It's the downbeat on ninety seven to one, The Freak. What are you
doing tomorrow night, Mike, I'm going to the movies at Alamo Draft House
with some of my friends to see a funny holiday movie. What are you
doing, dude? I've decided that I'm going to make sure that I'm at
the Lake Highlands location of the Alamo Draft House. I'm going through Oh really,
Deuisia carpool. Now I would show up, yeah, looking at tickets
for this and we're getting close. Yeah, I saw that seven dollars tickets
getting real close. I want to I wish I could say, like very
clearly, there's none that's sold out. There's a couple more lefts. There's
two on the back okay that have opened up. Okay, two in the
very back row yep. And then you know, the front section, you
get, you got some you got some places you can get. The whole
front row, I think is open. The whole back row is pretty much
gone, right yep. Of the front, Yeah, department, two rows
left in the front department. Basically, just say yes, come hang with
us, man, come watch a dumb movie, have a laugh. Seven
dollars. May we authorize it? As like a talking movie too. I'm
good with that, you know what I mean. Yeah, I'm all good
with it. Let's run around that place, pounce on drinks. Yeah,
have a chat if you want, and I've shut this. Swap seats and
swap partners. Do what you want. When the lights are down at Alamo
Draft House, the rules are off the table. I'm not saying go full
two sixteen heart Judiciary room in the Senate. You don't know who you're gonnad
up sitting next to after this game of Alamo, Musical chairs and movie theaters
are meant for making out. Go just be free, and then my light's
come back on a You're back in your normal seat. We're getting weird tomorrow
night. Right, We're getting weird tomorrow night. Yeah. Our show will
not be on the air Wednesday. It will be a kind of at the
beginning of our vacation. Collectively, Tomorrow will be our last day, and
then sovia we're gonna celebrate it at the album of Draftouse, Lake Islands six
fifteens in the movie starting off as Christmas Party Speakeasy broadcasting live two to six
seven dollars tickets. We told you that if you wear an ugly Christmas sweater
or just something festive, a Sana hat. Will do will buy you a
drink? Right, Yeah, so you're basically profiting at some point a seven
dollars movie ticket. Yeah, a drink is seven bucks, yeah, or
maybe less. But who knows. This might be a bad for us.
It could get bad, not terrible. And we only had one drink,
right yeah, but then I get like one drink in me, and I'm
like another round, let's go. Everyone has a pin on it, says
Santa. Get him another damn drink. Anyway, come join us. We
still see it's in the very back row. Yeah, so you want to
scoop those up, do it in the next five minutes and they're yours.
You're locked into the back section. Yeah. Bring your friends, just tell
them surprised them. We're going to a movie now. And look, if
you're want those good work Wednesday morning. I get it. We don't have
to work Wednesday morning, but I get it if you do. We're starting
the movie early for that reason, so you have you still have some night
left. And it's not like it's a long movie. It's not one of
those three hour movies. It's about an hour and forty minutes. You know
the movie will be over close to eight o'clock and then you get your night.
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seven. It's brought to you by Sucking. Thank you sucking for jumping on
board with us, as in the Cowboys sucking JJ. Don't look at me
like that, all right? You want to go? You want me to
go? What we want to do? First things first, Cowboys go out
there for the coin toss and they're like, we've been taking the ball and
we've been scoring, we've been going full Matt Hasselbeck. We're gonna get the
paone, we're going to score. And this week they go defer, which
I do agree is the right thing to do. Always defer, always defer,
Try to control as much of the game as you can right there,
knowing that you'll get the ball in the second half. But man, easy
to second guess yourself afterwards because the way the offense has been playing, you
know, maybe they should have just tried to go get the ball and go
score or whatever, because the Bills said, you know what, twelve plays,
seventy five yards, seven minutes, seven to nothing lead, and there
we go, and there ain't much more that's awesome about this game. Like
that happened. The Cowboys get the ball back, you think they're gonna go
score. Zach Martin gets hurt. Crazy personal foul penalty too, which,
by the way, I was pretty pumped when that happened when Zach Martin went
in Chess pumped Taylor rap. I was not mad. It was the red
penalty where you're not like mad at the guy. At least I wasn't.
I was like, no, that's a good thing to do. We're not
gonna let anyone get shots at the head at Dak, although there are a
couple more shots at his head, but whatever, there's a big shot at
his head, but that one. It's so weird that's on Dak. These
quarterback penalties, because we can talk about the DeMarcus Lawrence one that was massive.
But let's start with that one. The Dak he slid. I mean,
the dude didn't touch him, He just kind of supermanned over him.
But I get it. So, but okay, why is that a penalty
because he was near him or he went to me? That's not enough.
Some of these rules are not realistic enough. Do These rules are sometimes based
off slow motion instant replay horses. He made contact with his head. He'd
make contact with tight, but he made contact. And I'm fine with a
penalty. Actually in the modern NFL, I'm too, but it's whatever.
But Dak's got to give his If you don't want to get hit, okay,
and you gotta give up your body faster, well give it that.
That is the whole Josh Allen conversation. Josh Allen's impossible to tackle, and
even on places when he runs. It was the play where he got a
shirt ripped and then whoever come up, it's stuck him pretty good. And
he kind of looks at them and looks at the ref like, how dam
so you're gonna be six five and two forty and untackleable and piss and moan
whenever you do actually get hit and tackle when you're acting completely like a running
back, and then on top of that, you're gonna be a damn actor
because you can watch a compilation of Josh Allen flopping videos long before the one
on that of Arcis Lawrence hit. I don't even know if I like.
I think I don't like Josh Allen. He's really good. I would love
him if he played for my team. Fine, I don't think I like
him, but I think he's fun to watch, if that makes any sense.
That does make sense. But I really didn't like him yesterday mainly because
of that, Like, he didn't even get hit in the head, and
he flops back and puts on the show and then he's like, oh oh,
he taps his face masks and he's like like essentially telling them to throw
the flag, and he's got enough tenure where he's got as weird as it
is a vote with the damn refs, and DeMarcus touched him but didn't touch
his head at all, and this dude goes flying and then you can't tackle
him on the next play. Yeah, So which one is it? It's
just I think they call it too much because I think the quarterbacks are taking
advantage of the rules, which maybe they should, but especially a monster quarterback
like that. Yeah, I mean I thought Dad got hit in the heads,
Like, well, that's what you kind of get when you don't slide
until the end. But you can't hit him in the head. So that's
what the Pillay's done. Zach Martin rushes to defend his honor, okay,
and just kind of chess chess bumps Taylor Rap, and Taylor Rap goes flying.
He barey blinked him into the next dementia. That was awesome. He
sort of ran into him too. He didn't even like bonk, He just
kind of ran into him. The dude went flying, and it really made
me think for a second that if the Great Cowboy War broke out, I
don't know if Zach Martin might be my first draft pick. Yeah, it
might be like who can hurt the tank? It's him and Larry Allen.
Dude. Well, I'm just saying about current Cowboys. Yeah, and there's
certainly some other candidates, and I don't know, you don't know who the
dogs are for real. But if that dude can just send you by running
into you and not even really pushing or anything of his arms just a doink.
This powerful tank of a man. Cowboys got stopped there. Zach Martin
got hurt on the next drive. Boy, there's big skepticism that he's gonna
be able to play on Sunday. Let me give you a little a little
bit on that before we really get in a rip in these suckers. But
Clarence Hill tweeted out four point fifty one am this morning, I don't know
when the quote comes in, but Cowboys guard Zach martin injury was not as
serious as initially feared. He plans to be back for Dolphins. Quote.
I got hit deep in the quad. We went to the tent. It
stiffened up. That wasn't firing for me, A fluke thing hoping to tree
didn't get ready to go on Sunday. I feel good about that. So
I don't know if that came when they got off the plane. Well,
I don't know when that quote comes in whatever, because I didn't. I
hadn't heard it until this morning. But there's a little bit of optimism that
that's a missed, you know, a mist disaster, because dude, it's
I mean, Zach Martin is your best player, biggest ice pack ever shockingly
large. I had that rap with the I was like, God, so
that's it. That's just what do like a bruise or a contusion, I
guess, And I think it's like a dead leg right, It's like,
is there internal bleeding happening there? Though? Yeah? In that that's what
a bruise is. And then you can probably so he probably hurts like hell
today, tomorrow, the next day, and then it'll be still sore,
but it'll be questionable. That's why I said it wasn't firing for me,
like he couldn't get get it to go right then. Yes, at the
time, Tiger's glutes. Weren't you think of muscles firing? We all they
got Tiger's galute? Okay, ten seconds on that little boys golf swing?
Yeah, I watched a Charlie Woods golf swing that side angle. I don't
know if you saw it. It might be the prettiest golf swing I've ever
seen. It's better than Tiger's. It's like modeled after Rory's swing. Yeah,
but it's more controlled than Rory McElroy's swing. He's going to win the
Grand Swam. He can't put? Can he not put? He's the third
best golfer on his high school team. He can chip in your team,
Charlie Woods for majors. Still, just because you read some some article that
said he can't put I still am that swing is flawless. I'm not convinced
that his father's not Harry styles. They look identical at that age. It's
amazing. Okay, So hold on here. We've spent five to ten minutes
already talking about this game, and we have it for once. Just said,
hey, you have to tackle dude, Josh Allen. It could have
been case Keenum at quarterback. It doesn't matter. Josh Allen threw the ball
fifteen times yesterday. He completed seven passes. Yesterday. James Cook had the
game of his life. Twenty five carries, one hundred and seventy nine yards
seven yards of carry. I was watching the pregame show on Sunday Night Football
had it on. I wasn't watching it had it on, and look,
rarely am I going to come in and be like guys to believe what Jason
Garrett said. But he said something that I thought was like exactly what I've
been thinking, and I haven't been able to articulate it the right way and
he said, the Cowboys are great at playing the game on their terms,
and that is so true. Well, you know where you don't play the
game on your terms? San Francisco. No, sometimes Philadelphia, depending on
how they're playing, they're they're in a funk right now. You know Philadelphia's
not playing very well and have it for a while. You tell you what
another team that plays the game on their terms most of the time, Miami,
Oh you got next week? They're good. Look though, you can't
take anything to look at the Cowboys. You know they're good. But you
sit there and go, this is no different than the last two years,
where you are going to run into a team that does things that are just
at the core of what football is, better than you, stronger than you,
and on the road. You're probably gonna have to run into San Francisco
on the road. And that's where unless you get lucky and get some help
and someone knocks out that team, you ain't win in a Super Bowl.
This year A tough one to swallow, but it's true. Like I always
try to be fairly measured about all this crap. Right, Yes, Cowboys
are have ten wins. Cowboys are a good football team. Cowboys could.
I don't want to say they can't win the Super Bowl this morning. They
can, but they got embarrassed and bullied and maybe broken. Yesterday you got
run all over and it was like you see this in college sometimes when the
coach is like blank, you watch this and you intentionally run it every play
of the drive. They almost did that. They ended up bills, ended
up throwing it toward the end of that one drive. You got sacked,
you got injured, You had stupid penalties, and you had big violence committed
against you and you could do nothing to respond. You were embarrassed and you
were bullied. And this is in December when games ramp up and you were
still playing for a lot. I mean you were. This was your chance
at a NFC East title. You still had to win these very hard games
that we knew were coming up. They I don't know if you can come
back from that now. I had the same feeling after San Francisco, And
this might be the whole fool Me Twice game as Jerry looks at it as
it applies to Mike McCarthy when this season eventually ends, because I think after
that forty nine Ers game, he did the never again I'm not. Yeah,
we can't. And then you win a bunch of games, and then
you beat the Eagles and like all right, hold on, hold on,
and then this but this was so bad. Again, this is from measured
man like chill. It's just a loss. Great teams lose games and go
on to win Super Bowls. Sure, but you look at this. I
don't think there's any chance this team can go win in San Francisco. I
don't either, Like, no chance. Yeah, Now, that might be
the only game in the NFC that I say that there's no chance of because
I mean they played, you know, and San Francisco maybe is just on
a different planet than maybe every other team in the in the sport right now.
But that was so so bad. It looked like a team that was
heartless. I don't know if you'd say they quit, and that's the dangerous
word to throw out, but I'll say I didn't think they were capable of
looking that bad in December as you're ramping it up than they did, because
my god, you got beat up. Last ten Super Bowl winners have not
had a double digit loss in December. Yeah, Buffalo playing well right now,
and they've been playing well for a large portion of the year better than
the record shows. Understandably, Buffalo playing veryo. Buffalo playing way better than
the Eagles team who was almost on a downhill slide when you played them last
week. You got Miami on the road next week. Miami's playing well.
They're banged up a little bit, but they're playing well and have played well
all year. Miami will do to you what Buffalo did, though. Miami
will run the ball on you. It's a little straightforward fashion. It's a
little more creative deception and misdirection and things like that. But they also have
two proven, you know, wide receivers who are just studs, you know,
that are way more than what I mean. I'd take Tyreek Hill,
I might take Jalen Waddle over stuff on Diggs and that sounds crazy right now,
but at this point and the way James Cook, you know, the
way they use James Cook all day like and was the thing is, offense
didn't help the defense either, Like the defense did not help themselves. All
the offense off the field pretty quickly, especially once you get the halftime and
they had a couple of good drives. We're able to go down and have
a nice drive settle for a field goal that made it fourteen to three at
some point. That was after the Sam Williams thing, But that we don't
have to spend a lot of time on that unless you those are those are
big plays. The DeMarcus Lawrence thing, yeah, and the Sam Williams missed
block punt and then roughing the kicker. I mean those are huge. If
those don't happen, the score is very different, you know, and then
you don't know how the whole thing plays out. And I'm not gonna deny
that. Plus it started dumping rain in the second half and the thing was
just done at that point, so I yeah, you have to plus the
missed fumble, you know. I mean that was a big play. It
was fourteen to three. And if you do that, I don't know if
you blame McCarthy on that or whoever man job it is to be on top
of this stuff instantly. But you could tell Buffalo's running in the line of
scrimmage, you know that they think something's rotten in Denmark. Get up there
on Depit showed it on his face and was doing the hand motion right,
and that's where I was like, did you want to see that? Like
should to be like, yoink, here you go. Maybe you're panicking.
Did he say, Well, he said in the posts game that yeah,
they didn't get a chance to see the replay obviously to because he had the
challenge flag in his hand to throw it. But they didn't get a chance
to see the replay because of the next play. But they're like that man,
Yes, And that goes back to the danger of it's more prevalent in
basketball when they want everything replayed. But if one of your reputable defensive players
right then knows it's a fumble, you scream and run right to Mike McCarthy.
But you can't cry wolf with that, I know, then he'll be
like, yeah, you say, everything is not your fault. You know,
no for sure. But if somebody is like, coach, throw it,
can a player run up to their head, coach grab the red flag
and throw it? Legal or not? No penalty? Not a penalty?
You sure, no, I'm guessing it's one of those scenarios that you would
see at the Ghost Pepper Pavilion the book. Because you're right at that moment,
I mean, even at halftime, I didn't think the thing was church.
Now knowing that the Cowboys, what we're getting the ball when they came
out in the second half and they did nothing with it. The Buffalo did
what so many NFL teams are doing now if they can not all teams can
do this. But they're sitting there, going we will rush three or four
people. We'll put seven guys back there, and you can just be patient.
And if you can be patient and check it down all game and put
together a fifteen play drive, great, you know, we'll throw our blitzes
at you, you know, towards the end of the drive. And that's
what happened all day. It was just like coverage and then Zach Martin's out
of the game, and then Dak's under pressure a lot, you know,
because they were able to get there with four a lot. What's that's how
you beat the Cowboys? And is Jonathan Hankins the MVP of this team or
what like? Because he doesn't play, you get ran over. Yeah,
And you spent a first round pick on Masey Smith. And I'm not expecting
one person to help you. I'm just saying, I mean, I'm expecting
one person to make that big of a difference. And I know the Cowboys
had guys hurt, they had a stomach bug going around, So I can
find a lot of excuses if I want. But is Jonathan Hankins like the
biggest key to this defense because he's gone and you're giving up seven yards of
carry. If Jonathan, if the absence of Jonathan Hankins is the reason that
yesterday happened, then Mazzie Smith is a complete bust. Yeah, and and
not at this point of his career a adequate football player in any way if
that's the main thing. But that's not the main thing, that's you grasping
for any answers scheme, whatever it was I mean. And then the dan
Quinn thing, like that dude, we all love him. He teflon,
he gets a pass, he hits a pass every time. Every time we
yell at McCarthy, right, even when they have ten wins, we can
yell at McCarthy for god knows what everything and no one ever really yells about
dan Quinn. But Jesus, when that happens, Yeah, dan Quinn today
should be scratching his head. And maybe it's just personnel. And if you
take a big cog out of the middle of that D line, if that's
how the House of Card crumbles. I don't know, but you have these
hybrid safeties that should have come up and protected against the run a little bit
and whatever it was, whether it's scheme or personnel, but you got embarrassed.
JJ mentioned something to me before the show. We'll call it the Micah
conundrum. We'll get into that at eight forty five. Fine, after a
phone call with the group the biggest Bills fan in the world at eight thirty
five plus, you know, maybe we'll give give you a chance to call
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