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Jerry Jones speaks out on not signing Derrick Henry · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: As we mentioned, let more on Texas Vanderbilt coming up
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  Speaker 1: The Texans play. I think it's the Colts this week,
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  Speaker 1: and if the Colts win, they'll be in first place.
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  Speaker 1: How about that. You'll figure that out. Joe Flacco, Well,
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  Speaker 1: actually Anthony Richardson's back now on that. But they might
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  Speaker 1: be better with Flaco, I don't know. On the Manning
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  Speaker 1: Cast last night, they showed Joe Flacco's twenty one yard
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  Speaker 1: run in the game earlier this season. They said, that's
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  Speaker 1: the longest run from scrimmage he's had I think of
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  Speaker 1: his career, and he got top end speed of like
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  Speaker 1: eighteen miles per hour FLA. I said, I was so
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  Speaker 1: out of breath I couldn't even call the play in
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  Speaker 1: the huddle afterwards. But the Cowboys come off the bye
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  Speaker 1: week the open date on the schedule, and they have
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  Speaker 1: to go out to Santa Clara to play an angry
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  Speaker 1: forty nine or team that did not play well and
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  Speaker 1: got humbled by the Cheese and lost Brandon Ayuk for
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  Speaker 1: the season.
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  Speaker 2: And with Deebo Samuel being traded for Ammonia, he may
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  Speaker 2: be out for this game. And of course still no
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  Speaker 2: updates yet on Christian McCaffrey.
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  Speaker 1: So it's amazing to say that the Rams are two
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  Speaker 1: and fours till like on the fringes of being in
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  Speaker 1: contention in a division.
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  Speaker 2: They are not out of it whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the Cardinals are five and two after winning, Well,
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  Speaker 1: aren't they five and two? No, they're three or four?
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  Speaker 2: Reading four?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're three and four. So anyway, it's so Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: Rams are a game.
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  Speaker 2: And a half back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, in talking about the NFL, the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys of course will have to play at the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers this week and again last week. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you heard about it, read about it. It was it
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  Speaker 1: was in all the papers, it was on all the website.
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  Speaker 1: Things that Jerry Jones when he got Crossways with his
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  Speaker 1: weekly radio guys r J. Chappie and Sean Sheriff and
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  Speaker 1: I can never remember the third guy's name, but anyway,
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  Speaker 1: you got crossways with them.
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  Speaker 2: But like it's it's like the group that signful an
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  Speaker 2: episode with the three tenors, you know, like Domingo and
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  Speaker 2: then and then and the other guy.
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  Speaker 1: The other guy, the other guy, the other guy. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the other guy is the producer really and but I
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  Speaker 1: never forget your name because thank you. You're you're very
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  Speaker 1: important part of this program, both not on the board,
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  Speaker 1: not only on board, but also on the air. So
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. And then to make matters more confusing, RJ.
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  Speaker 1: Choppy wasn't even on the show this morning, which we're here,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, coming off of that very tense conversation
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  Speaker 1: this week last week, and then coming off the open date,
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  Speaker 1: what would today's conversation be, Like, I think you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be entertained. This was from one oh five to
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  Speaker 1: three the Fan in Dallas Fort Worth. This is the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys flagship station, and this is Jerry Jones Weekly Conversation
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 3: And the moment that many around the country and the
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  Speaker 3: Metroplex are waiting for is upon us as Jerry is
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  Speaker 3: joining us right now on DFW Sports station. Good morning, Jerry,
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  Speaker 3: how are you on?
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  Speaker 4: How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: RJ?
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  Speaker 4: Good to be on with you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, that's things, that's things, Jerry.
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  Speaker 3: RJ is the only one not here today.
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  Speaker 4: Well I did he want to avoid the confrontations?
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  Speaker 3: Yes he did, Yes he did, Jerry. What do you
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  Speaker 3: want to say if anything about last week?
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  Speaker 4: I don't have anything said about last week. I'm happy
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  Speaker 4: though that I must be tell you. I'm surprised that
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  Speaker 4: last week got the attention it got. But you know, really,
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  Speaker 4: when I think about what we try to do on
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  Speaker 4: this show, for me, is I think we give you
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  Speaker 4: two shots a week that I get on and Steven
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  Speaker 4: gets on once or twice, and Mike. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if Mike gets on or not. But those are really
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  Speaker 4: a privilege. It's kind of like Piloton. You get some
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  Speaker 4: inside stuff. As you know, I don't go before the
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  Speaker 4: normal press conferences during the week usually, and so this
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  Speaker 4: is the kind of thing that I would expect and
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  Speaker 4: how I would answer it relative to many of your questions.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to ask me today because Henry had a
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  Speaker 4: big night, Derrick Henry last night. You're going to ask
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  Speaker 4: me again, how come when Henry was available, and right
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  Speaker 4: here in Dallas said he didn't. We didn't get it.
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  Speaker 4: And I will tell you the same kind of question
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  Speaker 4: is one that my wife might ask me of sixty
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  Speaker 4: something years why did you do that? And I said, well,
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  Speaker 4: I really don't know why I did that. The devil
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  Speaker 4: made me do it. And so my point is those
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  Speaker 4: kinds of questions are pointedly toward putting you on a
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  Speaker 4: spot to make a certain kind of answer. I've obviously
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  Speaker 4: been asked that Derrick Henry question almost every day since
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  Speaker 4: we started training camp, and so that's a get in
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  Speaker 4: your ask type of question. And I understand that I
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  Speaker 4: see that coming, and that's real good. But when you
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  Speaker 4: do it several times, and of course you know, I
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  Speaker 4: keep up with what you guys say when I'm not
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  Speaker 4: on the show, and so when you do it several times,
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  Speaker 4: I know that when you're asked about a question of
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  Speaker 4: such as one that you might have at home of
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  Speaker 4: why did you do that, and you do it several times,
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  Speaker 4: then you really know what the situation is where it's
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  Speaker 4: coming from. So those are the kinds of things that
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  Speaker 4: this show, to me can and build out. For instance,
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  Speaker 4: if you ask me how I make a decision, I
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  Speaker 4: would say I maybe go back to a story of
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  Speaker 4: when I was buying the Cowboys and we got down
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  Speaker 4: to where it was a three hundred thousand dollars different
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  Speaker 4: and we couldn't get by the man that sold the
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  Speaker 4: team to me, and so he suggested we flip a coin,
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  Speaker 4: and we flipped that coin and I lost. I really
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  Speaker 4: got screwed. I ended up with the Dallas Cowboy. My
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  Speaker 4: point is, I don't know why I called heads rather
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  Speaker 4: than tails, and I couldn't explain to you why I
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  Speaker 4: called heads Rytheran tails. But some of this stuff works out,
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  Speaker 4: some of it doesn't. That's the kind of thing and
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  Speaker 4: the kind of answers I would expect us to be
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  Speaker 4: talking about on the show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I get all that, and normally we're usually
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  Speaker 3: on the same page in terms of the topics and
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  Speaker 3: the subjects. That's why I think last week threw us
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  Speaker 3: off a little bit. But look, man, as I've said
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  Speaker 3: multiple times, Jerry, you've provided us you know, Radio Gold,
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  Speaker 3: and it is a privilege to be able to do
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  Speaker 3: this show with you for fifteen years and we had
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  Speaker 3: some fireworks, and that's the kind of the way I
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  Speaker 3: view it, despite you know, the payment and suspension and
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  Speaker 3: then move the show and all that stuff, because we're
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  Speaker 3: usually in locksteps. So I understand that.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, here's the thing. The fact that we've been doing
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  Speaker 4: it fifteen years of it shows that someplace in between
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  Speaker 4: there we got comfortable in our skin doing these type things,
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  Speaker 4: and we did get comfortable with it. I'm tickled to
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  Speaker 4: death that we have as much interest in this as
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  Speaker 4: we do and as you well know. But guys, I
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  Speaker 4: have no issue and you know that as a matter
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  Speaker 4: of fact, you've said that I have no issue with
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  Speaker 4: getting up in front of a bunch of media and
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  Speaker 4: people of journalism and asking the question and answering, getting
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  Speaker 4: questions and answering, and I don't have any problem with that.
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  Speaker 4: Would you agree with that?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, totally.
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  Speaker 4: And again I'm not trying to put words in your mouth,
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  Speaker 4: but the point is that we've in my mind, we're
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  Speaker 4: not playing very good football right now at all. It's
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  Speaker 4: beyond whether or not we have Derrick Henry or not.
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  Speaker 4: Derrick Henry is having a career year. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if he'd be having that career year in our situation,
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  Speaker 4: and that's really something you really do have to look at,
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  Speaker 4: because if he had not had as many carriers as
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  Speaker 4: our running backs have had, then he certainly probably wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: have attained the level of impact he's having. And then
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  Speaker 4: he's a real good compliment to the type of offense
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  Speaker 4: they run. We don't run that type offense at all.
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  Speaker 4: Our situation is more about, frankly, it's more about holding
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  Speaker 4: your blocks. It's more about not making mistakes. It's more about,
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  Speaker 4: in my mind, the receivers running through a tough man
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  Speaker 4: demand coverage and running on through it. And if you
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  Speaker 4: will get away from the types of things that we
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  Speaker 4: all think we should to be looking at, is well,
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  Speaker 4: we're designing bad plays or we're designing bad concepts. The
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  Speaker 4: facts are that there's some of that, but there's also
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  Speaker 4: some of the execution. There are some of the talent.
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  Speaker 4: I like our talent. I really do like our talent.
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  Speaker 4: I like our young talent, but young talent has a
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  Speaker 4: few more mistakes associated with it than that. If you
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  Speaker 4: are dealing with a veteran player, although you've got to
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  Speaker 4: have young talent. As I've said, Derrick Henry didn't fit
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  Speaker 4: because principally of managing the cap, of managing the cap
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  Speaker 4: and anticipation of the players that we were going to
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  Speaker 4: sign weeks later, or anticipation of the players we're going
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  Speaker 4: to be signing in the future.
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  Speaker 3: Jerry Jones here on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was it. That was the most entertaining part.
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  Speaker 1: There was one other thing they said something with regard
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  Speaker 1: to what was the deal with.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was wide receiver of the situation.
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to remember. It came who was the
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  Speaker 1: former Cowboys wide receiver with Cleveland, Marik Cooper, A Maury Cooper.
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  Speaker 1: There was there was a deal. He said something something
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  Speaker 1: with regard to that, But it wasn't. It wasn't it
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't you would.
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  Speaker 2: Say they said, we went for dollars when we traded
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  Speaker 2: Amrii Cooper Poper Cooper, we saved almost twenty million dollars
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  Speaker 2: for a cap in the future. We took a lesser
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  Speaker 2: draft pick to get that savings. When he made this
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  Speaker 2: move the other day, Cleveland went for more draft picks
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  Speaker 2: and less savings. It was very simple. Yeah, because remember
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  Speaker 2: when the Cowboys traded Mariy Cooper to Cleveland. It was
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  Speaker 2: for a fifth round draft pick. After remember they traded
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  Speaker 2: for him for a first round draft pick. That's right,
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland traded him the Buffalo last week for a third
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  Speaker 2: round draft pick.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they were saying, how does something like that
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  Speaker 1: happen when you traded for him for a first round,
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  Speaker 1: you unloaded him for a fifth round and then they
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  Speaker 1: were able to trade him for a third round and
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  Speaker 1: he basically said it was about dollars and cents.
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  Speaker 2: They were able to.
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  Speaker 1: Save it cap money by doing it that way. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like Jerry's back on good terms with uh
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  Speaker 1: with those morning guys at one, five to three of
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