With the talking Cowboys break.

Streaming live on Dallas Cowboys. And the official Dallas Cowboys Break. Now that's a mouthful. Streaming live on Dallas Cowboys.com and the official Dallas Cowboys app.

Well, this is a little different today.

Yeah, Derek's over there.

Derek is not in the normal spot.

I will let you know that Mike is very clean because Jesse Holly brings his own

Clorox wipes to the studio.

Does he clean it afterwards? He does. Just before. No, he does? After. I worked with Jesse

on the radio before he. You want to follow Jesse after every show. Wait, does Mickey? Not at all.

You've got some pizza breath working over there on you. We have a lot going on today and tomorrow.

There's the kickoff luncheon.

There was practice last night.

There's a game tomorrow.

Mr. Jones made some comments.

A lot to catch up on.

So we're only doing one show because everybody's kind of all over the place.

So we're doing hanging with the Cowboys break. And we've got, I'm hosting for once instead of Derek. So this is a little different, me being in this chair. I forgot talking. Hanging with the talking Cowboys break. Man, I did, dude. That's okay. Don't worry about it. Just keep rolling. Sorry about it. Eventually we'll get to football talk. So we got Broad us, we got Derek Eagleton, Nick Eatman. I am Shannon Gross. Caden is man in the board, William is man in the streams, and here we are. So where do you guys want to go first? We had practice last night. We had some comments Jerry made this morning. Where should we take this? Probably should go with the boss. I'm thinking that's the big news right now.

So Roddus, you were listening this morning to the fan. What kind of sum up what Mr. Jones said on the fan this morning this morning. He's prepared to play without Ezekiel Elliott. He is, he's thinking this is a marathon, this is long term. I'd rather have him fresh ready to go if we have to at the end of the season.

But he's clearly dug in.

As Zeke is dug in, he's dug in. He's betting that Zeke won't miss game checks. That's what he's betting. And we'll see. I mean, it's a game of will now. And I know Jerry Jones. I think everybody in this room knows Jerry Jones. His will is a lot stronger than a lot of people's will. And, you know, there's a reason why he's had the successes that he has because he has vision and he understands that, okay, if I have to wait you out, I'll wait you out. And I have no problem with that. So yeah, he's, that's kind of where we're at right now. And, you know, they feel good enough about Tony Pollard going forward.

And if they have to, they'll play with Tony Pollard and keep going. And he's negotiating. He's doing it right through the media like they've done all year, all offseason and training camp and all that. So I think this is a part of it. I'm not saying that I disagree with what Jerry's saying, but I also think he's making sure that Zeke and his agent hears exactly what he's saying.

You know, is this funny, though, the narrative that we heard the first meeting there in Oxnard some 30 days ago

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