 1: then still getting on the other side and having a
Speaker 1: twelve and five record in the number one offense in
Speaker 1: all of football. There's a lot of things there. I
Speaker 1: think that the nation is missing whenever it comes to
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. And surely we've been critical as well because
Speaker 1: it has warranted criticism at times, But in the overarching
Speaker 1: scheme of things, the regular season that Dak Prescott had
Speaker 1: was phenomenal and it can't be taken out of it. Now,
Speaker 1: going back to the Philadelphia game, fifty plus points again,
Speaker 1: did kelln Moore in that offense offensive line help ease
Speaker 1: your nerves there in terms of the play calling in
Speaker 1: the way that they set things up even without Tyrn
Speaker 1: Smith at left tackle. Yeah, I think so. I think
Speaker 1: one of the guys mentioned the running game. I think
Speaker 1: that that's going to be the key if they can
Speaker 1: get some kind of balance, and I forget what they
Speaker 1: averaged in that game, it was like almost five yards
Speaker 1: to carry. That's that's going to be the key to
Speaker 1: making a run and helping Dak for sure. What do
Speaker 1: you think about Zeke? I thought he thought he looked
Speaker 1: I thought he looked pretty good. I I at some
Speaker 1: point was like take him out, take him out of down,
Speaker 1: because I said, yeah, he wanted his thousand. I don't
Speaker 1: blame him for that. UM. And Look, they've been saying
Speaker 1: for weeks that like, by this point in the season,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be as healthy as he's gonna get. And
Speaker 1: I think, honestly, I think the last two or three
Speaker 1: weeks he's he's run pretty well, So I think there's
Speaker 1: some merit to what they've been saying. And this is
Speaker 1: the guy that everybody has been one of the given
Speaker 1: off day for the last couple of weeks. He ain't
Speaker 1: taking it and he's stayed with it, and he's looked bad.
Speaker 1: He's looked much improved. UM. And just going back to
Speaker 1: the look, people are gonna judge this team based off
Speaker 1: of the Arizona game and not sealing the deal when
Speaker 1: they had an opportunity too, and I think that's fair, um.
Speaker 1: And the penalties and the things that they accumulated that game.
Speaker 1: This was to feel good game that they needed and
Speaker 1: I think from an offensive line standpoint, I think they
Speaker 1: did that. I think there were some other areas. I
Speaker 1: didn't like the way that Leo Collins played. I'm just
Speaker 1: keep it real. I thought there was some inconsistency there
Speaker 1: from the right tackle. In man, he's got Bosa coming
Speaker 1: his way, so he's definitely got to shore up a
Speaker 1: lot of his inconsistencies. But offensive, I mean, when you
Speaker 1: talk about what they did, I think they protected Dak
Speaker 1: really well and just his ability to get the ball
Speaker 1: out and find those open receivers. I think the deep
Speaker 1: prosser to CD Lamb, A lot of people not gonna
Speaker 1: make mentioned mentioned that that was a play and they
Speaker 1: even said on the telecast where he had to throw
Speaker 1: the receiver open. And I just thought that the offensive
Speaker 1: line again just they protected him and they allowed him
Speaker 1: to be his absolute best. If they can follow that
Speaker 1: up next week, I expect the victory. By the way,
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins, just to back up your point, was the
Speaker 1: fifth graded pass blocker in or I guess overall offensive
Speaker 1: grade in the offensive line from this past week. So
Speaker 1: he was number five. Oh yeah, it's only five exactly
Speaker 1: pretty yeah, not great. What do you think about all
Speaker 1: of it together. I mean, they look good. They look
Speaker 1: good again. I have to take into consideration who was
Speaker 1: not present on their on their defensive front for Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: But other than that, I love the fact that they
Speaker 1: look confident. They are having fun, they're excited, they're working
Speaker 1: well together. They had nice combo blocks. This is something
Speaker 1: that they struggled with for a good duration of the
Speaker 1: season and that's all you can ask for as they
Speaker 1: were going into this playoff r and you wanted to
Speaker 1: see them confident. And I spoke on is our issue
Speaker 1: has been upfront and execution at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: Initiating the line of scrimmage. It didn't matter what tailback
Speaker 1: you put back there. And we saw that. We saw
Speaker 1: that this week right that back that I validated everything
Speaker 1: I was saying in terms of it doesn't matter. This
Speaker 1: old line has to be in sync. They have to
Speaker 1: be they have to be synonymous together. They have to
Speaker 1: just have to be continue to have to be go forward.
Speaker 1: They got to press forward. They have to be able
Speaker 1: to be there's like a dance, you know as they
Speaker 1: work on these blocks. You know, work one dude here,
Speaker 1: boom past, I can't talk to you. You have to
Speaker 1: feel that my head of that I'm doing with my body.
Speaker 1: You gotta know that I want you to take over
Speaker 1: this guy. I'm working up to the next level. And
Speaker 1: you saw that happen. You saw the execution, and you
Speaker 1: could you could man, any of us could have got
Speaker 1: in the backfield and ran another day. That's how that's
Speaker 1: how it fluid they were, and that's what you wanted
Speaker 1: to see. You. They needed that showing going into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: The penalties were down too. They had a pre snap
Speaker 1: like first couple snaps of the game. Other than that,
Speaker 1: they did pretty pretty clean job. That's been part of
Speaker 1: the problem offensively too, is these holdings, these false starts,
Speaker 1: all those things, getting the second and long, getting third
Speaker 1: and long. That doesn't make Dax's job an easier. Connor
Speaker 1: bro had a flashback on the holding though. Did he
Speaker 1: have a hold in the game? He had? I remembered it, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he did, can't have it? Was it a holder? Was
Speaker 1: it a false start freehold? It was a holding? It
Speaker 1: it was a throwback holder holding fifty two on the offense.
Speaker 1: But he's you could tell that he's super cognizant of
Speaker 1: it right now, which is kind of they all know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well he knows, you know, he's out there blocking. You see.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he's just like, get my hands off, and and
Speaker 1: other times he's like I'm a bulldog and he's like no,
Speaker 1: d Connor just holding the flags waiting on him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all you gotta do with that one, Yes, Like that's
Speaker 1: a big reason why he got benched. Is like, I
Speaker 1: don't think overall they thought he did a bad job.
Speaker 1: That's what I was told anyway. It was just it's
Speaker 1: like the refs are waiting on it, and we can't
Speaker 1: afford to have that going on right now. It's that
Speaker 1: when you're a criminal, you don't get the benefit of
Speaker 1: the doubt. Damn. I guess he's a criminal on the field,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, context that you, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're gonna they're gonna be looking for you. It's true
Speaker 1: if you were a repeat offender, that's it. In a
Speaker 1: similar scenario, you're going to have that that eagle eye
Speaker 1: on you. What was your favorite part about the Eagles win?
Speaker 1: Mine was Chiquon Hardy getting the touchdown at the end
Speaker 1: twenty two yards out, him kind of slicing his way
Speaker 1: in the end zone after a great move undrafted free
Speaker 1: agent out of Tiffing University. I thought that was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun anybody having Yes, I like seeing the
Speaker 1: guys be excited for the guys that are laur on
Speaker 1: a depth chart. I love that that team camaraderie that
Speaker 1: was that's awesome. That that's that's that. That was a
Speaker 1: nightcap to the season. We're again in twelve and five.
Speaker 1: All that stuff is awesome seeing this team in the
Speaker 1: season that way, where it didn't matter who came in
Speaker 1: a game, they were gonna ball out. It didn't matter
Speaker 1: who was in on the game. Everybody was engaged on
Speaker 1: the sideline, everybody was cheering on, cheering on their teammates.
Speaker 1: That aspect, that's culture. That's what I was talking about
Speaker 1: before the season started. That's the culture change that you
Speaker 1: wanted to see. Instead of guys being out there, you know,
Speaker 1: third and fourth Streen guys and me and heck him
Speaker 1: over here in the sideline talking about you know, the
Speaker 1: flight back. You know, everybody was standing up, everybody was engaged,
Speaker 1: everybody was cheering them on. Everybody was hype. They were
Speaker 1: running into the end zone. Guys were coming off the
Speaker 1: bench running to the end zone, celebrating that is me
Speaker 1: wanting the best for my brother, regardless of who's in
Speaker 1: the game. Greg Zurline good from forty eight yards. I'll
Speaker 1: go with that. Do you want to talk about the
Speaker 1: miss if you want, that's part of it too. But
Speaker 1: I that that's encouraging because you gotta have that. You
Speaker 1: gotta have that part of it going going to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Gotta have both of them. Gotta both of them, Gotta
Speaker 1: both of them. So that I was halfway, I was halfway.
Speaker 1: Pot that's okay, that's a two points. Yeah, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: felt good about all of it. Man. I'm really just
Speaker 1: seeing Dak get back and sync and just seeing him
Speaker 1: enjoy getting down in the red zone. Uh, get some scores.
Speaker 1: But Corey Clement scoring that touched down for me. It
Speaker 1: was like knowing how he's beloved in Philadelphia and then
Speaker 1: he comes back in the Cowboys uniform and scores like
Speaker 1: like that. Boo just a little bit. Forget that he
Speaker 1: has a super bowering he does. Yeah, and he played
Speaker 1: a big part of it. Said that on the broadcast
Speaker 1: Philly Special. Forgot about that took snap Yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 1: pretty cool for for Corey Clement. Going back to way
Speaker 1: you were talking about that camaraderie and the excitement around
Speaker 1: some of the guys later on the depth chart, it
Speaker 1: gave me flashbacks to Oxnard and the Mojoe moments. I
Speaker 1: know there wasn't really a mojo moment really in that
Speaker 1: game because Cowboys pretty much had it in control, but
Speaker 1: it was it was that level of excitement and build that.
Speaker 1: It's been the case that has been the foundation in
Speaker 1: the standard going all the way back to the practice
Speaker 1: field in ox Start, because it really has been since then.
Speaker 1: You see that kind of camaraderie and that teamwork that
Speaker 1: it's visible on the sideline. You love to see that
Speaker 1: and hopefully it moves forward. Is Corey Clement the only
Speaker 1: player on his roster with a Super Bowl roam? I
Speaker 1: believe that's so great question? Don't think I think he
Speaker 1: might be right, he's only one unless there's somebody on
Speaker 1: the defensive side, I don't think so. Wow. How about ahead, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll have to go look deep into that. I think
Speaker 1: you might be right. Huh. All right. When we come
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Speaker 1: can we tell that story on the air because I
Speaker 1: thought that was hilarious. Yeah, go ahead, So let's throw
Speaker 1: it back to Saturday Night. I'll see what you do there.
Speaker 1: Throw it. Uh. Corey Clement scores the touchdown in the
Speaker 1: third quarter right with a fourth quarter early fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: make it thirty seven to twenty Cowboys. It's his first touchdown,
Speaker 1: record breaking Dax record. Hey, you could have made some
Speaker 1: some bank off that if you would have caught it. U.
Speaker 1: Corey Clement walks into the end zone after getting the
Speaker 1: catch in the flats and celebrating, of course, like we
Speaker 1: were just talking about big touchdown in front of the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia fans, and in celebration, after he does a little dance,
Speaker 1: he chucks the ball up in the air, eat up
Speaker 1: in the air, sky High in Philadelphia and Chris Beam
Speaker 1: is standing just a couple of feet off into the left.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at I'm shooting him and doing a great
Speaker 1: job with the camera in hand. And what happened Chris?
Speaker 1: That ball came down to him here right in the head.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there looking at him, like this ball hasn't
Speaker 1: came down like one of those anvils in the cartoon.
Speaker 1: Was you got any physical evidence that you got a welt?
Speaker 1: You got anything? I had a headache all day yesterday. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he tossed that thing high. Go back and look at
Speaker 1: the high We pulled it up in the break and
Speaker 1: we're just looking at it, and that was a he
Speaker 1: chucked it well here. We talked to Corey after the
Speaker 1: game and and Nick said something to him and like, hey,
Speaker 1: you chunked that so high. It's one of the people
Speaker 1: right here in the head, maybe the guy behind me.
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh man, I'm so sorry about that.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good. And someone goes he goes, well, you
Speaker 1: know that was Dak's record ball. He's like, what's yeah,
Speaker 1: broke Tony Romo's record. What did you do with it?
Speaker 1: He goes, oh, man, I almost threw it in the stands.
Speaker 1: This first thing I thought I was gonna do, he goes,
Speaker 1: but then I handed it to my mom, So my
Speaker 1: mom has it. Oh that's awesome. Yeah, no, that's cool.
Speaker 1: It's not like it's the Tom Brady ball that got
Speaker 1: handed to a fan by Mike Kevin's earlier in the
Speaker 1: year and they had to give him like an arm
Speaker 1: and a leg to get it back. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's Corey said he had to give him a
Speaker 1: new contract to get get the ball. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: How about that hold it for some leverage? But jo
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that from from Chris Beam
Speaker 1: doing great work on the sidelines and getting thanked by
Speaker 1: a bunk on the head from Corey, Clement and Cup
Speaker 1: At final segment here of talking Cowboys Sack Ma Harrison,
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand back, Rob Phillips and Kyle Yeomans and Cowboys
Speaker 1: at the three seed. Rob, what does that mean in
Speaker 1: terms of the road that they would have going into
Speaker 1: the playoffs to play San Francisco this week and then
Speaker 1: what happens after that? They would play winner of the
Speaker 1: two three right, So it's it's a receding. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: would recede so you would play somebody help me. Probably
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be going to Green Bay. You'd be going
Speaker 1: to Tampa, right If Tampa Tampa one, Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: So on paper, I'd say, that's that's a winoid you
Speaker 1: void Lambeau. I would say, though, you know, going to
Speaker 1: Tampa's no fun either. I would have rather played the
Speaker 1: Cardinals in this matchup because I think, you know, beating
Speaker 1: the Cowboys twice on the road, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: Georgia tonight. Like I kind of like Georgia in this
Speaker 1: game tonight. But look, there are no gimmis. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a tough matchup anywhere you play, and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are playing at home. They earn that opportunity, so you
Speaker 1: know they're gonna have to beat good teams regardless. I
Speaker 1: don't think it really matters who they play or where
Speaker 1: they play. I think that's the cool part about it
Speaker 1: is the Cowboys have a great shot at hosting or
Speaker 1: not a great shot. They have a shot period to
Speaker 1: host the second playoff game, because if Philadelphia were to
Speaker 1: upset Tampa Bay, then you would host is likely one
Speaker 1: of the actually it would definitely be the Rams or
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Because Philadelphia would then go play Green Bay
Speaker 1: and then you would play the winner of the Rams
Speaker 1: or Rams in the Cardinals in that NFC West battle,
Speaker 1: So gives you a shot at a second home game,
Speaker 1: which that just shows how much one seed can help
Speaker 1: you out in terms of the playoff picture. And that's
Speaker 1: that's the perspective that I'm taking as well. You know,
Speaker 1: you position yourself. Obviously, you miss opportunity with Arizona to
Speaker 1: be really at the second seed, or even even if
Speaker 1: one wouldn't been first, they didn't lose but the second seed.
Speaker 1: So whatever happened yesterday with obviously with Seattle winning, that
Speaker 1: helped substantially bump it up. But also, if you get
Speaker 1: past this first round, if you get past forty nine
Speaker 1: ers and say the Bucks beat the Eagles like most
Speaker 1: people expect, you get, you get some payback, You get
Speaker 1: some payback. And I think people, I think Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: Nation has won it payback on Tom Brady and the
Speaker 1: rest of them buccaneer since week one, and I think
Speaker 1: that would be one heck of a showdown, you know
Speaker 1: for a Bucks team that doesn't have all their dogs,
Speaker 1: but they still got a whole heck of a lot
Speaker 1: of them, and I think Dallas wants that retribution. They
Speaker 1: want to get them boys the business back like they
Speaker 1: want to pay back. Didn't Dak say that to Brady postgame?
Speaker 1: They did, Yeah, we'll see it, can see you again,
Speaker 1: Brady said that. He said, yeah, Brady said that to that.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, okay after week one, So that will
Speaker 1: be the loop that's played over and over again, and
Speaker 1: that matchup hackensa. You know, I trust this team. I
Speaker 1: think when you look back over the season and their
Speaker 1: road in their home games, this team has been really
Speaker 1: even on both scales of going home in a way. Um,
Speaker 1: I like the way that it's playing out. Um I didn't.
Speaker 1: To me, it was all about getting into the tournament.
Speaker 1: All we had to do was get in the tournament
Speaker 1: and things would take care of themselves. This whole not
Speaker 1: going to Lambo whatever it is, man, all roads lead
Speaker 1: through Lambo either way it goes. So we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to get there. So we're gonna to dethrone these guys.
Speaker 1: And I like the road that we're on right now.
Speaker 1: I like this matchup. I like that we drew San
Speaker 1: Francisco in the first round. I think it's favorable I
Speaker 1: think it's favorable for our d defense. I think no
Speaker 1: is favorable for our offense. So yeah, man, I'm excited
Speaker 1: about it and I look forward to talking about it
Speaker 1: all week on Talking Cowboys. Yeah, I think that run
Speaker 1: game is going to be the biggest thing circled for
Speaker 1: the defense and slowdown because man, they ran the football
Speaker 1: all over in a monster Debo. Is a phenomenal player,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo. He left some things to be desired. He's
Speaker 1: gonna give you him there. Yeah, he don't. I'd rather
Speaker 1: see him than other dude. Yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 1: see Jimmy g in there. This is a team that
Speaker 1: is playing really well right now. That forty nine ers
Speaker 1: have been playing well down the stretch to get to
Speaker 1: this point. So it's not going to be a walk
Speaker 1: in the park. But neither is any game in the
Speaker 1: NFC at all. I mean, there are no more walks
Speaker 1: in the board. Those are done. Those are all done.
Speaker 1: We talked about it previously. Four game season, four games.
Speaker 1: You gotta get four games. Step number one could be
Speaker 1: this week at at and T Stadium. Four game season,
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. Drap them all, ROPPI buckle up buddy, put
Speaker 1: you will put you, put your work draws back on,
Speaker 1: get your wallet out of your wanting your pockets y. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the yard draws time. Put them back on. It's the
Speaker 1: yards time. Don't you look at me like that? Heck
Speaker 1: were you don't wear them nice boxing briefs or brief boxes,
Speaker 1: whatever you were. You put the white boys on, the
Speaker 1: white draws, the loom fruities. It's go time. It's go time, baby,
Speaker 1: it's chloros Oh. All right for Chris me I said
Speaker 1: stand back. Heck my Harrison, Rob Phillips and Kyle Yeoman's
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