Well, good morning, all right, metroll flex. Let's have a fun
one today. I'm Kevin Turner. If there's Dandy Baylist, Mike's Roy JJ
Jackson and the House and today a special guest called again at eight ten former
Dallas Cowboys head coach wearer of coaching shorts, Dave Campo, who actually rocked
like the mini perm curly hair. Let's jump on with this at eight ten.
Now, at the time he was booked, we did not know that
the decision had been made to bring back coach Mike McCarthy. So we'll see
if he has any hot thoughts that he can. Also walk us through the
interview process for Daniel Quinn, things like that, I want to know what
the weight feels like when you're five and eleven, five and eleven, Like
how the weight yea of losing your job, feeling how you have to bite
your tongue because they didn't get you a quarterback, right, It's a lot
of things excited And I think that's his natural hair. Dude, this you
didn't have a perm Yeah, people can say, yeah, curly, I
just bought some much shampoo that adds to the curls. So that's why I've
been looking more curly than usual lately. Do you like the curls? Yeah?
I hated them growing up. I was gonna say, is that something
that bothers a little boy? Yeah? You can't really do anything with your
hair and you but as you get older, you realize people would kill for
this long, wavy hair that I'd shave off. They would, well,
no one would kill for it, now that's true. What's the longest you've
ever had it? You ever had it? Touch on the shoulder? Nah,
it will go down, it goes up, dude, it's the problem.
Do this so good, dude. That's the one of the interesting things
about having a kid. Because my oldest Josh, for whatever reason, and
it makes no sense, he has got curly hair and it's real thick,
so if he doesn't keep it in check, it gets wild. And in
high school he you know, kids are, especially boys. We would do
bits like grow it out and it would be hilarious, and family photos and
holidays, it's like, what are you doing? Like, what what do
you want for me? There's one photo of him when he was probably like
twenty three or twenty four. I'm like, you look exactly like nineteen sixty
six. Bob Dylan, okay, and I did a photo of him and
an AB comparison, and it's uncanny, the crazy, big old fro.
But you, you know you kind of Why don't you let it rip?
keV? How would you pledge today, on this day not to cut your
hair until Mike McCarthy is gone as coach of the Cowboys. You are like
the McCarthy dude in the whole city. I could even get on the elevator.
The hair would be TOI tree, beac your eighty foot tree, because
it goes up. It imagine up forever though, come on down Jonah Hill's
Super Bad era. It goes up. No, it would look like an
afro. Cool. It's it's wrong with that. You're in radio. What
does that mean? It means it doesn't matter what you look like? Yeah,
it does. I still do things. You know what you could do
though, that is my primary job. Grow it out super long and then
go the Jimmy Butler route and then you look like Andre three thousand. Yeah,
just flatten that. That doesn't look good. You don't know you,
Kevin, Kevin, stop lying, don't start the yes. Four minutes into
the show and already flood of lies. I've straightened my hair, don't the
day lying. I was too embarrassed to uh even show the picture because guys
like me with the little with a touch of heft don't look great with the
streetened hair that's long. It's just a thing. It's it's fine. Make
the pledge, I think of the pledge. Make the pledge to McCarthy is
gone. And then Mikey and I are praying for a Super Bowl win and
a contract extension. Yeah, well you don't have to worry about that.
That are happening. That's the big news. And we'll hit that up multiple
times today because uh yeah, I mean they announced the last night tomorrow,
Mike McCarthy is or today today Allegedly m McCarthy's supposed to meet with them,
but Jerry sent out a pressure release that But like normally I get Cowboys media
stuff. Did y'all get the pressure release? I didn't, And you know,
I don't know. When contacting the Cowboys pr team to get guests on
the show, uh, they say things like, well, we're monitoring your
state and things like that. So trust me, you're gonna get the harsh
truth about the Cowboys. You're not gonna get Jerry's pocket lining opinions today.
Oh, no, you won't you tell him that was never a real thing.
By the way, did Jerry did not care what anyone says by him?
Yeah? I didn't know about this until Mikey sent the screenshot of the
chefter tweet last night. Did that just happen when you sent that? Yeah?
Ten minutes ten minutes before, uh, and I did. I am
still on the good good list. I got the press release from senior vice
president of communication with the Dallas Cowboys, Tad Tad Carper. Oh, Tad?
Do you know Tad? I have not met him. I would like
to though. Maybe he could get us a guest Tad Carper two on four
or just leave a talk back. Yeah, email me. Hey, guys,
it's Tad Carper Harper. Oh. I did get the statement. I
don't know. Do you want it at any point? I do? I
want you to read it in your best Jerry Jones voice? No, no,
no, right now? Is Jerry Jr. I don't want to read
this? Yeah, I don't read it. Then, well it's something I
don't want to read it. I just don't know if it's if that's what
my people, my fans want to hear. I don't know what your fans
want to hear, to be honest, man, fans, all right,
did you know this? I know? All right, you know what?
This is going to be a big topic of the day or twitch people.
So you have a fan clubs a bass. Yeah, yeah. I like
when you start saying things to mobilize your bass. I moved my base.
All right, we're gonna talk about this plenty today. McCarthy being you know,
the announced he's coming back. So yes, I think beginning the day
with a statement from Jerry Jones, do it. I'm not doing any voices,
but here you go, once again from the desk of Tad Carper.
Do it as Tad Carper. All right, fine, he sounds exactly like
me. I believe this team is very close and capable of achieving our ultimate
goals, and the best step forward for us will be Mike McCarthy as our
head coach. There is a great benefit to continuing the team's progress under Mike's
leadership as our head coach. Specifically, there are many layers of success that
have occurred this season as a result of Mike's approach to leading the team,
both with individual players, and our team collectively. Mike has the highest regular
season winning percentage of any head coach in Cowboys' history, and we will dedicate
ourselves in partnership with him to translating that into reaching our postseason goals. Certainly,
Mike's career has demonstrated postseason's success at a high level, and we have
great confidence that he can continue further. Our loss on Sunday is shared by
everyone here, not just coach McCarthy, our players, coaches, front office,
myself. There's accountability for our results. I am accountable for our results.
The lens we use to view and evaluate Coach McCarthy is holistic. While
we're all disappointed with the result on Sunday and with our playoff record, I'm
one hundred percent supportive of him as our head coach. Ability to reach our
goals almost done. We will start our process of review and decision making regarding
everything that impacts our team and roster. And while we are not going to
address specific players and extensions or free agents at this point, it deserves our
deepest reviewing consideration and it will get it signed. Jerry Jones from ted Tad
Carper. Okay, now, let me read that again, I believe this
team is very close. Who told Jerry to use the word holistic because it's
really well, it's well placed, is it. Yeah, Because the definition
of holistic is it's like accountability for the entire system rather than individual parts.
Right, like you holistic medicine deals with the mind and the body. You
know. But you you hear holistic and you think woo woo. You know
space, space age, you know methods. But the real definition of the
word is accurately used there. I don't think that's in his I don't think
that's in his vernac kind of success and blame would be shared among everything exactly,
Like it's not just our fault, the three of us, Yeah,
you know, it's everyone. What did we do? Just I'm applying it
to us. I'm making it like if something, Yes, there's everybody working
together. I have a lot of un succeeding. I have a lot of
Uh, I think it's succeeding fine, or it will Holistically I'm speaking,
yeah, holistically, I think I've got a lot of I don't know,
like conspiracies maybe, or Kevin's conspiracy corner, or like getting that over well,
if you wanted to go and say, Jerry's pissed, wanted to get
him fired, but he was talked off the ledge for reasons that were very
clear, like it's Mike's last year. Think of the money you'll save,
you know, but just paying him is last year, and you can team
him up with Dak or taint him up with that because because it could be
daxx last year. The truth is, Dak is a sixty million dollar cap
hit going into this year, and you can let him play on sixty million
and get literally no help around the rest of your team for one year for
one year. But here's how it works in the NFL. You sign these
quarterbacks to huge deals, their cap number is huge, and then you give
them an extension before the contracts up. And that's what they're gonna do.
They're gonna meet with Dak, They're gonna give him a contract extension. Fans
are gonna freak out, But what it's really going to do is be good
for the team because it gets your cap number down and you can go get
players around him. And that's gonna happen before for the season. Before the
season. Yeah, and he's playing at sixty million on the cap. Well,
unless they say screw it, you're not getting any help. But they're
not gonna do that to him. They'll go all in here, well as
all in his possible. What's the shortest amount of time realistically that that extension
could could be? What accept because then you're doing that, Yeah, and
said he deserves to be paid like one of the best. He has two
voidable years on his contract after that, and I know this is all gonna
get in him the newsia talk. So you could sign him. You could
wipe those out and sign him to a five year deal. Would that be
three with two options? Yeah? Or you could I don't know if he'd
accept right it. You could write it out. It's sixty MILI on your
cap, and then you have the option to walk away, or you could
franchise him or negotiate. If you don'tive him an extension, he's gonna be
like, Okay, I'll go see where I want to go, you know,
but they still have the franchise tag thing and that's after next year though,
Yeah, okay, because they can't franchise him now. But here's now.
Your only two options are to re up him for an extension or to
just sit on that sixty million dollars hit, have him played one year and
then you're basically starting from scratch, and is he a free agent? Here's
the yeah, it's sorry, that's all just no. It all gets so
bad and I don't even want to do it. I know, but as
it goes on for four years and it never stops talking about his country.
The point is Dak can do things to and the Cowboys will do things to
his contract to give them more money. Okay, Dak is your quarterback.
They're not moving on from Dak unless they traded him, and you could maybe
trade him, and you could trade him and time it up with McCarthy.
It also is very possible that Dak said, I ain't signing anything. I'll
play under what my contract is. If you guys get rid of Mike,
I ain't signing nothing. I don't think Dak would do that. I think
Dak likes being the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys more than he likes Mike McCarthy.
Coming into this year, I don't know where he is now. He
liked Kellen Moore more than Mike McCarthy. I do believe that, Philip tell
you what, there's too many damn noise and opinions with this team. The
reason he didn't run the ball this year because you let Kellen more go and
everyone's being met at that and Dak didn't throw interceptions. That's good. Mike
mcarthy should get credit for that. McCarthy's not a good run game coordinator and
Kellen Moore is. And you can look what they did in charge and say
for the Chargers and go, well, they had a bed year because that
team sucked and they'd quit. That doesn't matter. But that is a big
chunk of this too. On offense, you go back to defense being the
problem all these things, because here's what I keep going back to, I
didn't know that Jerry, and I feel like I'm an idiot. I'm the
one who got fooled like the rest of us. I didn't know that Jerry
was a big old pussy cat. It's not even true. Jerry's a gambling
man, he's a wild car. He'll put it in a gloryhole. Well,
Kevin recovers, I want to address something not even true. Man,
This is the safest stuff you could have done yesterday. Collectively, all of
us, I think we're in agreement that the best thing for them to do
would be to cut ties with McCarthy and go hard after Belichick. But we
felt like what they would do is Keith McCarthy correct, which when you think
about it, and it's kind of funny coming from us, which I think
is by and large the show that employs the theory of the steady hand.
It is the steady hand move. Yes, it's the old school because we
talked about how Tomlin's been with the Steelers forever and you know, they've won
one super Bowl and they're always in the conversation, They're always in the playoffs,
winning records or just the norm for them, but you know, one
super Bowl and that during that tenure isn't a lot, I guess compared to
us, it is. But the days are gone of the coaches with long,
long careers with one team. There's kind of part of me that thinks
it almost is a punk rock move of Jerry to keep him, you know,
like the wild the wild Card wild Cat and Jerry would have have made
a big splash decision based on emotion, and this one, when you look
at the team, it's like, man, maybe there is something to the
fact that they collectively laid a stinker at the worst possible time and ran into
a team that was playing the best football they've ever played in their current incarnation,
and those things collided and bad things happened. In a steady hand looks
at that for what it is, if that's what it is, and just
says, you know what, let's just improve and run it back. And
part of me now after four days removed from this thing happening, and I
was emotional as hell over this. I don't hate it. I would imagine
our bosses or whoever would want us to come in and screaming about something today,
Oh you just wait, okay, good, But I completely agree with
you. But I agree with Kevin on the pussycat front that he does.
He doesn't take the big risk he does, but he does the He was
never try to get bad like. He was never a smart, responsible thing.
And that's what this is, is it? Yeah, this is the
really safe, smart responsible thing poring. Yes, absolutely, McCarthy originally was
boring. It wasn't like and he was like, yeah, we got the
guy nobody was, but you hired dude that didn't really like move the needle
or get the breakfast boners up and run in. And then he does really
why would you define them? Like I said, we have Dave Campbell on
he went five and eleven three straight years. Yeah, I mean I Garrett
never. I don't think Garrett ever had back to back playoff appearances. Right,
So like you start, didn't get everyone excited that dude does. What
would you say? Pretty good? I mean, what's the even Like the
McCarthy hater, how would you define his tenure? You would say good regular
season, good in games that don't matter, which is easy sentence to say.
And you can't win in the playoffs. Not good enough, not good
enough to win the Super Bowl? Because why because I forgot the Cowboys are
just a magical special team that the other rules of sport don't really apply to.
Because you just deserve better. Why because of the shape of the design
on your helmet. Because you have more money than any franchise in the history
of the world. Right, You're the most lucrative franchise in all of sports,
all of it globally, and you can do anything you want. So
you go get the best guy. You can get a guide that we have
known holes in his game. If it was baseball, fine, this is
a cap sport. They should hire the most expensive defensive coordinators. Okay,
I completely agree. You know you should have three of the ten best all
around coaches in the sport working for you. Fine, Fine, the one
area that's uncapped. You can hire anyone you want. You can create the
ultimate dream team of brains to run the off. I agree with that,
because that's the league doesn't prevent it. You could have ten coaches that are
just all whizzes. And that's the idea. That's what everyone's trying to do.
But it's not that easy. You have to And the thing is,
and Mike Reiner says this all the time, when you put a collection of
highly talented people together, the question is can you make this work? And
what's really not working as an organization? Obviously they're not winning in the playoffs.
That sucks, But we talked about this too. The reason that coaches
get fired is when the team, when they lose their team or or a
toxic culture within the team and the coaching staff. We haven't heard anything about
that. They seem to be pretty smooth out there. Everybody gets along,
everybody seems to be on the same page. You don't have players anonymously just
ripping each other to shreds. You don't see a lot of chaos on the
sidelines. I mean, it's a pretty measured team. They imploded in twenty
twenty when the defense of Mike Nolan fell apart, but also the season I
believe this. I believe NFL teams quit when they realized their quarterback is not
good. So dat gets hurt that year and that's when things got There were
some tension, locker room tension and things going on there. And who knows
that that was also a year and I believe Jalen Smith got paid around that
time too, was still plying. So there's a lot of things that go
with that. But the Mike Nolan thing was weird. Got that handled.
Dan Quinn comes in. Things stabilized unless you're playing Shanahan style offenses, which
is that's been crazy status. JJ simp me said too, we should think
McCarthy of McCarthy the same way we think of Mike Tomlin. JJ sent me
this tweet. It's from Andrew Philippony Oh the Pony Express, and it's Rio
and I you know this guy. Mike Tomlin career record one hundred and seventy
three and one hundred eight and ten in the playoffs, one super Bowl,
Mike McCarthy one super Bowl, better playoff record at eleven and eleven and just
six less wins and two more losses. Like we should think about Mike McCarthy
the same way we think should we think about m McCarthy the same way we
think about John Harbaugh. You know, probably with McCarthy, you're probably gonna
be good show. If you have McCarthy in a good quarterback, you're gonna
take the playoffs most every year until it eventually implodes. That's true, and
that is that's the same thing. I just it's what Mikey. It's what
Mikey says. And I love your perspective when you talk about the Cowboys not
growing up here, not being a lifelong fan, but also not being a
hater, you know, because it seems like you're either one or the other.
But you've lived here long enough, you've covered the team long enough to
have a pretty fair and balanced opinion of this thing. But you do bring
up this point sometimes that this team, without maybe saying it specifically, that
this team lives on this hubris of global perception of what they really are,
which is this championship legacy. Keep this in mind, this team was not
the team of the seventies. They won two Super Bowls in the seventies.
Correct, Okay, the team of the seventies was in Steelers, all right.
The team of the eighties. They were pretty decent for a good portion
of the eighties, but they couldn't get past the forty nine ers. The
forty nine Ers were the team of the eighties. They won three out of
four Super Bowls in the nineties, and they've been not heard from since.
They had magic in a bottle, they had the great herschel Walker trade results,
they had they had to use this word again, a perfect confluence of
a lot of great things happening for them at once. They were well coached,
they had a fiery new owner, they were energetic and good to go.
And yes, they've been pretty damned irrelevant since. But the reason that
people look at this team with this, oh my god, we got to
get back to our championship culture and being the team of a decade. No,
you were the team of about four years in your entire existence. The
reason that people think of you as this, you know, legacy team is
because of efing marketing, which Jerry is better at than being a football team
owner. Period. That timed up within nineteen ninety four, when the world
was exposed to NFL Sunday ticket and then out of market teams could watch every
Cowboy game and you could watch every NFL team you wanted to see, and
the league grew from that, and Jerry should get more credit for that than
anything else. You're starting to the Sunday ticket, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, NFL Sunday ticket. Yeah, like that is when it timed
up. The Cowboys were getting huge in that early nineties. It's when that
began where you could watch every NFL game if you wanted to or if you
could afford it or whatever, and if you had Drake TV, which you
know a lot of people didn't at that time until then. Like it,
all that, you're absolutely right, comes down to Jimmy Johnson fleeced Mike Lynn,
who was the general manager of the Minnesota Vikings, and tricked him basically
right, yeah, because they didn't realize all those picks if they cut him,
would turn into or all those players once cut would turn into draft picks.
Yeah, and basically like a clerical error. And they also like fudge
the results on his head, on his head scans Herschel's one hundred percent.
He's in his prime and it was just a head injury status and it led
to all this. But there's this like mystique you know, buged me yesterday
or day before. I heard Michael Irvin audio, you know, and he's
doing his thing. I mean you're not helping either, because all he does
is I put the trophy on the desk and show those that came before me,
Like, yeah, great, what does that happen to do with anything?
Now? Like actual real stuff like this is how many people you can
have on your roster and this is much money you have to do it.
But fans and then it coincides with social media and Twitter and everyone can scream.
I mean, go look at it. You've looked at it. Everyone's
losing their mind today. And fine, I mean I don't care. Go
yell into the ether, you know. Will you discussed just a soft move?
Yeah, but soft and smart can I work together? But I do
think it's weak. I think with the candidates that are available, that certainly
adds a lot to the softness I guess of the move. I think a
more interesting topic is what you said is, like what's what's the ballsiest Jerry
Jones maneuver over the last thirty years, given Steven the team like he wants
to be this wildcat ter, like I'm gonna go find that oil. We're
gonna make We're gonna do things like you you picked a bunch of boring code.
I mean, I guess maybe attempting the Parcels era. Yeah, maybe
that was which was for a stadium like Jerry's gonna have something coming back to
him. For me, what it comes down to is look man to be
a successful team, it starts with the talent. It starts with the talent
on the field. You got to amass the best talent that you can.
And then it's up to management and coaches to design schemes and plays that bring
out the best in your talent, not to try to make them be something
that they're not and be dug in on that to where they're fighting against their
own instincts. And the third thing is to have a calm, cool vibe,
a good culture surrounding them. And I can't say that they don't have
that. They've been very unlucky in the playoffs. They changed in twenty thirteen.
That's when they did the will McLay thing. They change their whole way
they do things, and it's been good, and it's been less Jerry input.
Yeah, which at an age he probably should have lesson put in roster
construction, you know, because he couldn't name we played this game, how
many players could he name? Well, you mean from the draft, I
mean like on the on the roster, Yeah, exactly, like he will
say the wrong name for current players on the roster. But which is also
why it's like anything. It's like we say there's a president, right and
you get you yell at the president. Oh my god, I hate this
president, that president whatever. It's the sea of people behind him there and
the present. Half their job is just take all that, absorb it and
then every you know, the decision makers all work underneath. It's I think
he's kind of in the same boat. Yes, Jerry probably has a big
vote in who our first pick is. Yeah, because he's like me.
When I look at mock drafts, I don't scroll to the fifth and sixth
round all that often and analyze play, you know, like I look at
my team and projected positions and that sort of thing. But it gets a
little more boring when you go back. Oh yeah, I'm the same way.
It's like, ooh, first round, we have picked twenty four,
All right, what do we need? This is fun. I almost think
that's what he's doing. It's not like he is analyzing hundreds and hundreds of
we know that, yeah, but we keep yelling Jerry's the problem. And
now the culture of the whole thing that that there's a there's an issue there.
I think, yeah, but they're changing that. But it's part of
his job, and he kind of loves it. Is for us to point
yell Jerry, well, you don't really see everything that's happening. He's like
the world's best troll. He loves it. He loves that action. He
didn't care. No, he didn't. He likes the only thing that he
cares about. And back when I worked at their flagship, the only things
that he was not okay with are basically saying that he doesn't care if you
say that he didn't care about when he does care. He wants to win.
Does he want to do the proper things? I don't know was and
this might not be the proper thing. Probably not. We already a couple
of callers, we're gonna we're gonna move that because I want to take a
few calls at seven and let the people out their screen a little bit too.
The seven o'clock let us know what you think on this thing, on
the Mike McCarthy thing that's a seven man. Another thing last night it was
on National TV, and it was one of those things where you're like,
well, I can go to bed now. The hell happened last night in
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