The downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak. Yeah, give it
a names. Philliad out for you. All right, So the breaking news
in the world today. Already Bill Belichick maybe seen as the greatest head coach
of all time. Mutually parting ways, he's a supposely still wants to coach,
but after twenty four seasons with the Patriots, he is out. Sometimes
we do sports at seven. Today we're doing sports at six thirty. Curveball,
pay attention. No messing around, No more messing around. Uh So,
yesterday reported that Pete Carroll is out at Seattle, the head coach who
is older than he looks. Is he older than Belly? I think he's
the oldest one. Yeah, I think you're right. It's forty six,
he's seventy is seventy two? I am tired and Belichick's what's seventy one?
Seventy one? Now Belichick does give off big flossy dicky eye and tired energy.
Pete Carroll does not. Pete Carroll is oftentimes running routes just in his
living room. Gig peek. Carroll can just go have a whiskey at some
hipster bar on Queen Anne Hill and Seattle and strut out of there with just
about any lady of the evening that he chooses. Yeah, at seventy two,
if you wanted to like whatever the milf hub is in Seattle, what
he knows and run macking that up. I don't know. Was he a
good looking dude for seventy two? And you're right? He spry. He
doesn't look like Bill Belichick, who popular as he is. I don't.
Well. I'm sure ye had a hot girlfriend until recently, right they broke
up. Pretty hot girlfriend, but I just be Bill relatively speaking. Yeah,
she was Bob Craft's wife was forty seven. He's eighty one. Let's
see, he's a bub billionaire, right. I just remember. My favorite
Bill Belichick moment of all time is when the NFL Draft was during the COVID
year. So there they were in the Patriots war room, Bill Belichick's kitchen,
and they had the graphic up that said Bill Belichick at the chair he
was at, but it was a dog, yeah in Alaskawski sitting there.
Amazing. Oh my god, they're letting the dog pick players this year.
This is so good. Hey, look there's Linda Holliday. That's Bill Belichick's
girlfriend. They just broke up this year. He has bigger breasts than her.
It is a beat shot. I just think you showed Danny. I
don't want beat shots of me ever. Boobs and ass hot hot hot.
So there's no point Pete Carroll out, and there's no reason for me to
be at the beach never. There's definitely no reason for anybody to be beans.
Yeah, sick and snapshots. I can't picture you on a beach.
I can't picture him wearing shorts really, and he does every now and then,
but come and get the fire. D stop it. That's him with
his hands on his hips as the waves just lap up against his calves.
You're gonna have to take Malcolm to the beach one day, dude, Baylists.
I'll be fine in to the beach a bunch okay, lots of beaches,
many sunny beaches. So do you guys come. I don't know what
dan Quinn is going like. He will be a candidate for the Seattle Joe.
I don't know yet. I think there's something to what I said the
other day. They want to kind of hang no that Jerry is gonna have
to make a decision. Who does he deem more important to the Cowboys,
Macarthy or Quinn. I think that was almost the decision last year. This
year, if he wants it, it's all about what dan Quinn wants.
And last year I remember these exact discussions where I was like, there's a
chance with the whipping he took dan Quinn did after they blew the Super Bowl
that he got just a little bit emotionally crushed by it. And it was
like, I don't want to deal with that, the pressers, the pressure,
all of it, if you're gonna pay me the same amount of money
to be a DC, which is what I love, and I love working
with these dudes on defense because I don't know if every coach it absolutely wants
to be the head coach, and they they might have to say they do,
but I don't know if it's true that they all really want that.
I agree with you, and I think there was a chance that he fell
into that category. He was like, look, I'm making as much money
if this job opens up, Like maybe you know, fine, I'm comfortable
here. My family and my kids like it here. I mean, that's
all real stuff. Last year, I feel like we had that conversation.
It seems like the whispers, and I don't know if they's just the whispers
of interview requests, seem to be saying that, you know, everyone's interested
in dan Quinn. It might a year later be like, all right,
I have to take one of these opportunities. How often did they come?
Thirty two jobs? This is the peace of what I've dedicated my life to.
I have to do this. And it seems like that's kind of where
we are. And if that is true, then I think he's gone this
year. Yeah. But my point is is, do you think that there's
any chance that there's an unspoken wink and a nod thing that Jerry kind of
almost has this right of first refusal to retain dan Quinn if he's willing to
fire McCarthy. Yeah, that's that's My whole point is, like I think
that that before Jerry would let Quinn be a head coach somewhere else. I
really believe that he would go to Dan in a dark room and say,
look, dude, if you want to stay here, if you want to
be a head coach, this job can be this, all of this can
be yours. Yeah. I think that probably happened last year. But I
think this year, I think there's about a there's a five maybe maybe between
five and ten percent chance that if the Cowboys loose Sunday, they do can
McCarthy and Quinn immediately gets the job, and that is I think the only
circumstance that that Dan Quinn is here next year. Dan's path to being the
Cowboys head coach, in my opinion, and this is mainly because the Cowboys
are probably gonna win on Sunday, And then even me being McCarthy's biggest critic
maybe in this town, probably is that I do think you can't fire him
if they beat the Packers this week, right, yeah, you can.
I mean you can. Bar the bar is higher for them. It should
be if they get in the second round, though it should you Who the
hell are the Cowboys where the bar is higher? They've got they've got to
do better than a first round win, because they've done that. They've done
that with McCarthy. I think if he wins this Sunday, it's he's I
think he's definitely not getting fired. I think you're the clear second best team
in the conference, and if you screw around and lose to the Packers this
week or next week, the Rams or the Lions or the Eagles wouldn't be
the Eagles. It'd be the Rams or the Lines, like I said,
could be the Eagle, Ram behind or Eagles. I don't think it could
be the Rams. Uh yeah, because oh yes, no, if the
Packers won, Yeah, it can't be the Rams. Yes, it'd be
If the lines are the Eagles or Bucks, it can be the Buck or
the Bucks, which should be Yeah. I think if they lose in week
two McCarthy still I think yea his jobs in Jeopardy. I don't think so,
but I don't know. I think it's possible because I think it's quit.
Back to my original question. I just yelled, who the hell are
you? Because Cowboy fans think that they're just on this different level and they
expectations are different. Here, Mike mccarthy'd be palms up saying I'm sorry.
Twelve wins, division titles, playoff wins, Like what did you think I
was gonna come here and do just start sweeping Super Bowls? You're right,
Jerry is clock is always ticking, and it ticks louder for him than it
does for the rest of the world. Contracts to five year contracts, which
I didn't think you had to sign him to a five year deal at the
time you hired him. You could have signed him to a three or four
deal, but five year contract, which they always give five year deals to
coaches. The patience with Jason Garrett shows you that, Yeah, I hope
they'll give him time. If we want to go off of that, they
will continue to give him time. A little different though, because he's not
in the family like Garrett was. Dan Quinn's path being the head coach of
Dallas Cowboys is in twenty twenty five, so if he wanted to stay one
more year with Micah. But he's sitting there going and he said it that
David Moore piece from last week. It ain't like David. I love David
Moore, but ain't like he doesn't miss here and there too, Like they
all get fed info and they gott to decide for what's real and what's not
real. But that article was very much to me. It felt like a
goodbye piece, you know, and how emotional it's gonna be when he's gonna
have to say goodbye to Micah and all that stuff. Seattle. He's got
a good tradition there they loved him in Seattle. It was before he was
over the head coach and had the weight of a twenty eight to three Super
Bowl loss on his shoulders. If they well, I also, let's think
about this, though defensive head coach is not as popular in the NFL,
Demko ran a big exception because he is seen as a big name and when
he went to Houston, he's done a great job in Houston. That's an
exception. Teams are looking for young, offensive minded head coaches. The New
York Giants were interested in Dan Quinn last year and they said, we'll take
Brian Dave Baubow from the Bills, so they went with Dave bawboo. And
whether they was a good move or not, whatever, but Dan Quit was
interested in that job because he's from that area. So there's some things there.
Carolina doesn't have a ton to offer with Like maybe you're going, okay,
Bryce young, maybe I can build something around him that's an offensive thing
that settled in Carolina. Tennessee. Maybe maybe Dan Quick could go coach the
Titans. Maybe that's a spot that makes sense. I could see something like
that. But Seattle is a place where he is loved and seen as the
guy who made the legion of boom and all of that happened. He gets
a lot of credit for all that. Now that's open job, and isn't
Carol staying with the team as a whatever advisor and yes, that even means
but if he's got a vote, Yeah, And dan Quin didn't leave Seattle
on bad terms. He left to take a head coaching job in Atlanta.
So if you're one of those people, and I tend to be this person,
although it is a little odd how we aren't as critical on dan Quinn
as we are with Mike McCarthy, but hey, people blame the twenty eight
to three Super Bowl also on dan Quinn, not Kyle Shanahan, the offensive
coordinator who couldn't get a first down. So there's a lot there, And
I just thought that, well, I saw that yesterday. I was like,
well, that's not great news. There's there's a chance that he doesn't
get a one of the five or six head coach opening jobs, and he's
just back here because defensive coordinator of the Cowboys is pretty awesome. If you
strike out on these six head coaching jobs, and it might be better than
being the coach of the Panthers, you know. But he may be in
a position because of what we said that he can wait for whatever dream head
coaching job opens up, and it may have opened up yesterday, But if
he waits one year, this one could be clean, cleanly opened up.
I don't know, man. I think the perception of this Cowboys team is
if Dan Quinn walks and takes another job and then you look over there on
the sidelines and it's Mike McCarthy, and then whoever they bring in here,
I just feel like the team is much less wobbly. I don't. I
feel so much more confident as competent, or more confident if Dan Quinn is
the head coach and remains in charge of the defense, and they bring in
a hot shot, young, innovative offensive coordinator and let him run the offense,
a guy that can work with Dak and understands, you know, his
strengths and can put all that together in a more refreshing way. I like
that option more than I do dan Quinn walking and Mike McCarthy staying on for
one more year and then who who are they going to bring in to run
the defense? I don't know. Maybe the relationship that dan Quinn has with
those players, is it's that cannot be questioned every player you talk about walking
through the gates of hell for a coach, that that defense would do that.
For Quinn, I don't think the offense looks at Mike McCarthy where the
team looks at Mike McCarthy. Is that guy, you know? I thought
it might have a chance to be that guy because he has a good reputation
here with the Jones family. Is the Bears head coach Matty Refluse, who
they after meetings said no, we're going to fire the entire offensive staff,
Matti Refluse, so you get to keep your job as the head coach of
the Cowboys, I mean of the Bears. And Matti Reflus was the linebacker
coach here for a long long time, and I thought that might be a
guy who would make sense as a defensive coordinator if he got fired in Chicago
or let go or whatever. Listen to this. I remember years of Marinelli
and Monti Keivin era in every year. So we're really going to focus on
turnovers and that's my least favorite, one of my least favorite football cliches,
and training can really focusing on turnovers. Du doy, Yeah, we're trying
to get turnovers. Don't tell me that's the focus. It should always be
the focus. The hell, we're not dumb. Cowboys finished twenty twenty three
with a plus ten turnover differential. That is the third straight year with a
turnover margin of plus ten. That is the first time in franchise history they've
done that three straight years and their first NFL team to do it since the
Chiefs did from fifteen to seventeen. This defense gets turnovers and has since Dan
Quinn has been here, and that's important. This thing was an f and
mess in twenty twenty when McCarthy got hired and he brought in Mike Nolan.
If Mike McCarthy has a lot of power in the organization, and I think
he kind of does, maybe let's see what happened, I guess. But
he allowed to bring his guy and they don't do a lot of hiring.
That could be bad. We saw how bad it was with Mike Nolan in
twenty twenty. It was a bad year. Dad got hurt. That year
was gonna suck either way, but that defense was bad in twenty twenty.
Mike could change things. Dan Quinn changed things around here. Trayvon Diggs changed
things around here. Now you can add Doron Bland to that list if you
want. De Marcus Lawnch has always been here. That doesn't just happen with
anyone. I'm not saying you're gonna get ten plus in turnovers next year being
gonna happen. It's not gonna happen if it's the next guy. I would
bet five hundred dollars on that right now. If it's a defensive coordinator that's
not dan Quinn, next year, they won't be plus ten in the turnover
margin. He puts people in good positions. I think you kind of can't
lose it, and maybe hey, you can do the whole thing where you
just go give him a ton of money to keep your DC roll, the
same thing you do to Will McLay every year. Here's a ton of money
to keep your role. That's not GM, even though you're our GM.
You could do that. Probably dan Quin, though that are David more Oraticle
said I'm getting older. He said that I can get all another year's taken
away. If I'm ever gonna be a head coach again, go back to
Seattle, where you had so many good years. I thought that was terrible
news yesterday. We'll see though. Lots to iron out there. Nick Saban
out, I don't care so much, uh because you know it's Nick Saban
the uh. I don't care about this thing either. But what did you
guys to guess? Five Cowboys made it on this thing called the NFL All
Pro Team? Okay, yes, we had two snubs. But can you
guess the five Cowboys that made it on the NFL? Well, I know
the two snubs, you know, the two snubs. Dinger uh is Dak
a snub. Dak is a snub. You know what? Maybe because you
can only get one right one quarterback? Is that right? Yeah, so
it wouldn't have been they got it right. They went with Lamar, which
I think is right. Yeah, I agree. So if there's only one,
I didn't know there's only one. I guess I thought they had a
backup. Two wide receivers made the team. Really okay, because the NFL
All Protein they're not trying to do big like's two cowboys must award the best
dudes at the best position. So CD Lamb made it. Yes, Number
two Tyreek Hills, the first Tyreek Hill it's cool. Uh, Parsons obviously
made it. Is he a snubb nubby snubby act. I regret to inform
you, Danny that defense first team All Pro. Your defensive ends are Miles
Garrett and Max Crosby. Okay, I don't. I'm not gonna lose any
sleep. I mean when you're we only have to lose sleep on any of
this, honestly, but they did have one defensive player make it. Yeah,
special teams they had, they had got to make it. Okay,
which one the kicker Aubrey the kicker offense though, Zach, Zach and Tyler
Tyler Tyler Smith left card. That's pretty amazing really all pro? Yes,
no, really talks about it like that. You're right, that is something
that I know. We all are happy we have him, and he seems
to be really good, really quickly, pretty badass. But yeah, just
the joy of having Tyron and Zach and Travis for those years that we had
and now I guess we have another one. Mass playing the Knicks tonight.
You can hear that game here on the Freak and Luke who can score forty
zero, you might want to subtract forty two from that. He's going to
miss the game that he should have missed two nights ago. You know what,
the Dinger's right now, let's that quad flared up in the first quarter
or second quarter. We didn't know. You're right, he should have set
out on Tuesday night. I mean, knowing what we know now. Yeah,
it's easy to say, but you're right, and I'm honestly I'm glad
he's sitting tonight because he can't be that one legged he was on Tuesday night.
It's not gonna work. He still gets points, but like to do
the full effort that you need to do on both sides of the floor.
Do you think we'd be the maps would be best suited If i'man fine,
take a day, but then you keep playing. All Star weekend is February
eighteenth, So let's say on feb one they just shut Luca down and just
say take it till the All Star Break, all of it, yeah,
and come up with whatever you want to call it, just like Kyrie took
a month off. I'm not saying it wasn't accurate or real. Just say,
yeah, I know the quad, Just say quad, Just say quad,
and then you're done. You just rest and play with your kid.
And play Fortnite and relax, and then you show up to the All Star
weekend if you want, and you wear a cool suit. And then the
first game after the All Star break, Luca is one hundred, and I
guess you still run the risk of him re damaging his quad in the very
first game, and then why the hell did we do that? That's probably
part of the dance that they're doing. But just get him right for the
whole second half of the season, see what happens. I don't know that
dude is just always banged up and he's still probably the best player in the
sport, and he's NonStop. I mean, I go back to the COVID
year the bubble, the schedule was you know, pushed back, so there
wasn't a real offseason heading into the twenty twenty one season, and then Team
Slovenia after that, there has been no break for him, and I think
a lot of people roll their eyes and they make all the he's not in
shape jokes, which I honestly take a little bit of a fense to because
I think he is. I think he just plays all the time, and
I think he personally would benefit from just like a month off of basketball mind
off. So I'm with you. He's in fine shape. He's nothing wrong
with his shape. He may not have the body type that that just screams
look at what good shape I'm in? Right, But he's in fine shape.
He's strong as hell, dude. I agree, Yeah, but he's
banged up. He could rest and better shape this year than last year.
You know, it's like coming to work half sick every day, when if
you just took one day off, you'd probably feel really good the next day.
But you just keep coming in and you never get well. I don't
want to hear it, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, Saturday and
it's Funday off. Yeah, man, what you do You work Monday on
Mlkday? Yes, six am. We will be here on Monday. We
will to break down Cowboys and Packers. Absolutely can't wait in uh like a
forty minutes or so, we were. I'll have a guest, John Coon
will call in. If that's not a household name for you, I don't
blame you. But he was the fullback for the Packers and there I would
say the recent glory days of seven to fifteen played for McCarthy. Uh so
he knows that, and he's the sideline reporter for the Packers. I'll have
to see what he's got to say about the game and his time with coach
McCarthy and even America's most divisive man, Aaron Rodgers, Like, I mean,
yeah, So that'll be coming up at seven point thirty. But next
we have the scuttle Butt featuring Kevin Turner. Well, that's happening at seven.
It's weird. Yeah, So the Carrollton fentanyl dealer was sentenced yesterday,
and we'll rehash a little bit of this story because we need to talk about
fentanyl more than we do. Next time. Ninety seven won the Freak