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Football #3: We Jinx Dem Boyz · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome into the Treehouse Football Podcast. I'd say leave your worries outside, it's
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time for the Treehouse. But this is not that kind of a show.
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This is the football version of the Treehouse Podcast, which means there's gonna be
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a lot of sadness in here, a little panic, a little bit of
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panic, and a whole lot of regret. Like going to Arizona and playing
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the Cardinals. Yeah, I'm sure the Cowboys instantly regretted having to do that.
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But you know what, we really need to give credit where credit is
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due, and that is not to the Cardinals. We need to give credit
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to our very own Raj Sharmah for Jinks, the Dallas Cowboys. Yes,
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thank you, thank you very much. Thank you said you know, you
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said it couldn't be done, And I'm sorry that I had to prove you
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guys wrong. Yeah that's what I said. Dan, I'm sorry, but
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I don't know that I'm gonna let you off the hook with this because you
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were the one who absolutely stated that, you know, do not give yourself
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the power of the jinks and that you tempted, you were tempting fate with
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that. Oh so you're blaming me and you're trying to take their credit away
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from Raj. I'm laying it at both of y'all's feet. Okay, so
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it's a team effort. Good good for team Treehouse. Yes, this is
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the this is manager trade talking. It really is. This is yeah,
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this is Trey doing the very good manager things, spreading the blame and not
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taking any of it onto himself. Tray, you're like the program director of
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the Treehouse podcast. Hey, I will say this, Like I said,
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go ahead, Tray Dan, You're you're really the very Yeah, you well
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appreciate this, but I'm like, you know, of the history of program
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directors. I love Gavin, but I'm like, this was just fun here.
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It's like, wow, does that make me like Bob McNeil. That
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is a throwback name for anyone listening. I'll put some glasses right here and
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then just leave, all right. The very quick story roars when we were
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back on CBS Radio on even five three, which went through with two different
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names, but that was you know, we had Howard Stern in the mornings,
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and then we were you know, we were on the Rust Martin showing
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the afternoon, the very first program director of that station, and that station
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was on the air from I think it was like April of two thousand through
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December of two thousand and eight. Bob McNeil, the original program director,
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had his job down to not just a science but an art form. Because
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I met him, didn't I you? I think I did. The name
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sounds really familiar. It's very possible he came up on the show quite a
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bit because or he was on the show quite a bit. So anyway,
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Bob, you know, he was a country music programmer and they changed his
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talk format, and he was just kind of like the format. He was
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free wheeling it and just trying to trial an air. Let's see what happens.
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And so when on the days that he really wasn't feeling it, feeling
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it being work, oh, he would he would take his throw down pair
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of glasses, put them on his desk, put on his normal glasses,
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walk out of his office, leave the door open and the light on,
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and then he'd get in his car and drive to a golf course and play
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golf. Everyone at the station, however, would walk by his office and
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it appears he's just left momentarily, and we'll be back any minute. Ah
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with the glasses. Yep, Well play aid I like his style. Yeah,
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he was a fun boss. He was a really, really really fun
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boss. He was more of the management style of DA don't lose the license.
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That's exactly what it was. But that's exactly his management style. When
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I got RAJ you did you did my weekend show for many many years.
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When when when we first got that show on the air, Bob's instructions to
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us were, and I quote, have fun, don't lose the license.
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There was nothing else, There was no structure, guidance, there was there
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was nothing. Have fun, but don't lose the license. Got it and
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off form. And I think that I think that for that the specific type
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of radio shows that both of them were, I think it made for a
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productive work environment as opposed to something that would you would feel it was a
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hindrance. Not having his presence. Yes, he he He let you be
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you. He let you be created without putting any constraints on you. He
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also let rust throw fireworks at us. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
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we were breaking the law on a daily basis. Now, I will say
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this, the tactic of appearing to be caring about what your team is doing.
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Yeah, that actually seems like kind of like what the Cowboys game plan
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was, or at least the game plan from Mike McCarthy, because he actually
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looked like he just set his glasses down on the desk for the week and
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stepped out to do whatever the hell else it was besides appearing to get the
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team ready for a game in Arizona. Now, let's get back to let's
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get back to whether or not we need to change the name of this show,
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and maybe we do. Maybe we do need to change the name of
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this show from the Treehouse Football Podcast too, we Jinks dym Boys, I
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like it. And first of all, at Trey, I'm not gonna let
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you steal this moment from me. I would like to thank everybody that didn't
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believe it was possible for me too, Jinks, an entire team of adults.
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And I did. And I said by name who I thought was looking
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great and was back in the mix and ready to take take on the season.
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I said his name, I said, Trayvon Diggs. And I do
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recall seeing the alert on my phone and texting one Daniel O'Malley and saying,
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you didn't think I could do it, did you? You son of a
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bitch? Trayvon Diggs out with a practice. It's amazing. The next damn
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day day that the day that RAJ says he's looking good. I don't want
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to jinx it. They're looking good. I don't want to jinx it.
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The very next day, Trayvon Diggs acl snaps and then come time for the
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game in Arizona and your jinks. RAJ has seemingly spread like a virus through
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the team and managed to take out three of the five offensive line starters.
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Correct, I still felt very confident going into that game without Trevon Diggs.
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Still confidence very high. But once I saw in the pregame that three of
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the five starting offensive linemen, including Zach Martin, were out or questionable,
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that was when I started to get concerned. Yeah, I knew what was
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going to happen with that, and it happens with a lot of teams.
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Is a leader and a credible player like Treyvon Diggs gets hurt and they lose,
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and they pin it on that particular person being gone. Well, you
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know, the secondary wasn't ready. The team whatever it is, Team Morales,
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secondary is not ready. Whatever it is, They're gonna go well,
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you know, with without without Treyvon Diggs, there that's I've heard this so
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many times in the last week. Really, well, you know, Trayvon
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digs out. I'm like, but he's one dude. Oh you're talking about
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just people just talking in general, not people that actually know what they're talking
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about. Correct, just just just overhearing people talking about the Cowboys and it's
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like, well, you know, they didn't have and I'm like, well,
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that's correct, and hey, look I understand. I understand they didn't
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have Diggs. And if you were facing an elite quarterback like Patrick Mahomes or
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something, or possibly what appears to be Jordan Love in Green Bay, those
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Lucky Packers. But in reality, if you're playing against the Patrick Mahomes and
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you get lit up in the secondary, and then you can say, well,
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you know what, if Trayvon Diggs is in the game, we're talking
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we're talking about a different outcome possibly. Whereas when it's rocket scientists, Josh
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Dobbs and own to Arizona Cardinals, whose main objective at the end of this
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season is to secure the first pick in next year's NFL draft, Yeah,
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it ain't on the fact that Trayvon Diggs didn't play. Now, if you
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want to skew some and say, hey, you had three out of five
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offensive lineman not playing, including one guaranteed Hall of Famer in Zach Martin and
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possibly another Hall of Famer in Tyron Smith. Yeah, you could point,
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as they see, that's that's amine your problem. That could be why they
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were not successful in Arizona. But when you actually watched the game, yeah,
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Cowboys didn't lose that game because they had a majority of backups in on
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the offensive line. They lost the game because they sucked. Yeah, I
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it looked like it reminded me of the Quincy Carter days of the Cowboys.
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Here's why, Here's here's old. No, no, no, here's why.
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Because I used to own a nightclub in Deep Alum called Chrome, and
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a couple of those guys would come in and I'd see them, I do
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you know, I'm I'm the owner the club. I would go over and
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hug them and you know, give and they would they would always pay.
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I would give them the VIP lounge for free. And there's many a night
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that I went isn't today's Saturday? H And I go, oh, they
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have a game tomorrow. And I remember there was one specific game where I
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was loose for pre game. I remember what there was one where Quincy Carter
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had four interceptions in one game and I was like, I know why,
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Like that's called hungover and they look like I saw some of their faces.
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I'm like, did they get to Arizona early? Like, because Arizona is
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a great part like Phoenix Tempe that it's a great flagstap Like, oh,
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that's a great party tap like they have fantastic bar, that fantastic nightlife.
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Like did they get their date early and nobody said go to bed at ten?
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Like, I don't know what happened. Oh, they'll tell them those
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things and they'll have the team meeting the night before we're on the road.
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They're at the team hotel and all those things and all that doesn't necessarily mean
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they follow it. Or that also doesn't mean that they didn't bring in the
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evening's entertainment to the rooms. Okay, I don't know how it'll works.
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I'm just like some of them just look like. I'm like, man,
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that guy looked hung over. That's that's that's how they were playing. I
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like Dan's you know, the thought of the fact that Mike McCarthy they have
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just put his glasses on the desk, and you have been like, whoa
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crap, we're two and oh hey, let's let's take a break. You's
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go party. Yeah, And that's all I've seen on ESPN News is like
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is this was this just a bad game or is this a bad sign overall
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for the remainder of the season. I think three games in that's you would
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think, so, okay, I would The only reason I say yes to
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that as far as a bad sign is because that's that's what we've seen from
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Cowboys teams for the last thirty years. Yeah, not all of them,
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but like the ones that were supposedly good, they'd be really good, and
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then they'd have a showing like this one and then and then now you don't
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know which team you have. You don't know which team is going to show
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up. It's the bipolar Cowboys. Yeah. I'm just wondering, like,
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is it is it? You know, presumptuous to go. We were three
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games in, this is the season's over? Like, well, let's hold
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on, let's see, let's see what they do, Like what adjustments may
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I think they walked into Arizona with we got this. I know we got
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a couple of hurt people. We don't have to try that hard. So
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let's not over extend anybody else because we have people that are out, So
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let's just play like we're just at this. And then I think by the
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time it hit them, oh we don't got this, it was way too
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late. Yeah, and it was evident because you can see when people are
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trying to play, when they're playing catchup. You can tell, like you
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can see like the panic on the sidelines, and once you see that,
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even as a spectator, especially the opposing team, like we got them,
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look at them on their heels now because they weren't expecting this, and the
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Cardinals needed some sort of boost to get people to come back to watch games
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that aren't season ticket holders. I think just a quick point in there is
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like when when the Cowboys go to Arizona. Arizona has no problem selling tickets
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because they have a huge mass of Cowboys fans in there, and as you
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watching the game, you saw just you know, i'd say a quarter to
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a third of the people in the stands are wearing Cowboys stuff. Tray was
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it? What was it? You're going to say, Oh, I mean
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I was gonna say that it's it with the NFL. It's the tendency is
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to have these you know, big overreactions of oh my god, what's we're
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a dumpster fire, when in point of fact, there's so much parody that
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they could come out this weekend and and you know, kill the Patriots and
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all as well. That's very true. I heard someone say before, and
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this is absolutely accurate. How as Cowboys fans we live and die week to
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week. And I don't think that's exclusive to us as Cowboys fans, but
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we seem to own a little bit more than others. Like if you're a
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Browns fan and you lose a game like this, you're like okay, Whereas
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as a Cowboys fan, especially one that we're alive and watching the nineties Cowboys,
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Yeah, our highs are really high and our lows are really low,
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and we need we need some type of pill to you know, even us
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out. That's funny that you mentioned that there was I saw a clip of
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a METEOROLOGI doing the weather and he said, uh, the the hot temperature
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this week. We'll peek in the nineties, much like the Dallas Cowboys,
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and I was like, you can't be mad at it because it's accurate.
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It was good. I like, I wanted to hate the guy and I
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don't know where what city was in, but I wanted to hate the guy.
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And I was like, but I mean thinking like on your feet like
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that, Like that was clever. Like I gotta give you credit for that.
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And there has been every season is that is now we have the right
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people in place. So when we got Dad and Zeke okay, we got
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and we got him, this is going to be the guys that are gonna
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take us to the Now. It's every season is like, who who do
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we have? Now? That's going to be the three you know, the
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triplets or whatever, whatever slogan or whatever, not a Moniker you want to
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give it now. We have to find that every season and then it's a
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letdown because oh my god, we had so much success in the nineties and
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then now we don't. You know, I don't want to think that one
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game like this could end it, but I mean morale wise, just being
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in town after that game, and just Tredy knows as well, just listening
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to people talk about it, especially ESPN when they're like is it over?
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I'm like, did anybody see Denver play? Did anybody want to talk about
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Denver given up to seventy points. I'm so glad because that actually made me
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feel a little bit better knowing at least we didn't get blown out and had
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and had seventy points hung up on us. Yeah. Yeah, but it
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also makes you feel worse because Miami was a dumpster fire a couple of years
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ago and right now. I mean, if you want to have, you
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know, overreaction, it's like I would put the Eagles and the Dolphins in
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the Super Bowl, and I don't you shut up, Tredy Trent Holme.
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But if you want to talk about the two bad like of what I've seen,
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especially the Dolphins are scary good like they they their speed is unbelievable.
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They're fun to watch. I never never thought i'd said that about Miami Dolphins,
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but I mean they've even I didn't really think two of was that good.
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But even he looks really good. And then that's what I mean.
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He looks great when he's not concussed for most of the seasons, like right,
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well, but it's it's like, yeah, he gets his receivers are
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so fast and he gets the ball out quickly. Then you it does bring
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up the eternal question of the Cowboys of you know, is Dak the man?
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Or is he a great quarterback? Is he just a good quarterback?
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He is. He is the quintessential embodiment and one player of the story of
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the Cowboys over the last thirty years. And unwittingly the person who would have
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had that before him was Tony Romo. And and that is you've got You've
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got two guys that are capable of some amazing things and have done some amazing
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things, but at the end of the day, they still have nothing to
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show for it, and sometimes they can be a detriment to their team.
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And there's a specific version of Dak Prescott that I hate, I really hate
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seeing it, and that is wide mouth Dack. When Dak Prescott in a
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game like the one in Arizona on Sunday, is looking around with his mouth
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open like he's looking for a like a like, a like he's looking for
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a lure, and he looks lost, as if someone pulled him out of
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a pond, dropped him in the middle of an NFL state even say,
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play quarterback and he was a fish five minutes earlier. Stop it now,
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keeping in mind, that's wide mouth Dak. There's then there's killer Dak.
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Yeah. Then there's Dak who's like focused, he's got his game face on
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and he's screaming, let's f and go, and then they do it.
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Whenever I see wide mouth Dak, I just my stomach starts to turn and
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I just just I feel like there's a there's a baby bass somewhere who's missing
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daddy. That's the that's the panic that I'm talking about. When you can
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look on the sidelines and you see their faces, you know, you can't
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hide that. Like back in the day the camera angles and they wouldn't zoom
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in whatever it was. Now, i mean they're up close and personal and
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they've got you know, so much technology to where you can see like individual
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players and their reactions to certain things, and I'm like, yeah, I
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mean they look scared and they look like they don't know what they're doing.
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The difference with the thing that I didn't like about Tony Romo was the a
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shucks Romo where he would throw an interception, be like dad, damn it,
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and slap his knee and then just hop off. I'm like, he
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didn't have that. I knew we weren't going to the Super Bowl with Romo.
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I knew that for a fact. He didn't have that killer Let me
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get in the huddle and yell at these people as my teammates, as their
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leader to take this to the next level of play that they're capable of.
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He was the guy that you wanted at the party, Yeah, as opposed
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to you know, leading it to the super Bowl. Yeah, he's like
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a cool youth pastor, you know, I mean like I know y'all,
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but here and in another lifetime he probably was. Like if if Tony Romo
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was to be dropped into the Marvel Cinematic universe, he probably would be a
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really cool youth pastor in one of those other universes. Yeah, like I
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wanted to play. Do you think that in one of those other universes he
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would have won a super Bowl or still zero? I mean I don't,
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I don't. I don't know which universe that would be. Like I just
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did hours obviously because he's gone now, but yeah, he just didn't have
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that. But if you watch him do the color commentary, like he's a
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clinical genius, Like he's calling plays before the ball snap and everybody that works
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with him is like, well you were right again. Tony's like, I
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know I'm this good and his quarterback ranking was amazing, but he just didn't
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have that thing. Aikman had it. Aikman had that thing. I'm going
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to murder you in your sleep. That is exactly what it is. Like.
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You don't win this, we don't win this today, you die.
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I think he's drunk and serious, like and everyone else on the sidelines telling
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you every all the other players go like, Trey will find I mean Troy
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will find you. Yeah, he knows where we all live. Like he
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asked for addresses at the beginning of the season. I thought that was weird.
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It wasn't for Christmas cards. You're listening to the Treehouse. Visit us
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online at Treehouse on air dot com. Welcome back into the Treehouse Football Podcast.
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I'm Daniel Malley along with Trey Trenholme and Raj Sharma. Before we skip
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ahead and start thinking about the Patriots this weekend at at and T Stadium in
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Arlington, let's uh, let's finish up dog piling on the on the Cowboys
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effort in Arizona. I would like to take. Outside of giving our show
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too much credit on Jinxing Dim Boys, which we may or may not have
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done, I need to say that I am actually very impressed about something that
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Cowboys did on Sunday in Arizona, and that was lay such a massive turd
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on the field in Arizona that tens of thousands of people showed up to see
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it, and then millions more around the world turned on their televisions to also
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see this massive turd in the middle of Arizona and a football game happened around
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it. Yes, that was extremely impressive on the Cowboys park because I know
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a lot of times, like on sports shows, after a game, especially
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after a bad loss, and that's all losses are bad, but sometimes when
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it's against a team that on paper and in your heart you know you should
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have won, but you don't, it's a bad loss. That being said,
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those shows, we'll say, all right, look it was bad,
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But what's what's a silver lining? What's what was something positive you could take
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out of the game. Mine was, well, you know, at least
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the Cowboys are back to being regular. We're striving for mediocrity. Well,
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you know what, when I guess what happened in the first two weeks.
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Uh, you know it made us feel good because you know, they put
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up you know what, like seventies or they put up a ton of points
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in the first two games. The defense looked phenomenal. And then and then
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they show up in Arizona and just drop a massive turd in the middle of
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the stadium and call it a day. And that's kind of infuriating. But
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as Cowboys fans were kind of used to it, Yes, and and I
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did uh and uh Treyvon Diggs season, and I feel terrible for it.
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Uh. And I would like to offer uh the jinxing power that I clearly
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have to Like, let's say the to New England that's coming up, what
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should what should I what should I mention for them that I jinx New England.
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Now, let's just see if it were if if if I, if
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we mentioned just give me one specific person from New England that we can we
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can say, you know what, I'm I will he's looking really good and
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I and that's the jinks. And if it does happen, oh, you'll
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know. So I would like to stop you there. I don't want us
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to wish any injury or anything like that on the part of any player.
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So the name I'm going to give you rag, so I would like for
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you to jinks is Bill Belichick for this week. Okay, Boys take on
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the Patriots at home. Yeah, and Bill Belichick has recently found himself single.
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And I don't think there's anything more dangerous in the NFL than a Bill
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Belichick with too much free time. Yeah. I mean, because when Bill
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Belichick has that much free time to game plan or still your playbook or you
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know, videotape your practices, whatever it is, that man needs a distraction.
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So what I would like for you to do, Raj is to wish
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a girlfriend upon Bill Belichick to distract him properly against this Calvin, I think
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he's as a human being, has turned a corner and love will find him
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shortly. He had he had, My heart is full, he had a
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woman. He was he had a woman when they were winning. Actually,
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I know I would say I jinxed them and wish Mac Jones good health,
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all right. I want him to stay as as healthy as he possibly can
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as he makes his way to AT and T Stadium to play hour Dallas Cowboys.
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I wish him nothing but health and prosperity. Let's see, Trey,
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you may be my evil list of friends. Like at this point, I
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don't think that you were ever a real estate agent or a radio host and
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producer in your career. I don't think that you are a service industry manager.
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I think in your real life, I think you live at the Continental
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down the hall from john Wick, and you find joy in ending people while
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telling them I wish you nothing but the best. I like how he's getting
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blamed for and I'm the jinxer. This is fantastic. Keep it up,
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I think is really good. I think we have something on I think we
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have something we could really build on here, which is we use Rod his
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face and Trey's words yes to just absolutely demolish whatever the target is for that
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week against the Cowboys. So maybe for this week and Mac Jones, we
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release a photo of Mac looking great throwing a football. He's not broken or
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in a car crash or anything like that on the field. But then a
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quote from Trey that says, we hear at the Treehouse Football podcast, wish
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you nothing but the best. Yah. Yeah, good health and happiness,
26:37
and may Belichick find the one love of his life. But Trey. You're
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right. I know Belichick had had his woman there for many, many years,
26:44
even when they were winning, but that was a long term relationship.
26:48
She knew the deal he had. He had laid down the lines like look,
26:52
I gotta do football and stuff, so she didn't distract him as much
26:55
as as one could have. Now, if you you you drop a new
26:59
girlfriend in his app, that's saying you know what you're You're great. You
27:03
don't you don't need to spend an extra two hours analyzing the game plan.
27:08
Let's let's go have a drink. Let's let's go get some dessert. Let's
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let's go, you know, let's go meet my family or maybe you know
27:17
Robert Kraft is like, hey, you look tense, come with me and
27:19
get a massage. And I don't want to see is all of a sudden
27:29
Belichick has a new girlfriend and he wears number twelve. That would be bad.
27:40
Yeah, that's a relationship that I don't want to see backslide because that
27:49
would be bad for everybody. Although hilarious, it makes for a great rom
27:57
com script. I mean, you know that first game when you know Tom
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they retired Tom Brady's number. You know, Belichick It's like every relationship.
28:07
Yeah, you may have parted ways and it wasn't great, but all of
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a sudden you look back them and those are good times. Is good?
28:15
No, no, no, you're right. And what's the other thing that
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they're thinking? Man, that sex was great. I would like to make
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this. I would like to make this an idea possible for ABC, maybe
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next year's Golden Bachelor. Bill Belichick, I'm both intrigued and horrified. Just
28:44
on one head, I would watch that. On the other hand, he
28:47
is not going to hold back on telling those chicks why he's not having them
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on his team. No, he'll get a power point presentation to pointers this
29:00
wrong. You moved wrong here, you didn't fight. I told you to
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follow the play I'm gonna need you to grab your playbook and follow me.
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That's what he hands out, insaid of Roses. You're still on the team.
29:22
He just narrows it down to twelve. That's it. That's eleven and
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a backup and then and then you know how they like to have the big
29:30
shocker, then the shocker when the extra turns, and then Tom Brady comes
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walking. I would watch this. Yes, they always got to drop that
29:41
twist. On you. All right, I feel like that's a pretty solid
29:45
preview of Cowboys Patriots this Sunday. Now, I do have one Cowboys question
29:53
though, all Right, has it turned out? And I don't know if
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it is scheme or just person but Cowboys backup running back might be the best
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job in sports in the NFL for a running back because it's it seems like,
30:11
However, I don't know, like I said, Pollard last year,
30:12
was Zeke great this year? But then what's a deuce? That's a guy's
30:18
name? I think I was really hoping you were going to say Biggelow.
30:22
Yeah, but uh, that would have been right in Tray's wheelhouse of of
30:29
misappro misplacing hosts and names of things in different places. I still love that.
30:37
And I don't know, like I said, I don't know if it's
30:38
scheme or personnel, but and how they use the starter versus the backup.
30:44
But it seems like that that is a sweet spot. Well you say that,
30:48
but I mean Pollard actually had himself a decent day. Yeah, But
30:52
I just like he actually had a really good day statistically. He just doesn't
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seem as explosive as he was to me. I disagree completely, I think
31:04
he again, I don't. I hesitate and again, And maybe it's because
31:10
it's so frustrated with Zeke that you saw him and it's like, oh,
31:14
that's great, and now it's like, I don't know. It may also
31:18
be a compared contrast type of thing, because last year, when you have
31:21
Zekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard, it really was like a thunder lightning thing.
31:25
Like when Tony Pollard comes in and he's flying down the field and then Zeke
31:29
comes back in and it looks like his, you know, his, like
31:30
he's running in peanut butter. Then that's an easy contrast to make, whereas
31:36
now it's mainly Tony Pollard and he you don't have someone stuck in peanut butter
31:41
in front of him. But do you also think it could be this because
31:44
it is the NFL and the average shelf life of a running back is about
31:48
four years, and two of that is spent trying to get your contract,
31:53
trying to make that money that once they do. If you look at Zeke,
31:59
I mean, and he he got paid big off the jump, but
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when he wanted to get his money, get his money, he was playing
32:05
with that fire and that that passion for the game, then got that check
32:10
and was like, you know what, I only have a certain amount of
32:14
life left as a player before, you know, something catastrophic could happen or
32:19
I have to go off and retire whatever, So let me make my money
32:22
now. And Pollard did the same thing. I don't know what, because
32:25
there is that thing in the NFL where the owners of the team look at
32:30
running backs as a very very disposable commodity. Right. The main the major
32:38
theme you're talking about RAJ is one that's has plagued sports now since the free
32:45
agent era entered into all those sports, which is you're in a contract year.
32:50
Players in a contract year sure do seem to really play with a chip
32:53
on their shoulder and because they're they're going to get that bag. And then
32:58
after they signed the big contract, then it might be just because it's tainted
33:04
now because you know they've signed their big contract and if they don't have the
33:07
same results, then you're like, oh, well, now they're just you
33:10
know, slacking because now they got paid, or they just don't want to
33:14
get hurt because that position. There's also that and those are all legitimate things
33:19
that could be true. I think at the end of the day. It
33:22
depends on the individual. It depends on the individual player. If like you're
33:28
really gonna have one or two one out, you're sort of got I talked
33:31
for a living, You're gonna have one of two types. Typically, you're
33:35
gonna have a player that's going to go get that money. And when they
33:37
get that money, now they're going to tap the brakes a little bit and
33:39
say, I have a life after football. I've got to think about and
33:43
I have security and all these types of things, and now that I've got
33:45
it, I'm I'm still gonna I'm still gonna try, but it's not gonna
33:49
be at the same level. The other type is now that I got my
33:52
money, now I'm gonna go show you why you should give me more of
33:54
it, or I'm going to show you now that you've done this, now
33:58
I don't have to worry about money and I can focus now on killing all
34:00
of my enemies, sort of that Tom Brady mentality. Yeah, I mean,
34:05
yeah, I wish and I think you can have both. Yeah,
34:07
I just wish there was more of the ladder right when it comes to just
34:12
across the board on all NFL teams, like I see it where they're You're
34:15
exactly right where they're fighting for that that season, their contract season, and
34:21
they get that money, and it's like, okay, cool, now I
34:23
got it. Now I can take a breather. The guy who's behind me,
34:25
let him work a little bit harder now because he's got to get his
34:28
money too. And then they said that trickled down, you know, like
34:30
domino effect, Like the guy behind me, he's got to get his money
34:32
too, So I'm gonna pump the brakes on his and let him shine for
34:35
a minute. So Trey did kind of answer your question. I don't know
34:39
because on one hand, on one hand, you know that they're because on
34:45
one hand, I can tell you this, Zeke had some plays that I
34:49
guarantee you that they would not call for Pollard and vice versa. Like you
34:52
know, there are plays that they would put in the put in the game
34:55
plan or in the playbook for Tony Pollard, but say, you know what,
35:00
this would not be as successful with Zeke. So this is more of
35:04
a Tony run type of a deal. I'm certain that that happens. But
35:07
both running backs should be able to execute the same core running plays that you
35:13
have in your book. And then sometimes there's other outside influences affecting your performance
35:19
in a game, like whether or not RAJ has you know, Jinks to
35:22
you or not. But I will say I will say there was one player
35:27
that we talked about in our previous football episode, and that was Travis Kelsey
35:31
and the Treehouse Jinks has not affected him one bit, because last week we're
35:37
talking about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey from the Chiefs. Quietly hanging out was
35:44
the story. Well, quietly hanging out escalated really quickly, as Ron Burgundy
35:50
would say to Taylor Swift in the booth with Mama Kelsey. Yeah, that's
35:55
a hell of a leap going from quietly hanging out to here's mama, I
36:01
you know, does she need? Is she working on a new album?
36:04
What's going on? Because she is? Because everybody's like, you know,
36:07
well, what if Travis Kelsey Mary's uh, there's I'm like, really you
36:12
think because she's got a killer track record of uh doing this and then the
36:19
break up and then phenomenal music. Yeah, that's exactly for mamma to Grammy's
36:27
like that's ah, Like it was a very it was a great optics wise.
36:31
It looked fantastic. It was very wholesome. It was there's my mom
36:35
and their high fiving and everybody's loving the game, and my home's throw a
36:38
touchdown at the end that you could clearly seems like, hey, ma'm my
36:43
girls in the up there, can you can you throw me? Something's like
36:45
I got you? Uh and did that? The play call was all right,
36:51
all right, it's Swifty on too ready break. Yes, But there
36:53
are Internet there are Internet conspiracy theories going on. So if you look at
36:59
the line up from the Eagle standpoint, like the way it was lined up,
37:02
it was Kelsey right, his brother Jalen Hurts and the running back Swift.
37:08
So it says Kelsey hurts Swift. So that's the new conspiracy theory is
37:15
that there is like that. I'm telling you, I watched, I saw
37:19
it. So what's the theory is that it's it's Kelsey's doing this to hype
37:23
himself up and he's gonna break Taylor Swift's heart. The Swifty conspiracy theories are
37:28
going don't don't trust the don't trust the Travis Kelsey there because he's gonna Kelsey
37:32
hurts Swift. Kelsey seems like a fairly intelligent guy and does he does he?
37:38
Really? And and please, I mean if you're if you're comparing all
37:45
time great tight ends from a mental standpoint, yeah, I'd put him above
37:49
Gronkowski. But that's not exactly a high bar, all right, I guess
37:59
that's the bar, you know. So he looks like a road staller,
38:06
Yeah, look like the polar Bear out there playing tight end. Uh.
38:10
But I mean he the Brothers seemed fairly media savvy everything else. You have
38:15
to know the last person you really want to try to screw over, and
38:20
you have to go this way into this with some trepidation of if yo,
38:23
if you do break up, you're gonna get just crucified by the Swifties by
38:29
the next album. Yeah, that's what That's what I mean. And and
38:34
it hasn't hurt Jake Gyllenhaal at all. So he's doing okay. Like he
38:38
just may not have the fan base with the Swifties that he had while they
38:43
were together, but again it does. The Jersey sales went up four which
38:49
is impressive. The outfit that he was wearing when they walked out that was
38:54
that by the way, was that like a like a like a twenty first
38:58
Century Picnic Table. Uh. I looked it up because there's so what that
39:05
company did in a moment of absolute genius because their album is titled on nineteen
39:12
eighty nine. They slapped nineteen eighty nine on the back of that jacket and
39:17
originally it was just the way it looked like with Travis Kelsey wearing it.
39:20
They went and overnight put nineteen eighty nine on the back of the jacket and
39:23
it's sold out completely within within hours. And then, like I said,
39:30
the you know, Travis Kelsey jerseys four hund percent. Now they have their
39:34
own merch like people are on Etsy designing things like Swifties are on their Etsy
39:38
accounts making Kelsey swift the T shirts and jerseys and things like that. So
39:45
I mean, she does, i mean boost the economy for for whoeverything.
39:51
It's amazing. You know, she's she's one of the few things that can
39:53
actually put more people in an NFL stadium than the NFL team. Yeah,
39:59
that's the was the one meme that I saw that was really great. It's
40:01
like, you know, why don't when Travis Kelsey was inviting her to the
40:04
to the game, was like, you know, why don't you come to
40:07
the stadium. It's gonna be totally sold out, and she goes, yeah,
40:09
I know, I did that twice by myself. But it's cute that
40:16
you and dressed out friends can sell it out too with the opposing team people
40:24
as well. So yeah, I mean it's and you. I wish the
40:29
best for them both. I mean I think that's I think that's great.
40:34
Uh yeah, man, I mean that's cool that Okay, are you still
40:39
are you? Are you now stealing already stealing my lane of Oh no,
40:43
I wish them the best. No, no, no, no, I
40:45
mean if it works out, that'd be what a great story. Like she's
40:47
just you know, pop princess and he's a great, uh talented football player,
40:52
and it's very high school like the homecoming King the homecoming queen kind of
40:55
thing. You know. That'd be kind of a that's a great story.
40:59
It's a great fair tale kind of romance. So so so like the American
41:02
version of the Beckhams. Yeah, I mean the kind of I mean,
41:06
like, yeah, I guess you could call it that, but that'd be
41:07
kind of cool and good for them if that works. I just look at
41:10
with a slightly more wholesome feeling yeah, and and Travis Kelsey's voice actually matches
41:17
his face, So that's a that's if you ever heard David Beckham talk,
41:21
You're like, how is it? It's like the first time you heard Mike
41:23
Tyson talk. You know, it's like you just see this beast in front
41:27
of it was like, so, you know, what would you did your
41:29
opponent? I took him to the school with this hey and you're like,
41:31
oh no, no, that's not how he supposed to talk. Well,
41:35
you mentioned that because that's also people's reactions to when they heard Patrick Mahomes.
41:38
Yeah, like, oh my god, someone dubbed you know, Kermit the
41:44
Frog's voice and the Patrick Mahomes body. Uh but no, I mean that
41:49
would be kind of a fun, uh cool story. I just look at
41:52
her back. Her track record is such where it always seems like these really
41:57
high profile romances and everything's going great, and the minute it gets too serious,
42:01
she bails out and writes an album about how broken hearted she is.
42:06
It was like Adele, Like Adele did the same thing for her first couple
42:08
albums, to the point where she when she announced she was pregnant. I
42:12
posted a joke on Facebook that guy a lot of grief because all of her
42:15
songs are so sad. I was like, she's pregnant, that baby's never
42:17
gonna stop crying just listening to and then she's all happy now, and you're
42:24
like, Okay, you've got your residency in Vegas, you got your guy,
42:27
everything's everything's happy, no new music, yeah, so what's what has
42:31
to happen now? And so breeds creativity absolutely that you're sorry about the worst
42:39
Most people don't know it, but the worst one of all of them was
42:43
the No Doubt because you know, Gwen Stefani dated the guitarist and that album
42:47
is about their breakup. Yeah, and like not only it's number one everything
42:52
else, but then for the next five years you're touring and every night you're
42:57
just getting pounded with that yeah yeah. And on the flip side of it,
43:01
for for for for my people, we're just like, oh, an
43:05
Indian guy was was banging Glen's all right, dude good. Maybe maybe that's
43:09
the tray he was able to swallow all that all that crap from the album
43:15
being sung about him as he's you know, playing back up to Gwen Stefani
43:17
is like rags things like yeah, but I got her, Yeah, take
43:22
that Gavin Rossdale from Bush this album's about me. It is kind of an
43:29
interesting thing though, when you have a leg up and you get to go
43:31
to a Gavin Rossdale type and say, how do you like my sloppy seconds?
43:37
I would just autograph the album and give it to him. I'm here
43:40
you go, buddy. That's all about me by the way. But yeah,
43:45
I mean, good luck. I would love to see nothing more than
43:49
I mean, I just think about how lucky that family is, like they
43:52
got you got two kids in the NFL and then one could possibly date the
43:57
world's biggest pop star. Uh, that's I don't know if you buy a
44:01
lottery ticket or if you just wait for the lottery to come to you at
44:05
that point, Like, I don't know how that at that point. I
44:07
mean, if if you're if you're mom m Kelsey, are you actually still
44:13
going out and buying scratchers? I mean your kids, well with your kids
44:19
are are millionaires in the NFL. They're great at what they do. And
44:22
at the prospect of having your daughter in law being one of the most popular
44:28
and wealthiest artists in the world, I mean, why would you Why are
44:32
you going to the guest saying there is you know, for every you know,
44:37
good thing that happens. He's already come out when he was on his
44:39
brother's podcast saying, you know, now the paparazzi or outside international paparazzi's outside
44:45
of my house. Now you know, I had a bit of a personal
44:49
life. Now I don't. This is just from yesterday. So he's already
44:52
got there. Well, now I don't have any but I don't have a
44:54
personal life. I don't have this. I don't have that. Because when
44:57
you're Travis Kelsey and you're in Kansas City, it's you can still go places.
45:00
Yeah, there's gonna be a mob, but it's cool, like you
45:04
can still sign autographs and they'll throw you some free crap or whatever. Now
45:07
you've just taken it to international level of superstardom and he needs and then this
45:14
is this is an important lesson for him to learn because Travis Kelsey's still in
45:16
his twenties, andy late twenties, I think, so this is this is
45:20
an important lesson for every twenty something to learn, and that is there are
45:23
consequences. There are consequences to when you punch out of your weight class or
45:31
in the football terms, when you OutKick your coverage, which he's clearly done,
45:39
so he's done. It's like, I mean, it's one thing to
45:44
be one of the best tight ends in the game, and thinking, you
45:45
know what, that's not enough. It's trying to try my foot at kicking.
45:52
Because if the kicker for the Chiefs comes over to you after the game,
45:55
is like, get on your bro like, I can kick a seventy
46:02
yard field goal, but you you yah, Taylor Swift wearing your jersey up
46:08
there is next to your mom. Yeah, I mean good, good on
46:15
him, and he tried. I like the balls he played that he made
46:19
when he went to her concert and gave her Because the whole friendship bracelet thing,
46:22
if you guys didn't pay attention, he was wearing hers in the game.
46:27
He was wearing a friendship bracelet that she does. He gave her one
46:30
with his phone number on it. The only thing that was missing after his
46:32
touchdown, So after his touchdown was him actually throwing up the heart hands.
46:38
That would have been good. Oh yeah, you should have. You should
46:43
have been on the PR team for that. I'm available at people. Bill
46:49
Belichick's calling you right now. I would pay money to see Bill Belichick throwing
46:54
heart hands up towards anybody all the way. I think there's one person.
46:59
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