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Micah Parsons says McCarthy future "above my pay grade". · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Craig right alongside the producer camera Parker.
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  Speaker 2: So jumping into some NFL notes, I was just talking
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  Speaker 2: about college results, some of the most surprising in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: How about the Patriots nineteen and the Bears three yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: Where did that come from? I think we've seen the
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  Speaker 3: end of Ebra Flus as the head coach and SHANEA.
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  Speaker 3: Waldron as the oc just Bears team that was on
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  Speaker 3: the up and up a few weeks ago, and now
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  Speaker 3: I think with three straight losses and all have been
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  Speaker 3: really ugly. Kill Williams was sacked I think nine times.
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  Speaker 3: That's not helping him at all. You know, he as
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  Speaker 3: a rookie quarterback. You want to be able to protect
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  Speaker 3: your rookie quarterback, helping build the progress and develop as
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  Speaker 3: a quarterback. And they're doing the exact opposite. So right
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  Speaker 3: now things look bleak in Chicago, as you know they
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  Speaker 3: usually do with this poor football franchise. But got to
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  Speaker 3: get him some help in the coaching staff, get him
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  Speaker 3: some helping the defensive line.
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  Speaker 2: Eberflus says, Kayleb Williams will remain the storting quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: Will he remain the head coach? Says? Everything else is
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  Speaker 1: on the table, by the way toward that end.
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  Speaker 2: And I know we've talked quite a bit about the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys today, but that's okay. Jerry was asked in that
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  Speaker 2: wholeway thing where he was ranting about the curtains and
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  Speaker 2: tearing down the whole damn thing and all that.
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  Speaker 1: They asked him about.
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  Speaker 2: Do you anticipate making a change before the season's over?
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  Speaker 2: And he said I do not, And he said he's
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  Speaker 2: regretted it ever since he when he let Wade Phillips
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  Speaker 2: go in twenty ten, replaced with Jason Garrett and.
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  Speaker 1: The coachmen away through the season. Yeah, so what he's saying.
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  Speaker 2: And then he mentioned about letting chan Gaily go after
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  Speaker 2: a couple of games away on back and said it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't enough time. After three d you gotta let you
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  Speaker 2: gotta let a you gotta let a guy have some time.
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  Speaker 1: He said.
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  Speaker 3: So there's no point in fire McCarthy right now. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: what's done is done. And at this point, with all
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  Speaker 3: the injuries and you're starting quarterback out for the year,
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  Speaker 3: this team is crushed. It's over with. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: know they're mathematically still alive for the playoffs, but let's
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  Speaker 3: be real, they are eliminated. So let's just get a good,
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  Speaker 3: good draft pick and move on from McArthur at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the year, and then let's see where we
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  Speaker 3: go from there.
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  Speaker 1: You see what Michael Parsons said when he was asked
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  Speaker 1: about all of that, I did, and I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was blown a little bit out of proportion.
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  Speaker 2: He said, Well, first of all, when you're in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room, and I've been in a lot of those
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  Speaker 2: NFL locker rooms and the Cowboys locker room in the past,
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  Speaker 2: you had a whole bunch of people, you know, with
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  Speaker 2: microphones and different recording devices and things like that, and
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  Speaker 2: they're pressed it on you pretty good, and it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of hot and muggy and humid in there and all
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  Speaker 2: that other kind of stuff, and they're asking a lot
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  Speaker 2: of questions and maybe it'll elicit some answers that in
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  Speaker 2: a different setting might not be the same.
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  Speaker 1: Although I didn't think there was anything.
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  Speaker 2: Damaging about what he said, he was asked if he
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  Speaker 2: thought what he would tell people who were wondering whether
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  Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy would be the head coach next year, and
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  Speaker 2: his response was, quote, that's about my pay grade if
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  Speaker 2: Mike's coach again next year. All coaching aside Mike and
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  Speaker 2: leave and go where he wants to go. Guys I
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  Speaker 2: kind of feel bad for is guys like Zach Martin
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  Speaker 2: and guys who might be on their last year, on
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  Speaker 2: their way out, because that's who I wanted to hold
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  Speaker 2: the trophy for. You want to win games and do
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  Speaker 2: great things with those types of legends who put in
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  Speaker 2: more time and work than Mike McCarthy ever did. So
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  Speaker 2: those are the kind of guys that have so much
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  Speaker 2: sympathy and hurt for. I don't think it's that bad.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's just saying I got my teammates here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with that quote, but I know it's
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  Speaker 2: gotten some play because it sounds kind of flipping about
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  Speaker 2: the head coach.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you just you know, taking out of context
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  Speaker 3: like that. Like with any quote, and especially in sports,
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  Speaker 3: it gets blown out of proportion. But I think what
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  Speaker 3: he said makes sense, right. You mean, Zach Martin's one
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  Speaker 3: of those Cowboy legends who's no Cowboys have come close
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  Speaker 3: but have not gotten over that hump and likely will
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  Speaker 3: end his career. You know, you think he'll be in
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  Speaker 3: the Cowboys' Ring of Honor with Tyron Smith, and I
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  Speaker 3: wish Travis Frederick get there. I don't think he will,
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  Speaker 3: But those three guys, those three offensive linemen a huge
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  Speaker 3: part of the Cowboys being so successful in contenders in
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  Speaker 3: the last two decades. So I understand where Michael Parson's
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  Speaker 3: coming from. And like you mentioned, Craig, they're coming off
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  Speaker 3: of butt whopping in the locker room. You know, he's
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  Speaker 3: not he's not thinking about Mike McCarthy in that in
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  Speaker 3: that moment.
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  Speaker 2: He was thinking about his teammates. Yeah, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: think there's anything wrong with that. Some players, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to stand up and say, hey, this is all us.
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  Speaker 1: C J. Stroud did it. He said this game is
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  Speaker 1: on me.
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  Speaker 2: He put it all on himself, and it wasn't all
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  Speaker 2: on him. He did have, you know, a critical interception
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  Speaker 2: in the game, but Jared got threw five you know.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know me, I'm kind of nerdy about these
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  Speaker 2: historical factoids that come up. First of all, was that
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  Speaker 2: one about the Cowboys. You heard that one, didn't you.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a gem which factoid about the Cowboys losing
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  Speaker 2: at home.
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  Speaker 1: One? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: I heard the one about the last quarterbacks that throw
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  Speaker 3: five interceptions in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was good last night. I'll get to that
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  Speaker 1: in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: But the Dallas Cowboys yesterday became the first team in
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  Speaker 2: the one hundred and four year history of the National Football.
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  Speaker 1: League to.
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  Speaker 2: And this speaks to the very reason why you don't
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  Speaker 2: watch them, or why Cowboy fans are so just bent
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  Speaker 2: out of shape. The Cowboys yesterday became the first team
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  Speaker 2: in the history of the National Football League to lose
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  Speaker 2: five straight home games by twenty or more points each.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that for a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Five straight home games by twenty or more points each.
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  Speaker 2: That kind of tells you a lot of what you
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  Speaker 2: need to know. I mean, even when Jerry World opened
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  Speaker 2: in two thousand and nine, I guess it was it
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  Speaker 2: was nine. I remember doing the final high school football
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  Speaker 2: game ever at Texas Stadium, in Oa Carthage winning a
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  Speaker 2: state championship there in two thousand and eight, but in
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  Speaker 2: two thousand nine was first year. Even then they were
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  Speaker 2: struggling to win at home. And it seemed like even
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  Speaker 2: in the good years, even in the good years, like
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  Speaker 2: last year, it drop an important game at home.
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  Speaker 1: Last year had to be the playoff game. But you
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  Speaker 1: know it's it's happened.
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  Speaker 2: So now it's five in a row by twenty or
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  Speaker 2: more points, which is a brand new NFL record.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so is it five out of six? Track?
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  Speaker 3: Because week three at home they only lost by three points.
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's five out of six as they get
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  Speaker 3: the double digit lost screen Bay. Then the playoffs last
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  Speaker 3: year you lost by let's see twenty five to New
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  Speaker 3: Orleans at home. In week two lost by ony three
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  Speaker 3: to Baltimore. But then you lost You lost to Detroit
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  Speaker 3: by thirty eight points at home in Philadelphia by twenty
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  Speaker 3: eight points.
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  Speaker 2: So by the last six thing, yeah, I guess. And
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  Speaker 2: then there was that other one. This was here's this
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  Speaker 2: We'll only tell you how old I am.
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  Speaker 1: It said.
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  Speaker 2: The Texans last night became the second team since nineteen
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  Speaker 2: thirty three, that was the year they started a true
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  Speaker 2: NFL championship game was nineteen thirty three, when they divided
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  Speaker 2: into divisions in the East and the West, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bears and the Giants meant in the first one in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen thirty three, So if you start from that point,
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  Speaker 2: they became the second team since nineteen thirty three to
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  Speaker 2: lose a game in which they caught five interceptions, in
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  Speaker 2: our words, intercepted the other team five times and led
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  Speaker 2: by at least fifteen points, because they were up twenty
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  Speaker 2: three to seven in that game and had five picks. Previously,
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  Speaker 2: teams were three seventy three, one and one when leading
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  Speaker 2: by at least fifteen and snagging five picks. Now here's
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  Speaker 2: the part where shows how old I am. The other
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  Speaker 2: time a team lost in that fact was Week eleven
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy. Nineteen seventy was the first year of
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  Speaker 2: the merger and the Bears were playing the Colts, and
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  Speaker 2: that was in an NFC and AFC team. It says
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  Speaker 2: the Bears lost. The colt lost to the Colts twenty
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  Speaker 2: one to twenty despite Johnny and I was one of
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  Speaker 2: the greatest quarterbacks of all time throwing five interceptions. And
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  Speaker 2: the thing is, I remember that game. I was watching
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  Speaker 2: that game and I hated the Colts and didn't like
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  Speaker 2: the Colts back then. And the Bears led twenty to
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  Speaker 2: nothing in that game, and the Colts came back and
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  Speaker 2: they won the game twenty one to twenty after that, So.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't Did the Colts win it? Win Super Bowl that year? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: They did? Super Bowl five? They beat the Cowboys, and.
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  Speaker 3: Then the next year is a Jim Plunket He threw
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  Speaker 3: five receptions too, and also won the Super Bowl? Is
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  Speaker 3: that is that all correct?
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  Speaker 1: No? Who was the next year? The Cowboys won it?
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  Speaker 1: Okay they.
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  Speaker 2: I think they probably intercepted Jim Plunkett five times. He
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  Speaker 2: was a rookie that year in seventy one of the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys beat him at Texas Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: League maybe he's also did he threw at five interceptions
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  Speaker 3: in the season that year? Yeah, but I knew Uniteds
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  Speaker 3: did it and then won the freaking Super Bowl. So
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  Speaker 3: if you're a Lions fan, hey, Jared, God keep throwing
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  Speaker 3: five receptions a game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here to tell you that first year of the
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  Speaker 2: merger was a very strange year. And now I was
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  Speaker 2: only ten years old, but I do remember a lot
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  Speaker 2: about it and I've read a lot about it over
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  Speaker 2: the years. How strange that nineteen seventy season was, because
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  Speaker 2: in those days they did not award home field advantage.
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  Speaker 1: They rotated who.
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  Speaker 2: Got the play playoff games at home, and he had
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings, who had the best defense but had an
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  Speaker 2: awful offense because they couldn't come to contract terms with
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  Speaker 2: Joe Capp and they let him leave and he went
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  Speaker 2: to the then Boston Patriots, or last year as the
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  Speaker 2: Boston Patriots before they changed their name. They had terrible offense.
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  Speaker 2: Vikings did and lost a home playoff game to the
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  Speaker 2: forty nine ers, and that was the other Cowboys beat
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  Speaker 2: the Lions in the last playoff game ever played in
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  Speaker 2: the Cotton Bowl, and the Cowboys won that game five
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  Speaker 2: to nothing, five to nothing. And then the Cowboys go
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  Speaker 2: to San Francisco, even though they had the better record
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  Speaker 2: than the forty nine ers, and beat the forty nine
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  Speaker 2: ers in the first ever NFC championship game at old
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  Speaker 2: Keysar Stadium, which is now like a public park in
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco. They moved into the Candlestick the next year
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  Speaker 2: and the Cowboys won that and went to the Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl and the Colts, who had more turnovers than the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys in the Super Bowl. Should have lost that game,
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  Speaker 2: but the Cowboys couldn't couldn't put it together in Craig
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  Speaker 2: Morton through an untimely interception late and they lost sixteen thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: So I'd have six six rings.
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  Speaker 2: Could could very easily have that one, that one for sure.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, that's that was a couple of the weird
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  Speaker 2: numbers that have come out of the NFL weekend. How
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: about the Falcons losing to the Saints. Saints were awful,
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  Speaker 2: they'd lost seven in a row and fired the coach.
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  Speaker 2: Well the chief, you know, fighting away to win again
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  Speaker 2: and stay alive, block a field goal when it looked
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  Speaker 2: like the Broncos and everything to win.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, break up your Panthers. Two wins in a row, right, they.
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  Speaker 2: Beat the beat the Giants in Germany. Did you see
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  Speaker 2: the film that with all the fans that are singing
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  Speaker 2: take Me Home Country Roads. Yeah, it was kind of
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  Speaker 2: weird that, you know, but whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Usually they sing, uh, you know, what's the song up
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  Speaker 3: in Chapel Hill they play at basketball games there for
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  Speaker 3: UNC at the Dean Dome. It's not taking Home Country Roads,
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  Speaker 3: it's the other Oh boy.
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  Speaker 2: They should see you that nothing could be finer than
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  Speaker 2: to be in Carolina. But that's not it.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm surprised Brian Devil returned from London with the Giants.
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised he did not just go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be allowed to finish out the season.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably what's gonna happen. He'll finish the season, all right.
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  Speaker 2: We'll hear more from Longmorns head coach Steve Sarkza coming
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  Speaker 2: up on Sports Radio AM thirteen Under the Zone.