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Football #9: An Inconvenient Tush · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome to the Treehouse Football Podcast number nine. And it's still very troubling to
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me that we haven't decided to go full bandwagon and do a Treehouse Baseball podcast.
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But there's no reason why we can't, you know, jam the two
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together in a little bit of a Treehouse mashup because full disclosure, right now,
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now, now not the time. What I mean is right now when
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we're recording this, not the time that you are listening to it, because
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the time you were listening to it will be Thursday. The time that we
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are recording this right now is Wednesday, So we're doing a little bit of
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a podcast time travel here. But full disclosure, since we're recording on Wednesday,
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it's very possible that when you listen to this on Thursday, the Rangers
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might be World Series champions. Yeah yeah, I wait. This morning,
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I see the Rangers are now lead the series three to one. Because we
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spent all day yesterday moving and I had no energy to stay up past nine
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pm. Honest to god, it was a miracle that we made it that
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late, So there was no way I was going to make it for the
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entire Rangers game. But I had good news waiting for me. On my
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phone. Truth of the matter is that game. If you saw the first
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three innings, that was just about it. Yeah, yeah, go ahead,
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rosh No, I was gonna say the first three innings, I was
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like, well, that's a rap, and then it's me. So when
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I was like, oh, that's a rap and then they started scoring,
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I was like, man, I need to keep my mouth shut. I
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like how the Rangers are impervious to your Jinxes, but the Cowboys are right
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in your crosshairs. I still haven't a hat or a shirt with the Rangers
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on. I mean that he's a Yankees fan, so maybe that makes him
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Yeah, I know on the Rangers. That's the See he understands me.
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That's what I was trying to say last time, kind of like the Yankees
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didn't work on the Rangers the last time they were on the verge of the
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World Series. What I'm saying is like, if I buy a hat or
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a shirt, it doesn't count because I'm a Yankees fan. So I think
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it still counts. Because the thing is, I I like to pretend that
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I'm not superstitious, when in reality I am. But I don't go out
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of my way to do superstitious things. I just don't do anything to mess
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with the current state of affairs, so I don't do anything to test it,
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which in effect is superstitious. But it's not like I go around before
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every Cowboys game or Rangers game and say, okay, I have to have
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four toe touches on a door knob before the game to make sure that everything
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goes well. I just don't change anything. Yeah, I also like,
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I'm not like superstitions, like I'll watch the get Like if I watch a
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game somewhere and they've lost, like multiple times, whatever, whatever sport,
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whatever team it is, I won't go back to that place to watch the
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game. I know it doesn't mean anything, but to me it does.
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But when people have like that thing where they're like I have to like eat
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a certain meal or they're gonna lose, like I can't imagine like if they're
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just all in the locker room, like, hey man, do we know
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if Doug had pizza today? Because with the good ranch, yeah, not
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the Craft, he didn't. That's why we fed up this whole game.
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That would make postgame interviews way more entertaining is if in the clubhouse, because
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we at home, we've got ESPN we've got FS one. We have all
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the sports channels up there with the tickers and a constant information. It would
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be awesome if in the clubhouse they had the personal information of all the fans
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up like did Doug have the pizza with the good ranch, did Kim do
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what she was supposed to do with folding the laundry or Mike, you know,
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cleaning a toilet, you know, counterclockwise versus whatever it is. So
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then after the game, if they lose, they can say the laundry wrong.
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My god, I would love to just watch just a press conference.
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Well they just get a blowout, whatever team it is, just to blow
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out and be like, so, what do you think went wrong today?
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It's like, you know what, man if if he wouldn't run out of
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jelly Steve, Steve f it up for all of us, and then they
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just cut it like just had nothing to do with me chasing that slider in
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the dirt. But and the pictures would give you some of the most outlandish
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stuff. Yeah, oh yeah, that Venus wasn't in this right spot,
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or you know, it wasn't breathing properly through his eyelids. I need the
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planets to be in a certain retro grave for my change up to work properly
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and clearly, the planets were not aligned today. I had nothing to do
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with my blownout acl I had mostly to do with what Steve washed his Lucky
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shirt. You know, I would love for just gonna knock on the door
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and Steve opens the door. There's a clean Lucky shirt and site to what
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do you feel about today? You know what put it in the wrong I
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put it in the wrong hamper. You know that's what. So if we
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could just have the reverse of it. These people's done the new show about
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your house, that'd be great. How do you explain what happened in the
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fifth innic dug? It just slowly backs away closes the door. It took
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a different way to work today because there was But in full disclosure, we're
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recording this on Wednesday, So by the time you listen to this tomorrow,
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the Rangers might very well be World Series champions, or the fact that we
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simply say that the Rangers are on the verge of winning a world series will
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be as true today as it is tomorrow, even if they lose tonight.
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But the important thing to remember is this episode of the Treehouse Football slash Baseball
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podcast will still be relevant because if the Rangers do in fact win tonight,
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there was no way we were going to be in any shape to record a
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baseball specific episode in the morning because we would be partying balls too hard.
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So we're I think we're clear. Otherwise it just would have been Trey sitting
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sitting in the treehouse by himself because Drey didn't drink, but just a little
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Rangers flag going yeah. I mean I would show it by just being whatever
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was the night before, just finally have one, finally have my Rangers World
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Series just asleep in front of the microphone. This is my celebration face.
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So anyway, fingers crossed that the Rangers actually close it out tonight and they
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win the World Series, and that will make all of us North Texas sports
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fans very very happy because they still don't have one. The Mavericks have one,
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the Stars have one. The Cowboys obviously have five, so it'd be
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nice. I think, does FC Dallas have one? I don't follow the
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other I don't think so. But as far as the major sports go,
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the Rangers are the only team left that doesn't have at least one, and
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the other night. I think it was Monday night. They every So the
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was it the Rangers won the day before the Cowboys had won the Stars one
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in the Maps one. Yeah, so maybe this is like, maybe this
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is that planetary alignment. Maybe it's all the sports teams have to win the
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same week for this. Let's see what happens. The retrograde is in their
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proper position for joy for sports fans in North Texas this week. And so
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I'm glad to bring that up because it is still a football podcast. So
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let's mention that a little bit. Cowboys did win on Sunday. They did
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so in such convincing fashion in the first half that if you keep watching the
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game against the Rams in the second half, you're like, well they don't
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look as good now, But you have to remember the game was over in
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the first half. The second half was just kind of like playing around.
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Yeah. At one point, am I correct? It was like thirty three
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to three in the first half. Yeah, and then because I was working
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during the game, so but I think I saw special teams seems like maybe
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a touchdown, but if not, like a block kick or something. That's
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exactly what happened. Yeah, in the first half of the game and really
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not and it was really it's like the first quarter and halfway and about halfway
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through the second quarter, you had a complete dominance by the Cowboys on offense,
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defense, and special teams or is what NFL coaches like to refer to
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complimentary football because special kick give give Jason Garrett his homage all three phases.
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He's not the originator of all three phases high school coach and he peach preached
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that as well, he's got to win all three phases. But Garrett that
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that was a he'd liked to use that phrase a lot. The downside is
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and this is where Garrett would have benefited from Dean Lewis's comedy school, uh,
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because he would always start his postgame press conferences Jason Garrett with the same
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material. When they won, it was the same material every time. It's
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like, it's like, all right, this is a really good team win.
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We played complimentary football. We won all three phases. And then take
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some questionss like mister Robot again, whereas you know, if had he taken
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you know, Dean Lewis's class, he might have had some different material win
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to win. And I just I have a question after watching that because I
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think Bland had two pick sixes. If I'm right in that game that he
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had the one, he had the one second one. Maybe he had two
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picks. I was vacuuming during the second half, so I'm not entirely sure.
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I thought he had two. I could be wrong, But my question
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is because I don't know, I hope not to jinx him as well.
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Let's just say, yeah, what tray said you got into I'm going back
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to Trayvon dis So what are you trying to do? Kill him? You
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are out his knee. You think that's not good enough? I'm saying,
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do you do you? How easy is it to get the job back?
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Oh, he'll get his job back. That's there's no question in that.
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The only you already think it way too far ahead because he's not coming back
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till next season. So what will happen, though, is you'll get Trayvon
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Diggs back. Hopefully you still have Stefan Gilmore who's still playing well as the
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veteran on the other side, and Deron Bland is emerging in the absence of
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Treyvon Diggs. I means you'll have three top flight corners. I just know
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how Jerry Jones works, and he's like he is that superstitious guy where he's
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like, let's not let's not move this around. Let's see if this wins.
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Let's see if this wins it. I think that's the reason why the
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Joneses have not invited us to the suite, you know, during the games,
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is because they know as long as they keep winning without us around,
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and we have to stay on the sidelines and respect, you know, you
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know, I believe that to be true. That's that's what's holding us back
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from being front office for the cow Yeah. But yeah, so no convincing
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win over the Rams. Very excited for that, and the forty nine ers
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continue they're losing streak, yes, which makes you feel better still, but
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then that leads us to does it what does it that? Like? I
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mean, they dominated Dallas, and then they see what we did. It
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was a very it was a rocky ali ropodope thing. We exhausted them by
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letting them. Yeah, and unfortunately it's benefiting the three teams after it raj
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Then the Cowboys clearly didn't understand the whole concept of ropid dope, right,
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come back and win? Yeah, no, keep it? Yeah, they
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only won one face. Look, I agree with you. I don't feel
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good yet about about the Cowboys because it's still the Cowboys and until they can
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actually at least used to get to a title game, if not the Super
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Bowl, then I'm not going to be convinced that they're actually good. What
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I'm saying is I feel better about them than what I did after the game
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against the forty nine ers. I just on the broader, bigger picture of
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the NFL. It none of it makes any sense to me. Like I
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said, the Eagles are one team, They're consistently good. I watched the
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Kansas City Denver game. Denver has looked like a just dumpster fire and then
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all of a sudden they come out there and they whip Kansas City's ass.
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Yeah, but they also didn't really cover the fact that Mahomes was battling the
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flu up until an hour before the game, and he had one hundred and
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three feet even I'll take Mahomes at fifty percent over Russell Wilson and the Broncos
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half of me, and when it's a Casey defense, And I was shocked
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at actually, and my girlfriend said the same thing, like half of like
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Mahomes look like. And I think that's why they were in in red pants.
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Is half of him look like, man, please don't let me just
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just erupt in my pants for the flu, you know, like because his
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face looked like every time he was stepping out on the field, like it
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could be. Now, Like, were they wearing white pants in that game?
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I don't remember, No, it was they were. I'm positive it
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was on purpose. They're like put the rest of the color rush stuff.
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Ok. I was watching the game, but I don't recall the colored pants
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they were wearing. Yeah, he was right, I mean at that point,
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like if if you're if you're one of the main players, if you're
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a if you are a Patrick Mahomes or a Travis Kelsey, Dak Prescott went
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or of course the Cowboys default is not white, it's you know, silver.
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But if you're one of those teams at white pants or your default uniform,
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Yeah, and you're and you have an upset tummy, and there's a
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possibility you might be sphinxing at halftime or worse yet, in the middle of
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the first quarter, then I think it makes sense to have, you know,
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an alternate brown jersey just in case, because every time he stepped out
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on the field. His face was like please not on TV, Like that's
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that's what it said, Like, don't trade. Did that ever happen to
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you in your football playing or any of your sports playing days where he had
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an upset tummy and something squirted and you know you were happy that you were
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wearing dark pants or is it just me gross? The flag football game last
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week didn't go well. I always got the craps before the game. Now
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mine was I don't. I guess I was sick or whatever it was.
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I think it was. It was I think it was my I think it
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was JV. So I think it was sophomore year of high school JV.
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And lucky for us, our default pants were navy. Okay, But I
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did have a little bit of an upset tummy and something happened on a play
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and and I was, you know, I was walking back to the huddle
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and felt a little squishy, and then I did walking to the line of
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scrimmage before the play, and I was like, oh boy, uh and
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and and and and what does one what does one do? I hate to
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use the term push through it, but do you put the do you do?
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You do? You go to the huddle and be like, you know
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what, you know what Raj as a as an athlete, and the coaches
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preached this all the time, whether it's high school, college or professional.
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You have to battle through adversity and you do have to push through and uh.
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And then at halftime, you you go to the you go to the
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potty after you've checked with the training staff to see if there are any other
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navy pants somewhere that you can wear. That's when that's when the that's when
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the color announcements like, I guess he's feeling better. He's got yellow pants
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on. Now he's the only one. That's the weirdest thing. The important
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thing is though not so much my missaps on the field as a junior varsity
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football player, but more so that that leads us into a natural segue to
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discuss the tush push and the Eagles again coming up. You're listening to the
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Treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouse on Air dot com. The all number
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two I wonder is that? What? Uh? Is that what they have
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to say when they call the play in the huddle? Did we mentioned this
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before with the Eagles and their toush push, like the play call in the
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huddle, it has to be onto Like, has anyone done the actual tape
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study on that to where they see the tush push is always on two because
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that would be that'd be very fitting. Yeah, you know they would do.
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It's the NFL, so they're gonna do something goofy like that on two
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on two and you'd hate to be the one that jumps on one like my
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bad I slipped. But speaking of the Eagles, speaking of the tush push,
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Cowboys versus Eagles on Sunday, it's the Fox Game of the Week three
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twenty five kickoff. Eagles are seven and one, Cowboys are now five and
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two. The Eagles have stayed consistent at the top, you know, of
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not only the NFC but the NFL. The Cowboys looked good and then sucked
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and then they look good again, which is pretty much status quo for the
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Cowboys. So we really don't know what kind of a game we're gonna get,
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but we do know that it's in Philly, and I believe this is
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the first actual time that it's Dak Prescott against Jalen Hurts because last year,
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it was the backups trading. In those two games you had Dak Prescott and
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versus Gardner Minshew and then the other game it was Cooper Rush and Jalen Hurts.
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So we actually get Dak versus Jalen this week. Okay, uh And,
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this is just going to what I mean and Trey, You right,
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their defense is just I mean, it is, it's an it's it's impressive.
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Philly isn't is an impressive defensive team to watch, like, So it
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will be. I won't say a blowout, but it'll be. It'll be.
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I still think the Cowboys pull it off because I'm optimistic. But let's
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see, I don't I don't know what you know what I mean, I
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don't know. Did you see Tray's face when you said that? I know
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you like he's got like gotta know Tray's eyebrow could go that high. Yeah,
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I'm just saying, uh, I I don't know. I'd be.
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Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be a tough game, but I
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will I will. I will reach out to my my new friend uh And
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and former Eagles player Freddie Mitchell to make a to make a small wager.
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So we'll see. Oh good, And should you also wish him well?
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Yeah, well he's not playing anymore, but uh, I will wish him
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well. So not only will he owe you money and he'll also have fallen
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down the stairs of his house. I'll get some of his settlement money from
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that. So uh but no, well yeah, let's see, so Dre,
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I will follow the queue of your raised eyebrow to see it. You
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don't think is optimistically about this game, as Raj does as a Cowboys fan.
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I want to and and I will say this, the one thing the
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Cowboys have been doing the last couple of weeks and I don't know if it's
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planned or what, but is just the thread of Dak running see to give
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their offense a little another dimension that helps. And I like that because look
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at Jalen Hurts, that's one of the things that's big with him. Yeah,
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and I it will obviously be a very good litmus test for the Cowboys
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of where do they stack up? You know, I mean, if it's
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a close game, even if they lose, I'll say, all right,
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they're for real. Yeah. It's interesting also because like if you go back
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and look at the scores of the Cowboys seven games. I think they're all
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they were all blowouts one way or the other except for the Cardinals game,
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and that one wasn't even that close. But the Cardinals game was the closest
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game the Cowboys have played all year, because when you go back and look,
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I think i'd have pulled up earlier when you look at the scores,
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they've been blowouts. So you've got Week one, Cowboys beat the Giants forty
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to nothing, the next week to beat the Jets thirty to ten, lose
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to the Cardinals twenty eight sixteen. That's a twelve point loss in the NFL.
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That's not quite a blowout, but that's a solid, solid victory when
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you get digits in the NFL. Then they beat the Patriots thirty eight to
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three, lose to the forty nine Ers forty two to ten. And I'm
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sorry there is another exception, the Chargers game. That was their actual close
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game this year, twenty to seventeen. So they don't have a whole lot
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of close games so far this year. That's where I think it's going to
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be an interesting test. Like you're saying toy against the Eagles, because I
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think I think this will be a close game, and I still I don't
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have a lot of faith in that if it is close at the end of
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the game, I don't have a lot of faith in Dak to make make
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really good decisions. Wow, Okay, that's one of those. I wonder
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how their two minute drill works because in the offseason, and you know,
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in spring training we heard that Dak has full command of the offense. And
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I'm not sure if he's got quite the Peyton Manning level to where he can
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call his own plays outright, I think, I mean, I know he's
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got the ability to audible, but I don't know if Mike McCarthy in his
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headset during a two minute drill is saying you just go play like you just
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call your own I don't know if it's that, or he's calling stuff and
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then he can check out. I'm not sure what they're set up is.
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I'd be curious to know that, because I do know that even in the
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blowout portion of the Rams game, they still win a little hurry up or
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a little up tempo at least no huddle, and then they let Dak read
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the situation and call the plays. And that and probably with Dak is is
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they're still there. It's not like they're they're great in the red zone.
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And and so then you multiply that with you know, the games on the
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line in the fourth quarter, and I have a lot of doubts and that
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in that case, this is one of those games. I hope that they
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have the opportunity to uh put your doubts to bed. I hope, I
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hope it's a close game, it's I hope it's an exciting game, and
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I hope that it's one of those where the Cowboys and Dak have the ball
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with two minutes left to go, the link to the field and have one
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of those you know, statement wins, not just for the season, but
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for Dak as a quarterback, and some good clock man if they are in
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that situation, some good clock management, don't leave them enough time to come
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back. Trey, this is a your entitlement is showing you were asking for
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way too much. If the Cowboys have the ball in their hands with two
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minutes ago to try to beat the Eagles, Dak's gonna have to do it
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in spite of McCarthy's clock management. Yeah. Yeah, that's where that's where
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they need to be, Like where Dak has to tell Mike, now I'm
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running the clock. I don't trust you, no one, No one trusts
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you with any clocks. Everyone. If you're wearing a watch, put it
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away. Don't let Mike McCarthy see it, because he'll ruin it. Trey's
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got blue and white privilege. Rag, I believe you have coined a new
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thing, not just for sports, but also for society, because white privilege
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is a thing, and as a Cowboys fan, so is blue privilege.
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Don't even get started on the orange privilege. All you're talking about Longhorns,
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Okay, Yeah, I don't know if you were going seventies Buccaneers or or
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you're talking about the Astros, you have plenty of orange privilege. Or there's
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this more trash can privilege. I guess that's that's when you find out,
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like he's sequally an Orioles fan. You're like, what the hell happened?
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Cowboys Eagles Sunday America's Game of the Week on Fox. We finally get to
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see possibly the tush push in person without having to sift through all those awkward
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internet search results. Yeah, what if they can What if they find a
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way to stop it? If they what if the Cowboys are the plug to
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the tush push, I know how they can do that. It's called keeso.
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Cheese will block you right up. Or they can get some cheese sticks
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at the standard poor Those are to eat and they're not suppositories. Right,
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We're not trying to kill the Eagles, we just want to win. Like
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that would actually be pretty fantastic. As Jalen Hurts approaches the line of scrimmage,
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he looks up and he sees Micah Parsons at standing in the a gap
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with with a plate full of the cheese sticks from the stated they come back
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from and the second plate the plate's just empty, and the Eagles looking pain.
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Turns out the entire offensive lines lactose tolerance just fantastic. When you're uh
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City's dishes known as the cheese Steak, it's no longer the city of brotherly
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love, but the city of irony. That would be pretty fantastic though.
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In the team meetings at the Star in Frisco on the big screen, Mike
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McCarthy's, you know, game plan, Eagles, and it's just a plate
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of the cheese sticks. It's like, this is how we're going to beat
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the Is it playing is what it goes back to. That is it playing
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all three phases? Cheese sticks and marinaire? My friend, is that a
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secret play? You're goddamn, but it is. That's when you and I
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were watching the game, like, what's trade doing there? Product placement?
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He's a captain. That's weird. He's calling it trainers. They're squeezing bottles
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of ranch. Oh god, that would be hysterical, I think. And
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you have a you have a buddy that plays for the Cowboys right now,
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right I do? I think you need to pass along our treehouse game plan
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for victory. I will let him know. Yeah, I wish he's doing
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great, and uh he's we went to the same high school, uh many
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years apart, and he's a former Longhorn as well, mister Malik Jefferson.
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So yeah, he's he's doing great. I'm really proud of him, very
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very cool, dude. I will let him know the secret. But if
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he can sneak in a plate of cheese sticks, we just have to have
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them ready to go for the plane ride. So Trayam, I have to
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call you up and be like Operation tush Block the next thing, you know,
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Malik Jefferson just skyrockets through the depth chart. He's the GM. Now
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that's weird. He's the head of football one week linebacker, chief sticks,
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head of operations. Yes, so how do we feel? Well, what's
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drey? What's our Do you know the line on the game going in?
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Of course you know I could look it because I'm I noticed last week it
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was the Cowboys were favored by like six and a half over the Rams,
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and they clearly covered that. I'd be curious to see what the what the
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betting lines are for the Cowboys and the Eagles this week. Man. I
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was sitting when I was watching the game, I was sitting next to a
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guy who showed up and God love him. But it was a Newton game
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and I got there a little bit early and he started in on the fireball
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at like eleven fifty five, and I was like, and I can always
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tell when somebody's bet on games, because he just he was. He was
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a drinking and by the end of it, he just needed. All he
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needed was the Giants to win by three. It's all he needed to cover
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every single thing, and they lost my three And the look on his face
29:07
was can someone help cover this? Tap? Look, there's there's a reason
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why Vegas shines so brightly in the middle of a desert. Philly is minus
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three, so basically home field advantage. So yeah, because yeah, on
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a neutral site, then it would be be a pick hum game. Interesting.
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All right, So we don't typically do this, but let's do it
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this week. Maybe we start working this into the games more. Let's throw
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some picks in on the line. So what do you what do you think
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in Trey, it's Eagles by three? What's your bet? I would take?
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When you call your bookie, what is your book you want you to
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do? I would I had already knew what I wanted. Just put me
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on the spot. I would probably have to say I would take. I
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want to say take the points and uh if that line line went for three
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and a half, then I would take the points. And the Cowboys I
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want to say, they can keep it close. I think they can keep
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it close, and then maybe take the over, which is forty six.
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Ooh, is interesting. Forty six is a tough and that's that's that's fairly
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low by today's NFL standards. Eah, I mean it's not as bad as
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like, you know, the what was it? It was like the Ravens
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Pittsburgh game was like a thirty four nine, that's what that's. That's when
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you know you have a problem when you know the line on the Ravens Pittsburgh
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Like. That's when people in Pittsburgh don't know that you're at the standard port
30:55
looks on the pitches, you better come to play. That was just it
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was just a one of those anomalies, and there used to be, and
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generally I think it's probably still true that if the line is it's like below
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thirty seven, take the under. If it's over fifty four, take the
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over, because basically what they're saying that at that point is they can't make
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the number low enough or high enough and get the amount of bets they want.
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Gotcha, Raj, you want me to put you on the spot.
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You want me to give you a minute to think about it. I don't.
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I don't bet so, I don't. I don't know what. Any
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look, I don't know what. Try to stick a gun to his head,
31:33
don't he actually can't. It's Texas. There's already a gun pointed at
31:41
you somewhere. Yeah, I would you say, take the take the under,
31:48
No, take the over? Is that what you said, Well,
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at this point, you're just picking the points and the winner. So it's
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like, you got the Eagles are favored by three. You can take the
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points and the Cowboys. Maybe they win or at least cover and still lose,
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or you take the Eagles. I'll tell I'll take I'll take I'll take
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the I'll take the Cowboys. I'll take the Cowboys with Yeah, very nice.
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I'm going to be the I'm going to be, on the rare occasion,
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the pessimist in the treehouse. I until the Cowboys can prove me,
32:15
or until the Cowboys can prove otherwise. I'm going to default to what I
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believe is the better team, or at least a team that appears to be
32:22
the better to be the better team weekend and week out. So I will
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take the Eagles minus three over the Cowboys at home. Wow, call the
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Eagles at home. But you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah,
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gotcha. Okay, why do you hate the Cowboys? See that blue privileges
32:40
came out? Look at them. Now, hang on, Trey, I'm
32:44
gonna tell you why. I First of all, I love the Cowboys,
32:47
but it is a love hate relationship. So I'm going to tell you why
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I also hate the Cowboys and it's because they have hated me for thirty years.
32:57
What they haven't won a Super Bowl and all almost thirty years rise as
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a Cowboys fan. Is it isn't? It is a classic abusive relationship where
33:07
where the Cowboys like, all right, this is our year, and then
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we believe it, and then you know, then it's not. And then
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the next year all right, no, this is our year, and then
33:14
we believe it and then it's not. So that's what's been happening for like
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twenty seven, twenty eight years, and I'm finally in the groove of sitting
33:22
back with my arms folded and just saying prove it. Okay. So you
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see you see Trey wearing the blue. You see me wear in the white,
33:30
but you've got on the Philly green. Is this Philly green? Maybe
33:35
it's the lighting, because to me, it's it's more of like a turquoise,
33:38
and like terror shaking her, She's like, that's not green, now,
33:40
no, it's it is green. Oh, she says, it looks
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really green. All right, I'm in that space. All right, I
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need to go change my shirt and then we can figure this stuff out.
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I will not be wearing this shirt on Sunday. Okay, sure, yeah,
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how would we know? I'll take a photo hold up a newspaper too
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while you're doing it. Yea, yeah, because I couldn't take it.
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Thanks for hanging out with us in the Treehouse for this football podcast. We
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will see you tomorrow. Four Wait, no Friday. See this is what
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happens when you record on different days and you're in between homes is forget what
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day you post things versus record. The next episode of the Treehouse will be
34:29
the Friday podcast. Will keep an eye out for that. And in case
34:31
you have not listened to it yet, go listen to the Treehouse Halloween Special
34:37
twenty twenty three. Jowels, I think there's some good stuff in there.
34:43
You have not heard it yet, just scroll down in the list it's there.
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I'll see you next time in the Treehouse.