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  Speaker 1: The following.
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  Speaker 2: He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and
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  Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 3: Cowboys.
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  Speaker 4: This these Cowboys storylines with Nick Eapman.
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  Speaker 1: What is up?
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  Speaker 5: It is time for another edition of Cowboys storyline? But
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  Speaker 5: this is a special edition. Of course, there is a
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  Speaker 5: show called special edition, but this isn't it. This is
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  Speaker 5: Cowboys Storyline. We're Darren Woodson today. I said, I kind
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  Speaker 5: of teased it last night. I was like, you know what,
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  Speaker 5: any other player I would have been like, I'm not
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  Speaker 5: going to.
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  Speaker 1: Tease it and say the name because you never know
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  Speaker 1: a schedule.
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  Speaker 5: But your schedule is so busy all the time that
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  Speaker 5: you can stick to it that I knew that you
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  Speaker 5: would be here and be here on time early, like
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  Speaker 5: always Darren Woodson, Man, what's up?
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  Speaker 6: No man, I'm happy to be here, Nick.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I'm right here in the office, right here
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  Speaker 7: at the Star.
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  Speaker 6: So I see you every other day and all.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, like you walking back and forth.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we got business man, we got business to take
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  Speaker 6: care of.
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  Speaker 5: And you and you're you're always on the move, like
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  Speaker 5: very quick, You're every time I see you, it's like whoa, whoa, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: it's the same.
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  Speaker 6: It's the same here, like, look, you needed me here
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  Speaker 6: at a certain time. Guess what here?
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  Speaker 7: And I'm that guy much like the guys I played
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  Speaker 7: with is you know, we're still kind of have that
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  Speaker 7: anxiety be about being late, really because being late when
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  Speaker 7: you're in the NFL costed you an And I was
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  Speaker 7: here for thirteen years, never was late for a meeting
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  Speaker 7: because I had so much anxiety about showing up, not
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  Speaker 7: being there on time, and parcels or Jimmy just railing
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  Speaker 7: you for being late.
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  Speaker 6: It's just it's still a part of me. Man I
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  Speaker 6: got to be early, was Michael. Oh, but look there's.
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  Speaker 7: There's a few guys and Jimmy said, I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 7: treat everybody equal. Yeah, you know, if you guys, hey,
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  Speaker 7: look you're late, I'll get at you, get after you.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, my favorite story of that is Bill
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  Speaker 5: Parcells call I mean John Madden called Terrell Owens to
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  Speaker 5: check the tire guy. He said, if some players are late,
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  Speaker 5: you're like, who's late? And it's some third cornerback or
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  Speaker 5: fifth cornerback and you're like, let's go relievingly, who's late?
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  Speaker 5: T o You're like, you tell that guy, hey, go
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  Speaker 5: outside and check the tires and see if everything's good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's a check you know.
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  Speaker 7: I have a Michael Irban story for Jimmy about Jimmy Johnson.
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  Speaker 6: We flew up the Detroit.
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  Speaker 7: We flew up the Detroit and Michael Irvin had started
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  Speaker 7: every game. He had this this starting streak going on,
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  Speaker 7: and he was late for the plane to go to Detroit.
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  Speaker 7: And Jimmy, you know, Jimmy, Jimmy's like, we're not waiting
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  Speaker 7: on anybody.
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  Speaker 6: He can catch a flight up right.
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  Speaker 7: So, long story short, Mike got up there on his
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  Speaker 7: own account and figured out a way to get to Detroit.
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  Speaker 6: Jimmy didn't start him, broke his streak.
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  Speaker 7: And it was I remember Michael Irvin being in the
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  Speaker 7: hallway tears in his eyes because he was so disappointed
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  Speaker 7: that he let us down, that the streak was done
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  Speaker 7: and that Jimmy was on him. And we felt like, okay,
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  Speaker 7: well he's not going to start. He may not play tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: One game, one play, next play comes in. Guess who
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  Speaker 6: walks in Michael v So he just you know, it's
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  Speaker 6: a lesson to be liked.
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  Speaker 5: But what's funny though, you say lesson to be learned
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  Speaker 5: I started. I started traveling in nineteen ninety nine. When
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  Speaker 5: I got in there, I was in the back sort
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  Speaker 5: of is where my seat was, and it was we
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  Speaker 5: leave at one o'clock and everybody had like their dollar
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  Speaker 5: a dollar out and it.
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  Speaker 1: Was one O four.
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  Speaker 5: They would say one O eight, one O two fifty nine,
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  Speaker 5: and I didn't know what was going on. And I
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  Speaker 5: finally realized they were betting when Michaels show up to
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  Speaker 5: show up, yes, So that was seven years later. He
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  Speaker 5: still was kind of doing his thing. All right, this
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  Speaker 5: is gonna be a little different show. We can still
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  Speaker 5: get the callers. We're gonna just talk about whatever. And
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  Speaker 5: if we play this game sometimes we throw out random guys.
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  Speaker 5: Random players throw something out to Darren because I did
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  Speaker 5: it earlier, and you could tell he hadn't thought about
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  Speaker 5: some of these guys and forever.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's fun, all right.
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  Speaker 5: Another tradition we have on this show already is Joe
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  Speaker 5: in Stamford, Texas. Joe's always the first caller. So Joe,
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  Speaker 5: what's up, man, No doubt, how you DOINGO.
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  Speaker 8: Man, I'm thrilled to talk to you, sir. I got
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  Speaker 8: to say it this morning. I work in the evening.
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  Speaker 8: So I wake up just for Nick's show, and I
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  Speaker 8: wasn't gonna wake up today. Man, I was tired. And
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  Speaker 8: I looked at the tweet and I saw what it said,
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  Speaker 8: and I got up so quick I stubbed my toe
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  Speaker 8: on the dresser. I was like, oh, man, I'm getting
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  Speaker 8: to this phone. So I'm glad to talk to you.
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  Speaker 8: So my question for you, sir, what do you think
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  Speaker 8: affected you guys not winning as many Super Bowls as
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  Speaker 8: you did? What you won three? And it's awesome, I'm
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  Speaker 8: not saying that, but do you think free agency, which
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  Speaker 8: started I think in ninety three, or do you think
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  Speaker 8: it was losing Jimmy.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Joe, thanks for the call.
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  Speaker 6: That's great, that's a great question.
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  Speaker 7: More and Joe, I think I believe it was both. Look,
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  Speaker 7: first of all, you had Jimmy, who was the pillar
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  Speaker 7: of this this organization at the time. Look, and no
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  Speaker 7: offense to Jerry. Jerry, you know, signed the checks. But
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  Speaker 7: Jerry was busy with doing a lot of corporate things
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  Speaker 7: outside of the organization. Jimmy ran the day to day personnel.
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  Speaker 7: He brought in guys, he cut players, he drafted the players,
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  Speaker 7: and he didn't have to second gaze. I guess anybody
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  Speaker 7: or take it to Jerry or anyone else to make
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  Speaker 7: those decisions, it was he made the decisions personnel wise.
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  Speaker 1: You're saying, I'm not saying, well, I'm just.
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  Speaker 6: Telling you I just the way, just wanted to be
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  Speaker 6: clear who's.
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  Speaker 1: Saying that this is me?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I just felt like at that time and
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  Speaker 7: that moment, you know, Jerry, look, Jerry's greatest owner of
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  Speaker 7: all time for all that he's done. But if we
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  Speaker 7: were talking about what took place in the early nineties,
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  Speaker 7: Jimmy did a lot of made a lot of.
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  Speaker 6: Those personnel decisions.
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  Speaker 7: So when when when Jimmy left, I thought the first
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  Speaker 7: thing that really happened to us was we didn't draft
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  Speaker 7: that well in the later rounds, So you weren't picking
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  Speaker 7: up the Leon Letts and the Eric Williams and those
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  Speaker 7: type of guys. And I think that that part of
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  Speaker 7: it really hurt us. And it was at the same
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  Speaker 7: time where free agency was pilling that pilling us back
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  Speaker 7: at the same time, I mean, we were losing guys,
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  Speaker 7: uh we you know guys that were you know, the
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  Speaker 7: Kenny Gantz of the worlds who end up going to
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  Speaker 7: Tampa you know, we couldn't backfill those those players, and
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  Speaker 7: I can't tell you. I mean we always talked about
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  Speaker 7: the star players. Yeah, you have star players, but when
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  Speaker 7: you have a personnel, the guys that really understand their
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  Speaker 7: role within the scheme and within the team, that's when
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  Speaker 7: you become a championship team. And we lost those guys,
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  Speaker 7: We lost those small players, and you started losing the
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  Speaker 7: step Navskis of the world and those type of guys,
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  Speaker 7: and we just didn't do enough to backfill that, and
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  Speaker 7: things started.
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  Speaker 6: To get a lot looser.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, in the end, Look, Jimmy, Jimmy ran a tough program,
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  Speaker 7: he really did. And you know, we had a lot
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  Speaker 7: of crazy personalities as you can, as you well know.
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  Speaker 7: But Jimmy did a great job of putting his thumb
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  Speaker 7: on us, knowing how we were going to operate, when
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  Speaker 7: to take his thumb off of us.
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  Speaker 6: So, you know, I think it was a little bit
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  Speaker 6: of both. But yeah, there's a tough time, man, it
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  Speaker 6: really was.
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  Speaker 7: I firmly feel if Jimmy Johnson was still the head coach,
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  Speaker 7: we would at least.
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  Speaker 6: Four straight.
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  Speaker 1: You're the only You're then that didn't sit.
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  Speaker 6: Well with you.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you know, there's a little nerves there when I
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  Speaker 7: when I when, I mean, you talk.
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  Speaker 5: About that kind of stuff. Yeah, uh there. You're the
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  Speaker 5: only player in Cowboys history to play for five different
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  Speaker 5: head coaches. And you know, I don't know if that's
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  Speaker 5: gonna change. Honestly, you might. That might last for a while,
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  Speaker 5: because I do know the Cowboys don't really want to
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  Speaker 5: change out coaches that quickly because the continuity and players
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  Speaker 5: switch out a lot more so it's gonna be hard
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  Speaker 5: to stay. But from Jimmy Johnson to Switzer to cham
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  Speaker 5: Gaily to Dave camp Bill Parcels and Parcels. I talked
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  Speaker 5: to him a year ago. He said, if I would
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  Speaker 5: have had Darreon Woodson longer, I promise you he's already
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  Speaker 5: been cam O.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely yeah, I'd say that all day long.
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  Speaker 7: Look, and if we were gonna lose Jimmy back then,
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  Speaker 7: I would you know, Look, a guy like Parsales coming
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  Speaker 7: in would have been you know, we probably wouldn't have
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  Speaker 7: missed the beat. We probably would have continued to win.
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  Speaker 7: But here's the deal. Parsales came in in my eleventh year,
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  Speaker 7: I think it was in my eleventh year in the league.
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  Speaker 7: I learned more in five months about the game of
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  Speaker 7: football that I knew in those eleven years. I knew
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  Speaker 7: how to He taught me, how to study. He taught me,
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  Speaker 7: you know what the offenses or the quarterbacks were looking at,
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  Speaker 7: how you know, just situational football during the week, how
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  Speaker 7: to manage the clock, those type of I mean, it
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  Speaker 7: was unbelievable about how much information that was poured into
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  Speaker 7: me in a four month time period that I.
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  Speaker 6: Just didn't know.
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  Speaker 7: I was a shamed, almost seriously, Nick, I was ashamed
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  Speaker 7: that I didn't know, being the captain of the defense,
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  Speaker 7: that I didn't know these things. And I'm the one
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  Speaker 7: who's talking, who's mentoring these younger guys. You know so well,
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  Speaker 7: I can tell you, Man, if I would have had
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  Speaker 7: him early on, yeah, I probably would have had that
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  Speaker 7: gold jacket all you because he would allow he would
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  Speaker 7: allow me to.
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  Speaker 6: Play one position too. Yeah, okay, you'd allow me to
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  Speaker 6: play one position.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna go to some more phone calls here, Brian
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  Speaker 5: and Iowa. Brian, what's up?
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  Speaker 1: Brian?
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Nick, Darren, how's it going.
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  Speaker 6: You guys doing great? Brian?
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  Speaker 9: That's good. Well, first of all, I'm gonna say I
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  Speaker 9: kind of feel like I'm at a toy store trying
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  Speaker 9: to pick out my favorite toy with you there, Darren,
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  Speaker 9: It's honor to even speak to you.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: First of all, I only have one thing, but I
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  Speaker 9: have two things down that you're here, Darren. But first
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  Speaker 9: of all, my first ding is I'm gonna say about
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  Speaker 9: the offensive line going into A three.
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  Speaker 8: I feel more.
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  Speaker 9: Confident about our depth position with Tyler being out for
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  Speaker 9: the first two weeks. I still feel like there's improvement there.
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  Speaker 9: And but I'm gonna say going forward, I feel confident
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  Speaker 9: that if we need a starter to rest, I feel
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  Speaker 9: like somebody could step in and a plug in for
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  Speaker 9: a week or two if need to be like towards
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  Speaker 9: the end of the season. But I still feel like
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  Speaker 9: we might need add another piece to the offensive line
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  Speaker 9: just for safety security, blanket for the trade deadline. But
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  Speaker 9: also I'm gonna ask you, Darren, what would it be
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  Speaker 9: like with Michael Parsons on the team of the ninety
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  Speaker 9: two ninety three defense that you plaid in alongside Charles
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  Speaker 9: Tayley and Tony Tolbert, And what it would be like
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  Speaker 9: with you alongside him doing the things that you did.
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  Speaker 7: Man, look right, Thanks Brian, that's a great, great question,
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  Speaker 7: and it was a TJ bast They did the filled
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  Speaker 7: in this past week.
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  Speaker 5: Man, Yeah, after you know, you don't get started and
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  Speaker 5: then Bass filled in and filled in. Yeah, Zach Martin
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  Speaker 5: went out too.
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  Speaker 7: And I kind of agree with what you're saying, Ryan,
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  Speaker 7: I think that, you know, you got to add depth
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  Speaker 7: at that offensive line. I think what we're seeing defensively
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  Speaker 7: is that they have a lot of depth, and bringing
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  Speaker 7: guys off the bench has been, you know, been on
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  Speaker 7: their strengths. I always, I always felt, continue to fill
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  Speaker 7: you win games in the trenches, and if your offensive
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  Speaker 7: line can block and you can get the running game
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  Speaker 7: going throughout the season, you can always keep defenses off balance.
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  Speaker 7: So yeah, depth at that position is is is what
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  Speaker 7: they definitely need.
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  Speaker 5: Before you answer the mic apart, I mean, because it's
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  Speaker 5: a different era. Where does Mike play.
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  Speaker 7: Everywhere anywhere that he wants to play, anywhere he wants
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  Speaker 7: to play. Look, look, I'm the the old guy who's
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  Speaker 7: not going to say, well, you know, these guys are
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  Speaker 7: soft and these guys couldn't play with us.
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  Speaker 6: Are you out of your minds?
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  Speaker 7: The number number eleven could have played in any era
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  Speaker 7: he would have started in any era and he would
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  Speaker 7: have been the best player on the field.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he this guy.
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  Speaker 7: It is amazing to watch Micah Parson's first step and
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  Speaker 7: his awareness and his ability to attack the quarterback and
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  Speaker 7: attack the tackle or the guard or what I.
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  Speaker 6: Mean he is.
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  Speaker 7: He is one of the most dominant players that I
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  Speaker 7: can remember watching. I remember when Dion Sanders came in
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  Speaker 7: and my first time coming in as a rookie, he
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  Speaker 7: was in Atlanta and watching him walk around on the
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  Speaker 7: field when it was with the Atlanta Falcons and going
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  Speaker 7: what's all the hooplah?
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  Speaker 6: Until I saw him and I was like, Okay, I
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  Speaker 6: get it. Like his entire side of the field is
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  Speaker 6: he's owning it.
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  Speaker 1: That story you told me about his first practice or.
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  Speaker 6: One of his first practices.
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  Speaker 7: He shows up first practice and someone catches we were
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  Speaker 7: doing one on ones and we have five five defensive
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  Speaker 7: back on one side and on the other side you
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  Speaker 7: have five defense the backs and you guys are going
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  Speaker 7: one on one with the wife.
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  Speaker 6: It's a quick drill.
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  Speaker 7: He was like one after the other and someone they
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  Speaker 7: run a quick five route on him and they complete
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  Speaker 7: the pass and he walks to the sideline and all
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  Speaker 7: the defensive backs who were supposed to go right after him,
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  Speaker 7: he tells them, you go to the other side of
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  Speaker 7: the field. I'm locking this stuff down over here. He
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  Speaker 7: didn't see, but I'm locking this down over here. And
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  Speaker 7: he basically took every rep, like ten straight reps and
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  Speaker 7: locked it down like I've.
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  Speaker 6: Never seen anything like it. Wow, nobody caught a ball
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  Speaker 6: on that side.
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  Speaker 7: He pressed, he played off, he did everything, and it
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  Speaker 7: was just amazing to see. But he was one of
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  Speaker 7: those those players h LT. Watching him with the Giants
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  Speaker 7: early on, I just thought that he's he was a
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  Speaker 7: childhood hero because he dominated the game right. Michael Parsons
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  Speaker 7: is a guy, and I think we're starting to see
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  Speaker 7: the maturation process. He came in his first year, he
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  Speaker 7: was playing linebacker. He rushed here and there. Second year
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  Speaker 7: kind of the same, probably use them more as the
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  Speaker 7: defensive end and is a pass rusher. This year, you're
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  Speaker 7: seeing him really mature as far as mentally in understanding
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  Speaker 7: the game.
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  Speaker 6: Like the game is.
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  Speaker 7: Slowed all the way down for him. He knows what
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  Speaker 7: he's doing. Uh, he doesn't have to think about anything.
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  Speaker 7: He's playing multiple positions, which I just I that's what
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  Speaker 7: I admire about that because I've done multiple positions and
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  Speaker 7: it's dude, it's it's a it's a lot of work
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  Speaker 7: because you're you have to transform your mind behind to go, Okay,
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  Speaker 7: I'm playing safety this position and playing corner this position. Okay,
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  Speaker 7: now I'm playing actually the will linebacker in this time.
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  Speaker 7: You know, you got to the game. You're always thinking, thinking, think.
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  Speaker 7: He's not thinking anymore. He's just being a football player.
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  Speaker 7: And then they bring in depth and bringing Sam Williams
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  Speaker 7: to spell them, and he sits on the sideline for
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  Speaker 7: a few reps and doesn't get those reps, and he.
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  Speaker 6: Gets energized, he gets mad. I want to be back
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  Speaker 6: out there. He's got energy now.
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  Speaker 7: And then he goes back out there and you give
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  Speaker 7: him a straight player and that I just think this
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  Speaker 7: guy's he's a joy to watch, man, He really is.
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  Speaker 1: He sir is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, He's one of those guys that when he's out
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  Speaker 5: there on defense, I'm watching him from the press box,
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  Speaker 5: you know the quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, so he could have played in any era any.
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  Speaker 5: Are all right, Chris and Mississippi will go to the line, Chris,
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  Speaker 5: what's up man?
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  Speaker 10: How you doing?
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  Speaker 11: Man? A Darren I just wanted to say thank you
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  Speaker 11: so much. It means the world does cowboy fans to
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  Speaker 11: have you guys take out of your day and come
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  Speaker 11: out here and talk to us on the phone and
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  Speaker 11: be just a great guy that you were and you
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  Speaker 11: always have been, in my opinion, one of the greatest
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  Speaker 11: Hall of Fame snubs ever, you and Eversince Walls. And
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  Speaker 11: what I wanted to know was is does it ever
• 15:49
  Speaker 11: get to you when people compare other players to you?
• 15:52
  Speaker 11: And of these linebackers, who would you say that probably
• 15:57
  Speaker 11: had the most characteristics of you? I would probably say
• 16:01
  Speaker 11: would be my opinion. And Nick, one last thing for you.
• 16:05
  Speaker 11: I got to get off here before I lose service.
• 16:09
  Speaker 11: When we win the Super Bowl? Okay, will you please
• 16:12
  Speaker 11: promise me that you will do this show for three
• 16:14
  Speaker 11: or four hours to let us long suffering Cowboys and
• 16:18
  Speaker 11: to just rejoice with you of course, of course.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: All right, man, all right, thanks Chris for the call.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: Probably in the offseason we're gonna have a little bit
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: longer show. But who knows, maybe maybe what you just
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: said will have happened to Who knows people compare players
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: to you?
• 16:37
  Speaker 8: Do they?
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: I mean, I haven't really heard that a lot. Honestly,
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: maybe I'm biased. I mean, we haven't had another Darren Windson.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: Like that. I don't know on this roster. I think,
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: like if you.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Look at donovand Wilson is what he said.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Wilson Curse.
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, Curse comes the tight end a lot.
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: I see him motioning over and matching up.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: I mean there's look, could Curse could curse Chase Down
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: the best wide receiver in the game.
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: I don't think you asked him to do that. I'm
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: not sure if he can, but that's not right they're
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: tasking him to do.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: That's what made you so different because I've seen you
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: walk Jerry Rice down. I've seen you do that, seen
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: you cover Jerry. I've seen that. So it's just it's
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: a tough comparison, really is it is?
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: And I don't know.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: Look, I remember coming into the league and there weren't
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: any safeties outside of Carnell Lake. Carnell Lake was a
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: guy with the Steelers who was a linebacker in college.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: I went to it played safety and I watched him
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: cover wide receivers, whether it be outside or inside or whatnot.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: And he was probably the first one, but he ended
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: up being a corner. They ended up just moving him
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: out there. I don't know if there.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: Was a guy who did what I did.
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: I mean my entire career, I just I don't know,
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: played multiple positions like that. But I think there's some
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: players that that probably have the ability, they just weren't
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: asked to do it.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame voters pay attention.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Wake up, Actually, yeah, wake up, because it's unbelievable. I agree,
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: one of the biggest snubs of in the history of it.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: And uh, you know, I I think I think it's coming.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I really do.
• 18:09
  Speaker 10: I know.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I know you were there.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: I know you were there last year, you were you
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: were closed to knock on the door. It looks like
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: safeties are getting in, so I think it's going to happen.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: So all right, David and fort Worth. David, what's up?
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: Man?
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: You're on with Darren Woodson?
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: How you doing, Nick?
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: How you doing?
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: Mister Woodson doing great?
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: David?
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: Awesome?
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Awesome. Hey, I'll be quick because I know a lot
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: of people probably want to talk to you, but I
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: was just curious, sir, what's your take on our current
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: safeties right now? I mean for a long time I
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: played safety myself whenever I was in high school. Uh,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: so close to going to the NFL, I just kind of.
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: Sucked so I didn't.
• 18:45
  Speaker 12: But uh, yeah, so we have well, I think we.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Have a three headed monster, maybe even developing four or five.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, we have great safeties right now, and I
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: feel like it in recent years. Uh maybe not too recent,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: but it's been a little bit of a weakness.
• 18:58
  Speaker 13: You know, we had.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Barry Church and Roy Williams, and I heard you were
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: pretty good yourself, sir. Yeah, but but now we got
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: like a like a to me, like a plessora of
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: great safety, and I just wanted to know your take
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: on them individually and then how you feel like they
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: do as a unit. Appreciate you so much for being
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: on the show. Appreciate you Nick every day for taking
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: my call.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: You guys, have a wonderful day.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: This is this is probably my favorite question today.
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, because I've watched, Yes, I had to get my
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: class because I wanted to make sure I got everybody's
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: name on it because he's gotta have so many players
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: at that position. And when I talked, when we've talked
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: about the safety position here with the Cowboys, they were
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: really thin. They've always been thin in years past. This
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: is the deepest bunch. Like I'm trying to figure out,
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: who do you dress out?
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about that when Donovan
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: comes back, I don't know what.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: They're gonna Marquise Bell has showed, right.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Thomas, Yeah, funny field goal changed the whole whole game.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Yes, I mean you have.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: I mean, of course you got cursed, you got and
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: who's the vocal leader and he can match up great matchup.
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: We know you got hooker in the middle of the field,
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: who's basically the quarterback of that defense.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: And they just signed him, right, they signed him up. Yeah, So,
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: I mean the.
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: Depth at that position has been incredible, man. I think
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: that's one of the strengths of this team, and it
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: allows dan Quinn to do so much with the great
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: It's like this chess matchup. You know what this guy
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: does well, like when we bring him in in rundowns
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: or whatnot.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: I just I am. I am so high on this group.
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: Man.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: Look, I've been a pessimist about that position for the
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: longest time.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: I always felt like the Cowboys didn't do enough well.
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: They've addressed the position and you know I'm always I'm
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: I'm I'm all the way in their corner. Man, I
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: think this is the best group of safeties in the league,
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: hands down, hands down, And it's not even close. It's
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: not even close. They can all play multiple positions. They
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: come up and make big plays, and we're not even
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: talking about like at the cover position, at the nickelback position.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: When you got Jordan Lewis, who I mean, Jordan played
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: a little bit last week, didn't It was a scratch yeah,
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: the first week, right, I mean, the trade dead lines
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: coming up, I would not be surprised because there's value.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: There's so much value in that room right now because
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: they can all play. Man, I don't know what's going
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: to happen. I'd like to keep them all. But in reality, man,
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: there's some there's some draft picks that are sitting there.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, you're talking about making trade for a draft pick.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: I wish, Paul, I would like to keep them all.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: Of course, like they're all the toys.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Ready to do so much.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: We got to let you go because I know that
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: you're so busy and we're going to take a break.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: But I do want to ask you this. A lot
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: of fans have called in. They know this team is good.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: They see what's out there in the schedule, they see
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: the forty nine ers games sitting there, got a couple
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: of games before, and I'm trying to I'm trying to
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: like hold them back, like you know what, let don't
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: want How tough is that as a player knowing that
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: there's this collision course with a team that knocked you
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: out two years.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: In a row.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: But you've got to focus on the Cardinals. You gotta
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: focus on the Patriots. Is that Is that a challenge,
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: especially with social media and all that kind of stuff.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: Now, No, I don't think so.
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: I look, that's all that's the coaching staff issue to
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: deal with, right, That's not the players. The players are
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: always going. I was that same guy. I'd always circle
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: games and say, oh, we're gonna win this game. We're
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: gonna win that game.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: Okay, here coming the Niners can't wait to see. I mean,
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: that's that's what we do.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: It's just human nature to figure out, Okay, where's the
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: collision course. Who's that team that matches up with us?
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: I'm circling that game. The coach's job is to say, hey,
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: look we're gonna get there when we get there. Yeah,
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: the focus this week is Arizona and it starts on Monday.
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: The game's over with on Sunday, we can dap each
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: other up in the locker room. You go get a shower,
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: we might go get a drink after the you know
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: with the families.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Monday morning, you move on to the next game.
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: And that next game or the Arizona Cardinals, who are professionals,
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: they're a professional football team.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: You got to go up there and win the game.
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: And the goal in this in this league, specifically for
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: this team, is to win the NFC East. You have
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: to take care of business week in and week out
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: when the NFC East.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Well, I know, your favorite team in the Pac twelve
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: is Arizona State because that's where.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: You That's where I went to school.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: You know, favorite your favorite head coach in the Pac twelve?
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: Oh Prime, that's my dude. Yeah close.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: They play Arizona State.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: Yes, on the October or six. Are you going, uh, yes,
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: I will be there.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Is it Boulder at it home?
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: No, it's at home Arizona State. Well, we're not, you know,
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: we're struggling. So now we have a well the next
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: couple of years on probation.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: We just don't make it personal with the I gotta
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: make it personal.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: He's gonna make it. He's already made it personal.
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: He's already called hey, you know we're gonna be down
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: there and yeah, so you know there's gonna be a
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: lot of trash.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: I mean, I'll take it. Yeah, I'll take it.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: That's fun.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: It's all good. That's my dude.
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Always.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: I saw it at the at the UH at the
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: super Bowl when you were there and he was there
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: walking around.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: You know what's the funnest thing about that? I know
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: you gotta go.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: You're the one gotta go. I'll go all day long, okay,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: but you gotta go.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: So the funnest part of it is not so much Dion,
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: Like I love Dion, he's like my brother man. He's
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: just you know, he's for so much love into me
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: over the years and and and we have a great relationship.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: The fun part is watching his kids, who I knew
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: from God.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: They were running around.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: Little snot nosed kids, your door and Shiloh, and you
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: know Bucky's doing all the video.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: And liked a locker in the looker.
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: Absolutely next to you. Yes, yes, right, between he and I. Yeah,
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: that was his locker. Yeah, but I've watched those kids
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: all these years and he's he's always loved on those boys,
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: man and his daughter. He's loved on those kids so hard,
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: and no one really realizes how great a father he.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: Was to those kids.
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: And for him to be coaching them at that level,
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: that's a dream.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: That really is a dream. Man. So I'm so happy
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: for him and the entire family.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it must watch really. Oh yeah, you and whatever
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: you feel about you like him? You don't you want
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: much funny story about the when the super Bowl week
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: down there on Radio Row and all that stuff, You're
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: there and you're answering all these questions and you know,
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: and you got the Hall of Fame thing that night,
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: and I went and you were you were doing some
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: something and where you couldn't move you were doing.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I forgot what.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: It was, some kind of paid commercial that you were doinger.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Remember you couldn't.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Leave, you had to, you know, And and I was like,
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna go get Dan for you. So he has
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: like three guys with him and they're and then they're
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: they're like, no, he's busy. And I was like, well,
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Darren Woodson wants to talk to him. He's like he
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: didn't have time. It's like he didn't have time for wisdom.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: And he was like no, and the guy doesn't know anything.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: I was like, all right, So he starts walking that
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: way and I told you. I was like, I don't
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: think you know, and you did some kind of whistle
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: and he heard it and the guy's like there.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you got to go. And he's
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: like come on.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: He comes over, and then for like ten seconds it's like,
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: hey man, it's good to see, you know. And then
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: your son is there and then he's like, oh yeah,
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: and he's like, oh you see your son has hair.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I guess you get it from his twenty seconds. It
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: becomes like hey, I miss you. How you doing?
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: And then back to team back yeah, yeah, and we
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: didn't miss a beat, like we were lockermates for for
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: so long and such dear friends. You know, it just uh,
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: you know, there's so much. That's what it is, man.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: It's the relationships and the camaraderie. And it's not just
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: dionn man, it's a Tony Tobert's just the the Nates
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: and you know, and I mean we all have this
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: bond and when you win Super Bowls, man, it's one
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: thing about it. You win super Bowls, you will never
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: forget the guys that you you paid that price with. Man,
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: that's you know, those are strong, strong relationships.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm gonna take a break here and let you go.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: I know you were super busy. This was This was
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: so much fun and I wish we could do it
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: all the time. But I know how busy you are.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: So Darren Wasson, Future Hall of Famer.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Thanks, current Ring of Honor.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: Remember I'll be back all time leader in tackles and
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: the first the first guy to be on here for
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: this show. Uh to take some calls and I'm sure
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: that the four guys they called in what.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: A treat it was.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: That wasthing. I got to give a shout out to
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: Chris So Chris Bean.
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Chris Bean because in the back, because Chris brings
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: out the roster. And I first I said, when I
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: walked in here, you know Chris didn't bring that, right,
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, that Roxy.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: I just barely saw rocks. This is all my family anyway.
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: Right, but I gotta say you right, and a Roxy.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Chris Man, He's gonna kill.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: Chris let me tell you this right now. You know
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: I can't see anymore. I'm an old man. If you
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: bring out a roster, this small legod that I can't.
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: Oh God, I love you guys.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I can't wait till you come, when you come back,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: because when you.
• 27:35
  Speaker 12: Do, sev.
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: Like ten page.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be stapled together and it's like, here's the quarterback.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: There's a quarterback, and Roxy knows better. Roxy, that's your problems.
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: So she's gonna put this on the dusk knowing I can't.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: All right, We'll be right back. Hey, guys, keep calling.
• 27:50
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  Speaker 1: To Cowboys storylines, Well that was fun.
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  Speaker 5: Darren Woodson joining us here for the first half of
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  Speaker 5: the show, and I know we got four callers that
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: got a big time treat to talk to him. I'm
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: sorry for the guys that didn't get a chance to
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: talk to him, and he just got to talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: It's not as I mean, huge drop off. And I
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: get that. Darren. He's the best. I mean, he's the best.
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  Speaker 5: He's just he's just whatever you remember him as a player,
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: he's one hundred times better as a person and that's
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: what makes him just who he is. And I know
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: he could still play. I mean, I mean, I'm sure
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: he still could if he wanted to. He says no way,
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: but I bet he could. All right, I'll try to
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  Speaker 5: get as many calls as we can here, Tim and
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: grape Vine? Is that next Tim and Grapevine?
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  Speaker 10: Nick?
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  Speaker 12: My goodness, that was fantastic. I love this show. But
• 30:46
  Speaker 12: now that was a cherry on top. That was Yeah,
• 30:49
  Speaker 12: you got me hooked. I was actually gonna I was
• 30:51
  Speaker 12: actually gonna tease him about being a Steelers fan growing up.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: Yes, but I saw that, And did you see that
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  Speaker 5: in the worst stories that we did.
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  Speaker 10: I did.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, So it might be a blessing in disguise in
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  Speaker 12: case I ever seen in person one day, Probably a
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  Speaker 12: good thing I didn't do that. But yeah, no, if
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  Speaker 12: we want to shift gears here, I'm curious. So we
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  Speaker 12: got to see Schoonmaker a little bit early on in
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  Speaker 12: the game last week, as well as Deuce, and I'm
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  Speaker 12: just wondering, I mean, do you think the coaches is
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  Speaker 12: this a plan on their part as far as ramping
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  Speaker 12: those guys up?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 5: I mean I think Schoonmaker, I mean they drafted him
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  Speaker 5: second round. I mean they drafted him thinking that he
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  Speaker 5: would have a role. I would imagine, you know, he
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  Speaker 5: got set back a little bit in training camp with
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  Speaker 5: with you know, an injury. I think he's going to
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  Speaker 5: be you know, mixed in there, right now I think
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  Speaker 5: they still put Ferguson in an hindershot with a little
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  Speaker 5: bit more snaps, but they'll they'll work him in. Schoonmaker
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  Speaker 5: had the rare stat line the other day of just
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  Speaker 5: ones across the board one target, one catch, one yard,
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: one yard average, one touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just boom. That's that's how you do it.
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  Speaker 5: So I think Schoonmaker is going to continue to be
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  Speaker 5: there because I do think he's going to be your
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  Speaker 5: better blocker of all of them, and and and that's
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  Speaker 5: why they drafted him there because he could be that guy.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: Plus he's he's got some some wiggle to him, and
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: he can he can catch the ball. He's gonna he's
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  Speaker 5: gonna work himself into it, and he'll probably be getting
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  Speaker 5: a lot of snaps here before too long. Same with Deuce,
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: you know, just finding a role with Deuce. All right,
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: Al in Mercle Texas. Al, what's up?
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  Speaker 10: Hey man?
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  Speaker 8: What's going on?
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  Speaker 6: Much?
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  Speaker 17: Man?
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 32:28
  Speaker 17: I'm going all right? I just hate that I've missed
• 32:30
  Speaker 17: your shows the last two days. But I'm actually off
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  Speaker 17: of the coast of Belize right now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, wow, you're coming in.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, we're playing the cruise along the lines of that game.
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  Speaker 17: I didn't get to see all of the games Sunday,
• 32:45
  Speaker 17: but it was a it was a pretty much of
• 32:48
  Speaker 17: a beat down. I just want I just want to
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  Speaker 17: say that I think our offense is gonna step up when.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: It needs to.
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  Speaker 17: And that's good and bad because uh hopefully, you know,
• 33:01
  Speaker 17: we always say in sports and music is like a game,
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  Speaker 17: just turn it on and turn it off. You got
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  Speaker 17: to be ready to, you know, give your best all
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  Speaker 17: all of the time. But I think the now the
• 33:12
  Speaker 17: Cowboys are in that phase of you know, turning it
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  Speaker 17: off and turn it off, and I hope it doesn't
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  Speaker 17: come back to buy this in the butt.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah you know, well I think you can. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I don't think they're really turning it off. I mean,
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: maybe they're at the end of the of the game,
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: they were just going, let's let's run this thing out
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: and let's don't let's don't get cute or anything. But
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, one play here, one play there
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  Speaker 5: of them scoring and getting in the red zone and
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  Speaker 5: making plays. I mean, I think that that changes everyone's
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: perception a little bit. I don't think they've really turned
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: it off. There, they'll they'll they'll be there and but
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: I do think it's just a different mentality. Now you
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: you know your defense is going to play the way
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: it's playing, then the smart thing is just to lean
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  Speaker 5: on that lean on that defense, don't be you know,
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: don't be done with the football, be smart. And I
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: think that they can continue to do that. All right,
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Vince in Albuquerque? Evince, what's up? Since either?
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  Speaker 18: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: What's up?
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  Speaker 18: Oh? Not too much? Great show? Once again, thanks so much.
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  Speaker 18: I think your show is probably the best of all
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  Speaker 18: of them. If I want to get the weather report
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  Speaker 18: all this, mickey, But that's cool. I got a question
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  Speaker 18: for you. Uh, you know how everybody thinks about after
• 34:29
  Speaker 18: four games, that's what our team is going to look like.
• 34:32
  Speaker 18: A right, but since it only has three games in
• 34:34
  Speaker 18: the preseason to go, maybe the fifth game or is
• 34:38
  Speaker 18: that really true?
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  Speaker 5: What do you think about we really find out, you know,
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: where where this team is.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Is that what you're asking?
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  Speaker 18: Yes, exactly after four games? Five games? Is that the
• 34:48
  Speaker 18: team that's going to be the rest of the season?
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  Speaker 14: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: You know, I don't.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: I won't go that far because I do think you know,
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: we've seen things change throughout the year, and you know,
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: second half of the year, you know you would depending
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: on injuries can can change all that. But I think
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: the first month of the season does is that it's
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: not just what the Cowboys are, it's what everyone is.
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  Speaker 5: And so when you find out what the Giants are,
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: you know, if the Jets win the next two games
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: and they're sitting there at three and one, and you're thinking, well,
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: that wins a lot better than I thought. If everybody
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: beats the Giants, and the Giants you know, of course
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: they did beat the Cardinals, but if you know, if
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  Speaker 5: they're sitting at one and three, then you're forty to nothing,
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: win doesn't look as good. So you just kind of
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: you don't really know what anything is just yet, you
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: just have two games for everyone. Once you get through
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: in early October, now you're starting to kind of see
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: what the trends are around the league, see what these
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: other teams are, and you kind of know, you know,
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: some of these wins look better or worse than what
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: they were, but you know, that's just kind of the
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: nature of it. That's kind of how things are going
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: to be. Before we get another caller here, just want
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: to go through, you know, injury port wise, we'll see
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: what the guys get to do today at practice, guys
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: were mind touring. Of course, are the ones that have
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: been out Tyler Smith, Donovan Wilson, uh and Brandon Cooks.
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: Those three guys will see what they're able to do.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: I have a feeling that that all three of them
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: have a chance to play in this game, and just
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: imagine what that will look like once they go to Arizona.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Brian in Pennsylvania is our next caller?
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  Speaker 1: Brian? What's up? How you doing great? How are you, Brian?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great, man. I got two questions for you.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: First of all, what's the status off Shreef Floyd? I
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: know he left the game and he was he went
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: to get medical attention.
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  Speaker 10: Is he all right?
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Is he back in the building?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Do we know anything about that?
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll before you, I'll just say yes. He he fainted.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: He fainted on the on the there in the middle
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  Speaker 5: of the play with Michael Parson's got the ball and
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: looked like he was going to score, just so crazy
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: right there on the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: He he just kind of he went down just for
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: a second. He was he was fine by the time
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: that that play was over and all that he he'd
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: kind of was you know, it came to but just
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: kind of a weird scary deal for a second there. Yea,
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: but yeah, he's he he's doing pretty good resting if
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: last I heard, he was resting at home. Not sure
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: how much they're going to rush him back, but yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it was kind of a scary deal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of was got me thinking. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we talk a lot about the job that Will McClay
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: does right, and everybody else is talking about all the
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: great defense and all the talent that we have.
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  Speaker 10: I don't think we.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Give enough credit to aid and Dirty, you know what
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: he's done with this line throughout the years, and Joe
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Witt junior with the past game coordinator, and also Nick Salari,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: you know, the new offensive line coach that came in
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: because we had two we had our second second string
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: guard come out for our third string and then Zach
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Martin came out and Austin Richards plugged in and we
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: were still able to effectively, you know, move the ball.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: It didn't become a liability. So I was wondering this
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: year possibly being a historic Here are you thinking about
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: like shedding some light on those coaches? Al Harris all
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: the guys right there in the trenches with everybody. Yeah,
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: because I just think they do a job. Bill McClay
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: does get talent in here. But the player development has
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: happened in the past few years is all because of
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: guys like Aiden, you know, and Al Harris, and I
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: just wanted to kind of know what you.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's a great I think that's a great point.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: I think it's an overlooked point. And and you know,
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: part of that. One of the reasons why it's overlooked
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: is that's kind of by design. I mean, we know
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: how this thing works. We know that the visibility helps
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: you know, you it's kind of an out of side,
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: out of mind, and assistant coaches aren't really allowed to
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: talk to the media there. You don't see that, you
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: don't see them. It happens a little bit of training camp,
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: but for the most part it doesn't, and so they
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: do get overlooked. And that's that's kind of the nature
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: of it. But also too is it also there's a
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: reason for that as well, because you want to make
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: sure that you're not getting a lot of sources. You
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: don't get guys talking to other you know, different relationships
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: in the media and things like that, So you want
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: to keep it kind of tight, and that's one way
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: to do it. But yeah, it does hurt him a
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: little bit. You do kind of forget about those guys,
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: and you're right, Aid and Dirty has done a great
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: job of those defensive line. Al Harris, you know, I
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: think has has their respect for sure, because not only
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: did he play for mccarthury, he played corner, but he
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: played with swag. He played the way that that you
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: know that they want them to play. Be aggressive with
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: the ball, go out and go get the football so
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: you can go down the line. A lot of those
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: assistant coaches have been really good, and I'm glad that
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: you pointed that out.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Kurt in Arkansas is our next caller. Kurt. What's up?
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  Speaker 10: Hey, Nick? How are you doing?
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I'm great? How are you?
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: Kurt?
• 39:36
  Speaker 10: All right? I hated missing way because someone to ask him,
• 39:40
  Speaker 10: he would say he was a Steelers fan. I wanted
• 39:43
  Speaker 10: to see what he thought of Troy Polam. That's true
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: because I always draded when the Cowboys were going to
• 39:49
  Speaker 10: play the Steelers during Troyce when he was in his prime.
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: No doubt I thought for Kurt, I thought at one
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: point and I don't remember what year. I thought he
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: was the best player in football. I kind of as
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: a wizard.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I really thought he was good.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: He would he'd be at the line of scrimmage, he'd
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: be way back eating an interception. He'd fly over the top.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: I mean, he was like he played like a Jedi.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: He was.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: He was awesome.
• 40:16
  Speaker 10: And when those receivers went across the middle, they had
• 40:19
  Speaker 10: to ed Troy True.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: Yep, he was a big time hitter. He can do it,
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: he can do everything. He was a really, really good player.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: All right, thanks for the call, Kurt. We're gonna try
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: to sneak one in real quick. One more called Lucky
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: Wilson in Indianapolis, tenth caller.
• 40:35
  Speaker 13: Hey, how you doing, man, I'm good, I'm good. At
• 40:38
  Speaker 13: last time I talked to you, I think Wade Phillips
• 40:40
  Speaker 13: was coaching the team.
• 40:41
  Speaker 10: Wow, it's been a minute.
• 40:43
  Speaker 18: It's been a while.
• 40:44
  Speaker 13: Okay, everything, Everything's good.
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 40:49
  Speaker 13: My question my question is what what what? What are
• 40:53
  Speaker 13: your concerns about the Cardinals? I mean, uh, any any
• 40:56
  Speaker 13: chance of the Cowboys letting up because they're pretty weak
• 40:59
  Speaker 13: as far as i'm uh so, what are your concerns
• 41:02
  Speaker 13: about the Cardinals? Is anything we should be concerned about
• 41:05
  Speaker 13: with them.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I was kind of wondering if I was
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: going to get any call about the Cardinals this week.
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: I'm seriously, I was kind of wondering that because, uh,
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: you're right, I mean Cowboys, it looks like that they're
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: gonna be way better than them, and they should go
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: out and they win. With the concerns or this, look
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: at the look at what they're doing. They're they're playing hard.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: That's that's and and you could say, oh, well, you
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: know everyone should do it. Well, they don't have the
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: talent that other teams do, but they are going out
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: right now. They they probably could have beaten Washington. They
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: definitely could have should have beaten the Giants. They they
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: had that game. So they're they're playing hard. And I
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: do know this, every time you go to Arizona, something
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: something's gonna happen, something quirky, something different, special team touchdown,
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: defensive touchdown, miss kicks here and there. Who knows, it'll
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: be something. It's not always been good for the Cowboys either,
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: So I think that what what you know they'll do
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: is if if you get and Josh Robs can probably
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: move as well. So when you look at what's hurt
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: this Cowboys team.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: And the defense.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: If there's been anything, it's been quarterback quarterbacks that know
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: how to move in the pocket, get first downs, keep
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: drives alive. That they should be off the field, but
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: they're moving. They're moving, and they're getting points. And turnovers
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: are going to hurt the team. The only thing I
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: think will really beat the Cowboys or the Cowboys. If
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: the Cowboys have turnovers hurt themselves play like that, then no,
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: I think I think that's going to be an issue.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: But if they play sound football like they've been playing,
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: I think that they will. They will win this game.
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, and they'll probably win pretty comfortably. But you
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: have to get there. You have to get there. And
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: that's what I keep saying all all you know all
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: week is that that's the test for me is and
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: it's today. If you're going to lose to the Cardinals,
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: you lose today, you lose tomorrow. You lose when you're
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: not focused and you're not paying attention in the meetings
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: and you don't see exactly what the Cardinals like to
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: do with their tight ends. Speaking of is zach Ertz,
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: He's caught six passes in each of the last two games.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: So remember him obviously with Philly for so long, but
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: he's found a little something there connection with Dobbs. So
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: you know, but you have to be focused, and you
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: focus in the middle of the week. We say it
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: all the time. That's how you lose games in the
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: middle of the week and if you're not as focused
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: as you possibly could be. And it's and it's not easy.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: It's not easy. I mean, the noise is out there.
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: I've got a screen right here that I could see myself.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: I got a screen over here where I see NFL
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: network And it's one of the chances Michael Parsons could
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: win MVP for twenty twenty three MVP. That's that's in
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: January when when that's announced. Not defensive MVP, but MVP.
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: But but you know, you want him to kind of
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: focus and it's tough to do because that's where the
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: you know, everything is. But look, we're gonna stay grounded,
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: We're gonna be focused. Let's see if Michah Parsons can
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: win NFC Defensive Player of the Week. That won't get
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: announced for the next fifteen minutes, but if it does,
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: maybe Micah could win that. Not not breaking any news,
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: just saying could be something down the pipe. That's what
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: we need to be thinking of. Try to keep it
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: as focused as possible, but it's not easy when the
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: Cowboys are playing like that, all right. I gotta thank
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: Darren Woodson for coming by him. If we can get
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: him in every week, that would be awesome. We'll try
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: because it's so much fun there, and I know you
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: guys got a chance to call.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: A few of you did. Maybe we can.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: We can figure out a way to get him in
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: here and we can get some more calls as well.
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: For Chris Beam, Darren Woodson, I'm Nick Eaman. We'll see
• 44:21
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