January 25, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike send major love out to all the Dallas Cowboys fans. The 11-year-old collector who pulled the Paul Skenes 1/1 Debut Patch card has DECLINED the Pirates’ offer. And the guys tell you if the Raiders hit a grand slam hiring Pete Carroll.
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are on this big Friday night, Jerry Jones thinking, well,
let's see do I try to take the spotlight away
from the Eagles and the commanders? Now with my head coach,
you do? I wait and do it on Monday. A
let's do it now. We told you about this last night,
that it looked like it was gonna happen. Clarence Hill
Cowboys insider had it last night, he was right on Today,
(01:15):
the Cowboys have hired Marty Schottenheimer's son, Brian Shott, and
you wanted to as their next head Well, I was
thinking about you talking about him earlier. Brian Schottenheimer, who
has been an assistant in the NFL for a long time,
was the Jets OC back in the early teens.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
They went to a couple of AFC Championship games.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Has been the Cowboys OC. Don't want to look at
his status from last year. Not great, But here's a
guy who is named the Cowboys head coach, who had
a grand total of zero teams interested in him to
be their head coach. He had no interviews, nobody else
wanted to talk to him, and suddenly Jerry Jones says, Yep,
he's our guy. Like, I mean, I can't believe I
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feel bad for Cowboys fans, but I do. It's like,
you know, you used some kind of excellence and it's
just sad that era is just absolutely gone. Like this
is not a hire that excites anybody that I don't
think the players are excited, certainly the fans aren't excited.
The rest of the NFL is You're like, oh great, Yeah,
here's a guy that nobody else wanted to talk to. Okay,
don't have to worry about the Cowboys. Scratch them for
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next year. Awesome. And it's nothing against Brian Schottenheimer, the guy,
by and large is well liked throughout the NFL, who's
been around the game for a long Time's terrific defensive coach.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
But this is who you fired Mike McCarthy for.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Like Mike McCarthy, who had a pretty good grip of
the team, had a lot of loyalty with the players,
this is who you fire Mike McCarthy to go get.
Not Dion, which I would understand. Not Bill Belichick, which
I would disagree with, but I would understand. Not a
big name, Not somebody who's gonna come in and take
a hold of things. No, no, no, we're firing Mike
McCarthy for his offensive coordinator, for an offense that really
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didn't do anything this year. This is what we're doing.
This is completely on brand for the Cowboys, who just
keeps spitting this year thirty five of spinning our wheels
in the mud.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Can't we get out of the mud.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Nope, Jerry Jones, make sure in the mutt we're just
gonna keep spinning our wheels, keep spinning our wheels, and
it's going to continue on here with a less than
inspiring head coaching higher.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Long live the Cowboys really want to go. And as
my ex's dad how he's feeling today, he's long been
out on the Jerry Jones experiment. They've lived in Dallas
since they moved to the who's in on it?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Tell me any Cowboys still in on Jerry Jones?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Who's still in on it? Yeah? He was telling me
that twenty plus years ago, I mean, long before the
current level of futility. And yes, you had some success
with McCarthy the last couple of years. You just never
got over the hump. I've already seen the memes for
the Cowboys for twenty twenty five, already eliminated with a
picture of Dad. Yes, Scott look at all sullen all
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over there. So I mean that's already going through. I
think Jerry needs to get one of his friends, whoever
that might be in the ownership group there, to at
least say they had passing interest in Shottenheim or so
maybe he can feel a little better about himself and
get a little bit of positive press, like he was
in the room the last couple of years. They fixed
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the glitch and they let everything expire with McCarthy. I'd
like to know what's real, what's imagined in terms of
what we've been told about those final days and conversations
or non starters between Jones and McCarthy, and perhaps eventually
we'll get some more details there. But Schottenheimer gets the gig.
It's a Friday night news dump is really what it
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comes down to. By time it's announced, like everybody's gone
for the day. People were commuting back home on the
East Coast or Central times, like, wait, is this real?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
He really hired this guy? Now this is happening. No,
we're okay, alrday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Last evening. So now I guess it gets to lead
and it takes the thunder away from the Raiders, you
know who were relevant about the last time the Cowboys
were Pete.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Carroll sayday, thanks a lot, man, thanks a lot. I
really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Two teams who've gone thirty years of wandering in the
desert with looking for some level of success. Pete Carroll hired, Yeah,
here we go Raiders. Wait, you know what, let's announce it.
Let's just announce it right now, Here's.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That There's so many ways to talk about this and
go what the hell? But this is what the hell
is the Cowboys model?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
What the hell are we doing?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Like, hey, we're the Cowboys, you're thirty five, and what
the hell are we doing?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Like I mentioned that Schottenheimer hadn't gotten interviewed by anybody else, right, okay,
But on the and on the flip side of it,
Jerry Jones talked to a grand total of zero of
the other top candidates to be his head coach.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, because he didn't fix the glitch until after the deadline.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
At least at least if if he did that, I
could understand and disagree with it. Well, okay, all right,
I understand he talked to Ben Johnson. Either you couldn't
convince Ben Johnson to come to the Cowboys or wasn't
a great fit. Didn't talk to Aaron Glenn, Mike Rabel.
You found out he was somewhat interesting, but you knew
the Pagers are gonna act fast, and you.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So like the top three guys, and not that these
are all world beaters as head coach, Like you know
Rabel's a good coach, but you know, hey, there's a
reason why he got let go. Aaron Glenn is getting
his first chance, Ben Johnson getting his first chance. Every
year is different, right. The openings are not great this year.
The head coaching candidates are not what you expect from
year to year. But this is the year, and this
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is what we have. Yet here we are so but
the Cowboys didn't talk to any of them. And how
do you sit here and say, yes, we found our
guy when these other coaches who everybody else in the
NFL wants to hear about that because they've built cultures,
or they've built successful systems, or they've built successful teams.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Right, Like you you have Mike Rabel, who's built.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Successful team before culture guy great, Ben Johnson's built a
phenomenal offense. He can come in and maybe remake Dak Prescott.
Aaron Glenn has built a tremendous defensive philosophy.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
He can in and be a culture.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
No, we're not gonna talk to any of those guys,
and we're going Brian Schottenheimer.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Like this is so on brand for Jerry Jones.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And I go back to what I said last night,
because now what we what we talked about last night
seems even bigger and better and more correct than it
was twenty four hours ago. Did Mike McCarthy get fired
because he didn't win this year? Because you can look
at it on the service and say, well, all right, yeah,
hit a bunch of twelve win seasons in a row.
Uh flamed out in the playoffs. Although not his fault
that Dak Prescott sucks in the playoffs, Right, I'm gonna
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go gonna keep saying it's not his fault that Dak
Prescott sucks in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
But if well, that's dan Quinn's fault. You hate dan Quinn,
so I don't hate him. I hate.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You'll hate dan Quinn. You've always hated dan Quinn. You
can't dress it up. Anytime you say, like dan Quinn,
I've hated dan anytime you say something about dan Quinn,
you find a way to say dan Quinn, Yeah, no,
I really like him as a head coach, boy point
three against Jordan Love Left, like.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You find a way to get head coach commanders. If
it wasn't for one fifty he became expendable.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But so did Mike McCarthy lose his job because he
stunk this year. In a year in which your starting
quarterback gets hurt, and let's face it, if you're starting
quarterback that is a fifty million dollar a year, guy
gets hurt and goes out, how many games.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Are you really gonna win? Right? But still they lost?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Or did he get fired because his voice with the
organization was getting too big, too much cachet with the players,
because what did we see over the course of this year.
Dak Prescott got hurt and I'm sure Jerry Jones thought
this is going to be it's bad saying no what happened.
Cowboys didn't quit, which you see happen plenty of times.
They kept playing, They played hard. They even got to
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the point where, with about a month to go in
the regular season, they were potentially on the outskirts of
being in the in the hunt graphic that you see
on Sundays getting close to Christmas in the NFL games,
and don't forget the Cowboys are there. But even though
they didn't get there, they never quit. They played hard.
And all I needed was the statements from Dak Prescott
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and Micah Parsons after Mike McCarthy got let go. They
were both upset Now they both gave very diplomatic statements,
but you could tell what they said. They both really
like Mike McCarthy, leader of the offense, leader their defense.
Both like Mike McCarthy. So this is on Jerry Jones,
and this is on Jerry Jones' brand to say, hey,
maybe McCarthy's getting too big of a role with the team.
(09:25):
He's beloved too much in the locker room, the players
are too beholden to him. He's not gonna come in
here and challenge my power, my influence with the team.
So boom, Sorry, Mike, you're gone, and I'm gonna replace
you with a guy that who knows if it's gonna work.
But he's not gonna threaten me or threaten what's going
on with the team. And I'm not gonna have stories
going on all year long about how all the Cowboys
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have become Mike McCarthy's team and Jerry judge, no, no, no,
not doing it. Because now twenty four hours later, with
the actual hiring of Brian Shott Niburn, how they went
about it. Tell me that's not the case. The Mike
McCarthy wasn't let go because hey, he had too much
Cachet with the team in that locker room, and Jerry
Jones didn't like it.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, I like the theory, and it certainly would would
feed into the Jerry Jones colon egomaniac book that you're writing.
That's certainly there. If not, if Jason Cole hasn't already
gotten on board that one our frequent guest friend, and
he might have been the consultant with all of this,
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because Schottenheimer rights for the thirty third team, but he
hired himself. He hired himself. It's my it's my time now.
Hey guys, Jerry, I'm just gonna fill this chair.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, I'm gonna take this gig. Do I gotta pay
them any more money? No, no good, I'm taking the
v All right, Great, let's have the announcement on Monday. Great.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
But a lot of it just comes back to Jason
trying to parse out what was real, what was imagined
in those final forty eight hours seventy two hours before
McCarthy and Jones stopped talking negotiating final tables, whatever reality
is right, because we've heard some talk that it it
never got down to final numbers. McCarthy had a bunch
(11:01):
of demands in terms of hey, if I'm going to stay,
I need these assurances for assistance, I need this guarantee
of years, I need all of these different things. And
then instead of negotiating at the eleventh hour, just said, hey,
you know what I'm done, versus Jerry actually pulling the
trigger and just saying no, no, no, we're not talking
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to you anymore, all right, Because there was a report
that came out that Jerry was absolutely dumbfounded thinking he
had all the time in the world to make a
deal happen, which is why he didn't aggressively get out
into the marketplace. Why there wasn't a definitive note of hey,
Mike's no longer our guy and we're in the business
of looking for a coach, which seems like would have
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been with all his media appearances, would have been a
great strong position from Jerry Jones to have see, now
we're media coaching a guy who's a master Thespian. But
it still comes back to the same thing. He could
have owned it all by saying I don't want this
guy in anymore. Instead, it leads to a lot of questions, Uh, well,
of course, it leads to question would you never not
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have questions. No, no, no, But I'm saying no, no, no, no.
But my point is if he'd actually just owned it
and said we're not bringing him back, we haven't gotten
to the mountaintop whatever. Instead, it becomes a did Mike
McCarthy walk away? Did you throw him out? Which is
bad business for Jerry because we're gonna keep talking about
him either way.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, but look, but this is but this is, this
is more into the Mike McCarthy getting too much control
that Jerry Jones didn't want to give him. Hey, I
want to come back, but I can't. But I want
this if I'm going to return, No, I'm not. I'm
not ready to do that for you. I'm not ready
to do it.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Asking to be the GM. No, but Jerry was still
going to be the guy, you know, calling the shots.
Who that wasn't going to be the case. It doesn't matter,
it doesn't He certainly wasn't eclipsing him as a figure
in anything other than maybe Dak Prescott, who couldn't play
anyway because he's hurt. Yeh and Micah Parsons saying, hey,
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we like this guy, ain't gone.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
He doesn't want anybody that could potentially get in his
way with anything with the Cowboys where it could be
anything where he questions his leadership, where you question Jerry
Jones's leadership, and maybe you have a couple of players saying, yeah,
maybe Mike's right.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
On this, right, because what did I say?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
That's always the worst thing for the Cowboys is that
the voices rise up and say, you know, Jerry, no,
we should do it this way.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He is run with an iron hand. No one questions
Jerry Jones on. No one stood up and actually questioned
his way, and and football lived to tell about it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's such a way.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Where it's okay, he's doing this, We got to put
our heads down and make the best of it. Like
he doesn't want to give any rise to that. And
with the way the team has been run the last
couple of years, coming off at this point last year
when it was we're all in on this year and
that turned out to be a big live we told
you what it meant. But you know, everybody thought, I'm
all in, I'm spending on players. Now I'm not spending
on players. That's why I doesn't want that to be.
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He doesn't want that to be any kind of possibility.
So I'm gonna snuff that out right now and bring
a new guy who was not gonna threaten me. And
I'm still calling all the shots, and now no one's
gonna be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That's my way. See, that's why I take it the
other way. McCarthy finally just said, you know what, I've
been in this game a long time. I've got a
pretty good CV. To hell with this, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I think he still wants to be a head coach
at the end of it.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I think I think there's thirty one other teams.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
That well, he didn't get any of the jobs yet,
hasn't got any other job.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It doesn't mean the other guys you know what they're
doing either.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Best job is always the one you have, right, best
job is always.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
A half point. You didn't have a you didn't have
a deal in place, so you didn't have a job.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I just dodged his phone call for about a week
and then it was easy, He's.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Gonna he's gonna crawl back to me now.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It was like it was like weekend at Bernie's. Were
just kept pretending he was out of the office and
at different places, and it they just propped him up
walking around like, so I just did that whole thing,
and and then a week later I said, yeah, we're done,
And what do you like?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
He could still be the Saints coach and if the
Eagles lose on Sunday, he can replace this. Yeah, you can.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Slide into the postgame press conference and answer the questions. Hey, Nick,
sorry you're out, Go talk to Howie. I'm here. I'm
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this coming up next. But sometimes youth is served. How
about what an eleven year old sports fan did today
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Speaker 1 (16:53):
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Be there.
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Jason Smith Show with My bass friend Mike Harmon, Well
Dressed Cobot Live from the Tirac dot Com Studios, and uh,
this is my favorite story of the day because we
get to look at a one of those marble ruled
school books you used to write in when you were
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in elementary school. Like you have the big that with
the black and white like marble, and all the pages
were in you couldn't rip the pages out, and that
was your notebook. I still work with those, Yeah, I
do still writing.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I do. I buy them by the ten count. My
kids use them and I use them, and it's you know,
full of random thoughts and paranoise.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay, so that's what's gonna happen, is they're going to
open your They're going to open your your house and
like ten years ago, look at these what are all
these notebooks at Harbin?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, it'll eventually be the Harmon Cinematic Universe. It's all
the story ideas that we've had through the years and random, uh,
random thoughts.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But the reason I bring this up is because an
eleven year old kid has turned the sporting world on
its ear. You probably saw this story a couple of
days ago about the Paul Skeens baseball card, the big
one of one that was pulled by this eleven year
old kid who lives here in Los Angeles. Now, this
is a card that already is going to go on
the market. Is one of the most popular baseball cards
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you could possibly imagine. It's got the patch, it's got
the autograph. It is a one of one for a
guy who already has become the most exciting pitcher in baseball. Now,
the Pirates, they wanted this card. They wanted to have
it for Paul Skeens. So they put out an offer
to this kid thirty years of season tickets behind home
plate in Pittsburgh, a meet and greet with Schmes a
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softball game at PNC Park in exchange for the card.
Livy Dunn, who's a big LSU gymnast, Skeens' girlfriend, big influencer,
also offered the kid a chance to watch a game
with her in a luxury suite at the ballpark. And
the kid who got it today decline the offer and
now is going to put it up for auction for
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the highest bidder. Tops putting this out with the with
a picture of what he wrote in his in his
marble notebook, like this is Paul Skeins and all we
we're talking about something that's worth in the millions of
dollars in big business, and and hey, to tell you
what's going on, we got to look at what eleven
year old kid wrote in his marble notebook. He wrote
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that it was a dream come true for him. However,
he's going to decline the offer. He's really he's real excited.
Some great things, he says, but he's going to put
it up for auction. You know part of what he wrote,
you know, hey, you know I'm eleven years old, and
when I first started, I was bouncing all over. I yelled,
let's go. When I opened the card, and you know,
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all these things he's writing about it, and I look
at it, and I go, I completely understand why the
kid is turning this down, because the big caveat of
this is what like, Hey, the Livy Dunn experience is nice,
to Paul Skeens experience is nice, all of this, but
the big thing is, hey, thirty years of season tickets
behind home plate. It's the Pirates, right. I guess this
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is worth a lot. This is worth a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
But the kid lives in LA.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
What's he gonna do with thirty years of season tickets
when he lives three thousand miles away, even.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
If you lived half the block from the stadium. Now
we're off, now we're in it.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It's different if the kid is from Pittsburgh. And yeah,
because you know what, because how easy is it to
sell those tickets? If you need to, you get free tickets,
you can sell them. They're worth anywhere between four hundred
and one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
But that's like the all right, I'm gonna take the
little bit of annuity, right, so I've got guaranteed it.
It's the Bobby Benie effect.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I'm not getting a bunch of money now, but you're
gonna pay me over the next thirty years, which is
fine for what it does. Remember what the Mets got
out of it, you know, David Wright and all that
fun stuff. And Benia doesn't have to worry about income.
But if he'd taken that lump sum payment and invested
it well over those thirty years, he would have made
a lot more money. Likewise, this kid, what are you
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gonna do? Hey, who needs to It's like the Steinbrenner
and Seinfeld. I got to owner's box. That ought to
get me a couple of bucks. No, you want to
do that where you gotta sell off eighty games a
year for thirty years. The hell with that. Give me
the cash, Put it in a decent interest bearing account.
You can go to sit behind home plate and a
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better team's ball mark any time you want.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You know what you do? You know, you know what
would have been better, because I get the fact that, hey,
we're gonna give you gig, like really that that that's
gonna that's gonna make it, make it a thing for you.
Like what they should have done was this is, hey,
we will pay for wherever you go to college, right,
Like that should be where you start. That should be
the big thing, because how much is college gonna be
at the most expensive of college is it's what, you know,
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one hundred thousand dollars incredible, right, I mean it's really
really expensive. Right, So obviously that in the upern Like
what's the most expensive one is Universe of Chicago, Right,
it's like one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year,
right something like that? Ye?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Right, So okay, you're.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Already giving you're already giving some sort of value that
is worth half a million dollars because you're giving up
these homeplate you know, these seats. Granted it's the pirates
and sometimes these one.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Of the kids, it ain't that bright. So but okay,
the top end schools not in the cards for but
doesn't matter. Anywhere you go to.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
We will pay for your college education, four years, room
and board, whatever it is. That's where you start with.
You start with that, and then suddenly, oh, okay, well
now it's something tangible that I can see because eleven
year old kid growing up in Los Angeles as well,
usc usc is eighty five thousand dollars a year all
these places, is like, okay, maybe maybe this is a
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big thing. Because what you need is you need to
get the parents on your side. Right. It's one thing
the kid you can say, hey, you know, for eleven
year old kid, I can say, hey, how about you know,
free from I'll give you, you know, a free game
gaming system and candy, and yeah, sell that great. You
gotta sell the parents on this.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Today.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
We'll start with four years of college and then you go, hey,
personal experience with Paul Skiings Live. It will fly you
to Pittsburgh for this all this stuff. Then you go
from there. But one of the big thing is season
tickets for something that's three thousand miles.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Well like when he sells that car for a million dollars,
he's not gonna have to go to college yet.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
But therein lies lies the larger part of this, right,
I mean, unless you're just giving me a stack of
cash stuff for future considerations, if I'm him, if I'm
the parents, I'm not doing it. And you know we
got the little notebook stuff of it was a Christmas
Day find and many in the business are calling shenanigans
(23:43):
right as to whether this is legit or not. It's
a ten to ten grade from PSA. It's a debut patch.
All of these things monster card that is worth anywhere
from a half a million estimates go north of a million,
depending on who decides that they want to pay for this,
whether the pirates go into the marketplace and decide they
want to do right by Schemes, who is less than
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committal when asked at their FanFest last year about his
long term prospects of staying in Pittsburgh. So you got
that going for you too, goodwill effort on that thirty
years of tickets. But I mean, you're literally talking about
one hundreds of thousand dollars. And look, I was younger
than him when I first started sitting behind the table
selling trading guards, hustling for extra money as a kid.
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So to think that he doesn't know what it's worth.
And surely the parents if they went and bought a
they claim it was a three hundred and twenty dollars
hobby box at Christmas time, that might have been legit.
That seems a little low. But let's just call it
that they found a local dealer because they went on sale,
I want to say, for one ninety nine, and the
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market had already started moving as the chase for this begin.
So if they got it for three twenty, you're not
buying a kid a three hundred and twenty eight dollars
box of cars unless they're really into cards and have
an idea of what the marketplace is. You're just not
You're gonna go buy the five dollar pack at the
end of the target aisle, if there's any there at all,
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and you're gonna shove it in the stocking and say, yeah,
you got some cards. Now he has that three hundred
and twenty dollars box now here.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
But here's the best part of the start. I'm going
to read to you from the kid's journal word for word,
and I don't know. He has to worry about college
because he's going to be a comedian because his comedic
timing is insanely good.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
It doesn't take much to make you laugh.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Well, but it'll make you laught. You don't make you
You know what makes me laugh? Frostburg the Jets.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, yeah, no, it does, it does.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I was gonna say watching Justin Herbert play in that
last playoff game. All right, So here's his journal entry.
It was November thirteenth, twenty twenty four, and Tops had
released twenty twenty four Chrome Update. It was two hundred dollars,
which was a lot, but considering the players and rookies,
it was fair. I started begging my mom for it
for Christmas. Dad was at and my mom was leaving soon.
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Me and my mom left for school, and I knew
people would raise the prices, so I went into full
beg mode. My mom said she'd get it victory, but
her work was so busy she forgot to get it.
When my parents got home, I was super sad, but
they said the prices would drop on Black Friday. Fast
forward to Blackfriday, dot dot. The prices did not drop
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infinite rage one second. So now the box is like
three hundred and fifty bucks. They said I'd have to
get something else. I said, okay, but they could tell
I was sad, very very very sad. When I was
at school, they found a hobby box for three hundred
and twenty bucks, which is still a ton, but since
they are awesome, they got the box. They told me
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when I got home from school, and I was so excited.
Fast forward to Christmas. I woke up at like four
am and woke up my brother whoops, but we had
to wait till six thirty am. Then we woke up
our parents. The first present we opened was the hobby box,
and my brother got a big lego. I opened three
packs and got some cool cards, and then we passed
around some more presents. I opened two more packs and
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on the second pack, I got the Paul Sken's Redemption card.
I said, Dad, I pulled the Paul Skeen's Redemption card.
He was like, no, you didn't. Then I showed him
the card and me and my brother and my dad
were like omg. My mom was very excited too, but
she never collected cards, so she didn't know what it meant.
Then my brain pooped and I started bouncing all over
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the place, and my dad was let's go.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I was so excited.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
But first we went to one of our grandparents' house
and hung out with them and our uncles and aunties.
I'm eleven years old, so pulling this card is a
dream come true. I mean, that is everything you want
to know. Here's what eleven year old is thinking about
baseball cards like this, that's everything you need.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
And meanwhile, the grandpa jumped out of bed after not
walking for twenty years.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Fast forward to Black Friday, the prices did not go.
Like I can hear Ron Howard's arrested development voice, the
prices did not drop on Black Friday.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yeah, this is a this is a highly controversial thing
in the hobby. Now I would like to, you know, me,
being the believer of the best of people at all times,
waiting for a smart ass response, didn't he all right
that this is a true story? Right? But immediately everybody's like, well,
where's the picture of the kid with the card? Where's
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the video of the kid running around with the card?
And maybe maybe, just in this insane world, we have
a family that recognized hey, having video of our kid
running around with a million dollars in his hands is
probably not good for our safety or the kid's safety
going forward. So yeah, there's that. Or did Ahi write
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the cool little story in the notebook? Then?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, you see the kid's handwriting, it's an eleven year
old handwriting. And I'm gonna start saying my brain pooped
all the time. I'm gonna, I mean, I think that's
a great phrase. That's the phrase that pays.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Right, there's Peter Griffin.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
My brain pooped right there. Sorry, nothing I could do
about it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You're gonna say that to Pam and she's gonna hit you.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
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Now of the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys are promoting Brian
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reportedly gets.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
A four year deal.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
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a three year on track plus a team option. Robert
Sala is returning to San Francisco as defensive coordinator. The
Texans fired offensive coordinator Bobby Slowick after two seasons. Eagles
quarterback Jalen Hurts is off the injury report after last
Sunday's bad knee. He'll likely wear a brace this Sunday
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suffered a twenty acl last Saturday night. Philadelphia defensive tackle
Byron Young is also out with a hamstring injury. In
the AFC Championship. The Bills are at Kansas City Sunday.
Buffalo safety Taylor rap is out with back end hip injuries.
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By the way, Buffalo now in five straight seasons, has
won at least eleven games. No team has done that
five straight years without making at least one Super Bowl
appearance in any of those seasons.
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Against a Chiefs team that continues to win close games.
Kansas City's won this season by single digits twelve different times.
That is the most such wins in a single season
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Las Vegas will host college football's national title game after
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game losing streak, edging Cleveland, won thirty two to one
twenty nine Paul George thirty points. Portland won its fourth
straight a victory at Charlotte one O two ninety seven
and at Memphis. John Morant of the Grizzlies was out
due to illness. Still, the Grays beat New Orleans one
thirty nine, won twenty six. Memphis is won five straight.
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out Saturday due to illness. Anthony Edwards and Minnesota questionable
for Saturday due to illness. De Aaron Fox of the
Kings questionable for tomorrow with the spring thumb, and Atlanta's
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Speaker 2 (33:57):
Litt less than fifteen.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Minutes, but look gratulations to Pete Carroll, who owned the
news cycle for about eight hours today. Hey back in
the NFL head coach of the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Three year deal.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, yeah, No, I gotta get okay, I can't have
the Carroll kid. I call him a kid because he's,
you know, eight years younger than I am. But I
gotta get the attention back. We're gonna going Brian Schottenheimer.
But the best part of the of the Pete Carroll
story maybe I feel about this now because I'm sitting here.
I'm not twenty four, I'm fifty four. And the best
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part of this story is here's somebody who is seventy
four and is getting a big job in the NFL.
You know, Agism in this country is a really big thing,
and it's younger and younger people get when they are
at the point where I'm getting pushed out.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Now people get to fifty and they say, hey, they're trying,
they're trying to push me out of this job.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
For whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
It's a younger person's business. They can pay younger people
less money. You know, when you and I were younger
growing up, I would hear, you know, my parents and
my aunts and uncles talk about it, and they're like, hey,
when i'm you know, sixty five sixty five, they're gonna
want to I'm gonna retire anyone because they're gonna push
me out. We've got to the point now where you
get to be fit depending what you do for a living,
like fifties, a point where you have to look around
(35:16):
and go, hey, I don't know, man, what's what's gotta
happen here? And and that's a really big thing because
you know, look, everybody's still got something to say. When
you're fifty to fifty five sixty, if you still have it,
if you still want to, yeah, you got something to say,
you have the life experiences, go ahead and do it.
But it still sometimes doesn't matter that, Hey, I'm just
(35:37):
getting pushed out. And I never in a million years
would have thought that Pete Carroll's gonna get another job
as a head coach, right he's seventy three. When when
you got fired, like, who's gonna hire him again? Who's
gonna have a big u a time of Hey, we're
gonna hit zero, hit the reset button and keep going right.
That's not Gonnappen's enough for Bill Belichick, who who is
(35:57):
in his seventies. Is is Bill Belichier gonna get more
in two years if he stayed in the NFL? You
know all of these things. But for Pete Carroll to
get this job, I'm like, wow, Yes, it is part
of the news cycle where there's not a lot of
great candidates, and he's very fortunate because if there were
other better candidates out there, I'm sure Pete Carroll wouldn't
have been on a list. But hey, doesn't matter because
this is how it turned out, and him at seventy
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four getting a.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Head coaching job in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
That's a great story, man, And that's the part of
the story I dig the most.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yeah, I think for Pete Carroll, I mean we always
see the shots man. How many times do you see
the little reel of him running, you know, quarterback at
practice and winging the ball downfield. Still got the vibrancy
of a guy in his mid twenties running around and
talking about being in the college classroom as a professor
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that he's going to finish the semester and keep working.
And that is another job. Hey, extra jobs, extra income.
Got to keep those separate revenue streams as you go.
But one of the things from Pete was always that
he related back to players and what do they say,
keep working, keeps you young, keeps you moving. One of
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my you know, my dad's been retired a long long time.
We were all concerned as hell when he stopped being
on the you know, conveyor belt going from one job
to the next so we can go to the bougie
schools and and and have our shot on the South
side of Chicago. Uh that when he retired he wouldn't
know what to do with himself. He's been able to
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pass time for quite a while now, but that was
the fear for Pete Carroll. I mean, you want to
keep swimming, right. It's a shark. If he steps swimming,
you die.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
So you want to keep your mind act if you
want to be in the game. You got pursuits, and
you don't want to go out with a bad taste
in your mouth. And if you resurrect the Raiders to
at least some level of respectability, you're king. Now, it's
gonna be hard. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
The other three teams you're trying to get up pasted
or probably the you know they're.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
They're gonna end up. It's the toughest division, right, But
you get to go fight Harbaugh twice a year. Oh yeah, yeah,
Look I'm not sure, Peyton, get to exchange sharky retorts
and think about the commercials you can do with Andy
Reid and Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah no, look, I'm not saying it's not gonna be fun,
but let's just, you know, let let's temper expectation of
it and understand that, hey, you're trying to get over
a division which has, oh, by the way, the current
dynasty in the NFL and two teams that are tremendously
on the rise in the Chargers in the Broncos. Right,
so okay, understand that this is who you're trying to
get best. But this is a job he was offered,
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and you know, look, I'm so happy enough I'll even
go this far. I saw the rumors for uh Russell
Wilson today. Oh you know him and Pete have made
up yet, No, not happening. Not happening.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I don't buy it, but no, it's fun little subplol.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Well, they have to because people are gonna bet that
because they have the they have. Yeah, well that Vegas
has to put the If so many people are betting
on it and the odds are high, Vegas lose is huge.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
So when people.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Start betting, of course the odds on something like that
comes down just because if Vegas loses, they're not paying
out as much. Right, So everybody's all, let's connect the
dots with Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll. No, you know, honestly,
and look, you know, I'm not a big fan of his.
It's like I'm telling all kinds of truth. Like I
would go and get Sam Donald for a couple of
years if I find pek. Hey, let's let's start building
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from right here. You know, he's an exciting higher for
the fan base. He's you know, Sam Donald would be
an exciting get because yes, as much as Sam Donald's
bounced around the league, Hey, he's someone that is coming
off a Pro Bowl year, thirty five touchdowns, four thousand
plus yards. Hey, and you know, for all of what
Sam Donald can go, he needs to go to a
place where he knows he's gonna play, and if he
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stays in Minnesota, if it's suddenly we use the franchise
tag on him, how much is he really guaranteed to play?
Because the first two bad games he has back to
back guests. Who's coming in JJ mccon and you're coming
off the two bad games. He already had two bad games,
so well the end of the year. The rest of
the year didn't mean anything. There's already the conversation about
should they even keep him for next year? Who's the
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starting quarterback? All first fifteen weeks, for sixteen weeks were awesome,
but week seventeen and eighteen were bad. And now it's up.
This is Sam Darnold. We gotta go. He's got no
future in Minnesota. So if i'm that's where I go
it say, hey, let me go and see if we
can build things up here. It's an exciting hire coach,
be an exciting thing to do at quarterback.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Well, you've got your spytech as you your GM, you
bring in Pete Carroll. You're gonna want to run the football,
so you got to re redeploy that way. You've got Boers,
so young quarterback's best friend or you know, placeholder, quarterback's
best friend, the tight end. So so that works out. Well,
you got a couple of good pieces of defense. Hey,
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that looks a lot like a team he wants coached.
I can coach this team. Wait, I just channeled Dennis
Leary and Draft Day go.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Exit out about a Fresco.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Just gotta get a guy that's Vegas Royalty.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
That's all you need, is I mean, that's Wayne Newton
when you gotta get it Vegus Royalty coming up next.
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are on this big Friday night, Jerry Jones thinking, well,
let's see do I try to take the spotlight away
from the Eagles and the commanders? Now with my head coach,
you do? I wait and do it on Monday. A
let's do it now. We told you about this last night,
that it looked like it was gonna happen. Clarence Hill
Cowboys insider had it last night, he was right on Today,
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the Cowboys have hired Marty Schottenheimer's son, Brian Shott, and
you wanted to as their next head Well, I was
thinking about you talking about him earlier. Brian Schottenheimer, who
has been an assistant in the NFL for a long time,
was the Jets OC back in the early teens.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
They went to a couple of AFC Championship games.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Has been the Cowboys OC. Don't want to look at
his status from last year. Not great, But here's a
guy who is named the Cowboys head coach, who had
a grand total of zero teams interested in him to
be their head coach. He had no interviews, nobody else
wanted to talk to him, and suddenly Jerry Jones says, Yep,
he's our guy. Like, I mean, I can't believe I
(01:55):
feel bad for Cowboys fans, but I do. It's like,
you know, you used some kind of excellence and it's
just sad that era is just absolutely gone. Like this
is not a hire that excites anybody that I don't
think the players are excited, certainly the fans aren't excited.
The rest of the NFL is You're like, oh great, Yeah,
here's a guy that nobody else wanted to talk to. Okay,
don't have to worry about the Cowboys. Scratch them for
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next year. Awesome. And it's nothing against Brian Schottenheimer, the guy,
by and large is well liked throughout the NFL, who's
been around the game for a long Time's terrific defensive coach.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
But this is who you fired Mike McCarthy for.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Like Mike McCarthy, who had a pretty good grip of
the team, had a lot of loyalty with the players,
this is who you fire Mike McCarthy to go get.
Not Dion, which I would understand. Not Bill Belichick, which
I would disagree with, but I would understand. Not a
big name, Not somebody who's gonna come in and take
a hold of things. No, no, no, we're firing Mike
McCarthy for his offensive coordinator, for an offense that really
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didn't do anything this year. This is what we're doing.
This is completely on brand for the Cowboys, who just
keeps spitting this year thirty five of spinning our wheels
in the mud.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Can't we get out of the mud.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Nope, Jerry Jones, make sure in the mutt we're just
gonna keep spinning our wheels, keep spinning our wheels, and
it's going to continue on here with a less than
inspiring head coaching higher.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Long live the Cowboys really want to go. And as
my ex's dad how he's feeling today, he's long been
out on the Jerry Jones experiment. They've lived in Dallas
since they moved to the who's in on it?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Tell me any Cowboys still in on Jerry Jones?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Who's still in on it? Yeah? He was telling me
that twenty plus years ago, I mean, long before the
current level of futility. And yes, you had some success
with McCarthy the last couple of years. You just never
got over the hump. I've already seen the memes for
the Cowboys for twenty twenty five, already eliminated with a
picture of Dad. Yes, Scott look at all sullen all
(03:50):
over there. So I mean that's already going through. I
think Jerry needs to get one of his friends, whoever
that might be in the ownership group there, to at
least say they had passing interest in Shottenheim or so
maybe he can feel a little better about himself and
get a little bit of positive press, like he was
in the room the last couple of years. They fixed
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the glitch and they let everything expire with McCarthy. I'd
like to know what's real, what's imagined in terms of
what we've been told about those final days and conversations
or non starters between Jones and McCarthy, and perhaps eventually
we'll get some more details there. But Schottenheimer gets the gig.
It's a Friday night news dump is really what it
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comes down to. By time it's announced, like everybody's gone
for the day. People were commuting back home on the
East Coast or Central times, like, wait, is this real?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
He really hired this guy? Now this is happening. No,
we're okay, alrday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Last evening. So now I guess it gets to lead
and it takes the thunder away from the Raiders, you
know who were relevant about the last time the Cowboys
were Pete.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Carroll sayday, thanks a lot, man, thanks a lot. I
really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Two teams who've gone thirty years of wandering in the
desert with looking for some level of success. Pete Carroll hired, Yeah,
here we go Raiders. Wait, you know what, let's announce it.
Let's just announce it right now, Here's.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That There's so many ways to talk about this and
go what the hell? But this is what the hell
is the Cowboys model?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
What the hell are we doing?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Like, hey, we're the Cowboys, you're thirty five, and what
the hell are we doing?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Like I mentioned that Schottenheimer hadn't gotten interviewed by anybody else, right, okay,
But on the and on the flip side of it,
Jerry Jones talked to a grand total of zero of
the other top candidates to be his head coach.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, because he didn't fix the glitch until after the deadline.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
At least at least if if he did that, I
could understand and disagree with it. Well, okay, all right,
I understand he talked to Ben Johnson. Either you couldn't
convince Ben Johnson to come to the Cowboys or wasn't
a great fit. Didn't talk to Aaron Glenn, Mike Rabel.
You found out he was somewhat interesting, but you knew
the Pagers are gonna act fast, and you.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So like the top three guys, and not that these
are all world beaters as head coach, Like you know
Rabel's a good coach, but you know, hey, there's a
reason why he got let go. Aaron Glenn is getting
his first chance, Ben Johnson getting his first chance. Every
year is different, right. The openings are not great this year.
The head coaching candidates are not what you expect from
year to year. But this is the year, and this
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is what we have. Yet here we are so but
the Cowboys didn't talk to any of them. And how
do you sit here and say, yes, we found our
guy when these other coaches who everybody else in the
NFL wants to hear about that because they've built cultures,
or they've built successful systems, or they've built successful teams.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Right, Like you you have Mike Rabel, who's built.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Successful team before culture guy great, Ben Johnson's built a
phenomenal offense. He can come in and maybe remake Dak Prescott.
Aaron Glenn has built a tremendous defensive philosophy.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
He can in and be a culture.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
No, we're not gonna talk to any of those guys,
and we're going Brian Schottenheimer.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Like this is so on brand for Jerry Jones.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And I go back to what I said last night,
because now what we what we talked about last night
seems even bigger and better and more correct than it
was twenty four hours ago. Did Mike McCarthy get fired
because he didn't win this year? Because you can look
at it on the service and say, well, all right, yeah,
hit a bunch of twelve win seasons in a row.
Uh flamed out in the playoffs. Although not his fault
that Dak Prescott sucks in the playoffs, Right, I'm gonna
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go gonna keep saying it's not his fault that Dak
Prescott sucks in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
But if well, that's dan Quinn's fault. You hate dan Quinn,
so I don't hate him. I hate.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You'll hate dan Quinn. You've always hated dan Quinn. You
can't dress it up. Anytime you say, like dan Quinn,
I've hated dan anytime you say something about dan Quinn,
you find a way to say dan Quinn, Yeah, no,
I really like him as a head coach, boy point
three against Jordan Love Left, like.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You find a way to get head coach commanders. If
it wasn't for one fifty he became expendable.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But so did Mike McCarthy lose his job because he
stunk this year. In a year in which your starting
quarterback gets hurt, and let's face it, if you're starting
quarterback that is a fifty million dollar a year, guy
gets hurt and goes out, how many games.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Are you really gonna win? Right? But still they lost?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Or did he get fired because his voice with the
organization was getting too big, too much cachet with the players,
because what did we see over the course of this year.
Dak Prescott got hurt and I'm sure Jerry Jones thought
this is going to be it's bad saying no what happened.
Cowboys didn't quit, which you see happen plenty of times.
They kept playing, They played hard. They even got to
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the point where, with about a month to go in
the regular season, they were potentially on the outskirts of
being in the in the hunt graphic that you see
on Sundays getting close to Christmas in the NFL games,
and don't forget the Cowboys are there. But even though
they didn't get there, they never quit. They played hard.
And all I needed was the statements from Dak Prescott
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and Micah Parsons after Mike McCarthy got let go. They
were both upset Now they both gave very diplomatic statements,
but you could tell what they said. They both really
like Mike McCarthy, leader of the offense, leader their defense.
Both like Mike McCarthy. So this is on Jerry Jones,
and this is on Jerry Jones' brand to say, hey,
maybe McCarthy's getting too big of a role with the team.
(09:25):
He's beloved too much in the locker room, the players
are too beholden to him. He's not gonna come in
here and challenge my power, my influence with the team.
So boom, Sorry, Mike, you're gone, and I'm gonna replace
you with a guy that who knows if it's gonna work.
But he's not gonna threaten me or threaten what's going
on with the team. And I'm not gonna have stories
going on all year long about how all the Cowboys
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have become Mike McCarthy's team and Jerry judge, no, no, no,
not doing it. Because now twenty four hours later, with
the actual hiring of Brian Shott Niburn, how they went
about it. Tell me that's not the case. The Mike
McCarthy wasn't let go because hey, he had too much
Cachet with the team in that locker room, and Jerry
Jones didn't like it.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, I like the theory, and it certainly would would
feed into the Jerry Jones colon egomaniac book that you're writing.
That's certainly there. If not, if Jason Cole hasn't already
gotten on board that one our frequent guest friend, and
he might have been the consultant with all of this,
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because Schottenheimer rights for the thirty third team, but he
hired himself. He hired himself. It's my it's my time now.
Hey guys, Jerry, I'm just gonna fill this chair.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, I'm gonna take this gig. Do I gotta pay
them any more money? No, no good, I'm taking the
v All right, Great, let's have the announcement on Monday. Great.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
But a lot of it just comes back to Jason
trying to parse out what was real, what was imagined
in those final forty eight hours seventy two hours before
McCarthy and Jones stopped talking negotiating final tables, whatever reality
is right, because we've heard some talk that it it
never got down to final numbers. McCarthy had a bunch
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of demands in terms of hey, if I'm going to stay,
I need these assurances for assistance, I need this guarantee
of years, I need all of these different things. And
then instead of negotiating at the eleventh hour, just said, hey,
you know what I'm done, versus Jerry actually pulling the
trigger and just saying no, no, no, we're not talking
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to you anymore, all right, Because there was a report
that came out that Jerry was absolutely dumbfounded thinking he
had all the time in the world to make a
deal happen, which is why he didn't aggressively get out
into the marketplace. Why there wasn't a definitive note of hey,
Mike's no longer our guy and we're in the business
of looking for a coach, which seems like would have
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been with all his media appearances, would have been a
great strong position from Jerry Jones to have see, now
we're media coaching a guy who's a master Thespian. But
it still comes back to the same thing. He could
have owned it all by saying I don't want this
guy in anymore. Instead, it leads to a lot of questions, Uh, well,
of course, it leads to question would you never not
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have questions. No, no, no, But I'm saying no, no, no, no.
But my point is if he'd actually just owned it
and said we're not bringing him back, we haven't gotten
to the mountaintop whatever. Instead, it becomes a did Mike
McCarthy walk away? Did you throw him out? Which is
bad business for Jerry because we're gonna keep talking about
him either way.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, but look, but this is but this is, this
is more into the Mike McCarthy getting too much control
that Jerry Jones didn't want to give him. Hey, I
want to come back, but I can't. But I want
this if I'm going to return, No, I'm not. I'm
not ready to do that for you. I'm not ready
to do it.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Asking to be the GM. No, but Jerry was still
going to be the guy, you know, calling the shots.
Who that wasn't going to be the case. It doesn't matter,
it doesn't He certainly wasn't eclipsing him as a figure
in anything other than maybe Dak Prescott, who couldn't play
anyway because he's hurt. Yeh and Micah Parsons saying, hey,
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we like this guy, ain't gone.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
He doesn't want anybody that could potentially get in his
way with anything with the Cowboys where it could be
anything where he questions his leadership, where you question Jerry
Jones's leadership, and maybe you have a couple of players saying, yeah,
maybe Mike's right.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
On this, right, because what did I say?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
That's always the worst thing for the Cowboys is that
the voices rise up and say, you know, Jerry, no,
we should do it this way.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He is run with an iron hand. No one questions
Jerry Jones on. No one stood up and actually questioned
his way, and and football lived to tell about it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's such a way.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Where it's okay, he's doing this, We got to put
our heads down and make the best of it. Like
he doesn't want to give any rise to that. And
with the way the team has been run the last
couple of years, coming off at this point last year
when it was we're all in on this year and
that turned out to be a big live we told
you what it meant. But you know, everybody thought, I'm
all in, I'm spending on players. Now I'm not spending
on players. That's why I doesn't want that to be.
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He doesn't want that to be any kind of possibility.
So I'm gonna snuff that out right now and bring
a new guy who was not gonna threaten me. And
I'm still calling all the shots, and now no one's
gonna be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That's my way. See, that's why I take it the
other way. McCarthy finally just said, you know what, I've
been in this game a long time. I've got a
pretty good CV. To hell with this, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I think he still wants to be a head coach
at the end of it.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I think I think there's thirty one other teams.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
That well, he didn't get any of the jobs yet,
hasn't got any other job.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It doesn't mean the other guys you know what they're
doing either.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Best job is always the one you have, right, best
job is always.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
A half point. You didn't have a you didn't have
a deal in place, so you didn't have a job.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I just dodged his phone call for about a week
and then it was easy, He's.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Gonna he's gonna crawl back to me now.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It was like it was like weekend at Bernie's. Were
just kept pretending he was out of the office and
at different places, and it they just propped him up
walking around like, so I just did that whole thing,
and and then a week later I said, yeah, we're done,
And what do you like?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
He could still be the Saints coach and if the
Eagles lose on Sunday, he can replace this. Yeah, you can.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Slide into the postgame press conference and answer the questions. Hey, Nick,
sorry you're out, Go talk to Howie. I'm here. I'm
in the Jason Smith Show and the Mike Cartman Live
from the tirec dot com studios. We have more on
this coming up next. But sometimes youth is served. How
about what an eleven year old sports fan did today
to shake up the sports world. That's next right here,
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Speaker 1 (16:53):
This is more than a game.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Be there.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Jason Smith Show with My bass friend Mike Harmon, Well
Dressed Cobot Live from the Tirac dot Com Studios, and uh,
this is my favorite story of the day because we
get to look at a one of those marble ruled
school books you used to write in when you were
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in elementary school. Like you have the big that with
the black and white like marble, and all the pages
were in you couldn't rip the pages out, and that
was your notebook. I still work with those, Yeah, I
do still writing.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I do. I buy them by the ten count. My
kids use them and I use them, and it's you know,
full of random thoughts and paranoise.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay, so that's what's gonna happen, is they're going to
open your They're going to open your your house and
like ten years ago, look at these what are all
these notebooks at Harbin?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, it'll eventually be the Harmon Cinematic Universe. It's all
the story ideas that we've had through the years and random, uh,
random thoughts.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But the reason I bring this up is because an
eleven year old kid has turned the sporting world on
its ear. You probably saw this story a couple of
days ago about the Paul Skeens baseball card, the big
one of one that was pulled by this eleven year
old kid who lives here in Los Angeles. Now, this
is a card that already is going to go on
the market. Is one of the most popular baseball cards
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you could possibly imagine. It's got the patch, it's got
the autograph. It is a one of one for a
guy who already has become the most exciting pitcher in baseball. Now,
the Pirates, they wanted this card. They wanted to have
it for Paul Skeens. So they put out an offer
to this kid thirty years of season tickets behind home
plate in Pittsburgh, a meet and greet with Schmes a
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softball game at PNC Park in exchange for the card.
Livy Dunn, who's a big LSU gymnast, Skeens' girlfriend, big influencer,
also offered the kid a chance to watch a game
with her in a luxury suite at the ballpark. And
the kid who got it today decline the offer and
now is going to put it up for auction for
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the highest bidder. Tops putting this out with the with
a picture of what he wrote in his in his
marble notebook, like this is Paul Skeins and all we
we're talking about something that's worth in the millions of
dollars in big business, and and hey, to tell you
what's going on, we got to look at what eleven
year old kid wrote in his marble notebook. He wrote
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that it was a dream come true for him. However,
he's going to decline the offer. He's really he's real excited.
Some great things, he says, but he's going to put
it up for auction. You know part of what he wrote,
you know, hey, you know I'm eleven years old, and
when I first started, I was bouncing all over. I yelled,
let's go. When I opened the card, and you know,
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all these things he's writing about it, and I look
at it, and I go, I completely understand why the
kid is turning this down, because the big caveat of
this is what like, Hey, the Livy Dunn experience is nice,
to Paul Skeens experience is nice, all of this, but
the big thing is, hey, thirty years of season tickets
behind home plate. It's the Pirates, right. I guess this
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is worth a lot. This is worth a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
But the kid lives in LA.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
What's he gonna do with thirty years of season tickets
when he lives three thousand miles away, even.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
If you lived half the block from the stadium. Now
we're off, now we're in it.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It's different if the kid is from Pittsburgh. And yeah,
because you know what, because how easy is it to
sell those tickets? If you need to, you get free tickets,
you can sell them. They're worth anywhere between four hundred
and one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
But that's like the all right, I'm gonna take the
little bit of annuity, right, so I've got guaranteed it.
It's the Bobby Benie effect.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I'm not getting a bunch of money now, but you're
gonna pay me over the next thirty years, which is
fine for what it does. Remember what the Mets got
out of it, you know, David Wright and all that
fun stuff. And Benia doesn't have to worry about income.
But if he'd taken that lump sum payment and invested
it well over those thirty years, he would have made
a lot more money. Likewise, this kid, what are you
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gonna do? Hey, who needs to It's like the Steinbrenner
and Seinfeld. I got to owner's box. That ought to
get me a couple of bucks. No, you want to
do that where you gotta sell off eighty games a
year for thirty years. The hell with that. Give me
the cash, Put it in a decent interest bearing account.
You can go to sit behind home plate and a
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better team's ball mark any time you want.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You know what you do? You know, you know what
would have been better, because I get the fact that, hey,
we're gonna give you gig, like really that that that's
gonna that's gonna make it, make it a thing for you.
Like what they should have done was this is, hey,
we will pay for wherever you go to college, right,
Like that should be where you start. That should be
the big thing, because how much is college gonna be
at the most expensive of college is it's what, you know,
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one hundred thousand dollars incredible, right, I mean it's really
really expensive. Right, So obviously that in the upern Like
what's the most expensive one is Universe of Chicago, Right,
it's like one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year,
right something like that? Ye?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Right, So okay, you're.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Already giving you're already giving some sort of value that
is worth half a million dollars because you're giving up
these homeplate you know, these seats. Granted it's the pirates
and sometimes these one.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Of the kids, it ain't that bright. So but okay,
the top end schools not in the cards for but
doesn't matter. Anywhere you go to.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
We will pay for your college education, four years, room
and board, whatever it is. That's where you start with.
You start with that, and then suddenly, oh, okay, well
now it's something tangible that I can see because eleven
year old kid growing up in Los Angeles as well,
usc usc is eighty five thousand dollars a year all
these places, is like, okay, maybe maybe this is a
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big thing. Because what you need is you need to
get the parents on your side. Right. It's one thing
the kid you can say, hey, you know, for eleven
year old kid, I can say, hey, how about you know,
free from I'll give you, you know, a free game
gaming system and candy, and yeah, sell that great. You
gotta sell the parents on this.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Today.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
We'll start with four years of college and then you go, hey,
personal experience with Paul Skiings Live. It will fly you
to Pittsburgh for this all this stuff. Then you go
from there. But one of the big thing is season
tickets for something that's three thousand miles.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Well like when he sells that car for a million dollars,
he's not gonna have to go to college yet.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
But therein lies lies the larger part of this, right,
I mean, unless you're just giving me a stack of
cash stuff for future considerations, if I'm him, if I'm
the parents, I'm not doing it. And you know we
got the little notebook stuff of it was a Christmas
Day find and many in the business are calling shenanigans
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right as to whether this is legit or not. It's
a ten to ten grade from PSA. It's a debut patch.
All of these things monster card that is worth anywhere
from a half a million estimates go north of a million,
depending on who decides that they want to pay for this,
whether the pirates go into the marketplace and decide they
want to do right by Schemes, who is less than
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committal when asked at their FanFest last year about his
long term prospects of staying in Pittsburgh. So you got
that going for you too, goodwill effort on that thirty
years of tickets. But I mean, you're literally talking about
one hundreds of thousand dollars. And look, I was younger
than him when I first started sitting behind the table
selling trading guards, hustling for extra money as a kid.
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So to think that he doesn't know what it's worth.
And surely the parents if they went and bought a
they claim it was a three hundred and twenty dollars
hobby box at Christmas time, that might have been legit.
That seems a little low. But let's just call it
that they found a local dealer because they went on sale,
I want to say, for one ninety nine, and the
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market had already started moving as the chase for this begin.
So if they got it for three twenty, you're not
buying a kid a three hundred and twenty eight dollars
box of cars unless they're really into cards and have
an idea of what the marketplace is. You're just not
You're gonna go buy the five dollar pack at the
end of the target aisle, if there's any there at all,
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and you're gonna shove it in the stocking and say, yeah,
you got some cards. Now he has that three hundred
and twenty dollars box now here.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
But here's the best part of the start. I'm going
to read to you from the kid's journal word for word,
and I don't know. He has to worry about college
because he's going to be a comedian because his comedic
timing is insanely good.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
It doesn't take much to make you laugh.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Well, but it'll make you laught. You don't make you
You know what makes me laugh? Frostburg the Jets.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, yeah, no, it does, it does.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I was gonna say watching Justin Herbert play in that
last playoff game. All right, So here's his journal entry.
It was November thirteenth, twenty twenty four, and Tops had
released twenty twenty four Chrome Update. It was two hundred dollars,
which was a lot, but considering the players and rookies,
it was fair. I started begging my mom for it
for Christmas. Dad was at and my mom was leaving soon.
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Me and my mom left for school, and I knew
people would raise the prices, so I went into full
beg mode. My mom said she'd get it victory, but
her work was so busy she forgot to get it.
When my parents got home, I was super sad, but
they said the prices would drop on Black Friday. Fast
forward to Blackfriday, dot dot. The prices did not drop
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infinite rage one second. So now the box is like
three hundred and fifty bucks. They said I'd have to
get something else. I said, okay, but they could tell
I was sad, very very very sad. When I was
at school, they found a hobby box for three hundred
and twenty bucks, which is still a ton, but since
they are awesome, they got the box. They told me
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when I got home from school, and I was so excited.
Fast forward to Christmas. I woke up at like four
am and woke up my brother whoops, but we had
to wait till six thirty am. Then we woke up
our parents. The first present we opened was the hobby box,
and my brother got a big lego. I opened three
packs and got some cool cards, and then we passed
around some more presents. I opened two more packs and
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on the second pack, I got the Paul Sken's Redemption card.
I said, Dad, I pulled the Paul Skeen's Redemption card.
He was like, no, you didn't. Then I showed him
the card and me and my brother and my dad
were like omg. My mom was very excited too, but
she never collected cards, so she didn't know what it meant.
Then my brain pooped and I started bouncing all over
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the place, and my dad was let's go.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I was so excited.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
But first we went to one of our grandparents' house
and hung out with them and our uncles and aunties.
I'm eleven years old, so pulling this card is a
dream come true. I mean, that is everything you want
to know. Here's what eleven year old is thinking about
baseball cards like this, that's everything you need.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
And meanwhile, the grandpa jumped out of bed after not
walking for twenty years.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Fast forward to Black Friday, the prices did not go.
Like I can hear Ron Howard's arrested development voice, the
prices did not drop on Black Friday.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yeah, this is a this is a highly controversial thing
in the hobby. Now I would like to, you know, me,
being the believer of the best of people at all times,
waiting for a smart ass response, didn't he all right
that this is a true story? Right? But immediately everybody's like, well,
where's the picture of the kid with the card? Where's
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the video of the kid running around with the card?
And maybe maybe, just in this insane world, we have
a family that recognized hey, having video of our kid
running around with a million dollars in his hands is
probably not good for our safety or the kid's safety
going forward. So yeah, there's that. Or did Ahi write
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the cool little story in the notebook? Then?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, you see the kid's handwriting, it's an eleven year
old handwriting. And I'm gonna start saying my brain pooped
all the time. I'm gonna, I mean, I think that's
a great phrase. That's the phrase that pays.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Right, there's Peter Griffin.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
My brain pooped right there. Sorry, nothing I could do
about it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You're gonna say that to Pam and she's gonna hit you.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
My brain pooped. I'm sorry. Exit and violence is never
the answer. Fox Shorts Radio The Jason Smiths with Mike
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one right now, Under thirteen minutes to go, UCLA holding
on to e lead in Washington forty eight to forty two.
Earlier wins for Iowa and Marquette, and on Fox TV
tonight top twenty five matchup was a blowout for Purdue
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Now of the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys are promoting Brian
Schottenneimer a head coach news conference on this Monday. He
reportedly gets.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
A four year deal.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Pete Carroll is being hired as Raiders head coach on
a three year on track plus a team option. Robert
Sala is returning to San Francisco as defensive coordinator. The
Texans fired offensive coordinator Bobby Slowick after two seasons. Eagles
quarterback Jalen Hurts is off the injury report after last
Sunday's bad knee. He'll likely wear a brace this Sunday
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in the NFC title game against Washington that's on Fox
TV Sunday, three pm Eastern time. Washington guard Sam Cosmi
suffered a twenty acl last Saturday night. Philadelphia defensive tackle
Byron Young is also out with a hamstring injury. In
the AFC Championship. The Bills are at Kansas City Sunday.
Buffalo safety Taylor rap is out with back end hip injuries.
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By the way, Buffalo now in five straight seasons, has
won at least eleven games. No team has done that
five straight years without making at least one Super Bowl
appearance in any of those seasons.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
They're on the verge. This is their chance. They're going up.
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Against a Chiefs team that continues to win close games.
Kansas City's won this season by single digits twelve different times.
That is the most such wins in a single season
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Las Vegas will host college football's national title game after
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opening day after last year's elbow surgery, but he'll likely
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Sablenca three thirty am Eastern time, and there were only
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three games in the NBA. Tonight, Philadelphia ended a seven
game losing streak, edging Cleveland, won thirty two to one
twenty nine Paul George thirty points. Portland won its fourth
straight a victory at Charlotte one O two ninety seven
and at Memphis. John Morant of the Grizzlies was out
due to illness. Still, the Grays beat New Orleans one
thirty nine, won twenty six. Memphis is won five straight.
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Utah's John Collins, who averages eighteen points a game, is
out Saturday due to illness. Anthony Edwards and Minnesota questionable
for Saturday due to illness. De Aaron Fox of the
Kings questionable for tomorrow with the spring thumb, and Atlanta's
Trey Young questionable with a bad hamstring, and the Spurs.
We'll play in Paris again tomorrow against Indiana noon Eastern time.
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Speaker 2 (33:57):
Litt less than fifteen.
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Minutes, but look gratulations to Pete Carroll, who owned the
news cycle for about eight hours today. Hey back in
the NFL head coach of the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Three year deal.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, yeah, No, I gotta get okay, I can't have
the Carroll kid. I call him a kid because he's,
you know, eight years younger than I am. But I
gotta get the attention back. We're gonna going Brian Schottenheimer.
But the best part of the of the Pete Carroll
story maybe I feel about this now because I'm sitting here.
I'm not twenty four, I'm fifty four. And the best
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part of this story is here's somebody who is seventy
four and is getting a big job in the NFL.
You know, Agism in this country is a really big thing,
and it's younger and younger people get when they are
at the point where I'm getting pushed out.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Now people get to fifty and they say, hey, they're trying,
they're trying to push me out of this job.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
For whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
It's a younger person's business. They can pay younger people
less money. You know, when you and I were younger
growing up, I would hear, you know, my parents and
my aunts and uncles talk about it, and they're like, hey,
when i'm you know, sixty five sixty five, they're gonna
want to I'm gonna retire anyone because they're gonna push
me out. We've got to the point now where you
get to be fit depending what you do for a living,
like fifties, a point where you have to look around
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and go, hey, I don't know, man, what's what's gotta
happen here? And and that's a really big thing because
you know, look, everybody's still got something to say. When
you're fifty to fifty five sixty, if you still have it,
if you still want to, yeah, you got something to say,
you have the life experiences, go ahead and do it.
But it still sometimes doesn't matter that, Hey, I'm just
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getting pushed out. And I never in a million years
would have thought that Pete Carroll's gonna get another job
as a head coach, right he's seventy three. When when
you got fired, like, who's gonna hire him again? Who's
gonna have a big u a time of Hey, we're
gonna hit zero, hit the reset button and keep going right.
That's not Gonnappen's enough for Bill Belichick, who who is
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in his seventies. Is is Bill Belichier gonna get more
in two years if he stayed in the NFL? You
know all of these things. But for Pete Carroll to
get this job, I'm like, wow, Yes, it is part
of the news cycle where there's not a lot of
great candidates, and he's very fortunate because if there were
other better candidates out there, I'm sure Pete Carroll wouldn't
have been on a list. But hey, doesn't matter because
this is how it turned out, and him at seventy
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four getting a.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Head coaching job in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
That's a great story, man, And that's the part of
the story I dig the most.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yeah, I think for Pete Carroll, I mean we always
see the shots man. How many times do you see
the little reel of him running, you know, quarterback at
practice and winging the ball downfield. Still got the vibrancy
of a guy in his mid twenties running around and
talking about being in the college classroom as a professor
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that he's going to finish the semester and keep working.
And that is another job. Hey, extra jobs, extra income.
Got to keep those separate revenue streams as you go.
But one of the things from Pete was always that
he related back to players and what do they say,
keep working, keeps you young, keeps you moving. One of
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my you know, my dad's been retired a long long time.
We were all concerned as hell when he stopped being
on the you know, conveyor belt going from one job
to the next so we can go to the bougie
schools and and and have our shot on the South
side of Chicago. Uh that when he retired he wouldn't
know what to do with himself. He's been able to
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pass time for quite a while now, but that was
the fear for Pete Carroll. I mean, you want to
keep swimming, right. It's a shark. If he steps swimming,
you die.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
So you want to keep your mind act if you
want to be in the game. You got pursuits, and
you don't want to go out with a bad taste
in your mouth. And if you resurrect the Raiders to
at least some level of respectability, you're king. Now, it's
gonna be hard. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
The other three teams you're trying to get up pasted
or probably the you know they're.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
They're gonna end up. It's the toughest division, right, But
you get to go fight Harbaugh twice a year. Oh yeah, yeah,
Look I'm not sure, Peyton, get to exchange sharky retorts
and think about the commercials you can do with Andy
Reid and Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah no, look, I'm not saying it's not gonna be fun,
but let's just, you know, let let's temper expectation of
it and understand that, hey, you're trying to get over
a division which has, oh, by the way, the current
dynasty in the NFL and two teams that are tremendously
on the rise in the Chargers in the Broncos. Right,
so okay, understand that this is who you're trying to
get best. But this is a job he was offered,
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and you know, look, I'm so happy enough I'll even
go this far. I saw the rumors for uh Russell
Wilson today. Oh you know him and Pete have made
up yet, No, not happening. Not happening.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I don't buy it, but no, it's fun little subplol.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Well, they have to because people are gonna bet that
because they have the they have. Yeah, well that Vegas
has to put the If so many people are betting
on it and the odds are high, Vegas lose is huge.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
So when people.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Start betting, of course the odds on something like that
comes down just because if Vegas loses, they're not paying
out as much. Right, So everybody's all, let's connect the
dots with Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll. No, you know, honestly,
and look, you know, I'm not a big fan of his.
It's like I'm telling all kinds of truth. Like I
would go and get Sam Donald for a couple of
years if I find pek. Hey, let's let's start building
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from right here. You know, he's an exciting higher for
the fan base. He's you know, Sam Donald would be
an exciting get because yes, as much as Sam Donald's
bounced around the league, Hey, he's someone that is coming
off a Pro Bowl year, thirty five touchdowns, four thousand
plus yards. Hey, and you know, for all of what
Sam Donald can go, he needs to go to a
place where he knows he's gonna play, and if he
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stays in Minnesota, if it's suddenly we use the franchise
tag on him, how much is he really guaranteed to play?
Because the first two bad games he has back to
back guests. Who's coming in JJ mccon and you're coming
off the two bad games. He already had two bad games,
so well the end of the year. The rest of
the year didn't mean anything. There's already the conversation about
should they even keep him for next year? Who's the
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starting quarterback? All first fifteen weeks, for sixteen weeks were awesome,
but week seventeen and eighteen were bad. And now it's up.
This is Sam Darnold. We gotta go. He's got no
future in Minnesota. So if i'm that's where I go
it say, hey, let me go and see if we
can build things up here. It's an exciting hire coach,
be an exciting thing to do at quarterback.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Well, you've got your spytech as you your GM, you
bring in Pete Carroll. You're gonna want to run the football,
so you got to re redeploy that way. You've got Boers,
so young quarterback's best friend or you know, placeholder, quarterback's
best friend, the tight end. So so that works out. Well,
you got a couple of good pieces of defense. Hey,
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that looks a lot like a team he wants coached.
I can coach this team. Wait, I just channeled Dennis
Leary and Draft Day go.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Exit out about a Fresco.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Just gotta get a guy that's Vegas Royalty.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
That's all you need, is I mean, that's Wayne Newton
when you gotta get it Vegus Royalty coming up next.
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