We're live. It's it's fun. Happy Monday. We're live. It's fun
working here. It is. You know. I wish I could agree,
Danny, I really do so. It's fault though. We're alive and a
lot of people are gonna have the day off today. A lot of people
are working today too. If you're one of those, you can let us
know. The roads are going all day long. We had to be I'm
gonna try something now because here's how we were actually gonna start the show.
I'm gonna pop pop up my computer again, Maddy. We're gonna try this
now. We're gonna do this the way we planned on doing it in three
two warm. That's nice. Sounds like a tenacious deal. Hey man,
let it breathe your hand on his arm. He stuck charm around your neck,
strung on a thing, calling some friends, trying to cast some check
execting time. That's what you've called to expect. We're tracking two big stories
for you all day, including whatever the f happened yesterday at at and T
Stadium. Sadness good God Paul hangs over the Metroplex in the form of snow.
But we played that song for the director at NBC five. That's losing
his job this morning because the weather cut in. Well, you know who's
gonna save his job? You're all just Kevin Smith at seven forty on the
down beat. We got him. We got him to him on the phone
yesterday right before kickoff. Yeah, and he said, I'll call in a
seven thirty five. I said, mom, Man, he's dialed in and
he has fun astrology, fun facts. If you guys have ever seen him
at night, if you needed cheering up, yeah, and you think astrology
might do it. Yeah, he's guy. He's worked at Florida a little
bit. He spent all the time out in Florida. Tallahassee, that's La,
that's lower Alabama, that's barely Florida. I didn't count. I don't
count. But he will join us at seven forty for the latest on the
weather and the row ads. We're gonna be all over this is there gonna
be a coaching change. We'll dive into that at nine eight o'clock. We'll
have a little fun. I've a I wrote a bit of a song,
at least an idea of a song three years ago, four years ago,
and the Cowboys hired Mike McCarthy and I've just been waiting on it and it
will unleash itself at eight twenty. But man, let's talk about how we
all got to work, and then at six fifteen we'll dive into our preliminary
cowboys and packers thoughts. I'll say this, I'm sure there's corporate overlords who
want me to come in and start screaming. I would if this was out
of the ordinary. This is right, and this is like when Paul Corvino
started freaking out one time when Jerry there's breaking news a sexual assault hearing for
Jerry, I was like, yes, the one hundredth one since I've been
working here. You're new here, Like this happens every week because Wednesday,
a disappointing cowboys loss is a Christmas tradition. It's like skin go to get
cancer scans. It's a tradition like none other. I mean, it's like
he it's that I gotta do. You know, it's essentially just gonna be
a sea of cowboys and weather talk for a few hours, Yeah, with
a lot of laughs mixed ten and what I've decided to do though, for
the that really want to earn it. Nine thirty we'll give you a chance
to win MAVs tickets. How about that? Really stick around till then your
joints, because there's as we have too much crap, you know, tonight
today is filled with too much crap. We have MAVs basketball like one thirty,
which is great, love it daytime. I won't about you, guys.
I'm gonna go get in bed and watch the MAVs. Then we're gonna
have the Bills game that got postponabill table. More about that later in the
night. Game with the Eagles of Bucks or somehow still in the playoffs longer
than the Cowboys. That's ridiculous. But man, the Emmys are night too,
and uh we'll let you call in pick a horse and we'll have a
little Emmy's ballot watching that. We're doing that. A couple winners of good
MAVs tickets, how about that? Okay, that's easy, right, picking
winners again? Yeah, well pick winners. They got eight categories, nice
and easy, so we have something to have some reason to pay attention to
the Emmys tonight. Cool, so roads good? Uh yeah, Honestly,
my report is no, no real problems. I mean, I'm not saying
get out there and drive you shouldn't. And I was surprised that it was
snowing when I woke up. I live in North Oak Cliff and two dogs
at the house. One of them charges straight out and makes his he pushes
his lemonade. The other one quick U turn right back into the bedroom.
Oh no, yeah, didn't get to do the business. Yeah, Hendrix
said, No, Dice really not interested. And he's normally the hard charger
out there in all conditions because he loves p n Yeah. So Simon made
lemonade. Yes, Simon push yellow, but Hendrix didn't go around back where
fudge is made. No that the handy rime didn't come into play this morning.
I'm sorry, so Hendrix, if anyone's concerned for relatability purposes, I
have one dog who's just full of pepe warm bed right now. No,
but I'm surprised that it was snowing, right because we had a pump fakes
all day yesterday where I was expecting snow. Oh my god, if it's
gonna be this cold, let's see a little pretty. But yeah, no,
uh, no problem, no, And then you know there was dusting.
I'm like, all right, how's this going to be. So do
you do this when you pull out of your driveway and you get to kind
of an empty road right there, you give it a quick excel and a
quick hard break and you go ahead and just check the Yeah you can handle.
Yeah, see what we got going down? And I had nothing there,
And honestly, yeah, not encouraging anyone to drive. Screw it,
stay home. It's a lovely holiday, but no real problems for me.
Man. Toll Way North was good, probably sixty the whole way. Yeah,
because you've got snow hitting which isn't wet. It's a nice dry dusting
which is hitting frozen ass ground, so you're you're fine. Yeah. Now
the problem is is once you get a lot of folks on the road between
like now and ten in the morning, and the friction of those tires is
making that snow turn, you know, into water, and then that refreezes,
then maybe tomorrow might be a different story. But I think it's I
checked the forecast and it looks like this dusting is pretty quick, and yeah,
it's not gonna last long. But maybe I have the I think you
and I have about the same distance. Yeah, maybe mine's a little bit
longer. And today I got routed up seventy five thirty to downtown and then
north seventy five. Everything was fine, you know, and I'm not trying
to drive the normal seventy seventy five like I would. I'm keeping it around
forty five fifty that came to I wouldn't say a screeching halt, But there
was a car in front of me. And you ever noticed when, like
maybe it happens in all forms of auto racing, but either NASCAR, f
one Indy car when they first kind of do that practice lap where they're just
weaving back and forth and kind of getting their tires broken in like just going
across the whole track. There was a four door like Toyota, like a
ninety nine Toyota that was about eight car links in front of me that was
doing just that. It is warm of the tires, and he was going
about thirty five and nobody wanted to pass him. So you have this what
looked like a presidential funeral procession behind him because nobody is willing to try to
overtake this dude that is just either drunk or has something wrong with his car.
And then at the last minute before a right about Quoit road. This
guy just makes the biggest, hardest swerve all the way to the right lane
to take the exit, and then everybody starts driving him. Yes, it
was in. I think they were hammered. Probably. You think lot of
people are drunk. I drink after last night's game. Yeah, hammered at
five am, just driving home from what happened. That dude went to the
bar, drowned his sorrows, had a buddy that had cocaine. They went
back to his house. They stayed up all night long drinking more. Any
guy thinks he's awake because of the cocaine, but he's really really hammered,
and he's I'm just gonna go home. And that's who I followed to work
today. I wish it didn't happen more often than we thought, but it
does. It does. Let the cocaine all night or yes, if you're
on cocaine right now two one four eight one seven seven eight seven one night,
Yeah, stuff on cocaine, and we will accept your road report.
Two one four at or eight one seven seven eight seven one night seven one
all day long? Can I it's eleven degrees right now outside? Do you
guys know what the real feel is why don't your real feel these nuts and
find out? You know what I'm saying. This guy knows I'm talking about.
See, you still tell jokes even though the Cowboys lost. We're not
gonna be some sad SAPs. I already told the Metroplex here. I was
side roaded again from Richardson, and I had no problems. Yeah, the
I and I was checking the hourly weather forecast last night and it was the
precipitation chances had been dropping really since Saturday, even though sight they had dropped.
And this is one of those things where we were talking about this damn
winter storm since Tuesday of last week, and we built it up and it
sucked. We get nothing. Which it sucked is means it's good. Yeah,
Now, if the winter storm is good, that means it's bad for
us. Makes sense? Start over? Please don't. I won't. There's
some morbid truth to that though, like we had the thread of like Snowmageddon,
you kind of want it. I don't know why the chaos. I
know knew. I knew we were driving in this morning, no no questions
asked, We're doing the damn show. But I still wanted. I don't
know I wanted chaos, not cast for I don't want to you know,
no cars to get spun out or anything, but you just want wildness.
And I felt, at least until this morning, it felt like a big
wet nothing. At least we got some chunk in this morning. I mean
it's snowing like. But again, yes, the news is the roads are
a okay. A couple of people texting in with updates saying much the same.
Shout out to the road. Some dude came from a Debton to Frisco
for work. He said, no problems whatsoever. So yeah, I think
everybody's okay right now, but you're right if the freeze continues and the wet
turns into ice. Honestly, I was thinking that our drive home might be
harder than our drive in was this morning. Agree, it's possible, and
tomorrow is gonna be the coldest day. You know. This is that's the
big the big bummer about it all. This is we just got in three
straight days of the temperatures being in the fifteens and that sucks. I hate
the cold straight up, like, couldn't handle it. Give me one hundred
and ten all day. I can deal with that. Way easier than I
can deal with eleven degrees, dude. Christina and I went and got a
little brecky yesterday and she did that and it is sort of Gennaro radio talk,
but she's like, would you rather have this? And it was like
thirteen degrees or one ten? And she's like, would you rather live in
a place that was like this? Every day? Every day? Every day?
And then I'm like, are there those places? I guess Antarctica,
sure, which no one really lives. Yeah, nobody lives there and calls
it home. People have there temporarily. Well, there's the people that watched
the new episode one of the New True Detective and tell me if you want
to live there. I'm going to watch that on Wednesday. I watched it
last night. Is that Alaska? Yeah, but it's right within the Arctic
Circle. And the show starts with their last day of sun. Yeah,
it's like the final day of them having sun, and then they go into
that period. They go into that period the sun never comes up. Yeah
fast, that's a good bit. Actually, now I've had up to here
with cold weather shows, so I will say I am pretty amped up about
tomorrow night, season finale of Fargo on FX and watching that in the fifteen
degree temperatures, wild stuff happens night Country. The New True Detective makes Fargo
look like Palm Beach. Yeah, it's crazy where they live. Is it
good? I don't know. It's a big set up episode. I don't
know if it's going to be good yet, Denny, I'm Jodi Foster.
Oh wow, on a holiday morning. It's Jody Sandler. Everyone, Hey
pen your penguin? Heydu? I mean a couple of people texting in.
It's guys that drove from Princeton to m'squit and got told to turn around and
go back home. What what's that mean? That means it's Carry's Princeton,
the guy told to turn around and go back home from what the client?
Yeah, probably work, is what I'm guessing. Maybe he was the one
that showed up on cocaine. Yeah, he was the one swerving thirty into
Fort Worth from Parker County. All good, brody, our logistics first responder
checking in. He says that all his driver's belt, He's going to pick
up a kidney at DFW for a rush up. Roads are a little slick.
I think that's a good terminology, though they are lost the kidney.
Last night of the pay per view, Gunther slapped a kidney out of somebody
save it. He texted me yesterday He's like Brody text me, He's like,
cowboys could smash in the playoffs. This is the real beginning of the
road to WrestleMania. Okay, like save these for talkbacks? Yes, so
yeah, Roger, mostly fine, be careful. I'll say that. Good
news is I think a lot of people don't have to go to work today,
so and I'm sure a lot of companies these days too, are like,
you know what, if there's even a hint of inclement weather, stay
at home. You know, so that's a that's happening. Mole track it
for you. We'll have an update seven forty from a meteorologist. We're going
right now and say this. I don't know how you can have a playoff
game at home, be the number two seed, be really good, feel
good about things, and then come out and just crap on at and T
Stadium. I don't know how you can do that. It's kind of inexcusable.
And it's not that I've been trying to get McCarthy fired for uh,
since he got here. I've been trying to get him fired. I've just
been trying to send warning signs that stuff like this happens. This is very
McCarthy, all of this and dan Quinn's defense gave up fifty points, and
maybe he doesn't need to have a head coaching job, the guy who blowd
twenty eight to three Super Bowl, Like, I'm I get it. How
is this? You can't this, This is not gonna work. Jerry's not
gonna allow this. You can't go backwards. McCarthy's getting fired probably tomorrow.
I think they'll have meetings today that aren't emotional, and I think it's done.
And I don't know who he wants. It's Bill, if it's Haarball
or whatever, but McCarthy's gonna be needing a new job. I think they're
gonna go ahead and pull the cut the cord. And don't you think the
way they lost that we thought that, we thought it was a possible option
that if McCarthy got fired, they just slide Quinn over. You think he's
gonna stay on this Titanic. I don't if he fires, Quinn's like nyieah,
I'm gone too, bro. So not only are you going to have
to replace McCarthy, you're gonna have to find a DC. Yeah, we
talked about the scenarios that could lead to I felt weird last week talking about
that. It's a great fun conversation to have as the whole what has to
happen for mccarthur to get canned today basically or tomorrow. And it happened.
It happened drastically. That's what happens is a disaster getting punked by the Packers,
getting whipped in almost every aspect of the game. So gosh, it's
funny to hear you say that. I was wondering where you guys heads would
be, especially after one night's sleep, where at least you Yeah, I'll
close your eyes for a little bit and have a little clarity in the morning.
But I am pretty much with you when you factor in Jerry's reaction,
Why what's worthy of keeping? I suppose when you think of Mike McCarthy,
and yeah, there's an argument to be made about consistent quality in the regular
season, I guess. I mean, there is some truth to that,
but this is a calm, steady hand franchise right now, and they have
been in the past. But boy, it feels like something drastic is required
in response to that disaster yesterday. Doesn't it feel like they kind of fooled
us all year that a lot of those those eleven or twelve wins were I've
heard the term empty calories thrown around. I okay, it was just kind
of a rise that, Oh yeah, you beat crappy teams at home.
I think the Buffalo Bills game in the San Francisco forty nine Ers game this
year tell you all you need to know. You didn't compete in those games
against legit super Bowl contenders, So why was this team ever a super Bowl
contender? And here most of the fan base, most of us that talk
about this thing, didn't think they would ever have a chance of beating the
forty nine ers anyways, So that tells shit probably wouldn't good enough. So
how close are you? Tell you? It was a tough one for me
as well. The best thing that the Cowboys do. And oh, by
the way, we're gonna talk coaches a little bit, players play, players
coming out and sucking and having happy body language and just having weird bad penalties
unforgivable. I don't know what to tell you when it comes to that.
You can't I can't help you there if I was making on you for comedy
purposes. For you know, a long list of predictions for that game,
for the Ghost Pepper pavilions. I couldn't have written a narrative like that.
Every single thing that could go wrong would from top to bottom, every damned
aspect. You get a home game indoors, and that was that was your
performance. Jerry kept top to bottom something after the game too. He kept
mentioning next week. That tells me they weren't locked in. He kept mentioning
next week. I just wanted another home game next week. Well, I
mean a lot of things that you can say about that game. They are
just typical Cowboys crap that happens, not being ready to play whatever. How
much is Jerry willing to tolerate. Here's the thing that I couldn't handle.
The Cowboys pretty good at drafting. I don't know about you, guys.
I saw Scoonmaker make one bad mistake and didn't hear Mazzie Smith once during yesterday's
game. You know who I did hear all day yesterday? Long Packers rookies
wicks. Jayde Reed didn't even have a catch. He's been really good Valentine,
who played good at cornerback. Kind of shut ceedee lamb down a little
bit yesterday van Ness making plays like they had all these guys on defense,
they're like, I mean offense, they have fight four or five rookies contributing,
Bo Melton, Tucker, Kraft, Luke Musgrave, all these rookies.
Granted they had extra picks because the Aaron Rodgers trade. All these rookies making
plays. Man, the Cowboys were absent when it came to that. You
know, their third round pick towards ACL in preseason, so maybe they would
have gotten something out of him. That's the one thing that the Cowboys as
an organization truly do well. And don't I get rolling my eyes when we
start talking about Dallas Cowboys country club atmosphere. I always used to rote roll
my eyes of that crap. Dude. The Valley Rancher was not a country
club. It was It was one of the worst facilities in football. Valley
Rancher's garbage now kind of is. I guess truth is they were not ready
to go, and maybe the game's different. If the Packers don't have an
eight minute drive to start the game, maybe the game is different. Off
Ceedee Lamb and Dak connect on that third and five. You know, the
Cowboys ended nine of their eleven possessions in Packers territory. They moved the ball.
The stats aren't gonna look good. The stats were really low after the
first quarter because they had one possession, like that's not necessarily like We're started
looking at the empty garbage time stats and people are gonna tell about the Cowboys
moved the ball. They moved the ball almost at will. They made horrible
mistakes, horrible. The pick six is unforgivable interceptions. Though. The first
interception, that's the cornerback making a great play in your wide receiver not fighting
for the ball. Well, the second one is a handing seven points to
exactly. I am not happy with the offense. I saw your tweet last
night and your twitter war. Jeezuz, you said, well, you said
the old offense was cruising. They did. I wouldn't use that terminology.
Okay, maybe I should have said they were moving the ball. Maybe that's
a that's better than cruising. I think it's seven points at halftime. And
this is you know, the top one of the top offenses in the sport
against a bad Packer defense, Yes, allegedly. I'm just saying, get
two stops in it. The game was on the defense. Yeah, the
defense was embarrassing yesterday, but the Packers' offense is really damn good. And
they forced some third and longs and Jordan Love just kept hitting Romeo Dobbs on
that damn route that the Dolphins usually hit a Tyreek hill, like that little
thing where he's just there. And then that touchdown pass was it to Wicks
or the third the post over Gilmour beautiful? Yeah, Gilmour didn't show up
yesterday. But they were forcing third and medium, third and lungs and they
just couldn't get off the field. And Love look like a seven eight year
veteran whatever Dak is. They looked the Cowboys' defense in the secondary in particular,
they looked like they were scared to play man on that Packer team yesterday,
it seemed like there were so many little soft pockets that were just open.
Anytime Jordi Love wanted to, you know, needed to convert, they
were there and they were open, like wide open. You you typically didn't
have a guy within five or six yards of these receivers when they needed to
get make a when they needed to make a play and the Cowboys just gave
it to him. Did you notice that that it just seemed like a ton
of like really soft zone with a lot of like just open bubbles for them,
like all afternoons. So two thoughts I had on that one, And
is it Cowboys? The Cowboys typically play a lot of really tight man.
Yeah, when they play a ton of man. And one thing that I
thought about that was maybe, for whatever reason, they were just playing that
whole game of well, we're gonna throw off you know what we normally do,
here's our tendencies. We're to switch it up. Jordan Love will have
a hard time reading that, and I think the Packers planned for that.
I'll say this too, though, Jordan Love I think was third in the
league against teams that play with one safety. Back to Cowboys, I think
play with one safety more than any other team in the league. Dan Quinn's
style, right, two corners, one safety, it's the same thing,
two outside corners, one safety, same thing. You're kind of doing Seattle
a little more, and I think that's the Packers have kind of tore that
up all year long. I think Stephan Gilmore was not fully healthy clearly.
I mean, it's pretty obvious that he was not and he wasn't trying to
get involved in the run game, and there's a lot of things there that
you go, he couldn't throw his shoulder around. Yeah, did they play
that game differently? If treyvon Diggs is there, maybe they they can't put
any of these other corners on the field. I mean, they're out of
dudes outside of Jordan Lewis, Jaron Blind and Stefan Gilmore they keep. They
don't have another trustworthy name there. So I don't know. I don't know
if this stops Dan Quindnin getting a job. I know that it doesn't.
I was surprised them, and I shouldn't have been surprised. McCarthy teams have
a history of not being ready to play in the playoffs. We never talk
about this, but I mean he's getting smoked with quite a few one of
them uns in the playoffs before, including a team that went fifteen to one
and lost to the Giants in the first round. So kind of on him,
kind of on everybody. So, yeah, did Jerry really say that
he was looking forward to next week? When? When did he say that
after the game or before I didn't hear him saying no, no, he's
what were you saying, I wanted to play another home game or y?
Yes, he said, all my thoughts were on next week. What can
we do during the game to get to next week? They asked him what
his plan was with McCarthy now, and yeah, he's like, my plan
was to get back in there and start discussing what to do in our next
round. Basically is what he was saying. So okay that that makes more
sense, but he basically said I haven't thought. He was basically just trying
to handle the media scrum without answering anything right macarthy the future because they won't.
I'll play audio for you a little later in the show. And I
thought, if you're on an inside from someone who knows what happens when it
comes to getting fired in this organization, it is Jason Garrett. And now
that Jason Garrett was really pretty real. At halftime, he said, Jerry's
gonna support I'll tell you, we'll play the audio Laterdad. He was gonna
say, play it later in the show because I do think wheels are turning
over there now. I don't know that they feel like they have a I
don't know if they feel like they have a better option. I kept coming
to this last night as as I hit my head and then we'll go away
for a second. Or last week we were talking about that f and dumbass
Jim Harbaugh and how he just lands in good places with the good rosters and
turns it into magic somehow, even though he's not really the smartest guy in
the world. I could kind of see that happening. Please know, I
could totally see that happening. And I don't know the connections. I know
Steven Jensen has a bit of a Belichick pass. They have they like each
other at WIST. I know that so interesting. There's there's there's things to
consider here. Man. Maybe it's running back. Maybe the entrant run it
back. I think I know what I want. We'll discuss later. Oh,
I'll tell you what the Cowboys need to do this morning. This morning,
before the snow melts, I will tell you what the Cowboys need to
do to fix this thing. Come it up next. Though they had to
change a lot of things about NBC wild Card Weekend, NBC Wildcard, we
can get nuts. It's got Taylor swift head injuries and how An NBC five
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