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Speaker 1: That can mean only one thing. It is time for

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Speaker 1: another edition of Cowboys Crosstalk Shannon Grocery at the Star

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Speaker 1: in studio with my good buddy Nate Newton, Joy Wow

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Speaker 1: joining us from one oh five three the fan. Kevin Gray,

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Speaker 1: good evening. How are you, Kevin You Kevin Gray, how

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Speaker 1: are you? I'm well, sir. You can't see me just yet.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting it together here in the studio. We'll get

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Speaker 1: it together because we need to see your face. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we talk to you. And then our very special guest today,

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Speaker 1: our Dallas Cowboy alumni, mister Dixon Edwards. How are you doing, Dixon?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing fun. How are y'all doing? We're doing okay? Right? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: He say, you're looking good. We hear yet I was

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Speaker 1: stressed out. I've never had to connect two different devices

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Speaker 1: to make this thing work. Well you figured out before

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Speaker 1: we get into the show. Uh. Word just came down

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Speaker 1: this afternoon that strength and conditioning coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Paul, passed away this afternoon with friends and family.

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Speaker 1: So you know, thoughts, thoughts definitely go out to their family.

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Speaker 1: He was a member of the Cowboys family for the

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Speaker 1: what fill us in? First off? Do you have like

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Speaker 1: got a microphone in your hand. Where are you at?

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Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm in my office. It's the production

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Speaker 1: value like you gave me. George t gave me a

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Speaker 1: big time about that. He was like, He's like, where

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Speaker 1: the heck are you and some damn studio? Where are

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Speaker 1: you where you live at these days? Oh, I'm still

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Speaker 1: in Dallas for work. Okay, Yeah, She's gonna have to

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Speaker 1: what do you? What do you? What is Dixon Edwards?

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Speaker 1: What's a typical day for you? Oh my goodness, let

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Speaker 1: me see. You know, I got some young kids. My

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Speaker 1: And uh so I get up, get them off to school,

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Speaker 1: then I tried to accomplish something of one of the

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Speaker 1: you can't do you can't do everything, So you do

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Speaker 1: this stuff. So that's what I do every day. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, what's up? I'm glad you put your phone

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Speaker 1: down and you joining us. You know what. I was

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Speaker 1: and there, but I forgot it Kevin. And then I

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Speaker 1: saw the gray hair with Dixon. They kind of Kevin Gray, right,

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Speaker 1: that's watching together. I feel that, Yeah, yeah, what's up? Llo?

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Speaker 1: Holding on, Well, I'm not gonna lie to your man's

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Speaker 1: been Grant since he's twenty five. I'm thirty three, so

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Speaker 1: I've been grant since I'm twenty five years old, So

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of matches my name. So yeah, it

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Speaker 1: you know what, let's just start right here, Dixon will

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Speaker 1: We'll let you go first day, my opinion, And I'm

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Speaker 1: I think we was like six weeks too late on

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Speaker 1: That's not going to be a help to your young guys.

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Speaker 1: that were satisfied. And before we get to you, Kevin,

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Speaker 1: the last time you yelled, Nate the like the sound

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Speaker 1: more about mister Kevin Gray. How does that worked for you? Kevin?

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Speaker 1: Mister Nate Newton, Right, so I clicked while we're doing

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Speaker 1: the show, I'm good. No, no, no, would you please

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Speaker 1: What did you see different with this Cowboys team against

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Speaker 1: forgotten how good Amari Cooper is until this past week.

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Speaker 1: Like he almost fell off the radar. You know, yeah

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Speaker 1: he was yeah go ahead on Dixon, go ahead on

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Speaker 1: your Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he wasn't. He wasn't really

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Speaker 1: out there that much. And you know that is there

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Speaker 1: our goal to we need to establish a number one

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Speaker 1: receiver who was that number one receiver where he's going

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Speaker 1: to require a one and a half a cover rich,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to go to really good number two,

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Speaker 1: some type of threat. You know. I think the issue

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Speaker 1: that they probably have a lot with Zeke is that

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Speaker 1: everybody is kin in on him because they don't have

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Speaker 1: much of them an established passing threat. It doesn't look

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Speaker 1: like to me. You know, it's hard for people to

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Speaker 1: understand what Zeke brings to this team because he spoiled

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Speaker 1: us with sixty five sixty five yard screens, eighty yard screen.

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Speaker 1: When they see this right here, it's it's lights out.

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Speaker 1: But I'm with you, Dix. If they can establish Amari

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Speaker 1: every game they got Amari is such a beast, And

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Speaker 1: that's why I don't talk about him a lot. When

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Speaker 1: his mind is right, he's a number he is a

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Speaker 1: top three receiver. But it's his mind right every game.

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Speaker 1: It's they getting him ready every game. Well, he's not

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Speaker 1: gonna beat the coach down to get past is he gonna? Okay?

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Speaker 1: If it comes to me, it comes to me. If

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Speaker 1: it don't, he don't. Sometimes you gotta be a dog.

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Speaker 1: So you're saying he's not like Mike was. Yeah, Sometimes

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Speaker 1: you gotta do Sometimes you gotta be a doll. And

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm not feld and yeah, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying he's not a dog for as a bad boy,

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Speaker 1: you know, nah nah, But I'm talking about a dog

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Speaker 1: that a bark. He won't bark. He's just going to

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Speaker 1: the sideline and sitting there patiently waiting for you to

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Speaker 1: get to him. No, Mike was gonna bark. Let's take

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Speaker 1: her next break when we come back. One thing we

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Speaker 1: haven't talked. We talked about the offense a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the quarterback position. I think Nate and

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Speaker 1: I have been very wishy washy on this. I want

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Speaker 1: to get your office opinion on, you know, team Gilbert,

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Speaker 1: team Dalton. You know what do we do there? I

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Speaker 1: want to see what you guys think, Kevin, see what

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Speaker 1: you think Dixon. We're gonna take our next break when

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Speaker 1: we come back. We'll talk about that, talk about Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: talk about the Washington football team that's coming to town,

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Speaker 1: and many many more things. You're listening to Cowboys cross

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Speaker 1: Talk on the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network. I Check the South,

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Speaker 1: broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star

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Speaker 1: in Frisco. Welcome back Cowboys Cross Talk Shannon Gross alongside

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Speaker 1: Nate Newton live in the studios at the Star in Frisco.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Gray joining us live from one oh five three,

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Speaker 1: the flagship station of the Dallas Cowboys, the Fan and

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Speaker 1: joining us live from his office. Which that's a hell

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Speaker 1: of an office. He's got there, Dixon Edwards with the

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Speaker 1: with the with the just the mic drop with the

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Speaker 1: three super Bowl trophies behind him, the Cowboys back drop. Man,

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Speaker 1: he's got the he's got the hair pulled back, he's

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Speaker 1: got the Super Bowl ring on, he's got the mic

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Speaker 1: in his hand, he's got the beads around his neck.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's he's showing everybody up. I'm telling you, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you so. All right, let's go ahead, go ahead, Dixon, No, No,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead. I was about to be Gross. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll move along. Then, Oh, let's talk about the quarterback position. Nate,

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Speaker 1: you and I were huge Team Dalton fans when when

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Speaker 1: Dak went down, he played a game, and then we

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Speaker 1: were coming and then we were Team Gilbert. And then

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Speaker 1: now after this week's game, or you back Team Dalton

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Speaker 1: or your team Gilbert? Where you at on the quarterback position.

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Speaker 1: I'm on with the momentum. As I said before, Gilbert

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Speaker 1: came in and gave him some some momentum, and I thought,

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Speaker 1: uh that they could win with this kid if everybody

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Speaker 1: else did their job. So, but the kid is now

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Speaker 1: is to win. I've never been about tanking. I never

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Speaker 1: will be about tanking. Uh. When I hear former athletes,

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Speaker 1: players or coaches to go to talking about tanking, I

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Speaker 1: knew that it's just uh doing an entertainment deal is

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Speaker 1: not in their heart. And I just felt that Gilbert

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Speaker 1: could give us a chance to win. Dixon, what do

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Speaker 1: you think? Well, you know I was. I was just

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Speaker 1: like everybody else they were. I was a little disappointed

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Speaker 1: when Dalton did go down and how nobody on the

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Speaker 1: team rallied behind him. It seemed as if they didn't

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Speaker 1: really believe in him. And then, you know, especially for

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Speaker 1: the you know, the the guy to come in, the rookie,

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Speaker 1: to come in there with no training camp at all,

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Speaker 1: and they throwing you in and the what game was

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Speaker 1: that the seventh game of the season, that throwing you

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Speaker 1: in there to go out and play and perform at

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Speaker 1: that level. I think that asked quite a bit of him,

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Speaker 1: and he actually did pretty good in my eyes, especially

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Speaker 1: for what he is, you know, in a quarterback, and

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Speaker 1: if they gave him a little bit more time, I

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Speaker 1: think that he probably would be able to do a

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Speaker 1: lot a lot better. Kevin, your team Dalton, team Gilbert.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I was on Team gil Bert,

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Speaker 1: and I think when we look back on it, however

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Speaker 1: the season plays out, you know, Garrett Gilbert may be

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Speaker 1: an unsung hero because he gave this team a shot

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Speaker 1: in the arm going up against the undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 1: That showed us what competent quarterback play actually looked like,

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Speaker 1: even behind a banged up offensive line, which I think

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Speaker 1: not only galvanised a team. You saw how they responded

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Speaker 1: to him during that Steelers game, and then Andy Dalton

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Speaker 1: coming behind that having dealt with the concussion and obviously

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Speaker 1: coming off of COVID, giving him the kind of time

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Speaker 1: behind the best offensive lineman available to you. This was

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Speaker 1: the reason why you brought Andy Dalton in to come

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Speaker 1: in into these spots and being able to help stabilize

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Speaker 1: the offense if you were missing Dak Prescott, and last

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Speaker 1: week you saw that come to fruition for the first

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Speaker 1: time when he had time to make plays to his receivers.

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Speaker 1: And I think going forward now this team is gaining

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Speaker 1: the kind of confidence to him that they thought they

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Speaker 1: were initially going to have in him if Dak Prescott

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Speaker 1: went down. So I'm on team Andy Dalton, team Red Rifle.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's keep it going and then let's see what happens.

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Speaker 1: You know, on Sunday, going up against a farrow, this

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Speaker 1: defensive line that the Washington football team possesses, We'll see

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Speaker 1: how that time has put to the test behind this

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Speaker 1: new revamped offensive line, going against Chase Young and those

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Speaker 1: boys out there, very scary defensive line over there in

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Speaker 1: Washington before we moved to Washington. I want you guys

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Speaker 1: to tell me if I'm crazy or not, because I

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00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: started thinking about this a couple of days ago, and

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Speaker 1: I mentioned it on the show today, and I want

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Speaker 1: to get another opinion if I'm absolutely losing my mind.

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Speaker 1: The Cowboys have three wins, correct, Am I right with that?

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Speaker 1: The three and seven there? They have a chance this

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Speaker 1: week to have the best record in the NFC East.

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Speaker 1: And I can't remember ever, ever, ever this deep in

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Speaker 1: the season teams being this terrible in games meaning so

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Speaker 1: much in this NFC East Division. I remember a few

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Speaker 1: years ago, I think it was New Orleans that actually

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Speaker 1: won the division with the was it a losing record

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Speaker 1: or eight and eight or nine seven to nine. So

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Speaker 1: that's the most parable thing I can remember in my

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Speaker 1: football memory. But I started looking at the schedule, and

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Speaker 1: after these last two games, you know, Nate kind of

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Speaker 1: started thinking a little different in the Philadelphia game. I

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00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: started thinking a little different in the Pittsburgh game. And

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Speaker 1: then this week. The defense, you know, they're playing with

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Speaker 1: a little attitude, They're playing like they want to play football,

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Speaker 1: They're playing hard. You got a little something going on offense.

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Speaker 1: Let me walk through this schedule, and then I want

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Speaker 1: you guys to tell me if I am absolutely crazy

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Speaker 1: in thinking this. You win this week against Washington, which

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Speaker 1: I think is very possible at home against Washington if

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Speaker 1: they play the way they played the last two weeks.

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Speaker 1: You go up to Baltimore. Baltimore, they're not the same

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Speaker 1: Baltimore they were early in the season or last year.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying you go up there and win, but

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Speaker 1: I say you go up there and you keep some momentum.

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Speaker 1: Dixon just completely walked off. So he's already out on

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Speaker 1: this conversation. He thinks I'm crazy, but I'm gonna keep going.

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Speaker 1: So you go to Baltimore. I'm not saying you win,

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Speaker 1: but I'm saying you show up. You're respectable, you have

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Speaker 1: a good show in keep some momentum. You go into

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati with no Joe Burrow, you could win that game.

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Speaker 1: You come back home against San Francisco, you can win

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Speaker 1: that game. Philadelphia at Philadelphia, you can definitely win that game.

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Speaker 1: You almost won that with the with the bad showing.

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Speaker 1: And then at home against the Giant, you have the

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Speaker 1: potential to almost run the table on this thing and

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Speaker 1: go win this division, go into the playoffs like New

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Speaker 1: York did several years ago when they won the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: With the moment stop at that's where you stopped good

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Speaker 1: until what okay, why are you stop? Well now? If

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Speaker 1: you remember, so, the head coachter that they're facing this week,

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Speaker 1: Ron Rivera had a seven eight and one Panther team

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Speaker 1: that won the NFC South wound up winning a playoff game.

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Speaker 1: They were in it in their next divisional round game.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not saying you know it's gonna happen, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's impossible, saying there's a chance. That's

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Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying. Again, I'm just that's what history

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Speaker 1: has told me, History told told me. I'm just saying, well,

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Speaker 1: you know the good gospel is the Dallas Cowboys around here.

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Speaker 1: You know that better than anybody. So I'm just saying.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying. So you're saying they're gonna be five

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Speaker 1: nine and two, thank you. I mean to make the

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Speaker 1: playoffs and still get a top five piece. What do

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Speaker 1: you think? Am I completely crazy? But you know, think

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Speaker 1: about it. They only three games away? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah?

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Speaker 1: Am I crazy? Dixon taught me off the ledge. Am

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Speaker 1: I crazy? No? Third? Okay, you gotta keep hope alive,

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Speaker 1: all right, Nate, you think I'm crazy? Right? I liked

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Speaker 1: it up to the point where you went, I could

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Speaker 1: see us playing another team and beating up winning the

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Speaker 1: first round. But we stopped there because if we don't

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Speaker 1: stop there, somebody but you're with me that they could

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Speaker 1: they could win this division, have this home playoff game,

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Speaker 1: maybe win that first game, and then you're done. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: because I'm gonna tell you something that's so crazy that

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Speaker 1: the way this team started. This Washington game is so

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Speaker 1: huge because if they don't win this one, Washington got

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Speaker 1: enough young guys in a much in a in a

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Speaker 1: veteran quarterback in Alex Smith, so they can get to

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Speaker 1: it three more wins after they because they all they

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Speaker 1: got the stillers in the Seahawks, and then they got

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Speaker 1: the rest of us and they you know, even though

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Speaker 1: other teams were saying, wow, the Washington, the Cowboys, the

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Speaker 1: Philadelphias in the New York's, you know that's that's the

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Speaker 1: local drugs. So they can fix all your needs. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you got a bad running game, they can fix it.

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Speaker 1: You got a bad passing game, they can fix it.

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Speaker 1: But we're looking at each other, like the rest of

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Speaker 1: our schedules. You check everybody to rest ourse schedules. With

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys leading, we have the soffice schedule. So we

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Speaker 1: got a shot here, we got a shot. I cannot

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Speaker 1: actually we're saying this out loud. Great, remember this, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we can win the division, have a playoff game and

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Speaker 1: still have a top six pick in Ain't that something?

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Speaker 1: Let's say amen? Huh? And you know what, then everybody's happy.

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Speaker 1: Everybody is happy. The guys that want them to win.

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Speaker 1: Like Dixon, they're happy like everybody wins in that scenario. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned Washington, big game, big big game Thursday on Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: which is tomorrow, which is really weird that we're doing

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Speaker 1: this show and then we turn around and we got

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Speaker 1: a game tomorrow. Let's get into that. Let's take our

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Speaker 1: last break. Let's talk about, you know, Washington, how big

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00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: this game is, and then let's do some some Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: Day memories. Dixon go back in the memory bank and

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Speaker 1: pull something out from a thanks Given Day game. Nature

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Speaker 1: do the same thing, because I want a little nostalgia

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Speaker 1: in this next in this next segment. Can we do that? Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's do it. Let's take our last break.

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Speaker 1: the Star in Frisco. Shann At Grossing, Nate Newton holding

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Speaker 1: it down here, Kevin Gray holding it down at one

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Speaker 1: or five point three, the fans, studios, and Dixon Edwards

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex. And before we get to

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Speaker 1: right now because huge, huge game tomorrow against Washington. Nate,

665
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: you have had nothing but praise for this Washington defensive

666
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: line all year long. Why are you so high on

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00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,919
Speaker 1: their offensive line? I mean defensive line because it's rare.

668
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: Dixon say that you can get four or five first

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00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,720
Speaker 1: round picks and all of them are still the hours

670
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:33,280
Speaker 1: still going up. You know, they play hard, They hustle

671
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: to the ball, Montes, sweat, chase the run, Payne, Alan,

672
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: all four from play hard and then coming off the

673
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: bench swinging a bat is uh Ryan Carrigan the cowboy

674
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Speaker 1: cowboy killer. Yeah, so that's why I'm so high. And

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00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: that's why that's you know, our two guards and centerm

676
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: have to play. They have to play lights out tomorrow

677
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: because anything less would get us crushed. What are you

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Speaker 1: what do you think is gonna happen tomorrow? Dixon, whether

679
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 1: the Cowboys need to do to slow down that defensive line. Yes,

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00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: you know, whenever you play Washington, it's it's a very

681
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:12,359
Speaker 1: tough game. I couldn't you know. I remember back when

682
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: the older catch used to come in there and talk

683
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: to us about the rivalry and everything, and they would

684
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 1: get so fired up behind it. And now I feel

685
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,760
Speaker 1: the same way. It's that if it's gonna if there's

686
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Speaker 1: one team that you should beat in the season, it

687
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 1: should be the Washington Redskins. Is that or no, I

688
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: mean the Washington team, the Washington football team. Yeah, it

689
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 1: was that, y'alls. I feel like that it's kind of

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00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 1: shifted a little bit to where the modern day fans

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00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: with Philadelphia yea, But to your day, it was it

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00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: was Washington night. To pull up to the olrf KA.

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Speaker 1: Did you get a chance to play their dicks? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, sir,

694
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: we it was a baseball stadium, man, and that thing

695
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 1: would literally be rocking. You know. We used to go

696
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 1: down to the dugout before the game and halftime. I mean,

697
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 1: is the hardest turf ever, the hardest, the hardest natural

698
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: turf ever You're right, And it seemed like every time

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00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: we played there was raining, it was wet, yeah, and

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00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: then and the clay was hard because that was the

701
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: removed the clay. Kevin, what do you what? What are

702
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: you expecting this week? I mean or tomorrow? Not this week,

703
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: it's it's it's tomorrow. I keep forgetting that. But what

704
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 1: are you expecting in this in this game? Tomorrow, ugly game,

705
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: finesse game. I think it's gonna be close. One thing

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm excited to see is how this defensive line

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Speaker 1: and linebacker corp continues to respond. The last time they

708
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: saw Washington, your man Antonio Gibson went for a buck

709
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,320
Speaker 1: twenty eight and made the Cowboys defensive line and linebackers

710
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: look real shaky that day. So I want to see

711
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,280
Speaker 1: if they continue to play with the kind of fire

712
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: and respond the way that they have the last three

713
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Speaker 1: weeks to really establish a tone in physicality that they

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Speaker 1: did against the Minnesota Vikers. And then offensively, can Andy

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Speaker 1: Dalton back up his performance that he had last week

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Speaker 1: by continuing to get the ball to his play because

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00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: I'm really establishing those wide receivers that we were talking

718
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 1: about earlier with Cooper Gallup and Ceedee Lamb, who you

719
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: know went off on on Sunday against the Vikings. So

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00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: those are the two things I'm really looking to see offensively. Defensively,

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00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 1: can Andy Dalton get the kind of time that he

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Speaker 1: got on Sunday against Minnesota And can this defensive line

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Speaker 1: in front seven of the Cowboys respond the way that

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Speaker 1: they did the last three weeks to mix sure Antonio

725
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: Gibson doesn't go off the way that he did the

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00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: first time they faced him. Dixon. We talked about how

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00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:28,399
Speaker 1: physical the defense played on the Cowboys side this past

728
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: week against Minnesota. How tough is it? How tough is

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00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: it in a short week playing on Sunday then turning

730
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Speaker 1: around and playing again on Thursday for a defensive guy

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00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: when the game is as physical, you know, and you're

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Speaker 1: up against the back like Dalvin Cook that that you

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00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: know is a bruising back that that was really cracking

734
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: those guys. Yeah, it's it's always tough with the Cowboys

735
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:56,760
Speaker 1: because I found out after I retired that every football

736
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,320
Speaker 1: player wishes that they could be a Dallas Cowboys. So

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00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: they come in there every time and they always play

738
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys the hardest. So you know you're gonna be

739
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: sore from that Sunday game, and then you know you

740
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: gotta turn around and try to play the next game.

741
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: The fortunate thing is that the coaches would take easy

742
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,320
Speaker 1: on us, and we would go in there and and

743
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: try to get it done. Wait a minute, Jimmy would

744
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: take it easy on y'all. That's one of the times.

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00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing. You know, helmet, shoulders in shorts

746
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 1: and stuff was hard. But yeah, but Nate knows. Shoot,

747
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: on Friday. We would be thudding up on Friday. It

748
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 1: was like full speed, don't bring them, don't take them down.

749
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 1: But you know, but it's full speed to the ball.

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Speaker 1: You know what's amazing is that sit up out of

751
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 1: laugh dicks. And can you imagine coach with Carthon telling

752
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 1: these guys on a regular week, hey man, put on

753
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: your pass. It's Friday, y'all have a bad practice yesterday.

754
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: We're gonna throw it up just a little bit on

755
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 1: the front. What do you think would happen? What do

756
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: you think that the players would do? He would lose

757
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 1: his team, he thinks, oh yeah, everybody gonna walk out.

758
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 1: There will be lawsuits filed, Like look, here a boss man,

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00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what just doing here? Bad breakback, Jason,

760
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: We'll do anything. But it was like that when until

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00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: Jimmy got in here. You you know that he kind

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00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: of cleared that out. Yeah yeah, Nate, you played in

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00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 1: a lot of Thanksgiving Day games? What was it like?

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Speaker 1: Is it is it different as a player? Like it's

765
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: I think it's different watching the game because everybody's with

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Speaker 1: their family and you know, even if you're not into football,

767
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: your family members that don't normally watch it will watch

768
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: it with you. Was it any different or was it

769
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: just a normal football game for you guys? You know, Dick.

770
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:47,240
Speaker 1: So I'm glad you said this, made this statement because

771
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to explain we were to envy.

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00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 1: You gotta remember it was on us in Detroit playing

773
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 1: on Thursday with them rotating the league around us, and

774
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,320
Speaker 1: that was before they had Thursday night games, right, thank you? Right? So,

775
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: this is the funny thing about it is it takes

776
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: you to get out of football and to talk to

777
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: other players and they'd be like, man, you cowboys always

778
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: thought y'all was this even when y'all sorry, y'all talk.

779
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't matter. We were, we are to

780
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: darl another league and whatever we do, you either hate

781
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: us and millions gonna watch, You love us and millions

782
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: gonna watch. But we are we still to this day

783
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,479
Speaker 1: what people want to watch. They're either gonna be sitting

784
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 1: there cheering that we lose it. They're gonna be sitting

785
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: there crying that we love we win. I mean, you're

786
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 1: three and seven and get more viewers this thanks getting

787
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: the day that they have in years, I mean better. Yeah,

788
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: how about you, Dixon? Was it was it just a

789
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 1: normal football game or was it there a little bit

790
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: more to it just because it was on Thanksgiving? Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah.

791
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:50,919
Speaker 1: The thing is that you didn't you didn't you didn't

792
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: shift all your family in town thank you, and and

793
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: everybody's excited there at the game, and you want to

794
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: have a good show and always have a good show

795
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 1: in front of your your family, and uh, Thanksgiving was

796
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: always a special time. And uh, I just I remember

797
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: some of those games were pretty heated, you know games,

798
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, when you sit back and you

799
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: think about the most rememberable game was, uh, and there

800
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: was when I was playing for the Minnesota Vikings, and

801
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:27,359
Speaker 1: um it was the ninety eight year when Randy Moss

802
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: came in and lit it up. Yes, not that game.

803
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: I remember that, Remember I think Cowboys. Man. I looked

804
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: at I looked around the Moss man. I looked up

805
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: in the press box and Jerry was like, what God, yeah,

806
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: yeah the ninety eight team. Man. Man, I thought I

807
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: thought I was going back to the super Bowl. Yeah, Nate,

808
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 1: did you have a favorite game, a favorite Thanksgiving game

809
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 1: or memory anyone that coaching Madden did? If if Madden

810
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: did Oh my god, man, if Madden did it, I

811
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: was on and popping me yeah, because I will be

812
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: there after the game, handed out turkey legs and do

813
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: it that thing. How many times did you get to

814
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 1: hand out time? Every time? Really? Every time? Mattenham did

815
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: every time. Really. They tried to reach down, trying to

816
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,439
Speaker 1: suggest about this as like now we got Nate. We good.

817
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 1: Oh well, Kevin, is it you want to give a prediction?

818
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: You want to tell me what you think's gonna happen

819
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,360
Speaker 1: and then give me a score. You don't have to

820
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:32,399
Speaker 1: give a score, but just tell me what you thing's

821
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,360
Speaker 1: gonna happen tomorrow. Look, I have to choose between my

822
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: heart and my head and my third generation Dallas Cowboy

823
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: from my uncle Willie. Town's just to play for this

824
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,800
Speaker 1: organ to say something. I bleed blue and silver, you know,

825
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: real hard, so huh Man prediction. I'm gonna go Cowboys

826
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: twenty two Washington football team twenty twenty two to twenty

827
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: in a close one twenty two Cowboys victory twenty two

828
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: to twenty. All right, Nate, are you gonna Are you

829
00:53:56,719 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: gonna think with your heart or with your head? You

830
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,959
Speaker 1: know what that means? Tell Dixon that me that means

831
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys will win by one point. That's all

832
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: I want, win by one point one point. Nate has

833
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 1: him going sixteen to o every year, and they win

834
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: every game by one point or sometimes if if if

835
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:18,359
Speaker 1: we're super Vegas, Vegas playing the raisins a half, if

836
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 1: we're a double digit underdog, He's got Cowboys winning by

837
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,320
Speaker 1: half a point. So, Dixon, what do you think is

838
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: gonna happen tomorrow? I think that the Cowboys are gonna

839
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,399
Speaker 1: do a have a great showing. They're gonna actually put

840
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 1: somebody away. The game will be over by the beginning

841
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 1: of the third quarter. Whoa, let's go hey thirty eight

842
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 1: and uh to like six? Wow? WHOA whoa yeah, yeah,

843
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:49,400
Speaker 1: then oh yeah, they're gonna blow them. Yeah, they're just

844
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:51,959
Speaker 1: gonna They're just gonna go in there and smash him. Wow,

845
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:56,919
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. I don't know, so Dix,

846
00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,239
Speaker 1: you listened to this thing this boy said Eli he

847
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: was crazy. Now get you remember just a little while ago.

848
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 1: I see it five nine and two going, which is

849
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: crazy that it's not completely off, it's not mathematically impossible

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Speaker 1: that still still have a top five pick. You know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm buying in. I don't want to get too excited,

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Speaker 1: but they've given me just enough the last two weeks

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Speaker 1: to make me believe and that they've got something going.

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Speaker 1: They're starting to figure things out. Hey, they figured out

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Speaker 1: gap assignment. That's a big step, right, So I'm encouraged

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Speaker 1: by that. I'm encouraged by the physicality. I'm encouraged by

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Speaker 1: the watermelon smashing the night before the game, Like I

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Speaker 1: want to know what he's doing tonight, Like I'm interested.

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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm buying in. I hope they don't let

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Speaker 1: me down. I'm gonna go. I think earlier on our show,

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Speaker 1: I think I said twenty three to twenty something like that.

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Speaker 1: So I got him winning rates. I think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be an ugly, dirty game because it's a division game.

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Speaker 1: Even when the Cowboys are having a great year, Washington

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Speaker 1: is a tough game for him. Crazy things happen. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a good game. Nate. What's

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Speaker 1: gonna be your before we get out of here? We

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Speaker 1: got about thirty seconds. What's gonna be your go to

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Speaker 1: dish tomorrow for Thanksgiving? Anything that my wife put on

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Speaker 1: the table? All right? What about you, Dixon? Lets you

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Speaker 1: go to Thanksgiving dish? Oh my goodness, yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: all of us is just great. Yeah, let me see No,

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, no Thanksgiving turn my stomach. I don't

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Speaker 1: think I want anything. No, how about you, Kevin? My

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Speaker 1: wife and my mother in law's stuffing? Is you want

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Speaker 1: to be married? About sixteen? Good stuff? In appreciate that, fellas.

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Speaker 1: We gotta get out of here. Thank you, Thank you, Kevin,

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