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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 2: This is these Cowboys Storylines with Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 4: What is up at this time for another edition of
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys Storyline? I am Nick Eatman here at Oxnard, California.
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  Speaker 4: My favorite producer of all time is here, Chris beam Man.
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  Speaker 4: I owe him a big round of something. We are here.
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  Speaker 4: We got big news. Malie Hooker is the big news,
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  Speaker 4: and it was supposed to be because he's gonna join
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  Speaker 4: the set. We did an interview with him, just to
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  Speaker 4: tell you how it goes. We did an interview with
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  Speaker 4: him already, and then of course news broke a little
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  Speaker 4: bit after that. So now we're switching up a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna throw to the interview later on in the segment.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna start though, right now, like we do with
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  Speaker 4: every show, we start with storylines. You know, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know why I never really played baseball, but I think
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  Speaker 4: it's probably because I couldn't hit a curveball very well.
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  Speaker 4: I might just want to, like right down the middle,
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  Speaker 4: you know, don't do anything curves. And that's what happens
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  Speaker 4: sometimes when our business gets thrown a little curveball every
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  Speaker 4: now and again. Hopefully we can knock this one out
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  Speaker 4: of the park. We'll see. But what we're doing this live.
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  Speaker 4: This is the first time that Cowboy storyline has been live,
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  Speaker 4: so hopefully we'll be able to answer some of your
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  Speaker 4: texts and when our new text line, which is eight
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  Speaker 4: one seven two nine zero three two nine eight eight
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  Speaker 4: one seven two nine zero three two nine eight. All right,
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  Speaker 4: let's get after it here. Let's talk about Malik Hooker
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  Speaker 4: is in the process as we speak of probably signing
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  Speaker 4: a three year extension worth about twenty four million dollars,
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  Speaker 4: about sixteen million of that, from my understand is guaranteed,
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  Speaker 4: uh locks him up. Now, this was supposed to be
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  Speaker 4: a contract year, which is what I asked him about.
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  Speaker 4: So he did tell me that it would have been
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  Speaker 4: nice he could have maybe said a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: to it now, but this thing, from what I hear,
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  Speaker 4: is really just kind of popped up. This is one
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  Speaker 4: of those deals where the agent cowboys that say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: let's get this thing knocked out. And this is good
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  Speaker 4: because this this locks up your your secondary and your
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  Speaker 4: safety position. You got Donovan Wilson on a three year
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  Speaker 4: deal now you got three more years with with malle Cooker.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously Trayvon Diggs as well. You know, we'll see where
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  Speaker 4: the you know, we're how long Gilmour plays for and
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  Speaker 4: but still your You've got your secondary that's in a
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  Speaker 4: really really good spot right now. So I think this
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  Speaker 4: is this is a big deal for you know, for
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  Speaker 4: the Cowboys. Obviously a big deal for Mallie Cooker. So
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  Speaker 4: that's that's what we're looking at right now for for
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  Speaker 4: the Cowboys. I would imagine he will sign his contract
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  Speaker 4: later today and uh we probably will get him, you know,
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  Speaker 4: on the podium for the media to talk about him,
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  Speaker 4: I mean talking about his contract here at some point
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  Speaker 4: in the next couple of days. So MALIEK Cooker wasn't
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  Speaker 4: He wasn't the guy on my Bengo card that I
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  Speaker 4: that I had for the next one to sign. But
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  Speaker 4: I will say this, Isaiah Stampek is a witness to this.
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  Speaker 4: I made a claim yesterday from two things that I
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  Speaker 4: saw on the field, just body language from different people.
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  Speaker 4: I said, in the next twenty four hours, someone is
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  Speaker 4: signing a new contract. I did not have it as
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  Speaker 4: MALIEK Cooker. So I don't know if that even counts.
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  Speaker 4: But that's that's another guy that's not even somebody that
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  Speaker 4: that we that we thought really was was gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 4: be in the mix for a new deal. But I
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  Speaker 4: liked that they did, and so let's let's move on.
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  Speaker 4: Let's look at real quick safety position again. Like we
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  Speaker 4: said right now, Donovan Wilson banged up, but he did
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  Speaker 4: sign a three year deal. He's been out in most
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  Speaker 4: of the training camp. Israel mcwah has been out with
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  Speaker 4: a hamstring injury as well, So the two of them
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  Speaker 4: banged up not not in the lineup, which actually can
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  Speaker 4: be a good thing for others. Janie Thomas has gotten
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  Speaker 4: a lot of reps, Tyler Coyle has gotten some snaps
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  Speaker 4: in there. Of course, MALIEK. Cooker as well. So we're
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  Speaker 4: going to see obviously a lot more of Malik first
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  Speaker 4: round draft pick from the Colts a few years back.
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  Speaker 4: He's been dealing with injuries, but now this is really
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  Speaker 4: his third season with the Cowboys, and clearly they they
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  Speaker 4: are liking what they've what they're seeing out of him,
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  Speaker 4: obviously to lock him up for three years. All right, Again,
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  Speaker 4: if you want to send a text on the text line,
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  Speaker 4: we are we are live here eight one seven two
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  Speaker 4: nine zero three two nine eight. We've gotten a lot
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  Speaker 4: of texts and some calls and some emails tweets that
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  Speaker 4: we will read. Uh, and I'll answer for the third segment.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Again, We've got an interview in the can with MALIEK.
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  Speaker 4: Cooker and he's going to have a great poker face
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  Speaker 4: when it comes to asking about a new contract because
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  Speaker 4: he didn't really talk about it, but he talked about
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  Speaker 4: a lot of other cool stuff which will we will discuss. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: more storylines really quick here. Every day Zach Martin isn't here,
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  Speaker 4: it's another fifty thousand dollars fine for him, and again
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  Speaker 4: I'm not too concerned about it from his standpoint, other
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  Speaker 4: than losing fifty grand a year. I guess I guess
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  Speaker 4: he's okay with that. But I do think, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he should be staying off his feet. It's probably staying
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  Speaker 4: in shape. And he knows the offense well. He's a
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  Speaker 4: plug and play guy without a doubt. So when he
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  Speaker 4: comes back, it'll be fine. Maybe an hour of rust.
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  Speaker 4: He should be ready to go. As long as he's
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  Speaker 4: there for the giants. I don't think anyone's too concerned
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  Speaker 4: but you want a happy Zach Martin. You want someone
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  Speaker 4: that is you know, and he's the ultimate professional. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think it's gonna be a problem with him coming back.
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  Speaker 4: You hope that this the situation has resolved to the
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  Speaker 4: point where he could come in and do his job
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  Speaker 4: whenever whenever that is, whenever that that happened. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 4: Josh Ball has taken a lot of snaps there and
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  Speaker 4: right a guard. I think he looks pretty good. I
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  Speaker 4: was a little surprised, honestly, that that he's that he's
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  Speaker 4: done there. I've always thought he's a tackle, and that's
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  Speaker 4: mainly me stereotyping the fact that he's six eight. If
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  Speaker 4: you're six eight, you're probably in the NBA, and if not,
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  Speaker 4: if you're gonna play football, you're gonna be either the
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  Speaker 4: tackle spot or maybe defensive end. You know, what are
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  Speaker 4: we talk about in the trenches? How do you? How
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  Speaker 4: do you get beat? It's the leverage and when you're
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  Speaker 4: six eight, every defensive tackle is already lower than you,
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  Speaker 4: so it's really tough to to to play that position
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  Speaker 4: when you're that tall. That's the challenge. I think Josh
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  Speaker 4: Ball is going to be dealing with right now, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, I, well, we'll see. I think these are
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  Speaker 4: valuable reps that that he is getting, and he'll be
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  Speaker 4: in there for the for the preseason. We did see
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  Speaker 4: a question here about what the preseason offensive line the
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  Speaker 4: starting five is gonna look like. That that was not
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  Speaker 4: the easiest question to answer, so I think, but this
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  Speaker 4: is what we're talking about right now. This is what
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  Speaker 4: happens in the preseason. You're not as worried about the
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  Speaker 4: Zach Martin right now. Yes, chemistry is a thing you'd
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  Speaker 4: like for him to kind of work with the guys.
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  Speaker 4: But I think whenever he does come back, whenever that is,
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  Speaker 4: I think that they're gonna be just fine.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, we've got the Cowboys text line. This
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  Speaker 4: is I think the second day that we've had this
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  Speaker 4: on the podcast. Cowboys Break used it yesterday, I know,
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  Speaker 4: Talking Cowboys did some of the other shows as well.
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  Speaker 4: I'll definitely be using when the season comes, when I'm
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  Speaker 4: back at the Star, I'll definitely be using this for sure,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm using it now as well. In fact, we
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  Speaker 4: just got one in. It looks like a two to
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  Speaker 4: one five area code. The question is about the hooker contract,
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  Speaker 4: he said. With Hooker's deal and Dig's deal, as well
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  Speaker 4: as getting Gilmour, it seems the team has done a
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  Speaker 4: one point eighty when it comes to paying dbs since
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  Speaker 4: Carr Brandon Carr. I don't know if it's been a
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  Speaker 4: one eighty. I don't think that they've changed the mentality
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  Speaker 4: of corners and safeties. I think it's the fact that
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  Speaker 4: they've got good ones that they could you know, they
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  Speaker 4: can they can get in here and pay. I mean this,
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  Speaker 4: this is a team that moved up to the number
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  Speaker 4: sixth pick in the draft and surprised everyone to go
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  Speaker 4: get more.
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  Speaker 1: Clayborne didn't work out. You know, Mo.
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  Speaker 4: Wasn't I don't know, was it as good as he
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  Speaker 4: was in college? I mean as simple as that he's
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  Speaker 4: confidence wasn't great for a corner you have to have that, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and and that he wasn't just a great player,
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  Speaker 4: but as great as you would want your number six
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  Speaker 4: pick to be. I don't think they've done a one
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  Speaker 4: eighty honestly in paying them. I think they they really
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  Speaker 4: like what Hooker can do. Gil More. I think where
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  Speaker 4: they they made the big change, and I kind of
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  Speaker 4: see where you're going. I think the one eighty was
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  Speaker 4: going to get veteran guys and doing what you need
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  Speaker 4: to do, whether it be a trade, giving up draft
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  Speaker 4: capital to go get a Gilmore, go get Brandon Cooks.
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  Speaker 4: That to me was the biggest change. They love to
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  Speaker 4: pick players, they love draft picks. To give draft picks
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  Speaker 4: up is not the easiest thing, even though they did
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  Speaker 4: it and they got a couple of veterans. I think
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  Speaker 4: that the mindset is always to keep the corners in
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  Speaker 4: safeties and have a great secondary. I just think they've
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  Speaker 4: got better ones than they've had in the past. That's
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  Speaker 4: that's That's kind of what I think here, So bear
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  Speaker 4: with me. I'm trying to see if we've got any
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  Speaker 4: more questions about this, not really about so far that
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  Speaker 4: about the money Cooker Hooker deal, uh, some of these
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  Speaker 4: others though we'll definitely take care in the in the
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  Speaker 4: third segment here. So all right, we're gonna move on
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  Speaker 4: and we're gonna take a break again. Remember we interviewed MALIEK.
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  Speaker 4: Cooker earlier in the day. The show was supposed to
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  Speaker 4: go out a little earlier. We interviewed him, so he's
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  Speaker 4: got a night. He talks about a lot of things
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  Speaker 4: at that moment. He really could not speak at all
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  Speaker 4: to a contract signing, so that it won't be included
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  Speaker 4: in this, but we will will definitely talk with him.
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  Speaker 4: It's a fun interview. He has some great things to
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  Speaker 4: say about his teammates. So we'll be right back here
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  Speaker 4: with a word from Malie Cooker.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back to Cowboys Storylines. I'm Nick Eatman, joined by
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  Speaker 4: safety Malik Hooker. It joins the show here and Malik,
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  Speaker 4: it's been two years since they just brought you in
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  Speaker 4: here in the middle of camp. That seems like twenty
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  Speaker 4: years ago. It probably feels that way for you too,
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  Speaker 4: Just so many things that have changed and kind of
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  Speaker 4: where the situation is now. How much are you enjoying this,
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  Speaker 4: you know, this dance now as opposed to where you
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  Speaker 4: were before.
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  Speaker 9: Oh man, I'm definitely enjoying it a lot, you know obviously,
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  Speaker 9: you know when I first came in, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 9: it wasn't really sure what to expect, you know, as
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  Speaker 9: far as coming to a new team, obviously building with
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  Speaker 9: some new guys, and you know, this last two years
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  Speaker 9: been here with these guys, and it's been special. It's
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  Speaker 9: been special, non sure or less. You know, we're real
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  Speaker 9: close off the field. You know, we do a lot
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  Speaker 9: of our events and stuff together off the field.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I couldn't ask for more from this group.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, because when you got here, obviously you'd come
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  Speaker 4: you were a first round draft pick with the Colts
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  Speaker 4: and made some plays.
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  Speaker 1: Of course that the injuries.
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  Speaker 4: We were an issue. Was it kind of weird to
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  Speaker 4: come here and say I got to prove myself again?
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  Speaker 4: Or is that was that kind of the exciting part
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  Speaker 4: about it?
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  Speaker 9: No? No, it was exciting for me, you know, because
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  Speaker 9: I mean, you go through all these dark times, you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 9: like you said, coming off of the injuries and stuff
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  Speaker 9: like that, and these ist questions that you ask yourself,
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  Speaker 9: you know, am I gonna be the same player I
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  Speaker 9: was before? H Am I gonna be able to perform
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  Speaker 9: at a high level like I was before? And all
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  Speaker 9: these things? And uh, you know, like you said, the
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  Speaker 9: good thing about it, you know, we get to prove
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  Speaker 9: it to yourself. And I feel like I done a
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  Speaker 9: good job of doing that a little bit here in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you've seen a lot of movies
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  Speaker 4: like this, you see, but what does a three headed
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  Speaker 4: monster really look like? And how how I mean, what
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  Speaker 4: is their their biggest strength? Maybe they can see everything.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, I mean, based off of some of the
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  Speaker 9: movies I see, I mean, you will see that, you know,
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  Speaker 9: it's always different characteristics.
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  Speaker 3: Out of the three headed monsters, you know, they're unique
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  Speaker 3: in their own way. Whether one you know, shoots fireballs
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  Speaker 3: or one does this.
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  Speaker 9: You know, it's just some movies you see different stuff
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  Speaker 9: from them. So I mean, as far as for hair
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  Speaker 9: is kind of the same thing. You know, we're all
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  Speaker 9: unique and different in our own way. And you know,
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  Speaker 9: the job roles that were kind of placed in, you know,
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  Speaker 9: we do. We all do that at a very high level.
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  Speaker 9: We know, and we're very impact at the roles we're given.
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  Speaker 4: So everybody's got different traits, different roles. I know, loudest
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  Speaker 4: in the locker room's gotta be Jay Runker. I mean
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  Speaker 4: we can we can hear it before we even get
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  Speaker 4: into the locker room. What what do you bring to
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  Speaker 4: the table that's different? Are you gonna sit? Are you
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  Speaker 4: the fastest or you I mean probably the most experienced,
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  Speaker 4: I would imagine.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I'll probably say just the ball skills
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  Speaker 9: of aspect, because you know, throughout most of my career,
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  Speaker 9: I've always been the high safety, the free safety, you know,
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  Speaker 9: the cover guy, and you know, so I'll say more
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  Speaker 9: so that aspect of it. I mean, obviously those two
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  Speaker 9: guys they cover too and stuff like that, but they
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  Speaker 9: don't get too many chances to really roam the middle
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  Speaker 9: of the field and stuff like that because of you
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  Speaker 9: know their characteristics. You know them both guys that play
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  Speaker 9: the box at a high level. You see JK cover
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  Speaker 9: the best of the best.
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  Speaker 3: Weekend a week out and perform at a high level.
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  Speaker 9: Obviously, you see Donald cover as well as you know,
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  Speaker 9: make it being an impact player that he is and
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  Speaker 9: doing different roles. So you just never know what to expect.
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  Speaker 9: And that's what's so unique about our room. You know,
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  Speaker 9: we got guys that's capable of playing multi positions and
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  Speaker 9: doing it at a high level.
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  Speaker 4: Did you ever play baseball?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: I used to play in middle school. I stopped playing
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  Speaker 9: that one position, center field.
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  Speaker 4: I was about to say that's what I was going
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  Speaker 4: for because I was like, that's kind of where you are.
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  Speaker 4: And when Micah and Dorans and those guys are just
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  Speaker 4: having a party at the quarterback.
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  Speaker 9: To get rid of it exactly exactly, So it's like
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  Speaker 9: we're kind of all I mean, I mean, it's unique
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  Speaker 9: because we're in a special situation where you have all
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  Speaker 9: the pieces.
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  Speaker 3: To make it like that.
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  Speaker 9: You know, we have the great defensive line that's able
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  Speaker 9: to stop the run and rush the quarterback when past situations.
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: We have those guys under that able to be sticky
• 16:16
  Speaker 9: on receivers outside you know, from Stephens and Digs. So man,
• 16:20
  Speaker 9: it's like it's just a perfect combination here for a defense.
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: And like I said, guys that's unique in their own
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: way and that you know, able to fit in their
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: role at a high level.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: I feel like that Rams game you had the interception there,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: I feel like that was kind of the epitome of
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: of what this defense is trying to do. Is just
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: get after the quarterback, make it uncomfortable, making him thrown
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: when he doesn't want to, and then you got back
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: end players that can make big plays there.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: It is kind of the deal there.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely.
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: I mean, you know, it's funny because our back even
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: from the linebackers, like man, we got the moon and
• 16:52
  Speaker 9: laying that guys like they're very instinctive players too, and
• 16:55
  Speaker 9: they're capable of, you know, catch interceptions as if they're
• 16:57
  Speaker 9: DB's and stuff like that. So man, this team just
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: so unique and you know, special, and I can't wait
• 17:01
  Speaker 9: to see what we get done this hit.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Tell me about eleven.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: I mean just okay, when a quarterback gets to the
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: line scrimmage, it seems like he's got to okay, where
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: is Parsons and where you know where a lot of
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: these guys are probably starts, like where is.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: He line up?
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Because he lines up everywhere as a safety back there
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: do you always you also need to know, okay, where
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: he is because that's where more tension is going to
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: be and all that stuff. I mean, do you kind
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: of have to find where your superstar guys are?
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: I mean not really, because like I said, man, there's
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: guys like we're able to do whatever we want with
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: so many guys, Like even if you don't send a
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: Michael Parsons, you know we got guys that's from the
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: secondary that we can send out a JB just as
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: impactful and stuff.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Like that, and not for nothing.
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: Like on the other side of Michael, you got Da
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: and Michael I mean d Law and guys like that
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: coming off the edge on the opposite side of Micah.
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: So man, it's just like pick your poison at this
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: point because you just never know which guy us on
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: that specific play. Do we want to be impactful?
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: You know I should have known this this is contract
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: year for you.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Right, m M, yep. Contract here is that?
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: I mean there used to be a big deal is
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: it nowadays? Is like there's a lot of these guys.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: When you get older in your career, you sign it
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: either one year or two year deal, and even if
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: you have years on the deal, if you doesn't perform
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: like you want, you know, the things a business. So
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: is it always kind of feel like a contract year
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: so to speak?
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's definitely.
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: I mean because at the end of the day, you always,
• 18:25
  Speaker 9: like whether you're a starter or a guy that's trying
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: to earn a roster spot on it, you just you're
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: always in a competition, you know, because at the end
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: of the day, this is the highest level of ball that.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: You can play. You know, you're playing with the best
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: of the best.
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: So I mean, as a starter, you can sit there
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: and say, all right, well I'm going to hang off
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: a little bit, but little do A lot of guys
• 18:45
  Speaker 9: and a lot of fans know that that second that
• 18:48
  Speaker 9: second team guy, you know, he's just as good as
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: the starters and can go in there and do the
• 18:51
  Speaker 9: same thing.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: So you want to you want to get some get
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: some of these questions here. You got some questions specifically
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: for you here. All right, so we're starting off this
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: new text line. This is our first time I've actually
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: been able to use it for this show. Chris, Sorry Castellano,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: you know I missed that up. But he says, this
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: is to you, where would you rank this current defense
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: from all the defenses you've been on in your NFL career?
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: I guess that could include last year's team as well.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Uh, this year, I'll say number one. I mean, just
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: because the simple fact.
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: Of, you know, how much more knowledge a lot of
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: guys got from this defense. You know, some of us
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: being three years in the system, some guys being two
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: years in the system. I feel like, you know, we're
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: just that much better because we know what they expect,
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: and we know what the standard and the bar we've
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: set years before has come, and we know that we're
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: capable of get and beating that. So you know, we're
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: just like this year that you know, a lot of
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: guys that people wouldn't expect are going to shine, you know,
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: and it's gonna just be from the simple factor of
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: just doing your job and being within the system.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Give me one of those guys, give me a name.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Somebody we're not expecting it's gonna shine.
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: I'll go is he is he mukuamu. I thank him
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: coming out of the secondary. I think May's gonna have
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: a special here, man, just all for the simple fact
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: of the work he's put in, you know how, all
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: betting on the self. He is on getting his job done,
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: whether it's you know, being down in the box or
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: covering whatever the case may be. Man, I just feel
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: like he's put the time in as well as you know,
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: out of the linebacker room.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I'll save the moon.
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: You know, I've watched him personally take the next step
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: to know whether it's a simple ass being a step.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Faster on the play and stuff like that.
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: And he's put the time into the film room to
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: be able to capitalize on the plays that he felt
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: he should have been better on last year.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: He kind of reminds me of you in the sense
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: of that. And I'm not saying that, you know, guys
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: don't have fun, but it seems kind of like a
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: no nonsense business type approach that he's walked in the
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: door with.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: I mean it's because, I mean, and a good thing
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: about our culture here, Like guys, you know, we know
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: how to be professionals when we're supposed to be.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: So, you know, from since he came in, from.
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: Day one, he's been one of those guys that you know,
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: he picked a veting, Yeah, whoever that vet was, that's
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: who he was studying about how to go about being
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: the pro and stuff like that. And you know in
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: his room, you know he's been around Laighton. Laighton's been
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: in the league for multiple years. There were some other
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: guys that we had in the room, Dave's let go
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: I'll say Gift, Luke Gifford. Man, he was he was
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: a real pro as far as just handling his business,
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: going and going about his business every day. So he
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: has some good role models in his room to look
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: after and stuff like that.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: So I feel like that's why he tends to be
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: so serious.
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: But man, you talked him on offside of the field man,
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: you know, he laughs, Yeah, yeah, that's good.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Going back to MCAMU.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: First first practice he gets banged up a hamstring injury,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: and then Don Donald Wilson also with the setback as well. Yes,
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: you want all your guys together, but also could there
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: be silver lining that these younger safeties the one year
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Thomas of the world. Tyler Coyle and guys like that
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: are gonna get chances to do some stuff out here.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely absolutely.
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: I mean those guys, I mean just as well as,
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: like I said, those other guys that those are guys
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: that took that next step as far as you know,
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: been putting the time in the work in this offseason
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: and you know, waiting for their oportunity to come about.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: And I feel like, you know, this year, they're gonna.
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: Do what they're supposed to to be able to make,
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: you know, their way on the field regards to what's
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: gonna happen, you know, whether it be at some point
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: of season if somebody's banged up, or you know, going
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: through a signals or something like that.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: I feel like those guys.
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: Are very capable of going out there and still performing
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: at the high level that in the standard that.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: We held here.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Nice all right, Two questions from fans here.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Daniel Barnett, he says, with Diggs and Gilmour now locking
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: down the outside, do you expect people to attack? How
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: do you expect the people to attack through the air?
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Do you think you'll get a little bit more Are
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: they gonna just dump it dump it off?
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: The running backs.
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: Man, it's hard to say because I mean, like I said,
• 22:39
  Speaker 9: just just there's so many guys being so effective in
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: other areas.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Like, Man, it's hard to say because I mean as well, last.
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: Diggs and you know Gilly being out there lockdown, you
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: look in the inside, you tell me, I mean, tight
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: end has caught a lot of passes on JK being
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: down in the buck. So it's at this point like
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: this is just like I said, pig or poison.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Throw it to the center field, like just here, it's gonna.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Have to be just a jump ball to somebody or
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: something like that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: But even with that, like, we got great guys myself,
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: Like I said, you brought up a couple of guys
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: one yea who's done a great, great job coming out
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: of the We got so many guys that's capable of
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: making an impactful play.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Come out of the middlefield too, that you know, we're
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: looking forward to We're looking forward to it, all right.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Last one This is from David in South Texas and
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: he's kind of flipping it for the offensive side of
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: the ball. But since you're back there seeing all this,
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: do you see big differences in McCarthy's offense. This year
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: from what you saw last year. And also do you
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: see Dak a little bit more confident, more in control.
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I definitely feel like you know, this year, Dak's
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: just I guess, like you said, he's more calm, he's
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: confident back there.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: You know, he's making a lot of throws.
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: That some people feel like he should have He wouldn't
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: have been making hears before and stuff like that, even
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: with it, like he looks good doing it. You know,
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: those guys, he's getting the ball in the playmaker's hands
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: like like they're asking him to do. And those guys
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: and they're making making plays like they're supposed to. So man,
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: I'm looking forward to seeing what those guys doing offense.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Any big differences of that you see, like is it
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: more underneath stuff they're using cooks in a way that
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: could be pretty dangerous for defenses.
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: I would say they're just putting the ball more in
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: Dak's hands a little more to letting him give him
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: more a little more free room to you know, to
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: be able to make plays like the playmaker he is
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: back there, and I mean we're trusting in the decision
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: that he's making the right plays when he gets a
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: chance to do that. And like I said, I mean,
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: Dak's a guy that you know puts his time and
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: all his efforts into making the team better each way.
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: I mean, as you've seen, like it's been a battle here,
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: it ain't being lopside of defense whooping on the offense,
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: or it's been competitionary day.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: So that just tells you how far they've come.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: You didn't say offense whipping on the defense.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Okay, you didn't say that defense it's been good.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, I was wondering if you were going to go
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: both sides.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Good to know. It usually happens like that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Usually the defense, especially when we started selling new offense,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: the defense always seems to have a little bit kind
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: of of a leg up early on. And so but
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: I say that some of those goal line drills and
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: things like that, where they're offensive drills, it is kind
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: of tougher when there's.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: No pass rush.
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I mean it is tougher, But that's
• 24:58
  Speaker 9: just putting that much putting that much effort us and
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: seeing how good we can be because I mean, like
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: you said, there's no pass rush and we can cover
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: all day something like that. Man, I feel like you
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: know that makes us a difference when it comes out
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: to you know, the lay games, when we need a get,
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: we need to make a play. You know, I feel
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: like then we're gonna be in shape to be able
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: to do so awesome.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Well, it has been fun having you here, fun to
• 25:16
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• 25:19
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  Speaker 4: All right, we got one more segment here on Cowboys storyline.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Nick Eatman here. We want to thank uh Malie Hooker.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: It's it's been a busy day for him obviously, getting
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: a chance to talk with him, and like we said earlier,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: just a few minutes after he sat down with us
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  Speaker 4: is when all that stuff kind of started to break.
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  Speaker 4: So like I said before, take him to poker, to
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• 28:10
  Speaker 4: big big news for the Cowboys, big news for him.
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  Speaker 4: a couple of days ago, and we've got some text
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• 28:29
  Speaker 4: after this Hooker deal, how much is the hit this year?
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: How much space do we have left?
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: It's just kind of it hasn't actually hit the books
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: just yet, and so they're still kind of talking a
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: little bit. I think the deal is somewhat done. The
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: numbers that you see are a very a lot. I've
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: seen four to five million this year. I've seen actually
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: less than that. The cap space thing, to me, I
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: never really talk about cap space. I never try to
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: answer that question because it's so fluid. It's they can
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  Speaker 4: do whatever they want to do. If they wanted to
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  Speaker 4: sign C D and DAK, they can do it. They
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: can do it right now. It's all about moving money
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: around there. You got to be creative. That's kind of
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: what they do. So it's a relevant to kind of
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: say they have this much left or this much. There's
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: not a guy out there that they couldn't sign because
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: of the cap They can do what they want, So
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: now is it the smartest thing to do? No, they
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: got to be. You got to be smart about it.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: But at the same time, they really don't. You know,
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: it doesn't work that way. They can do what they
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: need to do. All right, let's go to some more questions.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: I think we were done here with Mollie Cooker. We
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: know what we've got here. Let's move on to some
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: of the other ones. How about Jose Rodriguez. I feel
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Will Greer is having a great camp and has made
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: some really nice plays. Do you think he can overtake
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Cooper Rush for quarterback two? Could he? Yeah? He probably could.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Are they gonna be comfortable with that? Not sure? You know,
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  Speaker 4: when you win games for a coach, especially the way
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  Speaker 4: that Cooper Rush has done the last two years, who's
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  Speaker 4: to say that that Will Greer is going to come
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  Speaker 4: in and do that. I think he gives you a
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  Speaker 4: little bit more versatility. Obviously he's more mobile. I could
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  Speaker 4: run around, you know, throwing the ball. He's I think
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  Speaker 4: he's got a stronger arm. I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 4: as accurate. So, but you know, Cooper Rush has won games.
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  Speaker 4: So it's what could happen is is they could give
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  Speaker 4: Will Greer a little bit more time in the preseason.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he starts a whole game. Maybe he gets to
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  Speaker 4: play some just to kind of give him that opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: As the stands right now, I would I would stick
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  Speaker 4: with Cooper Rush, but it's pretty close to the point
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  Speaker 4: where maybe you know, Will Greer will get a shot here,
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  Speaker 4: all right, Jason from Atlanta, how come we never talk
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  Speaker 4: about Tyron Smith going to guard and Tyler Smith going
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  Speaker 4: to left tackle. We had Jason Peters move to guard
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  Speaker 4: last year? The question was from Jason from Atlanta and
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  Speaker 4: has includes Jason Peters. Just so you know, Jason Peters
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  Speaker 4: is actually from Atlanta, Texas. I don't think he's the
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  Speaker 4: one that sent this question, but I'm all about irony here.
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  Speaker 4: Tyron Smith at guard, No, No, he's played tackle his
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  Speaker 4: whole career. As much as it sounds weird, it's a
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  Speaker 4: lot faster inside. The players will say all the time.
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  Speaker 4: So he's more of a declining player. We know that
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  Speaker 4: that's what happens when you get to his age. I
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  Speaker 4: think being on the outside, being able to get his strength,
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  Speaker 4: get his arms out there and keep the rushers at
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  Speaker 4: a distance, I think that's probably better for him. He's
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  Speaker 4: never really played guard. I don't see this being the
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  Speaker 4: time to change it. Tyler Smith moves back and forth
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  Speaker 4: as well as anybody. I don't think you change anything there,
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: all right, Terry Andrews faithful North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: How many running backs.
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  Speaker 4: Will they keep? And will Douce fit into those plans?
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  Speaker 4: If he makes it, does it knock out Malik Davis,
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  Speaker 4: Rico Daddell, Ronald Jones.
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  Speaker 1: I think Deuces is gonna make the team. I do.
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  Speaker 4: I just think that there's he's too dynamic of a
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  Speaker 4: player in college to at least not try to see
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  Speaker 4: what he can give you. How many running backs do
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  Speaker 4: they keep? You know, it could be for if if
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: those guys do different things, if if if a if
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  Speaker 4: Malik Davis can play a lot on special teams, or
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: you know what does Ronald Jones do when he comes
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  Speaker 4: back from the suspension. You know Rico Daddle the same too.
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  Speaker 4: It's got to be special special teams. It's got to
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  Speaker 4: be maybe a Hunter Lifty that could play some fullback
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  Speaker 4: or deuced with kick returns. You know you have Tony Pollard.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're gonna have a solid backup there, probably
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  Speaker 4: Malik Jones, I mean Leake Davis, uh, maybe Ronald Jones.
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  Speaker 4: So it's still early there, and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: things that can kind of happen in the preseason games
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  Speaker 4: as well. All right, another from the text line, this
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  Speaker 4: is just from a seven to one to three number,
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  Speaker 4: who has the lead in the kicking competition? No Bud, Brandon, Aubrey,
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  Speaker 4: Tristan Viscay. You know, they seem to mirror each other
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  Speaker 4: in practice. If he goes four for six, I go
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  Speaker 4: four for six. If he goes two for three, I
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  Speaker 4: go two for three. So they're about the same right now.
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  Speaker 4: And then one of them has a bad kick, the
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  Speaker 4: other one has a bad kick advice versa. So that's
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  Speaker 4: kind of where it stands right now, and nothing's really
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  Speaker 4: gonna happen until we get to the games, and then
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  Speaker 4: from there then it's not just these preseason games. It's
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: all the preseason games, because everybody's got a couple of
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  Speaker 4: kickers and you're gonna be evaluating them as well. So
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  Speaker 4: there could be some Pro Bowl kickers out there that
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: have backups that are, you know, just trying to help
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  Speaker 4: them with save their leg and next thing, you know,
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: they went six for seven or six for six in
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: the in the preseason, and they may be a better
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  Speaker 4: option than what you've got. So every kicker that doesn't
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  Speaker 4: make the roster's gonna be evaluated here. That's what's gonna
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: make it.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: That's what's gonna be tough for Will McLay and his staff,
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  Speaker 4: But that's that's the nature of the businesses. There's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of guys out there, and it's not like you
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: have to know the system. You come in and you
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: can kick. If you can kick, you can kick. Odell Campbell,
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Junior rock Hill, South Carolina. His question, we haven't heard
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  Speaker 4: much from Overshown. Do you think he's a game day
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  Speaker 4: guy or rather than a practice guy. Well, I think
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: most linebackers are probably better in the games than they
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: are at practice because you're not gonna go out there
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  Speaker 4: just knocking people's heads off. I also think he's trying
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: to figure things out. He's playing a lot of different positions.
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  Speaker 4: The light bulb maybe hasn't come on just yet for
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: de Marvin Overshown, but I do think that it will,
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  Speaker 4: and I think dan Quinn's going to put a lot
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  Speaker 4: on his plate. But also, yeah, the games is where
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: you're going to see a guy flash and really make
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  Speaker 4: a play. We haven't really seen that from him yet.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: All right, I talked about this earlier in the show
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys See from Pitzaicola, Florida. Who's the starting five linemen
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  Speaker 4: in the first preseason game? And who you are you
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: going to watch closely? That's a good question, Matt, because
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: I you know it. It's not going to be Tyron Smith.
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  Speaker 4: You know it's not gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Be Zach Martin.
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  Speaker 4: And be honest, maybe I wouldn't think so though. Only
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: Tyler Smith I could see it because he hasn't played
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  Speaker 4: a lot of left guard and get him some some
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  Speaker 4: reps in the game would be good.
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  Speaker 9: Now.
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  Speaker 4: He did it in preseason last year, if you remember,
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  Speaker 4: because Tyron didn't get hurt till we got back to
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  Speaker 4: to Frisco. So he's done it in the games. I
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: can see him doing a little bit there. I'm gonna say, well,
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: let's go, We'll be in there at left tackle. I'm
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: just gonna say Tyler Smith for now, Farnioc at center,
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  Speaker 4: Josh Ball right guard, Truma.
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  Speaker 1: Edoga at right tackle.
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  Speaker 4: That's what would be my starting five in the offensive
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: line if we had to do it right now, all right,
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: let's go to some other questions here. How about William Hauchins,
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: it's my man, William Hauchins. Uh, he's he had asked
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Malik Hooker this question. We couldn't we couldn't get this
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: question to him. How's the scheme gonna allow you to
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: be the best play that we knew you would be?
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: To be the type of player? You know, we all
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: thought from you. And I think this type of if
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: you go back and look at dan Quinn in Seattle,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Legion of boom Right, the Earl, Thomas Chancellor, Richard Sherman,
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: these corners, I mean they they the secondary was great,
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: But to me, it was the pass rush. It was
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: it was a constant rotation of guys that could really
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: just go and fly, uh you know, fly around the
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: ball and get to the quarterback. And I think that's
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: what dan Quinn's trying to create here. Obviously you got
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: Michael Parsons, you got Tank, you got Dorn Armstrong, yet
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Sam Williams, you got you got these rusher Dante Fowler.
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  Speaker 4: And I think when they get that and they do
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: that the way that he did it in Seattle, that
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: will create a secondary like he had then, and that's
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: where guys could just play center field like you talk
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: about just go make the play Malie Cooker and Jayron Curson,
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: Dom and Wilson. Then of course your corners there and
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: gil Moore and Diggs and and Bland. To me, it
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: still starts with the pass rushians. That's why I think
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: that Malik Hookers has a chance to really to be great.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: And that's why I think it's smart for him to sign, because, yeah,
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: the money is good, it's fair. And are you gonna
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: go to another team that has a pass rushing you know,
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: a pass rusher like this and a coordinator like this,
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: I don't know. So it seems like it's a smart
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: move for him and he was able, uh to do
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: it and knock it out. So that is the news
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: of the day is Malik Hooker is agreed to a
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: deal as we stand here on Friday afternoon from Mauxnard.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure it's officially been signed. It may not
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: even be turned into the league, but it looks like
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: he has agreed to a three year extension. He'll be
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: with the Cowboys for the next four seasons now. And
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: what a great move for him and the entire secondary
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: when you think about what they did with Don and
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Wilson in the offseason and going to get Gilmore and
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: then signing Trayvon Diggs. Since we've been out here, really
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: shoring up that secondary for the Cowboys. All right, well
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  Speaker 4: that's all we have time for today. A lot of
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: great questions. Thank you guys for being versatile with us.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: Chris Beam, the producer, he was the man. He's set
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  Speaker 4: up this, this set up two times today, so I
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: may have to buy him a beverage or six. Just kidding,
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: he didn't drink that much. All right, let's get out
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  Speaker 4: of here. It's Friday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go.
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• 38:31
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• 38:33
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• 38:38
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• 38:41
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