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Football #2: Cowboys vs Jets & Baylor Sucks · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome to the Treehouse Football Podcast. I'm Danilmaley along with Trey Trenholm and Raj
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going to talk sports stupidly in our own special wave. So let's not let's
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not waste any time. Cowboys Week two, Yeah, are now two and
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oh against the State of New York. Yeah, that's uh. And they
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look, man, do they look? I was when when they when they
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let go of Kellen Moore, who I last season, was like, I
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can't believe they canna do that. He's the brains behind the play calling us.
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He's young, and he's he's got ideas and he's got a new way
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of looking at things. And now I'm like, that was a good move
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because you put it back in the hands of Mike McCarthy, and you got
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Dan Quinn doing his magic and they look really not I hope I don't jinx
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it, but they look really good, uh do? And I give yourself
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that amount of power to Jinks the most successful sports franchise on the planet.
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They will do that on their own at some point, as we all know
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as lifelong Dallas Cowboys fans, they will find a way to disappoint us.
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We cannot do anything to Jinks them that they will not do themselves first.
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So don't don't listen to anyone ever gives themselves that power to be able to
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derail a train that was all writing on one wheel anyway. Yeah, because
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that being said, for the last pushing thirty years since the Cowboys have won
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a Super Bowl, Yeah, the Cowboys train has been on one side,
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right, It's just a matter of it's gonna tip over. Yeah, But
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for thirty years it has not gotten fully back on track. But this year
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is starting out how a handful of other years have in the past thirty years
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since the Cowboys won a Super Bowl, Which is, they're on that one
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side of the track, But it looks like they're leaning towards getting fully back
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on track and headed towards a super Bowl. But again, we're this is
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sort of like you know, Charlie Brown and the football. We're used to
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it being pulled out from underneath this somewhere in the divisional round of the playoffs.
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So we're cautiously optimistic. Yeah, I mean, I again, if
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they can, if they can maintain like if everybody stays healthy, and and
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I love everybody's and I'm just watching Sports Center. I just love everybody's idea
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of played towards Michael Parsons. I'm like, please, do played towards it.
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Run the balls. You're just running his direction. I'm like, that
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sounds great. You guys keep you know what real quick just and and I
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don't. I don't want to get into the nuts and bolts on that strategy
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too much. But I will say this, so far in Michael Parson's career,
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he has shown you not to run away from him because he will run
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you down like a lion. So you know what, run at him,
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give it a shot. It's it's it's it's better than doing the same thing
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and not being successful. And I think that's what if you're watching Sports Center
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in the early in the morning, I think that's uh, I can't remember
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his name as young kid. He's like, I think that's his philosophy.
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He's like, hey, how could it hurt? The other stuff's not working
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at that point. It's the definition of insanity. So the other option,
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the other option is to hire a literal big game hunter to come to the
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stadium and shoot Micah I'm a lion Parsons dead on the field before the game
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starts. That's your only other option, Trey, No, it's just I
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mean, at a certain point, element of surprise, everyone goes away from
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Micah so c see something coming at him, he might just for a split
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second go what the hell long enough for blocked. A bit later that,
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you know, maybe he might go from I'm a lion to deer in the
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headlights. Switch will work probably for one play. If it works, it
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might work for one play after that. Now he's gonna be ready for it,
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and he's gonna be standing there with his jaws open, just ready to
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eat whatever comes at him. Well, yeah, yeah, go ahead.
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No, he's also if you get that one play off with him, yeah,
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he's gonna be pissed. You got a whole other problem. Oh no,
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you're right, like he already plays. He already plays with a chip
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on his shoulder and every other joint. So do you really wants a great
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point trade? That's a great point trade. Do you really want to piss
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him off even more? Yeah? I would just love to hear that on
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the opposing team sideline, like, hey, I think we made him mad.
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Just imagine, just imagine the team that decides to run at Michael Parsons
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one time, just to try that theory, right, yeah, and then
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he devours that team that offense for the rest of the game based on that
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one play. Now, imagine you're a player on the offensive side of the
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ball in the next week's opponent for the Cowboys, and and the game plan
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up on the screen that the coach puts up is we're hang on, I
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lost my train of thought. But the game plan is just nothing with Michael
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Parsons. Yeah, I just I just want to I just want to be
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in that coach's huddle when they're like, hey, so whose idea was this?
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Who decided to do this? Can we call a time out? We're
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in the locker room. No, we can't call it time out. He's
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coming for us now, and he's angry. Let send him flowers like I
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don't, I don't know what you would do at that point, like to
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me, like I said, he like you were saying, he plays with
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like I think he plays angry like like that's what it like. He plays
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like they've they've offended him by by showing up in his house like that.
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That's that's how we played And if every if everybody can get on board with
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doing that. I was going to ask this, and only because I come
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from the the underdog big billy, and I talked about this when I did
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the radio the other day. Is my my first season of high school football.
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Not to brag, I played nine seconds and uh no, it was
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glorious because I also got illegal motion, uh in nine seconds and I was
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pulled off the field. So in nine seconds, I was removed from the
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field with a penalty. Uh so. So so far, this story has
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lasted longer than your football playing days. When it comes to the Jets quarterback
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Wilson, is is it fair? Okay? Is they're calling him the worst
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quarterback in the NFL. That's statistically he is right, But then when he
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has the offensive line doing what they're doing, he's the second best quarterback in
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the NFL as a week two when he has the opportunities that a quarterback would
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would normally have if it were Aaron Rodgers. Uh taking the snaps? Is
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that is I don't know how this works as far as I mean, you
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you played played high school football and in trade you will understand this as well.
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You guys played. Is that a fair assessment to make? Like he's
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not His whole thing was I'm not going to be the guy, and now
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he is the guy and he's not the guy, and everybody's like, well,
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he's not the guy. He's like I've been telling you I'm not him.
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So is it? Is it a fair assessment to make for a player
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that isn't living up to the expectations of an Aaron Rodgers? You know,
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you see the point I'm trying to make, Like, I don't know why
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everybody's coming after the guy when he's already kind of gone. Yeah, I
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told you guys, I'm not the guy. I'm not. I'm not sure
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I'll let you take the first swing at this. I mean, you have
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two years of him playing that shows you he's not the guy he is.
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In my opinion, A bust is a first dround pick, but maybe a
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serviceable backup. And that's kind of where he is now. I mean,
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he's better than most backups. But my theory, go ahead, Tray,
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is he going to take you to the promised Land? I don't think so.
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I always so I look at that what you just said, Trey.
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One point is if if you can have just a serviceable quarterback take you two
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and win a Super Bowl, then that's then then it works. It doesn't
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matter whatever your pedigree is or was where you were drafted. Whereas if you're
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a top pick like Zach Wilson was. Believe he was number two in the
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in the draft after the Jets took a lot of things still have to fall
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into place for all that to work out. There's a lot of luck involved.
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There's a reason why Eli Manning and the Manning family did not want him
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going to San Diego and instead we're happy to send him to the Jets.
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And they manipulated that whole situation because they said to San Diego, we're not
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going to you do not pick us. Well, so he ends up in
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New York and he ends up winning a pair of Super Bowls, Whereas if
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he goes to San Diego, who knows. And then other teams where they've
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had really talented quarterbacks, sometimes they get drafted into just horrible situations. Bad
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coach, bad GM, bad franchise. Look at any quarterback that the Redskin
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Slash Commanders have taken in the last fifteen years. We'll tell you what I'm
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talking about, which is, sometimes you just get drafted into a bad situation.
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Doesn't mean you are a bad player. It just means if you were
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drafted into a good position, like say a Troy Aikman when he was taken
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number one by the Cowboys, phenomenal situation to be in and it worked out
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great. Well. If there was ever anyone who knows the perils of getting
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drafted to a bad team, it was Archie Manning. I mean, he
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suffered through like the horrible days of New Orleans. Yeah. But you know,
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if you're talking about serviceable, if you have the team around them,
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which you know, the team that comes to mind of serviceable quarterback winning a
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Super Bowl as the Baltimore Ravens, Yep, that's exactly what I hadn't in
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my mind. I could see his face both I mean, and it's both
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Dilferan and Flacco, I mean Flacco was I mean, but like he won
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the Super Bowl, got a big contract, and I think he died on
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the Jets. Speaking of which, I'd like to revisit that week to win
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Cowboys over Jets. It was seemingly a really bad week for the Jets.
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You lose Aaron Rodgers and his achilles on on Monday night, did that,
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and then you get your ass? What how did that not get the slow
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clap? It was a seemingly bad week for the Jets, Like because I'm
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not done setting it all up Roger joke. Yeah, so I don't think
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it was seemingly or maybe it was whatever, it was a bad week for
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the Jets. You had Aaron Rodgers on Monday night snap his achilles in front
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of everybody. Then not even a week later, they get their ass whipped
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in Texas by the Cowboys thirty to ten. And then the military lost an
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actual jet which made everything really really bad for Jets all around. Yeah,
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they didn't lose the pilot though, so that's a good thing. No,
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No, the pilot is safe. The pilot I think is in better shape
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than Aaron Rodgers achilles and is also in better shape career wise than Zach Wilson.
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Yes, I'd also like to point out that the Cowboys defense in two
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weeks, Granted it's only two weeks and this will change, but for two
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weeks, the Dallas Cowboys defense has scored the same number of touchdowns as its
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opposing offensive have sex if you want to be technical, Yeah, it's uh,
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and it's nice to see. I think I think he was out of
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rhythm the first week, but I think he's got his his swag back,
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as seeing Treyvon Diggs getting getting I think he got a second half, well
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he got a pick on second half, and I know they don't throw to
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to his side a lot, but it was nice to see because we would
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last year like it was just you just automatically assumed he was going to get
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two to three, uh, if he was on fire, two to three
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maybe per game, but at least two picks and it was not because I
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don't think he got one week one and yeah, which I just you're talking
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about that in the Cowboys defense. It reminds me of turnovers going back to
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how we started this, of running at Micah Parsons and that strip that he
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made, you know that, Yeah, you're all close to a touchdown and
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like you want to run it. That guy like that is you have you.
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This brings me back to one of my favorite sports moments of all time.
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Daniel appreciate this rage. I don't know because we never talked about it,
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but the kind of element of surprise you need to run it, Michael
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Parsons is the same when they let Benji Malina steal second base in that playoff
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game. The catcher was so shocked he couldn't even get the throw off in
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time. That Yeah, that was right there what you call an oh shit
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moment because the catcher see slow ass Benja Malina running towards the next base,
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and I'm sure the catch is like, wait am I. He's wondering,
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am I still coming down off the shrooms I had last night or whatever?
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Because that I can't be that. That doesn't happen. No, that's not
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it. Oh And then the next thing, you know, the entire dugouts
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yelling at him that it's happening, so, oh, what's happening? Oh
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I can't and then eat slow as he is, he's standing on top of
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the back. I don't think that was the technical term is stripping the ball.
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I think he was just like, give that to me, like that's
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the that's that's that's if you watch the replay of of Michael Parsons taking the
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ball, he was just like, that's not yours, like that, that's
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that's how we looked at it, like that's my ball, like and he
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and he just he took that from a grown man, like do we unders
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Like when I watched this stuff, like I watched it from a different perspective,
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I'm like, that's a grown man that just snapped that. He just
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no, this is what he said, is like give give me that.
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Also, when it comes to I always forget their age. I forget how
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young of a team that the Jets are and how seasoned the Cowboys are.
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If that is that we do want to say old, right, they're older
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players, Uh, they're not older season, but you're also dealing with a
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younger team. So I don't know. I thought they played really well.
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They look good. I was wrong in my assumption that Kelvin Moore was the
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brains of the operation like I thought he was last year, and dan Quinn's
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magic that that was my That's that's my assessment of Week two so far.
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So I mean week week six, I could be having like dan Quinn sucks
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like I don't know, but hey, everything seems to be working really well.
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I can't figure out why. Like I know, dan Quinn was mentioned
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with some head coaching jobs. Why I'm shocked that he didn't get one because
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I think it's because I don't think it's because a lack of desire on his
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part. I think it's because he has a sense of seeing this through.
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I think he I think he realizes that this team is really, really,
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really on the precipice of of of true success. Yeah, and I think
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he's connected enough to some of these players, like a Micah Parsons, that
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he really wants to be a part of something special like that and then go
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get another head coaching job. Like. I think this will be dan Quinn's
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last season as defensive coordinator for the cow unless unless something really just falls out
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and the train ends up in a ditch like we've seen previous seasons happen.
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I think if if they if they have success beyond the divisional round of the
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playoffs this year, I think dan Quinn will take a head coaching job next
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year. Wow. Okay, Well, because Dan dan Quinn signing in the
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first place was huge for the Cowboys. We didn't really we weren't really sure
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of it at the time, but then when they resigned him, that was
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one of their most important offseason acquisitions. Yeah, or dan Quinn, you
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know, he may have figured out that being the coordinator is a much easier
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gig. He can demand a high you know, probably be the highest coordinator
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salary, but without having all the crap that a head coach. Because I
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mean he got his That's what I was saying. Yeah, that's what That's
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the angle I would have taken, is exactly that, Like, why wouldn't
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you just get a higher paying defensive coordinator job instead of going for because then
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everything then the whole team rests on your shoulders as opposed to just one side
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of the ball. You know, I don't know. I don't know if
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the mindset that it takes to be the head like I don't have that in
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Like, I don't think I could do that. I don't think I could
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have all that weight on my shoulders every single week. It's like the same
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thing like with being a pilot, Like I don't know if I could do
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that and have all these people counting on me. I'm like, can I
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just be over here and I'll just do the defense. I'd rather take that
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responsibility. Like and if we're looking at it, and I don't think dan
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Quinn looks at it this way, but if you wanted to have this perspective,
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you you could, you could assign it. Which is dan Quinn's got
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a great gig because the only the only real game plan he would really have
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to do is to go to Micah Parsons before each game and whisper what he
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says the other team said about him on the other side of the field before
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kickoff, and then and then you just step back and you go to the
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safest place in the building, which is up in that booth, far away
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from the carnage that Michael Parsons is about to do. Yeah, that's yeah.
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He just basically his entire game plan could be all right, I'm gonna
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go down to the field, I'm gonna grab this little wind up stick on
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the back of Michael Parsons. I'm gonna wind it all the way up and
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then I'm gonna run away. Or he may just be biding his time thinking
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that McCarthy's gonna get fired and he goes down before the game. It just
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gives him some solid play calling. Hey, run more of those two yard
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outs. And that's the other strategy that I also think makes a lot of
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sense, which is basically what Jason Garrett did for a while. He could
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have gone off and got a head coaching job somewhere else, but he didn't
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because he knew he knew way Philip days were numbered and he was going to
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be the head coach of the Cowboys. And I think that actually is a
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great strategy in mind if you're Dan Quinn, which is look, Mike McCarthy's
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great. If we went ahead, if we went a foot jesus, if
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we win a football Bowl, if we win a Super Bowl together, this
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would be awesome. And I can go on and get a head coaching job
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with a with a with a Super Bowl ring, and that'll be great.
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Or I stay here. The Cowboys train falls off the tracks yet again,
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and Mike McCarthy loses his job, and Jerry Jones now loves dan Quinn promotes
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him to head coach, And now you've got a new head coaching job,
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and you get to go down to the field every day and tell Michael Parsons
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what the business is. Yeah, Okay, I'm now that's what I want
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to happen. Okay, let's screw this season, let's get down Quint next
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year. Look like that's what That's what in my head. I'm like,
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well, that would be that would be cool to see on the sideline,
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Like that would be an interesting, interesting take. Yeah. No, I
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still think. I still think even if that were to happen, if the
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Cowboys season falls apart, McCarthy gets fired and and Quinn gets promoted to head
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coach, I still think Dan Quinn is going to do the Micah Parsons wind
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up and then still run up to the booth above the field, just because
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it's safer that way. The only head coach in the booth. There's dangerous
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down there. It is. It's like he has to turn to his coordinators
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and actually be like, yeah, this is the safe is the best spot
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to be. You get to see everything and you don't get accidentally eaten by
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Micah Parsons, which is an unfortunate thing because if you're a teammate of Micah
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Parsons, you have to just give him a little bit of room so he
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doesn't you know, munch on you at the same time, he's gonna kill
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people. That's why I'm up here. I would love I would love to
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see a head coach in the in the booth. That would if I were
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ahead, That's where I would be like, I'm like, can I just
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sit? Yeah? I just sit and watched like you're the coach. Like
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I would have I would be by old high school coach. I would just
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have hot dog and popcorn and and a coke on, and you have the
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headphones on to make it look like you're doing some actual coaching, when in
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reality you're actually just listening to the Treehouse Football podcast. You're listening to the
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Treehouse visit us online, a Treehouse on Air dot com. You're listening to
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the Treehouse visitors online. That Treehouse on Air dot com helps. If I
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turned my mic on in the first two weeks season, it's still it's still
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a baby, but you can still glean some things out of two weeks,
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the Cowboys combined points are sixty to ten, So I feel I feel pretty
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good about going to Arizona facing the Owen two Cardinals in the late afternoon game
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on Sunday. Do you Trey have any at all trepidation about this game whatsoever
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or we get or are we about to go up like one hundred to thirteen
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as far as three weeks in the NFL season. And it always scares me
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to say this with the Cowboys and or Longhorns or any of my teams that
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I don't really have a lot of fear going into Arizona. I watched some
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of their game, I don't I didn't even know who's playing their quarterback.
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It's I think it's Hobbs. I have no idea who it is. And
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that's who Robert Redford played in the natural. He was a great right fielder.
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I don't you know. He was great at the play. I don't
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remember how good of an arm he had. But I don't like what the
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age would be on the Roy Hobbs character playing quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals.
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The quarterback for Arizona is Josh Dobbs. So you may remember him from when
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he was playing with Tennessee last year, and he wasn't even on the team
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the week that they had to play the Cowboys, and Josh Dobbs, or
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maybe it was the week before he had been called up to Tennessee. Whatever
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it was, he wasn't on the team. They had major injuries in Tennessee.
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He ends up getting a call to come play football again, and I
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actually I think it was against Dallas. They lose twenty seven to thirteen,
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and honestly, it seemed like a great, great young man. He's a
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he went to college for aerospace engineering, so he's got a hell of a
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brain on him. But unless the Cowboys, unless Dak Prescott and Josh Dobbs
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are taking an aerospace engineering test, I like our I like our chances.
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Yeah, I don't think i've I mean I used to when I was playing
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fantasy football. I would keep up with the Cardinals because only because I had
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Larry Fitzgerald as my receiver. I don't think I've kept I don't think there's
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anything like major that's happened with that, like the major moves that have happened,
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or or a player acquisitions that have happened that would make it something that
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we would have to worry about, Like I'm yeah, I mean, Josh
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Dobbs as a quarterback is not one that should scare you as the Cowboys,
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especially when the previous time you played Josh Dobbs, the quarterback in Tennessee.
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His parents made the drive from Michigan and were caught on national television enjoying the
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game. Those those are the people that were viral last year after that game
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because it was a Sunday night football game or no Thursday night football game and
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Cowboys won twenty seven thirteen and his parents look like they had been abducted and
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forced to watch the game that their son played in. So I would imagine
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they're not going to be making a special trip for this game. That's the
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saddest picture of seed. Oh long, long story short. I feel like
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Trey, I feel highly confident that the Cowboys will move to three and zero
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after this week's game in Arizona. In trepidation on your part, No,
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I just you know, I'm that guy, right, I'm like, well,
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this is the one that they walk into going, oh, we got
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this. And there's a desperation on the side of the Cardinals of we've got
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to for our fans, for ourselves, for our morale, for our egos,
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we have to win this. And on the film side, the Cowboys
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going this is this, It's it's them and I That's when I worry,
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like they are the Cowboys going to come into light and then Arizona comes into
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heavy. So I mean, I don't think there's anything to worry about,
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but yeah, ahead, I think Arizona is such a dumpster fire after the
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Kingsbury experience that, I mean, you hired a coach that didn't even have
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a winning record at Texas Tech. Yeah, and then he drafts a quarterback
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that he likes, and mind you never forget this. Where Kingsbury really made
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his name was he was the O C at A and M when they had
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Manzel, which the circumstances that led into that year A and M new coach,
26:29
quarterback no one's ever heard of in a new conference and teams they have
26:32
never played before. Because other than that, then you watched the experience from
26:34
then and then everyone figured it out and no big deal. Basically, Cliff
26:38
Kingsbury got to ride the wave of being the new guy for a handful of
26:41
years. He got to drive he got to drive Johnny the Johnny Football wave.
26:47
And then you know, just because he's a good looking guy and for
26:52
something. And I don't understand this. I don't understand this with NFL when
26:56
it comes to coaches or quarterbacks of why they see someone who really doesn't fit
27:03
the bill, but they think, oh, but with we can make him
27:07
that guy. We see the potential no one else does. It's called arrogance.
27:11
Yeah, that's what But that's what coaches like, that's what coaches do.
27:14
Like when kids don't sign and this is just my perspective, kids don't
27:18
sign up for peewee going I'm gonna be The coaches see that and go,
27:22
that's gonna be the That guy's the quarterback. Like I see that leadership,
27:27
that arrogance, that chip, whatever it is. So they want to cultivate
27:32
that. Everybody wants to be the guy that picks the next big thing.
27:34
Like, well, that's why I love about the Johnny Manzel story. I'm
27:37
like, that dude was my spirit animal. That dude is signing autographs for
27:40
money in college. I'm like, I love this dude. He was doing
27:44
illegal stuff in college and I'm like, he's going to wash out so fast.
27:48
I love this god like, but every coach like he's got he's got
27:52
it, like we had we you know, and I hope he's not listening.
27:56
But we had a quarterback in high school that everybody, I mean,
27:59
they every coach was like, he is the real deal, and it couldn't
28:03
have been more incorrect. Uh just just overall, you're just a good old
28:08
fashioned flame out. Huh Yeah, I mean, but I mean everybody the
28:12
coaches, that's who they pick like, that's that, that's the guy.
28:15
So when you're talking about how he randomly picked the guy that he likes,
28:21
I think that's what at the end of the day, I think that's what
28:23
it is, like I can mold this man into what I want him to
28:26
be. Well, look at look at Kingsbury's experience and his successes, and
28:32
you know, you look at Johnny Menzel I believe I believe he had Baker
28:37
Mayfield at one point, Okay, and so he likes undersized quarterbacks that you
28:44
know, maybe can scramble. And you're right, every coach wants to be
28:47
the guy that says I discovered that. Yes, And it's fine if you're
28:51
in high school, even in college. Yeah, but in the pros where
28:56
draft picks were your first round pick is so vital, and especially the quarterback
29:00
position is so vital. One bad pick, you've just screwed your franchise for
29:04
three to five years and you probably are going to get fired, which is
29:07
exactly what happened to Cliff Kingsbury. And now he's going to have to start
29:11
all over somewhere else trying to figure out, Okay, let me find a
29:14
new tiny white guy to ride back into the NFL. No, he did
29:18
what Kingsbury is actually at the for his looks everything. He now has the
29:25
perfect job for him, which is the offensive coordinator of the USC Trojans.
29:30
That is a good gig. And that's the sad thing is is when it
29:36
comes time for meetings with his team and he puts up the game plan for
29:40
the week, he's going to be really embarrassed when it has nothing to do
29:42
with football and it's just photos of co eds that he's pre selected. And
29:52
so we're talking more about Cliff Kingsbury than we are the actual coach of Arizona,
29:56
which is which is which is the former defensive coordinate of the Eagles?
30:00
Who is the coach of the I don't even yeah, who is any research
30:06
before these shows? And you know what, I'm not mad about it.
30:10
You know, it's just one of those there's no reason, there's no reason
30:12
on this Treehouse Football podcast to get mired in details and facts let's just go
30:18
on good old fashioned, stupid fan passion opinions and the occasional toilet joke.
30:26
Yeah, I just I'm not worried. I guess that's why there was no
30:32
So what you're saying is, now, after we just spent the last seven
30:36
minutes or so decrying the arrogance, we're now being arrogant Cowboys fans, Which
30:44
is what most other teams fan bases hate about us, is when we're just
30:48
two weeks good, We're only two weeks good in this season, and we're
30:52
already getting cocky about going on the road to Arizona? Are we? Are
30:56
we being cocky? Our slogan is America's team. We just decided that for
31:03
you. Like, that's that's that's the arrogance date is about when they Well,
31:07
the other thing too is Cowboys fans didn't select that, Sham didn't select
31:12
that. That was NFL Films. That's the Sable family's fault. And it
31:17
just suck. Yeah. I like how they just walk around like we're America's
31:21
too. I'm like, yeah, we we. When I was in Ireland,
31:25
uh doing shows many years ago, and that was the number one selling
31:29
hat in all of Ireland. Was the Cowboys hat and the second was the
31:33
Yankees. I mean there is no yeah, there's no other franchise that has
31:37
has been as mediocre as the Cowboys have for the last thirty years. And
31:42
that and they're one of the few teams that still move the ratings needles tremendously.
31:48
I mean, that's why they're always on the big game. They can
31:52
suck, but they are still like either they love them or you hate them,
31:56
but people will watch them absolutely, And that's the reason why we've got
31:59
the three twenty five game in the afternoon Dallas on the road to Arizona.
32:04
As Tray said, the only thing hotter in the Arizona Desert right now is
32:07
the dumpster fire that is the Cardinals. I just love the term dumpster fire.
32:14
I laugh every time I hear it. Has so many wonderful uses,
32:17
whether it's sports or in life in general, or radio stations. Well played,
32:28
well play advantage, thank you. Yeah, I think that that is
32:32
the arrogance, right, Like I would have done. I would have done
32:37
more research on the Arizona Cardinals when I was like, there's a chance they
32:40
could win. When I asked you earlier, when I asked you do you
32:45
have any hesitation or any trepidation about going on the road to Arizona, yours
32:49
a respons world been. I am so not worried. I didn't even bother
32:52
to look up who their head coaches or who their quarterback is. Yeah,
32:55
I don't know who anybody on that team is. If I wasn't playing,
33:01
if I was playing fantasy football, maybe, but uh no. The only
33:06
thing I worry about is our arrogance going into it, like just just kind
33:10
of taking it as like we got this. We don't have to show up
33:13
and play as hard as we did the last two weeks. That's the only
33:16
thing I worry about. Well, let's let's ride that wave of arrogance over
33:22
into the college game, and let's touch on trays and let's touch on trays.
33:27
Longhorns. What a perfect seg not bad? Huh not bad. Right
33:32
as soon as I saw it, I was like, Yeah, I see
33:35
an opportunity there. I'm gonna grasp it. I'm gonna grasp this opportunity much
33:39
like Micah Parsons grasps quarterbacks. And that is Trey as a massive ut fan
33:47
slash alum, someone who actually uh you know, threw some pads on at
33:53
UT for for a short while. How is your long? I never threw
33:59
them on. I just watch one day as I got invited to walk on,
34:01
and I saw what they did to walk on, and I realized then
34:06
that my football playing days were over. It was a wise decision. And
34:08
look at you now. So let's ride that wave of Texas football arrogance over
34:15
into the college side of things. Number three ranked UT who is now three
34:22
and zero playing what is sometimes in its history a dangerous game with Baylor.
34:29
Now Baylor now this has the same makings of Cowboys versus Cardinals. Cowboys are
34:34
undefeated, Longhorns undefeated. Cardinals are don't have a win yet. Baylor has
34:40
one win, but it was against the school whose initials are L I U.
34:45
I didn't even bother to look up what school it was because I know
34:47
they lost the next two games. And you know one of the schools that
34:51
Baylor lost to Raja's Texas State, Yeah south with us, so well they're
34:57
Texas State now when you were there in the Southwest, Texas so trade yea.
35:01
So how how what's your arrogance meter playing playing a Baylor team that lost
35:08
to Texas State. Any time you don't get something like that. Those guys
35:15
tried well. The only, the only, the only sports organization that likes
35:25
to shoot itself in the foot more than the Cowboys are the Texas, long
35:29
words, and they do it with just great precision and going into it.
35:36
I mean, Baylor's bad this year. I got I watched some of their
35:38
games. They're bad, and so there shouldn't be It should be kind of
35:45
like the Wyoming game last Saturday. It's gonna be kind of a close first
35:50
half, but ultimately, I mean, you should just wear them out and
35:54
you know, have an easy win. That being said, Texas loves to
35:59
screw up, so like all Texas games, I am incredibly cautiously optimistic for
36:05
this one. Like if we were going into Lubbock, then I would be
36:07
really scared because you can't have, you know, let down in Lubbick just
36:13
we suck in love it. But I'm hopeful there. Yeah, I hate,
36:20
I hate, I hate. I hate Baylor just for a personal reason,
36:24
like I hate that school. I hate Yeah every time, you too,
36:29
because Baylor's where my parents met. Oh really, and that didn't work
36:31
out good for anybody. I did a show there and they're very Baptist and
36:43
I had to type up my entire set. This is back in the day.
36:46
I'd type up my set and send it in for the Board of Regents
36:51
to approve of the content, and I get the big stamped approval, the
36:58
big red stamp this has approved. I'm not even making that up. They
37:00
it's a big, giant red stamp that said approved for my forty five minute
37:07
performance at Baylor? Was that before or after all the sexual harassment and rape
37:13
and sexual assault allegations with the football program to two or three years before?
37:21
Uh so? Uh? I guess it was. It was happening, but
37:23
they just had it, hadn't all? This is like I think that I
37:28
made a joke about it. I think the month before they were allowed to
37:31
dance, like they could actually have a dance because they wouldn't. They weren't
37:35
allowed to have dances. Uh. And and I made the joke on stage
37:39
because I hate them. I go, uh who called? Who called?
37:45
And said it was okay? Like what what? Like Commissioner Gordon had the
37:50
bat phone, does does your does your got it? Called directly from God?
37:52
That says God's like, hey, it's cool if they if they shake
37:57
a boot. Uh. But thirty years thirty years after Footloose came out,
38:07
and I get this big red stamp saying you your set is approved. Have
38:12
fun entertaining those Baptist kids. And I get to the venue and they're supposed
38:16
to have a dressing room for me, and I'm not a picky guy.
38:19
They were like, what do you want on your rider? I was like,
38:21
can I just get a sandwich and chips and a diet coke? That's
38:23
all I wanted. They gave me a four little thing little box of chocolates
38:29
and went, here's your food. And they weren't even kidding. They're like,
38:31
here's your food. And I had a share of dressing room with their
38:35
drill team or whatever it was. And then they came back and went,
38:38
hey, we forgot to tell you. One of the members of the Board
38:44
of Regents wasn't present when they voted to approve it, and she voted against
38:49
it, So you can't do any of your set. And I literally walked
38:54
into for a sandwich and some chips. Know I had to still perform forty
39:00
five minutes. They're like, just just you can't do any of the stuff
39:02
that you were going to do. So they would rather they would rather you
39:07
not do your pre submitted material and instead let you loose on stage without any
39:12
sort of a script. Yes, how much fun did you have that night?
39:15
Robb Oh, I haven't taken a dump on a school that big and
39:20
my you would have thought I had Indian food the night before, because I
39:22
just have. They invited you back since then, not one time? Never?
39:30
Are you okay with that? So I hope the Longhorns take a bigger
39:35
dump on them than I did. And that's impressive because every time I drive
39:39
to Austin, every time I passed Baylor, I literally, I'm not even
39:44
making this up. I stick my finger out the window and I'm just like,
39:46
the whole whole way from when McFarland Stadium starts to where Elvis ate breakfast,
39:52
I just do this the whole time. It's so funny that you do
39:55
that too. It's just that you and I do it for two completely different
39:58
reasons. One has some childhood trauma that a lot of it so much.
40:09
So basically what we're getting at is trauma gets trauma breeds at Baylor. Yes,
40:17
let's let's continue. So let's continue to ride the arrogance wave with one
40:24
last little tidbit here on the Treehouse Football podcast, and that is one of
40:30
the major stories that came out last week and ended this week that takes football
40:37
and celebrity and entertainment and brings them two together like two scissoring lesbians on a
40:43
website. And that is the story that came out that quite possibly maybe kind
40:50
of sword of Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift quietly hanging out according to sources, Yeah,
40:57
according to his brother, right, so they've actually well yeah, I
41:01
mean that that that That's what to me adds credibility to this story is that
41:07
there's not a whole lot of outright denial about it. And when there is
41:10
no outright denial, that usually means something is going on. And I would
41:15
and there's the reason why I mentioned the arrogant side of it is it's a
41:20
story as old as time and that is an NFL player having the swag to
41:25
say, you know what, you know what, that you know what that
41:29
amazing most popular, powerful pop singer needs in her life. Me Ye.
41:35
Enter Travis Kelsey at a Taylor Swift Era's show in July where he shoots his
41:42
shot and tries to give her his number. As as told on the podcast,
41:47
that Travis and his brother do. I'll let him tell you how that
41:52
went down. If you're up on Taylor Swift concerts. There are friendship bracelets
41:57
and I received a bunch of them being there, But I want to give
42:00
Taylor Swift one with my number on it, not right, your numbers in
42:05
eighty seven or your phone number, you know which one, so that she
42:12
doesn't meet anybody. And she doesn't, or at least she didn't want to
42:15
meet me, so I took a personal So he's he even said in that
42:19
show. Yeah, he was a little butt hurt about that, but he
42:21
understood it because he later said she doesn't talk to anybody before the show because
42:25
she has to sing forty four songs. She's saving her voice. So that
42:30
was in July. Fast forward to just last week. Now it seems like
42:32
they're quietly hanging out. Yeah. And as any time anyone's ever been attached
42:42
to Taylor Swift, I always wonder, what is it you think you're gonna
42:45
do different? Yeah, every time she's dating somebody, I'm like, oh,
42:52
I can't. She's trying to write a new album that I think everyone
42:55
has that that same thought, and then I thought, and then I started
42:59
thinking about this. There has been a line of very good looking, handsome,
43:07
wealthy, talented suitors in Taylor Swift's wake, and Travis Kelsey is now
43:13
throwing his cleats into her arena, saying I can do what all these other
43:21
guys couldn't. And I thought, I don't know anybody else that would have
43:24
that level of arrogance, And then I remembered I know Trey Trenholme, and
43:32
I think when you leave such a wake of bodies behind you the way Taylor
43:38
Swift has, I think deep down we all assume she's probably got a little
43:43
crazy in her, and I think that is where Trey sees the spark.
43:47
Oh, I see a lot of crazy in her. You can just tell,
43:52
like some of her some of her songs, they're written by a crazy
43:57
person and you just you know it, and yeah, I would. I've
44:00
got the liner notes and it says written by Taylor Swift and you're like,
44:01
well, yeah, and you realize, yeah, she really is a disturbed,
44:06
emotionally unbalanced person. And I love you would, but you would really
44:14
think though Tony Romo would call you know, Kelsey, have we go hey
44:19
dating a pop star that I love? That you mentioned that tree because I
44:23
don't know if you'll be able to see this or not, but I put
44:25
that in my notes right right here. It says, underneath Travis Kelsey and
44:30
Taylor Swift, I have two great examples from the cowboys recent history of dating
44:37
starlets. That is Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson. That did not go well.
44:42
That was terrible for everybody involved. It was bad for Jessica Simpson,
44:45
it was bad for the Cowboys, it was bad for Tony. It was
44:49
kind of good for the eye hoop off of thirty five. But then Miles
44:54
Austin and don't know if you guys remember this, Miles Austin for a brief
44:58
time was linked with Kim carter Ashian when he was at the height of his
45:00
popularity. Yes, none of those things ended well for anybody after After Miles
45:06
Austin dated Kim Kardashian, I don't even know if he caught a touchdown after
45:09
that. No, because the Kardashians will destroy you, and that's that's that's
45:15
their function in life is to destroy talented black man like that's what they look
45:19
at Kanye West, he was a musical genius. He married Kim Kardashian.
45:22
Now he's got his ass crack showing on a boat in Venice, Like where
45:25
if you want to talk about what they do in a black look what they
45:29
did to Bruce Jenner. Yeah, that's that's the ongoing joke. And he's
45:34
related. It's ongoing family, that's the ongoing joke. And like the comedy
45:38
community is, uh there, there's so there's so they're so bad at being
45:43
women. Bruce Jenner's like pulled my beard, Like let me show you,
45:49
bitch, is how this was done. But I my joke and I've always
45:52
said this, and I say it with so much passion, like, uh,
45:54
the Kardashians are like bleach. Uh. If you're black and they get
45:59
on you, you're ruined. Uh, that's just how that works. Every
46:05
Reggie Bush, Well, here's here's what something. Here's something you need to
46:08
keep in mind if you if you were if you were a black man and
46:10
you're trying to date one of the Kardashians and using your bleach analogy, raj,
46:16
that is this, do not go in the bathroom when they were bleaching
46:21
their butt holes, because that may be how it actually happens. Because once
46:28
they're done with that you might be the butt hole they're trying to bleach' that's
46:31
what it's gonna be. Like they're just Yeah, I didn't he right after
46:37
Jessica Simpson didn't remo date Carrie Underwood. Wasn't he going through like like country
46:42
singers. I think he was just like, let me just turn on,
46:45
Like that's the arrogance. I can just turn on the country, like the
46:47
country like like Tony did not learn his lesson with Jessica Simpson, although I
46:52
will say that Carrie Underwood seems to have her head on her shoulders a little
46:57
bit straighter than Jessica Simpson did at the time. Yeah, but both of
47:01
the tail in comparison to the mountain that Taylor Swift is where Travis Kelsey is
47:09
trying to climb. Yeah, that's and if and if you know, if
47:13
if he if he secures the victory of dating and then you don't know marrying
47:21
Taylor Swift, Like she's she's so big, Like I think was it uh
47:24
some Eastern European country that she's performing in, like it helped their economy,
47:29
Like that's how big her concert is, Like it's really like helped their GDP
47:32
out. What would be What would be a greater accomplishment in Travis Kelsey's career
47:37
winning another Super Bowl, including being named MVP in that Super Bowl, or
47:45
settling down, not just landing Taylor Swift, but actually settling down and doing
47:50
the whole family thing with her, Which would be the greater accomplishment I would
47:54
I would go Taylor Swift. Yeah, yeah, you know why because there's
47:59
been what fifty three other Super Bowls and MVPs in those games. He would
48:04
just be like the fifty fourth Whereas whereas no one's, no one's reached the
48:08
summit of Taylor Swift. She's his everest. Why don't we always come back
48:19
to white guys on some crazy expedition of of impossibilities. She that's his everest
48:27
and all. She really needs to some green boots. Uh, that's what
48:30
That's what she needs. She she should, She should settle down with an
48:32
Indian dude. I think Britney Spears wouldn't have gone crazy married Indian. It
48:37
al comes back to they need to marry an Indian dude. I don't know
48:42
why are you? Are you offering yourself up as tribute uh to Taylor's I
48:47
don't think I because now I kind of see the crazy. I didn't before.
48:52
I know she has writing I didn't. She seems this is why I
48:55
need to hang out with Trey more. I've hung out with Trey enough over
48:58
the years that he's my crazy. I know I'm next to him and he
49:01
starts gyrating his hips just a little bit more than usual. I know that
49:05
that I know to stay away. Okay, gotcha, because I mean I
49:07
saw her at the VMA's and uh not. I didn't see her through.
49:10
I was watching the VMA's and I saw her on and uh and she she
49:15
she was having a like she was she was fan grolling out with some of
49:17
the acts and was having a good time. She was dancing, she was
49:20
drinking, she was having a good time. I was like, Okay,
49:22
she likes to leave my hair down. That's kind of cool. I didn't
49:23
see the crazy. Uh. And and then Trey uh smiled uh and went,
49:30
oh, she's crazy, And I was like, oh, then he
49:32
knows. Uh. And I don't know how you spotted. I don't know
49:37
what you saw in her that makes her crazy, except for like like Dan
49:40
was saying, the bodies that have been left behind in her wake. But
49:46
I did see it. How is it that you you noticed crazy and a
49:50
woman? Yeah, it's a gift. Is it a gift from God?
50:00
Some people see dead people? All right? I see crazy? Why didn't
50:08
m Night Shamalan write about you? I see crazy people? Thank you for
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