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a you know, he doesn't know this, but his tryout to be the
official weatherman of the Downbeat. Ye this honor. It looks crappy on the
TVs all over here and again when we drove in it was kind of just
started the snow that was at five point thirty, five fifteen whatever. Not
too bad, but I think it is getting worse. And Carrie just text
us there was an upside down car on seventy five South that wasn't there when
he was heading the other way upside down. So that's a text report,
well Man from a reputable source. Did Kevin Smith's chances of becoming the downbeat
Weatherman official Weatherman? Did his chances like escalate the second that Kylie blocked you
from Fox forty. She didn't block me, she just didn't respond, and
neither did Rick Mitchell. I'll have you. Rick Mitchell was dealing with enough
last night. I get the world mad at him. I DMed him as
well, and I said, we're having your comrade on at seven point forty
if you want to jump on at nine twenty and nothing and nothing. Rick
Rick Mitchell, who was apologized for his cut into the Lions Rams game yesterday,
is sunk it into a leather chair right now with a tie loosened in,
a empty bottle of whiskey on the table next to his chair and a
light fluffy coating, just melting into into sad. Yeah it's all right,
man, we know that's happens, and absolutely does. Man. You can't
predict that, and you're working. You're doing live TV sort of yeah,
but I mean not real live. I mean you just trying to do a
live stream action. So he's trying to get well, the game's going on.
He's trying to do stuff for the online community. You know, ask
you guys a question about that Cowboy game yesterday. I want to see if
you shared my feelings. When it got you know, late second half and
it was obvious that the Cowboys were not going to come back, that they
were going to show no real possibility of winning that game, did your head
immediately go to Ohn. No, what we're about to deal with is a
lot of probably a lot of Twitter and online stuff of the same recycled stuff
that we deal with pretty much every every Cowboys season. You can't win with
Dak. McCarthy's got to go. This team won't ever win a Super Bowl
as long as Jerry is alive, all of that rhetoric that just seems to
keep spending the memes of Jerry, you know, calling Belichick at halftime and
just dealing with all that stuff. Whereas I think that we try to be
pretty measured the show that I think for the most part has a steady hand
mikey to where it's like, no, you can win with Dak, and
dude, if Mike McCarthy of you three three years in a row with twelve
wins, he how is he that bad? What if they're all right?
What if what if everybody that that is is going back to that boilerplate cowboy
anti cowboy rhetoric when the season ends tragically like it has for the last thirty
years. What if they're all right? Yeah, I don't know, I
can At what point do you say it, I'm done well, but no
one's gonna You're not gonna say no, no, I'm done having any hope
that this is ever going to be any different until until Jerry's just no longer
in command. I don't know. I think those are all easy things to
say out loud and point and say it's Jerry's fault. Yes, the culture
and all that, I get that. And the way this team came out
yesterday and was it either ill prepared, had not right. I don't even
know how to describe that s especially when you factor the Dax CD thing,
which was real absolutely what the hell was that? Yeah, Na could act
like that was nothing, and they tried to say, I mean, c
D didn't talk to the media after the game. Brandon Cooks did and said
that we were just talking coverages and all that stuff or something oot like when
McCarthy talked to CD on the sideline. Yeah, so that's what I had,
And I had heard the Rady Cooks audio either, but he CD didn't
talk after the game. Brandon Cooks did in the media had said it was
no big deal, but either way it was clear. I've never heard a
national but we'll play the audio for we're in eight thirties on this after heard
a national broadcast spend as much time as they did on something that wasn't terribly
obvious, because it's not like the days of des being misunderstood on the sideline
ranting and Raven just being an emotional dude and people called him out for that
stuff, and he was really just going, let's go, come on,
you know, he's just kind of just being passionate. Ceedee Lamb didn't act
like he was frustrated with dak At. I mean that first drive, they
get that first down, I do think it's a bit of a different game
maybe, and sure enough, you end up having to punt and then for
you know, it's fourteen nothing biggest issue. You got punched in the face
and couldn't stop the run. And this happened in twenty seventeen. You couldn't
stop the run, you got gashing. Hear out of the playoffs. Your
first round draft pick this year was Mozzie Smith, and he was supposed to
be a run stopping defensive tackle. They knew that was a problem. And
he doesn't play, and he doesn't play, And I don't know if if
these guys are developmental guys and they start being better in year two, three,
four, then you go, okay, maybe it was worth it.
But my god, it's just so hard to reconcile the way they lost yesterday.
Because it's one thing because Dak came out after the game and said,
I sucked today. All right, Yeah, you know what, you can
have a marginal quarterback performance and still win a game because your defense played balls
out or your your running game was decent. But just top to bottom,
they they couldn't cover anybody, they couldn't stop the run. There. Offensively,
they were inept. They couldn't really run the ball effectively consistently. Dak
was out of sync for the you know, until it was garbage time.
I mean from coaching, offense, defense personnel. Nothing went right for them.
All search for the reason for that, like how does that happen?
Right? And yes, I'm a very wide ten thousand foot view. You
can blame Jerry for the overall franchise, but sure that's not what happened yesterday.
And now there is truth too. They were maybe tight. I don't
know if they were cocky. I don't know if they were like the plan
ahead and destination San Francisco. You know, I don't think that's the case.
But the packers, for damn sure, came out with the f everybody
mentality. They said it, the coach said it. I mean, they
went out and said we want the ball and because they wanted to make a
statement, and they did exactly that. And the Cowboys, whether it goes
all the way up to Jerry or a team that's kind of the Cadillac team.
When things are going well fine, you are shuffling your feet in the
boxing ring and throwing jabs and winding up this punch and punching them with the
left hand like you're doing all the tricks. But as soon as you get
jacked in the face, you cower, you pucker, and you fail.
And that is consistent. You brought up an interesting analogy. It's like the
Cowboys showed up yesterday and they felt like they were just going to drive the
cadillact through the whole game. And by the time they decided, you know
what, we need to move over to the f one fifty, it was
too late and the other team met. You know, the Packers had scrubs
in at that point, dude. That's what your your head coaches, the
last line of defense for that. Yeah, and part of what you do
that week is I guess we're amind of And but you know he's doing that.
You know, Mike McCarthy's not rolling in there all week like, boys,
let's just dust off the Pats and or the pack and we'll figure out
what's next week. He's not doing that, right, But there's something with
this franchise that makes it consistent where you are good when you're when you're leading.
Yeah, but you as soon as you get slapped in the face,
you get scared and you crawl into a hole. And the Packers were smart
to take the ball smack them immediately. And that was it. The kind
of over after the I mean, now that we know the result, sure,
it was kind of over after they made that statement. Twelve plays,
seventy five yards running it all. I think Aaronrew Jones had twenty five yards
on that drive, rushing a couple of big passes. But the first three
play they didn't come out and make plays. They stopped the run on the
first play. Then there was that illegal contact conalty where Jordan Love took a
sack, but it was Deron bland Ye had grabbed the Packers wide receiver and
they called illegal contact. Okay, fine, next play they come up,
demarcusmort stops the run. So it's like the first three plays they were making
plays, and then Jordan Love made some plays. He evaded the pass rush
one time through a sidearm pass, and then he had that big one over
the middle. And then by then the Packers were getting where they wanted to
go, and that's run the ball a little bit and then we kind of
confuse you and go over the top on the play action all that stuff that
they want to do. And how the forty nine ers beat the Cowboys every
year, it seems by doing that same type of thing. Dan Quinn had
made comments earlier in the week about look today, this offense is really good.
Aaron Jones has a bunch of a great menu of routes out of the
backfield. So we gotta be sure that we can cover him as well as
all the wide receivers. I do think there's something to them not being confident
playing man against all those four young Packer wide receivers were all in year one
or year two. The Packers two best wide receivers had one catch yesterday.
Total. They got beat without two of the Packers' best players offensive weapons even
producing, right, Romeo, sorry, Romeo Dobbs is not even like a
game. That's his first one hundred yard game of his career right now.
He's kind of a red zone threat for them, and like he'll catch a
touch He'll use this normal stat line as what three tarts where four targets,
two catches. Yeah, thirty two yards in a touchdown. Yeah, maybe,
like that's just what he is. Not a gas breaker at all.
Yeah, he's like gallop almost, Like yeah, in a way used that
often. How do you stop? Like you stop the run? Okay,
so, dan Quinn, they haven't stopped the run all year, dude.
You know a lot of teams don't try to, you know, stick with
the run because they can't because the Cowboys are ahead. Hows you're behind,
you beat them. It's that simple and the Cowboys playing against teams. I'm
telling yah the Bills game. You said this two weeks ago. Three weeks
ago, you said that Bills game told us a lot about this team.
Well, something the league figured something out. Yeah, maybe maybe the game
planning was there too, because there's a lot of stuff happening too. We
just go to the offense for a minute. The quarterbacks first interception partially on
him. That's that's a cornerback one in this league making a cornerback one play
Jyra. Alexander's great and maybe the game is little different than if he doesn't
play. That's him making a play on a ball physically. You know,
that was a fifty to fifty ball that didn't get it off from Brandon Cooks
in my opinion. But whatever, the pick six inexcusable can't happen. And
that's where you get started asking these damn questions that I feel stupid even bringing
up sometimes because Dak is a clear good quarterback in this league, very very,
very very good. And I don't know, man, I would rather
bitch about a twelve team, twelve win team losing in the playoffs than bitch
about a four team a four win team that had to blow it up and
can't find someone. But there is something too, Okay, do we we
just asked the questions, we do this. This is Romo all over again.
It's the same damn thing. We know they're a good quarterback, and
then you sit there and go, well, I'm sorry, Dak kind of
moved the ball really well in the second half. Sure, the first half,
I think with more opportunities, I think they moved the ball a little
bit better. But those two mistakes can't happen in a playoff game at home
when you're undefeated. I don't know what to do. And that's where we
go back to the circular table of Cowboys discussions, because they're gonna talk about
extending his contract and all that stuff, and I don't trust him to go
find a quarterback personally, But there's something that happens in I don't know man
sport at any level, even though we've probably felt that, I definitely have
where I'm failing. I'm scared. I know I'm failing in front of everyone
and the coup and you shouldn't have that with experience, but Dak has that,
and you can almost see it in his face, you know, like
and maybe that's the kind of thing that does lead back to the Cowboys franchise
as a whole, and like, oh my god, we're on the biggest
stage and I'm failing. They're down fourteen to nothing, you know, we're
down twenty to nothing. There's something to that where it's like you can barely
feel your extremities and you know you're failing, and mentally you're just melting down.
And it doesn't it seems like experienced quarterbacks and teams don't do that.
They that Maybe that's as simple as it is, is calm under pressure,
rock party or calm under pressure just being a novice where you don't even know
that you need to be freaking out right now. And I don't know if
that obviously doesn't fit into that category, but it looks like a different dude.
Jordan Love was freaking out in Week two. Yeah, but that's when
you do freaking missing the snap and you know, jumping off sides at quarterback.
Jordan Love played like a serial killer with dead eyes yesterday and no emotion.
That's kind of what you want. We should have had a quarterback advantage
yesterday, and we had it with the distant second best quarterback on the field.
And don't even I mean, no one's gonna but don't even mention the
damn stats, because who kives a damn? It was way worse than the
final score, no doubt. Is it possible that you know you that,
okay, this happens, that certain aspects of a team will show up on
any Sunday and have just a bad performance. You've seen, we had a
bad defensive performance. We're lucky our offense bailed us out. It was a
tight game at the end. Blah blah blah. Is it possible that you
just had the odd confluence of every aspect of that team just all showed up
and had a bad game collectively. I think the odds of that are very
low. Well, and and the Packers team was peaking at the right time,
so let's throw in that they were running into a team that was hitting
on all cylinders, which I'm not doing. The Look what I said the
last week I told you guys, or last week we were talking about I
said, if Calazos's game, it's because we're gonna be asking questions about dan
quinn and that's gonna fall on McCarthy's playing the food. But like that is.
That is bad and that's the most Jordan love is the guys watch every
damn Packer game this year. That's the most he's been hit, like going
to the ground. So they were close, I think on some of those.
You know, he got a couple of hits after the whistle and things
like that. I was sitting there though, going, man, how ironic
they give up fifty points on the game where they get to Micah Holds because
they've been bitching about that more than anything else. Yep, I mean,
I I don't know. And the truth is they were never as good as
we thought they were because of empty wins. There's that, But dude,
how are you not ready to play? How are you not ready to play?
And how are you not ready to handle when things don't go well for
you? I'm sorry. That tells you a lot about life, man,
And that's where experience has to kick in, whether it be Mike McCarthy's playoff
success and experience or Dak Prescott's tenure and playing on a big stage every damn
week because it is the Cowboys, like, some of that should kick in.
None of it did. And you lost to a better team yesterday.
That's the other thing. Sorry, that's a better team than the Cowboys yesterday
it was. Now you can say, oh no, look at the records,
look at this, look at the talent, and then sure, line
up the talent, say who's better Romeo Dobbs or a CD Lamb. Okay,
fine, don't care. That was a better team. Yeh, Dallas.
Whatever you want to coaching or cool under fire or decision making or just
straight performance, but that's the better team crushed the inferior team. Dallas smokes
them in October. But October wins mean nothing. And we say this every
damn here. Why does this not translate to January? Do you want to
let a collar twist off? Fro am? Minute? Yes, there's Jonathan.
Hello Jonathan, you're on ninety seven won the Freak, the Home of
Dallas MAVs and the Inside Sports Medicine with To Sorriol Saturdays at seven. What
are you doing? Hey, guys? Hey, I was just wondering,
man, what's up with city Land's body language on the sidelines and what was
that about? Hey, he's not a diva? Okay, he's a diva?
Sure? No, he is absolutely a diva, which is why they
continue to scream he's not a diva. Yes, yes, the helmet off
in week five. And by the way, you can be a diva and
be awesome and be great and everyone can love you. It's it's fine.
The week five helmet off. There's the image. I'll try to go find
it if I can. He's standing on the sideline away from his teammate,
helmet off, just watching the game and pouting. And that led to a
meeting. And granted, he wasn't being used properly back then, so he
had something to bitch about. Jonathan, thanks for calling. Yes, you'd
be very very safe. Okay. How the roads out there, Jonathan?
Where are you coming from? Man? Maya? I am in Granbury,
Texas. Roads are okay. I got a little dustin but roads alright.
Though. You think there's a better than zero chance will come away with some
hypothermia today or what? Well? I just got offward from working out all
night and it was it was a cold night. I'll tell you that.
What do you do, man, I work in the oil field. You're
out the oil field all night last night? Oh yeah, all night last
night? What are you doing? Are you the guy with the he's a
roughnecker twisting the thing and all your friends have a finger missing. No,
I'm know, I'm no roughneck here. I was working at a station,
a compressor station, all night. You get hazard as duty pay for yesterday.
Oh no, I'm a sorry dude. But they told me, Hey,
you need to work nights tonight. I'm like, thank you, I
get Is it where you by yourself? Yeah? By myself, by myself
all night? Did you bring a Playboy to work? Negative? I watched
cut up on Jack Weacher on Amazon all night, and uh, man,
that guy turns me on. I was six foot five. Man, we
need to sign him the Cowboys. Huh, well, it sounds like you're
really keeping the petroleum industry. I did nine episodes of Reacher, looked at
Playboy. I was well, I was. I was in a bad movie
all night. I was like, man, we'll watch the Cowboys game.
Go to the Cowboys in I gotta go into work. But man, I
was. I was kicked off. We drove to work, checked off for
the last for the first three hours. I was kicked off. Man.
But Jonathan, Man, this sucks. Jonathan. In ten seconds, you're
the voice of all of Cowboys Nation right now. Big responsibility how do we
fix this thing? Man? Man, I don't know, man, because
we got all the weapons five seconds. But but but man, we I
don't think we have the right person steering the ship. Damn, Hi,
Jonathan, thanks hommy, I know we fixed this. Just watched the season
finale of Jack Reacher. Yeah, I don't know, Like I think,
who's who are you? Are you sure is just a dirty dog on this
roster? And I have two people that I think are des DeMarcus Lawrences who
I think of and he had a crucial offside penalty. I think DeMarcus Lawrence
and I think Zach Martin. Yeah, and I don't know that anyone else
is. I think Tyron is a little bit. But but yeah, yeah,
I think Tyron is. But he's been here for a lot of I
mean, as has DeMarcus now, and then pell Zach has two You don't
think Micah is a dirty dog? I don't know. I don't know either,
man. I mean, because he's got a lot of look at me
stuff, and I don't know, I don't know. I don't even know
what that means all that. I mean, DeMarcus doesn't give a blank and
he's gonna stuff the damn run And I don't know. I think he's the
least of our problems, even though he did have a significant path. But
he's not a problem. I don't know what Mike's great, but mis and
things aren't going his way. Is talking about the NFL All Pro Team and
how he got snubbed from that, Like, dude, I'm sorry. T
J. Watt and Miles Garrett are better players than you, Like, we
don't have to these things and these are the best guys, and except the
quarterback position, it's like you kind of aren't. And that's why. So
they're not in this conversation and haven't been in since the nineties. They don't
get to the Final four. They're not going to They're not going to next
year or the year after that. The am ever, with three straight twelve
win seasons that didn't make it to a conference championship game. Yeah, it's
like they are the picture of paper champs. Yeah, they're the image of
a regular season team that cowers fails in the postseason. And it's now like
stamped confirmed. I dreaded today last night not not working with you guys.
I love you guys, but I dreaded the tone of what today was going
to be because we've been through this so many times and I just knew that
we would sit here asking a million questions and have no answers, and it
just seems like it's it's a hamster on a damn wheel. It makes no
sense. It's a big collective thing too, coaching ownership, Yah, office
not getting you any rookies this year for the first time in a long time,
players that we have questions about every single time. Look, it's a
culture thing too, it has to be, but it's and it's a Cadillac
mentality that really is. Man. I love this. I love that you
said that because a dirty dog is going to man up on defense and not
play, in effect was a prevent the entire game. It's like they were
afraid, Okay, we're just not going to give up any big deep plays.
But if it's a third and nine and you need it, it's there
all day. Granted, Love didn't even have any completions. He had like
like, I think of his completions were touchdowns. Well, I think I
think they tried to I think on the defense they tried to out fox a
bear. I mean, Matt before said before the game he said, well,
we're the underdogs. We're just gonna come out throw haymakers whatever, now
coach talk whatever from the guy that looks like like Trent Reznor whatever. But
okay, well they did not give a damn. They were coming out and
they were gonna run their plays and they were gonna throw it down the field.
Okay, how about the exactly that represented by the Gregenator said all right,
I think you know they're running the ball. You're gonna have to fill
the box here, sell out and just let your dbs do their coverage.
The very next play they ran that little play action and there was a Musgrave.
Yeah, the most open receiver in the history of the sport. Dude,
that was peewee fighters. Wait to see the All twenty two and I'm
so glad they showed it when they came back from break. How unreal,
dude, that was nuts. Right, that's not NFL No, but someone's
running up with a contract at full speed, dan Quinn to get him to
be your head coach. Which that's when you find somebody in Madden for the
first time. Hey, right, and they don't they go user control on
the corner, jeez, and just charge charge the run. Look, we
got more of this crap all day long. Nine o'clock. Do we need
to make coaching change. We're gonna throw out names and we want you to
go. You can weigh in with this. Uh just called seven eight seven
one nine seven one. Uh. You can be just like Jonathan coming out
next though, let's get the latest on the weather, the roads, will
the grid hold up? And plus will be joined by Kevin Smith from NBC
five, The meteorologist that's next on ninety seven won the freak