January 22, 2022 • 48 mins
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LaVar Arrington, TJ Houshmandzadeh, and Plaxico Burress look at the head coaching carousel in the NFL and debate if the Dallas Cowboys should replace Mike McCarthy with Dan Quinn. The guys dive into the problems with the Dallas Cowboys and react to their stars on offense falling short in their playoff loss. The guys discuss issues with NFL officiating in this edition of On Ya Head with James Jackson. Plus, TJ gives his thoughts on the struggles of his Los Angeles Lakers!
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all right, all right, welcome into the show. Wealth from
into the show. It's up on Game. It's t J.
Hushman's side up flecking go burn. I'm LaVar Arrington. We've
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there's a lot going on. Obviously, it's it's playoff time.
There's there's this is a big weekend, a big slate
of games. I like this slate of games first and
foremost before I go into what I'm about to ask y'all,
because I'm gonna really hit y'all with one right here,
and I really am interested to hear what you guys
are thinking. How are y'all doing? First and foremost, how
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is everything going? How? How was y'all's week? How? How
did everything go for you? Didn't work out the way
that you wanted it to? Did you get something done?
Did you get ahead in life? House? Well, we will
talk to you. We know, we know for a fact
you did. But I'm good. Was on the move, man,
I was gonna move you know. Yeah, you was on
the go chip, Yeah, I was in your spot. I
was in your your set. I was I was I
was set tripping in your set. He wasn't in my
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in my nick of the woods where everything is, you know,
lovely and some of the greatest athletes in the world
come out of Why are you so sub dude? Did
did did you did? Did you get a massage or
something before you came? I'm just relaxing. Man, listen, I'm
you know, before I'm out here mad. It's it's mad
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brick out your in Jersey. I think you might make it,
you know, into the teens today. So you know, trees
and palm trees and clear skies out here. Man, was
wendy over where you were at though, t J like
it was real windy up up on this this nice
piece of mountain property. That, yeah, it was. It was windy.
It was windy over here yesterday. Last night it was
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quite windy. But today no storms set up seventy degrees. Man,
Well you know, there you go. Maybe that's why I'm excited.
Maybe that's why Plexico is sitting by the crackling fire
of the fireplace and enjoying this show we called up
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on game all right, So here we go up, speaking
of fire, let me start one. Dan Quinn is probably
the most sought after or close to it, UH coaching
recipient for these coaching vacancies. Dan Quinn I I said it.
I you know, I think a lot of people believe
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that a lot of people subscribe to it as well.
He was going to be the lynchpin of sorts. He
was going to be the m v P of if
the Dallas Cowboys were able to have a better season,
because we all knew that the defense was the liability
for for this Dallas team. The Dallas defense changes, it improves,
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they lead the league and in statistical categories that were important, turnovers,
different things like that, and and now you're you're looking
at the possibility of losing that after one season. Now
everybody raves about Kellen Moore. But when Kelly Moore had
the opportunity to lead this team while Mike Mike McCarthy
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had COVID who led the team dan Quinn. Okay, So
in experience, would you, in an attempt to keep what
dan quinn has brought to this team, which is a lot,
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would you be willing to replace Mike McCarthy with Dan
Quinn knowing that you have Kellen Moore to be able
to call the offense. And now you keep in place
and intact what was built in one season with dan Quinn.
For t J. Absolutely not dan Quinn is I mean,
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and I'm just stating from from what he's done. He's average.
He's average, And you say, oh, why do you say
he's average? T J As a head coach, he's forty
three and forty two. That's average to me, is it not?
You're pretty much a five coach. You're an average coach.
You've won just as many games if you lost, so
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that tells me you're an average coach. What makes him
a better coach? To Mike McCarthy, Mike McCarthy is an average.
His record states that's not the case. Dan Quinn had
a big lead in the Super Bowl. He lost it.
He lost it, and did he turn Dallas defense around?
He did. I give him credit for that. He put
Michael Parsons in situations that people didn't believe Michael Parsons
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could play and be successful in. But it was. Randy
Gregory gets hurt, to Marcus Slawrence gets tired. Let's see
if Michael Parson rushed the pastor oh man, he's our
best pass rusher, and he can play stack linebacker and
he can play in the middle. He did a great
job with that defense. I will give him credit, but
Why would I replace Mike McCarthy with somebody that's proven
over time to be an average head coach. He's forty
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three and forty two over his career. I'm not doing that.
When we talk about these head coaches, you know, get
an interview for you know, for different jobs. You know,
guys like then Quinn, who you know, he had a
little bit of success in the Lanland. But dating back
and just going back to what y'all guy was saying,
blowing twenty four point leading the Super Bowl, that's just
eleven has ever been the same since the end have
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been the same since. But you know, Dan Quinny, he's
getting interviews by the New York Giants and Chicago Bears.
Those situations, those aren't situations that you want to be
in as a head coach going into, you know, being
a head coach of the second organization. Now, I would
say this, when you start talking about the coaches going places,
look at the players that they have. If you take
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Trivon Digs and Michael Parsons and if you put them
on any defense within these thirty two teams, they are
automatically contended to win that division. So you gotta look
at the pieces that you have as a head coach.
You look at guys like Josh McDaniels. He had four
or five different, uh you know, options to go be
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a head coach in Indianapolis and Denver and all these places.
But you know what, you know where he had he
had to go. He said, listen, I'm not leaving to
the Gold leave my job is secure. So I think
right now, you know, some of these coaches are turning down,
you know, coaching opportunities because because of job security. You
look at you look at the firing of David Color. Uh.
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You know, Brian Flora is out of coaching in just
three years. Coaches they want to get to that position
where they can be a head coach, but in the
back of their mind they also want security. So if
you're den Quinn, why would you leave If you're a
defensive minded coach, which the Chicago Bets of a pretty
good defense. But as far as the New York Johnsons concerned,
he's a defensive mindy coach. You're not going to coach
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a better defense in Dallas if you choose to go
anywhere else. Hey, LaVar, let me ask you this question.
If you were the head coach of a team and
you were playing a game. Your team was down seventeen
and thirteen with just about three minutes left. It's fourth
and goal from the one yard line. Are you kicking
the cell goal? Are you going for it? What's the
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what's the score total? Seventeen and thirteen? Down? You down?
You're down seventeen and thirteen, three minutes left in the game.
Fourth and goal from the one yard line. Where are
you gonna do in the game? I'm going for it? Okay, Well,
just so you know, Dan Quinn was in that situation,
Just so you know, he was a coach of the Falcons.
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He kicked the field goal. Things that make you go.
He kicked the field goal, saying it gave us a
better chance to win. It's fourth and goal from the
one yard line. Go for it and get what was
they lost? Seventeen and sixteen? Great three points right there. Yeah,
well I wouldn't have put the ball back in Tom
Brady's hands. That's I'm gonna take a chance trying to
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get the points that you also, And that was just
a regular season game against that I'm referring to. We're
not talking about the the epic collapse in the Super Bowl.
We're not talking. Even though Kyle Shanahan deserves a lot
of the blame for that. Dan Quinn, you're the head coach.
It falls on your shoulders, and I'm replexed. He had
great players, and a lot of people have great players
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and they don't get the best out of him. Dan
Quinn he got the best out. I wasn't around dan
Quinn when I was in Seattle. I like him a lot,
but there's a lot of coaches that you kind of
take for granted, and Mike McCarty maybe one. I didn't
like the way uh things went in that playoff game.
I don't know if they could have handled it better.
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I don't you know they could have handled it back.
I don't. I don't mind a play call, I really don't.
It was the execution of the play call. But but
I don't mind it the way that the forty nine
has played it. But firing a coach that has won
a Super Bowl for a coach that blew a Super Bowl,
firing a coach that has a winning record over a
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coach that's average record wise, I'm not doing that, all right,
But what if the logic is, and here's what I
think the logic where it comes from. If you're looking
at from the fact that a lot of people think
that Kellen Moore turned into the coach and waiting. You
said it in the beginning of the segment, experience, lack
of experience was why he didn't lead the team. What
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if dan Quinn is is the person that holds hold
serve for Dallas to keep going in the right direction
as the head coach until the young prince is able
to be old enough and wise enough to be the king.
See to me, I look at it from the perspective
of if you were to let dan Quinn go with
all those good players that you you guys mentioned on
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the Dallars defense, this is still a defense that I
had much largely in part, had the same defense last
year with only the addition of really Michael Parsons and
and and I think one secondary guy, the second the
safety or whatever. But to me, this defense would not
have been as good if dan Quinn isn't the defensive coordinator.
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So while I sit there and say I understand the
idea of looking at it from the head coaches perspective,
what if you're saying the balance of keeping dan Quinn
there and getting this defense up to par Is is
really a uh symptom, a symptom of keeping a team
going in the right direction and not sliding back. Because
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if you think about it, this offense, while it rated
high in a lot of statistical categories, they certainly did
not come through when they needed to, especially against good teams.
It's it's it's right there in print. They did not
do well against good teams. So if Kelly Moore is
a guy that you're looking at, you don't want this
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team to fall apart due to free agency and guys leaving,
and you don't want the defense to slide back into
being something else, and you run the risk of this
defense becoming a pedestrian defense again if you lose Dan
Quinn due to free agency as a coach. And that's
why I think that it's it. It Actually, when I
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heard the idea of it, it would be something that
if I'm a decision maker, I think I gotta kick
the tires around on this, because it's like, okay, process
of elimination. If I lose Mike McCarthy versus Dan Quinn
after this season, which one do I lose more with?
If I lose that person now now, LaVar, you're a
defensive player. Yeah, but I've but have feasted because they've
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had They've created a ton of turnovers. We all know
you're not going to create turnovers at the rate they've
been doing every year, single year. You're not gonna do
That's so and so could things be skewed a little
bit because they forced so many turnovers? But they force
me the next year they do that, right, But so
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what I'm saying is if they don't force the amount
of turnovers they forced this year, then what Yeah, I mean,
it's a great it's a great conversation. Is a great
great oak weight I thought, I mean the league in
turnover differential, they led the league. I mean, I think
that it's a it's a conversation that's going to ensue
because I do think that where where there could be
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the situation where you lose Dan Quinn. Is that is
that a blow that you'd rather take than maybe possibly
keeping him and losing Mike McCarthy as your head coach.
I don't know. I just think that's a conversation you
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All right, we got j j Hair from the Straight
Backs podcast. What you got, man, Who's head you on
this week? I'm on I'm on somebody's head. You guys
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known me. So of all the teams that I've called
out this season, this is another team, another unit that
has escaped me all season. Um, but you know, for
the for the divisional round. Like, I gotta come back
and double back to this team. And I got three
former players only with me right now, So I hope
I don't hit too much of a nerve with this one.
But last people, what I saw was egregious from the
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NFL referees. Man, I gotta get on their head. And
I know that. I know that the Aaron whistle that
they blew last week and the Bagel's Raiders game didn't
decide the outcome of the game. But you're lying, just
like Joe Burrow and Notch Taylor if you tell me
you didn't hear that whistle. I mean, I'm watching it
from my TV screen and I can hear the whistle.
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So bloom calls can really turn a game chaotic. We've
seen it many times. If you just look at that scene,
I mean, you've got people all over the place and
it just looks like a zoo. No wonder the Zebras
were siding with the Bengals on that one. I guess
I shouldn't be surprised. I'm really the first one to
say that you can't blame losses on officials, like there's
so much more that happens throughout the scope of the game.
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But we've seen some reps like Deside some crucial playoff
games with the calls they make or don't make at
the end of the game and past history, like did
days catch it? Should the Rams have not gone to
roll off to that non p I call, did Brady
actually fumble the ball? But these are all questions that
arise after, you know, rest kind of put their stamp
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on the game right then. You know, just the cause
y'all look like foot locker wraps a foot locker employees,
doesn't mean you can lose your shoes in the moment now,
and we still we still need you to come up
in the moment. And I'm really laughing. I'm really laughing
because i know Cowboys fans all over are listening right
waiting for me to address their situation at the end
of their game last week too. But Cowboys fans, you
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guys did that to yourselves. I'm really only here to
address referee mistakes. I'm not defending you, guys. I was
just poor decision making at the end of your game.
But bottom line is that we asked players to stuff
up their performance in the playoffs all the time. So
now I'm doing the same from the referees. Tighten up officials,
because I'm on your head. I had to get that out.
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I had to get it out. Well, let me ask
you guys, this that the that the whistle mess up
the the outcome of the play. See to me, I
thought the play should have been blown dead and they
should have been replayed again. But I'm not gonna sit
there and say that the play should have been blown
dead and replayed again, but hause it impacted the outcome
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of the play. I thought that I thought the touchdown
was gonna be the touchdown no matter what at the
point the whistle blew. What what do y'all think? I
personally feel like when the whistle was blown, the ball
was in flight, it was going to be a touchdown regardless,
and so would the Raiders have prevented that from being
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a touchdown? Absolutely not. If you replay that and the
Bengals don't score, you've quite possibly cost them the game.
And so it was a erroneous whistle um by rule,
they should have replayed it. But I believe the right
decision was made in Oh, it's gonna be a touchdown anyway.
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I mean, And you can point to the Raiders last
drive that Phantom rough in the passer car that gave
him fifteen yards when he hit his shoulder didn't touch
his head, and so the officials. They have a hard job,
and I'm one, I'm on him a lot. I'm disenchant
answered by just it's so many things. Oh this happens
and then oh that ball, that's not a fumble. Somebody
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got in their ear and said this or that. The
replaces when you go back to the McVeigh the Rams
game where a j green Is it a catch? Is
it not a catch? Was it a fumble? And it
seemed like that took ten minutes to figure out, like,
let's get the game moving. Officials are gonna make mistakes
and guys like me are gonna be on their head
with James. But it is what it is. I don't
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believe that cost them the game because they had a
chance to win it late they didn't get it done.
And and you bring up a good point because it's
something that I've argued with a lot of people before,
and that's like the human element and sports right, like
you said it, like they're humans. We all make mistakes
and they're just in a such a small margin of
error position. Because they're mistakes get magnified to everybody, and
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like people like to to kind of project down the
road that if you didn't make this call. You didn't
make this call with one the lost or won the game,
but I do side with you. Like part of the
human element of sports is, you know, maybe having to
come back from a call that didn't necessarily go your way,
but having to play beyond that place and still win
the game because you're right that that whistle or non
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whistle doesn't decide the outcome of that play. The Bengals
were gonna score anyway. I'm just looking at the side
of the Raiders where if I hear the whistle, I'm
telling my defense to stop because I know if I
don't that and another play it can air, can you know,
warrant a penalty. So that's where I hit it from
the Raider because it was my big point. Yeah, there's
so many problems with this, this whole blown whistle situation
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in the whole New NFL replay, and you know, I
was listening to you know, one of the guys Crossby saying,
I listen, we heard the whistle, So automatical defensive player,
you basically just shutting it down and moving on to
the next play. But then the referees, the reviewing the play,
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and the people in New York are looking at it,
So I don't know what the whole the whole thing
is for replay. If you're looking at them get it wrong,
then why can't you correct them. That's what I don't understand.
And and and as far as them scoring scoring a
touchdown on their drive, it does impact the game because
if if if they don't get that touchdown, they kicked
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the field goal, they're they're going they're going into halftime
six six because the Raiders go down down the field
and kick a field goal. Now the game is what
it's uh, it's ten six and to the six six.
So it did have an impact on the game. And
then the uh Cincinnati furred and they ended up getting
the ball at the halftime. So it does impact the
football game. But the point that that the that the
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referees when they were asked did job blow the whistle?
They said they did not blow the whistle until the
ball was already caught, which is absolutely wrong. That is
the reason why, that is not why, that's the reason
why they're not going to ref any more NFL games
for the rest of this postseason. How are you at
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the referee when they asked you about the whistle? You're
going to say, to to to, to the the lead
official guy and everybody out in the world that you
didn't blow the whistle, and the whistle was not blown
into that, so the catch was made. Everybody heard the whistle.
So my whole thing with the whole NFL replay is
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if you are watching them get it wrong and you
know it's wrong, then corrected right there in New York,
then't correct it because they're doing it right. So I
don't understand how you can just look at it and
let them just destroy the game and not correct the problem. Man,
you return that touchdown and they don't score, Oh man,
(28:44):
it's gonna be here, Like you don't matter. Your mistakes,
shouldn't cost me your mistakes, Like I mean, I don't
want to. I don't want to have to pay for
other people's mistakes with my hard in cash, but we do.
So mean, that is what it is. That's a whole
another topic. I mean, I listen, I I I agree
(29:06):
with plex honestly, I really do. And And as as
horrible as it would be to have to overturn that
touchdown when it wasn't going to impact the touchdown, it's sad,
but mistakes happen. And you just got that. Some part
of the game as well is that you got to
overcome mistakes that may have happened. But it's it's the
(29:27):
it's their own rule. When the ball is in there
and the whistle is blown, the plate is dead, you're
going on fourth down. They're kicking a field goal. It's
plainly simple. Yeah, I mean, that's the rule. It is
by rule, it is the rule. But hey, j J,
we appreciate you, man. Everybody makes sure you check out
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(29:48):
with with my man James Jackson, j J. If you're nasty,
uh Rex keeps standing on their heads, bro, I keep
keep staying on the head. And I know you see
you working with Villanova. How how how's that going? So
for a real quick how's how's the villain overseason going?
For going over? They're going great. They're they're actually they're
on TV right now at Georgetown UM trying to get
(30:08):
back and when Tough lost this past Wednesday at home,
the first time we've lost at home and in the
Center and Pavilion since about I believe, but look number
eleven in the country. Bounce back. We come back on
to day and another one at home. You know we
do Wildcats, baby wildcat. Come on, man, we went up
to Madison. Left. We went to Madison last night, beat
Wisconsin by twelve in their I see you all trying
(30:35):
to march. We're gonna see a march right there we
go and we're gonna talk about it. Hopefully maybe we
might be there, depending on you know, where the world is,
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What's the gag? Hey, LaVar, Why don't we start with
that Villanova game? Right now? With Capital One Arena in
DC number eleven, Villanova out to a twenty five to
nineteen lead over Georgetown, eight thirty seven left to play
in the first half. At Cameron Indoor Stadium, Number six,
(31:22):
Duke leading Syracuse twenty seven to eighteen, five thirty four
left to play in the first half there, and West
Virginia and eighteen to seventeen lead at eighteen rank Texas
Tech seven thirty eight left to play in the first half.
Divisional route of the NFL playoffs kicks off at four
thirty Eastern. Is the Tennessee Titans, host of Cincinnati Bengals.
Tonight at eight fifteen Eastern, it's the Packers and forty
(31:44):
Niners from lambeau Field. On the coaching front, the New
York Giants announcing this morning they've interviewed Buffalo Bill's defensive
coordinator Leslie Frasier for their head coaching job. Edward are
reporting the Dan Quinn's interviewing for the Chicago Bears head
coaching job this morning via zoom Mean. Former Colts and
Lions head coach Jim Caldwell took to Twitter today to
(32:05):
deny a recent report that he turned down opportunities to
interview for the Vikings and Raiders head coaching jobs. Finally,
in college football, fellas you aware of the situation at Hawaii,
this broke overnight. June Jones, who previously was the head
coach at Hawaii and also an NFL head coach, obviously well.
(32:28):
Hawaii offered June Jones as head coaching job again after
Todd Graham resigned, but Jones turned it down, and he
took to Twitter to explain why. He tweeted, and I quote,
I am still interested in this job, but there is
no way I could accept with the conditions offered me.
No coach in their right mind would accept dictating who
(32:51):
can be on my staff and only two year contracts.
What recruit would come if I was here for two years?
Question mark, question mark, question mark dot dot. This has
never been about money, but it is about giving me
the ability to turn our program around and not have
people tell me who was on my staff or how
to coach my team. Unquote, Aloha back to you, Aloha
(33:14):
to you, Mr the Legend. Uh Okay. So we had
some interesting um sound from from our guy courtesy of
one oh five point three the Fan, Michael Irving, and
we we had a conversation last week as it applied
to you gotta get your stars the ball, and I mean,
(33:41):
this is you know, this is what we heard Troy
Aikman talk about it. But here's what Mike Irving had
to say about it. And I want to hear it.
Get yall's opinion on it. Our Stars didn't show up,
we had no shot. Whenever you got disordered dis function,
we can't have our stars. But like thirty yards Russians
(34:04):
did not pass a rated And then have our role
players putting up numbers like shows, and that's as order.
Trying to make our role players stars, our saws role players.
That's to disorder and the team just functions. There you go. So,
I mean, y'all give me, y'all, give me, y'alls, y'alls
(34:24):
take on it. I mean, it's correcting what he's saying.
It is man. I will say this man from offensive standpoint,
the Dallas Cowboys are loaded at every position. I mean
they have elite talent at the quarterback position, Mark Cooper,
(34:46):
Ceedee Lamb and Gallop and Ezekiel Elliott and Mary Rogers,
a twenty million dollar year performer, Mark Cooper and Mark Cooper.
So I've been saying to my self that that just
seems like days and Sundays where it's it's either feast
of family for him. He either has one of these
(35:08):
games where it's like four catches, forty yards and touchdown,
and then the following week he's like eight for one,
seventy five and three and listen. I know how the
ever flow of football games take place every Sunday, but
to me, it just doesn't seem like he goes out
and competes every Sunday like he is the best wide
(35:31):
receiver on the football field and he's an elite talent.
He has speed, he gets separation in and out of
his breaks. But for some reason, he just hasn't climbed
the ladder of being that elite player at the wide
receive position that we envisioned him to be. Because when
we talk about who are to talk about he was
an all of football, his name doesn't his name is
(35:53):
not on the list as far as the top five.
But and I agree with like they have to come
out and have a kind of sensual urgest and black listen, man,
this is the playoffs. Every every possession is precious and
Ceedee lamb Is is a phenomenal player. He's also a
rookie and he's going to continue to get better. But
(36:16):
I agree with Michael ever on those guys that are
making that kind of money as as performers and players
playing on that offense, they need to come out and
shine and and it's all about managing the football game.
Also and this is a follow in. It falls on
Mike mccathy and and Kelling and Kellen Moore going into
this game and say, listen, I'm gonna get a Marian
(36:36):
Cooper and Ceedee Lamb involved in this game. On the
first drive, someway, somehow, I'm gonna get the ball in
their hands and let them get comfortable and maybe we
we can find a match that we like and put
these guys in one on one situations so we can
let the ability show. And I didn't see that from
a coaching standpoint. And then when it came for a
time for them to throw the football and get the football,
(36:57):
tomb was already too late. Man, get get them superstars
of all to the game early, so you can't just
put it on them. But at the same time, they
have to go out and make the plays that you Listen,
if you want to be a great player this league,
you have to make the plays that you're supposed to
make and also make a few plays that you're not
supposed to make. That's what makes a great player in
(37:18):
this league. Indeed, listen, when when I'm gonna just give
all these head coaches coordinators free game right now if
you want your receiver to be engaged from the first
snap to the last snap. Get him the ball the
first drive, or attempt to get him the ball the
first drive. When you don't try to get the receiver
the ball, we know from the script and that meeting
(37:39):
the night before, Okay, they're they're trying to get me
the bout. Whether I get it or not. I know
you've tried to get me the ball. I'm engaged. City
Lamb didn't have a catch until midway through the third quarter.
You've got Jerry Jones coming out basically saying, like a
Mark Cooper, you're gonna like Arabs stature, a player that
(38:01):
makes what he's supposed to make. You gotta make the
plays that Plex was just talking about. Jerry Jones is pissed,
But that to me falls on the coordinator, the head coach,
and the quarterback. You gotta understand systems don't win games.
Players win games. It's not the play you're calling, it's
(38:22):
the player that's going to make that play. But everybody
has this perception that the Dallas Cowboys are loaded. What
I saw that offensive line got manhandled. That offensive line
is not loaded. That that's a myth, that's a thing
of the past. That old line is nowhere near what
it was. They got man handled up front. Forty nine
(38:44):
has brought four and they had that under pressure the
entire game. But get your receivers the ball the first drive,
throw him a quick screen, give him a hit to
slant whatever it may be, giving him a bubble screen.
We're engaged. I mean, I don't at the ball in
the first half. I don't even want to play no more.
And that's the fact I went and got me a
(39:05):
pepsi with with a dark uh a dark rum and
some cracking rum because I just knew when when they did, yeah,
when they didn't get him the ball like that, and um,
you know, getting uh ceedee lamb involved, I just knew
it was about to go bad. And I mean, it's
just that's just what it felt like. But you know
that's how is that not how receivers fee I didn't
(39:26):
get me the ball backs? Am I playing all games?
Am I playing hard on my I don't don't understand, man. Listen, listen.
I knew that in the first ten plays when I
was in New York that we were we were going
to throw a deep ball. We are going to throw
the ball deep in the first ten plays in the game.
And you look at our tapes and we we hit
a lot of those plays and scored a lot of
(39:47):
touchdowns early. But that those are some of the things
I'm talking about from color Moore and you know, getting
these guys getting involved early. And to me, t j
from from a quarter from a wide receiver, the quarterback perspective.
You look at all the elite uh you know, relationships
between quarterback and wide receiver you're talking about, Uh, you
(40:07):
know Adams and and and Rogers, Jamaal Chase, Joe Burrow,
and you look at the report that they have, it's
undeniable for an elite wide receiver. Bro and Dak Prescott
they don't have that relationship. And and for me, that's
mind boggling. Your first team player should be three for Zeque,
(40:27):
three for Cooper, three for Ceedee Lamb, one for whomever else. Now,
if the covers takes us somewhere else, that's okay. But
when that play is called, they know this is design
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gonna switch real quick on this short segment. Next segment,
I want to hear what y'all feel about Magic Johnson
chamming in on Uh, well, t J's Lakers. I thought
(42:18):
it was interesting. Didn't like you too much, but you know,
it is what it is, right. I mean, when you
ain't playing well, people don't have something to say, but
we have that. We got legendary moment coming up with
Jared Island. You will want to hear that super dope dude.
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Uh Magic Johnson tweeted out, excuse me, I said there
was there were sound. There is sound from Russ and
the media on what took place. Let's take a listen
to it. I want to hear y'all's reaction to It's
super quick alr, here we go, Brus. Magic Johnson tweeted
after the game that there was not enough effort, uh,
(46:19):
not a sense of urgency, and that Laker fans and
Genie Buss deserve better from from the team that they support.
I just wanted to city had a reaction to Magic's take.
I do not. I do not have a reaction. Everybody
is entitled in this world to their opinion. Um, we
got us stuff. What that is. You can either take
it and what are you can take it and put
(46:39):
it one or not the other um or you cannot
respond to it. But Magic getting tied it to his opinion.
And he's not here every day, he's not around us
every day. He's not aware, uh kind of what's going
on internally, um with us and trying to figure things out.
But I have no response to that. But like I said,
everybody in this world isn't tied to their opinion, all right,
(47:01):
Everybody's entitled to their opinion. Uh, what say y'all to this?
We got literally like nah, I agree with Westbrook. When
you're a retired player. Magic Johnson is retired, he's a
Laker grade, he's an NBA grade. You have to respect
what the guys are going through. If if it was easy,
(47:22):
everybody would be good. Everybody expected Lakers to be better
than what they are. They're not. Westbrook isn't playing the
way he's been accustomed to play and what people are
used to seeing him play at the level it happens.
I'm a Laker. Fancy ind They're gonna figure this out.
You always somebody always has to be blamed in right now,
(47:45):
it's Russell Westbrook last night. He had a great game.
Can he start to string some games together? But when
people expect greatness and you've given a mediocrity as a team,
this is what you're gonna get. That's what they I
do have a love Magic, He's my brother, but I
do have to disagree with him on this one comment.
(48:05):
As long as I've been watching NBA basketball and watching
rustle rest Book perform, I can guarantee you a hundred
out of a Hunter will say you have never ever
questions that man effort. When he steps on the basketball court.
He gives a hunting ten percent every single night, period,
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is up on Game with Labarrei, Ted, t J. Hush
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And now here's pro bowlers LaVar ar Te, t J. Houshman,
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Sanna and super Bowled Chippy and Plaxico Burres. All right,
all right, all right, welcome into the show. Wealth from
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Hushman's side up flecking go burn. I'm LaVar Arrington. We've
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there's a lot going on. Obviously, it's it's playoff time.
There's there's this is a big weekend, a big slate
of games. I like this slate of games first and
foremost before I go into what I'm about to ask y'all,
because I'm gonna really hit y'all with one right here,
and I really am interested to hear what you guys
are thinking. How are y'all doing? First and foremost, how
(03:14):
is everything going? How? How was y'all's week? How? How
did everything go for you? Didn't work out the way
that you wanted it to? Did you get something done?
Did you get ahead in life? House? Well, we will
talk to you. We know, we know for a fact
you did. But I'm good. Was on the move, man,
I was gonna move you know. Yeah, you was on
the go chip, Yeah, I was in your spot. I
was in your your set. I was I was I
was set tripping in your set. He wasn't in my
(03:38):
in my nick of the woods where everything is, you know,
lovely and some of the greatest athletes in the world
come out of Why are you so sub dude? Did
did did you did? Did you get a massage or
something before you came? I'm just relaxing. Man, listen, I'm
you know, before I'm out here mad. It's it's mad
(03:58):
brick out your in Jersey. I think you might make it,
you know, into the teens today. So you know, trees
and palm trees and clear skies out here. Man, was
wendy over where you were at though, t J like
it was real windy up up on this this nice
piece of mountain property. That, yeah, it was. It was windy.
It was windy over here yesterday. Last night it was
(04:20):
quite windy. But today no storms set up seventy degrees. Man,
Well you know, there you go. Maybe that's why I'm excited.
Maybe that's why Plexico is sitting by the crackling fire
of the fireplace and enjoying this show we called up
(04:40):
on game all right, So here we go up, speaking
of fire, let me start one. Dan Quinn is probably
the most sought after or close to it, UH coaching
recipient for these coaching vacancies. Dan Quinn I I said it.
I you know, I think a lot of people believe
(05:02):
that a lot of people subscribe to it as well.
He was going to be the lynchpin of sorts. He
was going to be the m v P of if
the Dallas Cowboys were able to have a better season,
because we all knew that the defense was the liability
for for this Dallas team. The Dallas defense changes, it improves,
(05:26):
they lead the league and in statistical categories that were important, turnovers,
different things like that, and and now you're you're looking
at the possibility of losing that after one season. Now
everybody raves about Kellen Moore. But when Kelly Moore had
the opportunity to lead this team while Mike Mike McCarthy
(05:49):
had COVID who led the team dan Quinn. Okay, So
in experience, would you, in an attempt to keep what
dan quinn has brought to this team, which is a lot,
(06:10):
would you be willing to replace Mike McCarthy with Dan
Quinn knowing that you have Kellen Moore to be able
to call the offense. And now you keep in place
and intact what was built in one season with dan Quinn.
For t J. Absolutely not dan Quinn is I mean,
(06:34):
and I'm just stating from from what he's done. He's average.
He's average, And you say, oh, why do you say
he's average? T J As a head coach, he's forty
three and forty two. That's average to me, is it not?
You're pretty much a five coach. You're an average coach.
You've won just as many games if you lost, so
(06:54):
that tells me you're an average coach. What makes him
a better coach? To Mike McCarthy, Mike McCarthy is an average.
His record states that's not the case. Dan Quinn had
a big lead in the Super Bowl. He lost it.
He lost it, and did he turn Dallas defense around?
He did. I give him credit for that. He put
Michael Parsons in situations that people didn't believe Michael Parsons
(07:18):
could play and be successful in. But it was. Randy
Gregory gets hurt, to Marcus Slawrence gets tired. Let's see
if Michael Parson rushed the pastor oh man, he's our
best pass rusher, and he can play stack linebacker and
he can play in the middle. He did a great
job with that defense. I will give him credit, but
Why would I replace Mike McCarthy with somebody that's proven
over time to be an average head coach. He's forty
(07:41):
three and forty two over his career. I'm not doing that.
When we talk about these head coaches, you know, get
an interview for you know, for different jobs. You know,
guys like then Quinn, who you know, he had a
little bit of success in the Lanland. But dating back
and just going back to what y'all guy was saying,
blowing twenty four point leading the Super Bowl, that's just
eleven has ever been the same since the end have
(08:02):
been the same since. But you know, Dan Quinny, he's
getting interviews by the New York Giants and Chicago Bears.
Those situations, those aren't situations that you want to be
in as a head coach going into, you know, being
a head coach of the second organization. Now, I would
say this, when you start talking about the coaches going places,
look at the players that they have. If you take
(08:25):
Trivon Digs and Michael Parsons and if you put them
on any defense within these thirty two teams, they are
automatically contended to win that division. So you gotta look
at the pieces that you have as a head coach.
You look at guys like Josh McDaniels. He had four
or five different, uh you know, options to go be
(08:46):
a head coach in Indianapolis and Denver and all these places.
But you know what, you know where he had he
had to go. He said, listen, I'm not leaving to
the Gold leave my job is secure. So I think
right now, you know, some of these coaches are turning down,
you know, coaching opportunities because because of job security. You
look at you look at the firing of David Color. Uh.
(09:07):
You know, Brian Flora is out of coaching in just
three years. Coaches they want to get to that position
where they can be a head coach, but in the
back of their mind they also want security. So if
you're den Quinn, why would you leave If you're a
defensive minded coach, which the Chicago Bets of a pretty
good defense. But as far as the New York Johnsons concerned,
he's a defensive mindy coach. You're not going to coach
(09:30):
a better defense in Dallas if you choose to go
anywhere else. Hey, LaVar, let me ask you this question.
If you were the head coach of a team and
you were playing a game. Your team was down seventeen
and thirteen with just about three minutes left. It's fourth
and goal from the one yard line. Are you kicking
the cell goal? Are you going for it? What's the
(09:51):
what's the score total? Seventeen and thirteen? Down? You down?
You're down seventeen and thirteen, three minutes left in the game.
Fourth and goal from the one yard line. Where are
you gonna do in the game? I'm going for it? Okay, Well,
just so you know, Dan Quinn was in that situation,
Just so you know, he was a coach of the Falcons.
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He kicked the field goal. Things that make you go.
He kicked the field goal, saying it gave us a
better chance to win. It's fourth and goal from the
one yard line. Go for it and get what was
they lost? Seventeen and sixteen? Great three points right there. Yeah,
well I wouldn't have put the ball back in Tom
Brady's hands. That's I'm gonna take a chance trying to
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get the points that you also, And that was just
a regular season game against that I'm referring to. We're
not talking about the the epic collapse in the Super Bowl.
We're not talking. Even though Kyle Shanahan deserves a lot
of the blame for that. Dan Quinn, you're the head coach.
It falls on your shoulders, and I'm replexed. He had
great players, and a lot of people have great players
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and they don't get the best out of him. Dan
Quinn he got the best out. I wasn't around dan
Quinn when I was in Seattle. I like him a lot,
but there's a lot of coaches that you kind of
take for granted, and Mike McCarty maybe one. I didn't
like the way uh things went in that playoff game.
I don't know if they could have handled it better.
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I don't you know they could have handled it back.
I don't. I don't mind a play call, I really don't.
It was the execution of the play call. But but
I don't mind it the way that the forty nine
has played it. But firing a coach that has won
a Super Bowl for a coach that blew a Super Bowl,
firing a coach that has a winning record over a
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coach that's average record wise, I'm not doing that, all right,
But what if the logic is, and here's what I
think the logic where it comes from. If you're looking
at from the fact that a lot of people think
that Kellen Moore turned into the coach and waiting. You
said it in the beginning of the segment, experience, lack
of experience was why he didn't lead the team. What
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if dan Quinn is is the person that holds hold
serve for Dallas to keep going in the right direction
as the head coach until the young prince is able
to be old enough and wise enough to be the king.
See to me, I look at it from the perspective
of if you were to let dan Quinn go with
all those good players that you you guys mentioned on
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the Dallars defense, this is still a defense that I
had much largely in part, had the same defense last
year with only the addition of really Michael Parsons and
and and I think one secondary guy, the second the
safety or whatever. But to me, this defense would not
have been as good if dan Quinn isn't the defensive coordinator.
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So while I sit there and say I understand the
idea of looking at it from the head coaches perspective,
what if you're saying the balance of keeping dan Quinn
there and getting this defense up to par Is is
really a uh symptom, a symptom of keeping a team
going in the right direction and not sliding back. Because
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if you think about it, this offense, while it rated
high in a lot of statistical categories, they certainly did
not come through when they needed to, especially against good teams.
It's it's it's right there in print. They did not
do well against good teams. So if Kelly Moore is
a guy that you're looking at, you don't want this
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team to fall apart due to free agency and guys leaving,
and you don't want the defense to slide back into
being something else, and you run the risk of this
defense becoming a pedestrian defense again if you lose Dan
Quinn due to free agency as a coach. And that's
why I think that it's it. It Actually, when I
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heard the idea of it, it would be something that
if I'm a decision maker, I think I gotta kick
the tires around on this, because it's like, okay, process
of elimination. If I lose Mike McCarthy versus Dan Quinn
after this season, which one do I lose more with?
If I lose that person now now, LaVar, you're a
defensive player. Yeah, but I've but have feasted because they've
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had They've created a ton of turnovers. We all know
you're not going to create turnovers at the rate they've
been doing every year, single year. You're not gonna do
That's so and so could things be skewed a little
bit because they forced so many turnovers? But they force
me the next year they do that, right, But so
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what I'm saying is if they don't force the amount
of turnovers they forced this year, then what Yeah, I mean,
it's a great it's a great conversation. Is a great
great oak weight I thought, I mean the league in
turnover differential, they led the league. I mean, I think
that it's a it's a conversation that's going to ensue
because I do think that where where there could be
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the situation where you lose Dan Quinn. Is that is
that a blow that you'd rather take than maybe possibly
keeping him and losing Mike McCarthy as your head coach.
I don't know. I just think that's a conversation you
gotta have. And speaking of conversations, there's gonna be a
whole lot of conversations we got up on your head
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All right, we got j j Hair from the Straight
Backs podcast. What you got, man, Who's head you on
this week? I'm on I'm on somebody's head. You guys
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known me. So of all the teams that I've called
out this season, this is another team, another unit that
has escaped me all season. Um, but you know, for
the for the divisional round. Like, I gotta come back
and double back to this team. And I got three
former players only with me right now, So I hope
I don't hit too much of a nerve with this one.
But last people, what I saw was egregious from the
(21:55):
NFL referees. Man, I gotta get on their head. And
I know that. I know that the Aaron whistle that
they blew last week and the Bagel's Raiders game didn't
decide the outcome of the game. But you're lying, just
like Joe Burrow and Notch Taylor if you tell me
you didn't hear that whistle. I mean, I'm watching it
from my TV screen and I can hear the whistle.
(22:15):
So bloom calls can really turn a game chaotic. We've
seen it many times. If you just look at that scene,
I mean, you've got people all over the place and
it just looks like a zoo. No wonder the Zebras
were siding with the Bengals on that one. I guess
I shouldn't be surprised. I'm really the first one to
say that you can't blame losses on officials, like there's
so much more that happens throughout the scope of the game.
(22:37):
But we've seen some reps like Deside some crucial playoff
games with the calls they make or don't make at
the end of the game and past history, like did
days catch it? Should the Rams have not gone to
roll off to that non p I call, did Brady
actually fumble the ball? But these are all questions that
arise after, you know, rest kind of put their stamp
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on the game right then. You know, just the cause
y'all look like foot locker wraps a foot locker employees,
doesn't mean you can lose your shoes in the moment now,
and we still we still need you to come up
in the moment. And I'm really laughing. I'm really laughing
because i know Cowboys fans all over are listening right
waiting for me to address their situation at the end
of their game last week too. But Cowboys fans, you
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guys did that to yourselves. I'm really only here to
address referee mistakes. I'm not defending you, guys. I was
just poor decision making at the end of your game.
But bottom line is that we asked players to stuff
up their performance in the playoffs all the time. So
now I'm doing the same from the referees. Tighten up officials,
because I'm on your head. I had to get that out.
(23:39):
I had to get it out. Well, let me ask
you guys, this that the that the whistle mess up
the the outcome of the play. See to me, I
thought the play should have been blown dead and they
should have been replayed again. But I'm not gonna sit
there and say that the play should have been blown
dead and replayed again, but hause it impacted the outcome
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of the play. I thought that I thought the touchdown
was gonna be the touchdown no matter what at the
point the whistle blew. What what do y'all think? I
personally feel like when the whistle was blown, the ball
was in flight, it was going to be a touchdown regardless,
and so would the Raiders have prevented that from being
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a touchdown? Absolutely not. If you replay that and the
Bengals don't score, you've quite possibly cost them the game.
And so it was a erroneous whistle um by rule,
they should have replayed it. But I believe the right
decision was made in Oh, it's gonna be a touchdown anyway.
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I mean, And you can point to the Raiders last
drive that Phantom rough in the passer car that gave
him fifteen yards when he hit his shoulder didn't touch
his head, and so the officials. They have a hard job,
and I'm one, I'm on him a lot. I'm disenchant
answered by just it's so many things. Oh this happens
and then oh that ball, that's not a fumble. Somebody
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got in their ear and said this or that. The
replaces when you go back to the McVeigh the Rams
game where a j green Is it a catch? Is
it not a catch? Was it a fumble? And it
seemed like that took ten minutes to figure out, like,
let's get the game moving. Officials are gonna make mistakes
and guys like me are gonna be on their head
with James. But it is what it is. I don't
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believe that cost them the game because they had a
chance to win it late they didn't get it done.
And and you bring up a good point because it's
something that I've argued with a lot of people before,
and that's like the human element and sports right, like
you said it, like they're humans. We all make mistakes
and they're just in a such a small margin of
error position. Because they're mistakes get magnified to everybody, and
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like people like to to kind of project down the
road that if you didn't make this call. You didn't
make this call with one the lost or won the game,
but I do side with you. Like part of the
human element of sports is, you know, maybe having to
come back from a call that didn't necessarily go your way,
but having to play beyond that place and still win
the game because you're right that that whistle or non
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whistle doesn't decide the outcome of that play. The Bengals
were gonna score anyway. I'm just looking at the side
of the Raiders where if I hear the whistle, I'm
telling my defense to stop because I know if I
don't that and another play it can air, can you know,
warrant a penalty. So that's where I hit it from
the Raider because it was my big point. Yeah, there's
so many problems with this, this whole blown whistle situation
(26:34):
in the whole New NFL replay, and you know, I
was listening to you know, one of the guys Crossby saying,
I listen, we heard the whistle, So automatical defensive player,
you basically just shutting it down and moving on to
the next play. But then the referees, the reviewing the play,
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and the people in New York are looking at it,
So I don't know what the whole the whole thing
is for replay. If you're looking at them get it wrong,
then why can't you correct them. That's what I don't understand.
And and and as far as them scoring scoring a
touchdown on their drive, it does impact the game because
if if if they don't get that touchdown, they kicked
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the field goal, they're they're going they're going into halftime
six six because the Raiders go down down the field
and kick a field goal. Now the game is what
it's uh, it's ten six and to the six six.
So it did have an impact on the game. And
then the uh Cincinnati furred and they ended up getting
the ball at the halftime. So it does impact the
football game. But the point that that the that the
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referees when they were asked did job blow the whistle?
They said they did not blow the whistle until the
ball was already caught, which is absolutely wrong. That is
the reason why, that is not why, that's the reason
why they're not going to ref any more NFL games
for the rest of this postseason. How are you at
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the referee when they asked you about the whistle? You're
going to say, to to to, to the the lead
official guy and everybody out in the world that you
didn't blow the whistle, and the whistle was not blown
into that, so the catch was made. Everybody heard the whistle.
So my whole thing with the whole NFL replay is
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if you are watching them get it wrong and you
know it's wrong, then corrected right there in New York,
then't correct it because they're doing it right. So I
don't understand how you can just look at it and
let them just destroy the game and not correct the problem. Man,
you return that touchdown and they don't score, Oh man,
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it's gonna be here, Like you don't matter. Your mistakes,
shouldn't cost me your mistakes, Like I mean, I don't
want to. I don't want to have to pay for
other people's mistakes with my hard in cash, but we do.
So mean, that is what it is. That's a whole
another topic. I mean, I listen, I I I agree
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with plex honestly, I really do. And And as as
horrible as it would be to have to overturn that
touchdown when it wasn't going to impact the touchdown, it's sad,
but mistakes happen. And you just got that. Some part
of the game as well is that you got to
overcome mistakes that may have happened. But it's it's the
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it's their own rule. When the ball is in there
and the whistle is blown, the plate is dead, you're
going on fourth down. They're kicking a field goal. It's
plainly simple. Yeah, I mean, that's the rule. It is
by rule, it is the rule. But hey, j J,
we appreciate you, man. Everybody makes sure you check out
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with with my man James Jackson, j J. If you're nasty,
uh Rex keeps standing on their heads, bro, I keep
keep staying on the head. And I know you see
you working with Villanova. How how how's that going? So
for a real quick how's how's the villain overseason going?
For going over? They're going great. They're they're actually they're
on TV right now at Georgetown UM trying to get
(30:08):
back and when Tough lost this past Wednesday at home,
the first time we've lost at home and in the
Center and Pavilion since about I believe, but look number
eleven in the country. Bounce back. We come back on
to day and another one at home. You know we
do Wildcats, baby wildcat. Come on, man, we went up
to Madison. Left. We went to Madison last night, beat
Wisconsin by twelve in their I see you all trying
(30:35):
to march. We're gonna see a march right there we
go and we're gonna talk about it. Hopefully maybe we
might be there, depending on you know, where the world is,
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See draft king dot com for details. We're gonna see
our man, Mr Isaac Loewen Crown for an update. Right now?
What's the gag? Hey, LaVar, Why don't we start with
that Villanova game? Right now? With Capital One Arena in
DC number eleven, Villanova out to a twenty five to
nineteen lead over Georgetown, eight thirty seven left to play
in the first half. At Cameron Indoor Stadium, Number six,
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Duke leading Syracuse twenty seven to eighteen, five thirty four
left to play in the first half there, and West
Virginia and eighteen to seventeen lead at eighteen rank Texas
Tech seven thirty eight left to play in the first half.
Divisional route of the NFL playoffs kicks off at four
thirty Eastern. Is the Tennessee Titans, host of Cincinnati Bengals.
Tonight at eight fifteen Eastern, it's the Packers and forty
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Niners from lambeau Field. On the coaching front, the New
York Giants announcing this morning they've interviewed Buffalo Bill's defensive
coordinator Leslie Frasier for their head coaching job. Edward are
reporting the Dan Quinn's interviewing for the Chicago Bears head
coaching job this morning via zoom Mean. Former Colts and
Lions head coach Jim Caldwell took to Twitter today to
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deny a recent report that he turned down opportunities to
interview for the Vikings and Raiders head coaching jobs. Finally,
in college football, fellas you aware of the situation at Hawaii,
this broke overnight. June Jones, who previously was the head
coach at Hawaii and also an NFL head coach, obviously well.
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Hawaii offered June Jones as head coaching job again after
Todd Graham resigned, but Jones turned it down, and he
took to Twitter to explain why. He tweeted, and I quote,
I am still interested in this job, but there is
no way I could accept with the conditions offered me.
No coach in their right mind would accept dictating who
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can be on my staff and only two year contracts.
What recruit would come if I was here for two years?
Question mark, question mark, question mark dot dot. This has
never been about money, but it is about giving me
the ability to turn our program around and not have
people tell me who was on my staff or how
to coach my team. Unquote, Aloha back to you, Aloha
(33:14):
to you, Mr the Legend. Uh Okay. So we had
some interesting um sound from from our guy courtesy of
one oh five point three the Fan, Michael Irving, and
we we had a conversation last week as it applied
to you gotta get your stars the ball, and I mean,
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this is you know, this is what we heard Troy
Aikman talk about it. But here's what Mike Irving had
to say about it. And I want to hear it.
Get yall's opinion on it. Our Stars didn't show up,
we had no shot. Whenever you got disordered dis function,
we can't have our stars. But like thirty yards Russians
(34:04):
did not pass a rated And then have our role
players putting up numbers like shows, and that's as order.
Trying to make our role players stars, our saws role players.
That's to disorder and the team just functions. There you go. So,
I mean, y'all give me, y'all, give me, y'alls, y'alls
(34:24):
take on it. I mean, it's correcting what he's saying.
It is man. I will say this man from offensive standpoint,
the Dallas Cowboys are loaded at every position. I mean
they have elite talent at the quarterback position, Mark Cooper,
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Ceedee Lamb and Gallop and Ezekiel Elliott and Mary Rogers,
a twenty million dollar year performer, Mark Cooper and Mark Cooper.
So I've been saying to my self that that just
seems like days and Sundays where it's it's either feast
of family for him. He either has one of these
(35:08):
games where it's like four catches, forty yards and touchdown,
and then the following week he's like eight for one,
seventy five and three and listen. I know how the
ever flow of football games take place every Sunday, but
to me, it just doesn't seem like he goes out
and competes every Sunday like he is the best wide
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receiver on the football field and he's an elite talent.
He has speed, he gets separation in and out of
his breaks. But for some reason, he just hasn't climbed
the ladder of being that elite player at the wide
receive position that we envisioned him to be. Because when
we talk about who are to talk about he was
an all of football, his name doesn't his name is
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not on the list as far as the top five.
But and I agree with like they have to come
out and have a kind of sensual urgest and black listen, man,
this is the playoffs. Every every possession is precious and
Ceedee lamb Is is a phenomenal player. He's also a
rookie and he's going to continue to get better. But
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I agree with Michael ever on those guys that are
making that kind of money as as performers and players
playing on that offense, they need to come out and
shine and and it's all about managing the football game.
Also and this is a follow in. It falls on
Mike mccathy and and Kelling and Kellen Moore going into
this game and say, listen, I'm gonna get a Marian
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Cooper and Ceedee Lamb involved in this game. On the
first drive, someway, somehow, I'm gonna get the ball in
their hands and let them get comfortable and maybe we
we can find a match that we like and put
these guys in one on one situations so we can
let the ability show. And I didn't see that from
a coaching standpoint. And then when it came for a
time for them to throw the football and get the football,
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tomb was already too late. Man, get get them superstars
of all to the game early, so you can't just
put it on them. But at the same time, they
have to go out and make the plays that you Listen,
if you want to be a great player this league,
you have to make the plays that you're supposed to
make and also make a few plays that you're not
supposed to make. That's what makes a great player in
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this league. Indeed, listen, when when I'm gonna just give
all these head coaches coordinators free game right now if
you want your receiver to be engaged from the first
snap to the last snap. Get him the ball the
first drive, or attempt to get him the ball the
first drive. When you don't try to get the receiver
the ball, we know from the script and that meeting
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the night before, Okay, they're they're trying to get me
the bout. Whether I get it or not. I know
you've tried to get me the ball. I'm engaged. City
Lamb didn't have a catch until midway through the third quarter.
You've got Jerry Jones coming out basically saying, like a
Mark Cooper, you're gonna like Arabs stature, a player that
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makes what he's supposed to make. You gotta make the
plays that Plex was just talking about. Jerry Jones is pissed,
But that to me falls on the coordinator, the head coach,
and the quarterback. You gotta understand systems don't win games.
Players win games. It's not the play you're calling, it's
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the player that's going to make that play. But everybody
has this perception that the Dallas Cowboys are loaded. What
I saw that offensive line got manhandled. That offensive line
is not loaded. That that's a myth, that's a thing
of the past. That old line is nowhere near what
it was. They got man handled up front. Forty nine
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has brought four and they had that under pressure the
entire game. But get your receivers the ball the first drive,
throw him a quick screen, give him a hit to
slant whatever it may be, giving him a bubble screen.
We're engaged. I mean, I don't at the ball in
the first half. I don't even want to play no more.
And that's the fact I went and got me a
(39:05):
pepsi with with a dark uh a dark rum and
some cracking rum because I just knew when when they did, yeah,
when they didn't get him the ball like that, and um,
you know, getting uh ceedee lamb involved, I just knew
it was about to go bad. And I mean, it's
just that's just what it felt like. But you know
that's how is that not how receivers fee I didn't
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get me the ball backs? Am I playing all games?
Am I playing hard on my I don't don't understand, man. Listen, listen.
I knew that in the first ten plays when I
was in New York that we were we were going
to throw a deep ball. We are going to throw
the ball deep in the first ten plays in the game.
And you look at our tapes and we we hit
a lot of those plays and scored a lot of
(39:47):
touchdowns early. But that those are some of the things
I'm talking about from color Moore and you know, getting
these guys getting involved early. And to me, t j
from from a quarter from a wide receiver, the quarterback perspective.
You look at all the elite uh you know, relationships
between quarterback and wide receiver you're talking about, Uh, you
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know Adams and and and Rogers, Jamaal Chase, Joe Burrow,
and you look at the report that they have, it's
undeniable for an elite wide receiver. Bro and Dak Prescott
they don't have that relationship. And and for me, that's
mind boggling. Your first team player should be three for Zeque,
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three for Cooper, three for Ceedee Lamb, one for whomever else. Now,
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(42:18):
it was interesting. Didn't like you too much, but you know,
it is what it is, right. I mean, when you
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Uh Magic Johnson tweeted out, excuse me, I said there
was there were sound. There is sound from Russ and
the media on what took place. Let's take a listen
to it. I want to hear y'all's reaction to It's
super quick alr, here we go, Brus. Magic Johnson tweeted
after the game that there was not enough effort, uh,
(46:19):
not a sense of urgency, and that Laker fans and
Genie Buss deserve better from from the team that they support.
I just wanted to city had a reaction to Magic's take.
I do not. I do not have a reaction. Everybody
is entitled in this world to their opinion. Um, we
got us stuff. What that is. You can either take
it and what are you can take it and put
(46:39):
it one or not the other um or you cannot
respond to it. But Magic getting tied it to his opinion.
And he's not here every day, he's not around us
every day. He's not aware, uh kind of what's going
on internally, um with us and trying to figure things out.
But I have no response to that. But like I said,
everybody in this world isn't tied to their opinion, all right,
(47:01):
Everybody's entitled to their opinion. Uh, what say y'all to this?
We got literally like nah, I agree with Westbrook. When
you're a retired player. Magic Johnson is retired, he's a
Laker grade, he's an NBA grade. You have to respect
what the guys are going through. If if it was easy,
(47:22):
everybody would be good. Everybody expected Lakers to be better
than what they are. They're not. Westbrook isn't playing the
way he's been accustomed to play and what people are
used to seeing him play at the level it happens.
I'm a Laker. Fancy ind They're gonna figure this out.
You always somebody always has to be blamed in right now,
(47:45):
it's Russell Westbrook last night. He had a great game.
Can he start to string some games together? But when
people expect greatness and you've given a mediocrity as a team,
this is what you're gonna get. That's what they I
do have a love Magic, He's my brother, but I
do have to disagree with him on this one comment.
(48:05):
As long as I've been watching NBA basketball and watching
rustle rest Book perform, I can guarantee you a hundred
out of a Hunter will say you have never ever
questions that man effort. When he steps on the basketball court.
He gives a hunting ten percent every single night, period,
point blank. Well, our two is coming up next. I
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