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from here, but there's been a you know a little bit of snow.
We had meteorologist Kevin Smith from NBC five on in the seven thirty segment and
he was like, Dude, I think tomorrow is gonna be the day of
just kind of school closings and rough traffic things like that. Said is gonna
stay in the teens. So you look out on the tollway right now,
and there's no snow on it because all of the tires and the friction and
the heat of the automobiles has melted at all. Yeah, but when that
traffic goes away overnight, it's not as much. What's gonna happen, especially
on those overpasses freezing ice. Oh yeah, and we're gonna be you know,
being you know, comedy first responders. We're up before everybody. We're
gonna be the first ones to hit those roads in the morning. Yeah,
we'll give you a report. Yeah, I'm gonna leave a little early tomorrow.
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But if you want to weigh in and you're pissed about what's happening from a
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want to twist off or maybe you want to defend Mike McCarthy, Dan quinn
and the gang, go ahead. Two one four eight one seven seven eight
seven. I'm gonna replay the audio too. I want to hear from Yeah
deafender, Yeah, yeah, people like Greg the leg Well this is we'll
played a minute to go for you, and we'll hear from Jason Garrett in
a second Jerry as well. But here's Greg Old on yesterday's Fox broadcast on
what the Cowboys should do. I always think an interesting test anytime there's these
conversations. And again I'm going to be the first to go on record,
I think the conversation about replacing Mike McCarthy is crazy. First of all,
Again, I know a lot of people came at us for even discussing that
last Tuesday if they lose. And the reason I disagree with Greg thoroughly here
that it's not crazy, and that's with coworkers and listeners saying I can't believe
you are talking about that, is because Jerry allowed this to be a topic.
He had a chance to smash it and say Mike McCarthy's my coach next
year, and he doesn't do it, despite signing these people to five year
deals. And he doesn't do it, and he could have. And that's
why I think there is a little more, a little less wiggle room than
usual. Here. We've seen a guy not want to make coaching changes for
a lot of it for a long time, giving Garrett a lot of extra
rope. So here's the rest of the olden clip to talk. So I'm
let me just preface it by saying that. But I always think the best
exercise is if you let go your coach, would anyone else hire him?
I think the answer Mike McCarthy is clear. I think teams would jump over
themselves to hire him to have this level of consistent success. So if the
answer that question is yes, that answers, come on, does it with
that logic? I mean, then for you to fire your coach, you
would have to be convinced that if you did fire him, that he would
never work again. That is the stupidest thing that I've ever heard him say.
And he's usually a pretty I don't know. I think he's a pretty
even keeled, measured dude when it comes to talking football, for sure.
But that is the dumbest logic that I've ever heard in my life. Well,
do you guys think that if McCarthy's fired tomorrow he will be immediately doing
interviews and likely be the head coach at one of the eight current available head
coaching or seven, I guess with the Patriots if he wants to. I
think there's enough desperate franchises who have not had any stability who would love to
have him. Washington, Carolina. I think that I think he makes more
sense for it. I think it makes sense more sense for a team like
that than he ever made sense for the Cowboys. Who is can pay anyone
whatever? And dude, McCarthy was not hired. He didn't take a year
off from football and sit in the barn. That was a puff piece by
Tom Pellisero of the NFL Network, who used to cover the Packers in Green
Bay. He had a relationship with McCarthy. McCarthy did the thing I watch
every single game, and then he lied about it in his opening press conference.
Okay, and Steven did the awkward laugh. It was all a puff
piece by McCarthy. Was not hired. He was the Jets chose Adam Gase
over him, and then he had his crazy eyes Taco Tuesday press conference.
You remember that meme the Bills went with and what was his name, Freddy
Kitchens I think was the coach they went with at the time, like no
one wanted McCarthy then. Now there wasn't as many head coach openings. Okay,
Now the year after that, a few more openings come up. I
think we're right at this time, though, this is where I go.
You can't go backwards. Jerry can't go backwards. He doesn't like that,
and he didn't have salacious names like this Jim Harball, Bill Belichick, And
I am not telling you those guys are upgrades. I don't know, I
truly don't and what comes with that personnel control? And I think you you
do a pretty good job of drafting players the Patriots don't. I don't know
that I trust Jim Harball to come here, and if you give him a
lot of Satan personnel like I don't know if that's gonna go well. So
I'm not telling you this is an upgrade. I don't know what the answer
is. I wish I did. McCarthy's good enough to get you to the
playoffs. We know that Dak's good enough to get you the playoffs. We
know that another team absolutely would want McCarthy about ten millions about what he's making
his last year of his five year contract. That you've never had to give
him five years in the first place. But that's how you do business here,
and that's how we do things here. We've always done it this way.
So here's five years done terrible. You should have done three or four.
Either way. Belichick's gonna command twenty five million? Is Jerry willing to
eat thirty five million to make this happen, because that's how much that equation
goes, is it, Jim Harball? Jim Harball command what twenty million?
Maybe there's already talked that Lions off its coordinator Ben Johnson will get fifteen.
Now, none of that counts on the salary cap, so maybe Jerry doesn't
care about that stuff. Yeah, I don't think the money matters to Jerry
right now, between fifteen or twenty five million for the coach. Look,
I can't believe we're saying this, and I am try to try to be
level headed. And three straight twelve win seasons is lovely, and thirty NFL
teams would dream. Hell, all including us in the Garrett era, would
dream of three straight twelve win seasons. Today is a hard day to have
this discussion because if you just take yourself out of this for a moment,
the emotions of yesterday and think you've got three straight twelve win seasons and two
NFC championships, that's good. This is a well coached team that's consistent.
But we're not. We're today and yesterday happened, and I absolutely think they
should fire Mike McCarthy. And I'm levelheaded dude. Honestly, like I try
to always be fair, and I'm not a passionate Cowboy fan either. I
think they should fire Mike McCarthy and I think they should be on the phone
with Bill Belichick right now. I kind of agree, and I'm not saying
like I think that is what this team should do. Yeah, you have
probably the greatest coach, modern coach in NFL history just sitting there. You
have a perfect scenario of opportunity. Now, I would think with Belichick,
and I know he's got all the leverage. Still you tell him we have
a man named Will McLay who we love and trust as far as player evaluation
is. The buck will not stop with you on player evaluation. So if
that's a deal breaker or a non starter, fine, then it's not gonna
work. Because Bill Belichick is not drafted good players the last few years.
And everyone's quick to say, all right, well fine, look at him
without Tom Brady. Look what he's done the last few years. They're at
least offensively. Roster is garbage. How did they win four games this year?
I almost applaud them for that, and I looked at their depth chart
and like, I hate to do this, but and I'm not cowboys are
loaded. Cowboys have great players everywhere, but they kind of do, especially
compared to the damn Patriots. Bailey Zappi, Mac Jones, Dak Prescott is
better than them, Ezekiel Elliott. You better think that your running backs better
than them. And they had what Ramandra Steven said, he got hurt.
I mean, you could argue that he's better than Paulard, but fine.
Devonte Parker to Mario Davis, Mario Mario Douglas. Douglas, Yeah, who
had zero touchdowns on the season, and that's your receiving corps. We're better
there, O line, we're better. I mean, I think a fourth
rounder is there highest drafted offensive line right now? And you're gonna say,
oh, their offense sucks, They're offense sucks. You get Bill Belichick,
this crew, it's better. And I know he's a defensive dude, but
still, I don't know how you don't really consider this. And I really
wonder what the Star offices look like today, or how that video call works
or if Jerry's like, hey, we're doing the get together today and who
makes these decisions? But dude, it should happen. It should happen,
they should fire him and do it. Bill would be interested too. I
do believe that. And I know people say Bill didn't want to put up
with a lot of stuff done he does with Robert Kraft. Robert Craft wasn't
staying out of it. He was involved a little bit. One thing I
think where you can hedge with Bill's say, look, Will mcclay's still going
to sit in the middle of that triangle coaches, scouting and the front office.
Okay, up at the top of the period, and he's just sitting
in the triangle, in the middle of it, making the calls, taking
all the information and piecing it together. It doesn't mean coaches don't get their
players every now and then. Dan quinn got his player. Yeah he got
Mazzie Smith. No, you still got a vote. Mike McCarthy got his
player, he got Luke schoon Maker like it all kind of ends up that
way. And it was like that way when Marinelli was here. We're not
saying stay out of the room when we have this discussion. Highly evolved,
but you're not just the one dude buying the grocery. Yes, and I
think he might be in on that, I really do, especially the money,
and he may go, look, they haven't done it in thirty years.
I'll be the one that does it. And speaking of thirty years,
this story's popping up a lot is the alleged meeting between Jerry Jones and Bill
Belichick from thirty years ago, essentially, which I do think is kind of
interesting. So Jerry Jones recounted this a couple of years back, and he
said he met Belichick by chance in nineteen ninety five at a ski resort in
Colorado where Belichick had just been fired as the Cleveland coach, and they had
a conversation. He's like, I couldn't tell who he was, and then
he raised his goggles up and know his Bill he no longer had a job.
He'd been with Cleveland. They let him go, and Jones says,
Belichick said, I can coach if you ever get an opportunity. Don't forget
about me. And Jerry Jones has admitted only a couple of years ago that
he's thought about that conversation a whole lot of times in his life. I
also think it's funny that Belichick is like, remembered it a little differently,
but he's like, but I do remember We're in snow mass and JayR He's
there with a big white jacket and a giant blue star on it. I'm
just picturing Jerry going skiing dress as a Arctic cowboy. Well, hey,
do you think what one franchise gave Ezekiel Elliott a chance? Yeah? The
story back in June was that Bill reached out to Steven and said he got
anything left. I mean, that's the story. I don't know if it's
true or not, but I think they have a respectful relationship too. Through
all these years and being in some of the same places. I think this
is not crazy. This is and it was kind of crazy a week ago.
Maybe you know what might happen. The Eagles might lose tonight and Sirianni
might get fired and we might be doing exactly what we did with whoever the
hell that linebacker was. It was a deciding between the Cowboys and Eagles,
and next week at this time, we might be doing the Oh my god,
Belichicks, coulda choose me the Cowboys and Eagles? Yeah, that could
be happening. You're right, And I don't know if this is as important,
but I think to Jerry it's very important. But as a calming settling
the fan base, pr move acting now like today or tomorrow, and firing
McCarthy and hiring Belichick, all of this conjecture and and bluster that's going on
on Twitter in Cowboy Nation, that is quelled pretty freaking quick. We got
something new to talk about, exactly, You got something new to talk about,
and it gets that mindset change that we're not just gonna repeat this again
next year. We have the same players, but with this kind of leadership.
And I think this goes in hand in hand with that fiery ass speech
that Jimmy made at halftime, because we all sat here looking at each other
going if that was going on at halftime, if they have that kind of
leadership of or that kind of personality driving this team rather than mumblemouth ding dong
running the thing, maybe maybe you approach that game with a little more intensity
and take it a little more seriously than the Cowboys did, and it might
change the damn culture around here a little bit. To have a hard ass.
Maybe that's what this thing needs. Maybe they've been Mike McCarthy doesn't come
off as a hard ass at all, and I think Dan Quinn is walking
no matter what so I think we can eliminate that that he's just gonna slide
over and be the head coach. I think he watched that game yesterday from
that booth and said, yep, I'm out. How has that gone this
quickly? Though, because we thought last week there's a decent chance that if
this thing goes south, McCarthy gets can and they slide Quinn over, which
is, you know, the prince that was promised for the last couple of
years. Yeah, but now nobody wants that here. Well, the defense
was the worst part of the team gat up forty eight points. Dude,
Yeah, dan Quinn can't just slide. I mean that taste is in everybody's
mouth. I'm just talking about as a calming agent for Cowboy Nation. Belichick
is the answer. It's weird. He may answer more questions than just that
the Jay Glazer gets. Maybe it's just because he's his affiliation with UFC and
all that for fighting and all that stuff. But he's very respected and knows
this stuff, and yesterday he was saying dan quin will still be, yeah,
like one of the hottest head coaching names. So maybe maybe it's something
to consider and you're retooling some of the defensive responsibilities with him moving to head
coach. I don't know. Let's go before I play this, garretself.
Let's go to Doug. Doug is calling in. Doug wants to weigh in.
Don't hear what the Cowboys? Can't that say? Hi, Doug?
How's it going fine? Hey? I just one thing. God, I
don't think this is as difficult to figure out as people are making it out
to be. They haven't won a Super Bowl since nineteen ninety five, and
they've run how many coaches through that place? They've had great players? What's
the common denominator? Jerry Jones? Jerry Jones is the problem. But that
ain't changing, Doug. Hold on a second, I'm gonna catch up for
one second. Staying with me that that's not changing. We can't like that's
we're just gonna end up doing, you know, playing with each other.
There's Wieners here, hello, because like that's not changing. So that's here
until he's dead. That is here and then his son will get it.
So what else? Yeah, no argument, I mean, I'm just I'm
just saying it's what thirty five years now, So I mean, it's not
gonna change until that changes because he's not going off. Any owner that feels
like he needs to get on TV in front of the camera and have his
own radio show undermines any coach that's going to coach at that point. I
also tell you this, well, I agree Jerry is not as involved as
he has been. He is not like, but I will say that the
culture of the Patriots fellows years was Bill Belichick. It wasn't the ownership.
And maybe he's just this super nova that demands it. I don't know if
one year into being the Cowboys coach he can supersede the culture that Jerry Jones
has created over thirty years, or if he's just a fish out of water.
Yeah, you know, like, I don't know that Bill Belichick walks
in here and the culture changes. And I think you have the Devin mccordy
audio, Yeah, because I actually like that where it was real simple.
Didn't you just say that would never have happened if Bill Belichick's your coach.
A team does not walk onto a playoff field, especially a home run,
in perfect conditions, ill prepared and seeming like they don't belong there. That
doesn't happen under Belichick. It's my favorite clip of body of all this stuff
is you're gonna hear Garrett first, and Garrett's going to explain what the first
forty eight hours are like. Okay after this because he knows he's been fired
before, right or mutually parted ways. And then you're gonna hear Devin mcorty,
who play for Belichick. This is good, Jason Garrett, you obviously
know Jerry Jones, so well, what'd you make of his comments? You
know, I think they were actually on point for him, clearly very emotional,
but I thought he was poised in this situation. He's very disappointed in
this team. I think he had sites that this could be a team that
could reach the Super Bowl. But he will support the coaches, he will
support the players here in the next twenty four to forty eight. But after
that, they're going to have some internal discussions. If it doesn't feel like
the team has achieved as potential, what changes do we need to make.
I don't know what those are, but something's coming if they make a change.
Mike Florio said, the pregame show a name to watch Stevin mccordy,
Bill Belichick, and if Bill Belichick is the guy that comes in there.
This team will never show up for a playoff game like that. That's one
thing I promise you. But I do think if they had the opportunity to
get coach Belichick in there, you don't turn that down. This is where
we are, that is, and I don't think it's just radio screaming the
day after a playoff loss, Like I really think you have a coach that
gets it done. Yeah, and I know they've not been good for a
few years, but I just told you their roster is a joke. Yeah,
and you need a quarterback, you kind of have one. And then
the debate on if we have a quarterback. Fine, but I don't think
anyone wrong. Geez, I don't know what the Danny situation is right now.
He's at least a good NFL quarterback. I think everyone can agree on
that. I mean, Dak is in line to reset the quarterback mark again
and be the icebayed quarterback. And that's gonna drave people crazy around here.
But that's just how it works at quarterback. And I'm telling you, you've
all watched football games this year and watched teams without a quarterback. You'll take
your dack. And that's why I was like, are we better off bitching
about a twelve team, a twelve win team than a four win team?
Yeah? I think we are. But how risky do you want to get?
How risky do just Jerry want to get? At eighty one? I
don't think imploding this thing makes sense. I do think it's a good roster.
Is it up there to win it? No? But I think you
can add it if you do things the right way. A couple savvy moves,
good draft. I think you can get pretty close to where you're kind
of going here. But this is the big difference in last time. Last
time, we were talking Matt Ruhle from Baylor, we were talking Lincoln Riley,
we were throwing out with Belichick gets out of his deal there, and
we were talking Sean Payton. Okay, that does not stack up to Bill
Belichick. Laugh at me if you want, but he just retired. Nick
Saban, Laugh at me if you want, because he's out. Pete Carroll,
Jim Harball, Mike Rabel, you know, huge head. Can't get
over how big his head is. You don't want to coach having that big
of a head. Doesn't Mike it is. Bruce Bocher has like the largest
head in baseball history. It's because he does that that photograph trick by sticking
his head real, Ha's huge neck waddle. If you right now, sports
gun to my brain, who's the head coach at Alice Cowboys next year?
And I have to boy, I don't know. I would take McCarthy,
but I will say Mike Rabel because I think there might be headbutting with the
Belichick thing and the whole who buys the groceries. I think this is a
very good team. I do this analogy a lot, but I think it
fits. It's a very nice shoe and the shoelace is just untied and flapping
about, and you need someone to grab the shoelaces and tie the thing tight.
And I think it's a good enough shoe team that if the lass were
tired properly, this team, yes, could make a run at winning the
whole damn thing. I fully agree, But if not, you're stumbling all
over yourselves. And Bill Belichick's going to tighten that shoe. Real. The
Dallas Cowboys since their last Super Bowl win, they've there's been twenty seven years,
twenty seven seasons. They've made the playoffs. Less than fifty percent of
those times. They made the playoffs thirteen times in twenty seven years, and
out of those thirteen playoff appearances, only five of them got them to the
divisional round, which they lost all of those games. The rest of them,
all other eight have been wild card losses, first round and done and
this is the most recent. So my point is, you've got to do
something big. And I Rabel, I like, I like it, but
it's just to the fans. To me, it's like, okay, all
these it is Rabel any different as far as impact than Dorothy I mean,
Belichick and dudes play hard for him, whatever the hell that. But don't
you need to bring in a reputation as well? I think so. But
are all these available coaches right now sitting on their couch and after yesterday's game
going, oh, and are they all I thought about Mike Vrabel suddenly say
Dallas A yeah, when he was thinking Carolina yesterday maybe when he woke up,
Yeah, no, New England's done. Yeah, I know. But
at the time when we left, it was like that was open and it
was thought he might want that job. I mean, the allure, a
misstate whatever it is of the Cowboys is it still powerful enough to in the
minds of all these available coaches, including Belichick. It fools millions of fans.
Ye, maybe it fools some coaches too. Interesting here's what Dax said
too, because something big. Maybe it's not the coach, maybe it's the
quarterback. I don't personally believe that, but I think it is up for
debate. I'm wondering if Dak's going. Dak knows the power of being here
in his emotional that he wants to be here and get settled in here.
Does a kid coming next year? But think of listen to this quote after
the game, Dak said, I don't know how there could be speculation talking
about Mike McCarthy, but I understand the business. In that case, there
should be about me as well. I understand it's about winning the Super Bowl.
That's the standard of the league and damn sure the standard of this place.
I get it. But add me to the list in that case,
that's that's a dude that knows how to play the game being kind of fake
accountable. Yeah, I don't buy that at all. That's a guy saying
the right things because he's really really good at that. We had a text
or Dak is the problem. Cooper Rush would have won this game. No,
it wouldn't have. Mike McCarthy coach saff not the problem, and that
a bunch of doesn't matter. It's all on Jerry, which I mean.
Doug's right. That's the ultimate I think it. It's almost the ultimate goes
without being said thing, and that's why I was a dick to our caller,
Doug. And Doug I'd like to say, I apologize, and I
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