It's the downbeat on ninety seven one with the tree. I uh got confirmation
Sportspot at M will join us live in studio at nine. Yeah, he
saw the eighteen wheeler dropping them off. Yeah, wheeling out the back.
They're trying to make room down in the iHeart Building loading dock. He used
to come in through there, and he's got a couple of hours, right,
Yeah, plenty of time. But when he walks in, is it
going to mess up the renovation they're doing on the other side of the Bible
to go straight through all that plastic, Yeah, ram in all the half
done construction. He doesn't care. He's a robot. Any robots don't care
about you, no matter what they programmed them to think. A wake of
destruction, chaos behind him. Yeah, well, whatever means he takes to
get inside the studio, it's always a wild ride. It's right, it's
correct. He asked me to have a banana ready for him too, Danny,
so if he could just have yours, I forgot to stop and pick
one out Sports Spot. We'll have to make alternative breakfast decisions because banana will
be gone at the end of this segment. Is that banana still good.
Is that right on the end? Is that Oh, this is the perfect
time for banana? Yeah, that's when you want it. It hasn't reached
mash it up and make banana bread out of it yet. It's this is
perfect. Still got some firmness, not too squishy, but the flavor.
Do you think that's perfect? Yeah, that's not perfect. This is perfect.
That's about a one day past perfect. I would think this is well
above sixty two percent firmness. Mikey, I need some Instagram engagement, So
I'm going to be taking a picture of that and posting a poll. Is
that the perfect banana? Okay? Yeah? And you're gonna have to face
the music, yeah, alright, to get ready to hold that banana up
to your mouth later. Yeah. Okay. So guys, that Bert Kreischer
giveaway nine point thirty our friend, good friend who joined us six months ago
on the air. I think he remembers absolutely he does not, No,
you know a clue who he are. But he's gonna be in town.
We have tickets all week nine thirty five. If you want a chance at
that, you can call her text in two and four uh eight one seven
seven eight seven one nine seven one those are all the number that's too many
numbers. He would remember us, Oh he would not. We made an
impact on the life of Bert. We did, so he forgot ten minutes
after the phone. That smokes weed man. We're talking about as a party
guy. He's a weed head. I don't think he's I don't think he
goes as hard as he tries to make everybody believe he did in college.
No way. Yeah, but currently he might get hard in the weight room.
No, he doesn't do that either. You have big arms. He's
kind of a bear jeans, Yeah, da yeah, maybe genetics. That
was two sports seven seven Kevin, Kevin, let's go now sports at Jerry's
hanging out on the Combine bus, which is a good place to hang out
with Jerry. Have a Miller light. Uh. Javanall claims he invented the
drinking with Jerry on the bus, and I believe him. I mean,
it definitely happened with Jeff. And then the next year I did it.
I went on get a Miller light illegally, as I wore an NFL network
hat. You're only supposed to have one person from each outlet, so I
just threw on an NFL network hat On walked on. No one said anything.
It was great. I really don't care. They really don't. You
went in with Kavanaugh and we had Miller lights. It was good. At
the end of the interview you had Miller lights. Or like, when you
go on the bus, how does it work? You hear the front of
the bus with the little couch area is yeah, you're there's the couch and
Jerry's in his comfortable seat. Does he have his own seat? Is a
swivel rotating seat? Very it appears to be rotating. Yes, I there
are lots of moving around. It looked very comfortable. I love a nice
high end bus. No, they're buss is great. It's so good.
I've only been on that bus once. I mean, Jerry wasn't on it,
but it was after it was in La ox Nard. I guess after
the media party we came back to camp dragging you back to the bus.
No, he wasn't there, but Stephen was. It was like three in
the morning, and somehow it was me and some of the guys from GOSH.
I think it was like me and Corby and maybe No, this was
an ox Nard and we ended up on that bus late at night, like
about three in the morning, busting rails Loshed just eating slices of pizza with
Stephen Jones three in the morning. That's good. I don't remember much about
it at all. I remember the pizza more than I do the conversation because
I was hungies. Why like, why is that? I don't know,
just a bizarre franchise. That's cool, and I think they're probably normal kind
of cool. Yeah they are. I mean that kind of problem like us
if we accidentally farted on to billions of dollars and it was so strong and
powerful that even we couldn't f it up. I think the their approach that
to. I think there's a mutual kind of of respect because a lot of
that stuff that the conversations that you hear, and I've been in earshot of
some of those conversations with Jerry, that that if you printed the things that
he's saying, you would make national headlines. But there's that trust of off
the record, and I think that the Dallas media for Worth media kind of
really adheres to that. When it's Jerry having Jerry fun and talking and saying
wild stuff, they know not to they know not to go with that.
Here's a media party. Come eat it one of the nicest places. Yeah,
I'm paying for all of it. Get hammered, doesn't matter. Now.
Why would everybody screw me? Yeah? Yeah? With all the people
nowadays dying to make a name and get your retweets or whatever, the most
important thing is why would Why wouldn't someone violate that? Does he say is
off the record? No, he doesn't say that, And I think it's
just a strange, good old boy understood Texas cowboy way you do it.
What what goes under your hat stays under your hat, partner, not that
mentality wild? Does it used to be either? That's not okay with Todd
Archer and John Michauda and Clarence Hill. Totally dude, But that the things
that I'm describing happened twenty years Yeah. No, no, exactly. Yeah,
but I mean, first question on the bus is this? Uh?
J creat me up? Please? There was a ruming that they asked me
to take a return and test any comment on that. I don't those are
as. Turns out those legal matters and can't talk about them right now to
some degree. But that'll work through, and I expect much perceived better news
in the future. Expect must perceive better news in the future. Song is
a country song that's amazing. That's one of the new country songs on Beyonce's
new country album that much perceived better news interviews in the future amazing. And
this is this example of him kind of working the media because he says something,
damn, I might not catching like enormy by surprise here, but he
understands that he stepped in it, and he asked them not to print it.
We'll see. We're going to be working on his contracts as we get
into the future, I mean get into the future days of this coming year
and what we do there, don't do I couldn't say at this time.
But the main thing is that he's going to be our quarterback this year.
Say this year that it's still understood. I don't want to take that ye
that Okay, I shouldn't have said this year he's gonna be our quarterback.
Okay, Okay, since we're since we're all friends here, take this year
off. Okay. I've got my mind. I've got my mind all in
Okay, all right, Danny, you need to write country songs with just
Jerry quotes. It's funny that you mentioned that my mind. I've got my
mind all in. If you transcribe that, it's beautiful and send me that
all those passages from Jerry on the Bus. Okay, and we do an
album Jerry on the Bus. I'll do the name of the single will be
Jerry on the Bus, and I will do a beautiful rendition of the weirdest
country song you've ever heard. I don't know if you guys saw this video
went viral of was it Jason Isbel That was on the Daily Show recently,
I don't know, And he did a country or a folk song that was
just Fox News headlines and it was really funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
okay, his visiting the border, I mean like that, all that
kind of just crazy wild Fox News headlines and he did a country song on
it. It was really good, like well, well constructed tune. But
you want to talk about a wheels off tune. Jerry on the Bus,
dude, we're doing that. When I say we, I mean you're gonna
go home and do it. I'm just do nothing and you'll just collect the
royalty checks and then yeah, that's my manager. That's how teams work,
right. We play that one again Kevio because great. At the beginning,
he said something that sounded like a country album title. Still understood. I
don't want to take that. Ye okay, I shouldn't have said this year
he's going to be our quarterbacks before at the very beginning, we'll see we're
going to be working on his contract. As we get into the future,
I mean get into the future days of this coming year. There you get
the future day this year year. That could be the album titled the Future
Days of this coming Years of this coming year Days coming out later this year.
Yeah, incredible. This is the whole all end thing that's been getting
a bunch of headlines. Your definition of what is all in and mine might
not be the same thing. But I'm trying to win the game this year.
I mean that's a lyric. What with my decision? So I'm all
into this year? How is that different in past year because you've always been
trying to win games this year? Theoretically, Oh, I've drafted quarterbacks for
the future. Would be reluctant to do that this year. That's an example,
right, if you had an opportunity there, you are twenty four greatest
thing since ice creams. He's sitting there. I'd be reluctant to do that
this year. Let's call all into this year. Some Caleb Williams is there
at twenty four because something came out about allegation you wouldn't take him at twenty
four. He said, Now we didn't even talk at the tyrants fid thing.
I'm already irritated by this all in angle. Yeah, and they're going
to embrace it because it's just something he threw what through out there a few
months ago, and now it's already everything all in, all in, and
then they're gonna have f and T shirts and all this all in all in,
everyone's not gonna work. And he's like, we need to slow It
was mostly in. Yeah, how about that? I was gonna buy mostly
in. Yeah, we're in. We'll see what happens. We'll see how
some camp goes partially in half way in. Uh so, Mike Zimmer did
you'll know Mike Zimmer only signed a one year contract. That's weird on a
one year deal. Zimmer is on a one year technical deal, but not
necessarily were just for one year. His contractor is one year. I was
having your assistance all on a one year deal they're not all on one year
deals. I mean, I love him in the world. Amazing. You
must walk out of that bus, obviously slightly buzzed from the four Miller lights
you had, but also your head is just like bees and flies just spinning
around it like a cartoon. That process. He just mires everything in such
a murky cloud of useless words. Okay, it's a soup, so what
it's It's insane, but you have any This is the this is the highlight
for me. Oh, there's better. They asked about Layton Vanderish and late
vanders He's why I think I heard this. I don't know if it's true.
I heard that late in the year he like had because he's free agent
now right that like we're talking about issues, sensitivity issues, feeling feeling your
like hands and things like that. Right feel it's his neck, Okay,
stenosis or whatever it's called. So he gets asked about that, and I
think Jerry doesn't want to say because Jerry buy doesn't know. If you're Layton
van Rash and you're going to retire, it would make more sense for Layton
van Rash to retire this summer because there is a I believe it that he
would hit the pension at that point. So that's something to kind of watch
if they if he still wants to play, I guess they could sign him
and bring him back. The point is Jerry's uncomfortable talking about Layton van de
Resh because Layton Vanders has serious health issues with his neck. Okay, and
I don't know that it's I don't know if it's fixable. I think he's
done forever. But listen to Jerry and try to navigate this. This is
a struggle. Understand that we've got a something of of a as far as
his career is concerned. His career, it's a it's not it's divorced from
my mind. It's divorced from a decision of football. What in the world
it's divorced from my mind. I'll give him that that one. Only that
it's because I think he's retiring and they know it, but they don't want
to say it. That's why last time Steven or somebody was like, you
know, I think that's for latent to tell you his plans whatever. And
yes, you're probably right. I didn't know the pension thing kicked in this
summer. I believe that's the number had something to do with his contract,
and or you make what you can get paid for, but it's get something
to do. There's a if he was going to quit, announcing it before
June or doing it before June would not make sense for him financially. I'd
like to hear that clip with all of this, the silence ands deleted,
just to see if that sentence made a damn bit of of you promise.
You probably didn't. But divorced, I said, divorced. It's divorced from
my mind. It's divorced from a decision of football that was the hell of
a football for a reason. Here's once it's a little strange here. This
like a weird story to in a weird tangent about Zimmer being kind of a
hard ass and providing accountability. I'll never forget. I may have told you
guys, but I had a coach who was beloved, and we stunk it
up and I did and against Mississippi. We came home and we were at
Fedville in a team meeting, and Steven was about a year old, and
so this coach wrecks me over Coles and the meeting in front of the whole
team a bunch meetings over. I go out in the hall and he comes
out and said, Jerry high Stephen. I said, what coach? He
said, hi's Stephen. I said, Steven, Arry, How could you
even ask me about Steven? You've made me there's a crawling out of the
desk in there. Don't you ask me if we don't give it about Steven.
A boy goes, oh, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, you're missing
it. You missing it? Son. He said, I know more important
you than anything in the world is to be a football player. I know
that, and I'm trying to help you be that. I love you and
I do love see. And then of course the guy later on when I
got in business, I went in business with him, same guy. Uh,
it was insurance. Okay, twist, What a weird twist there?
Yeah, a heartpelt a heartfelt note. I actually insurance for insurance. That's
insane. Now, Travis Kelsey's doing his podcast right, and he's hanging out
with his brother Jason, and he told the story about when he interviewed with
the Cowboys at the draft in twenty thirteen for context. In the second round
of the twenty thirteen draft, the Cowboys selected the late Gavin Escobar, who
you guys remember, that was the pick forty seven with Travis kelcey at that
point. He went number sixty three, twenty picks later to the Chiefs.
So it fell to the first pick of the third round, and Travis had
missed a year of football because he got suspended for smoking a lot of weed.
But here's what he says. He told the Cowboys during the draft meeting
at the Combine. I had some bad interviews the Cowboys. Hey, we're
kind of pressing at the Combine. I had some bad interviews the Cowboys.
Hey, we're kind of pressing me about having this red flag of missing a
year suspended first season smoking weed. I don't know if I was having a
bad morning. I basically was just I don't even know if I want to
say this. It ended really fast. I basically just said, if you
guys think I'm gonna be that kind of guy, or you're questioning if I'm
still that person after everything that I've battled through to get to where I am
now from missing a season, then you guys probably go somewhere else and pick
somebody else. And it's exactly what they did. They took your advice.
I don't know if I believe that fully. Maybe I do, because I
don't think the Cowboys would have been like, oh, you smoke a little
weed. Who cares? That's true? Brandon Gregory two years later and then
he drops twenty more slots. Yeah, and I don't even know did he
get busted smoking weed to miss a year of college? Yeah? So I
mean that does seem like a reasonable thing to bring up in a pre draft
process, and I doubt the Cowboys were the only ones to do it where
he had to get defense of, like how dare you even ask about that?
It's like, well, you are in college, we're trying to consider
drafting you right now. And zick at that point, as he was not
a first pick, He's not the Travis Kelcey we know today. He was
a guy who got picked in the third round. Man, he thought he
would get picked in the second round. Yeah, you're not going in from
a leverage standpoint and go and move on like, I don't maybe maybe he
didn't you know, but right eleven years later, Yeah, although I didn't
know, I didn't even know he was a third rounder, Yeah, picked
after Gavin Escobar. See, what are the tight ends, Vance McDonald to
the forty nine ers. That was the other one, Gavin to the Cowboys.
Yeah, zach Ertz was a late second rounder to the Eagles, and
I think Tyler if Yeah, Tyler Eifert that year was the only first round
tight end to the Bengals and that's it. He was the fifth tight end.
Takeing Okay, what I don't know. That's kind of fun to think
about. If they took they needed one Kelsey instead of Gavin Escobar. Yeah,
was Kelsey a hit right off the bat? That's a good question.
I don't remember. I know that. I don't remember that either, because
I mean it's not like they had my homes. They're probably still in Alex
Smith world right there. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Of a pull
up his numbers though. Yeah, he only played in one game his rookie
year, that's right, no starts, no catches, and then in year
two, Now you might get hurt. I don't know, but year two,
sixty seven catches, seventy two, eighty five, eighty three, hundred
and three, ninety seven, one, five, ninety three. He's been
really good for ten years. But I don't know. I was that was
just kind of funny. Tyron Smith is not coming back, it appears,
unless he wants to take a massive pay cut. They're moving on. So
this is you know, I think it's good. I just think I hate
to be so general, but I just think signing old legacy players to new
deals is something that the old cowboys do, and it sure whoever it is
whispering like, look, this one's gonna be hard, but we shouldn't do
it. Yeah, that feels more like a more modern decision that we're not
used to them making. So I think you're always welcome to be a cowboy.
If you want to play for cheap right now, you can always come
back and be for super cheap. They will take likely offensive linement at pick
twenty four, fix that. Hopefully they hit on that Tyler Smith stays at
left guard and you go forward there. That's probably their plan now. But
good great career for Tyron. Tyron can quit and be in the Hall of
Fame most likely. Maybe think so books there's no better than him in his
prime. But I don't know. I'm with you on that. It's like
he's a ten game guy right at this point, which Sucks's that's the reality
of it. You have to operate that way. There's a sports We did
have Sports Spot FM coming in at nine because we did have some other crazy
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