December 22, 2025 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about the Patriots coming back in the 4Q to take down Lamar Jackson and the Ravens, Jerry Jones going on a rant about the Cowboys underachieving this season, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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admit this is low hanging fruit, and I believe that
low hanging fruit is the most delicious fruit. Thus I'm
going to take a bite of the forbidden fruit, the
low hanging forbidden fruit. We go to Dallas. How about
them Cowboys? Now? The Cowboys eliminated from playoff consideration over
the weekend, the Philadelphia Eagles taking care of business there
(02:21):
against Washington. It was a struggle for a while. The Chargers, though,
went out and molly wopped the Cowboys on side. It
was a beatdown in Jerry's world, a standard fair these days,
which led to the man of the hour man of
the hour, giving a truth bomb, well kind of giving
a truth bomb. If you didn't see this, perhaps not
(02:43):
Jerry Jones, the most powerful man in the NFL, Not
Roger get Deell, not anyone else. Jerry Jones. It's Jerry's
world after all. And Jerry was asked if the Cowboys
underachieved this season, and well, he didn't. He didn't tap
dance around. He answered the question. Here's Jerry Jones. Let's
(03:04):
take a listen, let's go to the audio tape, take
a list.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yes, from what we expected, what we thought, absolutely we did.
We all underachieved, really and the fact we're not in
the playoffs says that for you. But I thought we've
done some things out there that frankly, we can carry
forward to us with us. It's always the case that
(03:31):
there are some positive things. The question is can we
make some changes where we need to. That's be pretty
thorough and multiple. A lot of multiplication there with the
way we played this year. But still they're positive things
are always are, And that's one of the things about
(03:53):
going in on coaches meeting and looking at film. If
you don't look out, you'll see positive things when you
they should be more critical to the negatives, and I
think you have to do that. You play the game
being Bob the gang.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Hey, Jerry, there's a forklift backing up. You might want
to get out of the way, Jerry, don't get your
run over by the forklift. All right, that's a good
jumping off points. So let us discuss the question. Who
is Jerry Jones specifically calling out in that rant about
the Cowboys underachieving? He was asked a leading question. He
did not He did not shy away from it. He
answered it. So he used the we we are all underachieving.
(04:32):
So my observation on this, I've got the Juilliard School,
magic eight ball, and farmer boys, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make macadamia nut white chocolate chip cookies is what we're
gonna make. Yum yum. To Mike tom tumb so number W.
(04:56):
Using Google Translate, they have a new each he can
now interpret what Jerry Jones means. So using Google Translate,
I am I'm pretty confident here, pretty confident that Jerry. Well,
he said, hey, we all underachieved. This was not a
blanket statement. It was actually a laser pointer at two people, right,
(05:22):
two people in particular, it was aimed right at Shoddy
who's naughty and Dak. Now, Jerry Jones went out and
fired the rotund Mike McCarthy because seven to ten was
not good enough, was not good enough. He then promoted
Brian Schottenheimer, the net bo baby, the sock puppet coach,
(05:46):
and he's like, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna be better now.
Jerry's the only one that thought they would be better.
So they went out there and they have this. They
have the same stale leftovers. Sands, the big defensive star
who they unloaded right before the regular season. Micah Parsons
now Dak Prescott, one of the all time great stat compilers. Right,
(06:08):
you look at the numbers. He leads the Cowboy franchise
all time in this category and that category. Oh my god,
you get a little chubby because he's so good, and
then you realize, well, when the moment matters, he turns
into a desert mirage. It looks good until you close,
until you get close, right fourth quarter, close game, and then.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Poof, poof, poof, poop, poop poof. Hocus pocus.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Now Vegas, we mentioned this in a previous episode of
the show at Bears repeating, so, Vegas had Dallas as
an eight ish win team, right around eight wins. They
are six and nine, and they have Washington and the
Giants up next. So if they win those, and the
Giants are the worst team in the NFL tie with
(06:53):
the Raiders right now, Washington is not much better. So
those are winnable games. Win those, and the Cowboys will
be who exactly they were supposed to be. They'll be
exactly where Vegas had them. They were right around eight
wins on the look ahead total for the season. And
may point out that Jerry Jones is not furious. He's not.
(07:17):
He took classes I'm convinced in his spare time at
the Juilliard School. Performance outrage is what this is. It's
cowboy football, loud complaints, soft fixes, the eternal underachievement theater
that is Jerry's world. And let's be honest, you, once
the season ends, that's when the Cowboys dominate. They will
(07:40):
dominate the headlines. The Cowboys are gonna make news. That's
what Jerry does. When he gets a little slow around there,
he stirs it up, and so he's gonna get into it.
Now one of the other people staying with Dallas page
two here, one of the other people who's got the
laser pointer pointed right at him. Following that loss to
the Chargers, Jerry Jones also was asked about defensive quardat
(08:03):
Matt Eberflus and his future and whatever decision he makes.
Jerry said, will not be difficult. That's what he said,
will not be difficult. I might not count it as difficult,
Jones said, regarding the future of Matt Eberflus, the former
NFL head coach now back as a defensive guru. He said,
(08:24):
quote Jerry Jones, it's certainly something that we have to do,
and that is to look at the entire year and
look at what our options are and how to correct it.
So we're not here at the same time next year,
which of course they will be. All right. Question, So
Jerry Jones says that the Cowboys decision on defensive coordinator
Matt Eberflu's future might not be difficult. So how does
(08:47):
that one hit you? How does that one? He did?
So that is Jerry speak for the guillotine is being sharpened.
The guillotine is being sharpened, the speech is being written,
his suits already dry, cleaned and ready to go for
the news conference. All right, because remember last week, Jerry
challenged Matt Eberflus to show something over the final three
(09:10):
games of the regular season. Eberflus responded, and they made
a big deal about this over the weekend. They said, well,
he's moving up to the booth. He's moving from the
sidelines to the booth. And that's the problems. He couldn't
see the field from the sideline. So now that Eberflus,
the defensive warding of the Cowboy's gonna go to the booth,
we're good to go. Okay, So fine, he'll go to
the booth and that's it. It's kind of like changing
(09:32):
hats while the building's on fire and the result. Cover
your eyes. The Chargers with Eberflus I in the sky
from the press box. The Chargers carved Dallas off for
four hundred and fifty two yards and thirty four points.
Four hundred and fifty two yards and thirty four points.
Justin Herbert played darts with the secondary and nearly eighty
(09:54):
percent completions, three hundred yards, passing, three touchdowns and apartures
pair tries. It was a bullseye, repeatedly, bullseye, bullseye, bullseye.
So what does all that mean? Now? We consulted with
a fool proof arbiter r one of the great judges
of our time, the magic eight ball. We consulted with
(10:17):
the magic gate ball. We said, all almighty, all powerful,
magic eate ball. We said, what does it look like
for the future of Matt Eberflus And we shook it,
We rattled, We rolled beside that magic eight ball, and
the magic eight ball said, outlook not so good. That's
what the magic gate ball said. This defense has been
(10:39):
a revolving door all season, a bunch of matadors ole
lay o, lay ole. Yeah, it's just great. So it's
a revolving door. You spin it and it spins all night.
The booth clearly did not help. So the Cowboys have
two games left. May I recommend that the Cowboys have
a drone over this over the stadium, the ebrew Flus drone,
(11:04):
and you can use the drone and see where everyone's
lined up on offense for the opposition. If that doesn't work,
you can go nineteen eighties style and bring back the
goodyear blimp and get in the blimp and then look
down from the blimp and call the defensive plays from
the blimp. If that does not work, I think you
get a small weather balloon. If that's more cost efficient
(11:25):
for Jerry's world. Just keep experimenting, Just keep experimenting. Something's
gonna work.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Jerry already decided this will not be difficult, So what's
the big deal. It's not gonna be difficult all right? Now,
final point to social media we go or this has
become a thing. The admins celebrating the win, the social
media team, the min admins. That's the word I'm looking
for for the Chargers there, they decide to have some fun,
(11:53):
so of course this becomes a thing. Oh my god,
I can't believe they did that. So first the Chargers
on their online platforms jokingly referenced the Cowboys we demn
boys slogan. Of course, Cowboys are very good at slogans.
Winning football games they're not good at, but they lead
the league in slogans. They're really good at that. We
(12:14):
demn Boys. So the Chargers had some fun with that.
Then in the holiday spirit, they edited a clip from
the four film The Polar Express, a classic piece of
cinema where the conductor punches an l on a ticket
for the Cowboys, and they finished up the troll buffet
with a meme depicting a Cowboys wearing Babushka insisting quote,
(12:39):
this is our year, and then the Babushka's granddaughter leading
her to bed mocking mocking Dallas fans perennial optimism. So
that was the trifect. Of course this ruffled. I don't
think this really offended anyone, but the perception is it
offended some people. So we'll just play along with it,
calling the bull it's class list and act like you've
(13:01):
been there before. What's wrong with you? Do not kick
the team while they're down, the Cowboys. So the question
did the Chargers mess with the football gods by poking fun?
Where they off base by poking fun at the Dallas Cowboy.
So let's stop pretending that this is somehow sacrilege. Can
(13:22):
we all do that? Thank you? Yeah? Yeah, please? You
know what that is. That's just what you're supposed to do.
The Charger didn't anger the football gods. They poke the Internet.
It's the internet, dummy, it's fake, it's the matrix, it's
all that. And the Internet poked back and that's what's
supposed to happen. The yen and the yang. There's a
big difference there. This wasn't blasphemy. It was called commerce.
(13:46):
It's called commerce. Social media is not a tabernacle. It's
not the church. It's not a temple. It's a carnival
barker with a bluetooth headset. It's some low level intern.
If you knew who actually runs these social media departments,
ever your favorite NFL team, you'd be a guest. You'd say, god, zooks,
who is that punk. I've sat by some of these people.
(14:08):
I go to the games occasionally, and I've sat behind
the people that take here of the social media and
you know, good for them, that's a good job. But
most of them are right out of college. It's like
their first gig because the old boomers they don't know
about social media. So like this, get these young punks.
We'll get them a job. We'll pay them, you know,
sixty thousand dollars a year. We'll let them run the
(14:29):
Twitter account for the team. But that's what that is, right,
You're just yelling for attention in social media. You're juggling
flaming hot takes and the Chargers' account rolled through. They
really leaned into it, rolled through it like they were
eating at farmer boys cheeseburger fries and a supersized order
of engagement farming grease everywhere. Mission accomplished. The algorithm is
(14:56):
a slot machine chod ching chot chan chet ching. It's
the new one armed bandit. It only pays, It only
pays when you pull the outrage level lever. You gotta
pull the lever and the boom just like and the
bod Army. The bod Army salivates, They salivate the rage
(15:18):
clicks angry cowboy fans who are not involved in understanding
how deep the rabbit hole goes. And it's not classless.
It's called capitalism using emojis. What it is, capitalism with
emojis and memes and all that. So if you can
sell a dummy and a dummy buys it, that's it.
(15:40):
And so the cowboy fans who are clutching pearls about
this is not right and all that, please come on.
This is our year. And that has been a recycled moniker.
It's been around longer than a lumin of cans. And
remember the Cowboys last won the Super Bowl before there
was an admin working for the Dallas Cowboys or the Chargers.
(16:00):
That job did not exist in the mid nineties because
there was no social media. People were in America online
dial up internet, and that's it. That was the World
Wide Web at that particular point. And so here we are.
The meme just held up a mirror. No curses were summoned,
no gods were offended, just the Internet doing what it
(16:22):
does best, rewarding noise and punishing silence. No jinks, no
jinks at all.
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Now, I fully admit this is low hanging fruit, and
I believe that low hanging fruit is the most delicious fruit.
Thus I'm going to take a bite of the forbidden fruit,
the low hanging forbidden fruit. We go to Dallas. How
about them Cowboys?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Now?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The Cowboys eliminated from playoff consideration over the weekend, the
Philadelphia Eagles taking care of business there against Washington. It
was a struggle for a while. The Chargers, though, went
out and molly wopped the Cowboys on site. It was
a beatdown in Jerry's world standard fair these days, which
led to the Man of the Hour, Man of the
(17:52):
Hour giving a truth bomb, well kind of giving a
truth bomb. If you didn't see this, perhaps, not Jerry Jones,
the most powerful man in the NFL, Not Roger get Theell,
not any of us. Jerry Jones. It's Jerry's world after all.
And Jerry was asked if the Cowboys underachieved this season
and well he didn't. He didn't tap dance around. He
(18:17):
answered the question. Here's Jerry Jones. Let's take a listen.
Let's go to the audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yes, from what we expected, what we thought, absolutely we did.
We all underachieved, really and the fact we're not in
the playoffs says that for you. But I thought we've
done some things out there that frankly we can carry
forward to us and with us it's always the case
(18:46):
that there's some positive things. The question is can we
make some changes where we need to. That's pretty be
pretty thorough and multiply a lot of multiplication there with
the way we played there. But still they're positive things
always are, And that's one of the things about going
(19:08):
in on coaches meeting and looking at film. If you
don't look out, you'll say positive things when you really
should be more critical to the negative. And I think
you have to do that to play the game.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Being Bob mcgaan, Hey, Jerry, is a forklift backing up.
You might want to get out of the way, Jerry.
Don't get to run over by the forklift. All right,
that's a good jumping off point. So let us discuss
the question. Who is Jerry Jones specifically calling out in
that rant about the Cowboys underachieving? He was asked a
leading question. He did not He did not shy away
(19:40):
from it. He answered it. So he used the we
we are all underachieving. So my observation on this, I've
got the Juilliard School, magic eight ball, and farmer boys,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make macadamia nut white chocolate chip
(20:01):
cookies is what we're gonna make. Yum, yum to Mike
Tom tumb so number W. Using Google Translate, they have
a new feature. You can now interpret what Jerry Jones means.
So using Google Translate, I am. I'm pretty confident here,
(20:22):
pretty confident that Jerry. Well, he said, hey, we all underachieved.
This was not a blanket statement. It was actually a
laser pointer at two people, all right, two people in particular.
I was aimed right at Shoddy who's naughty and dak Now,
(20:44):
Jerry Jones went out and fired the rotund Mike McCarthy
because seven to ten was not good enough, was not
good enough. He then promoted Brian Schottenheimer, the NEPO baby,
the sock pup, but coach, and he's like, Okay, we're
gonna we're gonna be better now. Jerry's the only one
(21:05):
that thought they would be better. So they went out
there and they have this. They have the same stale leftovers. Sands,
the big defensive star who they unloaded right before the
regular season, MICHAEH. Parsons now Dak Prescott, one of the
all time great stat compilers. Right you look at the numbers.
He leads the Cowboy franchise all time in this category
(21:27):
and that category. Oh my god, you get a little
chubby because he's so good, and then you realize, well,
when the moment matters, he turns into a desert Mirai.
It looks good until you close, until you get close,
right fourth quarter, close.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Game, and then poof, poof, poof, poop, poop poof. Hocus pocus.
Now Vegas.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
We mentioned this in a previous episode of the show
at Bears, repeating, so Vegas had Dallas as an eight
ish win team. Right around eight wins, they are six
and nine and they have Washington and the Giants up next.
So if they win those and the Giants are the
worst team in the NFL, tie with the Raiders right now.
(22:08):
Washington is not much better. So those are winnable games.
You win those and the Cowboys will be who exactly
they were supposed to be. They'll be exactly where Vegas
had them. They were right around eight wins on the
look ahead total for the season. And may point out
that Jerry Jones is not furious. He's not. He took
(22:32):
classes I'm convinced in his spare time at the Juilliard School.
Performance outrage is what this is. It's cowboy football, loud complaints,
soft fixes, the eternal underachievement theater that is Jerry's world.
And let's be honest you, once the season ends, that's
(22:53):
when the Cowboys dominate. They will dominate the headlines. The
Cowboys are gonna make news. That's what Jerry does when
he gets a little slow around there, he stirs it up.
And so he's going to get into it now. One
of the other people staying with Dallas page two here,
one of the other people who's got the laser pointer
pointed right at him. Following that loss to the Chargers,
(23:15):
Jerry Jones also was asked about defensive quarter to Matt
Eberflus and his future and whatever decision he makes, Jerry said,
will not be difficult. That's what he said, will not
be difficult. I might not count it as difficult, Jones said.
Regarding the future of Matt Eberflus, the former NFL head
coach now back as a defensive guru. He said, quote
(23:39):
Jerry Jones, It's certainly something that we have to do,
and that is to look at the entire year and
look at what our options are and how to correct it.
So we're not here in at the same time next year,
which of course they will be, all right. Question, So
Jerry Jones says that the Cowboys decision on defensive coordinator
Matt Eberflu's future might not be difficult. So how does
(24:02):
that one hit you? How does that one? He did?
So that is Jerry speak for the guillotine is being sharpened.
The guillotine is being sharpened, the speech is being written.
The suits already dry, cleaned and ready to go for
the news conference. All right, because remember last week Jerry
challenged Matt Eberflus to show something over the final three
(24:25):
games of the regular season. Eberflus responded, and they made
a big deal about this over the weekend. They said, well,
he's moving up to the booth. He's moving from the
sidelines to the booth. And that's the problems. He couldn't
see the field from the sideline. So now that Eberflus,
the defensive warding of the cowboy's gonna go to the booth,
we're good to go. Okay, so fine, he'll go to
the booth and that's it. It's kind of like changing
(24:46):
hats while the building's on fire and the result. Cover
your eyes. The Chargers with Eberflus I in the sky
from the press box. The Chargers carved Dallas off for
four hundred and fifty two yards and thirty four points.
Four hundred and fifty two yards and thirty four points.
Justin Herbert played darts with the secondary and nearly eighty
(25:09):
percent completions, three hundred yards passing, three touchdowns and apartures
in the pear tree. It was a bullseye repeatedly, bullseye, bullsseye, bullseye.
So what does all that mean? Now? We consulted with
a full proof arbiter, one of the great judges of
our time, the magic eight ball. We consulted with the
(25:32):
magic gate ball. We said, all almighty, all powerful, magic
eate ball. We said, what does it look like for
the future of Matt Eberflus And we shook it, we rattled,
we rolled beside that magic eate ball, and the magic
eate ball said, outlook not so good. That's what the
magic gate ball said. This defense has been a revolving
(25:54):
door all season. Bunch of matadors o le lay o,
l ole. It's just great. So it's revolving door. You
spin it and it spinds all night. The booth clearly
did not help. So the Cowboys have two games left.
May I recommend that the Cowboys have a drone over
(26:15):
the stadium, the ebrew Flus drone, and you can use
the drone and see where everyone's lined up on offense
for the opposition. If that doesn't work, you can go
nineteen eighty style and bring back the goodyear blimp and
get in the blimp and then look down from the
blimp and call the defensive plays from the blimp. If
(26:36):
that does not work, I think you get a small
weather balloon if that's more cost efficient for Jerry's world.
Just keep experimenting, Just keep experimenting. Something's gonna work now.
Jerry already decided this will not be difficult. It So,
what's the big deal. It's not gonna be difficult, all right? Now,
final point to social media we go or this has
(26:57):
become a thing. The admins celebrating the win, the social
media team, the admins. That's the word I'm looking for
for the Chargers there, they decided to have some fun.
So of course this becomes a thing. Oh my god,
I can't believe they did that. So first the Chargers
on their online platforms jokingly referenced the Cowboys we demn
(27:19):
Boys slogan. Of course, cowboys are very good at slogans.
Winning football games they're not good at, but they lead
the league in slogans. They're really good at that. We
demn Boys. So the Chargers had some fun with that. Then,
in the holiday spirit, they edited a clip from the
four film The Polar Express, a classic piece of cinema,
(27:39):
where the conductor punches an l on a ticket for
the Cowboys, And they finished up the troll buffet with
a meme depicting a cowboys wearing Babushka insisting quote, this
is our year, and then the Babushka's granddaughter leading her
to bed, mocking, mocking, Dallas fans perennial optimism, So that
(28:06):
was the trifect. Of course, this ruffled. I don't think
this really offended anyone, but the perception is it offended
some people. So we'll just play along with it, calling
the Bolts class lists and act like you've been there before.
What's wrong with you? Do not kick the team while
they're down the Cowboys? So the question did the Chargers
mess with the football gods by poking fun? Where they
(28:31):
off base by poking fun at the Dallas Cowboy. So
let's stop pretending that this is somehow sacrilege. Can we
all do that? Thank you? Yeah? Yeah, please? You know
what that is. That's just what you're supposed to do.
The Charger didn't anger the football gods. They poke the Internet.
It's the internet, dummy, it's fake. It's the matrix. It's
(28:51):
all that, and the Internet poked back, and that's what's
supposed to happen. The yin and the yang. There's a
big difference there. This wasn't blasphemy. It was called commerce.
It's called commerce. Social media is not a tabernacle. It's
not the church. It's not a temple. It's a carnival.
Barker with a Bluetooth headset. It's some low level intern.
(29:11):
If you knew who actually runs the social media departments
ever your favorite NFL team, you'd be a guest. You'd say, god, zooks,
who is that punk? I've sat by some of these people.
I go to the games occasionally, and I've sat behind
the people that take here of the social media and
you know, good for them, that's a good job. But
most of them are right out of college. It's like
(29:34):
their first gig because the old boomers they don't know
about social media. So like this, get these young punks.
We'll get them a job. We'll pay them, you know,
sixty thousand dollars a year. We'll let them run the
Twitter account for the team. But that's what that is, right,
You're just yelling for attention in social media. You're juggling
flaming hot takes. And the Chargers' account rolled through. They
(29:56):
really leaned into it, rolled through it like they were
eating at Farmer cheeseburger fries and a supersized order of
engagement farming increase everywhere, mission accomplished. The algorithm is a
slot machine chut ching, cha ching, chut ching. It's the
new one armed bandit it only pays. It only pays
(30:21):
when you pull the outrage level lever. You gotta pull
the lever and the boom just like and the bod Army.
The bod Army salivates, They salivate the rage clicks angry
cowboy fans who are not involved in understanding how deep
the rabbit hole goes. And it's not classless. It's called
(30:43):
capitalism using emojis. What it is, capitalism with emojis and
memes and all that. So if you can sell a
dummy and a dummy buys it, that's it. And so
the cowboy fans who are clutching pearls about this is
not right and all that, please come on. This is
our year. That has been a recycled moniker. It's been
(31:06):
around longer than a lumine of cans. And to remember,
the Cowboys last won the Super Bowl before there was
an admin working for the Dallas Cowboys or the Chargers.
That job did not exist in the mid nineties because
there was no social media. People were in America online,
dial up internet and that's it. That was the World
Wide Web at that particular point. And so here we
(31:28):
are the meme just held up a mirror. No curses
were summoned, no gods were offended, just the Internet doing
what it does best, rewarding noise and punishing silence. No jinks,
no jinks at all.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
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It's mallard, how about that? To the third degree? This
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Speaker 6 (32:00):
And over the weekend, the Miami Hurricanes celebrated their first
college football playoff berth with a defensive effort in a
ten to three road win at number seven Texas A
and M. And a lot of people think that this
shows that they are legitimate title contender.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Do you agree? No, I don't. I mean, that was
a nice win. It was an ugly game and all that.
I'm not there on Miami yet. You gotta you gotta
have more on offense. And I don't think they do what.
You gotta see my bracket, Coop, I gotta fill out management.
Scott contacted me. I have to fill out a bracket,
(32:34):
so you'll I don't want to give my bracket away, Coop,
as you do, but I'm not. I'm not on board
with the Hurricanes winning the whole thing. Next.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
So a lot of people say that Caleb williams heroics
against the Packers on Saturday should silence the doubters. Ben,
you have you have been one of those doubters. Have
you been silenced?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Well? I was silence Coop. I did not do shows.
We did the podcast, but we didn't talk about that game.
So I was technically silenced over the weekend. On Caleb Williams.
That was nice, but he's you gotta play like that
the whole game. He has these stretches where he's great
and the rest of the game he stinks it's problematic.
But I'm the bad guy because I'm pointing that out. Okay,
(33:15):
And yeah, do I take some cheap shots at the
nail Paulish, Yes, I do. Next.
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Late last week, Lebron James was asked about the play
of Keyante George of the Utah Jazz, and Lebron said,
I'm the wrong guy to ask about that. I watch
YouTube golf these days. A lot of Lakers fans are
concerned that his motivation is waiting Ben.
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Should they be concerned about that? I thought Lebron looked
great on Saturday Coop my favorite Laker game all year
against the Clippers. What a wonderful game, and we had
it on the background. I was not watching it, but
the Clippers were leading the whole game. But yeah, Lebron,
I wouldn't be worried about that. I'd be worried about
some other Lebron. So how do we go? How do
we get pass?
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It's the unscreened phone call portion of the show. We
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it's such a great story, DK Metcalf. That's a wide
(35:04):
receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. During the Steelers win in Detroit,
went up to a guy wearing a blue wig, a
Lions fan wearing a blue wig, and attempted to punch
him during the game. So what is your advice? Advice
to DK Metcalf of the Pittsburgh Steelers who attempted to
(35:28):
throw a punch. He did not land the punch, and
he's he's gonna have some explaining to do, will likely
be suspended by the NFL at some point the next
couple of days. All right, advice to DK Metcalf of
the Steelers. Let's go to you eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox by the way, line number one. You're
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on the airline one. Hello. They always say, don't punch down.
He was punching out. That's your point, supermarcut Steve. He
did punch off the stands above the feet. Let's go
to line two. Your next line two we're giving advice
to DK Metcalf of the Pittsburg Steelers.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I'm sorry Ben's cousin, but women's soccer blows. I'd rather
look at Robbie. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
I got yelled at by one of my older cousins
because I whip she. I ran into her and I
ripped women's soccer three years ago, and she still remembered
that monologue and she yelled at me. Let's go to
line three. You're on the airline three. Hello, line three,
Good morning ten.
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I told him that uha used to be a playboy
bunny centerphold.
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He didn't believe me.
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I told him, I don't understand why why would DK
Metcalf not believe Rick and Maryland? Line uh we Line four?
I believe Line four is ringing. Hello, Line four, you're
on the airline four. Hey, that's lucky Tony. Line five.
Your next advice to DK Metcalf with the Steelers who
attempted to punch a Lions fan. All right, your phone sucks,
(36:59):
line sick year. Hello, Line six, go all right, that's
no good eight seven, seven ninety nine. On Fox, we're
giving advice to DK Metcalf of the Steels who attempted
to punch a Lions fan during the game. Hello, line one,
you're on the ear. Hello, line one, call.
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Okay, I have no idea what that meant. Let's go
to line too, your next line too. Advice to DK
Metcalf of the Steelers attempted to punch a Lions fan
during the game.
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You had to learn how to.
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Go to box, the score and line how to box
like a man? Sit where we was? Okay, all right,
all right, there's our buddy Frank from Iowa. Sounds like
a ligne. Is it bad? I recognize everyone's with a
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one number two. We we had a middling week. We
won the Sunday night game. We did that a line
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Line six? Line two? Go ahead, you're on their carry off? Right, No,
I will do one one more if it's good, I'll
(38:12):
take credit. I'll blame the coop. Final call Coople on
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the airline. One go Apostam's rule, A possum's rule. There
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admit this is low hanging fruit, and I believe that
low hanging fruit is the most delicious fruit. Thus I'm
going to take a bite of the forbidden fruit, the
low hanging forbidden fruit. We go to Dallas. How about
them Cowboys? Now? The Cowboys eliminated from playoff consideration over
the weekend, the Philadelphia Eagles taking care of business there
(02:21):
against Washington. It was a struggle for a while. The Chargers, though,
went out and molly wopped the Cowboys on side. It
was a beatdown in Jerry's world, a standard fair these days,
which led to the man of the hour man of
the hour, giving a truth bomb, well kind of giving
a truth bomb. If you didn't see this, perhaps not
(02:43):
Jerry Jones, the most powerful man in the NFL, Not
Roger get Deell, not anyone else. Jerry Jones. It's Jerry's
world after all. And Jerry was asked if the Cowboys
underachieved this season, and well, he didn't. He didn't tap
dance around. He answered the question. Here's Jerry Jones. Let's
(03:04):
take a listen, let's go to the audio tape, take
a list.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yes, from what we expected, what we thought, absolutely we did.
We all underachieved, really and the fact we're not in
the playoffs says that for you. But I thought we've
done some things out there that frankly, we can carry
forward to us with us. It's always the case that
(03:31):
there are some positive things. The question is can we
make some changes where we need to. That's be pretty
thorough and multiple. A lot of multiplication there with the
way we played this year. But still they're positive things
are always are, And that's one of the things about
(03:53):
going in on coaches meeting and looking at film. If
you don't look out, you'll see positive things when you
they should be more critical to the negatives, and I
think you have to do that. You play the game
being Bob the gang.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Hey, Jerry, there's a forklift backing up. You might want
to get out of the way, Jerry, don't get your
run over by the forklift. All right, that's a good
jumping off points. So let us discuss the question. Who
is Jerry Jones specifically calling out in that rant about
the Cowboys underachieving? He was asked a leading question. He
did not He did not shy away from it. He
answered it. So he used the we we are all underachieving.
(04:32):
So my observation on this, I've got the Juilliard School,
magic eight ball, and farmer boys, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make macadamia nut white chocolate chip cookies is what we're
gonna make. Yum yum. To Mike tom tumb so number W.
(04:56):
Using Google Translate, they have a new each he can
now interpret what Jerry Jones means. So using Google Translate,
I am I'm pretty confident here, pretty confident that Jerry. Well,
he said, hey, we all underachieved. This was not a
blanket statement. It was actually a laser pointer at two people, right,
(05:22):
two people in particular, it was aimed right at Shoddy
who's naughty and Dak. Now, Jerry Jones went out and
fired the rotund Mike McCarthy because seven to ten was
not good enough, was not good enough. He then promoted
Brian Schottenheimer, the net bo baby, the sock puppet coach,
(05:46):
and he's like, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna be better now.
Jerry's the only one that thought they would be better.
So they went out there and they have this. They
have the same stale leftovers. Sands, the big defensive star
who they unloaded right before the regular season. Micah Parsons
now Dak Prescott, one of the all time great stat compilers. Right,
(06:08):
you look at the numbers. He leads the Cowboy franchise
all time in this category and that category. Oh my god,
you get a little chubby because he's so good, and
then you realize, well, when the moment matters, he turns
into a desert mirage. It looks good until you close,
until you get close, right fourth quarter, close game, and then.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Poof, poof, poof, poop, poop poof. Hocus pocus.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Now Vegas, we mentioned this in a previous episode of
the show at Bears repeating, so, Vegas had Dallas as
an eight ish win team, right around eight wins. They
are six and nine, and they have Washington and the
Giants up next. So if they win those, and the
Giants are the worst team in the NFL tie with
(06:53):
the Raiders right now, Washington is not much better. So
those are winnable games. Win those, and the Cowboys will
be who exactly they were supposed to be. They'll be
exactly where Vegas had them. They were right around eight
wins on the look ahead total for the season. And
may point out that Jerry Jones is not furious. He's not.
(07:17):
He took classes I'm convinced in his spare time at
the Juilliard School. Performance outrage is what this is. It's
cowboy football, loud complaints, soft fixes, the eternal underachievement theater
that is Jerry's world. And let's be honest, you, once
the season ends, that's when the Cowboys dominate. They will
(07:40):
dominate the headlines. The Cowboys are gonna make news. That's
what Jerry does. When he gets a little slow around there,
he stirs it up, and so he's gonna get into it.
Now one of the other people staying with Dallas page
two here, one of the other people who's got the
laser pointer pointed right at him. Following that loss to
the Chargers, Jerry Jones also was asked about defensive quardat
(08:03):
Matt Eberflus and his future and whatever decision he makes.
Jerry said, will not be difficult. That's what he said,
will not be difficult. I might not count it as difficult,
Jones said, regarding the future of Matt Eberflus, the former
NFL head coach now back as a defensive guru. He said,
(08:24):
quote Jerry Jones, it's certainly something that we have to do,
and that is to look at the entire year and
look at what our options are and how to correct it.
So we're not here at the same time next year,
which of course they will be. All right. Question, So
Jerry Jones says that the Cowboys decision on defensive coordinator
Matt Eberflu's future might not be difficult. So how does
(08:47):
that one hit you? How does that one? He did?
So that is Jerry speak for the guillotine is being sharpened.
The guillotine is being sharpened, the speech is being written,
his suits already dry, cleaned and ready to go for
the news conference. All right, because remember last week, Jerry
challenged Matt Eberflus to show something over the final three
(09:10):
games of the regular season. Eberflus responded, and they made
a big deal about this over the weekend. They said, well,
he's moving up to the booth. He's moving from the
sidelines to the booth. And that's the problems. He couldn't
see the field from the sideline. So now that Eberflus,
the defensive warding of the Cowboy's gonna go to the booth,
we're good to go. Okay, So fine, he'll go to
the booth and that's it. It's kind of like changing
(09:32):
hats while the building's on fire and the result. Cover
your eyes. The Chargers with Eberflus I in the sky
from the press box. The Chargers carved Dallas off for
four hundred and fifty two yards and thirty four points.
Four hundred and fifty two yards and thirty four points.
Justin Herbert played darts with the secondary and nearly eighty
(09:54):
percent completions, three hundred yards, passing, three touchdowns and apartures
pair tries. It was a bullseye, repeatedly, bullseye, bullseye, bullseye.
So what does all that mean? Now? We consulted with
a fool proof arbiter r one of the great judges
of our time, the magic eight ball. We consulted with
(10:17):
the magic gate ball. We said, all almighty, all powerful,
magic eate ball. We said, what does it look like
for the future of Matt Eberflus And we shook it,
We rattled, We rolled beside that magic eight ball, and
the magic eight ball said, outlook not so good. That's
what the magic gate ball said. This defense has been
(10:39):
a revolving door all season, a bunch of matadors ole
lay o, lay ole. Yeah, it's just great. So it's
a revolving door. You spin it and it spins all night.
The booth clearly did not help. So the Cowboys have
two games left. May I recommend that the Cowboys have
a drone over this over the stadium, the ebrew Flus drone,
(11:04):
and you can use the drone and see where everyone's
lined up on offense for the opposition. If that doesn't work,
you can go nineteen eighties style and bring back the
goodyear blimp and get in the blimp and then look
down from the blimp and call the defensive plays from
the blimp. If that does not work, I think you
get a small weather balloon. If that's more cost efficient
(11:25):
for Jerry's world. Just keep experimenting, Just keep experimenting. Something's
gonna work.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Jerry already decided this will not be difficult, So what's
the big deal. It's not gonna be difficult all right? Now,
final point to social media we go or this has
become a thing. The admins celebrating the win, the social
media team, the min admins. That's the word I'm looking
for for the Chargers there, they decide to have some fun,
(11:53):
so of course this becomes a thing. Oh my god,
I can't believe they did that. So first the Chargers
on their online platforms jokingly referenced the Cowboys we demn
boys slogan. Of course, Cowboys are very good at slogans.
Winning football games they're not good at, but they lead
the league in slogans. They're really good at that. We
(12:14):
demn Boys. So the Chargers had some fun with that.
Then in the holiday spirit, they edited a clip from
the four film The Polar Express, a classic piece of
cinema where the conductor punches an l on a ticket
for the Cowboys, and they finished up the troll buffet
with a meme depicting a Cowboys wearing Babushka insisting quote,
(12:39):
this is our year, and then the Babushka's granddaughter leading
her to bed mocking mocking Dallas fans perennial optimism. So
that was the trifect. Of course this ruffled. I don't
think this really offended anyone, but the perception is it
offended some people. So we'll just play along with it,
calling the bull it's class list and act like you've
(13:01):
been there before. What's wrong with you? Do not kick
the team while they're down, the Cowboys. So the question
did the Chargers mess with the football gods by poking fun?
Where they off base by poking fun at the Dallas Cowboy.
So let's stop pretending that this is somehow sacrilege. Can
(13:22):
we all do that? Thank you? Yeah? Yeah, please? You
know what that is. That's just what you're supposed to do.
The Charger didn't anger the football gods. They poke the Internet.
It's the internet, dummy, it's fake, it's the matrix, it's
all that. And the Internet poked back and that's what's
supposed to happen. The yen and the yang. There's a
big difference there. This wasn't blasphemy. It was called commerce.
(13:46):
It's called commerce. Social media is not a tabernacle. It's
not the church. It's not a temple. It's a carnival
barker with a bluetooth headset. It's some low level intern.
If you knew who actually runs these social media departments,
ever your favorite NFL team, you'd be a guest. You'd say, god, zooks,
who is that punk. I've sat by some of these people.
(14:08):
I go to the games occasionally, and I've sat behind
the people that take here of the social media and
you know, good for them, that's a good job. But
most of them are right out of college. It's like
their first gig because the old boomers they don't know
about social media. So like this, get these young punks.
We'll get them a job. We'll pay them, you know,
sixty thousand dollars a year. We'll let them run the
(14:29):
Twitter account for the team. But that's what that is, right,
You're just yelling for attention in social media. You're juggling
flaming hot takes and the Chargers' account rolled through. They
really leaned into it, rolled through it like they were
eating at farmer boys cheeseburger fries and a supersized order
of engagement farming grease everywhere. Mission accomplished. The algorithm is
(14:56):
a slot machine chod ching chot chan chet ching. It's
the new one armed bandit. It only pays, It only
pays when you pull the outrage level lever. You gotta
pull the lever and the boom just like and the
bod Army. The bod Army salivates, They salivate the rage
(15:18):
clicks angry cowboy fans who are not involved in understanding
how deep the rabbit hole goes. And it's not classless.
It's called capitalism using emojis. What it is, capitalism with
emojis and memes and all that. So if you can
sell a dummy and a dummy buys it, that's it.
(15:40):
And so the cowboy fans who are clutching pearls about
this is not right and all that, please come on.
This is our year. And that has been a recycled moniker.
It's been around longer than a lumin of cans. And
remember the Cowboys last won the Super Bowl before there
was an admin working for the Dallas Cowboys or the Chargers.
(16:00):
That job did not exist in the mid nineties because
there was no social media. People were in America online
dial up internet, and that's it. That was the World
Wide Web at that particular point. And so here we are.
The meme just held up a mirror. No curses were summoned,
no gods were offended, just the Internet doing what it
(16:22):
does best, rewarding noise and punishing silence. No jinks, no
jinks at all.
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Now, I fully admit this is low hanging fruit, and
I believe that low hanging fruit is the most delicious fruit.
Thus I'm going to take a bite of the forbidden fruit,
the low hanging forbidden fruit. We go to Dallas. How
about them Cowboys?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Now?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The Cowboys eliminated from playoff consideration over the weekend, the
Philadelphia Eagles taking care of business there against Washington. It
was a struggle for a while. The Chargers, though, went
out and molly wopped the Cowboys on site. It was
a beatdown in Jerry's world standard fair these days, which
led to the Man of the Hour, Man of the
(17:52):
Hour giving a truth bomb, well kind of giving a
truth bomb. If you didn't see this, perhaps, not Jerry Jones,
the most powerful man in the NFL, Not Roger get Theell,
not any of us. Jerry Jones. It's Jerry's world after all.
And Jerry was asked if the Cowboys underachieved this season
and well he didn't. He didn't tap dance around. He
(18:17):
answered the question. Here's Jerry Jones. Let's take a listen.
Let's go to the audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yes, from what we expected, what we thought, absolutely we did.
We all underachieved, really and the fact we're not in
the playoffs says that for you. But I thought we've
done some things out there that frankly we can carry
forward to us and with us it's always the case
(18:46):
that there's some positive things. The question is can we
make some changes where we need to. That's pretty be
pretty thorough and multiply a lot of multiplication there with
the way we played there. But still they're positive things
always are, And that's one of the things about going
(19:08):
in on coaches meeting and looking at film. If you
don't look out, you'll say positive things when you really
should be more critical to the negative. And I think
you have to do that to play the game.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Being Bob mcgaan, Hey, Jerry, is a forklift backing up.
You might want to get out of the way, Jerry.
Don't get to run over by the forklift. All right,
that's a good jumping off point. So let us discuss
the question. Who is Jerry Jones specifically calling out in
that rant about the Cowboys underachieving? He was asked a
leading question. He did not He did not shy away
(19:40):
from it. He answered it. So he used the we
we are all underachieving. So my observation on this, I've
got the Juilliard School, magic eight ball, and farmer boys,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make macadamia nut white chocolate chip
(20:01):
cookies is what we're gonna make. Yum, yum to Mike
Tom tumb so number W. Using Google Translate, they have
a new feature. You can now interpret what Jerry Jones means.
So using Google Translate, I am. I'm pretty confident here,
(20:22):
pretty confident that Jerry. Well, he said, hey, we all underachieved.
This was not a blanket statement. It was actually a
laser pointer at two people, all right, two people in particular.
I was aimed right at Shoddy who's naughty and dak Now,
(20:44):
Jerry Jones went out and fired the rotund Mike McCarthy
because seven to ten was not good enough, was not
good enough. He then promoted Brian Schottenheimer, the NEPO baby,
the sock pup, but coach, and he's like, Okay, we're
gonna we're gonna be better now. Jerry's the only one
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that thought they would be better. So they went out
there and they have this. They have the same stale leftovers. Sands,
the big defensive star who they unloaded right before the
regular season, MICHAEH. Parsons now Dak Prescott, one of the
all time great stat compilers. Right you look at the numbers.
He leads the Cowboy franchise all time in this category
(21:27):
and that category. Oh my god, you get a little
chubby because he's so good, and then you realize, well,
when the moment matters, he turns into a desert Mirai.
It looks good until you close, until you get close,
right fourth quarter, close.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Game, and then poof, poof, poof, poop, poop poof. Hocus pocus.
Now Vegas.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
We mentioned this in a previous episode of the show
at Bears, repeating, so Vegas had Dallas as an eight
ish win team. Right around eight wins, they are six
and nine and they have Washington and the Giants up next.
So if they win those and the Giants are the
worst team in the NFL, tie with the Raiders right now.
(22:08):
Washington is not much better. So those are winnable games.
You win those and the Cowboys will be who exactly
they were supposed to be. They'll be exactly where Vegas
had them. They were right around eight wins on the
look ahead total for the season. And may point out
that Jerry Jones is not furious. He's not. He took
(22:32):
classes I'm convinced in his spare time at the Juilliard School.
Performance outrage is what this is. It's cowboy football, loud complaints,
soft fixes, the eternal underachievement theater that is Jerry's world.
And let's be honest you, once the season ends, that's
(22:53):
when the Cowboys dominate. They will dominate the headlines. The
Cowboys are gonna make news. That's what Jerry does when
he gets a little slow around there, he stirs it up.
And so he's going to get into it now. One
of the other people staying with Dallas page two here,
one of the other people who's got the laser pointer
pointed right at him. Following that loss to the Chargers,
(23:15):
Jerry Jones also was asked about defensive quarter to Matt
Eberflus and his future and whatever decision he makes, Jerry said,
will not be difficult. That's what he said, will not
be difficult. I might not count it as difficult, Jones said.
Regarding the future of Matt Eberflus, the former NFL head
coach now back as a defensive guru. He said, quote
(23:39):
Jerry Jones, It's certainly something that we have to do,
and that is to look at the entire year and
look at what our options are and how to correct it.
So we're not here in at the same time next year,
which of course they will be, all right. Question, So
Jerry Jones says that the Cowboys decision on defensive coordinator
Matt Eberflu's future might not be difficult. So how does
(24:02):
that one hit you? How does that one? He did?
So that is Jerry speak for the guillotine is being sharpened.
The guillotine is being sharpened, the speech is being written.
The suits already dry, cleaned and ready to go for
the news conference. All right, because remember last week Jerry
challenged Matt Eberflus to show something over the final three
(24:25):
games of the regular season. Eberflus responded, and they made
a big deal about this over the weekend. They said, well,
he's moving up to the booth. He's moving from the
sidelines to the booth. And that's the problems. He couldn't
see the field from the sideline. So now that Eberflus,
the defensive warding of the cowboy's gonna go to the booth,
we're good to go. Okay, so fine, he'll go to
the booth and that's it. It's kind of like changing
(24:46):
hats while the building's on fire and the result. Cover
your eyes. The Chargers with Eberflus I in the sky
from the press box. The Chargers carved Dallas off for
four hundred and fifty two yards and thirty four points.
Four hundred and fifty two yards and thirty four points.
Justin Herbert played darts with the secondary and nearly eighty
(25:09):
percent completions, three hundred yards passing, three touchdowns and apartures
in the pear tree. It was a bullseye repeatedly, bullseye, bullsseye, bullseye.
So what does all that mean? Now? We consulted with
a full proof arbiter, one of the great judges of
our time, the magic eight ball. We consulted with the
(25:32):
magic gate ball. We said, all almighty, all powerful, magic
eate ball. We said, what does it look like for
the future of Matt Eberflus And we shook it, we rattled,
we rolled beside that magic eate ball, and the magic
eate ball said, outlook not so good. That's what the
magic gate ball said. This defense has been a revolving
(25:54):
door all season. Bunch of matadors o le lay o,
l ole. It's just great. So it's revolving door. You
spin it and it spinds all night. The booth clearly
did not help. So the Cowboys have two games left.
May I recommend that the Cowboys have a drone over
(26:15):
the stadium, the ebrew Flus drone, and you can use
the drone and see where everyone's lined up on offense
for the opposition. If that doesn't work, you can go
nineteen eighty style and bring back the goodyear blimp and
get in the blimp and then look down from the
blimp and call the defensive plays from the blimp. If
(26:36):
that does not work, I think you get a small
weather balloon if that's more cost efficient for Jerry's world.
Just keep experimenting, Just keep experimenting. Something's gonna work now.
Jerry already decided this will not be difficult. It So,
what's the big deal. It's not gonna be difficult, all right? Now,
final point to social media we go or this has
(26:57):
become a thing. The admins celebrating the win, the social
media team, the admins. That's the word I'm looking for
for the Chargers there, they decided to have some fun.
So of course this becomes a thing. Oh my god,
I can't believe they did that. So first the Chargers
on their online platforms jokingly referenced the Cowboys we demn
(27:19):
Boys slogan. Of course, cowboys are very good at slogans.
Winning football games they're not good at, but they lead
the league in slogans. They're really good at that. We
demn Boys. So the Chargers had some fun with that. Then,
in the holiday spirit, they edited a clip from the
four film The Polar Express, a classic piece of cinema,
(27:39):
where the conductor punches an l on a ticket for
the Cowboys, And they finished up the troll buffet with
a meme depicting a cowboys wearing Babushka insisting quote, this
is our year, and then the Babushka's granddaughter leading her
to bed, mocking, mocking, Dallas fans perennial optimism, So that
(28:06):
was the trifect. Of course, this ruffled. I don't think
this really offended anyone, but the perception is it offended
some people. So we'll just play along with it, calling
the Bolts class lists and act like you've been there before.
What's wrong with you? Do not kick the team while
they're down the Cowboys? So the question did the Chargers
mess with the football gods by poking fun? Where they
(28:31):
off base by poking fun at the Dallas Cowboy. So
let's stop pretending that this is somehow sacrilege. Can we
all do that? Thank you? Yeah? Yeah, please? You know
what that is. That's just what you're supposed to do.
The Charger didn't anger the football gods. They poke the Internet.
It's the internet, dummy, it's fake. It's the matrix. It's
(28:51):
all that, and the Internet poked back, and that's what's
supposed to happen. The yin and the yang. There's a
big difference there. This wasn't blasphemy. It was called commerce.
It's called commerce. Social media is not a tabernacle. It's
not the church. It's not a temple. It's a carnival.
Barker with a Bluetooth headset. It's some low level intern.
(29:11):
If you knew who actually runs the social media departments
ever your favorite NFL team, you'd be a guest. You'd say, god, zooks,
who is that punk? I've sat by some of these people.
I go to the games occasionally, and I've sat behind
the people that take here of the social media and
you know, good for them, that's a good job. But
most of them are right out of college. It's like
(29:34):
their first gig because the old boomers they don't know
about social media. So like this, get these young punks.
We'll get them a job. We'll pay them, you know,
sixty thousand dollars a year. We'll let them run the
Twitter account for the team. But that's what that is, right,
You're just yelling for attention in social media. You're juggling
flaming hot takes. And the Chargers' account rolled through. They
(29:56):
really leaned into it, rolled through it like they were
eating at Farmer cheeseburger fries and a supersized order of
engagement farming increase everywhere, mission accomplished. The algorithm is a
slot machine chut ching, cha ching, chut ching. It's the
new one armed bandit it only pays. It only pays
(30:21):
when you pull the outrage level lever. You gotta pull
the lever and the boom just like and the bod Army.
The bod Army salivates, They salivate the rage clicks angry
cowboy fans who are not involved in understanding how deep
the rabbit hole goes. And it's not classless. It's called
(30:43):
capitalism using emojis. What it is, capitalism with emojis and
memes and all that. So if you can sell a
dummy and a dummy buys it, that's it. And so
the cowboy fans who are clutching pearls about this is
not right and all that, please come on. This is
our year. That has been a recycled moniker. It's been
(31:06):
around longer than a lumine of cans. And to remember,
the Cowboys last won the Super Bowl before there was
an admin working for the Dallas Cowboys or the Chargers.
That job did not exist in the mid nineties because
there was no social media. People were in America online,
dial up internet and that's it. That was the World
Wide Web at that particular point. And so here we
(31:28):
are the meme just held up a mirror. No curses
were summoned, no gods were offended, just the Internet doing
what it does best, rewarding noise and punishing silence. No jinks,
no jinks at all.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
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Speaker 1 (31:50):
It's mallard, how about that? To the third degree? This
is one big vent gets grilled, I mean right, coopoloo.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
And over the weekend, the Miami Hurricanes celebrated their first
college football playoff berth with a defensive effort in a
ten to three road win at number seven Texas A
and M. And a lot of people think that this
shows that they are legitimate title contender.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Do you agree? No, I don't. I mean, that was
a nice win. It was an ugly game and all that.
I'm not there on Miami yet. You gotta you gotta
have more on offense. And I don't think they do what.
You gotta see my bracket, Coop, I gotta fill out management.
Scott contacted me. I have to fill out a bracket,
(32:34):
so you'll I don't want to give my bracket away, Coop,
as you do, but I'm not. I'm not on board
with the Hurricanes winning the whole thing. Next.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
So a lot of people say that Caleb williams heroics
against the Packers on Saturday should silence the doubters. Ben,
you have you have been one of those doubters. Have
you been silenced?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Well? I was silence Coop. I did not do shows.
We did the podcast, but we didn't talk about that game.
So I was technically silenced over the weekend. On Caleb Williams.
That was nice, but he's you gotta play like that
the whole game. He has these stretches where he's great
and the rest of the game he stinks it's problematic.
But I'm the bad guy because I'm pointing that out. Okay,
(33:15):
And yeah, do I take some cheap shots at the
nail Paulish, Yes, I do. Next.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Late last week, Lebron James was asked about the play
of Keyante George of the Utah Jazz, and Lebron said,
I'm the wrong guy to ask about that. I watch
YouTube golf these days. A lot of Lakers fans are
concerned that his motivation is waiting Ben.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Should they be concerned about that? I thought Lebron looked
great on Saturday Coop my favorite Laker game all year
against the Clippers. What a wonderful game, and we had
it on the background. I was not watching it, but
the Clippers were leading the whole game. But yeah, Lebron,
I wouldn't be worried about that. I'd be worried about
some other Lebron. So how do we go? How do
we get pass?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
That is?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
They went?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Put it on the board.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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listen live. Hey you sports figure, guy or girl?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Who here were you talking to?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Son?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
If you're some interesting advice.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
Hold that though no one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And if you don't like it, you and away we go.
It's the unscreened phone call portion of the show. We
like to call it the insta advice line. We take,
we take, We take from so many people in sports.
We talk about the coaches, the players, the prominent media figures. Well,
(34:43):
this is once a week where we give back. We
give advice from the American people, the Canadian people, anyone
listening I don't care wherever you are. You're you're fellow man,
and help us out here give advice. Who needs our advice? Now, well,
we're gonna talk about more in depth next hour. But
it's such a great story, DK Metcalf. That's a wide
(35:04):
receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. During the Steelers win in Detroit,
went up to a guy wearing a blue wig, a
Lions fan wearing a blue wig, and attempted to punch
him during the game. So what is your advice? Advice
to DK Metcalf of the Pittsburgh Steelers who attempted to
(35:28):
throw a punch. He did not land the punch, and
he's he's gonna have some explaining to do, will likely
be suspended by the NFL at some point the next
couple of days. All right, advice to DK Metcalf of
the Steelers. Let's go to you eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox by the way, line number one. You're
(35:48):
on the airline one. Hello. They always say, don't punch down.
He was punching out. That's your point, supermarcut Steve. He
did punch off the stands above the feet. Let's go
to line two. Your next line two we're giving advice
to DK Metcalf of the Pittsburg Steelers.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I'm sorry Ben's cousin, but women's soccer blows. I'd rather
look at Robbie. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
I got yelled at by one of my older cousins
because I whip she. I ran into her and I
ripped women's soccer three years ago, and she still remembered
that monologue and she yelled at me. Let's go to
line three. You're on the airline three. Hello, line three,
Good morning ten.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I told him that uha used to be a playboy
bunny centerphold.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
He didn't believe me.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I told him, I don't understand why why would DK
Metcalf not believe Rick and Maryland? Line uh we Line four?
I believe Line four is ringing. Hello, Line four, you're
on the airline four. Hey, that's lucky Tony. Line five.
Your next advice to DK Metcalf with the Steelers who
attempted to punch a Lions fan. All right, your phone sucks,
(36:59):
line sick year. Hello, Line six, go all right, that's
no good eight seven, seven ninety nine. On Fox, we're
giving advice to DK Metcalf of the Steels who attempted
to punch a Lions fan during the game. Hello, line one,
you're on the ear. Hello, line one, call.
Speaker 6 (37:17):
The line, Josh tebe Meatball's ball.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Okay, I have no idea what that meant. Let's go
to line too, your next line too. Advice to DK
Metcalf of the Steelers attempted to punch a Lions fan
during the game.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
You had to learn how to.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Go to box, the score and line how to box
like a man? Sit where we was? Okay, all right,
all right, there's our buddy Frank from Iowa. Sounds like
a ligne. Is it bad? I recognize everyone's with a
line five? Hello, line five, line fell and I lost
all my money last Now you're a liar, sir, you're
a liar. You had to watch Benny versus Pay number
(37:52):
one number two. We we had a middling week. We
won the Sunday night game. We did that a line
line six, hellout, line six, line six? Are you there?
Line six? Line two? Go ahead, you're on their carry off? Right, No,
I will do one one more if it's good, I'll
(38:12):
take credit. I'll blame the coop. Final call Coople on
the incident vice line line one, line one you're on
the airline. One go Apostam's rule, A possum's rule. There
it is. I know what he's doing right now
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