WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:05.200 You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak I'm away, 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:10.400 I'm away, I'm a way down. Should Coach McCarthy be fired if 3 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:13.359 the Cowboys lose on Sunday? You can call in and weigh in two one 4 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:17.600 four or eight one seven seven eight seven one n one. Also text in 5 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:22.800 all day leave talkbacks too. iHeartRadio app red microphone button. It was up 6 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:26.039 to a thirty second voicemail. We might play those in the nine to thirty 7 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:31.239 segment coming out in one hour. Jimmy Kimmel against Aaron Rodgers. Kimmel's first 8 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:35.719 episode of the new year was last night, and he had a lot to 9 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:41.960 say about Aaron Rodgers calling him a pedophile or making a joke that he would 10 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:46.560 be on Epstein's list. Uh got the audio for that, the juice behind 11 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:51.359 all of that ding Good Morning News coming up in thirty minutes. But you 12 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:57.920 know, Cowboys wild Card weekend definitely a super Wildcard weekend made us want to 13 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:00.880 create a new segment that Mikey King came up up with that. I love 14 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:08.040 the Super wild Card pump session. That's right, gemp. We are pumped 15 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:11.040 up, but there's nothing wrong to get more pumped up, No, man, 16 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:15.079 And here's the thing, there's basically no limit to how pumped up you 17 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:19.400 can get. Yeah. I mean there may be some eventual like health concern 18 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.799 with your heart or something like that, but I don't think just being straight 19 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:27.879 up pumped has really ever led to anything too terrible. So get pumped, 20 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:32.319 and get pumped today, and then tomorrow more pumped, you know more, 21 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:37.640 and then bam right on Sunday afternoon. That's hopefully when everybody you know it 22 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:40.959 peaks and the team peaks. Everything happens and it's good for everyone. Yeah, 23 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:44.640 go Cowboys, and you start getting pumped again. Cold Front's gonna peak 24 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:49.599 up as that's happening as well. As the temperatures drop, you get more 25 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:55.840 excited to warm your body up for the game. Cowboys three point thirty on 26 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:59.079 Sunday. They want you to wear white if you're going to the game. 27 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:02.000 Tickets are not gonna be a affordable though. Looking at that weirdly, have 28 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:07.560 you looked, dude, standing room only stuff and the high triple digits is 29 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:13.080 it? Yeah, more like more than two fifty just to get in the 30 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:15.800 damn building. I don't know if it's more than two fifty you said high 31 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:21.639 triple digits, I think oh oh no, no, i'man like over one 32 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:23.479 hundred, one hundred and ninety someone. Well, don't say it the way 33 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:28.199 you said it, then, Okay, Uh the lowest that I have on 34 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.639 SE I got you one eight. If you want to go to the party 35 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:32.599 pass, okay, but I'm not. You know I'm not. Okay, 36 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:38.520 Yeah, Kevin hates the party pass when I have a TV. Okay, 37 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:40.319 don't go on party pass. Let me just say, have you done it? 38 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:45.759 I did it the first time first game I ever went to there Carolina 39 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:49.159 Panthers. It maybe be the first game ever or first or second home game 40 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:51.439 ever. I was like, don't want to see this building, dude, 41 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:54.759 And you didn't know the party pass was a damn joke. Yeah, and 42 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:59.599 you can't access the building. No, you can access the building, but 43 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.039 I'm no, I mean the entire stadium. Oh no, no, you 44 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:06.319 I mean you got standing room only and and you if you want to fight, 45 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:09.840 the best you're gonna do with the party passes is watch the game on 46 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:15.280 the side TV of the hanging jumbo tron, which, hey, you know, 47 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:20.840 I mean you want not affordable to go see this football team play which 48 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:25.520 is insane for real fans, which is a whole different conversation. But you're 49 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:29.360 in the building, you're at the game. You can tell your friends that 50 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:32.000 you get to hear it, you can feel some of the vibe, if 51 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:35.560 that's worth something to you. But you're gonna be watching it on the side 52 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:39.400 of the JumboTron unless you get there and run in when they crack the doors 53 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:44.280 open. We always see that video and then fight for your life up on 54 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:49.479 the rail. Dallas, Texas TV always posts those Yes, there's always someone 55 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.840 laying on the concrete, like the guy who fell out of the Best Pro 56 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:59.280 Shop aquarium, motionless, almost getting trampled. I'm done. You can go 57 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:03.000 way upper ten. Three hundred. No, I'm just watch it on TV 58 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:05.560 under three hundred. No. No, I know, I know, I 59 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:09.479 know, we know you're gonna do that. Jesus Kevin, I know play 60 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:14.039 radio. I know how much is parking for a playoff game? I bet 61 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.560 that's doubled, is it? I bet it's two hundred bucks to park anywhere 62 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:21.120 near that. I bet, dude, it's already one hundred. Kevin one 63 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:24.879 hundred. It used to be seventy five inflation. I thought it was seventy 64 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.759 five. What do we pay to go to damn Metallica? I don't know. 65 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:30.600 It was one hundred dollars, dude. I had a heartburn that day. 66 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:33.759 I'll say it. I don't like events at AT and T Stadium. 67 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:38.279 I don't either, Yeah, especially football games. You know, just watch 68 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:44.199 it. But uh so, here's the coaching scuttle butt so far as yesterday 69 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:48.120 was Black Monday, I few coaches got fired. The Washington Commanders put in 70 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:58.720 a formal interview request for one dan Quinn, the LA Chargers with offensive coordinator 71 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:04.600 Kellen Moore in an interview request for dan Quinn, and the Carolina Panthers with 72 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:12.120 sharp Teeth and Claws they put in an interview request for dan Quinn. Now, 73 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:15.279 dan Quinn had a panther to Danny's impressions. Yes, a panther, 74 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:19.079 do you not? I'll just put surperr on there. Yeah, do your 75 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:24.680 sir, per Dude. That's up there with treyvon Diggs, Kermit the Frog, 76 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:30.040 the blue collar, redkneck comedy tour guys in Surper of the many Danny 77 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:33.639 impressions, as we keep a running list of that buzz see like those are 78 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.800 three? Now, dan Quinn when asked about it in this big David More 79 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:40.360 article that came out. He's like, the good news for me is I 80 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:44.120 can compartmentalize the prep you do for head coaching interviews you do in the off 81 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:47.600 season. And I go, Okay, good answer. Not falling for it, 82 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:50.839 because when you go interview for a team, you talk about their personnel, 83 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:55.720 okay, and you have to you have to know what those players are, 84 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:59.079 which he kind of does. But you know, dan Quinn is a 85 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:02.399 guy who doesn't take the criticism when the Cowboys give up thirty that Mike McCarthy 86 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:06.879 does when the Cowboys score twelve. Very interesting thing, and maybe that's just 87 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:13.240 what goes of being the head coach. My question today is should coach McCarthy 88 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:16.480 be fired if the Cowboys lose on Sunday? Three straight twelve wins seasons, 89 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:24.560 three straight playoff appearances? Should or will they answer them? Both? Yeah, 90 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:27.040 I think I think that's a good way to look at it. I 91 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:34.319 think no and no. Look, you can usually read tea leaves on these 92 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:39.279 sorts of things, and take the dan Quinn thing. For instance, if 93 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:46.199 three teams right now on January ninth are requesting interviews twenty four hours after openings 94 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:48.759 happen in some of those cases, the tea leaves say that that is a 95 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:54.279 piping hot commodity that is probably, assuming he wants it, will be a 96 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:57.360 head coach in the NFL next year, you know. But the opposite side 97 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:01.519 of that is there's been virtually no talk of firing Mike McCarthy all year. 98 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:04.839 There really hasn't, except for maybe the beginning of the year when we start 99 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:08.160 the year and they o Vegas. Oh, does Mike McCarthy is one of 100 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:12.720 the top coaches to get fired just because that's whatever. There's been nothing so 101 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:14.720 to go for. I mean, no one's talking about it right now, 102 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:17.319 we are, but I guess it's more of a hypothetical situation. Yeah, 103 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:26.279 it would be shocking if a week from yesterday the hot topic is fire Mike 104 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:31.720 McCarthy. And the only way I think that happens is with a significant defeat 105 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:36.920 that you can lay on the head coach. I mean, even if they 106 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:42.079 lose a close game, there's gonna be some of that. But if there's 107 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:46.240 something egregious that you can say, wow, that's on the head coach, 108 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:50.040 and they lose by ten or lose convincingly to Green Bay, then I think 109 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:56.399 it'll be a legitimate conversation, a big one, and Jerry himself will be 110 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.519 looking in the mirror asking these questions. But generally speaking, I think no, 111 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:01.399 he's not fired, and I think no, he should not get fired. 112 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:05.040 Agree. I think I said as much yesterday. It's going to have 113 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:11.199 to a bad decision, a time management decision, something that is kind of 114 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:16.600 directly his responsibility that leads to their loss. That's the only way that he 115 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.959 should be fired. Will get Would he get fired after a loss under any 116 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.160 circumstance, I don't know, but I'm with you. I agree steady hand. 117 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:28.879 Three twelve win seasons in a row. Who else is going to do 118 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.759 that? I mean, he's proven he can do it. Yeah, and 119 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:37.720 I wonder how many you got some damn good personnel. He's got some guys 120 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:41.840 that are hurt. Is Jimmy Johnson the closest thing to coach fired after three 121 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:45.919 straight twelve win seasons? I mean maybe I'm missing someone, but around here, 122 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:48.480 well, yeah, and do we leave you that as fired less? 123 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.480 Yeah? Yeah, that's fair. But we knew what happened there though. 124 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:58.799 Well Yeah, okay, first of all, I've said this a million times. 125 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:01.559 I'm not going to lay out the whole whole history. I've seen every 126 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:05.039 Might Mcarthy game he's ever coached in his life. I'm a lifelong Packers fan. 127 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:09.840 I know him. I don't have terribly high thoughts of him. I 128 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:15.519 think he is a good NFL head coach. I do not think he I 129 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.480 think you can do better than him. And I think for the most lucrative 130 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:22.879 franchise in all of sports, to settle, which I think they did, 131 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:28.279 is bad, and especially in when there's no salary cap for coaching, I 132 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.399 think it's inexcusable. You should act like the Dodgers are acting and buy everyone. 133 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.519 So I can't handle coaching mistakes from this franchise like I maybe can tolerate 134 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.840 from other franchises who might be a little more, you know, budget constraints 135 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:48.200 and things like that. Should he be fired if they lose? Probably not, 136 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.360 because I can't be the guy that says odds are you're never gonna win 137 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:54.679 a championship. If you look at it, fourteen teams make the playoffs, 138 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:58.840 your odds are not great of winning a Super Bowl. Roll the dice. 139 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:01.399 Maybe you get it. Okay, so no, but if you do listen 140 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:05.879 to the Packers. I do think he will be canned. I think for 141 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:07.720 two reasons. One, he's got a year left on his contract that I 142 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:11.279 don't think they would mind paying that out. I don't think that's that big 143 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:13.240 of a deal. Okay, I think he makes a little I think around 144 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.840 ten million dollars. I don't think that's a big deal. And I think 145 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:18.559 too Jerry, at this stage in his life, is not going to go 146 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:22.399 backwards, lose to the Packers again, who have caused so many demons for 147 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:31.080 Jerry at home, okay, and then go backwards. You can't go backwards, 148 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.639 I think neutral. I think if you lost in the division round, 149 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:35.919 I think Jerry'd be okay, and you'd run it back for his final year 150 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:41.080 of his contract. But this is a sign that you went backwards, even 151 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:43.320 though everyone in the world knows you have better talent and a better chance to 152 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.519 win. And I just don't think that is going to work for Jerry. 153 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:50.759 And I don't think Steven or anyone else who's trying to talk Jerry out of 154 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:54.120 it would be able to stop that from happening. And I know it's crossed 155 00:10:54.120 --> 00:11:00.440 his mind before, because there was a time when Mike McCarthy thought that he 156 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:07.559 needed to calm down narratives by going after the offseason two years ago after the 157 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:11.759 off season, calling up Rich Eisen and saying, Hey, man, I 158 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:16.960 need to do an interview on your show, and basically kind of went around 159 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:20.360 the organization a little bit and did his own interview. And I think it 160 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:22.519 was like, I think they actually kind of looked at that as Okay, 161 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:26.279 I kind of like the fight. I kind of liked that you did that 162 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:28.360 and didn't just sit here and take dan quinn narratives and things like that. 163 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.919 By the way, I think Mike McCarthy dan Quinn get along great. But 164 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:35.879 you can't go backwards and I don't think Jerry's going to allow that. Isn't 165 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:43.159 part of going backwards though, resetting your head coach and coaching staff, and 166 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.200 I think that's that. And can Jerry afford that amount of time he can 167 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.440 afford to get rid of a three straight twelve win team, back to back 168 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:56.480 right back to back division? Uh No, Eagles won last year. Yeah, 169 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:01.200 I think it's nineteen years in a row of new NFC East Division winners. 170 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:05.039 But that is the name would have to blow you away. Bill Belichick 171 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:09.960 has a twenty five million dollar deal with the Patriots twenty five million. It's 172 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:15.000 reset the coaching, you know, market completely, and he's under contract for 173 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:18.200 next year. He even said in his post Gay Press cover today, I'm 174 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:22.159 gonna come into work every day like I always do, and he's gonna go 175 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:24.159 to work until they tell him we don't want you around anymore. And I 176 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:28.080 don't think Bob Kraft is gonna say that to him unless he knows he can 177 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:31.279 get Mike Rabel from Tennessee or someone that he likes him wants. I don't 178 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:35.480 think that's gonna happen. That's the one name I'm gonna read you this little 179 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:39.320 excerpt from an article I found in The Athletic that was a little interesting to 180 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:43.759 me. It's a guy named Mike Sando, and he does this thing where 181 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:46.279 he's got all his buddies in the league, and it's anonymous executives, and 182 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:52.600 the Athletic article it says from one executive, Belichick to Dallas is my sleeper. 183 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:56.440 But I'd make Atlanta the odds on favorite for Bill, the Chargers the 184 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:00.600 odds on favorite for Harball. And there's a big talk that Atlanta wants Bill 185 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:03.679 Belichick and they do whatever and Arthur Blank's kind of like Jerry got a ton 186 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:09.240 of money, I'll do whatever. Execs pointed to Dallas as a potential surprise 187 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:13.960 candidate for an opening if the Cowboys exit the playoffs prematurely. Dallas ranks tied 188 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:20.080 with Baltimore for fourth in the regular season win rate since McCarthy took over, 189 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.600 But much like Baltimore, McCarthy's one and two in the postseason, John Harball 190 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:26.080 is not going to be in the hot seat though, you know he's going 191 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:31.360 to be there forever. Mike Tomlin could go and they make they have a 192 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:33.440 winning record every single year. But Mike Tomlin could go nine to eight for 193 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:35.360 ten more years. They're not gonna get rid of him. Yeah, but 194 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:39.120 you would have said that same thing about Belichick. Okay, nine and eighty 195 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:43.000 is different than I suppose the records that they've posted recently. You thought Belichick 196 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:50.200 would be Patriots for life until he decides otherwise. It's it's twenty twenty four, 197 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:52.200 man, It's not what it used to be. Yeah, I mean, 198 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.320 you can fall out of favor really quickly. But I think there's nine 199 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:00.279 coaches in the NFL that have won a Super Bowl. We have one of 200 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:03.360 them, and five of them are still with their same teams, you know, 201 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:09.879 Harbaugh, McVeigh and Tomlin and Reed and Belichick for now, Pete Carroll. 202 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:13.320 I mean, McCarthy's the twelfth most tenured coach of the NFL A twenty 203 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.399 twenty. I mean, there's a form of stability there that's good. And 204 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:22.519 it's what McCarthy and Sean Payton and Doug Peterson that are with different team that 205 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:26.039 was both with different teams. But I'm just saying, you're like, it's 206 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:30.799 even when they hired him. It wasn't the sexy high or whatever. I 207 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:35.080 mean, the dude is a stable rock of winning football for nearly twenty five 208 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:37.679 years. Look, I'm not even a McCarthy defender, and I get it. 209 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.480 I mean every team, if you watch every play, you're gonna get 210 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:45.639 go nuts and yell about the head coach and you're already probably yell about the 211 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:46.480 quarterback. I mean, that's just kind of how it goes. Dude. 212 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:50.440 Mike McDaniel's seen his boy wonder in this league, and you it drives you 213 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:52.879 nuts sometimes, I'm sure when you can't get a play into the huddle. 214 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.039 Yes, the players I was reading just yesterday some little article of not even 215 00:14:56.039 --> 00:15:01.080 an article, just someone's thought on Mike McCarthy he's hot seat or Mike McDaniel's 216 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:05.759 hot seat, and then another article about how the Dolphins like set the bar 217 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:09.240 of injuries in the NFL this season. Whatever. There's just infinite stuff that 218 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:13.399 goes in. The only way I think McCarthy gets fired even if they lose 219 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:18.480 this week is if they just instantly hand the job to dan Quinn, because 220 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:22.440 then it won't be the massive turnover that I don't think Jerry has the time 221 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:28.360 and his life calendar to afford. Bringing Belichick in is just like bringing in 222 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.080 parcels where Jerry's suddenly like, wait, I don't get to talk about anything 223 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:35.320 anymore. Yeah, does this team, this team that's as far as its 224 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:39.679 personnel goes, and how long they've been together and where Dak is in his 225 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.799 career. Is Belichick the coach that they need? They need a massive, 226 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.720 full on reset. I don't think we're there, no, no, no. 227 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:50.200 And I think the reason dan Quinn stayed last year, when he was 228 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:52.799 a pretty hot commodity too, is because there was a lot of winks, 229 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:56.399 a big old check written, and probably a quiet handshake of when the time 230 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:02.320 comes all, this can be your Yes, it'd be really easy to just 231 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:06.679 go, hey McCarthy, dak Micah, ceedee, lamb, run it back. 232 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:10.200 We're good. Whatever happens this playoff, run run it back. Yes, 233 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:11.480 it's a very easy thing to do, and it says final year of 234 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:14.320 his contract, and that's the thing that makes the most sense, and it's 235 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:17.039 the thing that will likely happen. And they're likely going to beat the Packers 236 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:19.799 on Sunday, but for the sake of the hypothetical going backwards, they would. 237 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:23.159 Jerry's cool down process is what you'd have to count on, because I 238 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:29.679 think in the moment that first seven to ten days after that game, oh 239 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:33.600 my god, we had two home games. You bring up a really interesting 240 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:38.840 point if you kind of evolve the topic. I like doing that. Mike 241 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:45.080 McCarthy might get fired if they lose in the first round, regardless for fear 242 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:52.399 of losing dan quinn. Yes, because if they bring back McCarthy, Yes, 243 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:56.159 chances are dan quinn is not going to be your defensive coordinator next year. 244 00:16:56.279 --> 00:17:00.480 Who does Jerry think is more valuable to this team right now? If 245 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:03.559 you could get in his head and crack it open, would you think that 246 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:07.880 he thinks Dan Quinn is more, contributes more, and is more essential to 247 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:11.119 the essential quality of this team. Yeah, what would Dak say? And 248 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:15.640 that's I don't know. And we always say nothing's as smart or big as 249 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:19.519 you think it is. That includes the US government or a radio station or 250 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:23.920 a football team. Jerry's not above exactly. What we started the segment with 251 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:29.160 was like blaming in his head McCarthy when things go wrong, and conveniently not 252 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:32.920 really blaming Quinn when things go wrong. Defensively, what if thirty eight thirty 253 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:37.200 one and that's kind of on the defense, Like, yeah, against the 254 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:42.160 defense's probably gonna hang twenty eight points on us. Yeah maybe maybe maybe not. 255 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:45.680 But Packer's off. It's playing really good right now. Again, this 256 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:48.960 post seventeen pins iNTS of bears though, So I'm not like, no, 257 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:52.279 I heard that that game flow dictated all that. But caller's wighing in. 258 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:56.240 You'll get some calls. Oh yeah, let's go to uh the line one. 259 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:00.880 Who do we got here? Hey? Man? You're live on the 260 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:03.480 air wayzy? Oh? How you doing? Where you calling from? Man? 261 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.640 I'm going from Dallas. I like Dallas. What's up? Man? 262 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:12.000 You know what I've been I've been watching these Cowboys and the nineties, man, 263 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:14.960 and every year it was, Hey, we were on top of the 264 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.000 world for a while, then we got Swisser, we got another title, 265 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:21.960 and after that it's been trash man. We've had all these coaches. We 266 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:26.640 had Garrett Man, we went ten years of him going eight and eight, 267 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:27.920 and every year we still have hope. And every year we're still like, 268 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:30.640 oh yeah, we're in it. We got this. You know what. 269 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:33.240 I've gone through so much misery my whole life as a fan, and this 270 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:37.079 is the year. You know why, We're not gonna fire our coach cause 271 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:41.680 he's good. We're twelve and four, twelve and five. Man, You 272 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:45.759 know, every year Garrett didn't do that, Phillips didn't do that for us. 273 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:49.400 Huh. But what if you lose? I mean, you're a hardcore 274 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:52.279 cowboy fan. How are you gonna fill seven o'clock on Sunday? You lose? 275 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:56.640 We're not gonna lose. And if we do, guess what, it's 276 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.440 part for the course. It's happened before. It's happened to me every year 277 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:03.920 every year we're disappointed, but not this time. You know. You gotta 278 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:06.720 have faith, man, We gotta have some hope we can dream about, 279 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:08.759 you know what I mean? One day we can imagine running down down the 280 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:15.200 Texas, burning cars and flipping things over. Yeah, this guy does remember 281 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:18.960 the nineties. Punch your horse, let's flip a car if they beat the 282 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:23.319 Packers This Sunday and I saw McCarthy at the Super Bowl here in Dallas. 283 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:26.759 I thought it'd be us, but no, guess what he won? It 284 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:30.440 was, you know, no big deal. It wasn't like I went because 285 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:33.000 I wanted to see them. I expected the Cowboys to be there, and 286 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:36.039 guess what they weren't. This had we had some hope. Man, we 287 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:38.599 got a little more than what we've had before. Every game if one game 288 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:41.000 at a time, Man, let's win one. Let's get one. Is 289 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:44.599 he God? Bless you man, thank you for your call. Let's flip 290 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:51.039 a fee ut Sunday night for it's Super wild Card weekend. Hey, do 291 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:53.880 you live in North oak Cliff and have like an suv with Cowboys written on 292 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:57.720 every inch of it? No? I do not sound like my neighbor. 293 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:04.279 Neighbor there has a giant this is Cowboys country flag and another one has the 294 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:07.759 SUV that is jacked out with the blue lights. And everything, and it 295 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:11.839 sounded passionate, like my friend is her? You can go now? Is 296 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:15.160 he rut balls? Easy? Let's do one more JJ real quick? Who 297 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:19.839 we got here? Hi? What's your name? This is Cheese? Hey, 298 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:26.480 Yeah, I'm doing all right, man. I just want to thank 299 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:29.960 Kat for being the voice of reason. I do love my Dolphins though that's 300 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:33.920 my AFC team, But Kevin's right. I'm actually of the position that not 301 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:37.559 only has McCarthy had fire ruble of senses this year, but they could win 302 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:41.400 the Super Bowl and I would still want him fired because it's Dak who's carrying 303 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:45.799 this team, and Dak who should be the MVP. As we all know. 304 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:51.200 Is the reason that it covers up for many of McCarthy's failures. I'm 305 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:55.359 telling you, Aaron Rodgers covered up so much, thank you. That team 306 00:20:55.519 --> 00:21:00.640 didn't really missed the playoffs and because of just dumb stuff. Yeah, there's 307 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:03.880 fifty three dudes on a roster and twenty some odd coaches. I mean, 308 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:08.880 as a team effort, it's not just the quarterback covered for the head coach. 309 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:14.920 But I can you can't simplify anything like that to anyone. I could 310 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:18.279 pay whatever to anyone to coach the team. As when you have a quarterback 311 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.279 and people say, oh, Dak sucks, it's kind of the easy question 312 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:23.759 is okay, well, who you're going to replace him with? I think 313 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:26.839 with head coaching it's a little bit different, a little bit easier to find 314 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:30.519 somebody Mike McDaniel style who actually knows how to put people in motion on a 315 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:33.720 consistent basis. And it's kind of like Ceedee lamb happy to do the season, 316 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:37.319 everybody's making excuses for oh, well McCarthy's getting back in the groove of 317 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:41.319 play calling. Well, from day one, you should be getting Ceedee Lamb 318 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:45.319 the ball. And so when Mike McDaniel is doing his things in Miami and 319 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.400 he's doing a great job, you know, just as far as scheming things, 320 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:52.440 that's what Mike McCarthy's, in my opinion, the biggest weakness is that 321 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:56.359 he goes into a game without having stuff like that in place already. It's 322 00:21:56.440 --> 00:21:59.960 amazing that every year, thank you for your call, cheess, appreciate it 323 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:07.440 that every year, as every year we're gonna ask this question, how do 324 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:12.559 they lose in the playoffs? And that will somehow dictate what happens. And 325 00:22:12.599 --> 00:22:15.319 that is a small sample size and a bad way to look at things. 326 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:18.839 But I do think that plays a part. And what's gonna happen here? 327 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:22.680 Now? You go beat the Packers, you have a home game against the 328 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:26.680 Lions or the Rams, you know who knows. I mean, this is 329 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:29.400 your best chance to get to the conference championship game that you'll ever have because 330 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:32.799 you have two home games and you haven't lost at home this year. So 331 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:34.400 I think you're in good shape there. And I think he's fine. Well, 332 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:38.519 I really do think. But if this upset happens, this one against 333 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:42.880 that f and team, dude, Jerry is not gonna be okay with that. 334 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:45.160 Well, it's just like anything else, Kevin. If you if they 335 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:48.400 make it to the super Bowl, all of the mistakes that he made in 336 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:52.599 the regular season are forgotten. If you lose in the first round, you 337 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:55.720 go back and look at all those things, they're a lot more illuminated. 338 00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:59.160 And then you look at the loss in the playoffs as the straw that broke 339 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:02.039 the camel's back. I'm just say, Jerry's not gonna take his anger out 340 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:06.279 on bones. You know, if they lose this game, Jerry will in 341 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:10.079 his right hand have the rocks glass with Johnny Walker blue. His hand will 342 00:23:10.119 --> 00:23:15.200 start to shake and he will crush the glass and maybe a trickle of blood 343 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:18.559 and Johnny Walker on his hand, and he will be irate. I will 344 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:22.519 give you that. And if he does, remember how he felt the same 345 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:26.440 exact way when we got Cowboys got annihilated by the forty nine ers, and 346 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:30.200 that next day I was like, he will not forget this. There is 347 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:34.119 a chance. But they got to lose pretty ugly, I think. And 348 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:37.960 to answer the ultimate question, I think, no, Mike McCarthy is not 349 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:41.000 getting fired next week, and no he shouldn't and no they're not going to 350 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:45.640 lose. How about that. That was your super Wildcard Pump session for today. 351 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:49.000 We'll be back tomorrow with another super Wildcard pump secon the pump right now 352 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:55.359 at Safferding Goose Morning News. Comedian Joe Key hosted the Golden Globes. 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