It's the Downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak shunning the best of
mornings to you. It's November twenty seventh, seven or four ams, the
Downbeat, No Danny today. It's thirty three degrees Mike, cold as balls
out there. That's today's weather. Colder, and heck, watch out for
your three p's mm hm, pets, pipes and plants. Yep. Don't
look at the ceiling and like think of what I say JJ and then be
like, all right, I'm just trying to understand where you're going. She
thought it was something else. Just trying to anticipate. That's good. Anticipation
is a big part of this job for all of us. Uh, you
should anticipate the scuttle Buck coming up in about a half hour and then I
know it's a bunch of days later. But at eight o'clock we're gonna do
the Ghost Pepper Babyllion, where we play our hot predictions for the Thursday Cowboys
showdown with the Commanders of Washington. Let's see if we going eighty points,
maybe even review that halftime show that set the world ablaze. We can also
discuss Baba Vangas for terrifying predictions for twenty twenty four. I don't know what
that is, but I'm in Boba Vanga. Of course, the mystic who
died back in nineteen ninety six. You have them on, you know,
maybe we'll do that at seven point thirty coming up, as well as the
details of the big shopping center plane crash in play. No, they've only
got their report on that. Yeah, you were gone on Wednesday. Danny
had a friend who was there when the plane crashed out of mid air in
front of a shopping center. Put some details rolled out about that. I
heard that segment while I was sitting on a plane. Yep, I listened.
The whole segment. Didn't even register until the very end. I'm like,
oh, that's kind of weird. It was weird too that you and
Christina flew a small plane out to Florida too, So just get me Major
Airlines, a tiny single propeller plane. The Bermuda Triangle was licking its lips.
We weren't going over that luckily. I would like to do the history
of the Bermuda Triangle one day. I might be your man for that.
I mean fairly well verse that in the history of the Thanksgiving Day coin toss
between the Steelers and Lions twenty five years ago. Two things that have been
on my mind a lot later that the Jerome bettis yeah tails and no heads
or yeah. Have a couple oral histories coming at you. And you know,
amongst the weeks Bermuda Triangle mysteries is just the island of Bermuda. You
know how far north the island of Bermuda is it is? Well, I
don't have like the latitude and longitude, but it's way up there. It's
a really weird, isolated island that I think think has some of the most
expensive real estate on the face of the earth. Like if you live in
New York City, that's your Caribbean island. That's like easy to get to.
I encourage everyone to just look up Bermuda on them make sure they have
the natural Bermuda grass too, right, That's why am I wrong? You
know what? You're probably right. I don't know do they grow it there?
These are questions that we'll do and we'll handle in our Bermuda Triangle segment
coming at you in weeks. Just look up Bermute on a map. Tell
me I'm wrong. It's in a weird spot. Ber You don't have to
do right now, you're Muda one of the islands, Okay, now,
zoom out like you think it's part of like the Bahamas or oh damn,
like traditional Caribbean. But what's it doing on that is in the middle of
nowhere? That is stupid right, essentially just in the middle of the Atlantic
Ocean. And then very other other other very small islands way out in the
middle of the Atlantic Ocean we don't even know about. Probably how does it
not get destroyed every hurricane season? Well, I think it's further north,
so it misses that way. Yeah, colder, colder water up north.
The hurricanes come on down through the Caribbean. Like birds, they go south.
Hurricanes migrate south. A couple of nights, a couple of nice golf
courses on Bermuda, including I believe the Teeth of the Dog, which is
a very coolly named golf course. Until I googled it, I thought Bermuda
was like an island. I thought it was like south of Panama City and
Pensacola and all that. We thought it was in the Gulf. Yeah,
I thought it was in the Gulf. Yeah, my mistake, my bad.
We'll talk serious Bermuda Triangle coming up sometime in weeks, in weeks and
weeks, but now it's time for the sport and now Sports Bad Sports of
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you like to advertise Bermuda. Michael Sarroy at iHeartMedia dot com. I was
going to do cyber Monday and say, create a Yahoo account and ask strangers
on the Internet their age, sex and location and sells. That was very
common in the world. Is catfishing? Probably probably cowboys got that ass on
Thanksgiving Day. Let's start there. Yeah, I you know, look bad
teams, So there's that. I ain't got a bad thing to say about
any of that. They took care of their business and then they got a
short week so Thursday night, Seattle. They've done their job lately. And
Dak Prescott absolutely deserves to be mentioned in MVP conversations all of that stuff,
even though I mean he's top ten in every category that matters. He is
what second touchdown passes. Everyone's worried about his interceptions. He's way down the
list on interceptions. He's only thrown six and we're in a league now where
Joe Burrow's out for the year, and I know he's not good, but
Kirk Cousins is out for the year. Mahomes is playing with an offense that
has a lot of drops. They're still good, very functional, but there's
some holes on the Chiefs. Josh Allen looks amazing at times and looks terrible
at times, and you might just be up against the fact that Jayler Hurts
is kind of amazing. Other than that, like your MVP talk, it
should probably include Dak Prescott as one of the top three names. Dude,
I did this two weeks ago and he was at thirty five to one,
and I'm like, what the hell, it just feels weird. We felt
weird at the time, and then a week ago we mentioned it again he
was at eighteen to one. Now he's basically eight to one. He's third.
He's behind only Hurts, who's a slight favorite over Mahomes. But yes,
he should absolutely be in that category. The guy. The two guys
I left out and probably should include Ark Lamar Jackson and Tua Yeah yeah,
in the conversation for sure, but statistically, Dak I think is better than
both of them, And if he smacked I mean, if you smack him,
smack the Eagles, that's you know, you could jump right to the
an equal number to Hertz. Yeah, and here you go, here's the
news. I kind of think they're going to smack the Eagles in two weeks.
I kind of think they are. And I'm worried that it won't matter
because oh if the Eagles did yesterday to get through it, because well they
might not matter for winning the division, but it won't matter matter, And
what if they rattle off, you know, the rest of the year.
It certainly feels like the Cowboys are on a crash course to visit Atlanta,
New Orleans or Tampa Bay in the first round of the playoffs. Okay,
no problems, and that's easy. And then you will find yourself Playinghiladelphia or
San Francisco or whoever else makes it through Detroit. I guess would be your
other, you know, good team in the NFC. It's always been three,
maybe four teams in the NFC. It's always been this going into this
year. That remains the case. You're just as good to I think the
Cowboys are better than the lines personally. The lines have put up a couple
of stinkers. The Lions have given up a ton of points. Yeah,
and they tend to score with people, and they do fine and offensively they
have a lot of big names and whatnot. But yeah, their defense gives
up a lot. I know they got whooped by Green Bay. Dude.
Wow, when you watch the Cowboys play, though, even though playing bad
teams, are you sitting there going Super Bowl? Could? Yes? Yeah,
I'm two. Yes, I'm too. And I don't know if it's
the teams they're playing or if it's them. I think it's just they do
this every year. It seems like I will say, we're gonna get the
test. We'll feel different about this in a month, probably after they play
four tough teams. But I mean, the only the Cardinals game, fine,
but the loss to the forty nine ers, which you got annihilated,
I don't know. It's just it's starting to feel more like an outlier than
anything. I'll say this as a new fan of Penn State University, because
you know, we grew up with their defensive coordinator, Manny Diaz. He's
a friend of the family. So now I pay more attention to Penn State.
Penn State every year kills everyone and then they lose to Michigan and Ohio
State like every year. And I was trying to apply that to the Cowboys,
where it kind of feels like, yeah, you're running everyone, but
then you get smoked by the forty nine ers, you get beat by the
Eagles, and it sort of feels the same. It doesn't matter how good
you do and the other stuff. If those high pressure, high leverage games,
you lay an egg. So yes, annihilating the Commanders on Thanksgiving in
what was a really feel good thing. It was awesome, and I kind
of thought it was almost endearing that Jerry said, this is maybe my best
day as the owner of the Cowboys. Yeah, and then everyone of course
the Super Bowl Super Bowls. He's like, well, I mean, I
don't want to He's like, I don't want to say it. It's been
a long damn time since we won Super Bowls. And he's also enjoying his
days more than he did agree and he doesn't like to talk about it.
Yees, I know that that's like one of the few things back when I
worked at the station that carries Cowboys games as like one of the two things
that would make him call in don't ever say that he doesn't care and don't
ever talk about his age like yeah, or morality or talk about him dying.
He will call metality. Yeah, I'll talk about that. Mortality and
morality both issues. Well that fairly. Yes, we have a sexual assault
a trial that is gonna be Keviny Curton March. But I he he he
is uh. He has access to an actuary table, and I think he
realizes that, you know, the light at the end of the time is
probably visible. So yes, I like that he appreciates days like that.
And David Moore had a great write up in the in the Dallas More News
about that was a special day. I don't know, and I kind of
read it and I'm like, you know what it was. How about just
ratings alone? You see that? No, but imagine big forty one point
four to three million people, I mean, the highest rate of broadcast on
any network since the Super Bowl and the third most watched regular season game in
NFL history. I don't know, that's whid just have it on, you
know, and you know you want selfishly, you want a close game,
or at least if you're just watching football, you want a close game.
If you're a Cowboys fan, You're like, bow their ass out and get
dack out of the game and do all the things you need to do.
What where The bummer of all this is to me is that you had a
real chance to set up December tenth, in two weeks, Cowboys and Eagles
playing each other for essentially the division lead. But Ethan Jake Elliott knocked down
a sixty yard field goal after the legal mismanaged the clock a little bit,
you know, and in the rain drills a sixty yard field goal and they
end up taking that thing to overtime and end up winning in overtime when Josh
Allen had a miscommunication with Gabe Davis and the end zone. And the point
of it all is the Eagles go win a game that they were trailing by
ten in the second half, that they only had seventy six passing yards through
three quarters, they gave up five hundred and five yards on offense, I
mean on defense, and they won like they've got it. They're finishing those
games how and we'll find out if the Cowboys are. Because the Seahawks,
I don't think you're very much of a test. I don't take the Seahawks
very seriously. But maybe I should. And then what is it Buffalo,
Well, it's Philadelphia, and then it's Buffalo, Miami, Detroit. Yeah,
I mean it's on. We're gonna know a lot about this team in
a month. And it's kind of sucked about this year as we've been kind
of talking like we don't know what they are. It makes you scared almost
to go, well, they're one of the best teams in the league,
but they are just watching what they've done. But that could change real quick
if they suck in the next month or go two and two even all of
a sudden, you've got I have losses in the NFC that doesn't look very
good. So and they absolutely could. This Seahawks game is the last of
their little their stretch of I guess easier games. And I wouldn't really put
the Seahawks in with the Commanders, Panthers and Giants because they're still kind of
on track for playoffs, I think. And then yeah, Eagles at Bills
at Dolphins is gonna be no fun. And the Bills, I don't know,
Bills are weird too, And I'll you know, it sucks last night
because I always watch things from a Cowboys slash dolphin perspective, and I kind
of you know, I kind of wanted the Bills. Yeah, for your
sake, Yeah, take take the l there. I well, there's a
couple of things. The reason I want the Bills to win because I think
a desperate Bills team could be really bad in two weeks maybe, but they
might be out of it by then. That they're U jackyl and Hyde.
But going up to Buffalo's never easy, and that I mean they'll okay,
Well, the bill Bills will be favored in that game, right, yeah,
point maybe yeah, two and a half, one and a half something
like that. Guess it depends what happens the next two weeks exactly. Can
we go smoke the Eagles? Then, yes, we were favorites. What
do you think the line will be against the Eagles Eagles at Cowboys? Dude,
it'll be Cowboys minus two and a half two and a half, exactly
what I was thinking. I think two and a half. No, Cowboy.
I think cows be favorite. Okay, so they look when when they
get you in a third and short, you feel doomed when you play the
Eagles just because monsters, you're like they can be carved up through the air,
and yes, A J. Brown and Demante Smith and Jalen Hurts are
amazing, but they're not world beaters at all. They're just not. And
they're acting like they are right now, and that's fine, and they're ten
and one, but they are not world beaters. They've played a lot of
these games, including the Cowboys game, including the Chiefs game last week,
and including yesterday, but that's the difference. They haven't farted around the Cowboys,
did you know? They did out the gate with a couple of losses,
most notably the one against Detroit that really really hurts. The Cowboys have
what seven twenty point wins? Is that? What it is? Not Detroit
Arizona? I mean, uh yeah, I'm not I'm not sure on that.
Yeah, okay, how about yeah? Seven twenty plus point wins,
including three in a row, again through this desert where you know you're gonna
whip these teams. But I don't know. There's something about winning and crushing,
which the Cowboys have done a ton of, that makes you look at
them a little differently than even a ten and one Eagles team that only beats
the Commanders by a touchdown, for instance. But for the for the I
guess, just like viewpoint of full context, I guess I'm just gonna have
to see them get to the championship game before I ever go, Yeah,
it's gonna happen. And I am a huge Dak fan, okay, unabashed
Dack support, or but how does this feel any different than last year?
Trayvon Diggs had a bunch of interceptions the drawn blands setting records out here,
and that's incredible, and but hey, when Zeke jumped into the Salvation Army
bucket, that was amazing. When Dak pulled the turkey leg out of the
Salvation Army bucket, that was awesome. How does this feel any different?
If we're trash Force in San Francisco in January, I probably have to think
the forty hundreds are gonna win. I don't know, I mean, but
they're good and like, this is the thing. I was like, I'm
a guy who questions McCarthy a lot, I truly do. He's done a
good job, right yep, so, and he apparently is showing the ability
to evolve and change a little bit, as that offense has been cooking since
they made those sort of changes. And the changes were sort of what we
were all screaming to you know, with pre snap motion and let Dak run
a little bit, and hey, Brandon Cooks is on this team too,
and a handful of things offensively they're like, you should do and now they
are doing everything. I give Cede Lamb a lot of credit for his Week
five or six hissy fit, yeah, because he might have saved the season.
He changed things immediately because the offense became get the ball to CD and
then everything else opens up. Yeah, that's that's awesome. And Dak,
yeah, I don't know. I mean, Dak, Dak is out.
I love Dak. Look Dak and Lamar Jackson or guys who take I think
a little bit in national heat sometimes for not getting it done, but they
do pretty much everything in their power to get you there, and then you
just need a four touchdown performance in the playoffs. They're saying this about Josh
Allen right now too. Yeah, you know, I was like, well,
like I felt like you have either one of those three guys, you
got a pretty good chance. I just think around here people are conditioned to
expect the collapse, and there's a lot of evidence that is gonna happen.
You can play that for the team as a whole, or to Dak.
But the dude is dialed. He's playing so good. He needs the damn
win against the Eagle and not I mean, you need the playoff wins,
oboly. But if they beat the Seahawks and then go and handle the Eagles,
that everyone's gonna kind of be like, this is it. It's don
If you beat the Eagles, even in a close one, it's gonna be
all right, this is the one. This is the year. Who the
Eagles have this week? Because I would like to get the Eagles. Yeah,
this is great. Eagles and forty nine ers this week through twenty five.
Yeah, okay, so it's good. That will set up and the
Cowboys game will already a hit. So let's assume the Cowboys beat the Seahawks.
Let's say the forty nine ers go take care of the Eagles. Then
we are playing once again for you know, at tire at least the same
record on December tenth, which they have the breaker on the problem is the
Eagles last three games Giants, Cardinals, Giants, cake, I mean that's
cake. Yeah, at Seattle at least after the Cowboys. So it's a
little bit of a switch. But you get the Giants twice out of the
last three weeks, so that's all dubs. They took care of their business
in their first two Gauntlet games. I guess you could call them darn Bland
ridiculous. I mean, do we need to talk more about probably amazing thing.
Well, it's funny. We're playing the Seahawks and I think the Seahawks
are tied with someone with three defensive touchdowns on the season as the second best
teams man after Deron fin Bland has six of them. I kept doing this,
I keep doing it. Seems like every week now I'm going and looking
at wide receiver stats and I'm just going, Okay, he has more touchdowns
than all these top tier wide receivers. Yeah, Delante Adams, he has
the same amount of touchdowns as Travis Kelce. He has. You know,
it's just like we shall look at the list, like, Okay, this
is ridiculous. This is more impressive than what Travon Diggs did a few years
ago, clearly, and I thought he was gonna get tackled, yeah,
and something. He got the he hit the turbo button like the twelve yard
line and said, no, I'm gonna get in there. Well, it's
two in a row too, he's had two great returns in a row that
took a little shaken and bacon, and yes, it's incredible, and he
should be the favorite for Defensive Player of the Year. Yeah, not just
like now on the list which he is appearing now, he should be the
favorite. Like I don't care what your first and last name is and how
that applies to what your odds were at the beginning of the season. If
you do something that's never been done, you know, thirty points, what
do you want? I mean, what could I mean if that was Sauce
Gardner, who had six pick sixes this year, yeah, they'd have already
started chiseling the award to hand to him. But because it's darn Bland,
you can't be like, wait what, oh, Mike, I thought Micah
was our candidate from that particular team. And fine, Micah still could earn
it and win it. But you know, Miles Garrett, I guess is
the favorite right now for that thing? Like all right, because of the
Sweatpant interview. Yes, after the Sweatpant interview, everyone saw his hog and
said favorite. Yeah, that's where also Jaron Bland is really hurt by his
last name too. If he was iron exciting, Yeah, Duran fire,
Yeah in award this man, not meh, Duran meh. I'm gonna change
my name to oh oh, I don't know. It was pretty exciting in
a game that had already locked up and it was sixty three yards, it's
up to that, Like that's a massive one. I just know there's a
bunch and everyone's eating turkey during the game. Is incredible. That was a
lot of fun, man. I mean there are great players who have like
one defensive touchdown in their career, you know, yeah, I mean,
I mean our great corners, but great linebackers and defensive players whatever, six
of them, and it just like that game was already so great. Then
to get that delicious cherry on top, which is pick it's bland, Oh
my god, house it, and then to make the move and flush it
ridiculous, beautiful, and then Defensive Player of the Year. Yeah, let's
let's get this ahead of Micah, ahead of Micah. Yes, and you
do something that's never been done in the sport, Like I don't care if
some no name defensive end whoever it is, if he gets twenty sacks or
breaks straight hands or whatever he gets it. You think they're going. Damn.
I wish we wouldn't have paid Trevon Diggs already. I just waited,
you know, yeah, I just to go like cause you save you need
Micah money, and you're gonna have to redo Dak at some point, I
don't know. Kind of interesting, but dude, they're kicking ass in.
At eight o'clock, will ever ghost Pepper Pavilion prediction reviews, because we,
you know, went ahead and did it on Wednesday. We predicted what would
happen in the game. It involves pickles and Ron Rivera and much more,
and we will have that for you at eight o'clock, along with their thoughts
on the halftime show because Dolly Parton might have dunked on Jack Harlowe. But
we have some thoughts on much what happened on the fifty yard line around five
pm on last Thursday, so something felt wrong to me. We'll cover that
in about thirty minutes. But coming on next to it's the scuttle butt.
I have the latest details on that big plane crash that was in Plano.
It's kind of nuts. And also what will happen in twenty twenty four,
The Mystic has released their predictions next on ninety seven to one to three