Dallas Cowboys Executive Vice President Stephen Jones, sir.

How much better is it to wake up on Monday morning with that victory?

Well, it's a huge difference, and I think we said all last week.

I mean, you know, we didn't need any more moral victories or, hey, you played well enough to win, but you didn't get it.

And certainly this one, check the box here for us.

And hopefully we can build off of this and, you know, get on track here and put some things together.

And you're ready to play a tough divisional opponent in the Eagles and go to work.

Stephen, we were just discussing how big it was to get the ball to start the game and score

a touchdown. It hadn't happened in 21 games, I believe, is the stat. How important was it

to just go down and just have a great offensive start to this game?

Well, it's real important.

I mean, anytime you can start fast and certainly do what we did,

which was go down and score, gives everybody the momentum they need.

It was nice to, you know, getting pretty close to having a full group out there,

although we were missing Gallup and YL.

But I think I said and still did a great job, which is what you have to do in this league.

You have to have people step up.

But to get that drive in, obviously, we have been feeling awfully strong about, you know,

what we can do offensively with the football.

And I think we did get off to a good start.

And then, of course, the defense, you know, is hopefully starting to get an identity,

which is being able to turn the ball over.

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