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Jerry Jones not entertaining the idea of firing Mike McCarthy · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: The third and final hour of this program here on
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  a log Horns Monday, and we'll be glad to discuss
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  a variety of topics as well.
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  Speaker 2: Here on the program.
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  Speaker 1: I have because I have a new laptop in order,
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  I'm still trying to get it configured on things, and
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  that would include our text line.
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  Speaker 2: Cam however, has.
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  Speaker 1: Access to the text line, so if anything comes up
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  of consequence, you will bring it to my attention.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a busy day on the text line.
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  We can run through them. Sure you want clean up? Yeah, absolutely,
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  a little clean upon on the text line, Cebe says Craig.
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  Great call as usual Saturday, and I loved your tweets
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  Saturday night with Will Matthews eating corn dogs and the
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  better than a factory cigar statement. The win was an
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  early birthday gift for me, as today is my actual birthday.
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  There you go, CB, congrats, we had a good time.
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  I you know, I usually eat a corn dog every
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  year at the Texas OU game. Every year, I usually
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  eat a corn dog.
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  Speaker 1: I had not had a chance to get to one,
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  and I was just kind of musing aloud and Will
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  Matthews needed a ride back to the hotel and I said,
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  we hop in hop in with us, so he was
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  gonna ride with Linden and me back to the hotel.
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  But I mentioned getting a corn dog, and Will had
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  made it clear in the post game when we were
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  talking to her, we'd been given word that members of
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  the Texas Athletics staff someone was going out to get
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  Sark a corn dog, because we said on longgrn Weekly
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  last week. Now, he pledged if someone would get him
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  what he'd eaten, the cotton candy bacon on a stick.
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  Nobody got him that, But I think he was really
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  more interested in the corn dog.
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  Speaker 2: Because he mentioned a couple of times and he never
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  had one.
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  Speaker 1: So we pointed out, well asked the question during to
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  break all us.
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  Speaker 2: To uh, are they only getting one? There's others of
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  us who've never had one. We laughed about it.
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  Speaker 1: So they they brought one and Sark ate it, carried
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  it into the news conference right.
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  Speaker 3: He came in with and he said, he walked in,
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  he goes, I got my corn dog, y'all, and we
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  all sort of laughing. And the funny part is is
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  that in between questions he would sneak in a.
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  Speaker 2: You would take a bit kind of smiled and.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think Thomas Chone from The Statesman was
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  next to me and kind of pointing at Sark. He
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  looked at us and laugh and then would take another bite,
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  and Michael Taff was looking over it laughing, while Anthony
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  Hill or Trey Wisener or Quinn was answering the question.
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  And then when he wrapped up, he said, all right,
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  I got my corn dog.
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  Speaker 2: That was for y'all.
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  Speaker 3: And then someone asked how was it. He goes, it
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  was amazing. Then you walked that, so so that happened.
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  So I said to Will we were going down. He goes, gosh, yeah,
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  I s mean I didn't w I said.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's go get one, and Linda knew where to
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  find that the closest, uh Fletcher's Corny dog stand. Now
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  that you need to know that at the State Fair
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  there's more corn dog stands than just fleshures, but Fletcher's
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  is kind of the gold standard. They've been the standard bearer,
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  and I said, your first one really ought to be
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  from Fletcher's.
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  Speaker 2: So it took a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Of walking and maneuvering to get around a lot of
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  the foot traffic and a lot of the people and
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  going through the midway, and that's where I saw the
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  dumpling stand, and that's where I saw the the hamburger
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  with the donut topping and all this different stuff. But
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  we eventually we kept our eyes on the price and
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  we got to the corn dog stand and we hit
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  it at the perfect time.
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  Speaker 2: Some people just walked away.
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  Speaker 1: There was nobody getting it, so we just stepped right
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  up and we got one. We chatted with the guy
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  who was running the corn dog stand. Uh and then
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  and and I want to tell you CB, the corn
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  dog is primo. You one else was really good. I
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  mentioned first hour, the lemonade is really really good. There
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  I' gotten one of them. That's why it appears in
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  that Instagram post there, I said. And and then when
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  I also tweeted the photo, that just says better than
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  a victory cigar. And I do enjoy a good scar
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  on theccasion, But but after that game and it's and
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  it's in the wind column on that, then absolutely I'm
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  gonna want the corn dog. So it went really well,
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  So happy birthday, and thanks for the nice words on
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  the calls.
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  Speaker 2: As we say in the business, it was a good
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  horse to ride. We really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 3: A seapel asked the station lose money feeding Hard and
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  Henry at.
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  Speaker 2: The Stay Air. It's a fair question.
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  Speaker 3: The amount tickets we went through on Saturday was an
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  enormous amount. Enormous amount our guardians fan texting in today
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  as well. He said, as a Guardian and Buckeyes fan,
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  Saturday was a true Jeckyll and Hide sports day. By
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  eleven o'clock, I did not know where my body ended
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  and where the couch began. He also said for Cleveland,
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  Josh Naylor needs to wake up as well. Nobody goes
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  four for thirty six with twenty seven first pitch outs
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  like Josh Naylor, All right, so there you are. And
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  then regarding cam Rising had a couple of messages, one
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  calling him a permanent student, must have ten degrees by now,
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  text her saying seven years of college down the drain.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right, the great line from Animal House.
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  Speaker 3: And then and the last one Craig asking if we're
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  gonna talk NFL to day, but the forty nine ers
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  may want to play in Dallas in two weeks instead
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  of San Francisco. You're not wrong, hook him and yeah,
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  oh you could have stopped Texas.
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  Speaker 2: But where were you Billy Bowman. Ah, so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: And remember remember Billy Bowman was a Texas commit. Yeah,
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  and we had him on High School Scoreboard Live when
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  he was playing at Denton.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan had him on.
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  Speaker 1: It was the feature and asked maat and at the time,
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  he said he was still firm on his commitment. And
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  then it was pointed out that his girlfriend was a
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  softball player was going to Oklahoma, and he actually wobbled
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  a little and.
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  Speaker 2: He said, yeah, I'm still committed Texas.
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  Speaker 1: And I looked at that right then, and I think
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  I looked at Rick Renter as my co host and
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  Greg Temper.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, he's not gonna stay with Texas.
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  Speaker 1: She's going to She's going to Oklahoma. He's gonna followed Oklahoma.
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  And he did, and he's had a good career. He's
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  just that was that was not one of his better moments.
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  I mean, he had the interception, but after that, the
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  comments and things like that, probably not one of his
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  better moments. But we've all been there and those things
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  kind of happened. Let's hear a little more from Longhorns
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  head coach Steve Sarkisian uh as the Longhorns come off
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  the win and get ready for the matchup with Georgia.
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  Another thing that that Sark was asked about about how
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  well his team plays once they are in the lead,
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  and uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, what makes a big difference for that.
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  Speaker 1: And then he was asked about Leonga Lafowl who Lafowl
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  got the start at linebacker and against Oklahoma instead of
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  David Bendon.
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  Speaker 2: I've been played a lot.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he had a he had a sack of
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  the game, he had a big play in the game
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  as well. But Lafowl played really really well also, And
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  Sark was asked about Lafal's play and what had led
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  up to him earning the start against ou.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we just kind of looked at, you know,
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  the first five games and heading into the by and
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  really felt like the combination of Leonga and Anthony together
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  would free Anthony up to do a few more things,
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  which I think is what we saw. It was allowed
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  him to rush the passer a little bit more and
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  use his versatility with Leonga having a real understanding of
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  the defense in the middle there. And so I think
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  that combination was good for us. You know, Leonga's earning
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  that playing time, like a couple of games ago out.
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  If you remember, he and Anthony were both players of
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  the game for US, and they were rotating, and so
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  it was like, how do we get them both on
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  the field simultaneously. He's an impact player for us on
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  special teams as well. And as I said before, if
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  you just talk about culture on our team, this guy's elite.
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  You know, he's top one, two or three, you know,
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  culture teammates that that we have.
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  Speaker 2: In that locker room.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hear more from sarcer right, let's talk about some
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  NFL here. And like he said, somebody asked about that, Wait.
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  Speaker 2: A minute, and I didn't. I didn't do justice to
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  our resident Guardians fan. He said.
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  Speaker 1: What he was was kind of like an out of
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  body experience watching what happened with the Guardians win Saturday
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  followed by the Buckeyes loss.
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  Speaker 2: Feel sorry for Will Howard.
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  Speaker 1: He just he just got down too late, slid down
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  a little bit too late, and he needed to give
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  himself another and they had a time out to give.
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  But the problem was going to be did he get
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  could he get down in time to use the timeout?
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  He understood, and he made a pointed point that they
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  were not yet in feel goal range. You get that
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  that's why you can't run in that situation. You got
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  to throw for about fifteen yards. I thought they needed
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  ten to fifteen yards and then you could still use
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  the middle of the field, but they have to be
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  quick and then get the time out.
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  Speaker 2: All right, to the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I know you didn't watch the Cowboys, but you've seen
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  all the highlight recaps, so you're.
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  Speaker 3: Actually I haven't seen a single snap from the game.
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  I even not even any highlights.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so how how then do you prepare yourself to
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  come talk about this thing?
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  Speaker 3: I know only forty seven to nine. What's to talk
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  about in the Cowboys side?
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  Speaker 1: Just about how dismantled they were during the course and
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  disheveled and just discombobulated. It just could not get anything
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  going off. And then I think the defense was worse
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  than the offense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the defense, well, all the injuries on the defensive
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  side of the ball, especially on the defensive line, and
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  you know, games are won and lost in the trenches,
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  and so far two of the Cowboys' biggest deficiencies have
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  been the offensive line and defensive line. And if you
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  removed to Marcus Lawrence, Micah Parsons from the equation. It's
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  it's not going to go well, especially with how good
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  of offensive line Detroit has. I mean, they may have
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  the best O line in the country. So light work
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  for the him on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Light work.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you score forty seven points the National
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  Football League and correct me if I'm wrong, Craig, there
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  is no special team touchdowns and there is no defensive touchdowns,
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  so it all came from offense. That tells you that
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  Detroit did not break us sweat. I know, I know
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  Jared Goff had another perfect passer rating. That tells you
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  how good Detroit Lions played passer rating.
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  Speaker 1: So social media courses is a blaze, you know, with
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  all of this and saying you know that Mike McCarthy's
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  got to be fired, blah blah blah. You know, and
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  and so we could have probably predicted this. When the
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  game's over, you know, Jerry Jones is walking and walking
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  down that long horder there at and T Stadium along
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  outside thing and then eventually gets to a point where
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  he does kind of a media briefing needs the only
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  owner in the NFL who does this. But you know,
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  gms do news conferences and media availabilities. And he is,
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  after all, the GF, which frustrates a lot of Cowboy
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  fans obviously.
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  Speaker 2: But he was asking.
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  Speaker 1: Now, listen, listen closely to the reporter's question about whether
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  Jerry was considering or hypothetically considering making a change at
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  the head coaching job.
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  Speaker 2: What would it take you to evaluate making a head coaching.
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  Speaker 3: Change in season?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I haven't considered that. I'm not considering that, So
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  you're clear, I'm not considering that. I wouldn't be a
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  hypothetical in that matter. Do you think I'm an idiot?
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  Speaker 2: Do you?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well, I'm not a little hypothetical with you about
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  when I'd consider coaching change, and a lot of the
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  timing we're sitting here with I'm not at all.
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  Speaker 1: Do you I mean, I'm not going to hypothetical with you.
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  Do you think I'm an idiot? Yes? The report really
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  want to answer that truthfully.
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  Speaker 4: That's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: Never get allowed back into another Cowboys game as a reporter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the deal with that.
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  Speaker 1: And then, uh so that's been a you know, that's
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  been a big topic of conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Is he gonna is he gonna, you know, make a change?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: You know, with with a coaching position. You know, we
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  pointed out I guess what a couple of weeks ago
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  about the possibility of uh Wade Phillips and what happened there.
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  Babel Lothenburger, who of course is the analyst for the
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  Cowboys and who's been on this program before, tweeted out today,
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  I know emotions are running high right now for Cowboys fans, understandable,
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  but they are one game behind Washington. There's six games
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  into a seventeen game schedule. Calls for firing McCarthy today
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  are silly. It never ever ever works to fire the
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  head coach in season. Never, That was his tweet, and
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  uh At Bark, long time TV critic in the Dallas
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  Morning News, said, I'd say it worked in the twenty
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  ten season when Wade Phillips was fired after a one
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  and seven start. Replacement Jason Garrett then went five and
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  three as interim head coach before being named permanent head coach.
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  He's perhaps already reminded you of this. Most of the people, however,
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  say it's it's.
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  Speaker 3: It's not about the coach. I'll tell you this. Craig
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  Bye week this week, you're three and three. Came back
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  from Washington, but Dallas comes back. Let me remind folks
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  of the schedule, back to back road games at San Francisco,
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  who has had the Cowboys number, at Atlanta, who is
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  getting better each week, home for Philadelphia, which will be
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  a huge game, and then you're home for Houston and
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  at Washington and the Commanders may be a top three
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  team in the league. So these next five weeks, you're
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  gonna real know, You're gonna know very quickly whether or
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  not this Cowboys team has any hope of making the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I agree.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think firing McCarthy or Zimmer is going to
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  change in I think there's some team situations like the
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  Jets or the Jaguars, when obviously they have so much
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  talent and you're underperforming with that talent and there's so
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  many coaching mistakes. I think this is the opposite. I
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  think there's just not enough talent on this Cowboys team.
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  Their biggest free agency move was signing Eric KENDRICKX, who
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  has passed his prime, and Ezekiel Ed who's passed his prime.
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  I don't think coaching changes anything. This all begin in
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  the off season with the lack of moves that Cowboys
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  made all right.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll hear more from Long Warren's head coach
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  Steve Sarkashan, and we'll talk more about the NFL because, like,
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  for example, somebody tweeted, why do Cowboys fans ever call
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  for the coach to be fired? The coaches and the
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  problem never has been, never will be as long as
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  the Jones family owns them. And I'm not giving Steven
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  Jones a benefit of the doubt he will be more
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  of the same. Maybe he will be, maybe he won't be.
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  But here's my question. Why are people say, oh, fire
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  the GM Jerry's gotta go. Forget that, that's never going
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  to happen. Never that The only way ownership changes happen
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  in the NFL is a if the owner is broke,
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  we know Jerry's not broke, or b the owner does
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  something criminal or something so heinoused so as to be
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  smirched the league. Daniel Snyder marg shot. You know, there
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  are examples of it happening, but those are more the
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  exception rather than the norm.
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  Speaker 3: And thinks about how long it took to get Snyder out. Yeah,
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  and the owners didn't even want to really push him out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So folks need to just stop tweeting about that
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  or wasting your energy and emotion on that. He's not
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  going anywhere. And I understand the frustration if you're a
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  Cowboys fan, you know, like Cam, and can't get behind
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  him because of how this team is tearing out. That's
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  how I was back about what ten twelve years ago,
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  when Frank McCort was owning the Dodgers and running it
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  into the ground until the team was stand cast and
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  then the group that Magic Johnson put together basically save
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  the franchise and the Cowboys are just not going to
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  be different.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to change that. That is not going
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  to change at.
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  Speaker 1: All until it might change somewhat with Stephen Jones because
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  the heat that his old.
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  Speaker 2: Man is getting right now. But Jerry doesn't care.
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  Speaker 1: Because the profits are still there, and if you're willing
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  to pay the money and go to the games, you're
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  you're lining his pockets and giving him all the more
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  reason than to make a change.
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  Speaker 2: All Right.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hear more from Coazart coming up on Sports Radio
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  AM thirteen under the Zone.