December 2, 2022 • 36 mins
Jason and Mike recap Thursday Night Football and tell you how Stefon Diggs is one of the top wide receivers in the league. Mac Jones’ latest dismal performance should be enough proof for New England to move on. Plus, the guys discuss LeBron James being disappointed in the media about not asking him about Jerry Jones now infamous photo and much, much more!
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com the way tire buying should be well. Thursday Night
football goes to the Bills has expected two ten is
your final. Josh Allen throws a couple of touchdowns to
Fund catches a touchdown James Cook showing hey, I can
be a big weapon down the stretch over a hundred
total yards for him. The Patriots show up short offensively.
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We'll have more on them coming up in a couple
of minutes, but you know, a different kind of topic
to to dive into tonight coming off this game. And
you always spent a lot of time talking about Josh
Allen and and how you know, sometimes I watched him
lead to drive and I go, he's the best quarterback
I've ever seen. He's absolutely unstoppable. But something else has
kind of hit me when I've been thinking about this
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the last the last few weeks, is that tell Allan.
I actually ran that line today. I did that in
the stores and someone, the guy's name was Alan. He
came over when I was in the grocery store and
he came over to say something to the UH cashier
and he walked away, and I said, tell Alan, and
I mean and I said, now, I'm just kidding. I'm
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just just just kidding. Actually that today the face and
I waited for Alan to leave like he was the manager,
like came over because I could tell he was a
manager because he had a name tag and he had
a m a sleeveless sweater like on over a dress shirt.
So you know, like when you're dressed like that, you're
the manager. Right, Okay, you're learning the sleeveless sweater over
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a dress shirt you're the manager. You're trying. True. True,
but which again goes back to the manager coach. You
could have just been cold. Yeah, he wasn't. I couldn't
even worked there. He could have been called on a
relative basis. So he walked. I was like, and he
walked away, and I said, tell Alan. The guy looked
at Miss add nothing. Don't worry about it was uh is.
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Tonight the Bills had a very workman like victory. Right.
The Patriots had a touchdown early and it looked like
maybe they were gonna hang with Buffalo. But very slowly,
the Bills get out to a seventeen seven lead. They
hold onto it into the fourth quarter. They get up
seven and that's it for the Patriots. A night that
we're getting out of Stefon Diggs that has become the
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norm for him. Seven catches, ninety two yards and a
touched down, nine targets from Josh Allen. And if I
said this to you, Mike Harmon, just thinking about this
eiver on my team for a must win game. Any
current wide receiver, right, any guy playing now in the NFL,
not all time. If I could have one current wide
receiver play a game from my team that I absolutely
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have to win. It's a like it's win or go home.
It's either last week of the regular season, it's a
playoff game. If I could have any of the wide
receivers in the league, I would want ste Find Diggs.
I'd want Digs over Tyreek Hill. I'd want Digs over
Justin Jefferson. I want Digs over Davante Adam. What about
you know what I was gonna bring up, Keenan Keenan
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Allen four or five years ago. Yeah, Keenan Allen when
he's actually on the field. Yeah, I go with Keenan Allen.
I mean, maybe the answer is Garrett Wilson in a
couple of years. But right now, you see what I did?
You like what I mean? What about Cole Spider attack?
Spider attack? What about Garrett Morris? Oh? Mr, and Mrs Okay?
What about Jason Garrett? Okay, okay, what did you see
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that smile thing he did the other day? How no, wait, wait, wait,
you guys could do your Garretts and I give you
Mrs Garrett. You go, hey, you sn't know. I get
to say my Mrs Garrett. If you want Jason Garrett,
you want other Garretts you talking, you said, Mrs Carrott,
I said, Mrs You said Carrot Garrett. No, it's Mrs Garrett,
facts of life, Charlotte Ray. But this is Garrett, I said,
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different strokes and facts of life. Yeah, the hell of
a run right there. Yeah, it is a big run.
He showed up in a bunch of my Charlotte Ray
got there. Uh ke j you take the good, you
take the bad, you take them both them there you
have the Jets season so far. Uh Digs Just he
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has this quality about him in which when it's a
big situation for Buffalo, it's third and thirteen, it's second
and long, they're in a situation where it's the final
minute of the half, they need chunk yardage down the field,
the entire world knows the ball is going to Stefon Diggs, right,
And that's the case for a lot of wide receivers,
because the best wide receivers, you know the ball is
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likely gonna go to Justin Jefferson, it's gonna go to
Tyree Kill. But more so with the Bills, you know
the ball is going to Stefon Diggs, and he always
comes up with the catch, whether it's between two defenders,
whether it's on an out route and he gets out
of bounds, whether it's right in front of the defensive
back and he gets drilled in the ribs and he
still comes up with the catch. He dropped one pass tonight,
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and he sat there for like thirty seconds, going, I
just dropped a pass. How did I just drop I
can't believe I did. How did I drop a pass?
I mean that's Stefon Diggs. He is so clutch, and
I have such a belief that he's going to catch
every pass that they need to. In a big situation
coming his way, I will easily take him over all
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the other wide receivers. No slight to those guys, but
just give me Stefon Diggs over those guys for one game.
My team's gotta win one game, and I could pick
one wide receiver. I wants to find Diggs. Did you
bring this dicky tape? Because if you got the sticky tape,
then maybe Justin Jefferson wins out sticky tape. Now, I
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love the the fact that you have the trade. Uh,
Stevon Diggs goes to Buffalo for the twenty second pick,
and who did they get? Justin Jefferson, there's a victory.
Uh so, yeah, sticky tape, a little help from the defender,
maybe you take Jefferson. But yeah, I'm a Digg's guy,
always have been during his time in Minnesota. Any guy
that wins a game and decides he's coming deering somebody
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sharpie so we can sign a bunch of autographs on
the weight of the tunnel. It's my kind of guy
making the fans happy. Yeah. Look, he's he's just that good.
He's he's just that good. And his name doesn't get mention.
You talk about best wide receivers in the game, you're
Tyree Hill's name. Cooper Cup before injury, Cooper Cup catching
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a hundred and fifty passes a year, that would do that.
But you look at what Tyree kill has done being
able to transform that. Dolphins offense has tons of play makers,
but that's become high octane, best offense in the NFL. Yeah,
I get it. Justin Jefferson is gonna wind up with
the most catches in NFL history by the time his
career is said and done. He's that good. Davantae Adams
the last three years has been at worst the second
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best wide receiver in the game, and so you don't
get Stefon Diggs's name that much. He has to Diggs, Diggs, Dings,
but this is kind of who he is. This is
I mean, you're talking about a Bill's offense that, yes,
relies on Josh Allen, but has not had a ton
of other playmakers that you have to be scared of.
Dawson Knox had a nice year last year, but he's
just a guy this year. Al Right, Gave Davis is not.
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You think Gave Davis might be a really good wide
receiver at some point, but all right, he's definitely someone
who gives you average production. And Mackenzie he's been the
only guy you have no real rushing attack. You know,
it's very complimentary with Singletary and now maybe more with
James Cook after the big game he had tonight. So
you'd think that, Okay, look at this big, high powered offense,
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but it's really what Josh Allen does, and Josh Holli
is not running. I'm looking for us to fond Diggs.
So that that's a difficult thing to do because you
look at all these other offenses, they all have other
great players. Take the pressure off Jalen Waddle is pretty
bleep and good. Right, you got Dalvin Cook, Adam Feeling
has been good for a long time. Right. You have
those guys in those other places, you don't quite have
that in Buffalo. Yeah it, dude. The only guy that
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might trump all of them is to let old number
eighty seven come walking down to the ring, and Travis
Kelsey may trump them all. Um. But you know, if
we want to do the flex position of wide out
tight end now you want now you want to flex
out just to get Kelsey's name? Now, now I want
to make it a flex now, just saying if we're
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talking from a full on receiving position, you want to
talk about an unstoppable force when he's healthy. I mean
Frostburg's watched him. Am I wrong? Who did you worry
about more that gand No, dude, he's the new Antonio Gates.
Oh sorry, Frostburg, I'm sorry. It's all of famer Antonio Gates.
Do you soon enough? But I mean you look at
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over the last couple of years we talked about Cooper
Cups year in one or yea, it is the end
of uh. You go back to Michael Thomas had his
flash remember all the he couldn't drop anything, and he
had what a hundred fifty catches or thereabouts. Now he
can't stay healthy, can't stay on the field. We already
have Keenan Allen. You look at Allen Robinson in Chicago.
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Still was over a hundred receptions, still had a percentage
of completion to target that was ranked among the best
in the game. Touchdowns were down, but certainly you had
his numbers. DeAndre Hopkins for several years was in that conversation.
If you want to go back a bit, sure we
could bring him in. Calvin Ridley before he got himself suspended. Uh,
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was one of those guys that was starting to get
a lot of love. So I mean there there's certainly
some other players these last couple of years that may
have muted Diggs's greatness and impact and just made him
another name. But what we've seen over this last season
and a half or thereabouts is a guy that is
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a dominant force weekend week out Twitter and how about
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with my best friend Mike Harmon, and you know, now
for the for the Patriots, and we've talked about this
part of it for a little bit. But tonight you
saw a night where you needed to catch up to
the Bills, and you needed your offense to not quite
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take over the game, but at least be able to
show that you can go toe to toe for a
little while. And it's not that tonight was mac Jones's fault.
It's not that suddenly all back Jones through four pick
He didn't have a Zach Wilson type game. But if
you're the Patriots after a year and a half of
Mac Jones, is Mac Jones trending into being a player
that you're going to be able to rely on to
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be a superstar quarterback and lead you to the promised Land. No,
he's having a horrendous year this year. He's having a
very Zach Wilson like here this year. Yet still he
doesn't quite get the criticism. If you watch the game tonight,
you understand this is the night where the Patriots have
to say, Okay, in the off season, we gotta go
get a better quarterback. We have to get somebody who's
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more dynamic that can put more points on the board
because we're just extremely limited. And I know Belichick wants
to win games like it's where I'm gonna run the
football with Stevenson and Harris when he's healthy, and throw
the football a little bit to the seventeen tight ends.
I signed contracts too, and we're gonna play great defense.
Is to be just like winning with the Giants when
I was a defensive cordion for parcels. You can't do
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that now. You need a quarterback that's dynamic. And mac
Jones just isn't that guy. Is he someone that can
be acceptable if you have a thousand good weapons around him? Yeah,
but last year he was just a guy. He was
extremely overrated. He was a little bit better laster than
he was this year. This year he's regressed. Do you
really say, okay, No, next year's the the the bounce
back for mac Jones. No. Of course you need to
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go big game hunting in the off season, and Belichick
wants a mobile quarterback, and why not go big go
for guys that you know are not happy in their
situations with their teams. Lamar Jackson does not see eye
to eye with the Ravens, all right, Kyler Murray does
not see eye to eye with the Arizona Cardinals. If
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you want to you really feel like you want to
roll the dice. Hey, Denver, you want to get out
of Russell Wilson's deal. They need something. The Patriots needs
something if they're going to win, because what they put
out there tonight is not nearly good enough against Buffalo.
Because this is Buffalo's offense for the next five years.
The Jets are getting better. The Dolphins offense is even
better than Buffalo's. You're not gonna win like this. Tonight
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should have been that night where the Patriots said, Okay,
finally we know, hey, the Mac Jones era, it's gonna
play another couple of weeks that it's gonna close, and
we're gonna move on to another guy, a better guy,
that we're gonna make a trade for. We're gonna get
draft picks, gazing to revamp this team because they will
have a lot of money in the off season ready
to go. But this is the night where you said, okay,
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we go into the offseason, we need a new quarterback. Yeah.
I think when we look at Mac Jones and he
had his frustration something that video caught of him kind
of saying, why are we still running the ball? Blankety
blankety blank? Um? The way they were operating the offense,
and you saw him in fire drill mode a couple
of times with them crazy scrambles. One uh, he was
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evading sacks and eventually uh through a near interception along
the sidelines. Like all right, that was twenty seconds of
scrambling for that and that's where where you roll through. Uh.
Another time he needed six yards, he pulled up at
five with a slide that looked like he did one
of those Peter Griffin things do his shin where he
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was gonna lay around going but it gets back up
a score tonight? Yeah, is he? Is he what they anticipated?
The growth? No, outside looking in, I think we all
recognize is there was going to be potential for chaos
given the staff, and at times it looked like they
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were finding their way and others you're outmatched. I mean
you had a guy uh come out of out of
nowhere tonight and Marcus Jones he was plus a hundred
fifty to score a touchdown out of the planet Houston. Um,
and he's and he scored. Uh, So there you go. Um,
It's just one of those kind of crazy things as
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you flow through in a game. Right, Um, you know
you have Russell Wilson on your list. There's no way
I'm touching that. Brady. We talked about it last night
where it would make sense. Uh, you've got like minded
and they recognize where there were issues in the working
relationship right between Brady Belichick whatever. If they're men enough
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to push that aside, maybe Josh McDaniels, as we've kind
of joked the last couple of weeks, would be able
to shake himself free. All depends on how the Raiders
finished down the stretch here led by Josh Jacobs uh
and that run game. But yeah, cycling away from Mac
Jones is not an awful or difficult proposition based on
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where you're at now. You also have to do a
very deep dive in terms of the talent that you've
got run around catching passes. I like some of those
guys as two ways and threes. They're not ones, and
you're trying to make him be ones, right. DeVante Parker
is good in spots, he's not consistent. Jacoby Meyers a
nice possession guy, not a lot of big players. Romandre
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Stevenson out of the backfield has quitted himself nicely. Damian
Harris when healthy is still a good you know, power
back in between the tackles and around the goal line,
but you know, trying to find those explosive plays. Hunter
Henry appears and then he disappears as quickly as he
pops on the radar. So it's it's a difficult set
of skill position players built around a quarterback, and really, philosophically,
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what is your scheme? What are you trying to accomplish? Right,
there's very few offenses that we thirteen, you're gone. I
still don't really know what we're going for here, and
then you kick a field goal inside in two minutes
down as far there, you're down seventeen and you kick
a field goal. Now you're still down three. We wanted
to get it to two scores and get the two
on sidekicks. Yeah, that's that's what we wanted to do. Yeah,
with the long protracted drive that you know, we've really
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worked hard and we're now in striking distance to take
a shot at the inde. Now to how every first
responder will tell you, never try to beat a train
after breaking. It can take a mile for a train
to completely stop. So when you come to a rail
crossing stop because trains can't uh, so good luck New England.
I'm telling you Lamar Jackson might be available called Steve Bashani.
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Coming up next, Lebron James really wanted to be asked
a very specific question last night. Coming up next, we'll
tell you why he wasn't asked that at all. That's
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from the tire Act dot Com Studios. It was last night,
right after we got off the air. This happened Lebron
James giving his postgame press conference following the Lakers win.
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The big win last night for the Lakers, UH ended
a very odd place. He took a minute or two
to talk to the media and say that he was
disappointed that the media has not asked him his opinion
of the Jerry Jones photo that has been very controversial
over the course of the past few days. The picture
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that has come up and UH that was unearthed was
from ninety seven, uh in Little Rock, where Jerry Jones
looks like he's one of the people who is standing
outside a high school and stopping African American children from
going in and attending school there. Right, if you watch
Forrest Cump, you saw this scene, you know, play out,
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which people are referencing that on social media. So this
is something that's that was big time the United States.
Segregation was a big hot button. It's crazy than it was, right,
but it was. This was This is American nine seven
and Jerry Jones is there and he has spent the
last couple of days asked about that questions. I don't
know why I was there. I think I was just
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there for curiosity. But clearly he looks like he's one
of the people sitting there stopping uh, the African American
kids from going to school. We just know he's there, right, right,
He is there but deciding in that area, standing between
the kids in the school. Right. But we don't know
why he's there. But Jerry Jones has blown it off
and it's become a thing. And Lebron was upset because
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he makes a good point in that he says, Hey,
I don't know why I haven't been asked about that.
You asked me about Kyrie Irving and and my opinion
on him and stuff with with Kyrie liking a social
media post about an anti Semitic movie on Amazon. Why
don't you ask me about this? I feel like this
story has been blown over by the media at large.
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Why isn't this a bigger story? Uh? Well, the first
thing I'll tell you is is this is and and
the main reason that you haven't seen a lot of
uh coverage on this story is simply because this is
a picture that is sixty five years old, and you're
talking about something in America that, unfortunately, this is what
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we dealt with. This this was reality in America's Oh
my god, people standing in line to stop people from
coming to school. It's a picture that's sixty five years old.
So that's kind of why I I don't believe this
has been something that is hot. But this is not
something that happened last week. It's not a photo from
jaredy doesn't make it right or wrong. You're looking for
why this has been not reported as big upon as
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as it was when it came out is because a
sixty five year old picture. Now for what knee needs
to happen now from Jerry Jones, because Lebron brings up
a good point. Hey, why aren't we talking more, you know,
talking more about Jerry Jones. Here, Listen to Dak Prescott,
Cowboys quarterback who knows Jerry Jones, right, really knows Jerry
Jones pretty well. Listen to Dak Prescott explain his reaction
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to the photo and where it should go from here.
Take a listen, this is earlier today. Whether Lebron is
talking about the picture, I mean, I think that's that's
on Jerry to address, right, I mean in the same
sense it's sixty five years ago and how times have changed.
I mean, like the man's resume since then. Right, And
as I said, I give grace and um, I think
that's a conversation and question not only for him, but uh,
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for you guys, and how y'all feel, how accountable you
have been and covering and discussing, um, the disparages and
differences in race. Um. So as I said, I'm here
facing and trying to make this world a better place.
And that's who I am and at my core and
all I believe in, and um, yeah, unfortunate things come
up from the past pictures, and they show that, they
show how far we've come. But in the same sense,
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they're reminder of, um, how short of a time that
wasn't going the same sense, Um, it wasn't that long
ago that that we were all sitting on different sides,
and that we weren't together. But as I said, I
wouldn't be here if it was still that way. So
I believe in grace and change, and that those are
questions for Jerry and for y'all. Honestly that I don't
have quite the answers for that is some kind of
answer by Dak Prescott Man. I'll tell you enough great
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answers for things, for difficult questions to be asked. Here's
a question about your owner that another superstar athlete has
brought up. That is some kind of answer because he
has hit on everything regarding this picture. Right what he
said in his first fifteen seconds. You're just nodding your head, going, yes,
you're right, you're right, you're right, because he talked a
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lot about change, and has the world changed less sixty
five years, Yeah, it has. Have things gotten better? Yeah?
Have things gotten to the point where everything is all good? Oh? No,
there's still tons of work to do. As you've seen
in the last few years, we have a lot of
work to do. But the point is, and he brings
up the word growth, all right, and this is what
needs to happen now for this story. This is what
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I want to see now from this story, because that's
what I've wanted to see from Kyrie Irving. Right. All
I've said all along is just own it, Kyrie. And
and and if you're if you're gonna retweet stuff like this,
understand what you're doing. Show some growth. And that's what
I've wanted for Kyrie Irving in situations like this, that's
what you always want. You always want growth, right, Drew Brees,
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I wanted growth from Drew Brees when he had his
controversy from a year and a half ago. Uh, you
want growth. You want people to understand now I understand more.
That's all you want, because that's the only way forward
is if we understand and we grow. And that's what
Kyrie Irving has had to do. He had to go
through to show that he is growing. Hey, I'm doing X,
Y and Z to show that I understand what is
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happening and what my actions are doing. And how they
are hurtful to people, all of all of these things
Kyrie Irving is doing. So, you know what, I kind
of need that from Jerry Jones at this point, I
was really disappointed. He blew it off and said, oh,
I don't know why I was there. I'm sure I
was just there for curiosity's sake. I don't know, dude.
That's a pretty big thing either. There. I get it
with sixty five years ago, but why were you know?
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You got to talk about this a little bit, and
you gotta show me that you've grown. What have you
been doing. I know that my actions are have consequences,
and I'm responsible and I'm gonna start doing more. I'm
upset that I was here. I know this is a
bad look for me. This is not who I am
because this is what I have done. This is what
I am doing, X, Y and Z. Look at what
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I've done, look at how I will continue to grow
as a person. That's what I want from Jerry Jones.
He's got to own that what's going on with this
story and not just saying oh, yeah, I don't know
who know, it's a picture. I can't prove anything, right,
Don't sit there and look at and go, well, I'm there.
Does I'm not staring at the kids, and you know,
basically saying you try to come to the school, I'm
gonna fight you. No, I'm in the back, or it
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looks like I can just say that I'm I've been there. No, no, no,
don't don't give me that blowing it off, but you know,
own it, be responsible for it because Jerry Jones has
done a lot of great things. You know, Dak Prescott
talked about him without going into a lot of detail.
But this is where Jerry Jones has to answer and
show responsibility for this and show a way forward. Hey,
I understand the damage that this photo has done. I
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have talked to the team about it. I have addressed
all of our leaders and our captains. We have talked
about this. I am going to do this going forward
to make sure that that everybody understands. This is the
kind of person I am. This is what Jerry Jones
needs to do instead of saying, oh yeah, who knows
six whatever it is, let's just move on to something
else because I don't want to talk about this. No,
you gotta do a little bit better than that. Well,
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I think one of the things I remember here is
we are talking about a fourteen year old Jerry Jones.
And part of this in you know, the contrast to
Kaye Irving grown ass man works and operates in the
NBA and all of those. And I know people brought
up Kaepernick. They brought up Kaepernick related to asking Lebron
questions about it, as well as Jerry Jones and the
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idea of knee ling in his stance against it during
that time when that became the big hot button issue,
that became politicized on a whole other way and everybody
got away from what the original process was in it.
But at fourteen years old, you've fed a lot of
stuff through family members and people that are around you,
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and maybe your your clarity on issues isn't as good
as and legitimately he could have been there of hey,
we gotta go, and you followed with your friends and
you you are a lucky lou to see what happens
again doesn't excuse it, but it's it's a potential explanation
for it. Should Jones be more emphatic with what why?
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How does he necessarily remember why he went sixty five
years ago? I know it's a it's a big watershed
moment in the country as a whole, but as an
individual at that point. Again, fourteen year old kid, not
excusing it, just trying to go through the psychology of
what each was in there was, going through what they
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were thinking or not thinking altogether. Yeah. Look, no, you
make a great point, because just think about this. Like
my wife says this all the time. She's always says,
if social media existed when I was in high school,
I don't know if I could have gotten to college, right,
like because of the crazy stuff she did and and
and pictures it would have been out there from from her,
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like whatever it was, at parties, whatever it was. Just
if this got to someone who got I don't know
if I could have got to college. So, you know,
you do stupid things when when when you're a kid,
you do things you don't understand. You do things because
you're influenced by your parents or other people. No, I
understand that, and then that's part of what this is.
You're talking about a fourteen year old Jerry Jones. But
this is something that needs to be explained. This is
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not something Oh yeah, look at that. Okay, Yeah, no, dude,
this is not you at at a at a you know,
a drive in movie where uh, you know, there was
a big fight, and now where you saying, now, this
is something Okay, explain this a little bit and and
show me that, Look, this is not who I am.
This is what I've done. It's it's it's something that
you can't just blow off and go all right, No,
doesn't mean you're this person. But my point would be
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to what Doc was saying, It's like, you guys have
watched him in the public eye all these years. You've
you've seen what he does in the community, all of that,
I mean in his heart of hearts. People want to
question hiring practices and who had been his head coaches, coordinators, whatever.
I don't know what's in the man's heart in the
process of all of that, and neither does anybody else.
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But to just say, because these numbers aren't sufficient to
where you think they should be in terms of minority hires,
diverse hires, etcetera, I I can't speak to that in
terms of what what's in his heart, and him getting
to a microphone isn't gonna sell it one way or another.
You've got a guy who's eighty years old and has
been a public figure low these many years. You've got
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plenty of receipts all over the place for what you
need to get to. So getting in front of a
microphone on any of it, I don't think that it's
going to solve anything. I think you at what his
actions have been and if those are objectionable, and you
can say that, then then you work from there. But
going going forward, you know, yes, you have to be
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a good person, a charitable person, an inclusive person, all
those things that I think we should all be aspiring
to be. And I think that's the point from Dak
Prescott and earlier in the week when Tyler Adams was
asked about mispronouncing iran uh and then being asked about
race relations in the States and how he addressed the
question same vein of Look, we all need an understanding
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conversations and actions moving forward, Recognize the past, learn from it,
and push forward. So I I hear you on that,
and it is getting in front of the microphone going
to solve it all. It won't solve it all, but
it's worse if he doesn't, because then then you do,
then you're just up to Okay, he clearly doesn't want
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to address this any right, But people that don't want
to hear what he's to saying, Oh, he just got
in front of a microphone because people got mad at him,
so he can't we and he did address say and
he already said it, right, I mean, what more does
he have to comment on? What he said was I
don't remember why I was there. And that's all you're
gonna get from Jerry Jones. Jason, you're not getting anything
else from Jerry Jones. Yeah, you gotta give you a
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little bit more than that, though, man, than just I
don't remember. It's a pretty big deal where you're at.
It's a pretty big photograph where what what's what's going
on in this thing? And it's it's it's it's being responsible,
That's all it is. I mean, it's it's it's if
if we're if you're asking other people too, when situations
like this come up to show growth, show different thing.
I don't think it's too much to ask Jerry Jones, Hey,
let's address this. Let's let's talk about this a little bit,
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at least get some kind of it other than it
seems like you're backing away from it. That that's what.
But yeah, yeah, Are we gonna get something from him?
You know, hey, Lebron tried to I think he tried
to keep it going, but obviously this is where we
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Chargers are overrated. Okay, so that's the Twitter account, right,
That's why we're on Sunday Night all the time. Yeah,
you're only on that Sunday night because the Jet. They
wouldn't give up the Jets game. That's the only reason. Really.
The larger point, though, is that they're getting flexed into
every available prime time opportunity. Oh dude, the Chargers are fun, man,
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I mean, come on, it's a fun team to watch
win or lose. I mean, Herbert's a show. I mean,
it's it's awesome. NBC keeps this up, I'm gonna have
to get a restraining order. Uh So, while that's going
to be look big stuff. This weekend Tomorrow night, we
kick off the final weekend of regular season play in
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college football. Right, we have all the conference championship games,
and we're waiting to see what kind of chaos we
could get depending on how certain teams do. Right, Georgia
is still in the playoff even if they lose the
SEC title game, and likely the same for Michigan if
they lose to Perdue, they're gonna make it in because
you're talking about to one lost teams and have one
big games all year long. If TCU loses a Kansas
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State and if USC loses to Utah, because that could
open the door for either Alabama or Ohio State. Tomorrow
night's the pack twelveth championship game USC in Utah. They
played earlier this year. It's the only loss Utah won
by a point. And I'm telling you, Mike Us, it's
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one thing for it to say for a team like TCU, boy,
every week, something's gonna finally it's gonna catch up to them, right,
all the escapes, something's gonna catch up to them. But
I've seen USC lose big games like this plenty of times. Now.
Maybe last week was a watershed moment, you know, beating
u c l A because U c A had the
offense to do it. This week you're talking about Utah,
(32:38):
a team that's done it, a team with a great offense.
All you gotta do is stop USC a couple of times.
You know you have to worry about getting Turnover's gonna
get off, get them off the field, you talk, and
score is gonna be a ton of points in this game.
Give me Utah in the upset to really start chaos
going in the college football play I'll take Utah lad
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it was forty three forty two. I'll take give me
Utah seven in this game to knock the Trojans out
of the playoff. And then suddenly Alabama and Ohio State
are going, Hey man, one of us is gonna get in.
This is gonna be awesome. The over under in this
one is sixties seven. That's low. That's low, should be?
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Should be? Wait? Is that the first half over under?
Nicely done? Uh? You tonight in three seven and five
against the number USC of course eleven and one eight
and four against the number on the year through some
of the metrics seeing uh, the predictions taking this way over.
So you've got that rolling on as well as just
the good old fashioned eye test, as it were. But
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you stole my thunder. I was all over Utah to
win this game, and I'm not doing that, you know,
to try to smite my friends that are USC fans
and alums. It's just one of those gut field kind
of things. But it's been a great storybook run us
See and Lincoln Riley and what they've been able to
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put together and showing how the paradigm in college football
has shifted. So doing a lot of trends and line
spotting over the last couple of years of people like
to do right three years, sample size, five years, samp size.
You can't do it because the college football world has changed.
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It's a big gauntlet to ask USC to run u
c l a Notre Dame Pack twelve championship. That's a
rough way to end the season. Man. This is why
Michigan before the week before Ohio State's we're gonna play Rutgers, Right,
we're gonna play Maryland, We're gonna We're gonna play um.
That's a tough gauntlet to run. And USC's defense just
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has not been there at all. I mean all year long,
it's not been there. And eventually, when you live like that,
it's gonna come up and bite you. And Utah's got
the offense. They're the same team. They've lost a couple
more games, but they know how to beat USC. They
already did it this year, and so it's it's hard
for me to see another big escape because I've seen
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USC fall behind in the first half and then find
a way. Caleb Williams throws a couple of touchdowns and
suddenly they're winning. In the third quarter, fourth quarter, Utah
is too good. Utah gets out to a lead, it's
gonna be really tough for USC to overcome. And and
that's how I see the game going tomorrow. Utah is
gonna get out like fourteen three or something like that,
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and it's gonna be at or USC is gonna come back,
and then it's gonna be one six, one, thirteen, thirteen,
twenty thirty five, twenty thirty five, eight forty two ft
twenty there that that lead that Utah has is gonna
just continue on through the game. You're gonna wait for
USC to keep cutting into it and take the lead.
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That's not gonna happen. Just remember, in college football starts
at ten am. We got Akron Buffalo. Let's go are
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got the road Runners later on in the day. Let's
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We'll have more on them coming up in a couple
of minutes, but you know, a different kind of topic
to to dive into tonight coming off this game. And
you always spent a lot of time talking about Josh
Allen and and how you know, sometimes I watched him
lead to drive and I go, he's the best quarterback
I've ever seen. He's absolutely unstoppable. But something else has
kind of hit me when I've been thinking about this
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the last the last few weeks, is that tell Allan.
I actually ran that line today. I did that in
the stores and someone, the guy's name was Alan. He
came over when I was in the grocery store and
he came over to say something to the UH cashier
and he walked away, and I said, tell Alan, and
I mean and I said, now, I'm just kidding. I'm
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just just just kidding. Actually that today the face and
I waited for Alan to leave like he was the manager,
like came over because I could tell he was a
manager because he had a name tag and he had
a m a sleeveless sweater like on over a dress shirt.
So you know, like when you're dressed like that, you're
the manager. Right, Okay, you're learning the sleeveless sweater over
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a dress shirt you're the manager. You're trying. True. True,
but which again goes back to the manager coach. You
could have just been cold. Yeah, he wasn't. I couldn't
even worked there. He could have been called on a
relative basis. So he walked. I was like, and he
walked away, and I said, tell Alan. The guy looked
at Miss add nothing. Don't worry about it was uh is.
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Tonight the Bills had a very workman like victory. Right.
The Patriots had a touchdown early and it looked like
maybe they were gonna hang with Buffalo. But very slowly,
the Bills get out to a seventeen seven lead. They
hold onto it into the fourth quarter. They get up
seven and that's it for the Patriots. A night that
we're getting out of Stefon Diggs that has become the
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norm for him. Seven catches, ninety two yards and a
touched down, nine targets from Josh Allen. And if I
said this to you, Mike Harmon, just thinking about this
eiver on my team for a must win game. Any
current wide receiver, right, any guy playing now in the NFL,
not all time. If I could have one current wide
receiver play a game from my team that I absolutely
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have to win. It's a like it's win or go home.
It's either last week of the regular season, it's a
playoff game. If I could have any of the wide
receivers in the league, I would want ste Find Diggs.
I'd want Digs over Tyreek Hill. I'd want Digs over
Justin Jefferson. I want Digs over Davante Adam. What about
you know what I was gonna bring up, Keenan Keenan
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Allen four or five years ago. Yeah, Keenan Allen when
he's actually on the field. Yeah, I go with Keenan Allen.
I mean, maybe the answer is Garrett Wilson in a
couple of years. But right now, you see what I did?
You like what I mean? What about Cole Spider attack?
Spider attack? What about Garrett Morris? Oh? Mr, and Mrs Okay?
What about Jason Garrett? Okay, okay, what did you see
(04:03):
that smile thing he did the other day? How no, wait, wait, wait,
you guys could do your Garretts and I give you
Mrs Garrett. You go, hey, you sn't know. I get
to say my Mrs Garrett. If you want Jason Garrett,
you want other Garretts you talking, you said, Mrs Carrott,
I said, Mrs You said Carrot Garrett. No, it's Mrs Garrett,
facts of life, Charlotte Ray. But this is Garrett, I said,
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different strokes and facts of life. Yeah, the hell of
a run right there. Yeah, it is a big run.
He showed up in a bunch of my Charlotte Ray
got there. Uh ke j you take the good, you
take the bad, you take them both them there you
have the Jets season so far. Uh Digs Just he
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has this quality about him in which when it's a
big situation for Buffalo, it's third and thirteen, it's second
and long, they're in a situation where it's the final
minute of the half, they need chunk yardage down the field,
the entire world knows the ball is going to Stefon Diggs, right,
And that's the case for a lot of wide receivers,
because the best wide receivers, you know the ball is
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likely gonna go to Justin Jefferson, it's gonna go to
Tyree Kill. But more so with the Bills, you know
the ball is going to Stefon Diggs, and he always
comes up with the catch, whether it's between two defenders,
whether it's on an out route and he gets out
of bounds, whether it's right in front of the defensive
back and he gets drilled in the ribs and he
still comes up with the catch. He dropped one pass tonight,
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and he sat there for like thirty seconds, going, I
just dropped a pass. How did I just drop I
can't believe I did. How did I drop a pass?
I mean that's Stefon Diggs. He is so clutch, and
I have such a belief that he's going to catch
every pass that they need to. In a big situation
coming his way, I will easily take him over all
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the other wide receivers. No slight to those guys, but
just give me Stefon Diggs over those guys for one game.
My team's gotta win one game, and I could pick
one wide receiver. I wants to find Diggs. Did you
bring this dicky tape? Because if you got the sticky tape,
then maybe Justin Jefferson wins out sticky tape. Now, I
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love the the fact that you have the trade. Uh,
Stevon Diggs goes to Buffalo for the twenty second pick,
and who did they get? Justin Jefferson, there's a victory.
Uh so, yeah, sticky tape, a little help from the defender,
maybe you take Jefferson. But yeah, I'm a Digg's guy,
always have been during his time in Minnesota. Any guy
that wins a game and decides he's coming deering somebody
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sharpie so we can sign a bunch of autographs on
the weight of the tunnel. It's my kind of guy
making the fans happy. Yeah. Look, he's he's just that good.
He's he's just that good. And his name doesn't get mention.
You talk about best wide receivers in the game, you're
Tyree Hill's name. Cooper Cup before injury, Cooper Cup catching
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a hundred and fifty passes a year, that would do that.
But you look at what Tyree kill has done being
able to transform that. Dolphins offense has tons of play makers,
but that's become high octane, best offense in the NFL. Yeah,
I get it. Justin Jefferson is gonna wind up with
the most catches in NFL history by the time his
career is said and done. He's that good. Davantae Adams
the last three years has been at worst the second
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best wide receiver in the game, and so you don't
get Stefon Diggs's name that much. He has to Diggs, Diggs, Dings,
but this is kind of who he is. This is
I mean, you're talking about a Bill's offense that, yes,
relies on Josh Allen, but has not had a ton
of other playmakers that you have to be scared of.
Dawson Knox had a nice year last year, but he's
just a guy this year. Al Right, Gave Davis is not.
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You think Gave Davis might be a really good wide
receiver at some point, but all right, he's definitely someone
who gives you average production. And Mackenzie he's been the
only guy you have no real rushing attack. You know,
it's very complimentary with Singletary and now maybe more with
James Cook after the big game he had tonight. So
you'd think that, Okay, look at this big, high powered offense,
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but it's really what Josh Allen does, and Josh Holli
is not running. I'm looking for us to fond Diggs.
So that that's a difficult thing to do because you
look at all these other offenses, they all have other
great players. Take the pressure off Jalen Waddle is pretty
bleep and good. Right, you got Dalvin Cook, Adam Feeling
has been good for a long time. Right. You have
those guys in those other places, you don't quite have
that in Buffalo. Yeah it, dude. The only guy that
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might trump all of them is to let old number
eighty seven come walking down to the ring, and Travis
Kelsey may trump them all. Um. But you know, if
we want to do the flex position of wide out
tight end now you want now you want to flex
out just to get Kelsey's name? Now, now I want
to make it a flex now, just saying if we're
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talking from a full on receiving position, you want to
talk about an unstoppable force when he's healthy. I mean
Frostburg's watched him. Am I wrong? Who did you worry
about more that gand No, dude, he's the new Antonio Gates.
Oh sorry, Frostburg, I'm sorry. It's all of famer Antonio Gates.
Do you soon enough? But I mean you look at
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over the last couple of years we talked about Cooper
Cups year in one or yea, it is the end
of uh. You go back to Michael Thomas had his
flash remember all the he couldn't drop anything, and he
had what a hundred fifty catches or thereabouts. Now he
can't stay healthy, can't stay on the field. We already
have Keenan Allen. You look at Allen Robinson in Chicago.
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Still was over a hundred receptions, still had a percentage
of completion to target that was ranked among the best
in the game. Touchdowns were down, but certainly you had
his numbers. DeAndre Hopkins for several years was in that conversation.
If you want to go back a bit, sure we
could bring him in. Calvin Ridley before he got himself suspended. Uh,
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was one of those guys that was starting to get
a lot of love. So I mean there there's certainly
some other players these last couple of years that may
have muted Diggs's greatness and impact and just made him
another name. But what we've seen over this last season
and a half or thereabouts is a guy that is
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a dominant force weekend week out Twitter and how about
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with my best friend Mike Harmon, and you know, now
for the for the Patriots, and we've talked about this
part of it for a little bit. But tonight you
saw a night where you needed to catch up to
the Bills, and you needed your offense to not quite
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take over the game, but at least be able to
show that you can go toe to toe for a
little while. And it's not that tonight was mac Jones's fault.
It's not that suddenly all back Jones through four pick
He didn't have a Zach Wilson type game. But if
you're the Patriots after a year and a half of
Mac Jones, is Mac Jones trending into being a player
that you're going to be able to rely on to
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be a superstar quarterback and lead you to the promised Land. No,
he's having a horrendous year this year. He's having a
very Zach Wilson like here this year. Yet still he
doesn't quite get the criticism. If you watch the game tonight,
you understand this is the night where the Patriots have
to say, Okay, in the off season, we gotta go
get a better quarterback. We have to get somebody who's
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more dynamic that can put more points on the board
because we're just extremely limited. And I know Belichick wants
to win games like it's where I'm gonna run the
football with Stevenson and Harris when he's healthy, and throw
the football a little bit to the seventeen tight ends.
I signed contracts too, and we're gonna play great defense.
Is to be just like winning with the Giants when
I was a defensive cordion for parcels. You can't do
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that now. You need a quarterback that's dynamic. And mac
Jones just isn't that guy. Is he someone that can
be acceptable if you have a thousand good weapons around him? Yeah,
but last year he was just a guy. He was
extremely overrated. He was a little bit better laster than
he was this year. This year he's regressed. Do you
really say, okay, No, next year's the the the bounce
back for mac Jones. No. Of course you need to
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go big game hunting in the off season, and Belichick
wants a mobile quarterback, and why not go big go
for guys that you know are not happy in their
situations with their teams. Lamar Jackson does not see eye
to eye with the Ravens, all right, Kyler Murray does
not see eye to eye with the Arizona Cardinals. If
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you want to you really feel like you want to
roll the dice. Hey, Denver, you want to get out
of Russell Wilson's deal. They need something. The Patriots needs
something if they're going to win, because what they put
out there tonight is not nearly good enough against Buffalo.
Because this is Buffalo's offense for the next five years.
The Jets are getting better. The Dolphins offense is even
better than Buffalo's. You're not gonna win like this. Tonight
(12:40):
should have been that night where the Patriots said, Okay,
finally we know, hey, the Mac Jones era, it's gonna
play another couple of weeks that it's gonna close, and
we're gonna move on to another guy, a better guy,
that we're gonna make a trade for. We're gonna get
draft picks, gazing to revamp this team because they will
have a lot of money in the off season ready
to go. But this is the night where you said, okay,
(13:02):
we go into the offseason, we need a new quarterback. Yeah.
I think when we look at Mac Jones and he
had his frustration something that video caught of him kind
of saying, why are we still running the ball? Blankety
blankety blank? Um? The way they were operating the offense,
and you saw him in fire drill mode a couple
of times with them crazy scrambles. One uh, he was
(13:24):
evading sacks and eventually uh through a near interception along
the sidelines. Like all right, that was twenty seconds of
scrambling for that and that's where where you roll through. Uh.
Another time he needed six yards, he pulled up at
five with a slide that looked like he did one
of those Peter Griffin things do his shin where he
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was gonna lay around going but it gets back up
a score tonight? Yeah, is he? Is he what they anticipated?
The growth? No, outside looking in, I think we all
recognize is there was going to be potential for chaos
given the staff, and at times it looked like they
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were finding their way and others you're outmatched. I mean
you had a guy uh come out of out of
nowhere tonight and Marcus Jones he was plus a hundred
fifty to score a touchdown out of the planet Houston. Um,
and he's and he scored. Uh, So there you go. Um,
It's just one of those kind of crazy things as
(14:28):
you flow through in a game. Right, Um, you know
you have Russell Wilson on your list. There's no way
I'm touching that. Brady. We talked about it last night
where it would make sense. Uh, you've got like minded
and they recognize where there were issues in the working
relationship right between Brady Belichick whatever. If they're men enough
(14:48):
to push that aside, maybe Josh McDaniels, as we've kind
of joked the last couple of weeks, would be able
to shake himself free. All depends on how the Raiders
finished down the stretch here led by Josh Jacobs uh
and that run game. But yeah, cycling away from Mac
Jones is not an awful or difficult proposition based on
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where you're at now. You also have to do a
very deep dive in terms of the talent that you've
got run around catching passes. I like some of those
guys as two ways and threes. They're not ones, and
you're trying to make him be ones, right. DeVante Parker
is good in spots, he's not consistent. Jacoby Meyers a
nice possession guy, not a lot of big players. Romandre
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Stevenson out of the backfield has quitted himself nicely. Damian
Harris when healthy is still a good you know, power
back in between the tackles and around the goal line,
but you know, trying to find those explosive plays. Hunter
Henry appears and then he disappears as quickly as he
pops on the radar. So it's it's a difficult set
of skill position players built around a quarterback, and really, philosophically,
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what is your scheme? What are you trying to accomplish? Right,
there's very few offenses that we thirteen, you're gone. I
still don't really know what we're going for here, and
then you kick a field goal inside in two minutes
down as far there, you're down seventeen and you kick
a field goal. Now you're still down three. We wanted
to get it to two scores and get the two
on sidekicks. Yeah, that's that's what we wanted to do. Yeah,
with the long protracted drive that you know, we've really
(16:18):
worked hard and we're now in striking distance to take
a shot at the inde. Now to how every first
responder will tell you, never try to beat a train
after breaking. It can take a mile for a train
to completely stop. So when you come to a rail
crossing stop because trains can't uh, so good luck New England.
I'm telling you Lamar Jackson might be available called Steve Bashani.
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James giving his postgame press conference following the Lakers win.
(17:25):
The big win last night for the Lakers, UH ended
a very odd place. He took a minute or two
to talk to the media and say that he was
disappointed that the media has not asked him his opinion
of the Jerry Jones photo that has been very controversial
over the course of the past few days. The picture
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that has come up and UH that was unearthed was
from ninety seven, uh in Little Rock, where Jerry Jones
looks like he's one of the people who is standing
outside a high school and stopping African American children from
going in and attending school there. Right, if you watch
Forrest Cump, you saw this scene, you know, play out,
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which people are referencing that on social media. So this
is something that's that was big time the United States.
Segregation was a big hot button. It's crazy than it was, right,
but it was. This was This is American nine seven
and Jerry Jones is there and he has spent the
last couple of days asked about that questions. I don't
know why I was there. I think I was just
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there for curiosity. But clearly he looks like he's one
of the people sitting there stopping uh, the African American
kids from going to school. We just know he's there, right, right,
He is there but deciding in that area, standing between
the kids in the school. Right. But we don't know
why he's there. But Jerry Jones has blown it off
and it's become a thing. And Lebron was upset because
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he makes a good point in that he says, Hey,
I don't know why I haven't been asked about that.
You asked me about Kyrie Irving and and my opinion
on him and stuff with with Kyrie liking a social
media post about an anti Semitic movie on Amazon. Why
don't you ask me about this? I feel like this
story has been blown over by the media at large.
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Why isn't this a bigger story? Uh? Well, the first
thing I'll tell you is is this is and and
the main reason that you haven't seen a lot of
uh coverage on this story is simply because this is
a picture that is sixty five years old, and you're
talking about something in America that, unfortunately, this is what
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we dealt with. This this was reality in America's Oh
my god, people standing in line to stop people from
coming to school. It's a picture that's sixty five years old.
So that's kind of why I I don't believe this
has been something that is hot. But this is not
something that happened last week. It's not a photo from
jaredy doesn't make it right or wrong. You're looking for
why this has been not reported as big upon as
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as it was when it came out is because a
sixty five year old picture. Now for what knee needs
to happen now from Jerry Jones, because Lebron brings up
a good point. Hey, why aren't we talking more, you know,
talking more about Jerry Jones. Here, Listen to Dak Prescott,
Cowboys quarterback who knows Jerry Jones, right, really knows Jerry
Jones pretty well. Listen to Dak Prescott explain his reaction
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to the photo and where it should go from here.
Take a listen, this is earlier today. Whether Lebron is
talking about the picture, I mean, I think that's that's
on Jerry to address, right, I mean in the same
sense it's sixty five years ago and how times have changed.
I mean, like the man's resume since then. Right, And
as I said, I give grace and um, I think
that's a conversation and question not only for him, but uh,
(20:40):
for you guys, and how y'all feel, how accountable you
have been and covering and discussing, um, the disparages and
differences in race. Um. So as I said, I'm here
facing and trying to make this world a better place.
And that's who I am and at my core and
all I believe in, and um, yeah, unfortunate things come
up from the past pictures, and they show that, they
show how far we've come. But in the same sense,
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they're reminder of, um, how short of a time that
wasn't going the same sense, Um, it wasn't that long
ago that that we were all sitting on different sides,
and that we weren't together. But as I said, I
wouldn't be here if it was still that way. So
I believe in grace and change, and that those are
questions for Jerry and for y'all. Honestly that I don't
have quite the answers for that is some kind of
answer by Dak Prescott Man. I'll tell you enough great
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answers for things, for difficult questions to be asked. Here's
a question about your owner that another superstar athlete has
brought up. That is some kind of answer because he
has hit on everything regarding this picture. Right what he
said in his first fifteen seconds. You're just nodding your head, going, yes,
you're right, you're right, you're right, because he talked a
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lot about change, and has the world changed less sixty
five years, Yeah, it has. Have things gotten better? Yeah?
Have things gotten to the point where everything is all good? Oh? No,
there's still tons of work to do. As you've seen
in the last few years, we have a lot of
work to do. But the point is, and he brings
up the word growth, all right, and this is what
needs to happen now for this story. This is what
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I want to see now from this story, because that's
what I've wanted to see from Kyrie Irving. Right. All
I've said all along is just own it, Kyrie. And
and and if you're if you're gonna retweet stuff like this,
understand what you're doing. Show some growth. And that's what
I've wanted for Kyrie Irving in situations like this, that's
what you always want. You always want growth, right, Drew Brees,
(22:29):
I wanted growth from Drew Brees when he had his
controversy from a year and a half ago. Uh, you
want growth. You want people to understand now I understand more.
That's all you want, because that's the only way forward
is if we understand and we grow. And that's what
Kyrie Irving has had to do. He had to go
through to show that he is growing. Hey, I'm doing X,
Y and Z to show that I understand what is
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happening and what my actions are doing. And how they
are hurtful to people, all of all of these things
Kyrie Irving is doing. So, you know what, I kind
of need that from Jerry Jones at this point, I
was really disappointed. He blew it off and said, oh,
I don't know why I was there. I'm sure I
was just there for curiosity's sake. I don't know, dude.
That's a pretty big thing either. There. I get it
with sixty five years ago, but why were you know?
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You got to talk about this a little bit, and
you gotta show me that you've grown. What have you
been doing. I know that my actions are have consequences,
and I'm responsible and I'm gonna start doing more. I'm
upset that I was here. I know this is a
bad look for me. This is not who I am
because this is what I have done. This is what
I am doing, X, Y and Z. Look at what
(23:32):
I've done, look at how I will continue to grow
as a person. That's what I want from Jerry Jones.
He's got to own that what's going on with this
story and not just saying oh, yeah, I don't know
who know, it's a picture. I can't prove anything, right,
Don't sit there and look at and go, well, I'm there.
Does I'm not staring at the kids, and you know,
basically saying you try to come to the school, I'm
gonna fight you. No, I'm in the back, or it
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looks like I can just say that I'm I've been there. No, no, no,
don't don't give me that blowing it off, but you know,
own it, be responsible for it because Jerry Jones has
done a lot of great things. You know, Dak Prescott
talked about him without going into a lot of detail.
But this is where Jerry Jones has to answer and
show responsibility for this and show a way forward. Hey,
I understand the damage that this photo has done. I
(24:15):
have talked to the team about it. I have addressed
all of our leaders and our captains. We have talked
about this. I am going to do this going forward
to make sure that that everybody understands. This is the
kind of person I am. This is what Jerry Jones
needs to do instead of saying, oh yeah, who knows
six whatever it is, let's just move on to something
else because I don't want to talk about this. No,
you gotta do a little bit better than that. Well,
(24:37):
I think one of the things I remember here is
we are talking about a fourteen year old Jerry Jones.
And part of this in you know, the contrast to
Kaye Irving grown ass man works and operates in the
NBA and all of those. And I know people brought
up Kaepernick. They brought up Kaepernick related to asking Lebron
questions about it, as well as Jerry Jones and the
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idea of knee ling in his stance against it during
that time when that became the big hot button issue,
that became politicized on a whole other way and everybody
got away from what the original process was in it.
But at fourteen years old, you've fed a lot of
stuff through family members and people that are around you,
(25:20):
and maybe your your clarity on issues isn't as good
as and legitimately he could have been there of hey,
we gotta go, and you followed with your friends and
you you are a lucky lou to see what happens
again doesn't excuse it, but it's it's a potential explanation
for it. Should Jones be more emphatic with what why?
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How does he necessarily remember why he went sixty five
years ago? I know it's a it's a big watershed
moment in the country as a whole, but as an
individual at that point. Again, fourteen year old kid, not
excusing it, just trying to go through the psychology of
what each was in there was, going through what they
(26:02):
were thinking or not thinking altogether. Yeah. Look, no, you
make a great point, because just think about this. Like
my wife says this all the time. She's always says,
if social media existed when I was in high school,
I don't know if I could have gotten to college, right,
like because of the crazy stuff she did and and
and pictures it would have been out there from from her,
(26:22):
like whatever it was, at parties, whatever it was. Just
if this got to someone who got I don't know
if I could have got to college. So, you know,
you do stupid things when when when you're a kid,
you do things you don't understand. You do things because
you're influenced by your parents or other people. No, I
understand that, and then that's part of what this is.
You're talking about a fourteen year old Jerry Jones. But
this is something that needs to be explained. This is
(26:42):
not something Oh yeah, look at that. Okay, Yeah, no, dude,
this is not you at at a at a you know,
a drive in movie where uh, you know, there was
a big fight, and now where you saying, now, this
is something Okay, explain this a little bit and and
show me that, Look, this is not who I am.
This is what I've done. It's it's it's something that
you can't just blow off and go all right, No,
doesn't mean you're this person. But my point would be
(27:07):
to what Doc was saying, It's like, you guys have
watched him in the public eye all these years. You've
you've seen what he does in the community, all of that,
I mean in his heart of hearts. People want to
question hiring practices and who had been his head coaches, coordinators, whatever.
I don't know what's in the man's heart in the
process of all of that, and neither does anybody else.
(27:27):
But to just say, because these numbers aren't sufficient to
where you think they should be in terms of minority hires,
diverse hires, etcetera, I I can't speak to that in
terms of what what's in his heart, and him getting
to a microphone isn't gonna sell it one way or another.
You've got a guy who's eighty years old and has
been a public figure low these many years. You've got
(27:50):
plenty of receipts all over the place for what you
need to get to. So getting in front of a
microphone on any of it, I don't think that it's
going to solve anything. I think you at what his
actions have been and if those are objectionable, and you
can say that, then then you work from there. But
going going forward, you know, yes, you have to be
(28:13):
a good person, a charitable person, an inclusive person, all
those things that I think we should all be aspiring
to be. And I think that's the point from Dak
Prescott and earlier in the week when Tyler Adams was
asked about mispronouncing iran uh and then being asked about
race relations in the States and how he addressed the
question same vein of Look, we all need an understanding
(28:36):
conversations and actions moving forward, Recognize the past, learn from it,
and push forward. So I I hear you on that,
and it is getting in front of the microphone going
to solve it all. It won't solve it all, but
it's worse if he doesn't, because then then you do,
then you're just up to Okay, he clearly doesn't want
(28:57):
to address this any right, But people that don't want
to hear what he's to saying, Oh, he just got
in front of a microphone because people got mad at him,
so he can't we and he did address say and
he already said it, right, I mean, what more does
he have to comment on? What he said was I
don't remember why I was there. And that's all you're
gonna get from Jerry Jones. Jason, you're not getting anything
else from Jerry Jones. Yeah, you gotta give you a
(29:17):
little bit more than that, though, man, than just I
don't remember. It's a pretty big deal where you're at.
It's a pretty big photograph where what what's what's going
on in this thing? And it's it's it's it's being responsible,
That's all it is. I mean, it's it's it's if
if we're if you're asking other people too, when situations
like this come up to show growth, show different thing.
I don't think it's too much to ask Jerry Jones, Hey,
let's address this. Let's let's talk about this a little bit,
(29:39):
at least get some kind of it other than it
seems like you're backing away from it. That that's what.
But yeah, yeah, Are we gonna get something from him?
You know, hey, Lebron tried to I think he tried
to keep it going, but obviously this is where we
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Chargers are overrated. Okay, so that's the Twitter account, right,
That's why we're on Sunday Night all the time. Yeah,
you're only on that Sunday night because the Jet. They
wouldn't give up the Jets game. That's the only reason. Really.
The larger point, though, is that they're getting flexed into
every available prime time opportunity. Oh dude, the Chargers are fun, man,
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I mean, come on, it's a fun team to watch
win or lose. I mean, Herbert's a show. I mean,
it's it's awesome. NBC keeps this up, I'm gonna have
to get a restraining order. Uh So, while that's going
to be look big stuff. This weekend Tomorrow night, we
kick off the final weekend of regular season play in
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college football. Right, we have all the conference championship games,
and we're waiting to see what kind of chaos we
could get depending on how certain teams do. Right, Georgia
is still in the playoff even if they lose the
SEC title game, and likely the same for Michigan if
they lose to Perdue, they're gonna make it in because
you're talking about to one lost teams and have one
big games all year long. If TCU loses a Kansas
(31:56):
State and if USC loses to Utah, because that could
open the door for either Alabama or Ohio State. Tomorrow
night's the pack twelveth championship game USC in Utah. They
played earlier this year. It's the only loss Utah won
by a point. And I'm telling you, Mike Us, it's
(32:16):
one thing for it to say for a team like TCU, boy,
every week, something's gonna finally it's gonna catch up to them, right,
all the escapes, something's gonna catch up to them. But
I've seen USC lose big games like this plenty of times. Now.
Maybe last week was a watershed moment, you know, beating
u c l A because U c A had the
offense to do it. This week you're talking about Utah,
(32:38):
a team that's done it, a team with a great offense.
All you gotta do is stop USC a couple of times.
You know you have to worry about getting Turnover's gonna
get off, get them off the field, you talk, and
score is gonna be a ton of points in this game.
Give me Utah in the upset to really start chaos
going in the college football play I'll take Utah lad
(33:01):
it was forty three forty two. I'll take give me
Utah seven in this game to knock the Trojans out
of the playoff. And then suddenly Alabama and Ohio State
are going, Hey man, one of us is gonna get in.
This is gonna be awesome. The over under in this
one is sixties seven. That's low. That's low, should be?
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Should be? Wait? Is that the first half over under?
Nicely done? Uh? You tonight in three seven and five
against the number USC of course eleven and one eight
and four against the number on the year through some
of the metrics seeing uh, the predictions taking this way over.
So you've got that rolling on as well as just
the good old fashioned eye test, as it were. But
(33:44):
you stole my thunder. I was all over Utah to
win this game, and I'm not doing that, you know,
to try to smite my friends that are USC fans
and alums. It's just one of those gut field kind
of things. But it's been a great storybook run us
See and Lincoln Riley and what they've been able to
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put together and showing how the paradigm in college football
has shifted. So doing a lot of trends and line
spotting over the last couple of years of people like
to do right three years, sample size, five years, samp size.
You can't do it because the college football world has changed.
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It's a big gauntlet to ask USC to run u
c l a Notre Dame Pack twelve championship. That's a
rough way to end the season. Man. This is why
Michigan before the week before Ohio State's we're gonna play Rutgers, Right,
we're gonna play Maryland, We're gonna We're gonna play um.
That's a tough gauntlet to run. And USC's defense just
(34:48):
has not been there at all. I mean all year long,
it's not been there. And eventually, when you live like that,
it's gonna come up and bite you. And Utah's got
the offense. They're the same team. They've lost a couple
more games, but they know how to beat USC. They
already did it this year, and so it's it's hard
for me to see another big escape because I've seen
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USC fall behind in the first half and then find
a way. Caleb Williams throws a couple of touchdowns and
suddenly they're winning. In the third quarter, fourth quarter, Utah
is too good. Utah gets out to a lead, it's
gonna be really tough for USC to overcome. And and
that's how I see the game going tomorrow. Utah is
gonna get out like fourteen three or something like that,
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and it's gonna be at or USC is gonna come back,
and then it's gonna be one six, one, thirteen, thirteen,
twenty thirty five, twenty thirty five, eight forty two ft
twenty there that that lead that Utah has is gonna
just continue on through the game. You're gonna wait for
USC to keep cutting into it and take the lead.
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That's not gonna happen. Just remember, in college football starts
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