We say good morning to Ed.

How are you?

I'm doing well, gentlemen, and good luck on your golf tournament,

and I'd like to know when qualifying is held for this event.

Usually there's regional qualifying, and then if you make it past that,

then, yeah, the sectionals are in the summer.

It seems highly unlikely.

I could pull any of that off.

No, we need to get you out here next year to play.

Sounds good. Love to help. Okay. We knew there was going to be a drop-off without Michael

Parsons, and we knew we would have this week at some point where he would come back and play

against his team. But did you have any idea?

Did you think it was going to be this bad for the Cowboys defensively up front and on the back end too?

I mean, I said from the beginning that I think it was a mistake to trade Michael Parsons.

And if you're going to trade Micah Parsons to not do it earlier in the year before the draft,

when you could create more competitive offers, you could acquire resources that you could use

more immediately for this team in 2025.

And then maybe you could have gotten him out of the NFC as well.

So I think those were all the failures I first saw on this.

And then as I talked to general managers around the NFL, one of the concerns several of

them expressed, and not all of them thought this was the bad trade for Dallas.

But from a timing standpoint, coming with a new coaching staff and a week before the season

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