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Hour 1 - Still Dem Boys? · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: here on Hour number one. Does Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer
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Speaker 1: deserved the bows and arrows directed his way as the
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Speaker 1: Cowboys go down on a Thursday night game? Are you
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Speaker 1: surprised that George Pickings red flags have followed him from
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Speaker 1: the Steelers to the Cowboy eyes as he had a
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Speaker 1: tough night at work and our Dan Campbell's Lions back
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Speaker 1: to biting knee caps after they get a two touchdown
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Speaker 1: Here we start out in Motown. It was week fourteen
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Speaker 1: of the NFL season. Kicked off game ended not that
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Speaker 1: long ago, a couple hours ago. Game over there in Detroit,
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Speaker 1: and it was billed as a pivotal game. Oh Man
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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, the Cowboys traveling circus leaving Jerry's World and
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Speaker 1: heading to Michigan for a playdate with Jared Goff and
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Speaker 1: the Lions of the Great Indoors. They had Al Michaels
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Speaker 1: and Herbie. They had to call on the amazon An
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Speaker 1: Island game. Were you watching? You didn't watch? Okay, you
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Speaker 1: missed it. So Jamiir Gibbs, I hear, he's pretty good.
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Speaker 1: He ran for three touchdown. I had a thirteen yard
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Speaker 1: run the Lions against the Cowboys there late in the game.
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Speaker 1: Dallas needed their rework defense I was told had arrived
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Speaker 1: and looked like they had. That was false. That's a lie.
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Speaker 1: Cowboys defense complete frauds. Needed to make a play there
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Speaker 1: late and it was like a three or four play drive.
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Speaker 1: The Lions went right down the field, shoved it down
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Speaker 1: their throat and a thirteen yard run by Jamiir Gibbs
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Speaker 1: with two minutes and some change left on the clock
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Speaker 1: and that was all she wrote. The Lions get a
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Speaker 1: two touchdown win over the same old sorry ass Dallas
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Speaker 1: Cowboys forty four to thirty.
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Speaker 2: The win.
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Speaker 1: The Lions defense, well, he had some fun with Dak Prescott.
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Speaker 1: Dak sacked five times as he decided to hold the
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Speaker 1: ball for a long time many times, and also had
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Speaker 1: a couple of interceptions, and also the Lions defense recovering
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Speaker 1: a fumble. So let's see five sacks, couple of interceptions,
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Speaker 1: fumble recovery. Pretty good, Pretty good. Yeah. Lions get to
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Speaker 1: eight and five on the season, which isn't a playoff team. However,
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Speaker 1: they avoid losing consecutive games, so the first time in
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Speaker 1: three years. They are still on the outside. They're looking in.
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Speaker 1: They're behind the velvet ropes. They're not inside the velvet ropes.
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Speaker 1: They're behind development ropes looking inside. There with four games left,
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Speaker 1: that's it, four games left for the Lions, and they
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Speaker 1: did improve their odds. Dan Campbell was waxing low waitious
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Speaker 1: after Oh they didn't panic. He said he played the
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Speaker 1: best game of the year. Blah blah blah blah, blah.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the best game means, as we know on
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Speaker 1: this show, it means as good as all the other games,
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Speaker 1: because the legal definition of the term best is as
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Speaker 1: good as all the rest in that category. So you
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Speaker 1: could say that every single game is the best and
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't be wrong. You would not be wrong on
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Speaker 1: that at all. So Detroit's playoff probability is now fifty
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Speaker 1: four percent. Fifty four percent. The better story is in
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Speaker 1: the losing locker room, where the Dallas Cowboys head coach
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Speaker 1: Shotti Brian Schottenheimer is getting roasted for the decisions he
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Speaker 1: made during the game. The Cowboys did not play a
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Speaker 1: clean game at all, and there were some decisions to
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Speaker 1: make on whether or not to go for it or
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Speaker 1: not go for it, and Schottenheimer decided most of the time,
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Speaker 1: you know, let's just kick a field goal here. And
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Speaker 1: now he did say the loss would not deflate his team,
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Speaker 1: he said, he said, so he's getting killed, and that's
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Speaker 1: what happened. Became. Cowboys played a bad game and everyone
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Speaker 1: saw it. They suck, and they sucked at a time
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Speaker 1: you can't suck. So that's a good jumping off point.
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Speaker 1: Let us discuss question, does Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer deserve
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Speaker 1: the bows and arrows being directed at him for his
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Speaker 1: coaching performance in this game. So I've got my thoughts
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Speaker 1: on this. I've got Hallmark, mister Rogers, and Seesaw, and
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Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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Speaker 1: are going to make a big giant tubba guts is
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Speaker 1: what We're going to make, a big tubb of guts.
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Speaker 1: And we're gonna all right. So a I say, fire away,
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Speaker 1: fire the cannons, because Shoddy and his team are like toast.
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Speaker 1: They're crispy, overdone, and served on a plate the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: did not want to wash. There's a balance here, There's
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Speaker 1: always this balance, and Schottenheimer does not have it. He
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Speaker 1: fell right into the classic trap. And remember having conversations
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Speaker 1: on these microphones about his dad, Marty Schottenheimer, who did
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Speaker 1: many of the same things his kid did. I guess
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Speaker 1: the coaching apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But
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Speaker 1: it's one of those things when you have an elite
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Speaker 1: kicker like Brandon Aubrey, you end up in this situation
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Speaker 1: where it's like field goals are tappings. It's like it's
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Speaker 1: going down to the windmill at the putt putt course,
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Speaker 1: and you're like, well, I'm at the put putt course.
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Speaker 1: I can't go wrong. I mean, everyone makes the putts.
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Speaker 1: It's a putt putt course, and that's great. So it's
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Speaker 1: a blessing and a curse, double edged sword. Right. The
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Speaker 1: blessing is automatica automatica points. The curse is you start
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Speaker 1: settling for field goals, and that is how you lose
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Speaker 1: games on the road against an opponent that is at
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Speaker 1: least as good as you, if not better than you,
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Speaker 1: And you fall into that situation. And that's the Cowboys. Now,
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Speaker 1: even if they had gone for it, it likely would
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Speaker 1: have ended up in a loss because of the way
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Speaker 1: that they played overall. However, all right, let's not kid
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Speaker 1: ourselves here. This wasn't just an offensive strategic problem. The
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Speaker 1: Cowboys had a defensive implosion. Needed to make a play,
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Speaker 1: make a play, make a play. But no, can't make
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Speaker 1: a play, can't do it, can't do it, blocking and tackling,
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Speaker 1: can't do it. So they're known as Big D. Although
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Speaker 1: I saw a lot of Little D energy, if you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. Here the Cowboys looked bedraggled, out
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Speaker 1: of sorts. They played last think you know, Thursday, thanksgivings.
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Speaker 1: So it's not like they had a short week or
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Speaker 1: anything like that. There were just a lot of mental mistakes,
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Speaker 1: drop passes, blown coverages, bad tackling, and really just the
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Speaker 1: special teams. The Lions have not had great special teams play,
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Speaker 1: and it looked like they had all pros all over
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Speaker 1: the kick return team. This was for the Cowboys, it
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Speaker 1: was a hallmark and for Shottenneimer it was a hallmark movie.
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Speaker 1: Or go all the hallmarks of a poorly coach team
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Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, and that's that's it, hey, And the Lions,
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Speaker 1: to their credit, they cashed in. They got fourteen points
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Speaker 1: off Cowboy turnovers and about a being by the boom
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Speaker 1: just like that, after being snuffed out by the Lions.
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Speaker 1: Now are the Cowboys still a playoff contender? So on
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Speaker 1: that one, the bunt cake is already baked and it
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Speaker 1: tastes like sadness if you think they're gonna make the
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Speaker 1: best Dallas's playoff chances have plummeted to seven percent, But
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Speaker 1: even if there were seventy five percent, the way that
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Speaker 1: they played that is not a playoff football team knowing
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Speaker 1: what was on the line, realizing the stakes of that game,
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Speaker 1: and that performance. They literally had skid marks all over
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Speaker 1: the field there, all right, so forget about it. And
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Speaker 1: the Lions did not just beat the Cowboys, They drop
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Speaker 1: kicked them into the nearest drainage ditch that final drive
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Speaker 1: when the Cowboys had come back and closed the gap,
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Speaker 1: and well, here's this defense. We made a couple of
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Speaker 1: trades at the deadline to shore things up, and they
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Speaker 1: came out there and were completely discombobulated on defense. And
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Speaker 1: you can hear the ghost of Dandy Don Meredith from
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Speaker 1: behind the pearly gates crooning, turn out the lost the
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Speaker 1: parties over, Stick a fork in them, Stick a fork
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Speaker 1: in the cowboys. Now, speaking of sticking a fork in
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, the wide receiver room, Ceedee Lamb was having
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Speaker 1: a monster game and then he had a booboo. He
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Speaker 1: got a concussion and he was knocked out of the game.
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Speaker 1: And so this is an opportunity for George Pickens to
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Speaker 1: step up, right, for George Pickens to step up. And
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Speaker 1: I guess George didn't want to spend too much energy
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Speaker 1: because it appeared he was running about half speed on
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Speaker 1: some plays here, and he just just was like the
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers version of George Pickens. He failed to deliver
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Speaker 1: when the team needed him. He was not available. He
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Speaker 1: had checked out of the hotel. I don't know why
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Speaker 1: he had checked out of the hotel, but he had
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Speaker 1: checked out of the hotel and just a pedestrian effort
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Speaker 1: and lase fair play from George Pickens. Here is let's
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Speaker 1: hear from Brian Schottenheimer. You'll hear the question and the answers.
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Speaker 1: This was a talking point on the broadcast how George
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Speaker 1: Pickens had decided I want to show everyone the George
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Speaker 1: Pickens from Pittsburgh. Take a listen. No, I don't think so.
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Speaker 1: I want to look at it. I mean, he was
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Speaker 1: being doubled minute CD went out.
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Speaker 3: They just decided to play everything two man over there
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Speaker 3: and try to double him and take him away.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think so. I liked that we left
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Speaker 1: the question in which we couldn't understand. I love that
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Speaker 1: it's good editing, solid, good good job boys. All right, anyway,
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Speaker 1: here's how about Dak Prescott. Here's Dak Prescott. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: Dak will say George Pickens sucked and will kill him
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Speaker 1: and rip him right, Dak, Yes.
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Speaker 3: When you're the typle player that he is. I'll be
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Speaker 3: the first to say it's hard to do that weekend
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Speaker 3: and week out. I know George believes he can, and
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Speaker 3: I think he would just say that this game wasn't
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Speaker 3: up to a standard, and I'm sure he'll loan it
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Speaker 3: and I know he'll be better.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So we also learned prior to the game that
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Speaker 1: George Pickens has been disciplined multiple times by the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: since coming over from Pittsburgh in the trade, and that
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Speaker 1: he's missed the team buses, he's shown up late to meetings.
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Speaker 1: Kind of sounds like a New York Giants rookie the
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Speaker 1: way that he's handled that, and the Cowboys, though, have
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Speaker 1: put up with it. You only had that one incident
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Speaker 1: in Vegas where he missed the first offensive series, George Pickens.
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Speaker 1: So the question, are you surprised that here we are
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Speaker 1: it's week fourteen? This was the feel good story of
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Speaker 1: the football season, George Pickens. All you fans were pointing
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Speaker 1: like Nelson from The Simpsons at Mike Tomlin, going, aha,
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Speaker 1: you Dubbies, you trained us Jerry Rice for a couple
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Speaker 1: of day two or three picks, you lizards. Well, now
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Speaker 1: here we are at week fourteen, and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: well look, looky looking now the skeletons are starting to
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Speaker 1: come out of the closet and they're dancing. They're dancing,
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Speaker 1: they're dancing. Listen, of course I'm shaking my head. No,
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Speaker 1: not surprised that the red flags are popping up here.
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Speaker 1: If that's the question, are you surprised? I'm not. It's
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Speaker 1: not a shock, it's not a stunter. It's not even
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Speaker 1: really a plot twist. It's the football version of the
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Speaker 1: same movie, different theater. So did you really are you
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Speaker 1: that gullible where you really thought that George Pickens just
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Speaker 1: because he changed laundry suddenly turned into mister Rogers with
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Speaker 1: shoulder pads on, come on, are you that naive? Of
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Speaker 1: course not. They got in Dallas the same guy Pittsburgh
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Speaker 1: shipped out like an Amazon return. All the quirks, the tardiness,
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Speaker 1: the great athletic ability. The only difference appears to be
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Speaker 1: now that for most of this year, this game aside
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Speaker 1: most of this year, George Pickens has been catching passes
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Speaker 1: like heat seeking missiles locked into a Jerry Jones smoker
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Speaker 1: in Jerry's work, like this is this is how the
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Speaker 1: NFL does business right. And it's one of those amazing
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Speaker 1: questions that has to be answered because you know, this
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Speaker 1: was a really big game, and George Pickens played it
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Speaker 1: like it was an exhibition game. The effort was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: why am I out here? Don't you know who I am? Well, George,
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Speaker 1: this is kind of a big game, But I'm George Pickens.
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Speaker 1: I can't be bothered Uscle, what's wrong with you? You schmuck? Yes,
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Speaker 1: that's the vibe he gave up, and so it again
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Speaker 1: becomes and Pittsburgh didn't want to pay him. Pittsburgh was
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Speaker 1: fed up with him Tom and said I somewhere Tom
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Speaker 1: and poured one out to celebrate this performance, like, hey,
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Speaker 1: your losers, you rep me? How about that? Look at
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Speaker 1: this dope? How do you like him now? Dallas? How
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Speaker 1: do you like him now? But the Cowboys have had
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Speaker 1: that look the other way. That's the NFL, that's how
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Speaker 1: they do business right. They used to look the other way.
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Speaker 1: Production is the ultimate deodorant. And as long as Pickens
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Speaker 1: is a top ten receiver and all these different categories,
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Speaker 1: explosive plays and all this, then you tolerate the guy
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Speaker 1: missing a bus or a team meeting or showing up
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Speaker 1: late and you know, they'll even warm up the engine
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Speaker 1: for him of the team bus. Is there a correlation
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Speaker 1: between the story coming out prior to the game that
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Speaker 1: George Pickens is still the same old George by George
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Speaker 1: and then him going out there and proving to everyone
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Speaker 1: he's still got that steeler George Pickens in him. Is
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Speaker 1: there some kind of correlation between those two things. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's gotten fined a couple of times and all that,
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Speaker 1: But fines are just the coin slot of the diva
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Speaker 1: receiver or CAD, the fund zone, the kuin of all
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Speaker 1: if you will, and my positions. People don't fundamentally change,
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Speaker 1: and whatever's baked in stays baked in. That's just kind
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Speaker 1: of the way it is. You can't untoast it, you know,
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Speaker 1: Once it's it's, it's there. And Brian Schottenheimer did not
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Speaker 1: fix George Pickens, obviously not. He went out there and
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Speaker 1: had a vintage George Pickens game. The Cowboys mantra has been, ah,
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Speaker 1: let's just give him a chance, you know, well, we'll
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Speaker 1: do something a little different, and when the juice tastes good,
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Speaker 1: you know, my little pulp, Well you had a lot
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Speaker 1: of pulp. If you're the Cowboys in this game on
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Speaker 1: Thursday night, and does Pickens make a couple more plays,
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Speaker 1: a couple more hustle plays, you win the game. You
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Speaker 1: could make that argument that as a compelling argument to make. Now,
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Speaker 1: last word on the winner's side. We have cranked up
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Speaker 1: the overreaction machine and it's all about the Detroit Lions.
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Speaker 1: And the Lions are back. It's it's all downhill now,
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Speaker 1: tough stretch, but watch out. The Lions have arrived. This
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Speaker 1: was like their bar mitzvah and a big deal. They're
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Speaker 1: all men. Now they're men again, and it's great, wonderful.
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Speaker 1: So the question, are Dan Campbell's Lions back? Are they
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Speaker 1: back to biting knee caps? So I would advise you
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Speaker 1: to hold your horses right, I mean, what do you
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? Yeah? This wipes away some of
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Speaker 1: the halatosis. It does. It's like a crest mouthwash thing
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Speaker 1: of majig right for for a fan base that has
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Speaker 1: been recently breathing dragon fumes for about a month, and
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Speaker 1: it feels pretty good. I'm puzzled about aman Ross Saint
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Speaker 1: Brown playing. I was told he likely wouldn't play and
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Speaker 1: went out there and did his thing. But as far
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Speaker 1: as the overall big picture, uh yeah, it feels good
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Speaker 1: for the moment. Did they fix everything? No, Cowboys, even
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Speaker 1: with George's not that interested in playing in Ceedee Lamb
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Speaker 1: not available after he had a big start. You know,
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys still put up a bunch of points in
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Speaker 1: this game. But this was a mode Joe Rental. I
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Speaker 1: jotted down Mojo Rental on my scorecard. A little Mojo
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Speaker 1: Rental there for the Cowboys. They didn't purchase it. It's
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Speaker 1: one night only. There's still the NFL's human seesaw up
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Speaker 1: and down, up and down, no consistency, no reliability. You
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Speaker 1: spin the wheel every week and you hope it doesn't
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Speaker 1: land on face plant. And yeah, you can bully teams
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Speaker 1: and push him around. And Jamier Gibbs is dynamic, he's explosive,
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Speaker 1: he's elite, he's premier, all that stuff. That's the maddening
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Speaker 1: part though about the Lions, Like the ceiling is a Penhausen.
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Speaker 1: They do have an underlying condition and there's really nothing
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Speaker 1: you can do about it. You were born with it.
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Speaker 1: Jared Goff sucks in big games. It's a problem if
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Speaker 1: everything else is great. Hey, we've seen suckbag quarterbacks win
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Speaker 1: super Bowls. Nick Foles is a super Bowl champion, Joe
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Speaker 1: Flaccoll won a Super Bowl. Those guys blow, and certainly
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Speaker 1: Jared Goff's as good as those guys. Everything else has
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Speaker 1: to go right for you and Dan Campbell smashing energy
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Speaker 1: drinks and promising kneecap buffets for everyone, and we'll see
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Speaker 1: how this goes here. But for this particular night, it
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Speaker 1: was lipstick on a lion, not a makeover. Not a makeover.
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Speaker 1: We'll see what the future holds here. For the Lions
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Speaker 1: are still not in the playoffs. They to win out
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Speaker 1: and have some other teams stumble and bumble, and then
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Speaker 1: they'll they'll be back in what is a wide open
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Speaker 1: appears to be a wide open NFL. Or right about now,
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Speaker 1: the Thursday night game as the Dallas Cowboy Eyes go down. Hey,
23:46
Speaker 1: I admit I bought into it. I expected the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: to play a close game. I thought this would be
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Speaker 1: a toss up game. It really wasn't a toss up game.
23:55
Speaker 1: Like you handicap the game. You thought certain things were
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Speaker 1: going to happen, they didn't happen. The Cowboys play like
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Speaker 1: a poorly coach team, and so we have to say
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Speaker 1: they are a poorly coach team. That's that's how they played.
24:07
Speaker 1: They played like a poorly coach team, and so that's
24:10
Speaker 1: that's what you are there. And so now instead of
24:14
Speaker 1: in the multiverse, the dimension where the Cowboys ran the
24:17
Speaker 1: table and you know, this guy's the coach of the year,
24:21
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is the executive of the year. Instead of that,
24:25
Speaker 1: it's the same old Dallas Cowboys, the same old Dallas Cowboys.
24:29
Speaker 1: So for those that have been around, you know, there's
24:32
Speaker 1: a certain there's a certain calendar that one must follow
24:38
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys. And so the way this works here,
24:40
Speaker 1: it begins in January. It'll happen starting sometimes late January.
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Speaker 1: Cowboys will of course be eliminated. They will not make
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. But late January Jerry Jones will hold the
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Speaker 1: news conference during the playoffs and say that he's all
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Speaker 1: in for twenty twenty six. In February, the Cowboys will
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Speaker 1: add a clearly washed up player in late February free agency,
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Speaker 1: but someone that's got a really nice Wikipedia page with
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Speaker 1: some good stats on there. And then in March there's
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Speaker 1: the scouting combines that take place. The media will hype
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Speaker 1: up the Cowboys planning to do some big things for
25:22
Speaker 1: the draft, and everyone will get all excited and get
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Speaker 1: all horny. And then in April, the NFL media will
25:29
Speaker 1: celebrate whoever the Cowboys pick. The Cowboys could pick someone
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Speaker 1: that has no legs and no pulse and they would say,
25:38
Speaker 1: this is a future star. Just wait, just wait, You're
25:41
Speaker 1: gonna be a star. Then we get into the second
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Speaker 1: wave there in May and June, and there will literally
25:48
Speaker 1: be enough hot air that will be blown out of
25:51
Speaker 1: talking heads on television that they'll be talking about global
25:56
Speaker 1: warming again because there'll be so much hot air about
25:58
Speaker 1: how good the Cowboys are going to be. And then
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Speaker 1: some time July or August, Jerry will show up at
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Speaker 1: training camp and say that he's really proud of the
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Speaker 1: team he's put together, feels really good in the coaching staff,
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Speaker 1: thinks everything will be really solid. Then we get to
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Speaker 1: the season. Cowboys will win a couple of games early
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Speaker 1: and it'll be I told you so, Cowboys are off
26:22
Speaker 1: to the races. Here we go. Then we press on
26:25
Speaker 1: in the season. Cowboys will beat a lot of bad teams,
26:28
Speaker 1: so okay, they're good. There you go. They'll play somebody
26:32
Speaker 1: who's halfway decent sometime maybe around Halloween a little after that,
26:38
Speaker 1: and get their doors knocked off, and everyone will be
26:42
Speaker 1: depressed for a couple of days, but then they're still alive,
26:45
Speaker 1: and so they'll get to December of next year, and
26:48
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones will go on his weekly radio show and
26:50
Speaker 1: say that he's never been more confident in a roster
26:53
Speaker 1: he's put together. He's never believed in the coach more
26:55
Speaker 1: than the coach. You know. It's just boilerplate. It's all
26:58
Speaker 1: boiler plate. And then yet again, and the Cowboys will
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Speaker 1: either be eliminated during the regular season or they will
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Speaker 1: just drown on wild card weekend. It is the cycle.
27:07
Speaker 1: It is literally groundhog Day. We are living groundhog Day
27:10
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys. It has been that way for
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Speaker 1: thirty years. It has been that way for thirty years.
27:14
Speaker 1: That's the Dallas Cowboys for thirty frickages wild Well, mister
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Speaker 1: nice guy writes in He says, hey, Ben, I received
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Speaker 1: an Amazon delivery today of Arizona Cardinals in Washington Huskies
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Speaker 1: merch who goofed I've got to know, hm. So the
27:34
Speaker 1: obvious question is a did you order Arizona Cardinal merch
27:38
Speaker 1: or Washington Huskies merch. That's the first thing. B Why
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Speaker 1: how did that end up in your house? Was your
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Speaker 1: name on the package? And then C did you return
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Speaker 1: it or did you keep it? I'm gonna assume you
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Speaker 1: didn't want a bunch of Arizona Cardinal merch and Washington
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Speaker 1: Husky merch. I'm gonna say a guy in north in
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Speaker 1: California like, I don't need this. I do not need
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Speaker 1: this at all. Late night drug tester rights and he says,
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Speaker 1: of course, George Pickens didn't look good this week. He
28:09
Speaker 1: didn't have the Kansas City defensive backs committing past interference
28:12
Speaker 1: every other play. Gunner from the Walmart in northern Minnesota,
28:18
Speaker 1: just below the Canadian border, says, at least the Cowboys
28:20
Speaker 1: are not as bad as the Carolina Panthers. My god, yeah,
28:24
Speaker 1: the Panthers are pretty bad. I agree with you, Gunner.
28:26
Speaker 1: It's a good take by you. You haven't had good
28:28
Speaker 1: take in a while. It's good job by you. What else?
28:30
Speaker 1: We have a page down Spock's weed on the Oregon
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Speaker 1: Trail says no kneecaps were bitten or harmed during the
28:37
Speaker 1: proceedings of this game, So he says, what else we have?
28:41
Speaker 1: Zach says, how do I follow the show live so
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Speaker 1: I can answer questions? Well, Zach, you just have to click.
28:49
Speaker 1: You are following me, Zach, so you're figuring you figured
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Speaker 1: it out. That's Zach from Zion, the Great Zach from Zion.
28:56
Speaker 1: That's a future legend right there. Absolutely says Cowboys. Stan
29:01
Speaker 1: Maller just saw Lions end their season like the frauds
29:05
Speaker 1: they are. I am not a Dallas Cowboys stand although
29:08
Speaker 1: you could argue that I've talked more about the Dallas
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Speaker 1: Cowboys than anyone else, anyone else in the NFL, because
29:14
Speaker 1: I try to get people in the list. It's called broadcasting,
29:17
Speaker 1: not narrow casting. And the Cowboys have a broad audience.
29:19
Speaker 1: That's why. And it's proof you don't have to win.
29:22
Speaker 1: The Cowboys suck and more fans than anybody, and you
29:26
Speaker 1: don't have to win. You put the star in the helmet,
29:28
Speaker 1: that's all you need. Chris and Houston, who also goes
29:30
Speaker 1: by the name Damien, writes and he says, hello, Ben,
29:33
Speaker 1: he's up enjoying some good old water burger. Well, doctors
29:37
Speaker 1: do recommend Chris and Houston that you eat a nice
29:41
Speaker 1: water burger at like two in the morning. They say,
29:43
Speaker 1: that's a really good time to eat water burger and
29:46
Speaker 1: really good for your health. Absolutely. See, it's a way
29:50
Speaker 1: to do it, especially if your team is a bunch
29:52
Speaker 1: of cheating as one one thousand and two, one thousand
29:55
Speaker 1: and three, one thousand holes nature boy answering the call
29:59
Speaker 1: of a wild rights and he says, same old Cowboys.
30:02
Speaker 1: Too bad Zeke didn't get get the block for Dak again. Yes, well,
30:07
Speaker 1: the worst part about that is that Zeke Elliott came
30:10
Speaker 1: back to the Cowboys after that play that would have
30:12
Speaker 1: been the ultimate final place. Talking about that playoff game
30:16
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago into the Niners, remember when
30:19
Speaker 1: they ran they ran the trick play and Zeke Elliott
30:23
Speaker 1: was the center and he snapped the ball and got
30:27
Speaker 1: run over like there was a stampede of water buffaloes
30:30
Speaker 1: that just pushed him over, and and that whole deal
30:34
Speaker 1: that was that was that. All Right's go to the
30:36
Speaker 1: phones and a man working the dreaded day shift. But
30:40
Speaker 1: he's stand up late for us right now, our friend
30:42
Speaker 1: and your friend as well, the great Jay Dot in Utah, Hello,
30:47
Speaker 1: Jay Dot, welcome.
30:50
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, I'm very alive. Anymore, I'm walking zombie. I
30:59
Speaker 6: could barely to keep my eyes awake, especially like it
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Speaker 6: listen overnight and you the goat, Yo, you hear on
31:08
Speaker 6: every topic. You on fire, like I can't even like
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Speaker 6: every time I hear like the show is just stupid
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Speaker 6: funny and I can't even like it was. I could
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Speaker 6: time in every time.
31:20
Speaker 2: You just take in take out and yo, I just
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Speaker 2: want to tell you that the the homelet Phil the Ranchos,
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Speaker 2: that was me. That was me. I put that on
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Speaker 2: the mala.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the guy called in that. We have our answer.
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Speaker 1: They're the great, the great, mister. That's look at this
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Speaker 1: ja now, Jada you live? Now, now, Jada you live.
31:49
Speaker 2: It wasn't the same thing as me. Yeah either, do
31:52
Speaker 2: that put the boot on the cars? Remember that, dude?
31:56
Speaker 1: Oh yeah I remember the guy. Yeah yeah, I remember
31:59
Speaker 1: the yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. But anyways, but man, hey, you gotta get Brock
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Speaker 2: pretty as flowers.
32:08
Speaker 1: I don't don't. Why do I have to give Brock
32:11
Speaker 1: pretty flowers? I don't need. He doesn't even like flowers.
32:13
Speaker 1: He didn't need flowers.
32:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he likes he likes red roses.
32:19
Speaker 1: Oh he does, is that right? Okay, I'll get him
32:21
Speaker 1: some coop. Send him some red roses. Send brock pretty
32:24
Speaker 1: some red roses. We'll get him some red roses. Yeah,
32:28
Speaker 1: where's that where's that place you you told me when
32:31
Speaker 1: you came to the meet and greet in Vegas. There's
32:33
Speaker 1: the it's like a lot of a lot of extra
32:36
Speaker 1: terrestrial type activity and.
32:38
Speaker 2: The skin walker ranch.
32:40
Speaker 1: Yeah you live right near there, yeah yeah yeah.
32:42
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah yeah, so so so okay, so like
32:47
Speaker 2: like it's all in the relation. And one thing about
32:51
Speaker 2: that is you do not want to go out there
32:53
Speaker 2: at night because you might get sesshed up, you might
32:56
Speaker 2: lose your life, but you do not want to go
32:58
Speaker 2: out there, especially bro Like it's not a good time.
33:02
Speaker 2: Like right now, I'm a home always.
33:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, what have you have you seen? Have you seen
33:08
Speaker 1: anything like when you oh my cousin she.
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Speaker 2: Hit one of those skinwalkers and hit them and then
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Speaker 2: kept driving driving like it's like when you hit a dog,
33:23
Speaker 2: when you hit it like a wild animal. It was
33:27
Speaker 2: like the most scarce things, she says, She like an
33:30
Speaker 2: I'm believer, And it was like you don't want to
33:33
Speaker 2: ever go out there on the roads on night because
33:37
Speaker 2: it's like a scary time, like you would never want
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Speaker 2: to go out there.
33:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got you, all right, listen.
33:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what do you what do you?
33:47
Speaker 1: What are you doing? What do you? What are you
33:49
Speaker 1: reacting to? What you what? I know?
33:53
Speaker 2: I know.
33:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's okay, it's okay. I mean, Janda, I can't
33:58
Speaker 1: talk to you all night. I mean there's other people.
33:59
Speaker 1: I love you, man, But are you working tomorrow? Are
34:02
Speaker 1: you off from work?
34:05
Speaker 2: I'm happening to be up just now.
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Speaker 7: Okay, and all right, yeah, harder than I'm playing.
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Speaker 1: Send that out coop, working in the day shift, harder
34:25
Speaker 1: than playing ping pong. You're you're a modern day poet.
34:33
Speaker 1: J Dot. We love you, Jay Do. We'll hang out again.
34:40
Speaker 1: We'll have a meet and greet. All right, I gotta go, buddy.
34:42
Speaker 1: But Jay Dot, he will not remember any of this.
34:45
Speaker 1: He completely shockered. I will not remember any of this conversation.
34:49
Speaker 1: So good. All right. So if you're watching the the
34:53
Speaker 1: big old football game there, it's one of these great
34:57
Speaker 1: mind tricks where Dak Press was sacked in the end zone. Now,
35:02
Speaker 1: I've always heard in my life that when someone gets
35:05
Speaker 1: sacked in the end zone, it's a safety. Uh, the
35:10
Speaker 1: NFL decided it was not a safety. It looked like
35:15
Speaker 1: A said, it's like the duck test. If it looks
35:17
Speaker 1: like it's a safety and it feels like it's a safety,
35:21
Speaker 1: and everyone on the field says it's a safety, and
35:24
Speaker 1: the officials call it a safety, it's not a safety
35:28
Speaker 1: because the NFL said no, no, no, no, no no,
35:31
Speaker 1: we we've overturned that sack of Dak Prescott for a safety.
35:36
Speaker 1: UM replay, Yeah, that's I looked at the replay. I
35:41
Speaker 1: still and I just look at it. That was a safety.
35:44
Speaker 1: Look al, Michaels thought it was. Everyone thought it was
35:46
Speaker 1: this guy, Jack Campbell. What mag you make the NFL?
35:49
Speaker 1: Your name is Jack Campbell. It's kind of a generic name.
35:51
Speaker 1: But he he sacked Dak Prescott on the end zone
35:54
Speaker 1: for a safety, but they decided it wasn't a safety,
35:57
Speaker 1: and they we found this angle, We found the ball,
36:00
Speaker 1: part of the ball was out of the end zone,
36:02
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know the call in
36:03
Speaker 1: the field, I don't think that was enough evidence to
36:05
Speaker 1: overturn the call. They were trying to help the Cowboys out,
36:08
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are so bad they still screwed this
36:10
Speaker 1: game up and still lost the game. So there you go.
36:13
Speaker 1: Time now for the who am I? Game? Is where
36:16
Speaker 1: I pretend to be somebody else else? We call it
36:18
Speaker 1: the who am A game? That's the bet and I
36:21
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36:24
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36:27
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36:31
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36:33
Speaker 1: have the highest fourth quarter pressure rate in a season.
36:38
Speaker 1: It happens to be this year in the next gen
36:42
Speaker 1: stats era. That's the nerd takeover of the NFL. The
36:45
Speaker 1: nerd stats that are that are out there? And who
36:49
Speaker 1: am I? That is the question the answer. We will
36:52
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38:39
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