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The Downbeat on ninety seven one the
Freak who all right? It is Friday,

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September twenty nine. Good morning,
friends, and Mike's roy here,

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also known as the Dallas Observer Radio
Personality of the Year twenty twenty three.

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Enjoy it because that ends after today. Why I mean, you get to

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keep the ward but for the whole
year. And it's just like the random

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mentions of it and congrats, that's
awesome. We needed something. I don't

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think Ben's gonna stop mentioning it.
Ben's not. But Ben's trying to get

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in your pants. That's true.
And it's working. It's working working.

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Danny Bayless hey man man Man was
writing some some non AI copy. Okay,

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good yea. I saw some opening
line for the for next year's Dallas

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Observer of Personality the Year, and
Danny Bayliss looking good, very good,

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and we're hearing he might be a
candidate to win a Commy. But that'll

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be uh something that we'll be paying
attention to. Maybe next week we'll see

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the best cook, best actor in
a commercial a commy to j Jackson's with

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us today. I'm Kevin. Cowboys
played the Patriots Sunday and Ezekiel Elliott's back

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in town, and I think we
should discuss that on a deeper level now.

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And the most important sorry, yeah, the most important. Yeah,

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wake up here. Malcolm's new favorite
song is Never Never Land. Yeah.

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You know what that is, don't
you. You should see the head banging

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and rocking that occurs in the backseat
of a toddler strapped in front facing car

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seat. Dude, do you crank
it up for him? Yeah, because

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he'll tell me loud. He loves
metality, loves that song wow, and

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he knows the words of them crushing
the United States for nothing. Since KT

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being a little down today, this
is his favorite sporting event of all time.

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And my football team just failed to
show up last night too. Yeah.

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Oh and my baseball team blew it
and I stayed up for that day

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for you, dude, she whiz
And uh, there's a chance this Rider

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Cup is essentially over by the time
some people are waking up today, like

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the whole thing. I mean,
if they the Europeans historically dominate this part

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of play the four balls on the
opening day, they do very well with

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it. They're already up four nothing
after the morning play. Yeah, I

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mean, what's our If they're up
six two, all right, it's not

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over. If it's six two,
six two would be a you'd almost take

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that after you get smoked for nothing
in the morning part. Yeah, like

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split these afternoons and just get your
head right. Yeah, drink some red

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wine. I don't see a red
pasta sauce staying on Scottie Shepherd's hat.

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But he'll keep an eye on that
yet. Maybe more on that a little

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bit, but maybe not. Just
know that it's on and when bad things

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you're happening, I might react to
it. Coltoss played the Patriots. Well,

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now they think that the most important
thing of intrigue here is that Mikey

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and I have a Zeke Elliott bet
I bet that he won't have another carry

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of fifteen yards or more in his
NFL career. This is before he had

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even signed at the Patriots. It's
a hundred bucks on that, and he

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got luc for fourteen last week.
He's done it fourteen twice this year,

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right, is that correct? His
first card was like nine okay, and

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that was more than some I'm expected
to see all the year. And then

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last week he rattled off a fourteen
yard or right there do you want I

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feel like I should get something like
double if he does it against the Cowboys.

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But you need a fair side to
that. Yeah, how about if

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I if we make it, he
has a blood work to pay for,

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don't yeah that fleece him over this
bed and a tackle box full of prescriptions

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he's about to have to to get. Still, how about you make it

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it's one hundred dollars? Bet?
How about you make it two hundred dollars

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if he runs for fifteen yards this
Sunday and if he doesn't, I will

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lower the total amount to fifty dollars
for the whole bet. I don't think

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I want to do that, Okay, I mean I'm just giving an exciting

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opportunity. It's not that it's one
of a kind opportunity. Actually, it's

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a one week thing, and I
don't know once in a lifetime, I

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like a hundred dollars. I feel
good about it. You may never have

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this opportunity. Do you still feel
like you're gonna win this? Who's never

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gonna run for fifteen yards with the
remainder of his career, even though I

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ran for fourteen last week? Yeah, I don't think he's capable of fifteen.

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Okay, that's a bit stick around
for three for all. I have

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some thoughts on this. Yeah,
oh you gotta go out for ninety nine?

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No, no, maybe not.
Heck he ran for what eighty last

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week? Right? Oh I'm not
on one run? Oh no, breaking

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one from that? Yeah, he's
gonna break doorsets record. Were you gonna

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be a thousand dollars Kevin if if
Zeke Elliott has a ninety nine yard touchdown

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run in this game? A thousand
arg yes, yeah, yes, oh

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yeah he can't. He just can't. Didn't. A full fullback had a

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kick return for a touchdown in the
NFL last week. Oh, I don't

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know. Some white dude was the
Commanders. It was like the up man

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and they're like, no, don't
pick it up. And then he got

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a number forty seven. There's been
a bunch of dumb things that happened in

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football because there's some bad teams.
But yeah, I don't know. I

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don't know about that. But I
want to go back to twenty sixteen.

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Okay, Romo got hurt in twenty
fifteen, collar boner, right, and

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then he remember he came back around
Thanksgiving. That was the Greg Hardy year.

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He came back around Thanksgiving and it
happened again. So they get to

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twenty sixteen and they go, look, we're going nowhere without unless we have

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Romo healthy. And they watch all
the players in that year's draft. You

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go through it all and he number
one player on their board was Ezekiel Elliott,

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running back from Ohio State, and
a lot of people say, don't

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take a running back in the top
five. They even asked Tony Romo about

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it, and Tony He's like,
yeah, let's take the running back.

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He's amazing, like that was all
a part of this, and a part

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of it was he's such a good
pass protector that we can run the ball

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a lot with him, but also
he'll protect Tony Romo. But they decided

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on the first preseason game of the
year, when Tyron Smith wasn't playing,

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that they would let Romo play,
and Romo took off running as are evading

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pressure and the priests and took off
running to try to get a few yards

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and he gets hit and he gets
hurt, and pretty much you go,

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okay, well, season's over now. And then Dak Prescott, who they

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drafted in the fourth round with their
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By the way, they took Charles
Tapper first. Charles Knee Tapper, they

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took him first, and then ended
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the fourth round. Way back there, and they have one of the most

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brilliant Cowboys seasons of the last decade
outside of the twenty fourteen year. That's

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it. The point is Zeke was
someone they wanted. Now, everyone for

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years has played this game. They
should have taken Jalen Ramsey and then you

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could have gotten Derrick Henry at thirty
four. Y'all remember they took in the

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second round that year, right,
Jalen Smith was their second round pitch when

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the rest of the NFL wasn't going
to touch him, and wasn't he had

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some major injury concerns, right,
Yeah, he wasn't even able to play.

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Yeah. I went to the Combine
that year. Yeah, and I

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talked to a doctor for another NFL
team, and that doctor goes, there's

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no way he won't be on our
board. You went to the combine,

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they sent him, his NFL network
sent me and Jeff And that's the most

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recent time you've spoken to a doctor
before it actually was and he was to

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the doctor was telling me that,
hey, man, tight, you know

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what, fine, I'll tell you
about him, but we'll talk about you.

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I mean, it was kind of
amazing though, to talk to that

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doctor and go he goes because we
were like we're hearing the Cowboys kind of

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like him. And he was like
he goes, Oh god, why he's

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yeah, yeah, he's not gonna
play in the NFL, like he might

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play for a couple of years,
but like really he said that. Yeah.

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The doctor was being very He's like, he won't be on our board

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at all. We won't consider him. What was it? Was it drop

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foot? He hadn't drop foot,
We'll drop foot. And then he went

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in the media. I was asked
him what about that brace? And he

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was like, a brace? And
when we saw the video of you wearing

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the brace in a hotel earlier today, No, no, no brace.

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What about the nerves? If you
got the nerves, the nerves are doing

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the nerves are doing its thing.
Well, what's that mean, Jalen.

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Jalen was very evasive. Well,
yeah, because he's trying to get money,

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yes, and get drafted. I
understand that it's smart. So the

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Cowboys get around two, they've taken
Zeke already. They got two other guys

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on their minds. They might take
Emmanuel Ogba's one of them. Kevin Dodd

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was the other one. Those are
the names of the players. Two defensive

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events. Needed a pass rusher.
The Greg Hardy thing in twenty fifteen didn't

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really work out very well. We
need a little help. Let's get a

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pass rusher. He they took the
guys we wanted. Ogbut and do and

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I remember watching him the Cowboys war
room cam. The panic is the hot

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Dog boys are there on the phone, try to figure it all out,

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and they just panic. Pick Jalen
Smith, you go forward those Zeke has

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an amazing year. That team is
outstanding. The offensive line still good.

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Dak does. Dak played a very
toned down version of Deck's now one of

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the more aggressive players in the league, which is great. Back then he

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was not. And it was just
such a great year. And they would

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have won if Aaron Rodgers didn't do
crazy stuff. You know in that playoff

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game. That's still one of the
greatest throws. Oh, it's incredible,

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And that's such a backbreaker. And
I know everyone here hates Aaron Rodgers for

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that and assorted other things he did
to the Cowboys over the years, but

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good god, that throw. And
legend is that he just called that play

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in his own like he tuned out
McCarthy who was calling the play. Really

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he wouldn't, just kind of drew
it in the dirt real quickly on the

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turf of he told Jared Koklocky,
just do that. I'm gonna go out

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this way. But I remember thing
in no way incompletely you see it.

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We all did the same thing because
it's like if they can't be complete,

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and then you see the replay and
we all put oh my god, I

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mean, dude, it was.
And then the kick was deep too.

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You know, like there's a lot
of things had to go right there and

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the point of this. So you
get Zeke and then people will still want

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to do that. Well, you
could have got someone some help on defense

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and whatever. Zeke was a good
pick for the time. I don't know

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if you need to be picking the
top five running back now, but for

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the time and for the team to
protect Tony Romo. Absolutely. I think

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sometimes people forget that Zeke was not
drafted to be a Dallas Cowboy to play

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with Dak Prescott. That was accident
Yeah, Zeke was drafted because they were

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trying to do something for Tony.
And then you go to twenty seventeen and

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we've got this weekend week out controversy. Is is he going to play or

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is the NFL going to have another
They're gonna suspend him? And then on

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Thursday or Fridays, Zeke would get
cleared to play because he was doing the

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whole off the field conduct thing that
Roger Goodell was throwing down, and then

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a court would come in and be
like, no, you can't just we

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don't have any evidence. You can't
just suspend him for no reason. What

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was that? That was a former
girlfriend at Ohio State thing? Yes,

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there was the domestic violence allegation,
okay, and you know, I think

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the off season after that was the
boob grab. I believe going into twenty

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eighteen, the Saint Patty's Day was
on top of like Tarelli's or something.

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Yeah, stands right, I think
it was on stands Maybe it was on

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the other side. I think it
was the side. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, yeah, Danny was like
grabbing a boob on St. Patrick's Day.

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Huh, who would him off with
his head? With his head?

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Bring me his head. But after
that calmed down, there was no more.

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He kind of grew up a little
bit. Excellent teammate. Everyone freaking

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loves him, and he had an
awesome career. He just you know,

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because those bigger running backs and he's
chunky, you know, they just don't

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there's there's not a long time for
you to play in the league. Like

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Derek Henry's not chunky. Derrick Henry
is a machine. Ziego's a little chunky

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at times. You're not gonna go
that, Like, You're not gonna have

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a ten year career as a running
back. He can't. Aren't really gonna

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do that anyways, unless you're Derrick
Henry or Adrian Peterson's this is your seventh.

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For Zick, this is your eight, okay. And when you think

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a career, yeah, it's not
necessarily where he was drafted or the fact

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that they took him so high in
the first round. The knock on Zeke

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and it's not even his fault,
and he should be commended for whatever strategy

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had he had to get that dumb
contract. Yeah, no, strategically that

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was great, all of it.
I mean, look, everybody rips Zeke

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or the people that do rip Zeke. It's usually because they feel like he

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was overpaid. Well, I mean, why are you blaming him for that?

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Yeah, it wasn't that. Yeah, it was that he's overpaid and

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that he's running back. It was
two things. Yeah, But all he

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did was not let the team screw
him like we know now for a fact,

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every team will screw every running back
every opportunity they get. Yes,

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they were way ahead of that.
Now. It sucks if you're a cowboy

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fan and it was bad financially for
your team. Yeah, but you can't

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blame the dude and his agent for
seeing the writing on the wall. So

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also, if you remember that,
well, I'll tell you a couple of

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things. I told Danny the story
off the air the other day. So

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we're at training camp that year.
I think I was awake for most of

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it. Yeah, this sounds awful. I stayed up. You told him

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a long training camp football story off
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It sounds awful. You get to
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jingling his Are you trying to extend
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That sounds terrible. Go ahead,
It's better to be a hell of a

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story. My phone's blowing up,
where are you? And your son's asking

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for you? So we're at training
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know meant the fans. So it's
the Cowboys flagship station and they've got exclusive

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exclusive insider reporter Mike Fisher on the
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Buddy of mine sends me a text. He goes, hey, man,

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just saw Zeke at the airport.
He's going to Cabo. Because they'd been

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like when ze going to show up
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He goes, he's I just saw
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to the opposite top. He's going
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this I know this guy really well. And I said okay, and I

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was like, I'm got to tweet
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more thought than that, Okay.
I think I tweeted something like, hey,

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I'm not normally the breaking news type, but Zeke's going to Cabo.

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He's not coming to Cowboys camp something
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like on the Rich Eyes and Show
and the Dan Patrick Show and there's like

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my tweet showing did you know this? No, I don't think this is

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pretty great. I get a phone
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hey, what are you hearing?
You can't just like report things like that.

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You have to have a second source. And I said, Mike,

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I'm not a journalist, buddy like
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Zeke and you don't like so give
let me get a little shine here,

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you know, like this is good
for me? Was it that? Or

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were you freaking out, like,
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No. I trusted my dude,
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I didn't think Zeke was gonna show
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gonna pay him. I didn't think
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your tweet? Did someone who's actually
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It took till the end of the
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me serious, including that jackass Mike
Florio, who calls someone at the stations,

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who's this Covin Turner guy? And
I'm like, who are you Florio?

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Who no one knows you? Go
away, go away. Jane Slaydor,

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who I love in a door,
I love Jane Slayder. She's awesome

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NFL Network, and she's like starting
to like all these reporter types were butt

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hurt. They were so butt hurt
because little Kevy oh scooped them of the

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Italian media Italiana. That's what they
were trying to tell. They were,

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Yeah, that dude, I remember, Mike Mosquito Moscado, Yeah, came

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up to me. It's hell that
Kevin. They'll tweet this yet, but

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they get a second sellar Okay,
then much like Ben Rogers, you were

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vindicated. Hell yeah, I was
vindicated. Then that night cowboys were pissed

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that it had gotten out because they
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that it had gotten out. And
if you remember the week's following that comments,

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I think it was Stephen Jones who
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we'll, you know, we'll sign
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And they give Jalen Smith a contract, that's right, a terrible linebacker

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contract for a guy who can't run. He couldn't run anymore. I mean

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it was and eventually he gets paid
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and but it was just like,
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that whole story of getting Zeke the
debate because they were gonna consider Joey Bosa

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or Jalen Ramsey and that probably would
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But the whole plan is when you
draft in April or May for Tony

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Romo, and then Tony who should
have never been allowed to play in that

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preseason game and he's thirty six,
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And then with Tyron not playing runs
and breaks his collarbone, just amazing,

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and it all ends up with Zeke
having a great career. He hopped

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in the bucket. He became kind
of the mascot of the Cowboys and two

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time rushing champ four thousand yards seasons, went to the playoffs four times here

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third all time leading rusher in Cowboy
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it ended, a lot of people
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He can, and he did plenty
to get himself in trouble and on

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front pages for bad news, but
all in all, seemingly a pretty good

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dude. Yeah, good teammate for
sure, and you know what, props

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because he did a lot for four
Oak Cliff. That was the charity it

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was, and I don't know if
enough cowboys do enough for that part of

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Dallas and seek it out, you
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that. And he spent a lot
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doing a lot for four Oak Cliff, which is pretty underserved. I mean,

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I think, you know, any
charity's good charity, but some of

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them more flashy. And I think
it's kind of awesome that he prioritizes helping

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out down there. Yeah, I'll
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and I think he definitely will.
He's pretty beloved. Yeah, Like

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I said, what do you fault
him for nothing? He really can't,

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other than maybe some of the off
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girl, but we don't know.
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but as far as as a cowboy, you can't fault him for the

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contract. You can't really fault him
for the decline in numbers because traditionally that's

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kind of what running backs do.
Of course, you know, it's always

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a risk to take somebody that high, give them that much money and expect

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them to have ten twelve year careers
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long that that that duration of time, So what's the rub? You know,

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reason football for a reason. And
his final play as a Cowboy was

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as at center at center. Name
a guy who could do that. That's

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a weird legacy, that kind of
if the Cowboy. If the blow out

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the Cowboys and they take a knee
at the end, they should put Zeke

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in itself. They should to snap
the ballots to take the knee. So

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it's still one of my three balls. Just we'll hear those at eight.

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The three Scorching Hunt Cowboys opinions coming
up next. Those sports at seven wide

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hit the rainyard blood. But what
they could They could have a bender of

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a weekend if they do things right
next time. Ninety seven one free