January 7, 2020 • 36 mins
On this edition of the Best of The Ben Maller Show, Ben grades the Cowboys coaching hire and explains why he’s not too keen on it, why Tua made the right choice in leaving Alabama for the NFL, and the crew plays Maller’s Mountain of Money with YOU!
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you're not, so don't bear the lead, my man. All right,
we won't bear the lead. Dallas, Dallas. Last time the
Dallas Cowboys won a Super Bowl. Let's see here, where
was I working? I wasn't working here. I was just
starting out, kind of the early days of my career
long ago. Last time the Cowboys had won a championship,
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and the cycle of change, the coaching carousel spinning round
and round, and Machel, it's whack a mole is what
it is. Essentially, it's whack a mole with these fine
coaching changes and whatnot. Now Sean Payton was Sean Payton
gonna be the coach of the Cowpano, No, Sean Payton
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get the job. Didn't talk to Sean Payton. Of course
he's he's free out because the Saints gagged again. A
bunch of choke artist in New Orlean had changed their
name from the Saints to the choke Artist. That's what
they had to do in the Bayou, but not him
and Jason Garrett finally given his walking papers over the
weekend on Sunday and then on Monday, the Cowboys immediately,
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not wasting any time, the equivalent of someone getting a
divorce on a Thursday and then on Saturday getting a
shotgun wedding going down there at one of those drive
through wedding places in Vegas. And so today the Cowboys
immediately hired their replacement for the head coach, although technically
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Jason Garrett had been fired, whacked, let go, relieved of
his duties, whatever you want to say, several days ago.
But I assume you've heard by now. If you've not
heard by now, this store is almost twenty four hours old.
If you've not heard by now, man, are you doing
a bad job and keeping up on stuff going on
in sports? But maybe now there's always that one person
that doesn't pay that close attention. So Mike McCarthy is
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set to be come the ninth coach in franchise history.
Holy Barry Switzer, Batman, that's right, Mike McCarthy, Chubby Mike McCarthy.
Now there's a guy that works here at Fox Sports
Radio during the day, Dan Bayer, who is a lookalike
of Mike McCarthy. Dead ringer who dead ringer for Mike McCarthy.
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So essentially they've hired a guy or I don't know
our colleagues here, but you don't know who he is.
And listen, if you listen at night, you don't know
who he is. Ever most of the day you don't
know who I am. Anyway, Mike McCarthy lasted thirteen seasons
in Green Bay, and the big selling point of Mike
McCarthy is that Super Bowl forty five victory. The Packers
fired him. I think it was week thirteen of the
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twenty eighteen season. And now, much like a certain type
of disease, he is back. He has returned, and everyone
has hot takes. Everyone's got a hot take on this.
So I would like to get in the congo line
of hot takes, and I'd like to give you mine.
So let's discuss. Now, if you were to put a
grade on the Mike McCarthy coaching hire for the Cowboys,
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what grade would you give it. I like to give
Gridge because I am a professor of sports talk radio.
So I'm gonna give the grade to Mike McCarthy a
C minus. Now I would like to give a D.
I would like to give an F, but I'm going
to give a C minus to Mike McCarthy. Now, my thoughts,
You've got puppeteering, coattails and hornet's nest, and we will
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tie all of these things together into hopefully a nice
little dish of baba ganoosh. That's what we're gonna try
to do. Now, A Jerry Jones who. It's like everything
with the Cowboys and really everything in the world, mostly politics,
but also in sports. It's very polarizing. Right, Oh my god,
this is some people are convinced this is the greatest hire.
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Oh my god. Jerry Jones what He's finally figured it
out after fifty years owning the Cowboys, He's finally figured
it out, and he's being celebrated by a lot of
the football media establishment, the upper crust of media. They
don't get denied credentials by the Seattle Seahawks PR Department
when they go to a game the one percenters because
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you know, they can get by the morons that work
in the Seattle Seahawks PR Department. But anyway, I did
so Jerry Jones being celebrated for this hire, I don't
understand why. Now, my position on this is kind of
clear here. This is a safe hire. Mike McCarthy has
very low upside and no real downside. He's going to be,
at worst Jason Garrett two point zero. It's an uninspiring higher.
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It's boring, lacklusters another word I would use. Mike McCarthy
is not really an upgrade over Jason Garrett. In fact,
anybody that watched the Packers over those thirteen years would argue,
even with some legendary names at quarterback, for the most part,
the Green Bay Packers were as dull as dishwasher. Under
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Mike McCarthy. They won some games, but it wasn't the
wild factor that Jerry Jones likes to think. The Cowboys
provide the wild fact and the clear giveaway here. It's
a dead giveaways that Jerry Jones does not want to
share the stage. Now we knew this already, this is
not new. Jerry Jones is the de facto coach of
the Cowboys. He has been essentially coaching the Cowboys this
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entire time. Damn right. Not only is Jerry the coach,
he's the general manager, he's the pr guy, he's the mouthpiece,
you name it. He does everything. He'll even wash your car.
He'll even wash your car. That's how good Jerry Jones is.
So he's going to continue here his puppeteering ways. So really,
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when Mike McCarthy is introduced at the Daists as the
new coach of the Cowboys, which will happen here soon,
they really should say, instead of coach, here's our new
sock puppet. That's who we have. We have a new
sock puppet here. And every year Mike McCarthy coach in
the NFL, he has a player at quarterback. He's had
a player at quarterback who started the year going to
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the Hall of Fame. Right, Brett Farves, Aaron Rodgers. Right,
those are the quarterbacks Mike McCarthy had in Green Bay.
And not that the NFC North is the weakest of
weak divisions, but it's not like the Lions have been
really good more than one year out of five. And
the Chicago Bears, even though they were the darlings of
the pun ins here recently to be a Super Bowl favorite,
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the Bears have mostly been lousy over the last fifteen
years or so. Once in a while they have a
good team, but for the most part not so good.
The Vikings have had some decent teams in that time.
But the argument with McCarthy is that his teams, while
they won some games and got to the PLO sed
the postseason, they underachieved in the playoffs. It's not my opinion,
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it's a fact. It's been a decade. It's been ten
seasons since that Super Bowl forty five victory for Mike McCarthy.
So he's got a decade without one. And I'm not
part of the Championship Defenders League. Maybe you are. I'm
not one of these people that sit around so well
you want to yeah, but he won a super Bowl.
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Yeah but yeah, but yeah but yeah but yeah but
yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah, but yeah, yeah,
shove it up here, you know what, You shove it
up the wazoo. And I'm not talking about Washington State. So,
and there are plenty of coaches that are less than
spectacular coaches who have won Super Bowls. I would like
to give you example a Gary Kubiak, who was the
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coach of the Broncos when they won with the washed
up carcass of Peyton Manning, who had apparently run out
of the good stuff from that clinic in Indianapolis and
was just kind of going through the motions. At the end,
they pushed the hospital gurney across the finish line. But
Gary Kubiak is a Super Bowl winning coach. I'm sorry, Roberto,
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but John Gruden. I don't think of John Gruden as
an all time great coach. John Gruden won a Super
Bowl in Tampa Bay. Brian Billick right. Brian Billick, nice guy.
We used to have them on the radio all the time.
Brian Billick won a championship in Baltimore. See an all
time Gritton. Now, none of those guys who are immortal legends.
Mike McCarthy's on that list. The Green Bay Packers on watch,
we're fortunate to even make the playoffs the season they
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won the Super Bowl. At all these injuries, they overcame
it right when the examples teams use about next man
up and all that. Now part B here, Mike McCarthy
built his resume by doing what writing the coattails of quarterbacks,
legendary quarterbacks. Now that's I'm not disparaging it, but that's
the reality. We don't know whether Mike McCarthy can do
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it without a legendary quarterback. I mean I would do
the same thing if I was in his position. I mean,
why would you not? But you don't know, You really
do not know. You think you know, but you don't know.
And it works as a nice deodorant to hide that
rancid smell. Now that's in Vegas the other day and
right around the arena there where the Golden Knights play,
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and we were I was walking around about one in
the morning, and there was a sewer league at the
Golden Knights had played the Flyers that night, and there
was a sewer leag and the entire portion of the
Las Vegas strip smelled like human feces. And and so
that could be Mike McCarthy, that could be Mike McCarthy, right,
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That foul, rotten smell just horrific. Now, even with the
playoff appearances and all that, and in the failures, many
many failures, he often clashed with Aaron Rodgers. Roger. Now,
Rodgers never respected Mike McCarthy from from Jump Street. He
was upset McCarthy bashed him while the forty nine ers
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while he was with the forty nine ers before the
famous draft slide by Aaron Rodgers. And I was a
big fan of Alex Smith. And and so now you
can say that Rodgers is just a douche, And I
might agree that I can't really rip McCarthy because Rodgers
doesn't even like his mom. Who doesn't like their mom?
I mean, come on, please, he didn't hang out with
his family, and he said he's a lonely tone. But however,
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all right, yeah, exactly, this does has not excused the
fatal flaw, and any man, woman, or child in Wisconsin
who was a stockholder for the Packers would agree with me.
The decision making by Mike McCarthy, the lack of in
game adjustments or just adjustments in general, which is a
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bedrock of coaching that ought to give the Cowboys pause.
All Right, We talked about it a lot here over
the last handful of years. The Packers have had numerous
opportunities under Mike McCarthy in that run to make deep
playoff runs. They were often at home, which means they
were favored, and they failed numerous times outside of the
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Super Bowl season. Mike McCarthy, I believe he is six
and eight in the postseason with head spinning losses to
the Giants. As a fifteen and one top seed in
the NFC, the Packers found a way to screw it up.
They also blew a over two touchdown It was well
with the extra point was two touchdown, sixteen nothing lead
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they had in the NFC title game against the Seahawks
one year under Mike McCarthy. Those are some really agonizing defeats.
Imagine if those happened with the Cowboys, be even bigger
being even a bigg video. All Right, last word here,
So much of coaching, aside from the XS and os,
is what human relations. And now Mike McCarthy has to
show that he's not just a byproduct of Brett Farve
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and Aaron Rodgers the gravy train. He inherits a much
worse quarterback. I think everyone knows that in Dakota Prescott
McCarthy is going into essentially a hornets nest. Now, when
you fly into a hornet's nest, you're gonna get stung.
Dak Prescott, he's horn swaggled some low information football fans
into thinking he's a top notch quarterback after this year,
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But not in these circles, not in this part of town,
on this side of the tracks. We disagree. We absolutely disagree.
He's about to pull off a bank heist. That's the
talk now that there's a the Cowboys do the right
thing and just give him the franchise tag when that
opportunity presents itself, and Dak Prescott ends up not getting
the MEGAMEGA Mega millions the Texas lottery there, but he's
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gonna get paid a lot more money either way, whether
it's the franchise tag or whether or not the Cowboys
just give him the riches of Solomon to play quarterback.
And while Dak Prescott certainly put up better stats in
twenty nineteen, upon further review, they were empty numbers. He
had monster games against bad teams and turned in often
feeble performances against the better teams. Dak Prescott in games
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decided by a touchdown or last was oz and five
with four touchdowns and three interceptions, with a passer rating
which is very reminiscent of his career numbers of eighty
three point eight. The passer rating there a pedestrian yards
per attempt. But yet when the Cowboys played the week
Sisters of the Poor and the Blind in the NFL,
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we Dakota was six and oh against those teams in
blowout games with sixteen touchdowns and three interceptions. Did you
see a trend here games decided by fifteen or more
points against the weaker teams, of course, and Mike McCarthy, Now,
the key thing here, and a big selling point on McCarthy,
is this guy will hide in the shadows. He's not
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an attention whore. He's not by most accounts of DVA.
He will provide boring news conferences, much like the predecessor
at Cowboys coach Jason Garrett. He will allow Jerry Jones
to be in the center of attention, right right there
in the center behind the microphone. And never great with
young players. That was the other knock on McCarthy, never
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great with young players. He has a mixed Cowboy roster.
It's not all young, it's some middle aged players, some
players in their prime. It's a mixed bag there with
the Cowboys. And Mike McCarthy will be predictable. He will
coach conservative. He's not gonna Do you think he's gonna
change all right? Does the does the lion, does the
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zebra changes the stripes? I don't. I don't think so,
and I don't think that happens very often. So you're
gonna get a guarded, cautious to a fault coach and
you don't have to worry about him running any red
lights and going through any stop signs. Now, that's it.
McCarthy will get the standard thirty day grace period all
coaches get before we really unload and unleash the criticism here.
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But is he gonna evolve? Is he gonna grow as
a coach Mike McCarthy, it's highly questionable for the Cowboys.
And even with the big names, right, this has all
the ingredients of being a football catastrophe. He's gonna directly
report to Jerry Jones like every other Cowboy coach. Now
the question is, well, if not Mike McCarthy, who should hire.
I'll tell you right now who the Cowboys should have hired.
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There's two guys out there I would have gone after.
And I'm doing this because I believe these names would
have been better than Mike McCarthy. Just take a swing,
you go big, you go Lincoln Riley from Oklahoma, or
I would have brought in Urban Meyer. Either. I wouldn't
touch Josh McDaniels unless Bill Belichick comes with Josh McDaniels.
I wouldn't have touched Josh McDaniels. But I would have
gone Lincoln Riley of Oklahoma or Urban Meyer a fox
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damn right, Herbert Mayer. Now, a couple of things. First
of all, I'm a talk show host. These guys would
have been better for me, all right, that's number and
number two. We could have played the Urban Meyer drop
every day on the show, right, and then we would
have made it like the cowboy victory thing. When the Cowboys,
women will play the urban minything, much like that thing
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I did for the Raiders, right, and we say, when
the Raiders win again, we're gonna play the victory the
poetry from NFL films that I did er that's it.
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a ONEA, It's about a ta ta tongue of La baby. Welcome.
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very very simple. So a lot of anticipation. Now. We
learned over the weekend that the football world will be
focused below the Mason Dixon Line on Monday, specifically Tuscaloosa.
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There was a news conference that had been scheduled was
announced by I believe Adam Schefter and others there that
Nick Saban and to a Tongue of La, we're gonna
be hanging out together, schmoozing in a news conference. Would
he stay or would he go? Was the question. And
I don't know if you saw it. I knew that
the moment I heard Arnie Spanner on Fox Sports Radio
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say that he thinks that to a Tongue of Bayla
was going back to Alabama. I knew right then that
he was gone. I knew right then. Once the stinking
genius said that tah was gonna go back to Alabama,
there was no chance. And if you missed it, yeah,
Alabama quarterback toa Tungueabayloh is now a former Alabama quarterback.
He has put his name in to the pot for
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the twenty twenty NFL draft. Tongue of bayloa making the
decision official at not really a gala news come It's
more like a social get together, having a cup of
tea and all that and hanging out. But it did happen.
He made his decision official. There and months and months
of chatter will he leave or not? Because he suffered
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a dislocated and fractured hip during that game against Mississippi
State way back in November. And now the debate is
where will to a tongue of Baaloa land in the
April draft in Vegas. Now, at the beginning of the
college football season, there was one consensus. It was tank
for Tua. Everyone's it is guy's gonna be the number
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one pick in the draft. Every draft nick, every genius said,
this is obvious number one overall. Right, no brainer, this
guy's gonna be the number one pick in the draft. Fine, okay,
But then they had to play the year, and obviously
we know what happened here. He's no longer projected as
the number one picked, not any more, because of the
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emergence of other quarterbacks, mainly Joe Burrow, the LSU quarterback
in the Heisman winner, who is now ascended to the
top of the mountain to wear the silly clothes the
Cincinnati Bengals wear and to have that be the next
few years of his life. But it's all about tongue
of Bloa here and the injury which certainly has pushed
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him down that we can all agree on that the
mock draft boards, which are about as close to meaningless
as you can possibly get. But let's discuss the question
did Tuah make the right call declaring for the NFL.
Not only did he make the right call, it was
the only call that he could have made right thousand percent.
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Now my observations, you've got the flower, gamesmanship, and spin
the wheel, and we will combine all these things together,
will lock them together like you were supposed to lock
your locker back in the day in high school. So
number one, you don't play football at Alabama for the education. Now,
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I am not here to attack the educational system at
the University of Alabama, but I am going to tell
you I think we can agree on this also that
Alabama is not When you play football at Alabama, it's
not about boy, if I get that degree, it's like
going to Harvard. You know, you go to Harvard and
you get a degree at Harvard, and all those rich
people that graduated from Harvard give you a job and
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then you're set up for life. Not quite the same
situation Alabama. He is a football clearinghouse and to a
tongue of Ilola, made a name for himself with the
Crimson Tide. A couple of years back. On the field,
and now he is set to cash in his chips
in pro football. And while the injury is a bummer,
it certainly undermines the top of draft status that he
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would have gotten. This is not an unmitigated disaster that
some are trying to say, Oh, this is Dulman glow up. No,
not even play stop. NFL teams, at least what they
say publicly, don't seem to be overly worried and concerned
about the long term viability of Tongue of Iloa based
on his latest injury, and that is apparently one of
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the main reasons we're told he decided to clear for
the draft. He talked to the NFL, some of the
executives in the NFL. He said, listen, we look at
this like a knee injury. Now, I don't know how
that's possible. You're talking about a fractured hip. I think
that's a bigger deal than a knee injury, which is
like an assembly line there with treating these knee injuries.
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Now along those lines, tah and there's no way to
avoid this. Can't beat around the Alabama quarterback to a
tongue about lower has been injury prone. In fact, if
he was a flower, he would be a delicate little flower.
That would be what to a tongue of boy lower
would be. He has been hurt every year in college.
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Every year someone's popped up. He's had surgery, I believe,
on both ankles. Now he's got the hip issue that
he had a medical procedure for. So if your body
is so fragile that it cannot handle the Southeastern Conference,
how is it going to handle professional football with adults
and people who are much bigger, and everyone's huge and
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Alabama they play a lot of ridiculously horrific opponents in
the non conference and then the SEC. There's obviously good
players in the SEC, but not every team is loaded
with NFL players. There's maybe a couple of players on
each team in the SEC that will go on and
play in the NFL. So he couldn't handle that. How's
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he going to do in the NFL. That's an open question. Now,
some overly cautious NFL executive, some paranoid teams will absolutely
downgrade and ostracize to a tongue of la say he's
damaged good, but just the same, someone will pick him
in the first round of the draft. Now, in Layman's terms,
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he's got too much talent not to take a flyer
on at the most important position in the field. The
guy completed over seventy percent of his passes this year,
had thirty three touchdowns, three interceptions. He played nine games.
Now a lot of those were against the hostess schedule,
but still thirty three touchdowns, three interceptions. Pretty deep, Pretty deep. Good. Now,
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the second thing here, my advice, all right, make sure
both puts those up so I know what we have.
Both can do that. But my advice to a Tongue
of Bayla is to use draft gamesmanship. Right, you have
your agent leak some conveniently time stories about setbacks and
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the recovery from the hip injury. What you do here
is you take advantage of the gullibal. You take advantage
of the gullibal who will then not draft Tongue of
Bylola because they'll say, oh, we can't draft him because
he had a setback and we don't know if he'll
ever be able to hit football. Because the old saying,
as it goes the end justifies the mean. Right, So
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if Tongue of Baylha plays his cards right, he can
Jerry Rigg the NFL draft the way Kawhi Leonard, Jerry
Riggs the NBA regular season schedule. All right, pick and
choose where you want to play and where you don't
want to play. It's the NBA way. Well, he can
do it in the NFL. Now, I'm okay with this.
Before you're drafted. Once you're drafted, you gotta go play
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for the team that drafts you. That's how it works.
It's the it's a fogaze system, but that's how the
NFL does it. But but let me explain this to
you like you're five years old. It's very straightforward. Tua
embellishes the injury people around two of plant stories. As
I said that he's he's had setbacks, he's not going
where he wants to be. And but he does here
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is he allows the teams he wants to play for
to know what's really going on the art of deception
and he's able to dodge the misery, the agony of
playing for the ben Gals and those type of teams,
the dormats. He can hand pick his new team and
do it before the draft even gets started. Now, sure
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you lose a little money on the front end, but
you make that up on the back end, you have
a longer career and a winning environment. Joe Burrow is
going to walk into a white hot tire fire in
the Cincinnati Bengals facility. That's what's going to happen, and
Tua can move on up to a deluxe apartment in
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this guy, he says, though, here's two In his own words,
he says, O listen, I am focusing on rehab. That's
what I'm all about right now. One word rehab. I'm
just focusing on my rehab. I just saw as far
as now with all the teams and you know, deciding
if I'm going to do anything physically. You know, we'll
decide that with our athletic training staff and then you know,
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with what the doctors have to say about that. Yeah,
now I referenced this. But the rumor going around is
that the NFL has told to h, hey, this this
hip injury, which you know, it's no big deal. And
to confirm that, he said, this is what he's hearing
from the NFL. A lot of the guys, you know,
the general managers, the owners that I've got to talk to,
said the same thing. And they kind of look at
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this injury as like a knee injury almost although it's
not you know in a way that, Okay, are we
going to take a chance on this guy, or would
he be able to possibly do a pro day before
the draft and whatnot? And really the biggest thing they
want to do is just see that we can, you know, move,
we can just be back to how we were playing
prior to the injury. A couple of things. Number One,
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it seems like Ta has the inability to lie. He's
very honest. It's odd and he's gonna have to change that.
In the NFL, right, everyone lies, everyone's pinocchio in the NFL.
Number Two, is he gullible? Here is he the one
that's gullible to us that he's believing what these NFL
people are telling him, selling him a bill of goods?
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Here is he the dope? We'll find out. We will
absolutely find out. Final points, So let's spin the wheel
of speculation. Where should to a tongue of our law
try to position himself to play in twenty twenty. The
greatness of the Raiders, they're on the list, but they're
not at the top. I've got the Patriots at number
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one now, following Tom Brady is a real buzzkill. I
get that you don't want to be the guy that
follows the legend. That's the old argue it in sports,
but it doesn't always go against you. Look at Steve Young,
who followed Joe Montana years ago at the forty nine,
which talks about the only example I have. But he
turned out to be a Hall of Fame quarterback for
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the Niners back in the day, and so he had
a lot of success. But the Patriots, assuming Belichick doesn't
retire himself, they've built up this winning culture and all
that stuff. They get to play a bunch of soft
teams in the AFC East. It will be very reminiscent
of the Southeastern Conference and many of the team's Alabama
plays in the non conference. And we know Bill Belichick
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and Nick Saban are besties, right. Belichick has this infatuation
with Crimson Tide players and worships Nick Saban, and they
have this mutual admiration society, which I find nauseating. Now.
The Patriots, because of their failures at the end of
the year shout out lost to Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Dolphins.
The Patriots have the twenty third pick in the draft,
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number twenty three. Now, that's not where you'd like to be,
but it's certainly in position where if Tua comes tumbling
down like Shoots and ladders and goes down, then there's
an opportunity there for the Patriots to swoop in and
get him, and then Brady leaves as a free agent,
goes play somewhere else, and then press though you have
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your quarterback into a talk about lot. Now the other
possibilities of the Raiders. The Raiders have the number twelve pick,
and thanks to the Chicago Bears and the Khalil Mack trade,
the number nineteenth pick in the draft. They certainly are
not married to Derek Carr. The Dolphins. There are another possible.
A lot of people think the Dolphins are gonna be
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the team that Ta goes to because they wanted him
before the year. Now they can get him, and they
don't have to trade up to get him, most likely
unless somebody else swoops on up. The Dolphins have the
fifth pick that's their own, the eighteenth compliments of the
Pittsburgh Steelers, and they also have the twenty seventh pick
compliments of the Houston Texans in that fine trade for
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the offensive lineman that the Texans pulled off. Now Jacksonville
is also on this list. Now, I hope they don't
do this because they got Gardner Minshew Minshomania. But they
have the ninth pick and the number twenty pick compliments
of the Rams and the Javan Ramsey trade. Are you
keeping track of all this? You're not keeping track of
who else? How about the Chargers? Carolina also in them?
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There are possibilities there, and it really deter It's up
to two and the people around him his posse to
decide where is the best situation for two a tongue
of Valoa going forward in the NFL. But this could
very well work out as a net positive in the
long game for the now former Alabama quarterback earning the
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great Opina rights. Since, says Ben, what's the chances of
the historically pathetic and curse Detroit Lions drafting too a
tongue of Aloha and then he becomes another dark old
bust here at Detroit. Well, Ernie, here's what I'll say
on that. My my take on the lines as if
they draft to a tongue by Looa, he will be
in a wheelchair, is what he's gonna be. I'll have
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to roll him out if like wheelchair football unfortunately, because yeah,
he will not be able to bounce back. Be sure
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the game we go. Here's the Jauking Phoenix edition. I
have no idea why it is, but somebody wrote the board.
So that's what we're doing. And I'm sure there's a
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good explanation. Maybe it was an anniversary of something that
happened there and all that thing that's probably Yeah, all right,
we have jackass Josh who's with Eddie and I believe
he's on this line. Hello Jackass. Yeah, groups in Denver
looking for a head coach for the problem. You're being
roasted by everyone on social media. They're just destroying you, jackass. Josh,
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Hold on a sec, you were there, and Trenton, are
you there in Kansas? Yeah? All right, very good. I
was playing the game. Eddie. You're up first. The category
is what the joker? Sure? All right? Forty five seconds
on the clock. We need first and last name, and
you're on your way. I guess these are athletes that
we laugh at. I guess or made us laugh. I
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guess I go ahead. Eddie, the d seul for the Lakers,
teamed up with Kobe to win titles. Yet Oh my god,
full name please. O'Neil very good U protesting former quarterback
for the Colts and Broncos. His brother Eli plays with
the John Matty Beast mode our lad prank marked on
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Blake alright, former Clipper uh now with the Pistons. He
dunked over at Kia to win the All Star dunk contest.
Oh Blake, Blake Griffin, Yes, the round mound of rebound.
Oh Barkley Yeah, um, this guy is um he was.
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He had a funny beard. He was a closer for
the San Franciso Will I am jack guy. I am
protesting here because there is no way on God's green
Earth that Shaquille O'Neil's one hundred point how dare is
one of the most famous names in the world of
show is doing a great job with this list. Well
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you think that people don't know who Shock is? You
really think that what's going on? Yeah? No, this is
really short notice. So yeah, all right, I don't know
because I look at some of these other twins for us.
All right, my category the one hundred point name is
much tougher, but we'll go to buy category. It's just
pretty easy to walk the line. Are you there, by
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the way, you're there, Trenton. All right, let's play the game.
Here we go. Athletes with musical talent, athletes with musical talent.
All right, we're on. We don't worry about that. Just
don't curse, all right, yeah, don't curse. All right, here
we go. Forty five seconds on the clock and we're
on our way. Go us soccer star retired red hair
long beer play go ahead. Oh my god, wow, mister
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big chest from the Steelers and he got let go
with the Raiders and the Patriots. Uh oh, come on,
all right, yes, Marvin Is. How about a Laker legend
number eight, number twenty four is number. Yeah, there you go,
got that, all right? Blazers guard. He's a current star
with the Portland Trailblazers. Uh yeah, yeah, kind of yeah, yeah,
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all right, all right, it's not home depot. He's a
small forward for the Pacers. Uh, Indiana, he's injured right now,
play not in time. No, it's old the depot. Yeah
but yeah, all right, yeah, yeah, well again, the hundred
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point question for the joker category Shaquille O'Neil. Mine was
Alexei Lawless. The eighty point question was Ronson a roy
bad job. I don't even know your I don't even
know if his mom could name Bronson Roy category man,
Trenton pick another category? Have signs or inherent vice? Uh?
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Signs all right? Signs athletes that might be a category?
Play hit the button all right? Uh, he's the king
of the NBA for the Lakers. Used to play in Cleveland. Uh.
Lebron James, Yes, his airness with the Chicago Bulls. Michael
Jordan the answer for the Philadelphia seventies six correct. Megatron
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for the Detroit Lions, Yes, correct. Star of the Royals
and the Raiders in the nineteen eighties, two sports stuck correct. Uh?
Played with the plays with the Angels. A couple of
NBP awards outfielders. Yes, fastest man in the world out
of Brazil. Bunch of yeah. We Unfortunately it is an
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incomplete game because we don't have time to have on
Chad doesn't have time to an incomplete game. There is
no winner, No winner shatters Now there's one hundred point shot.
I want the game. No, you didn't
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you're not, so don't bear the lead, my man. All right,
we won't bear the lead. Dallas, Dallas. Last time the
Dallas Cowboys won a Super Bowl. Let's see here, where
was I working? I wasn't working here. I was just
starting out, kind of the early days of my career
long ago. Last time the Cowboys had won a championship,
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and the cycle of change, the coaching carousel spinning round
and round, and Machel, it's whack a mole is what
it is. Essentially, it's whack a mole with these fine
coaching changes and whatnot. Now Sean Payton was Sean Payton
gonna be the coach of the Cowpano, No, Sean Payton
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get the job. Didn't talk to Sean Payton. Of course
he's he's free out because the Saints gagged again. A
bunch of choke artist in New Orlean had changed their
name from the Saints to the choke Artist. That's what
they had to do in the Bayou, but not him
and Jason Garrett finally given his walking papers over the
weekend on Sunday and then on Monday, the Cowboys immediately,
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not wasting any time, the equivalent of someone getting a
divorce on a Thursday and then on Saturday getting a
shotgun wedding going down there at one of those drive
through wedding places in Vegas. And so today the Cowboys
immediately hired their replacement for the head coach, although technically
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Jason Garrett had been fired, whacked, let go, relieved of
his duties, whatever you want to say, several days ago.
But I assume you've heard by now. If you've not
heard by now, this store is almost twenty four hours old.
If you've not heard by now, man, are you doing
a bad job and keeping up on stuff going on
in sports? But maybe now there's always that one person
that doesn't pay that close attention. So Mike McCarthy is
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set to be come the ninth coach in franchise history.
Holy Barry Switzer, Batman, that's right, Mike McCarthy, Chubby Mike McCarthy.
Now there's a guy that works here at Fox Sports
Radio during the day, Dan Bayer, who is a lookalike
of Mike McCarthy. Dead ringer who dead ringer for Mike McCarthy.
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So essentially they've hired a guy or I don't know
our colleagues here, but you don't know who he is.
And listen, if you listen at night, you don't know
who he is. Ever most of the day you don't
know who I am. Anyway, Mike McCarthy lasted thirteen seasons
in Green Bay, and the big selling point of Mike
McCarthy is that Super Bowl forty five victory. The Packers
fired him. I think it was week thirteen of the
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twenty eighteen season. And now, much like a certain type
of disease, he is back. He has returned, and everyone
has hot takes. Everyone's got a hot take on this.
So I would like to get in the congo line
of hot takes, and I'd like to give you mine.
So let's discuss. Now, if you were to put a
grade on the Mike McCarthy coaching hire for the Cowboys,
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what grade would you give it. I like to give
Gridge because I am a professor of sports talk radio.
So I'm gonna give the grade to Mike McCarthy a
C minus. Now I would like to give a D.
I would like to give an F, but I'm going
to give a C minus to Mike McCarthy. Now, my thoughts,
You've got puppeteering, coattails and hornet's nest, and we will
(04:24):
tie all of these things together into hopefully a nice
little dish of baba ganoosh. That's what we're gonna try
to do. Now, A Jerry Jones who. It's like everything
with the Cowboys and really everything in the world, mostly politics,
but also in sports. It's very polarizing. Right, Oh my god,
this is some people are convinced this is the greatest hire.
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Oh my god. Jerry Jones what He's finally figured it
out after fifty years owning the Cowboys, He's finally figured
it out, and he's being celebrated by a lot of
the football media establishment, the upper crust of media. They
don't get denied credentials by the Seattle Seahawks PR Department
when they go to a game the one percenters because
(05:07):
you know, they can get by the morons that work
in the Seattle Seahawks PR Department. But anyway, I did
so Jerry Jones being celebrated for this hire, I don't
understand why. Now, my position on this is kind of
clear here. This is a safe hire. Mike McCarthy has
very low upside and no real downside. He's going to be,
at worst Jason Garrett two point zero. It's an uninspiring higher.
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It's boring, lacklusters another word I would use. Mike McCarthy
is not really an upgrade over Jason Garrett. In fact,
anybody that watched the Packers over those thirteen years would argue,
even with some legendary names at quarterback, for the most part,
the Green Bay Packers were as dull as dishwasher. Under
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Mike McCarthy. They won some games, but it wasn't the
wild factor that Jerry Jones likes to think. The Cowboys
provide the wild fact and the clear giveaway here. It's
a dead giveaways that Jerry Jones does not want to
share the stage. Now we knew this already, this is
not new. Jerry Jones is the de facto coach of
the Cowboys. He has been essentially coaching the Cowboys this
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entire time. Damn right. Not only is Jerry the coach,
he's the general manager, he's the pr guy, he's the mouthpiece,
you name it. He does everything. He'll even wash your car.
He'll even wash your car. That's how good Jerry Jones is.
So he's going to continue here his puppeteering ways. So really,
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when Mike McCarthy is introduced at the Daists as the
new coach of the Cowboys, which will happen here soon,
they really should say, instead of coach, here's our new
sock puppet. That's who we have. We have a new
sock puppet here. And every year Mike McCarthy coach in
the NFL, he has a player at quarterback. He's had
a player at quarterback who started the year going to
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the Hall of Fame. Right, Brett Farves, Aaron Rodgers. Right,
those are the quarterbacks Mike McCarthy had in Green Bay.
And not that the NFC North is the weakest of
weak divisions, but it's not like the Lions have been
really good more than one year out of five. And
the Chicago Bears, even though they were the darlings of
the pun ins here recently to be a Super Bowl favorite,
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the Bears have mostly been lousy over the last fifteen
years or so. Once in a while they have a
good team, but for the most part not so good.
The Vikings have had some decent teams in that time.
But the argument with McCarthy is that his teams, while
they won some games and got to the PLO sed
the postseason, they underachieved in the playoffs. It's not my opinion,
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it's a fact. It's been a decade. It's been ten
seasons since that Super Bowl forty five victory for Mike McCarthy.
So he's got a decade without one. And I'm not
part of the Championship Defenders League. Maybe you are. I'm
not one of these people that sit around so well
you want to yeah, but he won a super Bowl.
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Yeah but yeah, but yeah but yeah but yeah but
yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah, but yeah, yeah,
shove it up here, you know what, You shove it
up the wazoo. And I'm not talking about Washington State. So,
and there are plenty of coaches that are less than
spectacular coaches who have won Super Bowls. I would like
to give you example a Gary Kubiak, who was the
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coach of the Broncos when they won with the washed
up carcass of Peyton Manning, who had apparently run out
of the good stuff from that clinic in Indianapolis and
was just kind of going through the motions. At the end,
they pushed the hospital gurney across the finish line. But
Gary Kubiak is a Super Bowl winning coach. I'm sorry, Roberto,
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but John Gruden. I don't think of John Gruden as
an all time great coach. John Gruden won a Super
Bowl in Tampa Bay. Brian Billick right. Brian Billick, nice guy.
We used to have them on the radio all the time.
Brian Billick won a championship in Baltimore. See an all
time Gritton. Now, none of those guys who are immortal legends.
Mike McCarthy's on that list. The Green Bay Packers on watch,
we're fortunate to even make the playoffs the season they
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won the Super Bowl. At all these injuries, they overcame
it right when the examples teams use about next man
up and all that. Now part B here, Mike McCarthy
built his resume by doing what writing the coattails of quarterbacks,
legendary quarterbacks. Now that's I'm not disparaging it, but that's
the reality. We don't know whether Mike McCarthy can do
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it without a legendary quarterback. I mean I would do
the same thing if I was in his position. I mean,
why would you not? But you don't know, You really
do not know. You think you know, but you don't know.
And it works as a nice deodorant to hide that
rancid smell. Now that's in Vegas the other day and
right around the arena there where the Golden Knights play,
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and we were I was walking around about one in
the morning, and there was a sewer league at the
Golden Knights had played the Flyers that night, and there
was a sewer leag and the entire portion of the
Las Vegas strip smelled like human feces. And and so
that could be Mike McCarthy, that could be Mike McCarthy, right,
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That foul, rotten smell just horrific. Now, even with the
playoff appearances and all that, and in the failures, many
many failures, he often clashed with Aaron Rodgers. Roger. Now,
Rodgers never respected Mike McCarthy from from Jump Street. He
was upset McCarthy bashed him while the forty nine ers
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while he was with the forty nine ers before the
famous draft slide by Aaron Rodgers. And I was a
big fan of Alex Smith. And and so now you
can say that Rodgers is just a douche, And I
might agree that I can't really rip McCarthy because Rodgers
doesn't even like his mom. Who doesn't like their mom?
I mean, come on, please, he didn't hang out with
his family, and he said he's a lonely tone. But however,
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all right, yeah, exactly, this does has not excused the
fatal flaw, and any man, woman, or child in Wisconsin
who was a stockholder for the Packers would agree with me.
The decision making by Mike McCarthy, the lack of in
game adjustments or just adjustments in general, which is a
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bedrock of coaching that ought to give the Cowboys pause.
All Right, We talked about it a lot here over
the last handful of years. The Packers have had numerous
opportunities under Mike McCarthy in that run to make deep
playoff runs. They were often at home, which means they
were favored, and they failed numerous times outside of the
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Super Bowl season. Mike McCarthy, I believe he is six
and eight in the postseason with head spinning losses to
the Giants. As a fifteen and one top seed in
the NFC, the Packers found a way to screw it up.
They also blew a over two touchdown It was well
with the extra point was two touchdown, sixteen nothing lead
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they had in the NFC title game against the Seahawks
one year under Mike McCarthy. Those are some really agonizing defeats.
Imagine if those happened with the Cowboys, be even bigger
being even a bigg video. All Right, last word here,
So much of coaching, aside from the XS and os,
is what human relations. And now Mike McCarthy has to
show that he's not just a byproduct of Brett Farve
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and Aaron Rodgers the gravy train. He inherits a much
worse quarterback. I think everyone knows that in Dakota Prescott
McCarthy is going into essentially a hornets nest. Now, when
you fly into a hornet's nest, you're gonna get stung.
Dak Prescott, he's horn swaggled some low information football fans
into thinking he's a top notch quarterback after this year,
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But not in these circles, not in this part of town,
on this side of the tracks. We disagree. We absolutely disagree.
He's about to pull off a bank heist. That's the
talk now that there's a the Cowboys do the right
thing and just give him the franchise tag when that
opportunity presents itself, and Dak Prescott ends up not getting
the MEGAMEGA Mega millions the Texas lottery there, but he's
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gonna get paid a lot more money either way, whether
it's the franchise tag or whether or not the Cowboys
just give him the riches of Solomon to play quarterback.
And while Dak Prescott certainly put up better stats in
twenty nineteen, upon further review, they were empty numbers. He
had monster games against bad teams and turned in often
feeble performances against the better teams. Dak Prescott in games
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decided by a touchdown or last was oz and five
with four touchdowns and three interceptions, with a passer rating
which is very reminiscent of his career numbers of eighty
three point eight. The passer rating there a pedestrian yards
per attempt. But yet when the Cowboys played the week
Sisters of the Poor and the Blind in the NFL,
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we Dakota was six and oh against those teams in
blowout games with sixteen touchdowns and three interceptions. Did you
see a trend here games decided by fifteen or more
points against the weaker teams, of course, and Mike McCarthy, Now,
the key thing here, and a big selling point on McCarthy,
is this guy will hide in the shadows. He's not
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an attention whore. He's not by most accounts of DVA.
He will provide boring news conferences, much like the predecessor
at Cowboys coach Jason Garrett. He will allow Jerry Jones
to be in the center of attention, right right there
in the center behind the microphone. And never great with
young players. That was the other knock on McCarthy, never
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great with young players. He has a mixed Cowboy roster.
It's not all young, it's some middle aged players, some
players in their prime. It's a mixed bag there with
the Cowboys. And Mike McCarthy will be predictable. He will
coach conservative. He's not gonna Do you think he's gonna
change all right? Does the does the lion, does the
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zebra changes the stripes? I don't. I don't think so,
and I don't think that happens very often. So you're
gonna get a guarded, cautious to a fault coach and
you don't have to worry about him running any red
lights and going through any stop signs. Now, that's it.
McCarthy will get the standard thirty day grace period all
coaches get before we really unload and unleash the criticism here.
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But is he gonna evolve? Is he gonna grow as
a coach Mike McCarthy, it's highly questionable for the Cowboys.
And even with the big names, right, this has all
the ingredients of being a football catastrophe. He's gonna directly
report to Jerry Jones like every other Cowboy coach. Now
the question is, well, if not Mike McCarthy, who should hire.
I'll tell you right now who the Cowboys should have hired.
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There's two guys out there I would have gone after.
And I'm doing this because I believe these names would
have been better than Mike McCarthy. Just take a swing,
you go big, you go Lincoln Riley from Oklahoma, or
I would have brought in Urban Meyer. Either. I wouldn't
touch Josh McDaniels unless Bill Belichick comes with Josh McDaniels.
I wouldn't have touched Josh McDaniels. But I would have
gone Lincoln Riley of Oklahoma or Urban Meyer a fox
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damn right, Herbert Mayer. Now, a couple of things. First
of all, I'm a talk show host. These guys would
have been better for me, all right, that's number and
number two. We could have played the Urban Meyer drop
every day on the show, right, and then we would
have made it like the cowboy victory thing. When the Cowboys,
women will play the urban minything, much like that thing
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I did for the Raiders, right, and we say, when
the Raiders win again, we're gonna play the victory the
poetry from NFL films that I did er that's it.
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(16:55):
a ONEA, It's about a ta ta tongue of La baby. Welcome.
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your car insurance. Just visit Geico dot com for a
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very very simple. So a lot of anticipation. Now. We
learned over the weekend that the football world will be
focused below the Mason Dixon Line on Monday, specifically Tuscaloosa.
(17:42):
There was a news conference that had been scheduled was
announced by I believe Adam Schefter and others there that
Nick Saban and to a Tongue of La, we're gonna
be hanging out together, schmoozing in a news conference. Would
he stay or would he go? Was the question. And
I don't know if you saw it. I knew that
the moment I heard Arnie Spanner on Fox Sports Radio
(18:04):
say that he thinks that to a Tongue of Bayla
was going back to Alabama. I knew right then that
he was gone. I knew right then. Once the stinking
genius said that tah was gonna go back to Alabama,
there was no chance. And if you missed it, yeah,
Alabama quarterback toa Tungueabayloh is now a former Alabama quarterback.
He has put his name in to the pot for
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the twenty twenty NFL draft. Tongue of bayloa making the
decision official at not really a gala news come It's
more like a social get together, having a cup of
tea and all that and hanging out. But it did happen.
He made his decision official. There and months and months
of chatter will he leave or not? Because he suffered
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a dislocated and fractured hip during that game against Mississippi
State way back in November. And now the debate is
where will to a tongue of Baaloa land in the
April draft in Vegas. Now, at the beginning of the
college football season, there was one consensus. It was tank
for Tua. Everyone's it is guy's gonna be the number
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one pick in the draft. Every draft nick, every genius said,
this is obvious number one overall. Right, no brainer, this
guy's gonna be the number one pick in the draft. Fine, okay,
But then they had to play the year, and obviously
we know what happened here. He's no longer projected as
the number one picked, not any more, because of the
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emergence of other quarterbacks, mainly Joe Burrow, the LSU quarterback
in the Heisman winner, who is now ascended to the
top of the mountain to wear the silly clothes the
Cincinnati Bengals wear and to have that be the next
few years of his life. But it's all about tongue
of Bloa here and the injury which certainly has pushed
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him down that we can all agree on that the
mock draft boards, which are about as close to meaningless
as you can possibly get. But let's discuss the question
did Tuah make the right call declaring for the NFL.
Not only did he make the right call, it was
the only call that he could have made right thousand percent.
(20:16):
Now my observations, you've got the flower, gamesmanship, and spin
the wheel, and we will combine all these things together,
will lock them together like you were supposed to lock
your locker back in the day in high school. So
number one, you don't play football at Alabama for the education. Now,
(20:36):
I am not here to attack the educational system at
the University of Alabama, but I am going to tell
you I think we can agree on this also that
Alabama is not When you play football at Alabama, it's
not about boy, if I get that degree, it's like
going to Harvard. You know, you go to Harvard and
you get a degree at Harvard, and all those rich
people that graduated from Harvard give you a job and
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then you're set up for life. Not quite the same
situation Alabama. He is a football clearinghouse and to a
tongue of Ilola, made a name for himself with the
Crimson Tide. A couple of years back. On the field,
and now he is set to cash in his chips
in pro football. And while the injury is a bummer,
it certainly undermines the top of draft status that he
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would have gotten. This is not an unmitigated disaster that
some are trying to say, Oh, this is Dulman glow up. No,
not even play stop. NFL teams, at least what they
say publicly, don't seem to be overly worried and concerned
about the long term viability of Tongue of Iloa based
on his latest injury, and that is apparently one of
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the main reasons we're told he decided to clear for
the draft. He talked to the NFL, some of the
executives in the NFL. He said, listen, we look at
this like a knee injury. Now, I don't know how
that's possible. You're talking about a fractured hip. I think
that's a bigger deal than a knee injury, which is
like an assembly line there with treating these knee injuries.
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Now along those lines, tah and there's no way to
avoid this. Can't beat around the Alabama quarterback to a
tongue about lower has been injury prone. In fact, if
he was a flower, he would be a delicate little flower.
That would be what to a tongue of boy lower
would be. He has been hurt every year in college.
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Every year someone's popped up. He's had surgery, I believe,
on both ankles. Now he's got the hip issue that
he had a medical procedure for. So if your body
is so fragile that it cannot handle the Southeastern Conference,
how is it going to handle professional football with adults
and people who are much bigger, and everyone's huge and
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Alabama they play a lot of ridiculously horrific opponents in
the non conference and then the SEC. There's obviously good
players in the SEC, but not every team is loaded
with NFL players. There's maybe a couple of players on
each team in the SEC that will go on and
play in the NFL. So he couldn't handle that. How's
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he going to do in the NFL. That's an open question. Now,
some overly cautious NFL executive, some paranoid teams will absolutely
downgrade and ostracize to a tongue of la say he's
damaged good, but just the same, someone will pick him
in the first round of the draft. Now, in Layman's terms,
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he's got too much talent not to take a flyer
on at the most important position in the field. The
guy completed over seventy percent of his passes this year,
had thirty three touchdowns, three interceptions. He played nine games.
Now a lot of those were against the hostess schedule,
but still thirty three touchdowns, three interceptions. Pretty deep, Pretty deep. Good. Now,
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the second thing here, my advice, all right, make sure
both puts those up so I know what we have.
Both can do that. But my advice to a Tongue
of Bayla is to use draft gamesmanship. Right, you have
your agent leak some conveniently time stories about setbacks and
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the recovery from the hip injury. What you do here
is you take advantage of the gullibal. You take advantage
of the gullibal who will then not draft Tongue of
Bylola because they'll say, oh, we can't draft him because
he had a setback and we don't know if he'll
ever be able to hit football. Because the old saying,
as it goes the end justifies the mean. Right, So
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if Tongue of Baylha plays his cards right, he can
Jerry Rigg the NFL draft the way Kawhi Leonard, Jerry
Riggs the NBA regular season schedule. All right, pick and
choose where you want to play and where you don't
want to play. It's the NBA way. Well, he can
do it in the NFL. Now, I'm okay with this.
Before you're drafted. Once you're drafted, you gotta go play
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for the team that drafts you. That's how it works.
It's the it's a fogaze system, but that's how the
NFL does it. But but let me explain this to
you like you're five years old. It's very straightforward. Tua
embellishes the injury people around two of plant stories. As
I said that he's he's had setbacks, he's not going
where he wants to be. And but he does here
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is he allows the teams he wants to play for
to know what's really going on the art of deception
and he's able to dodge the misery, the agony of
playing for the ben Gals and those type of teams,
the dormats. He can hand pick his new team and
do it before the draft even gets started. Now, sure
(25:40):
you lose a little money on the front end, but
you make that up on the back end, you have
a longer career and a winning environment. Joe Burrow is
going to walk into a white hot tire fire in
the Cincinnati Bengals facility. That's what's going to happen, and
Tua can move on up to a deluxe apartment in
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this guy, he says, though, here's two In his own words,
he says, O listen, I am focusing on rehab. That's
what I'm all about right now. One word rehab. I'm
just focusing on my rehab. I just saw as far
as now with all the teams and you know, deciding
if I'm going to do anything physically. You know, we'll
decide that with our athletic training staff and then you know,
(26:22):
with what the doctors have to say about that. Yeah,
now I referenced this. But the rumor going around is
that the NFL has told to h, hey, this this
hip injury, which you know, it's no big deal. And
to confirm that, he said, this is what he's hearing
from the NFL. A lot of the guys, you know,
the general managers, the owners that I've got to talk to,
said the same thing. And they kind of look at
(26:44):
this injury as like a knee injury almost although it's
not you know in a way that, Okay, are we
going to take a chance on this guy, or would
he be able to possibly do a pro day before
the draft and whatnot? And really the biggest thing they
want to do is just see that we can, you know, move,
we can just be back to how we were playing
prior to the injury. A couple of things. Number One,
(27:07):
it seems like Ta has the inability to lie. He's
very honest. It's odd and he's gonna have to change that.
In the NFL, right, everyone lies, everyone's pinocchio in the NFL.
Number Two, is he gullible? Here is he the one
that's gullible to us that he's believing what these NFL
people are telling him, selling him a bill of goods?
(27:29):
Here is he the dope? We'll find out. We will
absolutely find out. Final points, So let's spin the wheel
of speculation. Where should to a tongue of our law
try to position himself to play in twenty twenty. The
greatness of the Raiders, they're on the list, but they're
not at the top. I've got the Patriots at number
(27:51):
one now, following Tom Brady is a real buzzkill. I
get that you don't want to be the guy that
follows the legend. That's the old argue it in sports,
but it doesn't always go against you. Look at Steve Young,
who followed Joe Montana years ago at the forty nine,
which talks about the only example I have. But he
turned out to be a Hall of Fame quarterback for
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the Niners back in the day, and so he had
a lot of success. But the Patriots, assuming Belichick doesn't
retire himself, they've built up this winning culture and all
that stuff. They get to play a bunch of soft
teams in the AFC East. It will be very reminiscent
of the Southeastern Conference and many of the team's Alabama
plays in the non conference. And we know Bill Belichick
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and Nick Saban are besties, right. Belichick has this infatuation
with Crimson Tide players and worships Nick Saban, and they
have this mutual admiration society, which I find nauseating. Now.
The Patriots, because of their failures at the end of
the year shout out lost to Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Dolphins.
The Patriots have the twenty third pick in the draft,
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number twenty three. Now, that's not where you'd like to be,
but it's certainly in position where if Tua comes tumbling
down like Shoots and ladders and goes down, then there's
an opportunity there for the Patriots to swoop in and
get him, and then Brady leaves as a free agent,
goes play somewhere else, and then press though you have
(29:20):
your quarterback into a talk about lot. Now the other
possibilities of the Raiders. The Raiders have the number twelve pick,
and thanks to the Chicago Bears and the Khalil Mack trade,
the number nineteenth pick in the draft. They certainly are
not married to Derek Carr. The Dolphins. There are another possible.
A lot of people think the Dolphins are gonna be
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the team that Ta goes to because they wanted him
before the year. Now they can get him, and they
don't have to trade up to get him, most likely
unless somebody else swoops on up. The Dolphins have the
fifth pick that's their own, the eighteenth compliments of the
Pittsburgh Steelers, and they also have the twenty seventh pick
compliments of the Houston Texans in that fine trade for
(30:03):
the offensive lineman that the Texans pulled off. Now Jacksonville
is also on this list. Now, I hope they don't
do this because they got Gardner Minshew Minshomania. But they
have the ninth pick and the number twenty pick compliments
of the Rams and the Javan Ramsey trade. Are you
keeping track of all this? You're not keeping track of
who else? How about the Chargers? Carolina also in them?
(30:24):
There are possibilities there, and it really deter It's up
to two and the people around him his posse to
decide where is the best situation for two a tongue
of Valoa going forward in the NFL. But this could
very well work out as a net positive in the
long game for the now former Alabama quarterback earning the
(30:48):
great Opina rights. Since, says Ben, what's the chances of
the historically pathetic and curse Detroit Lions drafting too a
tongue of Aloha and then he becomes another dark old
bust here at Detroit. Well, Ernie, here's what I'll say
on that. My my take on the lines as if
they draft to a tongue by Looa, he will be
in a wheelchair, is what he's gonna be. I'll have
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to roll him out if like wheelchair football unfortunately, because yeah,
he will not be able to bounce back. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. And right to
the game we go. Here's the Jauking Phoenix edition. I
have no idea why it is, but somebody wrote the board.
So that's what we're doing. And I'm sure there's a
(31:30):
good explanation. Maybe it was an anniversary of something that
happened there and all that thing that's probably Yeah, all right,
we have jackass Josh who's with Eddie and I believe
he's on this line. Hello Jackass. Yeah, groups in Denver
looking for a head coach for the problem. You're being
roasted by everyone on social media. They're just destroying you, jackass. Josh,
(31:52):
Hold on a sec, you were there, and Trenton, are
you there in Kansas? Yeah? All right, very good. I
was playing the game. Eddie. You're up first. The category
is what the joker? Sure? All right? Forty five seconds
on the clock. We need first and last name, and
you're on your way. I guess these are athletes that
we laugh at. I guess or made us laugh. I
(32:13):
guess I go ahead. Eddie, the d seul for the Lakers,
teamed up with Kobe to win titles. Yet Oh my god,
full name please. O'Neil very good U protesting former quarterback
for the Colts and Broncos. His brother Eli plays with
the John Matty Beast mode our lad prank marked on
(32:36):
Blake alright, former Clipper uh now with the Pistons. He
dunked over at Kia to win the All Star dunk contest.
Oh Blake, Blake Griffin, Yes, the round mound of rebound.
Oh Barkley Yeah, um, this guy is um he was.
(32:57):
He had a funny beard. He was a closer for
the San Franciso Will I am jack guy. I am
protesting here because there is no way on God's green
Earth that Shaquille O'Neil's one hundred point how dare is
one of the most famous names in the world of
show is doing a great job with this list. Well
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you think that people don't know who Shock is? You
really think that what's going on? Yeah? No, this is
really short notice. So yeah, all right, I don't know
because I look at some of these other twins for us.
All right, my category the one hundred point name is
much tougher, but we'll go to buy category. It's just
pretty easy to walk the line. Are you there, by
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the way, you're there, Trenton. All right, let's play the game.
Here we go. Athletes with musical talent, athletes with musical talent.
All right, we're on. We don't worry about that. Just
don't curse, all right, yeah, don't curse. All right, here
we go. Forty five seconds on the clock and we're
on our way. Go us soccer star retired red hair
long beer play go ahead. Oh my god, wow, mister
(34:06):
big chest from the Steelers and he got let go
with the Raiders and the Patriots. Uh oh, come on,
all right, yes, Marvin Is. How about a Laker legend
number eight, number twenty four is number. Yeah, there you go,
got that, all right? Blazers guard. He's a current star
with the Portland Trailblazers. Uh yeah, yeah, kind of yeah, yeah,
(34:31):
all right, all right, it's not home depot. He's a
small forward for the Pacers. Uh, Indiana, he's injured right now,
play not in time. No, it's old the depot. Yeah
but yeah, all right, yeah, yeah, well again, the hundred
(34:52):
point question for the joker category Shaquille O'Neil. Mine was
Alexei Lawless. The eighty point question was Ronson a roy
bad job. I don't even know your I don't even
know if his mom could name Bronson Roy category man,
Trenton pick another category? Have signs or inherent vice? Uh?
(35:15):
Signs all right? Signs athletes that might be a category?
Play hit the button all right? Uh, he's the king
of the NBA for the Lakers. Used to play in Cleveland. Uh.
Lebron James, Yes, his airness with the Chicago Bulls. Michael
Jordan the answer for the Philadelphia seventies six correct. Megatron
(35:37):
for the Detroit Lions, Yes, correct. Star of the Royals
and the Raiders in the nineteen eighties, two sports stuck correct. Uh?
Played with the plays with the Angels. A couple of
NBP awards outfielders. Yes, fastest man in the world out
of Brazil. Bunch of yeah. We Unfortunately it is an
(36:00):
incomplete game because we don't have time to have on
Chad doesn't have time to an incomplete game. There is
no winner, No winner shatters Now there's one hundred point shot.
I want the game. No, you didn't
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