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the original eighty eight Drew Pearson is on the free Co hotline. Oh
hello, drewy Hey, good morning guys. Good morning, Hut hut to
the legend. Good. How are we doing, my friend, I'm doing
great. It's the Redskins. Excuse me, the Commodore, I mean the
Commander's coming to town. Oh, we're going there up there to play them.
So you know, back in the day, that was always a big
deal for us to go to RK to playto Skins up there, no matter
what the record was, no matter or what was at State, but of
course us going up there to play those guys. We got a lot at
State. You know, we need to get that secure, that number two
seed and maybe two home playoff games, So we'll see how that goes.
I'm sure it's kind of a revolving door for you back in the day between
the Eagles and the Skins at the time and the Giants, but I guess,
and I would guess Eagles just at the events in the last five years
or so that you when you blew up once again on social media and everywhere,
but when you really take a moment and close your eyes and think of
the team that you despise more than any other, what team is it?
Okay, let me close my eyes, see about four or five of them,
But you know it's those teams on that we played in NFC East.
Okay, there's no question about it. You know you love you know,
you love playing those guys at home, the Giants, the Eagles, the
Redskins and of course the Saint Louis Cardinals were in the East at that time
as well. But man, it was always cool going to play them in
their place, you know, because they hated the Cowboys and they gave it
to us, you know, like no other fans would get it to us,
and we relished that. It was no greater feeling with say, guys.
It was like third and twelve and you go over the middle and catch
one for thirteen and the first down and you're in the arcade and they're stomping
on third down and you hear silence after you make that catch, you know.
So playing those guys, either one of those guys was tough. But
at first it was the Redskins because they were buying for the division title and
competing with us for that with George Allen, the Eagles on the rich Koe
tire Marion Campbell with no way going to beat the Dallas Cowboys. So the
Eagles didn't get good until Meal got there, and then they turned it around
basically with the same personnel with the the way he did. But then the
Giants, you know, were always physical, Lawrence Taylor and Harry Carrson,
those guys. But we always beat that. We always know there was a
tough game, but we always beat that. Saint Louis tough game, no
doubt, you know, because they could score mel Gray, Kerry Metcalf,
Jim Hart, you know, they could put points up on the board with
air coriel. So we had to play a different game to beat them.
But it was each each of the NFC East rivalries that gave us the most,
the toughest time in the best feeling when you beat those guys Cowboys O
G. Eighty eight Drew Pearson joining us here on the downbeat. Man,
it's so refreshing to hear the guys that I grew up watching, you know,
talk about those rivalries back in the day, because I don't think you
really hear that that much. As far as divisional, the divisional hatred that
you guys had for those other teams. You wouldn't hear a modern player refer
to their bunk mates and their divisions the same way that you guys did back
then, and there was no love lost at all. I guess the only
I guess the only real rivalry that the Cowboys would have divisionally that you would
even speak about would be the Eagles. Is that just due to the fact
that they're the only ones that have been consistently good as of late. Because
back in the day, like you said, it didn't matter if you sucked
or not, it still meant a lot, and you hated those teams no
matter how good or bad they were. It's just different now, right,
Yeah, you know, there's no question the big rival right now is the
Philadelphia Eagles. Okay, you know they hate us, We hate them,
and you know we're usually buying for, you know, a place in the
playoffs or division title or something like that. So you know, the Redskins
have been that excuse might keep calling the rich Skins the commodore has had been
down of course, the Giants struggling, you know, So the team that
gives us the most trouble and keeping us from division titles and having great records
and securing home field advantage going into playoffs was or is the Philadelphia Eagles,
and they had been the team to beat, and we should have beat them
when we played them up there. And but anyway, the Eagles are the
team because they're the best team right now. So they're the ones you got
to get passed, you got to deal with, You got to you gotta
follow, you got to know what they're doing. And when the time comes
you play them, you got to beat them, no question about it.
Drew Pearson joining us here on the downbeat. How is Saturday night for you
on the fields of the big Ceremony? Good times? Yeah, pretty cool?
You know, Jimmy Johnson, you know, you know, if you
look at coaching and you say, well, I wonder if I could play
for that guy. But you know why said I could play for Jimmy Johnson
because I see how his guys really love him. Now, Michael Troy,
Emmett, Charles Harley, all the other guys that were there in support of
Jimmy Johnson going into the Cowboys Ring of Honor, and how they embraced him,
And that tells me that he had good relationships with his players. Coach
Landry was a little different, you know, he was a little look,
a little cold, but he had his own way to relate to the players
and it was successful. But Jimmy had his own way and it was successful
for him. So it was it was a great night. I've been out
there with the Marcus Ware, you know, getting it in Chuck Alley getting
their Hall of Fame rings and then de Marcus Ware going into the Ring of
Honor. You know, I've been going to a lot of games this year
in honor of those situations. Pretty cool, JO Want to ask you number
eighty eight currently CD Lamb, I mean, I guess, I mean he
can make a claim for being the best wide receiver in football right now.
Can he not? Absolutely? You know, we text each other. We
got the eighty eight club, me, Michael, Dez and CD and our
honorary member of the club is Post Malone. But we text each other,
me and Michael, and I know I didn't even know who he was.
They had to tell me who he was. You know, I'm just learning.
Yeah, but I know now he's a bad man. But anyway,
we text each other, me, Michael and Dez during the game and I
got one point where dead after CD scored that long touchdown, and I said,
hey, they're talking about McCaffrey, Dak the Kid, and Jackson up
in Baltimore, Hyreek Hill. All these guys as potential most valuable players.
But what about C d lamb. Okay, he had one hundred and twenty
two catches. It took me about four years to get that many. He's
got sixteen hundred yards, ten touchdowns. Oh my god. Those are the
most valuable players numbers, guys. You know, in NFL history, there's
only been one wide receiver or be labeled or have been named as the most
valuable player in NFL history, and that was in nineteen forty two, a
guy named Don Hutson. Then you play for Green Bay. And I know
this because while we're texting each other, I'm looking up this information so I
can pass on to the other guys in the eighty eight club. But yeah,
that's amazing. But anyway, Seeds having that kind of year, there's
no question he's in that top three Mike Evans, ceed Lamb and maybe Tyree
Hill top three receivers in the NFL right now. So CD's in good company.
And the best way to appreciate CD, maybe it being the most valuable
player on the Cowboys right now, is to imagine him not being there in
that Cowboy office, imagine him not having the season he's having within that Cowboy
offense, suspecting the passing game. You know, we wouldn't have any success
if CD wasn't doing what he's doing. So we're proud of CD wearing the
number eighty eights, and we got to get credit some credit, guys,
to Jerry Jones. He knows how to pick some eighty eights. I'll tell
you that. Okay, he picked Michael Irving and take Ben Brian and fit
CD labs, So we'll let him continue to do that. I can't tell
you how much little little Danny Cowboy fan growing up, loves to know that
there is a number eighty eight text group that communicates during Cowboy games, No
question I have. Is CD on this thread? So he gets to read
all these after the game? Yeah, after the game, no doubt.
That's awesome. He's on it. You know that at the club and uh,
you know, when we ever got something gone, we all text each
other and anything comes up that we think that CD needs to know. You
know, we go through the club to give him that information because we know
he'll respond to this. Well, but yeah, he's on the thread.
But we you know, we text on the game, but we don't want
CD to respond until after the game. Okay, he better not pick that
phone up that hattot. If you see the ellipses, he changes his mind.
Nope, I have to ask on that. So when he was drafted,
is there any discussion from Jerry or the team with you and Michael and
if he's worthy of the ADA? I mean, was there any discussion pre
him being given that number? On? Dude, we're considering doing this?
Is this is this? Okay? None that I know of. He didn't
talk to me about. And I'm the origin and you would think he would
talk to me first, you know about it. But no, it's been
him on his own. That's why I say he's done a good job.
Now, we hadn't done that great in the draft over the years, you
know, but he certainly knows how to pick eighty eights, you know.
So, But no, we we had no say in that as far as
I know, and we'd leave that up to Jerry Jerry Jones, just like
you know, we leave the Ring of Honor up to him. And let
me say this, now that he got his guys in and all that clean
that cleared up, he needs to start reverting back to the past a little
bit and get some guys like Harvey Martin to Tad Jones, some consideration,
Walls, people like that, some consideration for the Ring of Honor. We're
good buddies with Everson Walls, and we've had him, we had him on
in this exact role, picking a couple of games with us what you're about
to do. And I've been friends with Everson for a long time, one
of my favorite humans. I've been lucky enough to befriend my entire life.
And I want him in just for because what a good person he is.
I'm glad you throw him into that that list of gretes, absolutely and working
against him in practice. You know, when he came in as a rookie,
I said, this guy got something, and I'm glad he played defensive
back. Okay, because he might have had the second best hands on the
team. Okay, anything that he touched he would catch. Of course I
had the best hand. Of course I didn't think you were about to throw
that to Tony. No, Tony's bad. Now. He should be in
that ring of honor too. Look at his stats. His stats are better
than mine, and he gets no consideration for that. And that's that's a
shame. So Drew, what we do each week is we pick a couple
of games. We picked the Cowboy game and we pick another one. I
figure we might tee you up with Giants and Eagles, but you can have
whatever game you want. We've had. As you mentioned, Everson Walls is
a guest celebrity. You know, Barry Church has been a guest celebrity,
Joey Chestnut, the Hot Dog Guy, the Hot Doug Guy, Joey Chestnut,
the Great Christina Ray for the Vendskin Show. Like a big group of
people hamail from laser. So like a big group of celebrities. Celebrities are
in first place, So you have a lot on the line here in week
eighteen two picks. We've got Cowboys and Commanders and uh the line is thirteen
and a half. Where are you leaning? Yeah, we'll blow it out
it what Yeah, I'm simmy cowboys. Thirty five seventeen. That's the number
that came to my head this morning when I woke up, and that's the
number I wrote down before I quen to you guys, and that's the number
I'm sticking with. Think we'll get us go up there and take take care
of business. And uh, thirty five seventeen. I think we've got a
Cooper rush fourth quarter maybe yeah, yeah, you know, we don't want
to mess up like they did in Miami, playing like Chubb late in the
game and had the game secure and then he gets hurt and now he's up
with the season. So yeah, take care of our business and let the
rest of the guys finish it up, you know on that plane, come
home and start thinking about the playoffs. What about just for fun here,
Eagles and Giants. I got an Eagles minus five and a half there the
Eagles minus five and a half. Well, guys, you know you're throwing
these minuses and pluses out there out there, But I don't go by that.
I go by straight up and if it's straight up situation, the Eagles
really need to get back on track, you know, they need to have
some momentum going into the playoffs. The Giants had nothing to move, so
they they'll throw everything after the Eagles, so they might be en upset there.
And you know, how bad do the Eagles want this? You know?
But I would think they wanted pretty bad trying to get something, like
I said, some momentum going into the playoffs and keeping their their hopes alive
or division titles. So what was that and a half five and a half?
Yeah, yeah, I'll take that all right. Well, Drew,
thank you so much. Jack. How about you, guys man, you
know lonely be hanging well, I'm I'm just for fun. So here's the
problem. The Cowboys have this thing in recent history where it feels like the
games in Washington haven't always been like smooth in the first half. So I
think Washington will be able to keep it close enough, especially if the Cowboys
get ahead and they can take some guys out and get garbage tame. So
I'm going Washington plus thirteen and a half and I'm going Detroit minus three and
a half. That's the other game. I'm gonna look at Detroit because I
think De Truit's gonna be pissed after what happened Saturday night. Yeah, they
should be. They should be. But they should have kicked that extra point.
Yeah, no, I think yeah, they should have kicked that,
especially after the first time. You know, it didn't work. Reward to
guys, give them a chance in over time. You're the Lions, nothing
okay, you know, go to overtime and see if you can win that
game and you know, have some momentum building into your playoff situation. So
but yeah, it'll be fired up the minds, no doubt and trying to
show the world that they are good football team. Well, Drew, thank
you for the time. We appreciate you you calling in man, it's been
awesome having you on. We're all stoked in here. Hey, it's always
a pleasure to be on the free Wow. Yes, sir, let's do
it again sometime. Man. We appreciate you've done it all. Now,
thank you guys. Hey, there you go. All right, cowboys,
Let's go Cowboys the original eighty eight Drew Pearson on the down beat Here on
the freak, I went ahead and did my pick. We have a glen
on the line. Who is our our glen of the week. Hi?
What's your name? My name is Richard? Richard? Hi, Richard?
Where're you coming from me? I'll be going, good man, I'm calling
from Fort Worth. Cool. What do you do? Man? I work
on printers? Oh yeah, color, Yeah, I'm printer guy, color
printers. This guy's cool. Betty does both? I know this guy.
Do you work on landscape or portrait? Both? I go both ways?
Bad boy, that was the worse question than yours. Boy. Oh gosh,
he's licking the Richard. Who you picking? Cowboys or commanders? It's
Washington plus thirteen and a half. Uh, I'm gonna have to go to
the Cowboys on this one. Uh you know, I I I agree that
they may kind of fumble it up there. Uh so to speak in Washington,
but I think they need to close out the season with a nice strong
win, like like Drew was saying, like a thirty five fifteen or something
like that, and just below these commander Commodore's out of the water man.
Yes, let's beat the Commodores, Yes, sir? All right, do
you think it's cool that you're on the radio and you could just right after
Drew Pearson and you can just reference like Drew was saying to help make your
point. I know, right, you did it very naturally, like that's
not normal, Like my friend Drew was just contemporaries jackets, rich and what's
your other game? Uh so I want to first apologize to uh, my
friend Mike's roy or what I'm about to do. You know what's gonna happen
here, And I am sorry, But the Bills are coming, boy,
and they're coming for those Dolphins, and they don't win that game. So
I'm gonna take the Bills over the Dolphins. Bills, why did you turn
to the macho man cutting a promo? Dude? Just make you We're gonna
tell Drew you're user. It's too late, all right, Richard got you
down, Bills and Cowboys. Yeah. So look, that's the Glens and
the celebrities tied for first seventeen twelve and one. When we come back,
we'll get the picks from the rest of us. And Malcolm. I think
that's the best tease you could ever do. We get to hear from Malcolm
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