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Football #20 | Dak or Death · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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It is time to leave your worries outside join us inside the Treehouse Football Podcast,
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where outside you I'm talking about you leave your regular worries, but in
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here we bring in all of our football baggage, especially when it comes to
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the Cowboys, because as Cowboys fans for all our lives, myself and Trey,
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we have lots of Cowboys baggage, have now for pushing thirty years,
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and now we are left in the middle of another postseason where the Cowboys ducked
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out too soon or right on time based on its recent history. Because were
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you really surprised? I wasn't really surprised. I was angry, disappointed,
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hurt, all those things, but honestly not surprised. You know, we
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we we have no no right to be surprised. We and we we are
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as Cowboy fans, we are like the guy on Jerry Springer who I can't
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believe the exotic dancer he met two weeks ago is cheating on him with a
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clan member. Yeah that's you know, it's uh, that's our lot in
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life. You know, we're we're shocked every year. We're shocked at you
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know, our stripper, you know girlfriend is cheating on us, with with
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with the with the with the midget twins. It's really everybody at this point.
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It's like she's she's she's taken all comers and yeah, and we're just
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she's too sore for us. When when it gets to be are turned you
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can almost into it right here, because that sums it up pretty nicely.
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It's, you know, as Cowboys fans were sore. We're sore from the
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the the pounding and the lack of lube and the lack of emotional connection from
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our team. But yeah, so obviously we know the Cowboys were bounced in
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the wild card round at home against the Packers. And I will say this
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about the Dallas Cowboys and the media. The media, there's only one thing
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that the media loves more than it's than a winning Dallas Cowboys team, because
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when the Cowboys are winning, they bring ratings, right. But the one
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thing that the media loves more than a winning Dallas Cowboys team is a winning
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Dallas Cowboys team that throws up in the playoffs, because then they get the
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best of both worlds. They get the eyeballs and the money that come with
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a successful Cowboys team. And then when that same Cowboys team face plants in
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the playoffs, and now they get all the negativity to go along with it,
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because, let's face it, if the Cowboys were doing one of those
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runs that they had back in the early two thousands where it was like what
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three straight five and eleven seasons, yeah, there's there's really nothing there.
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They're just they're they're rebuilding, they're just losing. There's nothing exciting there.
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That's just something that most teams go through. But the Cowboys are their own
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animal where they'll be good enough to get everybody's attention, because I think we've
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all seen the meme. You know, it's the Dallas Cowboys fans uh cycle
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repeat thing? Yes, and and and and it's very accurate where it's,
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you know, you have the off season, preseason, and then you get
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the Cowboys beat up on good teams, and then they fall apart in the
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playoffs, and then you start with the off season back over again, and
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then it's just it's, you know, the never ending cycle. Do you
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this stat it probably it's just just stung my soul. Do you know the
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only two teams in the NFC that have not made it to the championship game
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this century? Well, I know one of them, yes, and the
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other the Commanders that really should that is the most glaring indictment on the last
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quarter century of Cowboys football or you know, I guess twenty four years whatever.
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Your company in the basement. Is the Commanders just the poster child for
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poorly run teams. Yes, there's no arguing that. And I would also
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like to throw this out in addition to the things that the media loves,
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is a successful Cowboys team and then a failing Cowboys team because you get all
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the drama that comes with it. And it's not just football drama, because
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nothing with the Cowboys ever stays on the field, because everything with the Cowboys
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inevitably bleeds over into personal lives, every day's stuff. And when you're a
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player for the Cowboys, they don't just talk about your play on the field.
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They talk about all of it. And that's true whether you're the quarterback,
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running back, defensive end, whatever it is. If you have a
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high enough profile, all this stuff is going to be under a spotlight,
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right sure, And so that exact thing has been happening now over the past
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week plus after the Cowboys lost to the Packers. You get all the drama
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coming out and not just normal drama, but good old fashioned family drama.
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And I don't mean football family drama where it's you know, Ceedee Lamb saying
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something about Dak, which maybe he did, maybe, but it's honest to
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god, Cowboys players family members taking to social media to either support their family
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member, blast a teammate, whatever it is. The media is eating it
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up because it's it's one thing that we love that we crave as humans,
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and that is drama in conflict. And they're getting it from Ceedee Lamb's mama,
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from Dak Prescott's brother, from Micah Parson's brother. And keeping in mind,
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this is not a new thing. Family drama. You know, family
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in sports has has bled over for forever, but it's it's more it's usually
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like one person. It might be like one player's wife, or it might
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be one coach's girlfriend or something along those lines. Here it's a while for
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a while, like uh, it was Patrick Mahomes's brother, Yes, it
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was Aaron Rodgers' brother. Hm. You know that there was always like kind
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of I always go back to like Bill Clinton's brother. There was always like
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that that brother cousin whatever that you know, someone that a problem but but
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the media in the case that Clinton might have been the brother cousin. Yeah,
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well, but there's always been you know what's is that the the Ball
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brothers and their dad. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there
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there's always always somewhat in the media loves that, and especially in the in
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this age of social media, it's it's it's free content. Good god.
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But yeah, with the Cowboys because you have I mean, it's the perfect
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storm for for media if they go, oh wait, hang out, Cowboys,
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great season. Uh they've cowboy did in the playoffs? Oh wait,
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oh, now we've got there's a bunch of in house bickering. Yeah,
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where's the where's t o and the popcorn? Exactly? And that's exactly what
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we've had over the last week plus. I saw Tara and I were at
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lunch and it was on one of the daily you know, morning sports shows.
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Uh, I say lunch morning sports show because we're two hours ahead of
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Dallas time here on Saint John. So we go to lunch and on one
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of the TVs, I think it was ESPN or ESPN something, it's the
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Get Up Show with Mike Green something, Mike, thank you, and uh,
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I took a photo of it because I wanted to uh to visit this
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and it was Cowboys family drama that they were discussing talking about Ceedee Lamb's mom's
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comments after the game, Dak Prescott's brother Tad's comments after the game, and
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Terrence Parsons junior Micah's brother comments after the game, and they're eating it up
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as as I'm pointing out, because the Cowboys were good and then they flopped
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in the playoffs and all this stuff comes bubbling out and it's not one family
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member, it's three, and they're all attached to the three biggest stars that
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the Cowboys currently have. And I will give you the example. So you've
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got a d Lamb's mom Leda Ramirez after the game, she posted, Dak
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isn't it. She also went through in the comments as people are commenting and
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she's responding to people doubling down on it, saying they need to get rid
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of his ass, saying that Dak Prescott does not want a ring. She
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says other Cowboys players work hard for a ring and her son deserves better,
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her son being you know, Ceede Lamb. And according to this article on
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si dot com, perhaps the most concerning part of Ramirez's rent was when she
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replied to a Houston Texans fan wishing Lamb would join them. She writes,
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I wish he would. CJ is great talking about c J Stroud, So
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that's CD's mama. Then you got Dak's brother Tad, who posts on Twitter
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slash x whatever you want to call it, the wing eding Cowboys fans?
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Why continue to DM me? Trust me? If I could get Dak to
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leave Dallas, I would. I two want him out of Dallas. The
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city and organization have been great to him and our family, but done with
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drama and the so called fans. He but he loves this team and wants
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to bring it rings and then he followed that up with saying he's not He's
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never spoken badly about the Cowboys as an organization. He says he's never spoken
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badly about a player on the team or the city of Dallas. It's the
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so called fans that he has an issue with because they're pissed off at Dak
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for failing in the playoffs. And then it's a the trifecta. You know,
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it's like the Cowboys in the history. We like things that come in
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threes, you know, Dak and Michael and Emmett. We like our triplets.
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In this case the triplets. The third one is Micah Parson's brother.
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Let's see what did he have to say? He joins in on this,
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on this rigamarole, and he had so much so that his brother had to
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kind of separate like Mike had to separate some of the comments. Terrence Parsons
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said in one of a series of posts defending Micah Parsons on his Twitter account,
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I can't wait because you all are really clueless out here. The greatest
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crimes to this man is being done by his own organization. Y'all gonna miss
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him when he's gone, to which Micah had to respond any comments made by
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Terrence Parsons Junior or his and his alone. As you know, if I
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have something to say, I'm not afraid to say to love my team or
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brothers on my team in the city of Dallas, and I'm more committed than
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ever to bring a championship to the greatest fan base on Earth. Ooh right
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with family drama. Yeah, and you get that like see to me,
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especially when you when you get Micah Parsons, it really brings back the whole
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Russell Wilson and the Seattle defense and after you know, the Super Bowl loss
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and how that blew up, and you know, the defense thought Russell was
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a prima donna and everything else. Because now you want to talk about if
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you have to make me choose, I'm gonna choose Micah over Dak. Interesting
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Why do you say that, Like, is there something in your mind where
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you think the Cowboys should choose between one of them, that you think where
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they should do something with Dak. I know, I'm just saying, if
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you were to make me choose, I would take your you know, seemingly,
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you know, Hall of Famer, you know Edge Rusher over you know,
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the evidence I have of Micah parsons greatness is to me more complete than
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it is of Dak. That makes sense, No, that absolutely does make
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sense, especially when you think of in terms of talent. Quarterbacks are better
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now than they've ever been coming into the league, right because they throw the
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ball all over the field, not only in college, but most of them
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have started even younger. Because the spread offenses have been in high school football
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for over a decade now, and that then has moved its way up into
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the NFL. Rings that's why, So, that's why the time to judge
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a quarterback, the window after he's drafted is so much smaller now than it
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used to be. Now you get what a handful of games, maybe a
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season, and an organization is going to decide whether or not they think you're
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the guy, right, yeah, and if you don't do it in that
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very small amount of time, you're gone, Whereas in the older days,
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you're committing more money. And maybe part of that is because of the way
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those Iroki contracts are structured, but because because of all those things combined,
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you know, years ago, you'd give a quarterback five six years to actually
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develop into a quarterback, whereas the quarterbacks nowadays are really close to being NFL
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developed by the time they get there. So it's it's a shorter window.
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And because of that, I think that lends more credibility to what you're saying
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trade, which is it's more difficult to find a once in a once in
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a lifetime a generational talent like a Micah Parsons versus a quarterback like Dak Prescott
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who is undoubtedly good but not great. Right, Sorry, you can go
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find another good quarterback, right, And that's not you know the other thing
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you really have to factor into with Dak right now, is you know they're
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wanting to restructure, you know, his deal, and you're talking about making
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him I've heard some reports of the highest paid quarterback in the league. I
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mean, it won't last long, but you know, you have one of
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the biggest things I think you really have to look at with Jerry Jones and
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the Cowboys in the history is he won three Super Bowls before the salary cap
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was really implemented. The salary cap that he basically came up with and and
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presented and pushed through has you know, he could money whip a team better
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than anybody, but salary caps has not been his friend. It's only been
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in the last I'll say, I'll give him ten year, eight to ten
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years that and I think it's been since Steven kind of took over some of
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those duties that they've managed the salary cap better. Which is something else that
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you're saying they're having to navigate going into the off season, because here we
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are, we're not even past the Super Bowl yet Cowboys have lost, and
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we're already having off season conversations like Dak's contract because he's technically signed through twenty
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twenty six. He's got the second highest draft cap hit going into this year.
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But they can restructure him without asking his permission. They have some sort
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of conversion thing in the contract. And I don't like getting too far into
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contract stuff because then it makes it sound like lawyers. And but there's something
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they can do to convert some of that money to lessen his cap hit,
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spread it out over a couple of years, changing it into bonus money versus
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salary, which is not a new thing. That something happens very commonly.
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They restructure a contract, they move to ery and de signing bonus and there
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you have it. But they could do that for Dak or to Dak without
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getting his permission for it. He's still going to make a ton of money,
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don't get me wrong. But then there's the other side of it,
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Like you're saying, Trey, is now the time for DAC to say,
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hey, let's go ahead and just make a whole new deal, Which if
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I'm the Cowboys, I say no. But I don't know what they would
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do because, like we were saying, you can find a quarterback more easily
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than you can another Micah Parsons, especially for cheaper. All you got to
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do is look at rock Perty in San Francisco and look how much he's making
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less than arch Manning is at Texas, and arch Manning is not even the
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starter. Yeah, thanks of those nil things. And so the question then
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becomes, if you're Dak, do you even dare to ask for a true
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extension because you're just sucked in your last game of the playoffs. But well,
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I guess we'll see what he and his agents do. Well. I
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think it also it highlights the other problem with the NFL, and for the
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Cowboys especially, which is if you you know, and there is no doubt
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you could trade Dak and get a hell of a package for him, there
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are plenty of other teams that would love to have him. But you are
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then saying, all right, we're starting it at zero again and have to
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go find a quarterback. So and then it also comes into the Jerry h
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thing of you know, you're talking about that to at least a couple of
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year process, and Jerry didn't. I don't think Jerry is looking for,
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you know, a five year rebuild. No, he's not. I think
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I think he knows very much that each season could be his last. And
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that's the way he's approaching things. And because of that, that's where if
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I'm on Dak's side of things, if I'm Dak's representation, which I think
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is CIA or whoever it is, that's where you got to say, hey,
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we've got a little bit of leverage here because we're negotiating against a man
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who's negotiating against death. And there's no time like the present, because we
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know you, mister Ji Zones, don't want to miss out on this window
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because if you get go with somebody else, you're probably gonna die before they
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ever do anything worth mentioning. So you got your guy now, so let's
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pay him like it. And that's that's a pretty good uh uh you know
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erro to have in your quiver if you're negotiating on the bark of Dak Prescott
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is well, what do you want to do you want to die or do
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you want to you want at least a decent shot at a ring? Yeah,
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I mean, if I'm if I'm Dak's agent, I'm going look,
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look, Trent Dilfer won a super Bowl and he's this My client is far
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better than Trent Dilfer. Stick with you. It's an easy sell. If
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you're his agent to go. You've got you've got a known quantity, and
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he's very good like he he can he can get it for you. Yeah,
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so it really is a simple thing. I think at this point Dak
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could honestly just fire his agents and we could hire Hi, hire the treehouse
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here, and then we could do a very simple visual presentation of two photos
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to show to the Jones family on resigning Dak. One is a far deck
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looking very handsome right after scoring a touchdown, pointing the finger up to his
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mom in heaven and you're going, let's go. And the next photo is
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a grave with a headstone that says here lies Jerry Jones. And then you
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just tell them Dak or death. Yeah that's and then you thank them for
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their time and they walk out and say I await your response. Maybe that's
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you know what, Maybe that should be the motto for the twenty twenty four
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season for the Cowboys. This last year it was the carpet Omnia that sees
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everything, in which they of course sees nothing other than the NFC East Crown,
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which is it doesn't matter if you don't do anything with it in the
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playoffs, So you go from the twenty twenty three motto of you know,
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seize everything carpe Onium Omnia to twenty twenty four Dack or Death question mark.
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Yeah, I'm just thinking of that old Eddie Izzard bit of cake or death
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and just you know, doc or death, death very much. That's very
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much where I am. Yes, And that's that's an interesting thing is you
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can do that. You can do the whole thing. You can go to
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you know, you can go to the Jerry Jones be like dock or Death
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and then someone says death and it's like, ah, you said death.
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It's like no, no, no, I meant doc. I met deck.
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All right, you can have We're gonna run out of deck. At
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this point, I think I think I'm on board with this. Dock or
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Death. Dock or Death, start printing the T shirts. Man, I
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shirts and stickers Dock or Death, which really just puts a big will smile
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on my face as I get ready for the next season. That gives us
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an opportunity to look back at the divisional round that the Cowboys obviously did not
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participate in, and ahead to the conference championships. So we've got last weekend.
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The Ravens took care of the Texans thirty four to ten, no surprise
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there. The forty nine Ers survived the Packers twenty four to twenty one,
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the Lions sunk the Buccaneers thirty one twenty three, and in the big matchup
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of the weekend, the Chiefs on the road for the first time in the
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playoffs. They beat the Bills twenty seven to twenty four in what basically came
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out to be kind of an anti climactic game, but it did include once
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again a Buffalo kicker missing a crucial fuel goal, so I felt bad for
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that dude, but it was not entirely his fault, although Jim Nance did
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give him one hell of a jinx right beforehand. Yeah oh man, but
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that was the game I watched the most closely. I watched all of that
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one, the Chiefs and the Bills for the reasons that it was sort of
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the marquee matchup of the weekend because it's, you know, it's it's Alan
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versus Mahomes, It's Kelsey and Kelsey and Swift. It's got, you know,
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all the excitement that you want from an NFL playoff game. And Mahomes
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again beats the Bills. Alan can't quite pull it out, and again not
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because of the kicker, although he obviously missed his opportunity, but you also
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had some key drops in that game by Bill's wide receivers. I feel bad
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for Buffalo fans. They kept showing that one dude in the stands crying his
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eyes out, and I feel it's like, you know, he dug himself
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out of his house to go to the game, to then dig out his
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own seat in the stands to only be let down by his team. I
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get it, yeah, and you know you. I always say one of
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the most unappreciated accomplishments in sports history is the Bills making it the four Super
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Bowls in a row. I agree, but that's still got to be just
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a bitter pill that you've made it to four and don't have a don't have
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a super Bowl. You know, it's almost like a like a really twisted
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Morpheus in the matrix, Like instead of him offering a blue pill and a
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red pill, it's his hand holding out a blue pill and a red pill,
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and then his other hand is a Buffalo Bills pill, in which case
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you get really really really really close, but you never get there. Yeah.
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Yeah, you get to win a lot of winning. But I don't
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know, that's uh. I thought that the the Bills game the Bill's Chiefs
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game was interesting because both teams had huge expectations and really, if you look
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at it, very kind of for their standards mediocre years. Yeah, I
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know, it's weird to think. It's weird to say that because eleven and
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six for those two teams kind of because they both had points in their season
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where they struggled, but like most good teams, they figured out just in
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time to make a run in the playoffs, which, of course, as
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we covered some over previous weeks, the Cowboys have yet to figure out how
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to do that. But as we look ahead for the AFC side, now
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you get a matchup a lot of people that were predicting at the beginning of
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the year. It's the Ravens, it's the Chiefs. Who are you taking
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trade? You know I have. I've gone back and forth on this and
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I think Lamar Jackson is an incredible talent. But at the end of the
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day, it's a cliche. But you know, you can't beat the man
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until you beat the man, and so right now I'm going to go with
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the Chiefs because they've done it. And that's the one thing, you know,
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It's the one knock against Lamar Jackson and the Ravens is they haven't so
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but Baltimore is playing. Yeah, it is probably the best team in the
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league, so they should win it. Ooh, this is why we need
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a should jar Because my wife and I learned years ago than one of the
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most dangerous words in the English languages, the word should just because something should
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happen doesn't mean that it will. There are numerous examples of that in our
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lives that we've had to experience. So whenever we hear the word should,
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we get real antsy about it. Yeah, and I'm with you because based
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on the eyeball test, the Ravens should be favored in this game, and
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they are, although I don't think it's by very much. I'm not sure
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what the line is at the point. I don't know what Vegas thinks about
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it, but I'm certain it's razor thin. But I'm with you. I
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think until some team can prove otherwise, you got to ride with the Chiefs.
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I've adopted the Chiefs as my team for the remainder of this postseason one
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because they're originally from Dallas. They're they're the original professional Dallas football team.
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Before the Cowboys existed, there were the Dallas Texans. Those Dallas Texans eventually
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were moved by the Hunt family to Kansas City, where they now reside.
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Not the Hunt family, most of them still live in Dallas, but the
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team is in Kansas City. So that's one reason why. And also because
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man, I'm I'm I'm I'm getting I'm getting sucked into the Chiefs fandom.
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And I will also admit that my wife needs to admit that she's been sucked
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into the Swift Kelsey stuff, even though it wasn't something that she sought out.
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It was one of those social media algorithms that showed her something and she
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clicked on it. And then, just like the Social Dilemma documentary on that
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Flicks, she clicked on that one thing and then it kept feeding her stuff,
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and like pac Man, she keep eating the little little bites of it.
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And now I'm looking up how to change the Kansas City logo from Casey
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Chiefs to Casey Swifties. And I'm I'm enthralled. I like seeing Taylor do
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the swag dance thing in the stands, and I loved even more seeing Jason
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Kelcey up in the stands shirtless, drinking beer and giving giving Taylor Swift the
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full Kelsey family experience that she had not had until this past Sunday. And
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that's what had left me wondering and say, Okay, now you're getting the
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full Kelsey family experience. Are you still in? And she seems like it.
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Yeah, that's uh. Jason Kelsey cracked me up. Because I don't
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know. If you saw the video of him, you know, out in
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the parking lot, you know, chugging beers with the Bills fans. Yeah,
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what did he do? Did he take a shot out of a cannon
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ball or is that a bowling ball or yeah, I'm not sure if that
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was liquor in there, or it could have been straight up gunpowder out of
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a cannon ball, and I think he still would have downed it. Yeah,
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just belched up a you know, giant flame and gone about his day.
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I would like to. I would like at this point, I think
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if Jason Kelsey is wondering what he wants to do for the next phase of
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his life called retirement, if he wants to have, you know, a
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part time job just to kind of stay busy on occasion, he just he
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could hire out his services as a one man cheering section to whoever wants him.
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I don't care if it is, you know, the speech you have
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to give at the PTA. I don't care if it's a motivational speech that
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you need to give your kid's t ball team, or if I don't know,
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if it's trying to muster up the courage to ask a girl out on
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a date. If I could have one person as my cheering section, it
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would, honest to God, be Jason Kelsey. I want that man in
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my corner. Okay, I don't disagree with you at all. I think
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that is a fantastic idea. But I think there's one better, which is
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so you remember how like Fox started it and they did it with only Sarah
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Gusa, they do like the man on the field, and you know he
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was the lineman and he was going to give you the you know, the
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in game perspective of what man you mic up. You know, Kelsey put
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him shirtless in the stands drinking beer with the fans. I want that sideline
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report. I want that fourth quarter commentary. You know you're right because first
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quarter man I want. I want I want the the the right after the
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third or fourth quarter beer sales cutoff report from the stands with kell Yeah.
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No, I think that's I think he could do both. I think uh
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he could do he could also he could motivate your t ball team or motivate
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you before you know, your softball game or something. And then also I
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want that in game report from the fans in the stands with Jason Kelsey.
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Yeah, I mean, I just you know, I want to hear Jim
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Nance do a play by play of of of Kelsey, you know, doing
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a beer bong, you know, from with a ten foot you know hat
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just just something stupid, you know what that's That's not the play by play
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we need, but it's the play by play we deserve. Meanwhile, you've
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got the on the other side of the conference title game. You've got the
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Detroit Lions up against the non surprising to be there San Francisco forty nine ers.
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Who are you taking there? Niners? Yeah, there's no way you
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can believe in Detroit. I mean that joke exists on multiple levels. I
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don't I don't believe in Detroit, but I do believe in Dan Campbell.
31:41
I do believe in that man's ability to motivate people. And it's not gonna
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happen, at least not right now. But I can't help but wonder when
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I see what he's been able to do in Detroit, and knowing that he
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started his career as a Dallas Cowboy. I'm Jason Witten. I can't help
32:01
but think, what would a Dan Campbell mentality due to a Cowboys team that
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especially coming off of a year like this one where one of our biggest complaints
32:16
with this Cowboys team was that they seem to have, you know, no
32:19
fire in their bellies, no balls when they needed it. And that's everything
32:24
Dan Campbell brings to the table. Oh yeah, I mean you're talking about
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going from you know, no expression on the sideline to you know, he
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you don't know if he's gonna kill somebody or cry. Yeah, as a
32:38
player, that's an interesting relationship to have with your coach as you look over
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to the sideline and you're not sure if he loves you or hates you,
32:46
Like you don't know if he wants to hug you or kill you, but
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you might be in danger either way. He is a hunter. He is
32:53
a hunter, like like Micah Parsons has his lion dance. He likes to
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say lionny type things. Meanwhile, if he was to look over at the
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sidelines, Dan Campbell's going to be wearing a lion and let's see how you
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respond. Then it's like like Dan Campbell, while being a hunter, he
33:10
doesn't necessarily have to have a trophy wall where he puts all of his trophies
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up. He just probably just throws him on. That's just like his T
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shirt game, a T shirt of caps. It might be more of like
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a combination, like it's like the it's the backward because the backward Lions head.
33:31
That would be really impressive. All right, I'm proposing a trade right
33:40
now, McCarthy for Campbell, and it's not going to be an even trade
33:45
because they're not. We're going to have to give a lot more to Detroit.
33:50
Maybe maybe if we gave maybe, if we proposed to trade with Detroit,
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we get Dan Campbell, they get Mike McCarthy and Roanoke we got a
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nice, lovely suburb. Well you know, I mean, I'm trying to
34:13
think, McCart we're not gonna miss Roanoke that much. We still got south
34:17
Lake and Trophy Club. We have, we have North Terrence County, nice
34:21
suburbs to spare. We can we can we can ship one off to Detroit
34:24
along with Mike McCarthy. If we can get Dan Campbell wearing animal carcasses on
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the sidelines. Yeah, I'm trying to think what else, what could sweeten
34:36
the deal. I mean, we can try to we could try to sneak
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Sunny Vale in there. Yeah, I don't. I don't think that's what
34:45
Detroit needs. I was thinking more along, you know, like we're it's
34:50
a little tech hub that you know, you could throw it in and then
34:52
they could fix RoboCop. So what we could do is sneak round rock in
34:58
there and see if Austin noises. Exactly awesome to be happy to get right
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of around. Let's throw a part of the deal, all right. See,
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the entire off season has been has been done. We're all done.
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There's no there's nothing anyone else on any other sports choked and say we've got
35:13
it all handled. We just need the Jones family to pull the trigger.
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Yeah, and and set up you know, Dan Campbell and let him go
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on a hunting trip, you know, Safari, and see what headwear he
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brings back. I'm gonna laugh when it's Tony Pollard. I'm kidding, I'm
35:44
kidding. We'll have more to more football to discuss next week right here Inside
35:49
the Tree has Football podcast. And the only the only way that Dan Campbell
35:53
would truly be able to to to get Tony Pollard is because he'd probably fall
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down. We'll see you next week.