This is the downbeat on ninety seven the Freak. Well. I have previewed
some of your talkbacks so the iHeartRadio app. But it's real good. Stay
tuned for that. Just them laughing. I'll fantas shot the Super Wildcard Pump
Session. Course, we started show at six am, first sec of today.
We learned that Bill Belichick out as the coach of the Patriots after twenty
four seasons. Nick Saban quit yesterday at Alabama age seventy two, Pete Carroll
out in Seattle, eight vacant head coach openings in the NFL Super Wildcard Pump
Session. We're going to complete this real quick because we were running through the
Packers Cowboys playoff history, and four and four is the total dating back to
nineteen sixty six. Okay, foreign for only eight times. I thought it'd
been more than that. After the nineties, they wouldn't meet in the playoffs
again for twenty years. And we get into twenty fourteen season. Mike,
I think you're at this game January eleventh, twenty fifteen. That would be
the des catch no cat catch games. Yeah uh again, not even a
you know life or a Cowboy fan, but going to Lambo has always been
a dream. And my friend Joel who you guys know, Joel Runberger,
I think it was like Tuesday of that week, hadn't even considered it,
and he texts our little sports group. He goes, anybody want to go
to Lambo on Sunday? And it's one of those things where you kind of
laugh and like, yeah, that'd be awesome, And then you're like,
you know what, why not? Why why the hell not stop saying no
to things and say yes, yes, because you never know. Just say
yes. It'd be a great experience, could be a nightmare, but you're
never gonna know if you don't try, right, Mikey, that's right,
I say yes in this life. And we flew to Chicago and did our
the circ Deceroy Show from a famous old studio in Chicago, which was awesome
as well, and then drove up through Milwaukee all the way up to tour
Green Bay, stayed up there and went to the game, went to Lamba
an incredibly memorable experience. But the corner we were in, that corner of
the end zone, we were like maybe a dozen or so rose up right
where the des play happened, and uh, and nothing in the whole game
really happened in that corner of the field until that play, and it was
amazing. It's one of my most interesting sports moments, man, because the
silence of that place as the referee came out. I remember when they dropped
back. It was fourth down. Romo throws it up in the air and
I'm like, my god, they're going for a lot here on a fourth
and I think kind of a short play fourth and two, okay, and
they went not deep, but you know medium d I mean thirty two yard
line, so I wasn't thirty plus yard play. And that was It was
a silent moment as that ball was in the air and it was seemed to
be a very clean catch and then they review it and like what are they
reviewing? And then I will never forget Lambeau how quiet it was when that
referee walked out and said after further review, and the second he said whatever
the keyword was, or the play's been reversed or whatever it is, it
went from very few decipels to among the most I've ever heard. It's crazy,
and I've got a little thirty five second kind of breakdown. All listen.
You hear a lot of perspectives. You'll hear some even Clay Matthews on
the field going but if he caught it, his ye down with the one
like he didn't even know. It's fourth and two. There's four and forty
left in the game. Okay, twenty six twenty one Packers fourth and two
at the Green Bay thirty two yard line. And this is what happened.
Uh, and I gotta click this thing here to make it work. Here
we go, Here we go. Now, let's just coming. He throws
a deep ball to the left side of the ball is turn the ball?
Oh my goodness. They have thrown the challenge black, one of the challenges,
the GT challenge. Yet, sir, touchdown. It's a touchdown as
he's he on the one old after it has been determined that the receiver he
did not maintain possess. I'll time readers over the gold line. Right,
does not a tax I'll trod reach over the gold line. He said,
I hadn't miked up. I guess I got goosebump just hearing that audio,
because I remember feeling that and it was so loud, you felt it on
your skin, And I do remember now that you play that. I was
like Oh, they were reviewing if he got in or not, like at
worst this first single at the one. Yeah, that's what we were worried
about, is they're going to give him the touchdown. Oh my. What
happened after that was kind of I think important too. Twenty six twenty one
Packers had the ball. There's still four to forty left or four to thirty
left or whatever, and they got a first down down to the two minute
area. The Packers had a false starches like a first and fifteen, and
they had handoff as a second fourteen. Then they had a short pass,
so it's third and eleven and the Cowboys had burned all their time outs at
that point. And I think it's the play going into the two minute warning
or the play after the two minute warning. Third level, you get to
stop, you get the ball back, and at that point it did feel
like you would go and have a really good chance to score at least And
they hit Randall Cobb for twelve yards just past the first down marker and then
it was over. And I mean, it's one of those weird games I
remember watch since I was working at the Cowboys flagship station for my second year
working at that station, I mean Kavanaugh at a watch party at the old
low T Tavern because they used to give us, you know, a lot
of appearances there. Yeah, And I remember being so conflicted because I am
a lifelong Packers fan, but that was my first dalliance as a professional in
this industry, being a lifelong Packers fan and having to deal with, you
know, want the Cowboys to win. Cowboys winning good for ratings over there
too, you know, so you kind of want that and sit there like,
oh my god. And I remember I just like I couldn't handle it.
I was the most anxiety ridden I'd ever been in my life, and
conflicted in the back of the ot Tarn's and one of these people that are
here watching the game with us to do like get mad at me either.
I would like wearing Packers stuff, but I was like watching it and thinking
and there in the moment I thought the ball hit the ground, that it
was incomplete. While watching it on TV, I always I thought that live.
Yes, I don't believe you, Kevin. I'm scrolling the Calvin Johnson
rulling. It really doesn't even the Calvin Johnson really doesn't even compare to that,
you know, I mean a little bit at the time, but Dean
Blandino made the call. Ben Rodgers made a song about Dean Blandino making,
calling him a clown and all that stuff, and then we ranto Dean Blandino
at the Pro Bowl. We've been met him, Ben Rogers, and since
then, Dean Blandino has actually been a friend at the show. He honeyed
us, he's so nice. Packers ended up losing that next week in Seattle
in a game that is I hold it against McCarthy because he made some stupid
decisions in that game, and it might be part of the reason I feel
the way I do about him. Now. Everybody here thought that mind that
the Cowboys would have just waltzed through the Seahawks too. Yeah, and they
might have. Here's dead after the game too, He's in damn near in
tears. His kind of heartbreaking here. I've never seen it. I never
seen that in damn my life. I want to know why. I wasn't
the kids, like they took him away from you, the referees, man.
I mean, I'm asking, I'm just saying, you know, I
think it was the kids. Anything was the kids. They took it away.
No bad for him and then you go to twenty sixteen. I mean,
we're the rules, sorry, but where the rules were different then than
they are now, because by today's metrics, it's not a catch. Does
anyone know anymore? Like the rules are different now? Yeah, And I
guess by rule it was incomplete then it was by rule incomplete then too,
Yeah, yes, and it would that be complete now? I think if
you maintain control when the ball hits the ground like it does and you don't
see the ball move, is that work football move came from? I think
so? Yeah, you had to do a football move because he switched hands
with the ball, right, Yeah, I think that's a catch nowadays,
I guess I'm not. Also col Beasley wide open over the middle for a
first down on that play, Yeah, you know, the hyper percentage play.
I mean, oh days one on one on Sam Shield. Okay,
maybe yeah, I'll take that all day. But also Cole Beasley for four
yards in the first down right in the middle of the field. He could
run more clock maybe you score Packers hadn't stopped the run all day. There's
things you could say about that too. It sucks if you're a cowboy.
HU twenty sixteen season January twenty seventeen, Divisional Round hosting the Packers. Cowboys
were the one seed Okay, Dak Prescott's first playoff game and the weirdest year
of Cowboys football ever in my opinion, When you're starting quarterback Tony Romo plays
in a preseason game, gets hurt again, and then announces without telling any
of the public relations people that it's Dak's team, Like, if Dak brooks
his foot next week, are you gonna play or not? Are you retiring?
What is this so weird? Packers got up in that game twenty one
to three, then twenty eight to thirteen, but the momentum shifted touchdown to
Wit and touchdown to Dez. Tied at twenty eight. Mason Crosby kicks a
fifty six yard field goal with one thirty eight left, thirty one to twenty
eight. Packers. Cowboys get the ball one thirty six left. Dak first
play hits Tee well or at the fifty there's one ten left, one time
out left, Okay, Dak to Witten. Okay, for about I see
you probably about ten yards first down. But then instead of calling a play,
you know, or burning the time out, then they rush up to
the line and spike it. We had that for many years with Jason Garrett
going why isn't this easy? Why is ours because you still had your timeout
managing the clock at the end of the games now, or you're at at
the forty and you have a second and ten now when you could have had
to play there with clocks to like fifty seconds, forty eight seconds is but
was left on the clock second ten to hit Cole Beasley on an out route.
He gets out of bound, so it's third and three forty four seconds
left. You still have one timeout and Dak's pass is batted down, so
you didn't get the clock all the way down. You also kept the timeout
in your pocket. That spike play killed them, and I think we all
forget that when we think about this game, because we think about the Jared
Cook play that's coming up. Dan Bailey drills his field goal, it's like
fifty one yards, okay, say hits that. It's thirty one, thirty
one and there's thirty five seconds left. Packers get the ball. There's that
blindside sack by Jeff heat that we talked about yesterday. Aaron Rodgers somehow holds
onto the ball, and then let's go to the Fox NFL broadcast at the
time Joe Buck and Troy Aigman. Roger spends two is left, comes underneath.
Then the passes incomplete, out of bounds. How they say complete,
and with three seconds left, the Packers are going to have a chance to
win it. That is unbelievable, believable. The first official came down the
sideline and said incomplete. The official from behind the play said the catch was
good and he was right. Unbelievable, thirty six yards on third and twenty.
This to send the Packers into the NFC Championship down, he was gone.
The Pickers are moving on. Aaron Rodgers is cunning again, and that
kid was a knuckleball, went drive and just whoop? How long was it?
Fifty fifty one? Jeez, Louise, Yeah, he made a fifty
six and a fifty one and that tied the series the series at four.
That's It's like I told you yesterday, I watched a bunch of highlights of
that, specifically that throw. It's one of the greatest throws in NFL history.
And the catch Jared Cook is not even running faster across the Filism's kind
of jogging to his spot, but how he kept his feet in without his
like ankles touching and out of bounds. Yep, I mean it's so close
there's no room truly. Game of Inches talkbacks are really funny, Danny.
I don't want to cheat you out of content, dude, get a bunch
of stuff. No, no, no, it's just a couple of little
things that you know what, they're timeless. Okay, let's burn them real
quick here, because that's pretty funny. You all were funny today on the
iHeartRadio at the red microphone buttons sprots you by advance restoration and one of my
favorite things to do when I'm around my family, my girlfriend's family. They're
a hardcore into fantasy football and stat lines and box scores and just way more
into it than I. I enjoyed watching the games, but I'm just not
in to find out details like they are. In the middle of a heated
conversation, I'll throw in the it's football for a reason, and they altern
to look at me like I'm the biggest idiot they've ever seen, And I
love it because they have no idea where it comes from. Hell. Yes,
well, sir, if you could record that and send it to me
at Kevin Turner at iHeartMedia dot com. And please make sure you get the
silence after you say it, a couple seconds of silence as that they just
continue talking after that. Betlease football for a reason? The whip? What
the heck? It's football for a reason. What does that mean? Oh?
No, that's when you just say words because you don't know what to
say. It happens a lot from US six to ten every weekday. Yes
here, hey, down Beat great showed today. I just wanted to know
when us the next Downbeat Phil Tripp, You know, I know it's too
late this year for the super Bowl, but to the Super Bowls in New
Orleans next year? Can we expected Downbeat to be on Radio Row in the
morning in New Orleans? Thanks? I mean, let's cross that bridge.
That bridge exists a tough one right there. Oh head scratcher for me.
They're going we'll cross Lake punch a train next year. Look, I love
it. Yes, we would love to be there, let's hope. So
yes, that was the initial vision. But here, yuh man, Big
Mike really freaked me out up this morning. I was so careful shaving my
head so I didn't shave it completely off. He's faking that, all right.
I don't care if that laugh was faked. It's beautiful. That's fake,
but I love it. But I'm glad I may have saved a life
this morning. You did. You're welcome for the days you have left,
sir God. That's funny. The bottomy ben laugh from a listener, Thank
you so much for your message. There, get another one here, let's
see. This is of the twelve second variety. Hey guys, it's Brendan
and Arlington log onto emputesonly dot com. Bring your riddles because these chicks are
ready to get stopped leaves. Bring your riddles. It's flimsy, but the
range line is there. It's pretty good. I love the ladies have brought
a bunch of riddles. I just I think about these wonderful people leaving these
talkbacks and they got the perfect thing, and that one in particular, he
issues his joke and you hear like the the two or three seconds of air
before he hangs up. I just imagine kind of looking at his phone,
seeing his reflection, Yeah, in the in the black mirror, going nail
done, microphone shut, and triumphantly taking off his read yeah, and then
and then going back to him. And now we wait, just sitting in
his lity and craks up the radio at nine point thirty in hopes that Kat
is going to pick his and I'll be damn sir, well done. You're
looking to get well done, Hey, Mikey, I'll see you outside of
the studio with a handful of roses to throw at you, you sexy hunk
of Lithuanian beef. The fire d got a bit of a show meeting today.
It might be a little later, but we'll see at eleven thirty.
Yeah, shower my vehicle with a golden shadow man with roses. Good morning
guys, twenty seven mobile. I think that's also called the John Ham Morning
Guys. Don't good morning, Good morning guy. Bookend Mikey. Season five
a Fargo. I'm all all the Ham you can handle. Three seasons behind.
It's fun. It's a lot. Try I do this Ewan McGregor season.
That's the one I'm facing down. But I think you like it because
there's a card playing. Yeah, you keep saying that at the poker Angle.
None of them are bad, Yeah, exactly, And you know what,
none of none of the true detectives are bad. The second one it's
not bad, it's just not rough. It's different and not as good as
the first one. Three is good. I love three. I do too.
I don't think I want to go back and give two a revisit.
Those are very short little series. I going to give to a rewatch and
just see because we were so excited after season one and two was a letdown.
But I want to see if it's just because it's stacked up against one
new showrunner this time. What's that it's a new showrunner this time. Who's
involved in this thing? Is it? And? Uh, I think he's
out? He's out? Yeah, Okay, I'm just curious who was behind
it? Cool Man the Lady? Yeah, and Jody Foster. She don't
a little like them, and that's uh George W. Bush a little.
She's a big girl, sir. I'm psyched, dude. I loved many
years right on the third one, right, Yeah, I like that one.
I'm more than the second one. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
But we're all chasing that first season a Zeimer's and Maddie. Yeah, well,
and we always will be doing that. They were with what was the
guy with the mahrshaw. I'll leave the character actor that uh, the little
white guy, a short country white guy. You guys ass kicked in the
bar. I don't remember. No one knows all right, to go back
and rewatch the first season that's worth and see if it's still good. There
we go. I'm so horny right now listening to that. This residual limb.
You'll have a great day. But okay, and I'll end it with
this. Heyle even fit in the car wash or do you have to hand
wash the wainer every day? That should take a victory lap. You guys
are winners in my book. That's great man. That was fun today.
And we started at six am. And we will podcast every single segment that
we did today and we'll put it up on the internet. But do it
again tomorrow, and let's do it on Holiday Monday, because we're dragging it
in here. Ice be damned, we don't talk cowboys on Monday, so
you ain't missing a beat, no sir. We will have two pairs of
Luke Brian tickets to give away tomorrow. We will have our predictions for Cowboys,
packers, and much more, including the possibility of a betting card that
you can get involved in in a game as well. We'll see. Maybe
let's play along for a chance for Luke Brian tickets. We'll figure all that
out though, as we get ready for tomorrow, get you ready for Cowboys
and Packers and the rest of the day. The Ben and Skin Show with
Christina and Steve is next. The speakeasy will be two to six today for
Mike's Roy, for Danny Bayless, for JJ Jackson, and of course for
John Kunn. I'm Kevin. We'll see you tomorrow at six am. I
think it's Mike's data send us out. I will say what I say every
morning, Please not be Dodd. And I'm saying that to all the little sailors.