Speaker 1: All right, So we got a MAVs game tonight, and
Speaker 1: let's say that. Somebody listening right now, They're like, I'm hungry.
Speaker 1: I think I want to eat pizza tonight. Let's everybody
Speaker 1: on three think about where you'd want to go get
Speaker 1: pizza tonight.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm into this, Kevin.
Speaker 1: Ready, when I say, I'm gonna say one two three,
Speaker 1: and then when I would say go, you the go. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we say where we want to go in place
Speaker 1: of go yeah, okay, so it be one two three
Speaker 1: go yeah, So one two three the pizza place?
Speaker 2: Ready, one two three?
Speaker 3: I want to go to America Kitchen tonight.
Speaker 2: I didn't Christina and say anything.
Speaker 4: I said it what you say, and that's.
Speaker 3: What I said, So I said, I got confused.
Speaker 1: I said I want to go to Andrews's American Pizza
Speaker 1: Kitchen because I did. I got caught up on the instructions.
Speaker 1: Casey KT said pizza Hunt. I said, no, you didn't.
Speaker 3: I'm going to Andrews.
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Speaker 1: best pizzeria and all of DFW by readers of the
Speaker 1: Dallas Morning News. So if you're looking for something special
Speaker 1: when it comes to pizza, not just the regular Sam Old,
Speaker 1: same ol like KT, go to Andrews American Pizza Kitchen
Speaker 1: in Plano.
Speaker 2: But right now it's time for Kevin.
Speaker 5: I'm offended by that Sam Old samul I go to Andrews.
Speaker 5: Got a boy about all the styles. Okay, so the
Speaker 5: Cowboys big press conference, you know, here we go. We're
Speaker 5: gonna roll out our new head coach, Brian Schottenheimer. Poor
Speaker 5: guy Brian took it in the shorts all weekend on
Speaker 5: social media when the Cowboys decided to do a you know,
Speaker 5: seven pm news dump on Friday night, the anti cowvising
Speaker 5: the Cowboys are telling you that they know this is
Speaker 5: an uninspiring hire, which is wild. They could still interview
Speaker 5: Cliff Kingsbury, they could still see what's happened with Kellen.
Speaker 3: Kellen would take this job.
Speaker 5: If the Cowboys offered him this job, he would take it,
Speaker 5: so he didn't have to do this, but he done it.
Speaker 3: For reasons unknown.
Speaker 1: You gotta feel bad for Schottenheimer because everyone is projecting
Speaker 1: how dissatisfied they are with Jerry Jones onto this guy
Speaker 1: who's just standing there. Yeah, I'm sure he'll be fine,
Speaker 1: likable guy. I'm sure it's fine. That's great. The point
Speaker 1: of the outrage from the fan base is because the
Speaker 1: process was clearly dysfunctional, as is everything with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: because all they care about is making money more they
Speaker 1: care about winning.
Speaker 5: And I'm choosing to look at this through one way,
Speaker 5: and that one way is at least McCarthy's not here anymore.
Speaker 5: So while I don't love this higher at all or
Speaker 5: like it, or I think it's a smart and good plan,
Speaker 5: McCarthy's gone.
Speaker 3: So whatever, And this Jerry says as.
Speaker 5: Much today today on the radio, now on the internet.
Speaker 6: Mike McCarthy left some good stuff here. Crothur's hell of coach.
Speaker 6: It was time for a change. I've heard it criticized.
Speaker 6: We've spent five days getting to come to that decision.
Speaker 6: The reasons we came to that decision is because there
Speaker 6: was this decision available to us as well. Shoty has
Speaker 6: fantastic support among our players, key players, real support. I've
Speaker 6: heard Shoddy referred to as maybe old school with his
Speaker 6: offensive philosophy. Well, i'll tell you one thing, Shoty has
Speaker 6: a good feel for not only the offensive philosophies where
Speaker 6: they are today, but where they're going to go and
Speaker 6: certainly where it has been. That's rare to come in
Speaker 6: here with this kind of energy. That's kind of I'm
Speaker 6: going to show them. That's rare to combine those two things.
Speaker 3: Okay, but I know.
Speaker 1: Too much fatigue, Shoty fatigue. Yeah, I have Shody fatigue.
Speaker 1: I have Jerry fatigue.
Speaker 2: It's just the whole thing sucks.
Speaker 3: I'll say this.
Speaker 5: I've heard this and I don't know if it's true
Speaker 5: or not that when the offense the Cowy's offense did
Speaker 5: change after Cooper Rush's first game where he I think
Speaker 5: they had forty five yards passing, but they did open
Speaker 5: it up and start doing some things little bit differently.
Speaker 3: The office was humming for a little bit.
Speaker 5: What I heard is that Shody and the deference that
Speaker 5: he was showing towards McCarthy, started to speak out a
Speaker 5: little more and can tell Mike, hey, job.
Speaker 1: Shot, he fixed it. Shot is the one who fixed it,
Speaker 1: because keep in mind, they chose McCarthy overshot. He until
Speaker 1: McCarthy said, no, I don't want to be here to
Speaker 1: hold the job for Witney.
Speaker 5: So that's what's what's been out there. It's also it
Speaker 5: doesn't seem like I saw John michaud to tweet this earlier.
Speaker 5: That doesn't look like Witten will be on the staff. No,
Speaker 5: so what that's I thought that was a big part
Speaker 5: of it, and we'll we'll see.
Speaker 2: That's very surprised.
Speaker 3: And still change. I mean, dude, the names.
Speaker 5: There's one of the names for tight end coaches, the
Speaker 5: Falcons tight end coach. The Falcons a few years ago
Speaker 5: drafted Kyle Pitts at the number four pick in the
Speaker 5: draft and he has been terrible. But we're gonna go
Speaker 5: with the tight end coach from the team who couldn't
Speaker 5: make the top five pick be a good tight end.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know what are we doing?
Speaker 1: So what if Schottenheimer said all coached his team for
Speaker 1: one point five years as long as Witting's not on
Speaker 1: the staff.
Speaker 3: I don't think I like that a lot.
Speaker 1: That's the that's the intinuitative business that we've been wanting.
Speaker 1: We lack guys with balls that ask for things as
Speaker 1: long as you don't have to pay him none.
Speaker 3: Now, I told you who he talked to about in Shoty, the.
Speaker 1: Guy that the Graiders were hiring, that you came on
Speaker 1: the show and told us we should put all our
Speaker 1: money on.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well you know those texts were coming in. Yeah, pretty
Speaker 5: hot that day. It turns out the truth about Jerry
Speaker 5: and Pete talking that was legit.
Speaker 3: All right, how did Shoty find out?
Speaker 6: I kind of set him up. I said, you know,
Speaker 6: you are first time coach, and I believe we're hanging
Speaker 6: around the rim. I think we got in place a
Speaker 6: team that can get there right now. I had other
Speaker 6: coaches tell me that we're wanting the job.
Speaker 2: You're right there.
Speaker 5: Hanging around the rim is one of my least favorite
Speaker 5: terms that Jerry and Steven use.
Speaker 3: We're close.
Speaker 5: Well, you guys didn't make the playoffs. You did not
Speaker 5: even get a shot off you. We're not hanging around
Speaker 5: the rim.
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 1: You said, shot You know our guys nickname is shoddy.
Speaker 1: Oh god, they're so bad.
Speaker 5: Okay, Steven, all right now, Steven quite day for Steven right,
Speaker 5: Steven showed the difference that we're talking about. I gotta
Speaker 5: set there new glasses. Occasionally would laugh on the hot mic.
Speaker 4: I need to see the new glasses.
Speaker 3: Here's why it was shoddy though.
Speaker 7: You know, it's not just the x as an oath.
Speaker 7: We obviously went extensively, uh through the x'es and o's.
Speaker 3: Okay, but it's not the x's and o's. But it
Speaker 3: is a little bit. We went through those.
Speaker 4: Is that the third time they referenced that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, which worries me, Oh my god, because that's telling
Speaker 5: me that he's not an X and o's genius.
Speaker 7: You know, it's not just the xes an oath. We
Speaker 7: obviously went extensively through the x'es and o's, but we also, uh,
Speaker 7: you know, you get into the schedules, You get into
Speaker 7: how you get your players motivated, how you take care
Speaker 7: of your players. You know a lot of people sometimes
Speaker 7: scratch their head while why would you go with a
Speaker 7: first time head coach? You know, that's been the way
Speaker 7: of the league. These days, most are going with these
Speaker 7: young offensive wizards that hadn't been head coaches. But I
Speaker 7: think we've got a better version of that because of
Speaker 7: Shoddy's experience.
Speaker 3: We're talking in circles.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and today is the day that I first noticed
Speaker 5: Steven's is usually pretty smooth because he didn't say much,
Speaker 5: but today was the first day I noticed him almost
Speaker 5: having a struggle to find the words to say dude.
Speaker 5: And I think and by the way, I think Stephen
Speaker 5: was a fan of this hiring too. I think sim
Speaker 5: was absolutely cool with this.
Speaker 1: All this hiring process was was we want McCarthy. We
Speaker 1: can't get a deal done with McCarthy. It seemed like
Speaker 1: a mutual parting of ways. In fact, you know, walking
Speaker 1: away from the explosion, not facing I mean, that's McCarthy.
Speaker 3: Are you hearing that?
Speaker 5: Because I'm like mutual party ways is like, I don't
Speaker 5: know everything hearing is McCarthy justaid I'm not.
Speaker 3: Doing this anymore?
Speaker 2: Okay, great? Right now.
Speaker 5: McCarthy might have also been told he has a really
Speaker 5: good shot at the bear's job.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, but did they say we'll we want you to
Speaker 1: sign a two year deal in mentor witting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's to said they probably low balled the crap
Speaker 5: out of him. He said they wanted McCarthy more than
Speaker 5: they wanted to leverage McCarthy.
Speaker 1: Regardless, I feel like he walked away. Either he was
Speaker 1: a full breakup or it was mutual at a minute,
Speaker 1: but he said bye. And so their search was who
Speaker 1: else that's already in the building can we hire? That's
Speaker 1: what he's the most qualified of of all the other
Speaker 1: guys are already hired on the payroll, Shody was the
Speaker 1: best of that.
Speaker 3: They talk a lot to.
Speaker 5: They mentioned a million times how good shot he is
Speaker 5: with the guys and the players, and they mentioned Dak
Speaker 5: a ton which made me go, Okay, Dak might have
Speaker 5: wanted Shoty over Kellen.
Speaker 1: He did so, dude, if you look at it that
Speaker 1: Dak was at the press conference to send a message
Speaker 1: that this is my guy, this is who I wanted.
Speaker 1: And in that regard, it's smart to make your sixty
Speaker 1: million dollar man as comfortable as he can be.
Speaker 2: But he was.
Speaker 1: The offense was a big part of the problem. Obviously
Speaker 1: the injuries were too sure, but the offense has not
Speaker 1: been great. Guys could not get open, there was no separation.
Speaker 1: There wasn't a lot of imagination with this scheme. You're
Speaker 1: keeping a guy that's a part of the failed thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and this is where I get into a bit
Speaker 5: of a problem in my head. Is Okay, Schottenheimer's track
Speaker 5: record is not great, but he was wanting different stuff
Speaker 5: than McCarthy. I think, you know, with the offense. So
Speaker 5: it's like, Okay, does McCarthy get the blame for that?
Speaker 5: Does shot he get a fresh start? I love this shot.
Speaker 5: He was asked what's your offensive philosophic?
Speaker 8: And the starting point for me would be things that
Speaker 8: our players do well. You're always going to start with that.
Speaker 8: If your system's not flexible enough to do what your
Speaker 8: players do well, then you're probably in the wrong business.
Speaker 8: But a big believer in shifts and motions to distort
Speaker 8: things like that, we're going to do a great job
Speaker 8: of marrying our runs and our passes and make those
Speaker 8: look the same. There's a tempo element that we're excited
Speaker 8: to mix in allows them to play free. So when
Speaker 8: you go fast and you're playing on the ball, these guys,
Speaker 8: it's a little bit more like like.
Speaker 2: Pick up basketball.
Speaker 8: Those would probably be the biggest things that I would
Speaker 8: say from an offensive standpoint.
Speaker 3: This is good. That is the part I can live
Speaker 3: with because this is what Washington's doing. There. We go
Speaker 3: and it's a Cliff thing. Now, I didn't think Cliff
Speaker 3: would be great for Dak.
Speaker 5: Cliffs always needed a quarterback who could bail out, like
Speaker 5: Hoo's the open guy.
Speaker 3: We're not thinking because I don't need you to think.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get a guy open for you on the
Speaker 5: play and then we're gonna go faster up to the line.
Speaker 5: We're gonna be conditioned, and that's a big part of this.
Speaker 5: We're conditioned offensive linemen are conditioned to play fast and
Speaker 5: not huddle up. And if he's gonna work that in,
Speaker 5: I do think that's good because then Dak's not thinking
Speaker 5: as much, and I think we know it's way better
Speaker 5: for Dak if it's just there quick. Now they could
Speaker 5: use another wide receiver if we're going to do that,
Speaker 5: and are we gonna run the ball and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: But I like, if they're gonna play fast, and that's
Speaker 5: the they're gonna mix in, and that's something that he'd
Speaker 5: been wanting to mix in. And McCarthy's like, no, I
Speaker 5: want to look at the play sheet, dude. When you
Speaker 5: can just say number seventeen on your wristband, just call
Speaker 5: that play real quick, then I think that's good. So
Speaker 5: I'm there's the tiny glimmer of hope I have from today.
Speaker 1: Right, And look, regardless, they took last offseason off, they
Speaker 1: didn't really participate in free agency, and they've missed on
Speaker 1: their last two first round picks. Yeah, so the front
Speaker 1: office is not doing a great job, and so what
Speaker 1: are they gonna do something different this offseason?
Speaker 2: No, shot, he's just gonna fix it.
Speaker 5: Shot, he's gonna fix it. That's the whole thing is,
Speaker 5: we're gonna add to it. We're gonna draft new players.
Speaker 5: We're gonna get those, but we'll make up for the
Speaker 5: guys you lose.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: And this is where they did mention multiple times that
Speaker 5: they wanted Brian Colin plays.
Speaker 3: It's like, okay, well no one else did.
Speaker 5: But maybe you guys wanted Brian to take over the
Speaker 5: play calling for Mike and maybe that was a part
Speaker 5: of the Mike McCarthy negotiation.
Speaker 1: But this was not even their plan all along. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was not. They tried to bring McCarthy back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what's weird. They denied his interview with the Bears
Speaker 1: because he's like, he's our guy. If they were so
Speaker 1: set on Shoddy, they would have said yes, bears.
Speaker 3: Please take him. We got shot. Okay, here's the last
Speaker 3: role to play. I'm glad you went there.
Speaker 5: Jane Slater at the NFL Network asked a really great
Speaker 5: question and Jerry tries to wiggle out of it, and
Speaker 5: then he throws Dak under the bus.
Speaker 9: Jeane Slater, NFL Network, Jerry, do a lot of us
Speaker 9: on the outside. It did look like this process took
Speaker 9: a bit. Was there a point during your conversations with
Speaker 9: Mike that you thought that he would stay?
Speaker 6: Well, thank you for that. I wouldn't aware of any clock.
Speaker 6: Where's the clock?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 6: Held a lot more important things than a clock. Take
Speaker 6: a long time to do this. I have screwed around
Speaker 6: with clocks in my life. I wouldn't get to be
Speaker 6: sitting up here. I heard this share that we didn't
Speaker 6: get Dak signed quick enough. Dak, you're sitting right back there.
Speaker 6: You want to stand up and tell him you had
Speaker 6: something to do with that.
Speaker 2: No, thank you didn't get Lamb signing quick enough.
Speaker 6: Okay, here's they have many more things to think about.
Speaker 2: That clock.
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable contract actually not a clock.
Speaker 5: But go ahead, Jerry, pretty good though, to throw Deck
Speaker 5: under the bus and decks like yeah, I mean we
Speaker 5: did have a lot to do with that, like right
Speaker 5: to get the most so