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Football #11: Cowboys vs Giants and Texas A&M vs Money · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome inside the Treehouse Football Podcast. I'm Daniel Malley, along with Trey Trenholm
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and Raj Sharma are Cowboys coming off of a forty nine seventeen demolition of the
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New York Football Giants and their third string. I'm not related to Danny DeVito.
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I I've already forgotten his first name. I believe so of the Giants.
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So what's that I don't I don't, I said, I believe so
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of the Giants. Yeah, I believe they've forgotten his name as well.
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Yeah, I don't know if that's the name you really need to commit to
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memory. I don't think it is. But you know what he's he's living
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the high life right now as as the starting quarterback of the New York Giants.
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He's still living at home with his mom and his dad. His laundry
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is done for him. His mom makes his bed every day he had.
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She's got chicken cutlets ready for him when he gets home from practice or games.
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Granted, he spends the majority of the time running for his life.
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You think she makes some little chicky nuggies in the shapes of footballs. I
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know now, I just picked him outside of the stadium, like waiting for
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his ride. All the other players are getting in there, like, my
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mom's almost here. It's all good guy, thanks. The other players are
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offering him rides. Pissed off that mom didn't pack putting in his lunch,
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teammates are offering him like my mom says, I can't get in the car
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with strangers. That's true because he didn't really know some of those I'm sure
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a number of those guys. Because not only is the name so quintessential slash
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stereotypical Jersey, the fact that he grew up nine miles from the stadium,
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still lives in the same house with his family that is twelve minutes from the
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practice facility. I'm sure a number of the players thought, this is a
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fan that just snuck into the locker room. That's the twelfth man. Were
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like the fifteenth Yeah, I remember, Like you know, we've talked about
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my my football participation. I wouldn't say playing participation in high school. Like
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my sophomore year, I actually got to second string, which I was very
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I just want That's all I wanted to be. I just wanted to stay
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there. Freshman year, I was six string out of four receivers. Do
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the math at home, one hundred percent sure. There was this first string,
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second string, third string, two empty spaces and then me, So
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I wasn't I wasn't faster than no one. So uh I would lose in
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my own foot race, that's how well. But I got to second string,
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and I just remember being like, I'm good, I'm good here.
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I don't need to So anytime I would see like the like the corner,
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take a take a hit, I was like, oh, I'm not,
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get up, get up. I don't wanna. I don't, I don't
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wanna. I got to hear I'm good. I'm not. I'm not that,
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I'm not. I'm not sick string anymore. I'm second, I'm fine.
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And uh so I imagine the the Vido whatever his first name is.
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Uh when when the when Daniel Jones went out with the Achilles and and the
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second string quarterback went up. He's like, cool, there's no way,
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there's no way it's gonna be me. And then that guy went out and
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he's like, dude, no, you can tell like that was looking Probably
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it was probably assuming the Giants would do what so many the other NFL teams
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do when they lose the starting quarterback or two quarterbacks they called Josh Dobbs.
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The problem is the Giants were too late on that, and Jobs is already
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playing somewhere else. So Divido's like, yeah, it's you kid, Yeah,
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and his face the entire game was like come on, guys like that.
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The like every time he got up from taking a hit, he just
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kind of like, hey, somebody helped me. That was I lost interest
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in that game. And you know what, I lost interest in that game.
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I think what it was twenty one nothing. I was like, all
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right, we're gone. I can see. I actually came in I think
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at the perfect time because we had an event, so I missed the first
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part of the game, so I don't even know what happened. You know.
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I didn't start watching the game until about ten minutes left in the second
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quarter, and the game was almost over by then. Even Yes, the
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yeah, the good thing I will take away from that game as a Cowboys
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fan is that's what they were supposed to do to the really just downtrodden giants.
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That's what they were supposed to do. So they Yeah, they met
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expectations in that game. Yes, I mean that's I think that's what you
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know and they were. One of the commentators was talking about how Dak had
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made a comment like, you know, we feel really good from coming off
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a win, and let's let's go to this game with that same momentum.
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And I'm like, but they're also two and six, so let's and they're
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all on their third string quarterbacks. So yeah, they won, but it's
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like, it's still like the Eagles, like, come on, guys,
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we're about to We're going to play them again here soon, so let's let's
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play like that. Let's manage that expectation. But to be the two and
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six team on a third string quarterback like that, I don't know how.
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I wasn't like, I wasn't overjoyed. I was like, all right,
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we won, cool ass smart, But by like you said, by ten
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minutes into the second quarter, I was like, I can start dinner now.
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I'm good. I'm not I don't need to be attentive through this.
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But it was it was. I mean, it was fun. I was
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more irritated by that fourth and goal call in the first quarter than I was
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anything. Yeah, that's the first text men. I was like, it
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they're they're trade text three Immediately was so disappointed. I'm like, they just
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started. That's that was just a boneheaded call. Yeah, they were just
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plain aggressive. They were trying to feel it. That why Why Because because
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they knew the Giants were two and six and realistically, man up, man
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up off this. You showed me you can get a yard. Oh you
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can't, You're I mean, that was just it was a stupid call.
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Pardon my language, that's okay. It's passion. Trade's passionate. Yeah,
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take the three points and move on down the road. Yeah, it was
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a texture. I was like, come on, buddy, relax. They
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know they're gonna win. That's what then. And also it also it makes
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me mad that the signature thing with Philly and why they're so good, the
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tush push whatever you want to call it, the Cowboys can't even do They
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cannot like fourth and one can't do it. Yeah, but I mean it,
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but again, it was that thing like that, that call was,
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Hey, we're gonna win this by a mile, So if we want to
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goof around, let's let's do that. And let's see because we we do
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have tougher teams coming up, so let's see if we can get these plays
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to work or not work or because they're gonna go back and watch the film
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on that and go, here's why that didn't work. So let's yeah,
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I guess it's not it's not technically goof around, but I think you're right.
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It's like that they were looking at the game against the Giant says,
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you know what, A lot of this stuff is sort of like this is
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a nationally televised practice for us. Yes, yes, that's exactly what it
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was. This is like a scrip in mind, this is this is the
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same team that got their ass whipped by Arizona. So I don't know that
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we can really go into any game going eh, we got this. No,
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I think that one you can. I mean third string quarterback. Yeah,
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you're right, but that's what I'm saying, the third string quarterback.
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And let's be honest, if there was if there was any team that would
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be, you know, possibly above average in the NFL to get its ass
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handed to it by the New York Giants with a third string quarterback at home,
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it would be the Cowboys. Yes, uh, And that's why you
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know I do like this. This is when I enjoyed Trey's pessimism. It's
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when he's like, well, we could lose, and I'm like, he's
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he's like of the treehouse, he's my e or like it's not like it's
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not Yeah, there is a lot of pessimism, but I mean, to
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me, that's just realism. With the Cowboys, I still don't I don't
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think it was sound coaching, sound logic, right then? You know here
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in the first first drive, first quarter, Yeah, you and and you
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have a team that, let's be honest, kind of a fragile psyche.
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Why risk it? Why risk it at fourth and goal in any game that
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you know you can easily win? Take the three points? And you know,
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yeah, did you you know if that had been against Philly, I
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probably would have had been all right, you know what, they're a better
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team. You gotta roll the dice, you gotta take your chances. I
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would be more down with that than I am with with the Giants. And
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that's that's all. Yeah. Yeah, did you did you have? Did
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you have the over? Is that? What is that what this is about?
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I'm pretty sure that hit regardless make the Cowboys hit that? Yeah,
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that was they actually did. Because I remember last week I'm watching the game
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and I'm thinking, I think I told Trey to place a bet for me,
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and I wanted the under and and the Cowboys did that themselves. Yeah,
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that's why I remember watching it, going to dance the under. I'm
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like, what, like I did? But that's sort of like, sort
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of like Trey, I have a little bit of that cowboy's pessimism. Now,
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if we're looking at at our show here in our sports analysis of the
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Cowboys, as you know Winnie the Pooh characters, Trey is definitely or I
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would imagine I'm probably poo Or, and then and Raj you're obviously Tigger,
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Yes, founcing around. Yeah, Cowboys. I And can we just say,
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just for the sake of say, ceedee, Lamb is probably one of
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the best receivers in this game. That that one handed catch was probably the
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most amazing thing I've ever seen. It was pretty great. The thing I
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can't stand it with, Oh, when wide receivers make one handed catches like
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that, are the times that they drop the two handed ones. Yeah,
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but if you want, I mean, and I've watched it over and over
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again, I don't even think he saw the ball. I think he just
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knew that's where it was going to be, and his hand went there like
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that was incredible, and then he almost did twice in the same game.
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But yeah, that was for me. Ceedee Lamb was the highlight. And
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then I believe Bland had an interception as well. Did he have an interception?
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Talked down talking about Ceedee Lamb and the massive game he had. You
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also finally had a massive game from Brandon Cooks had You even had some meaningful
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catches and a touchdown as well for Michael Gallup. It was basically a wide
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receiver party for the Cowboys for the first time this season, where everybody's just
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you know, everyone's having a good time and as the offensive side goes.
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It was an end zone party as well. Dak had won CD's in the
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end zone, Brandon Cooks is in the end zone, Rico Doubtele is in
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the end zone. The one guy left out, poor Tony Pollard. Yeah,
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apparently he was the only guy of the skilled positions on the Cowboys offense
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that did not get the invitation to the end zone party. Yeah, and
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you know, and again it goes back to you guys actually played played and
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be like, you know, uh, as opposed to me who just just
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I was. I was present, joyfully, I didn't miss a game.
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Uh, they wouldn't have noticed. Well they would have. I wasn't the
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only brown guy, so they would have noticed. Uh. But like,
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is okay? So that when they're like, you your quarterback goes down,
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they're like and and it's always an assumption made that the that that's it,
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like the game, you know, the season could be over, like when
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Rogers went down, and uh, Zach Wilson, Zach Wilson, yeah takes
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over, Like you know what, it's just whatever it is? Now?
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Is that is that legitimately that big of a I know he's the leader of
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the team, and I get that. Is it legitimately that big of a
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deal? Like, I understand, but these are all skilled players, amally
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it is. But you've made it to the NFL. You're all very skilled
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players. You're all elite players to make it to that level. So why
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would that make so much of a difference. I just don't. Because it's
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the NFL. Because it's the NFL, and they spend so much money on
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the starting quarterbacks that other positions, other starting positions on the team, there's
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a drop off sometimes because you spend so much money on a top flight quarterback,
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you can't afford to have top flight players at every at every position that
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you want unless you get them on their rookie deals. Right Well, what
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I'm saying is, like, is the bond with the rest of that for
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that starting quarterback and the bond with that team, is it that isolated that
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you can't have a second person come in and fill those shoes immediately? I
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think I think it really depends. And like so a great example was with
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the Jets when Aaron Rodgers goes down. The problem with that is they already
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c. J. Wilson's been playing with him for two years. They knew
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what they had in CJ. Wilson. So I think there is a massive
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confidence of just the lack of car Like Rogers goes down, there goes our
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season because they know they got crap as a backup. I think other times,
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and you've seen it that you know backups will come in and if they
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have if they can show a little bit of confidence and make a throw that
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they can do Okay, they're obviously game in and gay out, are not
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going to be as good as the starters. That's why they're backups. But
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you know dobbs like that, you know in Minnesota. He came in.
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I mean, he didn't even know the playbook, but obviously he had the
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confidence and you know, get in the huddle and said, you know,
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and they got it done. And so I think it very much depends.
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But I think that's why there are some there are some good backups. Colt
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McCoy, like I think I think he retired then I think they brought him
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back one of those good back like, you know, serviceable backups. He
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can go in there and make some decent throws whatever. And you know,
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that's why he'll make He made a couple of million dollars a year for most
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of his career and hardly played not a bad Yeah, and real quick,
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you said, CJ. But I know you mean Zach Wilson. Although the
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old, the old Rangers pitchers, c J. Wilson coming out of baseball
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retirement and pulling him out of a race car, he might be able to
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do it. Yeah, talk about talking about head cases. Yeah, And
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and and I've always I've always just I have a theory about quarterbacks. And
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and they always have great names like they I think at a very young age
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when you're when you guys are in pee weed or little League, whatever you
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call it. They see the kid with the name and they go, that's
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we don't know if he's got the skill, but Cole McCoy, you have.
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There's no other thing you're going to do in the state of Texas but
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play. You're you're the guy that I think he may be on to something
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there, especially when you think about the great quarterbacks of the history of the
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NFL. Just imagine a little six year old Joey Montana, Like you can
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come in as the coach and you're like, you know what, I think
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that's our I think that's our quarterback. It's got to be. You're not
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gonna take it. You're not going to take a little, a little tiny
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joe Montana and say linebacker, where's that kicker Montana at? You know?
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Yeah, Like Joey Montana sounds like a character out of a mob movie,
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Like go talk to Joey Montana. Uh, And they have they have those
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names like Colt McCoy. I'm like, come on, man, like either
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football or you own a Dodge dealership, Like that's all you can do.
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Like it's come on down to Colt McCoy, Dolledge, like that's what that
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actually would it wouldn't surprise me if he actually does that as well. Yeah,
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that's or you do both. Because it's when when I hear like the
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quarterbacks, and especially like in college football, some of them are just incredible.
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I'm like, of course you're the quarterback, and they're always ridiculously good
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looking dude, Like I know the Georgia quarterback is the one with stets in
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something before. Yes, yeah, that's just ridiculous. I'm like, come
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on, man, like you knew, like they gave birth to it,
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like they're like and push and pass like that's what that's how it happened.
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Like that's that's why I say, like, and I joke about Indians,
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but you're never gonna be You're never gonna be sitting at a bar and be
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like, ah, man, did Pataiale throw another interception? And like that's
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not going to be. Uh, you know, you're not gonna have a
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starting quarterback with an Indian Indian last name. It's not gonna happen for a
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very long time. Well, you mentioned the quarterback, you know, good
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looking scale have you seen Notre Dame's quarterback? I have not this year?
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I have not is he is? He? Is it? Handsl fella.
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He that honestly might be an understatement. Yes, and say that as a
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as a as a straight red blooded American male. But Sam, he's a
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beautiful man starting yeah, Sam Hard mm hmmm, Sam okay, Well,
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and you're right when when when he came out of the womb, he will
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yeah, I mean he was a photo shoot ready. Yeah, he's he's
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yeah, he's the he's Yeah. He should be in every outdoor movie from
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now on. Uh and an outdoor any any outdoor adventure. But he's he's
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what, he's what every guy in every Lifetime movie looks like. I was
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actually going to say, if he's not starring in every single Hallmark Channel film,
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then they should just shut the network down. Heart to Hartman, Yeah,
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that's a good looking guy. That's a that's a handsome fellow there.
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Good good for him. See that's what I'm saying. Like they that's how
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they do it. They go, what's his name? Sam Hart? Sam
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like, ah, he could be. Let's see what he looks like.
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And then Sam walked in like, yeah, he's the quarterback. I mean,
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that's clearly the face of army. When you're looking than the than the
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brawny paper towel Man. Yeah, that's a Okay, that's a that's solid.
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By my theory is coming My theory is coming true. Which, by
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the way, you know who else was a starting quarterback at Notre Dame Joey
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Montana. That's correct. You're listening to the tree House. Visit us online,
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that treehouse on air dot com. You're listening to the tree House.
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Visit us online, that treehouse on air dot com. In addition, ron
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to the money that's paid to starting quarterbacks, which does not leave a whole
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lot of money left for other quarterbacks on the team or other positions, there
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is another glaring reason to answer your question why there's such a drop off from
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QB one to QB two. Right, What I'm what I'm saying, not
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even the drop off. What I'm saying is is the bond between that starting
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quarterback and the rest of that team so critical? Because everybody's made it to
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the NFL the elite of the elite, so one in one hundred and eighty
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thousand people will make it to the NFL. They've made it. So is
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it and this is my question, is that bond between QB one and the
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rest of the team that critical that if they go down QB, two steps
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in and they can go you know what, that's season. Like when Aaron
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Rodgers went down, the color commentary basically went, well, there go the
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Jets. That's a wrap. Well, and again that's because they knew who
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the backup was. To answer your question, and a lot of this is
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the answer is yes, that that bond is that tight because almost every collective
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bargaining agreement that they've done in the last twenty years has shortened the practice time
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they have, so the number of snaps that they take in practice is very
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limited, and so the first team quarterback gets all the snaps like literally,
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gotcha? Okay, I mean unless there's a week where there they think it's
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like the end of the year or whatever and they know they're going to play
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the backup, he might get ten percent of the snaps. Dan, you
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you've covered football, you know better than I would about that. But all
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in all, like it's all the first team, so all and everything in
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the NFL is so much timing that if so when you put someone else in
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there, the you know, the new field general and they're not used to
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hearing them. That's why that's why a lot of times you see the off
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side, like the false starts and all that other stuff. It's just so
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different. The more you do anything, typically, the better at it you
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will become. Yeah, yeah, okay. That you may not necessarily get
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better at it because at a certain point you may hit a you know,
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you may hit a ceiling or a wall. But at the very least you'll
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get more comfortable doing it. Yeah, okay, And I guess and then
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everybody else around you gets that that comfort factor. But because I would,
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I would assume by now the Jets would be in rhythm with Zach Wilson,
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right, I assume that, But but I guess not because there is a
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potential of Aaron Rodgers coming back. Now, well all but they know,
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but Zach Wilson is crap, I mean, and they know that. That's
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It's not like it's an unknown factor that, oh, we just got this
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guy in and you know, he's the second string quarterback, but we think
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he'll do great things. But when they know it's one in one hundred and
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eighty thousand people will make it to the NFL and he's one of them.
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So but let's also keep in mind wise that that while that statistic is accurate.
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NFL scouts miss like they they are just as fallible as anybody else in
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any other profession because they have missed many, many, many, many many
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times over the years. They've nailed it a lot, like Troy Aikman's a
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great example, number one overall pick, Hall of Fame everything. It was
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everything that the Cowboys hoped he would be, and he became that. Yeah.
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On the flip side right now, looking at say the forty nine ers
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Rock Party, Yeah, he wasn't drafted in the first round, wasn't drafted
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in the second, the third, all the way to the end of the
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draft. They finally took this kid who sounded whose names sounded more like a
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porn star than a quarterback, and and he's lights out. Yeah, No,
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I agree, Like they're for for every for every rock party. You
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have a Tim Teba, like you have this great college quarterback who just I
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mean just panned out, I mean just so quickly in the NFL. And
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or who's the quarterback for the Cardinals? Uh first, who was the first
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round no, no before ages before him, but he washed out very quickly.
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As while you're talking, Josh Rosen, Yeah, yeah, that's what
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Yeah, Yeah, yeah, I mean it's but it happens in you know,
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it happens in all aspects of business. I mean, you know there
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are major media companies that hire shows that don't even know to turn the microne.
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So well done. That was that was can I can I say masterful,
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effortless and skilled at the same time. Well well done and and with
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the and with the sinus infection, it was like it was like watching Jordan
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with the flu. That was dominant punchline tray, much like the Cowboys dominant
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performance over the Giants. That was well done. Man, I got nothing
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after that. You don't too, So we can put the game against the
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Giants to bed. Yeah, but now we look forward to the last scheduled
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noon game for the Cowboys this season against the very Like if you think it
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was bad enough, how cocky they were going up against the Giants, Now
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it's the one in eight panthers. Yeah, this is what's the what's the
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what's the what's the spread on this tray? What's a go into your degenerate
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gambler mind? It's probably quite a bit, that's what it says. It
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doesn't that just says quite a bit, like Vegas doesn't even want to take
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money on the like, no, we don't want this one. What's the
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over? It says a lot. How does this game have no under?
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And for if and for being honest about it. So you've got this is
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actually the beginning of the gauntlet that the Cowboys go through every year. So
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you've got this game against Carolina, and you've got the next three games are
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in there are in eleven days. Oh yeah, that's right, because you've
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got the Panthers. Then you got the Commanders on Thanksgiving. Yeah, and
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then and I'm brain farting, who's right up after that? But the Cowboys
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need there's there's one more than the Eagles. Oh gotcha? Okay, ten
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and a half and forty two? Okay, okay, ten and a half
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of the points forty two? Give me the over. Yeah, just give
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me the over. And you know that, you know, the Panthers are
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like, just let it be over. I don't even know who's playing quarterback
26:49
for the Panthers. Yeah, I don't, Sam Hartman. Ironically, it
26:56
is not he's still notre dude. It's uh No, You've got you've got
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Panthers Commanders, then Seahawks, then the Eagles. So based on that the
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Cowboys need to be They better be. I stopped sort of using the word
27:14
should because I know better. They better win those three because they're gonna need
27:18
those going into their December schedule, because the December schedule is brutal, because
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once they go through these next three, they need to be nine and three
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because then then they get the the Eagles rematch, followed by the Bills,
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the Dolphins, the Lions who are still shockingly good. Yes, and then
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the Commanders again at home. That is a brutal December. So they need
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to win these next three. Yes, Uh, it's it's a quarterback for
27:45
the is Bryce Young former husband Trophy winner? Is the Panthers quarterback? Yeah,
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that's a that's a brutal schedule and and and god blest me. Yeah,
27:56
I'm let's uh, let's yeah again going into a one and eight team,
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like the Bills are one of the more puzzling teams that I've seen,
28:07
like to be that talented and yet yeah, just at times that bad and
28:12
from last year where they were on fire last year and then this year like
28:18
they were just I mean I watched some of the Bills game this last week
28:21
and that was just tragic to watch. I don't know if you guys are
28:25
thinking it, but I am, so I'm going to say it. Okay,
28:27
Buffalo Bills look a lot like the Dallas Cowboys. Really good the year
28:33
before, had enough success to think, hey, this year could be their
28:37
year, but then fell a little short. And then the next year you're
28:38
like, Okay, no, really, this is really going to be their
28:41
year, and then out of nowhere, they just suck for no apparent reason.
28:45
Yeah. I mean, I've never been and you guys know me for
28:49
a I've never been that guy where I'm like, watch the first game of
28:52
the season and go, this is our year, Like we're gonna take it
28:56
to the I've never been that guy. Because again we were talking about it
28:59
before. Tray is always my he's the e R on my shoulder and he's
29:03
like, just just wait, we'll f it up. Just give it time.
29:07
We look great, right, Yeah, Yeah, we scored thirty forty
29:11
points in the first two games. We'll we'll, we'll f this up,
29:17
and true to form, we do and trade is like a tod like,
29:22
I don't know what, I don't know what else you want from it.
29:23
I told you we're gonna do that. I'm like, that's correct. So
29:26
I just kind of it's what everybody jumped on Colorado's bandwagon when Dion Sanders went
29:32
over there and they won their first game against TCU and they're like, it's
29:36
it's our year, and I'm like, give it time. It was yeah,
29:41
so yeah, yeah, it's like give it time at the time.
29:45
You know, that was TCU coming off being in the National Championship Game,
29:48
and yeah, people didn't realize, oh there, it's hard to stay on
29:52
top and their crap this year. Yeah, and so so I've always been
29:56
you say that again a little bit slower, but make a sadder face.
30:00
I didn't. I didn't pin your ears back to Yeah. So I've always
30:15
been of that elk where I'm like, you know what, I'll watch every
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game and I'll base my like we've been. I've been hearing people go,
30:22
this is our year for thirty years. Let's let's relax, we say it.
30:34
I'm not trying to be the pessimist. I'm just like, hey,
30:37
let's no, no, no, that's Trey's thing. You can't have it.
30:40
That's all his. Yeah, but I do I do like his that,
30:47
Like I like that, Like I don't I don't say it out loud
30:49
and Trade does, so I internalize the e or like he lets it out.
30:59
I don't think i've I mean, I don't know that I've ever been
31:04
a fan of any team where I've gone into an air going this is our
31:07
year, We're gonna do it. I mean, the closest I've ever come
31:11
is the two thousand and five Longhorns, and that was still. I mean,
31:18
you want to talk about miserable, you should have been with me.
31:19
I'm at the Rose Bowl in that game, the greatest game in college football
31:22
history, and I've been half the fourth quarter with by hand in my eyes,
31:26
you know, answer from my eyes, going oh God, I can't
31:29
watch this. Yeah. So, well you were at that game. That's
31:33
amazing. Mm hmm. That was that was That was the the peak of
31:37
my fandom. Is I had gone to the Rose Bowl game the year before
31:41
with Texas Michigan, great game, Texas wins last second field goal, went
31:45
to almost every game of the year, including going up to Ohio State.
31:48
So that was my pinnacle of football fandom. And then I wanted to see
31:52
Texas win a national championship, and by god, they gave it to me
31:55
and Wow, that's that's really cool. I've not and they've been torturing ever
32:00
since. Oh don't every I mean a bad ill timing, ill timed firing
32:10
or hiring in college football can set your program back a decade. HI.
32:14
Speaking of which, let's talk. Let's talk about that Texas A and M
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has dumped seventy five million dollars into Jumbo Fisher's or Jimbo Fisher's lap to go
32:28
away. Yes, he will make thirteen thousand I think they roughly is thirteen
32:35
thousand dollars a day for the next No, it's twenty twenty six thousand dollars
32:38
a day till two thousand and thirty one. To not coach, to not
32:44
coach, I have. I have decided that if reincarnation is real, yeah,
32:50
if I would like to come back as a college football coach. I
32:54
am now of the belief that that is the greatest job you can have.
32:59
Of all the jobs, college football coach has got to be one of the
33:02
best, especially when you just need to be just successful enough to get to
33:07
a big program like in A and M, and they give you buckets of
33:13
money, and then they give you more buckets of money, and then they
33:19
give it to you to go away, and and and highly insulting to the
33:23
players of the team that don't make anything. So uh yeah that that get
33:30
all of the uh all of the well, I mean they get stuff from
33:34
boosters. I mean we all know that, oh they get, but they're
33:37
they're not getting millions of dollars like the coaching and the universities that basically worth
33:42
them for free. And it's not like they gave him that extension after he
33:46
won the SEC. He won his division in the SEC. Yeah, they
33:53
just had an above average year. And but because of the cult of personality
33:58
that college football, you know, coaches are, and you know, the
34:01
mirror talk of him going somewhere else, which was probably all drubbed up by
34:07
his agent, they rolled out the check book and went, oh, ten
34:10
or ninety ninety five million dollar, Yeah, ten million a year, basically,
34:14
yeah bonus. I've got the breakdown here of Texas A and M's payments
34:17
to Jimbo Fisher after firing him, within sixty days, he will be paid
34:22
nineteen point four million dollars. Within one hundred twenty days, it'll be seven
34:28
point twenty seven million dollars. Then for the year twenty twenty five, he
34:32
will be paid seven point twenty seven million dollars, along with twenty twenty six,
34:37
twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight, twenty twenty nine, twenty thirty
34:42
and two thousand and thirty one for six straight years, he will receive almost
34:49
seven point three million dollars to not coach at AMM. Yeah. I need
34:53
that. I need I need that. I need that. I need to
34:57
talk to my agent. I'm like, I need to know what how much
34:59
money Netflix is going to give me to not be on Look, seriously,
35:06
you can pay me the same amount of money. Actually, you know,
35:08
you can pay me a lot less to not also be the coach of A
35:13
and LT. I'm a lot cheaper than Jimbo Fisher. You can pay me
35:17
fifty thousand dollars a year to not be the head coach at A and M,
35:22
and I'll take it. Yeah. Yeah, we'll just do one hundred
35:23
thousand dollars a year and all three of us will split it. To not
35:29
be the coach for an I will do a great job of that. I
35:34
would be I would be excellent. I did a great job of not playing
35:37
in high school. I can be even better not coaching I'm fine with this,
35:43
Like, that's so ridiculous to me, Like, I don't understand how
35:45
that works. And with social media now that that has been just picking up
35:52
so much steep, I don't know. I don't think anything will happen.
35:54
There's a contract sign I don't think anything's gonna happen with it. But it's
35:57
just so many people are outraged by this whole thing with Jimbo Fisher. Well,
36:02
speaking of outrage, just imagine that you're one of those boosters that's paying
36:07
that. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Absolutely, that's so wild,
36:12
man, that's so wild. I've never heard it. But they get to
36:15
it and but here's the thing they get, you know, they get to
36:19
a point where they're like, fine, I don't want to watch this anymore.
36:22
Here, here's ten million dollars. Make it go away. And that's
36:27
that's what I mean. I don't feel sorry for the boosters because they're the
36:30
ones who forked over the check to sign them to that a ridiculous amount,
36:35
and then they'll fork it over again to go oh my bad. Oh yeah
36:37
no, no, don't misconstrue what I was trying to say. I don't
36:42
feel badly for the Boosters because they clearly have the money to throw down the
36:46
drain or in this case, at a guy named Jimbo. Yeah, yeah,
36:52
they're gonna be fine. But I find it hysterical that just because and
37:00
this this, what this does it it sort of solidifies to me something that
37:04
I've already believed, that is, just because you have lots and lots of
37:08
money doesn't necessarily mean you're smart. Oh yeah, when you're right, you're
37:22
right, Truck Longhorn Boosters aren't. Aren't. Are not? They're not signing
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that deal. Thank you for hanging out with us here in the Treehouse for
37:40
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