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Brunson Crowned Best Knick Ever; Wemby Has Some Growing Up to Do; Cowboys Contract Woes Again · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to The Daily Play. It's Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me. Make sure you hit
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  Speaker 1: Joy Taylor. The New York Knicks have been on their
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  Speaker 1: press runs since the championship, and New York City has
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  Speaker 1: not stopped partying since the New York Knicks have won
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Championship. The New York Times crowned Jalen Brunson
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  Speaker 1: the best New York Knick of all time, saying the
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  Speaker 1: man that many believed to be too small to Lada
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  Speaker 1: City has taken its millions of anti congregants to the
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  Speaker 1: Promised Lands, safe and sound. Now the supposed six foot
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  Speaker 1: two point guard is a monument taller than a skyscraper
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  Speaker 1: while overcoming the game's greatest giant to get the job done.
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  Speaker 1: Love a good bit of writing. Brunson was born in
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  Speaker 1: South Jersey, went to high school in the Chicago suburbs,
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  Speaker 1: and played college Bond Philly. But now he's a New
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  Speaker 1: York legend. Good for a free meal in every burrow
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  Speaker 1: for life. Listen, the songs are being written, okay, the sonnets,
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  Speaker 1: the poems. It was only amount of time before traditional
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  Speaker 1: point guard was able to break through on the floor
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  Speaker 1: and be the leader of a championship team. And listen,
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  Speaker 1: there have been a lot of people over the years
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  Speaker 1: that have questioned whether this was ever possible, or you
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  Speaker 1: could build a team around a player like Jalen Brunson.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what I think, when things haven't really
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  Speaker 1: been done traditionally in a certain way for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: it's fair to have questions. And it's also fair for
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson to let everyone know that he had the answer,
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  Speaker 1: and he truly did. He had forty five points in
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  Speaker 1: Game five to close out the Spurs. Michael Jordan, Giannis,
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  Speaker 1: Bob Pettitt and now Jalen Bunson are the only players
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  Speaker 1: to ever score forty five points in a close out
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals victory. He is a certified superstar. I do
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  Speaker 1: tend to agree with the New York Times. I think
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we get hyperbolic with these crowning of the greatest ever.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, if you bring a championship to an
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  Speaker 1: organization that hasn't had one in fifty three years, you
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  Speaker 1: close out a very talented Spurs team with arguably the
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  Speaker 1: future of the NBA. On the other side, and an
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  Speaker 1: absolute giant at that, and you do it in five,
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  Speaker 1: and you score forty five points in the closeout game,
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  Speaker 1: and you come back down from twenty nine, and you
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  Speaker 1: meet every single challenge in the way that the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: have and with Jalen Brunson leading the way, I do
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  Speaker 1: think that she kind of got to give it to him.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know that we are overreacting in agreeing
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  Speaker 1: with this sentiment that he is the greatest ever. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that I think is really important
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  Speaker 1: to remember about Jalen Brunson and what has been really
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  Speaker 1: fun for the Knicks this year, and interesting as well,
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  Speaker 1: is that Jalen Brunson left one hundred and thirteen million
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  Speaker 1: dollars on the table when he signed his extension, and
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  Speaker 1: part of the reasoning was to allow the Knicks' front
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  Speaker 1: office to be able to bring in play and build
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  Speaker 1: the perfect team around him and what he does well.
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  Speaker 1: And to the next credit, because James Nolan has been
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  Speaker 1: a thorn in the side of NBA fans, particularly Knicks fans,
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  Speaker 1: for a very long time. They finally put it together
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  Speaker 1: and they had an incredible run, a dominant run, and
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  Speaker 1: an all time championship run. Whether you like the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: or like Knicks fans or not, that's just what it is.
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  Speaker 1: If this was any team that wasn't that didn't have
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  Speaker 1: Knicks fans, we would be saying that because it's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, they have this old school mentality and
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  Speaker 1: this toughness to them, but he also is an old
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  Speaker 1: school player. He's a traditional point guard and someone who
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can't argue the blue collar mentality. You
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  Speaker 1: leave one hundred and thirteen million dollars on the table
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  Speaker 1: to try and go win, you got. You gotta give
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  Speaker 1: it to him, okay, because I don't know if I'm
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  Speaker 1: leaving a hundred and thirteen million dollars on the table.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm doing that. So he is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's the king of New York right now,
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  Speaker 1: and I do think that it will it'll stay that
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  Speaker 1: way for a very long time. Knicks fans have been
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't call them lovable losers, but they have definitely
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  Speaker 1: I think they definitely had submitted to there was a
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  Speaker 1: very good chance that the Knicks were not going to
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  Speaker 1: ever win a championship, and he's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: star of New York City for the rest of his life,
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  Speaker 1: and this is going to matter as far as the
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  Speaker 1: championships in the conversations around championships for a very very
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  Speaker 1: long time because it is the New York Knicks on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of it. The San Antonio Spurs. Victor
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  Speaker 1: wembin Yama, the star of the Spurs, said it's painful
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  Speaker 1: after seeing his dream of winning an NBA Finals slip away.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I'm not running away from that. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: not running away from that. I'm using it to fuel me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure all these guys you name, they're not satisfied
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  Speaker 1: with being eliminated in the earlier rounds, were not making
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. I'm not satisfied with not winning. This is
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  Speaker 1: the biggest lesson of my life as a team. That's
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  Speaker 1: just no better experience than what we just lived. The
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  Speaker 1: experience was the conversation around the Spurs throughout the postseason,
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  Speaker 1: and it became the achilles heel for them in the
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  Speaker 1: In the finals, it was very obvious that they were
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  Speaker 1: very young, that they did not have the experience in
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  Speaker 1: the finals that they needed to be able to close
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  Speaker 1: out that to hold on to Leeds and to have
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  Speaker 1: the emotional discipline that it takes to go up against
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  Speaker 1: a team like the Knicks, and he quickly went from
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  Speaker 1: the lovable star to the villain almost overnight. It went
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  Speaker 1: from them taking out the thunder who the NBA fans
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  Speaker 1: had sort of turned on, to then becoming the villain
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  Speaker 1: of the finals. And to add to that, they you know,
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  Speaker 1: questions about his emotional discipline, the fouling, mushing, Jalen Brunson,
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  Speaker 1: all the trash talk. He did not shake hands after
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  Speaker 1: Game five, which a lot of people have had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of opinions about Draymond called the move week. People
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  Speaker 1: are asking a lot of questions about his mentality on that.
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  Speaker 1: I will say my opinion on it is, I think
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  Speaker 1: you should at the very least shake hands with the other.
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  Speaker 1: If you are the superstar, you shake hands with the
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  Speaker 1: other superstar, You shake hands with the coach, then you leave.
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  Speaker 1: You don't got to sit there and hug everybody on
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  Speaker 1: the entire team. You don't have to make a whole
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  Speaker 1: spectacle of it. That's what I would do. But I
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  Speaker 1: gotta be honest, I don't have a problem with him
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  Speaker 1: not shaking hands. We can't ask for animosity, we can't
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  Speaker 1: ask for villains, we can't ask for storylines. We can't
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  Speaker 1: ask for the old school, we're not friends' mentality and
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  Speaker 1: then complain when they do it. I don't I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that I have a problem with this. If he
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  Speaker 1: wants to play the villain, let him, let him, let
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  Speaker 1: him be the guy that pisses everybody off. I'm okay
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  Speaker 1: with that. I don't think it's I think it's emotional.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's reactive. I think he may end up
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  Speaker 1: regretting that he did that. But I'm also okay with
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I don't want to shake hands. I
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  Speaker 1: just lost. I'm angry. That's what I'm sticking with. And
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  Speaker 1: like I said, I would do it, I wouldn't shake
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  Speaker 1: everyone's hand. I would shake the other star's hand, probably
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  Speaker 1: the coach, and then get off the court. But I
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  Speaker 1: am okay with Wemby being the villain. I want some villains.
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  Speaker 1: I want some animosity. I want some rivalries. We constantly
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  Speaker 1: complain that all these guys are all friends and it's
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  Speaker 1: all facad and there's no there's no old school you
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  Speaker 1: know fights, and then when they do it, we're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're weak for not doing it, Like and listen,
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  Speaker 1: dre is the one to ask right like, he has
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  Speaker 1: been a part of a lot of rivalries and situations,
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  Speaker 1: so I respect if Draymond thinks this is weak. I
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  Speaker 1: just personally think that I'm okay with it. Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: okay with him being a villain. I'm okay with him
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  Speaker 1: leaning into it. I do think he needs to make
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  Speaker 1: this summer count. I think he needs to continue to
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  Speaker 1: build on his discipline and situational awareness. I think this
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  Speaker 1: experience will help everyone, including coach Mitch Johnson, who I
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  Speaker 1: think also was not his best in the final situationally,
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  Speaker 1: and I think they'll I think they'll be better and
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  Speaker 1: be back next year. I don't know if they'll be
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  Speaker 1: back in the finals, but there's certainly going to be
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  Speaker 1: competing for a championship next year, and they'll be a
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  Speaker 1: year more experienced, and they'll have these scars to remind
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  Speaker 1: them of. You know how bad it can feel to
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  Speaker 1: not get the job done. So yeah, I'm okay with it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the strongest move. I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: would go all the way to week, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: the strongest move to not shake hands. But I am
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  Speaker 1: I like controversy. I like a little bit of Spice.
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  Speaker 1: I like a villain, and if Wenby wants to lean
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  Speaker 1: into it, so be it good for us. Finally, in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL year has started. Games aren't here yet, so
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  Speaker 1: that means it's Cowboys off season time. America's team is
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  Speaker 1: always there to give us some news during the off season,
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  Speaker 1: and currently the Cowboys situation. They love a situationship, the Cowboys,
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  Speaker 1: they love a contract situationship. And this time it's George Pickens.
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  Speaker 1: It's every off season, this time is George Pickens. Pickens
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  Speaker 1: was in Dallas Monday for a physical ahead of Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: mandatory mini camp. He is in his fifth year. He
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  Speaker 1: signed the franchise tag in March, which will pay him
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven point three million dollars this season. The Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: have made it clear they are not going to negotiate
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  Speaker 1: long term contract, which is why he signed. Schottenheimer did
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  Speaker 1: not divulge pickens reaction when he told her we was
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  Speaker 1: sold there would be no negotiations from the Cowboys. He said,
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  Speaker 1: it was me, George and Jerry. We made it clear
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  Speaker 1: with him how much we love him, what he's done
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  Speaker 1: for us, and what he's going to do for us
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. I always love these quotes because
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  Speaker 1: it's like, well, if you love me, pay me. But
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys do this. They do this every single year,
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  Speaker 1: every single year. He did not participate in voluntary workouts,
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  Speaker 1: which included six organized team activities. He did have career
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  Speaker 1: highs last year in catches ninety three catches over fourteen
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards, nine touchdowns last year after he was acquired
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  Speaker 1: from the Stealers. The Cowboys decision to wait on a
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  Speaker 1: multi year deal is about wanting to see more from
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  Speaker 1: him on and off the field. It may eventually cost
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  Speaker 1: them more money. Usually when they do this, it does
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  Speaker 1: cost them more money, which is why I truly do
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  Speaker 1: not understand, other than giving the Cowboys headlines, why they
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  Speaker 1: do this. Every single year, they drag it out someone
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  Speaker 1: else signs. Inevitably they have to pay the player more money.
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  Speaker 1: They get a worse deal out of it, rinse and
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  Speaker 1: repeat every single year. Maybe they won't with pickings and
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  Speaker 1: they'll make him play on the franchise tag. Maybe you'll
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  Speaker 1: hold out, and the ends. They usually end up coming
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  Speaker 1: to an agreement because they need the player and the
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  Speaker 1: player doesn't want to miss out on millions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: by getting fined. I just never understand why the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: do it. They do it every single year. They did
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  Speaker 1: it with Zeke, they did it with They've done it
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  Speaker 1: with everyone, and it's just it's what they do. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll be talking a lot about that over the next
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  Speaker 1: couple of months, but thanks for joining me. For more
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