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Football #19-Cowboys Did It Again · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome inside the Treehouse Football Podcast. And when I say welcome, I mean
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you the Treehouse listener are welcome. I Daniel Maley, Trey Trendholm, Raj
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Sharma, We are all welcome. If you are a player or a coach
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with the Dallas Cowboys, you were not welcome this week. Actually, I
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take it back. I would love to have any number of you in the
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Treehouse to explain yourselves for what has to be the worst loss in recent Cowboys
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memory. And I have racked my brain. I've even done some googling because
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my brain doesn't work well enough on its own, and I have not found
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a game where the Cowboys got bounced early, earlier than they quote unquote should
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have been that makes me feel worse than this one does. Now, I
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understand recency bias. Yes this game just happened. Yes it's sometime later,
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but I'm still pissed. And this game is the most recent example of them
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just bumble fucking their way through the postseason. But I really tried to look
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at it from an objectionable standpoint, and I cannot find a recent playoff loss
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that feels as bad as this one does. How do you feel the only
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loss in recent memory that I can think of. In yeah, I think
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I said this to you in the text of the Last game, the Last
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Yeah, the last game at Texas Stadium, when Baltimore whipped their ass like
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it was like fifty four to six or some something ridiculous. That's the only
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other time in recent memory that I mean the NFC Championship loss in ninety five
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when Barry Switzer was a jackass. That one Baltimore, And but this one
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takes the cake as far as I'm concerned. So I, Raj, how
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about you? I had I had tickets to that game. One of my
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friends is a player, and he's like, I got tickets for you.
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But I was in a car wreck December nineteenth, I think we all know.
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And my MRI was scheduled, and you were, Raj, not not
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the Cowboy player. Yes, because because if the entire team was in a
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wreck before the game, at least that might be a viable excuse. But
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they scheduled my MRI on that Sunday, And I was like, I wonder
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why that is. It's obvious because it's playoff game. Nobody was going to
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be there, so they had to be open. They were scheduled. I
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went. Guy was like, you know, thanks coming. I was like,
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I had tickets to the game. He's like, oh, man,
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you should have gone. And I was like, damnit, man, I
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should have gone. And then so I missed the first twenty minutes. So
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did the Cowboys. Yeah, because I got home and I saw the score
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and I was like, man, I am and it's freezing, and I
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was like, I'm glad I'm not at this game, and I'm like,
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you know, there's a lot of ballgame left. And right then, right
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as I said that, I believe that's when the pick six happened. I
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was like, oh, yeah, now it's done. Now yeah done,
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what's over? So, adding an additional insult to injury, forty nine Ers
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head coach Shanahan said that they started preparing for the Packers right around that time
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as well, so even everyone else in the league watching that game, as
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well as all of us fans, as soon as that pick six happened,
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we all felt it. We all felt the disturbance. We all knew it
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they're done. And even before the pick six, we all kind of knew
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that they probably wouldn't come back because this Cowboys team does not deal well with
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adversity. They do not deal well with things that don't go their way from
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the start. Yeah. But the fact that another coach on another team said
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it two of the media, Yeah, oh what a what an absolute nut
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punch. I have this question, and I maybe it's because there is the
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hope that you can have a comeback with that twenty seven I think it was
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twenty seven nothing at one point. It was twenty seven to seven at halftime.
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Yeah, because they scored that last one right before the half. Yeah,
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even though there was an off sides of the guy. I mean,
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I mean, obviously mat before had the right to lose his mind because it
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was offsides on the Covils, but they didn't see it. Oh why not
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put in because Ceedee lamb wasn't I mean that first half he looked lost.
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We can all agree on that. Why not why not pull him out and
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go you're not you're not contributing. So let's put in whoever's behind Cede lamb
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Uh. And then at that point in the third takeout back and go Cooper
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Rush, Let's see what you can do. At this point, the game's
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lost, so you might as well just see what somebody else can do right.
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I mean that would be my theory. Well, we all make the
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assumption that Cede Lamb was running the wrong routes. Dak could have been making
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the wrong reads, and I would like to point out I think it was
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probably a little from column A and a little from Colum B because on one
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misque that they had, CD's running a slant YEA, and Dak doesn't throw
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the slant, and you see the camera go to Dak close up and you
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can see Dak say, that's supposed to be a stop meaning that's supposed to
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be a stop route. It's like a quick hit. You come right back
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from where you not slant inside. And so from that perspective, Dak's ball
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was where it was supposed to be. We're assuming there that Dak is correct.
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Usually the quarterback knows the route more so what it's supposed to be than
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the wide receiver. But that's just one play. There were plenty of other
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throws in that game where Dak had no like he was he was not on
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target or didn't see the pick six. My god, that looks like a
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rookie throw. I couldn't even believe that. I'm like, how are you?
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You know? That that linebacker is going to drop. I don't make
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that throw in Madden. And even beyond that pick, like when he was
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just trying to get rid of the ball, he nearly threw an interception because
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he like pitched it. He didn't even throw it, he pitched it to
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the Green Bay linebacker. Yeah, that was in the second half, I
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think, either late in the third, late in the third, early in
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the fourth, when they were attempting some sort of a comeback. So let's
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look at that real quick, so we can I ask one quick question.
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Did any of y'all actually really heart of hearts, even after the first quarter,
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really think they were going to come back? Because I didn't. I
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had the same vibe that I did when they played they were getting their asshipped
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in Arizona, which was after the first quarter, like this game's lost.
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So that's what they say. There was nothing about their demeanor, actions,
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anything that I thought they were coming back. That's exactly So that was my
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in my head, I'm like, why why are we still Why is the
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same first team going out If they can't produce, Let's have the other millionaires,
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the less are higher salaried millionaires behind them go out. And see what
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they can do and prove that maybe they have what it takes, because these
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guys did not. It was just terrible to watch and it was just so
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soul destroying. I remember after the half we went to quarter bar in Addison
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and it's the quietest I've ever heard that bar. It was just sad,
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and at some point I just started laughing. I'm like, this is the
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saddest bar I've been to this So this is where I go back to the
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original question of is this the worst loss in recent memory for the Cowboys.
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To me, it absolutely is one, because it was a playoff game that
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they quote Unquoich should have won. But the reason why to me it's the
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worst is because it's another example from this season that it appeared they either didn't
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show up at all or kind of like what happened in Buffalo, kind of
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like what happened with San Francisco earlier this year, similar to what happened with
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Arizona. They got punched in the mouth at the beginning of the game and
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they didn't know how to respond. It's like I talked about earlier this season
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on this show, Wide Mouth Dak. Whenever Dak has the wide mouth and
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the eyes. It looks like someone just bocked him on the nose with a
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newspaper because he just pittled on the rug and he's got that look on his
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face like, oh, but oh what happened. Yeah, whenever he's got
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that look on his face, the Cowboys are hosed because if if he can't
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pull it together and then my god. So it's like they didn't show up
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and because things didn't go their way from the beginning, they didn't know how
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to respond. That's why all of us felt how the way the game started,
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none of us felt confident in their ability to come back. Did they
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make it interesting ish in the second half by throwing up, you know,
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thirty two points by the end of it, Yeah, but they still lost
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by sixteen. So the final score of forty eight to thirty two is somewhat
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deceiving. But the reality of it is Green Bay had won that game so
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early on that in the second half they're playing completely differently. They're going to
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give up Cowboys trash touchdowns. They don't care because they know they're going to
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the next round and yeah, look, we should have done. So it's
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the same thing when I saw that I'm like they're giving the letting them at
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that point, they were just like, man, we can't beat them this
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bad, so you know, give them a couple I and then you really
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go back and begs the question of Dak Prescott was a two time first team
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All SEC quarterback, has the size, strength, arm, all of it.
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Why was he you know, we talk about cow was drafted him in
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the third round and like what a great deal. But he had he was
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in third and fourth round on everyone's board. Why is it because he shrinks
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in the big moments, Because that really does seem like to be the big
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knock on him because otherwise, you know, numbers wise, everything else.
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I mean, you want to talk about numbers wise. I mean Tony Romo
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had one of the best quarterback ratings in NFL history for a quarterback. Tony
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Romo was a better quarterback than people ever gave him credit for. Yeah,
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but it goes back to what it goes back to what I always say.
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It's there's an it fact, there's a there's a motive. Oh sorry,
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cats are having a fight. Turns out my cats have more fight than the
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Cowboys. But it is it's that it factor, like there should have been
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that fire when it shouldn't have been, Like, hey see, that was
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supposed to be a stop per umph that you need to get You need to
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get in people's asses. If you're the leader for saying that, I was
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feeling it, rise, I was feeling that you need to get in that
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ass. So I appreciate you. Yeah. Yeah, I mean if you're
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the leader of that, if you're the leader of that team and you're the
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guy who's gonna drive them down the field, and you're gonna drive them to
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take them down to the super Bowl, then you need to get up somebody's
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ass immediately otherwise. I mean that Tony Romano did that. Every time he
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threw an interception. He would just slap that knee, and I hated it.
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Every fucking time he did it. I'm like, there's no oh man,
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well shit next time. And then he would just trot off to the
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sidelines. He would do that, and that also drove me crazy, but
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at least somewhat of a redeeming quality of his screw ups like that, Yeah,
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he would still in the Buffalo game, I always go back to this.
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He throws five interceptions and he still marches the team down to win the
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damn game, whereas Dak throws one that got it. When he does,
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he gets locked up and then just nothing. The difference in my in my
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mind is Tony Romo had that Brett Farv gunslinger mentality of it. Didn't matter
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how many interceptions he threw, he was still going to go out there and
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do it again, and nine times out of t end he was probably going
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to be successful. Dak throws that one interception and it seems like he's just
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mentally he doesn't have He wants to be a gunslinger, but he doesn't have
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the mentality he'd start. It's like he starts questioning his own existence. Yes,
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it's it's like, this is what it is. Dak Prescott appears to
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suffer from imposter syndrome M and for those that don't know, that's where,
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uh, you feel like wherever you are you don't belong and that people are
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going to see you as the fraud that you think you are or might be.
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I'm not sure if that's exactly the textbook definition of it, but you
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kind of get the idea. And that seems to be sort of what happens
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when he plays. When things are good, things are good, when things
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are bad, he gets in a hole and he can't dig himself out of
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it. And that's where I go back to the problem of coaching. As
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the time that we are talking about this, at the time of this recording,
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Mike McCarthy still has a job, and in our group chat, the
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three of us had him fired before he could leave the stadium Trey in a
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much more violent and non politically correct fashion that we should not share publicly.
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No, but trust us. Raj and I both go ooh. All I
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said was Valet should just lose his car and make him uber home. Uh.
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Trays ended in some like a fiery crash. Well, had they been
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to the away team, Yeah, still yeah, but as it is,
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McCarthy still got a job. Jamee Slater from NFL Network is saying that there's
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nuances to it that they're trying to figure out and are they gonna you know,
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and I'm not sure what the nuances. It's like, you know,
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because Dak's got a year and McCarthy's got a year and they're looking at it.
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Well, it was there. They were really successful. Well yeah,
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but they were successful in the way that all recent Cowboys teams have been successful,
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which is successful in the regular season, and they take a big steaming
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dump in the playoffs. Michael Ovan went as far as saying, to uh,
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just clean house. That was the latest thing. He just wouldn't said
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just clean, just clean house, just start over again. And that just
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means for Cowboys fans, it's gonna be all rebuilt. So it's gonna be
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a terrible next season, and then that's okay. We are okay with that,
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honest to god. Like I was having a conversation at the bar Arrows
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watching the game and with a Cleveland Browns fan, two Cleveland Browns fans,
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and they were both saying, sorry, we feel your pain, and I
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was like, no, you don't. You got used to in non stop
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losing, So your expectations were low to begin with. Yeah, Cowboys fans
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of our age group still remember the nineties, and so our expectations are high
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and we can tolerate multiple seasons of sucking as long as we know it's going
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somewhere. What this current influx of Cowboys is doing and what they did during
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the Romo years, is they're good enough to keep us interested. They're good
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enough to sell a bunch of merch. But they're not good enough to do
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even once what the teams of the nineties or the seventies did. And that's
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what's so frustrating is and while other fan bases like the Brown fans can't quite
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relate to it, because yeah, you lost your game the day before,
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we lost our game, and so we both feel badly. But because our
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expectations are higher, we demand more. Therefore we come crashing down more.
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But you know what, this is what's really sad. And I have really
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started breaking down my fandom with the Cowboys. Why do we have any expectations?
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Because if we're being honest, outside of the seventies, eighties mediocre at
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best, you have a six year window of the nineties. And this is
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the really key part of this. It was pre salary cap. Jerry could
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money whip a team. M you could still cut people. You didn't,
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you know Jimmy Johnson, that's where you know he because he would cut anyone.
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He didn't give up two shits. But after that, it's been nothing
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but mediocrity and suck. Yeah, why do we expect anything less? You
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know? And Dak at that press conference when he came out, he just
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came out and went sucked. Yeah, correct, Thanks, We didn't need
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a press conference for you to tell us that. And then I heard this,
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and I don't know if you guys heard the same thing, but he
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said, if you get rid of McCarthy, that should get rid of him
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as well. And he went as far as to say that. And I'm
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like, that is that an offer? Because that sounds great? Uh,
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you know what I mean, we still have there's a lot of there's a
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lot of interest in other quarterbacks out there. There's a lot of interest in
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Belichick. I know that. Apparently there was already a phone call between the
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crypt keeper and Bill Belichick. So I don't see that. I just I
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don't. I don't either. I don't either. And and that's and that's
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a whole separate conversation as far as uh that that we can get into today.
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Yeah, but it's there's so many different angles to touch on with this
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game because it with a loss like this, it opens up Pandora's box for
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all of our whining and bitching and moaning, which is all justified. It's
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all justified. Maybe they get Jerry, they give they get Jimmy Johnson.
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By you know what, Raj, I'm Glad you mentioned that, because I've
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got an idea that I'm going to share with you coming back next All right,
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Welcome back inside the Treehouse Football Podcast where we're all properly pissed off.
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And at halftime, the Cowboys were down twenty seven to seven, and they
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got, as far as I know, they got the best motivational speech that
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they've had all year. The only problem is it was Jimmy Johnson giving it
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during the halftime show on Fox NFL's Halftime Show. So in case you missed
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it or we're just like a refresher, here's Jimmy Johnson at halftime on TV
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saying what he would be telling the team if he was coaching the Cowboys down
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twenty points to the Green Bay Packers. I don't need to have people point
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in the fingers one thing or another. You get your rear in in there
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and you play the way you know how to play. We can win the
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game. We're gonna open it up, We're gonna go fast tempo defense,
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get after Jordan Love. You can't give him that much time. You do
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what you're supposed to do. We'll win this, James. Mm hmmm mm
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hmmmm. And I don't. I'm not in the locker room to see what
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Mike McCarthy tells the team. I don't know what Dan Quinn, the defensive
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coordinator, is telling his defense at halftime, or if he's already on the
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phone with Seattle. But I do know what I what I am able to
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see. What I'm able to see is Jerry Jones had more fire in his
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belly on a television set Jimmy Johnson. Then what did I say, jes
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My bad. I'm going to restart that sentence. Jimmy Johnson had more fire
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in his belly from a television set than I saw from Mike McCarthy the entire
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season. Yes, you're actual to me. That to me is a problem.
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And the fact that the team seems to read seems to act the same
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way McCarthy does, which is kind of what happens. The team's personality will
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kind of take on the personality of its coach. Look at the Lions and
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you were left with a lackluster performance, right you weren't wrong though, when
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you started off and you said Jerry Jones instead of Jimmy Johnson, because when
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they would pan to him in the Owner's box, he was he was red
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faced and pissed, which was more than you were seeing outa McCarthy or anyone
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else. All right. I mean at a certain point when they cut to
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Jerry Jones in the booth, you couldn't tell if it was him or a
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bab boons ass. I think that was just the Johnny Walker blue But that's
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uh, oh, he'd be read full time if that was the case.
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But at one point you could see Jerry Jones when I think it was the
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pick six he had whatever was in his hand, he threw it on the
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ground gut and you can read his lips. He goes, that's game and
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he said it. But hm, But Mike McCarthy always joke, and I
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have since he's been our coach. He just looks like he's ordering off a
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takeout menu. That's what he's got. When he's just looking like that's so
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when you're like, Jimmy Johnson had fire in his belly, and I'm like,
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you know what, and he probably had express in his it just looks
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like he's always ordering something. There's no, there's no McCarthy also probably has
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fire in his belly from the indigestion from the from the chili dog. But
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you know, we make fun of McCarthy for that. But it's like I
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was. I heard a clip from the Kelsey's podcast, and you know,
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both of them have basically played for Andy Reid, and you know, and
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they just joke about how if it's an Andy Reid coach team, you know,
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the food on the bus and the plane and in the locker room is
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going to be primo. Although although Rajer, I think you're right, it
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really does look like with the play sheet in front of McCarthy's face, it
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does look like a not only a takeout menu. What it looks like is
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it looks like he was so hungry when he pulled up to Sonic that he
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ripped the entire menu off the stand. You see the wires from the red
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button d eng One Mountain. His orders are just so big, and he
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has a dry erase marker so he just use then and then watch it down.
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And maybe that's part of the problem with with the offense is he has
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he has difficulty calling just for one blizzard he wants to try the ball and
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then and they're in the huddle going what's a blizzard? Like what what play
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is that? And he just like they just keep hearing it in their in
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their in their helmets. But like Tony Pollard, let's go to this Tony
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Pollard now that he's got his contract, the lack of contract effort, Well
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he got the the one that he got the he got the franchise tag,
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so yeah, but but what he was doing motivation to me was not a
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problem for him. Uh. It just seemed like for whatever from from from
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the beginning of the season to the end of it, Tony Pollard did not
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look the same. At times, he looked pretty good at times He's but
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that was sort of how the Cowboys were as a whole for the for the
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entire season. Look back at the games where they got their asses handed to
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them, and that's exactly what happened in the game against Green Bay. And
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they are also the most penalized team, I believe, or at least top
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three, and which is just mental mistakes. And that's something that has been
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a constant in the Mike McCarthy era. Two things that have been problems for
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the Cowboys since he's been the head coach. Number one has been penalties and
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and number two is the clock management. In this game, clock management wasn't
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going to be a problem other than the fact that they forgot to start.
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Yeah, that is. I don't know what they can tell the media,
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what they can tell the fans to excuse that. I just wanted did they
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go out the night before? I always because I remember I used to have
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a club back in the day, and I'd see those guys, these guys,
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but I'd see the Cowboys players come in and I'm like, isn't tomorrow
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a home game? And then i'd watch him. I'm like, oh it
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was Quincy Carter. Was he? And we got to talk about that too.
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But Quincy Carter would come in, I'm like, you're playing tomorrow and
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like three interceptions for Quincy Carter. I'm like, I can tell you why
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that's happening. Yeah, I know exactly what he drank. Here's the thing
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with that, though, if that's not anything that Cowboys players before Quincy Carter
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and after Quincy Carter hadn't done. Trust me, we all know Michael Irvin
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did plenty of going out before games and guess what, it never It never
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got in the way. He still showed up and he was still the playmaker.
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Yeah, there are great examples of great athletes or sportsmen doing things at
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a high level that you wouldn't expect them to because of what they did the
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day before. Was it David Wells with the Yankees through a perfect game?
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And what did he tell the media after the game. He's like, Man,
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I've been I hung over. Yeah, I mean, you're just talking
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about different because Michael Livern you're talking you're talking about going out before the game.
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You're talking about the night before. Michael Irvin was at the Strip Club
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watching the noon games before. Yeah, Jerry was cutting his cutting his lines
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up in the locker room during a halftime, Like you were doing great out
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there, buddy. Uh. Yeah. There's also there's also a theory that
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I just read yesterday that says that the Cowboys have been cursed by Quincy Carter
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and until he is inducted, and I'm not making this up, until he's
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inducted in the Ring of Honor, there will be no Super Bowl for the
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Dallas Cowboys. This is just something I read yesterday. Then let there be
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no Super Bowl ever. Cro Chiefs, Dallas's original professional football team. I
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used to work out at the same place as Quincy Carter. I don't I
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don't think he has it in him to even do a curse. He's having
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a hard time just getting from machine to machine, So I don't. I
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don't I think he's I don't think he's worried so much about what the Cowboys
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are doing now and cursing them or something. Are you talking about are you
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talking about from the frosty machine to the drink machine? Yeah, I've never
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heard of a draft call machine. But uh, it's just all that brings
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me to this once again, to state McCarthy at the time that we've done.
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At the time of this recording, McCarthy still has a job. A
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bunch of players still have their jobs. And I saw a quote from Ceedee
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Lamb a few days before the game saying that he appreciates the demand that the
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fans have for wanting a Super Bowl, you know, brought home to Dallas,
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right, And he said He's like, I appreciate that, but trust
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me that the fans don't want it as bad as we do. We're in
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here every day, blah, blah blah. I guess they do. Yes,
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they do CD because you're a player for this little window and those there
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are those of us who are older than you whose window is much larger.
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Like the Cowboys haven't won a Super Bowl since Cede Lam's been alive. So
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I'm pretty sure I want a Super Bowl more badly than he does. Yes,
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I just don't have the physical ability, never especially not now, to
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go do anything about it. He does. So that leads me to this.
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I wish the players could experience what we the fans experience when they play
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so embarrassingly poorly. So for me and my wife, we'll go to a
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bar. We live in an area it is not North Texas, it is
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not Texas, it is not the Southwest. There are fans from teams from
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all over the place, and we don't get the warmest of welcomes when we
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show up wearing Cowboys stuff. So when the team doesn't show up to play
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like they like they did on Sunday, and we're left in a bar surrounded
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by Packers fans wearing a Cowboys star on our chest, we are embarrassed.
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It is embarrassing, and if the players could experience that, just once.
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I think they would. I don't know, I don't know if respond better,
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but at the very least would have a deeper appreciation for what they do
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and how it affects people. Because it's not all people just burning jerseys and
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punching their flat screen TVs, although that obviously happens. It's just this thinking
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of how can you maybe it's me taking it to personally, how can you
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go out there and perform so poorly that as a fan base, we're embarrassed
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to be wearing the star? Yeah? And that's again why I and again
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I just want to ask what is the mindset behind We're already losing this game.
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The owner and GM of the team just threw whatever was in his hand
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down and says, that's game. You already half way through the second quarter?
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Yeah, so why not go? Hey, you know what that we're
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done? Just go ahead. I mean, you obviously didn't come to play,
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So sit your ass down, Cedie. You can't figure out a route,
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So you sit down, and all you guys that have been sitting here
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going we am. I gonna get my shot, get the fucking the game.
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Let's go. Let's see what you guys got. And then go okay,
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well, at least everyone, at least everyone sort of attempted. That
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would require a coach peeking out from behind his sonic menu to pay attention to
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what's actually happening on the field. Yeah, because I get to you everything
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you just said Jimmy Johnson would do. And that gets me to my final
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thing with this game, and that is based on the audio that we heard
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with Jimmy Johnson in halftime seemingly more fired up than coach McCarthy all season.
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Yeah, Tara and I discussed the possibility, like most Cowboys fans do.
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Maybe, man, if they could just bring Jimmy back, which we know
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is not gonna happen, but it did offer a beautiful fantasy in my mind,
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and that is Jimmy Johnson does come back to the Cowboys, except he
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doesn't wait for Jerry to fire McCarthy. He doesn't even wait for a phone
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call, he doesn't wait for an invitation. He just takes his boat straight
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from the Florida Keys, right through the Gulf and beaches that fucker in Houston
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and takes it all the way up to Frisco, crashes through the front of
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the Star in Frisco and just starts firing everybody and takes over, and Jerry
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is so stunned. He's just gonna be like, well, okay, I
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get rid of McCarthy, get rid of whoever he doesn't want, let him
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come in coach one season and my fantasy turned into a wet dream. I
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know it's not gonna happen, but it's a beautiful thought just to have Jimmy
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crash through the front door of the Star and say I'm taking this bitch over.
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Follow me, and you see what happens. Yeah, I looked at
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it like just like the first game of the season is just McCarthy's standing there,
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assuming he just thought as his job, and then just just out of
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nowhere, you just see Jimmy come out with the perfect hair and depending on
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the weather, either the white jacket with the blue star and the blue or
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just and then he just taps macarthy on the shoulder and McCarthy's like, so,
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what is it you want to eat? And he's like, oh shit,
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that's Jimmy and he just thought it was somebody else that wanted to order
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his menu, and he goes, you're out, and it's just like a
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tag team. And then he's out to the rest of the game, and
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then that's it, and then you don't ever see him again. He rides
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off into the foot lung conies of the world. It'd be really fitting though,
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you know his way out, give him a sack of his sonic and
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you know that has a chicken sandwich instead of a burger. So we got
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the wrong order. I think I've got another. I've got another fantasy.
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And that would have been at halftime of that. Jimmy flies from La Yeah
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to Arlington m with the smoke machine, comes running out of the tunnel with
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his nineties apex jacket. Yeah. And his hair is not just beautiful,
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yeah, but on the flight he fashioned it into a stellar white mohawk.
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And he comes in and he's ready to coach the second half and just to
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see the whole place light up. At that point there would be a roof
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in the stadium, but it wouldn't be because Jerry pushed a button. Yeah.
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I was just say and I love how you said that he just flew
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at halftime. You didn't say there was a plane or a hell. He
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just flew. That's right, That's how he was. He put on his
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blue cape with a Cowboys star and and saved the day. That would have
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been incredible. I'm on board with that fantasy. We Unfortunately, that's what
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we're left with of another off season of disappointment. Is fantasy mm hmm.
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Meanwhile, other teams move on. Jordan Love moves on rightfully. So uh
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quick question. So where I was watching the game, I couldn't hear every
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second of the sound as far as the broadcast goes right, they did show
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fans in the stands certainly looking shocked and dismayed. They're in a state of
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disbelief, which, honestly, shock and disbelief should have gone away after the
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pick six in the second quarter because we all knew that's it. The game's
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over. This team doesn't like coming from behind. They're terrible with adversity.
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Were there any booze from the fans in that game at the end? Yes,
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to me, that's where I think that. Had I been in the
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stands right after that pick six, I would have been booing. And that
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takes a lot for me to boom my team because I hate it. I
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typically hate it, but I hated the way they played so much. I
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wish the entire stadium would have gotten in their ass with a big old boodoo
35:45
like a boo dildo, and not stopped until they actually responded in a positive
35:50
manner. Is that gonna be this week's update on Only Dance? You know
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what, We all deal with pain in different ways. Some of us gape.
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I feel like that's kind of a nice little tagline for the season of
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The Trio's football podcasts. We gape. All right, Well, I at
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least feel a little bit better to to bitch about it in here with you
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guys. Hope you do as well. Yeah, for sure, go Chiefs
36:45
Tray, I'm with you. I'm I'm, I'm, I'm. I'm on
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the Chiefs bandwagon now, at least, at least for the remainder of this season again