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when Hard Knocks episode one drops. It feels like you get that warm feeling of, oh, I've been here before. Oh, we have maxed a amount of football ahead of us. It felt so good. Yeah, football wasn't even back at the start of Hard Knocks. Football was back about 20 minutes into Hard Knocks. We had our first mojo moment of the football season.

Yes.

And the pads hit each other.

And I still don't really know what a mojo moment is.

And was back about 20 minutes into hard knocks. We had our first mojo moment of the football season. Yes, the pads hit

each other. And I don't I still

don't really know what a mojo

moment is. And I think if you were to ask if you were to inject Mike McCart through Truth's term and ask him what a mojo moment really is, he probably doesn't really know. It's just it's a cool thing to say. And so, but when you heard those pads clicked together, I know that that was

a mojo moment. Here's, I mean, I don't want to get Cowboys fans down about episode

one because it actually was a good episode. Like we've had a couple hard knocks busts the last few years. I can't even remember. I think the last year was definitely a bust. The mojo moment though, it really was just Mike McCarty being like, I want to play a clip of Austin Powers. And here's how I can segue this in. Here's how I can fit this in somehow to make it like a teaching moment, a coaching moment. I don't know. And it gave me a flashback to Fred Hoyberg when the bulls were really struggling. He started playing like old school and animal house to try to loosen up the team. I just feel like that's when your coach is playing Austin Powers to try to teach you

football.

I don't know.

Maybe I'm just projecting here, but that feels a little off.

It was a little bit off, but you're right.

I think he really likes the movie Austin Powers.

And I don't think that Mojo was from the spires, Shaggy, by the way.

I think that was from the other Austin Powers.

So he was the first one.

So he's like, he's shoe horning two Austin Powers clips into his big team meeting at the start of the year. It was like, something that Michael Scott might do. Yeah. Where he's like, you know what's a really funny movie? I enjoyed that I'm gonna make you guys what like Mike McCawth is gonna end up playing all the 80s

Sex roms for the boys like they're gonna play PCU at He's probably going to put on a clip from porkeys in the locker and be like, this is how things were back in my day when I was growing up at Pittsburgh boys. Yeah, I mean, Mike McCarty. So a couple big, big picture thoughts I had was number one, we do this every single summer in August. When hard We start hyping up the team that's on hard knocks. We all take everyone in our fantasy draft like two rounds too early because they're hard knocks heroes. This year with the fact that it's the Dallas Cowboys who always have too much hype and now they're on hard knocks. I can't see a world that the Dallasboys don't win at least 15 games and CD Lam should be a first rounder and a Mario Cooper should be a first rounder and Dak Prescott even though his arm is much fall off should be a first rounder and same with Zeke. So this like my brain already can't handle having the Cowboys on hard knocks with their hype and then more hype on top of the hype and I'm just I mean they're they're they're they're going to win the Super Bowl and obviously in my deep down like thoughts I know they're going to probably win like five games but right now I'm sitting here like yep Jerry Jones he doesn't have to kill a man he can just wait until the second weekend of February because they're going all the way baby. Yeah and Dan Dan, Dan fucking Quinn is back. That's what I'm going to start calling him this

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