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September 5, 2025 41 mins

Dan breaks down the NFL opening tilt between the Cowboys and Eagles, and why the loss isn’t as bad as it looks for Dallas to start the year. Plus, Dan and callers weigh in on Eagles defender Jalen Carter spitting on Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and getting ejected from the game.

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Speaker 2 (00:04):
We did it.

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We made it to a Friday football coming up tonight.
Last night, if I would have said these things are
going to happen, you would probably said, wait, this guy
gets injured on the first play of the game. Then
their star defensive player ends up getting tossed for spitting
on the quarterback, and the Cowboys look great Ceedee Lamb
looks great in the first half, bad in the second half.

(00:28):
Cowboys have a chance to win this game. Jalen Hurts
was the best player on the field. And then there's lightning,
and then there's an hour long delay and somehow the
Eagles held on. All of those things happened last night.
A lot of things in between we'll discuss. But it's
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There was a lot to take in last night. I
thought that the Cowboys would keep it close. I thought

(01:52):
it was going to be a three point game. Ended
up before point game, and Dallas probably should have won
that game because if you look at the first half,
back and forth and Dallas was kind of holding its
own no Jalen Carter, they took advantage of that. Ceedee
Lamb looked great. You know, it's probably hard to say this,
but it's true. Ceedee Lamb had seven catches for one

(02:15):
hundred and ten yards and didn't have a good game
because in the second half he cost them dearly and
coming into this season, he has had four career games
with three or more drops. That's more than any player
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This is one of those games that if you put
it in a time capsule and people go, how good
was Jalen Hurts? Now aside from the Super Bowls? But
if you said just a regular season game, let me
see something, let me see why he's the top five
quarterback have been the game last night because Saquon Barkley

(03:03):
was good, AJ Brown non existent. DeVante Smith had a
couple of catches in there. But if I combine all
their yards, I don't even think they have one hundred
yards total. That was Jalen Hurts. So you have your
best defensive player who's out and he seemed to take
over the moment. He did the right thing at the
right time. First in completion was in the second quarter.

(03:27):
He played great, and he took advantage of the middle
of the field when he was running when he was
back to pass and then decided to get out of
the pocket and ran for a couple of touchdowns. That
was all Jalen Hurts last night the best player on
the field, and he's now I know his odds to

(03:47):
win the MVP. I don't even think he's a top
five MVP candidate because he's not going to put up
incredible numbers. This is a guy who played quarterback last night.
This wasn't a guy who was passing. He was quarterback
last night. And this goes with game managing, which I
know that there are quarterbacks who think that, you know,

(04:07):
this is a disparaging remark, and it's not. It's understanding
what you need to do, and he did it. If
I said game master instead of game manager, is that better?

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Because that's what this is.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
To me.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
That was old school football of I don't care what
my numbers are. We're going to win. And he proved
that whatever you needed him to do last night, he did,
and that's what you want out of your quarterback. Now
I've said on record, I didn't think he was a
great quarterback. I just think he's great for that team,
and we're going to hold it against him that he's

(04:42):
got maybe the best front office in football. And you
got Saquon there, you got an incredible offensive line, you
got two good receivers, a good tight end, and it's
almost like, yeah, well, Jalen Hurts kind of had a
head start here. He's got a lot of talent around him.
So did Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, the best coach in the NFL,

(05:05):
A great GM Hall of Fame tight end, Tyreek Kill.
You had, you know, good offensive line, and like he
had a had start too. I just I think we
grade Jalen Hurts on a curve that somehow Yeah, but yeah,
but watched last night. Yeah, but last night he did

(05:25):
what you want your quarterback to do, and it was
wonderful to watch. Brilliant, surgical, Yes, Marvin.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
I think the main reason why it's going to be
so tough to him for him to win League MVP
is because he's going to get dinged for his team
being so good, because somebody's gonna say, oh, if I
had that team, of course, I'd throw thirty touchdowns in
rush for ten touchdowns two.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
I don't know if we hold him to the same standards,
or maybe we hold him to a higher standard than
we do other players. You know, Josh Allen. We don't
talk about anybody around Josh Allen. It's just Josh Allen
being Josh Allen. Lamar Jackson now has Derrick Henry and
he's won two MVPs. But you start, you know Joe Burrow,

(06:10):
well he doesn't have a defense. Well he does have
maybe the best wide receiving cores in the NFL. But
we look at Jalen Hurts differently because this is a
stats driven league, stats driven award, and it's ought to
say that Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen
didn't have wonderful years. I'm just talking about value, and

(06:31):
I think you could say this with all sincerity. You
get to the playoffs. Give me, how many quarterbacks would
you take over Jalen Hurts in the playoffs? Okay, because
that's where I see real value. Regular season, Okay, Lamar
is gonna be great, Josh Allen's gonna be great, Joe
Burrow's going to be great. How many of those quarterbacks

(06:53):
are you taking over Jalen Hurts. You're gonna take Mahomes.
I might take Josh Allen. Josh Allen's been a good
performer in the postseason. He hasn't been able to get
by Kansas City. We've seen Joe Burrow make a run
Lamar Jackson. I'm not taking Lamar Jackson over him. Run

(07:14):
down the list of other quarterbacks there, I'm probably going
to have Mahomes and then Jalen Hurts, Jayden Daniels hadn't
shown me enough yet.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
C J.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Stroud hadn't shown me enough yet. I mean, this is
a guy who out played Mahomes in two Super Bowls.
He won one, but he outplayed him. He could have
two super Bowls, two MVPs. If you look at what
he did in those Super Bowls. I know it's high praise, hyperbole,
probably overreaction, but I did see it almost felt like

(07:47):
the game was slowing down for him. He just saw
everything in a different way. And sometimes it, you know,
crystallizes with quarterbacks. You know, your first year or second
or third or fourth. But if you look and Chris
Collinsworth brought this up, the guy plays for championships, whether
it's you know, college or the NFL. He's in championship

(08:09):
moments there and it didn't seem too big last night.
And his demeanor doesn't change. He is pretty cool and
it was on display last night. Now the headlines will
be what happened to start the game when Jalen Carter
spit on Dak Prescott, and I you know, you got
to have context with this. Now it doesn't I'm not

(08:30):
exonerating Jalen Carter in the moment. I didn't have any context.
Nobody did because I didn't know that Dak Prescott was
spitting when he was in the huddle. You know, they're
waiting for the you know, the official has to say,
all right, you can break the huddle. Now we can
get started, and Jalen Carter is probably five feet away
maybe from Dak Prescott, and maybe his interpretation was, wait

(08:55):
a minutes, he's spitting an hour direction, and then Jalen
Carter comes over and then all of a sudden, you
see him spit on Dak Prescott.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (09:04):
The thing that does make that a little funny is
they're clearly drawing at each other, I think, because Jalen
Carter is all by himself waiting there, and Dak walks
four or five yards in order to spit between those
two his two teammates. Yeah, so it's not like he
was just standing there and spit. Dak walks almost five

(09:24):
full yards. That's further than you think in order to
spit between those guys when he could have just spit
right at his own feet. Instead, he walked and approached him.
That some of the video does start to make it
look like there was a lot more going on there.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
Here is Dak talking about this spitting incident.

Speaker 8 (09:39):
I was right here by the two linemen, and I
guess I needed to spit, and I wouldn't go to
spind on my liman and I just spit a head.
But I would say he was back there where Joelry
was in that sense, and he asked, or he goes,
you're trying to spin on me? And at that point,
I mean, I felt like like like he was insulting me,
like I don't I wouldn't spin on somebody. I'm damn,
su You're not trying to spin on you like we're
about to play a game. I'm I was wondering why

(10:00):
you're trying to mess with the rook gets. When I
stepped through, I actually say the words like what the
hell would I excuse me? But I'm probably even more colorful,
what would I need to spend on you for? And
he just spent on me in that moment and was
more of a surprise than anything. Refs obviously saw it
through the flag. I was like, hell yeah, we get
fifteen yards to start the game off and the ref
is right there. Really easy call. I mean Dak kind

(10:22):
of goes, uh, hello, he just spent on me. Here's
Jalen Carter talking about his side of the story.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
You know it was a mistate.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
I happened on my on my side.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
You know, he just won't happen the game.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
I feel bad for just my teammates and the fans
out there.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
You know, I'm doing it for them.

Speaker 6 (10:40):
You know, I'm done for my family also, but depends.
You know, they so the most love.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
You heard them my day, you know, just not being
able to finish the start the game, even in defend
as the game is just this.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
You don't getting better. I won't happen a gag. Okay.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
The NFL has placed a large emphasis this year and
that this was a topic in the offseason with teams
and players respect for the opponent. That's a big factor.
Ross Tucker, who was doing the game on Westwood One,
talked about that as well. It's a really really big
point of emphasis. So the next question will be will

(11:17):
Jalen Carter be suspended? And I think I think given
the context of this, now, once again he got suspended
for the entire game, and I think the league may
factor that in now do they find him. I would
be surprised if they suspend him for another game. If
he did this in the second half of the game

(11:38):
last night, then maybe he would be suspended for the
following game. But he got suspended now. In my opinion,
it might be a fine, but I would be surprised
if they're going to suspend him again. Doesn't exonerate him
for what he did. I understand what he's doing in
the moment, and it wants got to give these things

(12:00):
context because obviously you see at the moment and I'm going,
why would he spit on him? To start this season?
And once again, these guys are hyped up. They've been
in the locker room, they're ready to go. It's opening night,
Banner night playing the Cowboys, ready to go? Wait are
you spitting at me? And then he approaches Dak and

(12:21):
then all of a sudden, he gets tossed. What a
wild start to the game. Wild start?

Speaker 9 (12:27):
Yeah, point, I'd barely even settle down. I don't relieven
have the sound up, and I see a flag going
the air. I'm like, did they run a play? And
it was like that scene in Slapshot, the hockey movie
where the guy punches the other guy during the national anthemic?
How is the flag going on? Before the game started?

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Philadelphia is lucky to get a win, really lucky. Now,
I always look at these losses at the beginning of
the year. We tend to look at losses at the
end of the year. Remember what I said on that
Monday morning when the Bengals lost to the Patriots. I said,
that's the kind of loss that comes back and keeps

(13:05):
you out of the playoffs. And that's exactly what happened.
You're gonna have sloppy football this week and probably next
week because most of these players haven't played, and if
they have, it's just a little bit. And last night
was kind of sloppy, or as Paul he would say, choppy.
But I thought Dallas did enough to win that game.
I just didn't understand why there wasn't And I'm sure

(13:28):
Dallas had a spy on Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
He didn't do it.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
I mean, he wasn't James Bond. I mean, he didn't
do a very good job. He was really good at
hiding the fact that he was the spy on Jalen
Hurts because Jalen Hurts felt like he had room to
run and this wasn't a toush push. He was able
to score legitimate touchdowns. But Saquon he played okay. Aj

(13:54):
Brown had a couple of targets, DeVante Smith Scoddard had
some catches there. But this was one of those games
where if I'm Dallas and Brian Schottenheimer, that's his first
NFL game as a head coach, and I thought he
did a pretty good job. I thought they made enough
plays to win that game, and that's one of those

(14:17):
if they had stolen that game, man, what would we
be talking about?

Speaker 7 (14:22):
Yeah, set last night watching the Eagles, it was kind
of like a perfect example to me of why you
need name brand players at skill position at the skill
positions because you can't. Saquon Barkley is a name brand, right,
and he's a guy I thought he looked great.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
Right.

Speaker 7 (14:41):
You have two superstar caliber wide receivers you can't and
then plus you have Jalen Hurtz who was killing him
last night. How are you going to cover everybody? You
kind of can't that's to me. It was like the
ultimate view again into like this is why you pay people,
this is why you have stars at those positions.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
We'll get to phone calls, we'll settle on a poll question.
All of that forthcoming South palm Antonio. He was there
last night in Philadelphia. He'll join us, and the NFL
Network analyst Steve Smith Senior will join us a little
bit later on as well, just settling in on this
meet Friday.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Will take a break. We're back after this Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 4 (16:00):
You too need to stop Okay, which too?

Speaker 3 (16:03):
You and Fritzy need to stop complaining there's too much football.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
Oh I don't know if I can watch another game tonight. Really,
we have to pace ourselves a little bit. We just
had a game a couple of days we got there's
gonna be.

Speaker 11 (16:16):
So many months of games and staying up late and
for primetime East Coast.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Okay, you don't have to, Yes, you don't. I mean
I'll watch, Marvin'll watch, Seaton'll watch. Other people watch for you.
You don't want to miss anything, I know. But oh
but when I hear you and Paula going, I don't know,
it's just too much football, I go, Oh, It's like
can there ever be too much pizza?

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Too much beer.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
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(17:03):
game and he had a rapid radio so we could
stay in touch with him. I did watch the game
last night here, at least up until the lightning. Marvin
was here, Paul did a cameo, and Shay and Irving
we sat down and we watched the game and we
put some clips up there. I can't trust Shay, I

(17:24):
can't trust what he's going to say, so we couldn't
do it live, but we did put up some It
was fun and that was at danpatrick dot com. But
we watched I don't known til around ten thirty or
so until the lightning, and I thought, all right, this
is a good time to say goodbye. And Shay was
in a decent mood because the Cowboys they were maybe

(17:46):
trailing by one or it was close, and he felt
pretty good, like almost a moral victory. But yeah, he
had his moments where and I think he's going to
call in, but he had his moments. Now you're not
drinking anymore, not doing anything anymore. He had a cigar
and he had a diet soda. Also, we had hot
dogs at nine forty last night. I'm going I got

(18:08):
my Great Cigar, some tequila and then Big Day Ray,
he is our producer on the gambling podcast. Big Day
Ray came out with hot dogs and we had some
of the Grippo's potato chips last night.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
It's like, what a mess. You know, you look back,
I came in today.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
You know, when you have a party and then you
don't realize what the party looked like or felt like,
and then you see the leftovers, the mess, and then
you go, damn, somebody had a good time last night,
and it was we're gonna do it again? I think
Nick Wright. Nick Wright facetimed me and he said, hey,
why didn't you invite me? And I go next time?

(18:49):
Maybe at the end of the month when the Packers
played the Cowboys. That's a Sunday night game, and maybe
we'll have a viewing party. But everybody was saying, why
aren't you doing this live? I can't you know, as
much as Shaye said, hey, you can trust me, but
even when we're watching last night, Marvin, you were there

(19:09):
as the lifeguard.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
I can't have Shaye live.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
It wasn't even sometimes the profanity, it was just other
things he would say, like who we cannot have a
no way, just the way so Ray was taking he
was shooting content with his phone and Shae would say
something and.

Speaker 9 (19:28):
He can't use that.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
There's four different times where Ray said, yeah, I can't
use that, Satan. What's poll question? First hour of the program,
it's doing a livestream with Shaye.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
I did.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
Well. It's a good idea, but it's also a dangerous idea.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
There was a lot of entertainment there last night, a
lot of laps and I just saw the big Germany
And he goes, is that an act with Shaye?

Speaker 4 (19:54):
And I go, no, it's not an act. That is
that is who he is.

Speaker 7 (19:58):
It's an act in that he's toning down he really is.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yes, that's actually the but some of the references and
then I'll go, you can't say that, I can Danny.
I go, no, not on this show. You can't do that,
all right, Like he'd be mad at me that all
of a sudden, I'm saying, there's certain things you I
was the the editing police there last night, like, no,

(20:21):
we're not doing that, all right. So poll question Seaton
Jalen Carter should be suspended further or not?

Speaker 11 (20:28):
Okay, Todd, he should not be suspended further based on
the context of if you believe Dak Prescott was spitting.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Out Seaton No, definitely not Marvin, No, Paul, No, it's good. Yeah,
he's already been suspended.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
For a gig.

Speaker 7 (20:42):
Could this be the first hundred percent poll question?

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Hmmm, oh no, no, No.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
In this room maybe, but you know with the audience, no,
because you're gonna have cowboy fans who say, yeah, you know,
you should be out and find and Steven in Michigan. Hi, Steve,
what's on your mind today? Thanks for Joe.

Speaker 12 (21:02):
Hi there, Dan five eight para shape two hundred and
I was just thinking, because you know, I know it's
football and they hit each other, but spitting is something
totally different. Can transmit diseases, and that's why it's assault
or battery. So I would think at least another game
would be something that they should look at.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Well, you know, once again the emphasis on sportsmanship. You
did it right in front of an official. I don't
know if NBC when they showed the Dak Prescott angle, Marvin,
do you remember if they showed that, they didn't show
it in the first quarter. I don't think there was
any context whatsoever. But I don't know if NBC then

(21:46):
went back and said, you know what, we should look
at what is Dak saying or was anything that led
up to this, likell, I'm looking at the monitor now, yeah,
because you see Dak. And the first thing I thought
of is what could have set Jalen Carter off? There

(22:08):
had to be words, That's what I thought. But you know, words,
you'll get flag, spit, you'll get tossed. Uh, Jamie and
Virginia Beach.

Speaker 13 (22:17):
Hi, Jamie, Hey Dan, thanks for having me five nine. Yeah,
I just I just want to go back to your
take on Jalen Carter spitting on Uh, you know, the
face of the NFL.

Speaker 14 (22:34):
Pretty much.

Speaker 13 (22:36):
What you had there is you had kids, young football players, athletes, grandparents,
everybody watching that football game, and nobody saw what took
place before Jelle and Carter decided that he was going
to spit. I'm Das Trescott, and uh, you know, I'm
not a Cowboys fan. I'm a Detroit Lions fan. So

(22:58):
what I saw right there egregious and one you know,
one game to me, is it enough? Minimum? One game
with a hefty fine.

Speaker 10 (23:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
I wonder if he'll be fined he's already been suspended
a game. But I wonder if maybe, you know, they
come down hard on him, you know, maybe take away
a game check. I don't know, but there is a
real emphasis this year. You know, I always hated when
a guy did something and then stood over somebody like
to me, I I would take my foot and go

(23:30):
right up into your crotch. If you're going to do
that to me, like you're not.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
You're not going to do that.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
You may have tackled me, you may have knocked the
ball loose, you may have humiliated me in a football play,
but you will not do that. And that's they have
to get rid of these things. And if you watch
youth football, they're doing all this stuff. You know, they're
doing the bow and arrow when they score, and I
mean it's they emulate.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
They see this.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
You see this in baseball Little League World Series. They
want to act like they're a Major leaguer. They're idole.
We see this in basketball. Everybody wants to shoot a
three and then turn around like Steph Curry does. And
then in football, you know you're taunting. You can't do
the gun signal, you can't do that song. And there's

(24:17):
certain things, and you really have to crack down on this.
If it's that important, then be consistent the entire season,
because if you take away money, it's one thing. If
you take away games, that's something completely different. Former players
have said, hey, if you find me okay, but if
all of a sudden you take me away from my team,

(24:39):
now that's really damaging.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Doug in North Carolina, Hi, Doug, I got to tell.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
You, I disagree with you.

Speaker 6 (24:47):
I think to me, I know everyone wants to talk
about Jalen Carter, but to me, the worst part of
that game was that taunting call in the first half
where somebody just flexed for a moment a split second
in time and it was a fifteen yard penal. League
And that's going to happen all season long.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, but that's not really taunting to me, Doug. I mean,
they're not all created equal here. There's ones that are
over the top that I think we can all agree.
There's other ones where you're you know, inciting the crowd.
I'm fine with those things.

Speaker 6 (25:23):
Do you think what the penalty yesterday was justified?

Speaker 3 (25:25):
No?

Speaker 6 (25:27):
Do you think of all things now that we've seen
the other side in the other angle, that Dak Prescott
was guilty of taunting Jalen Carter. To me, that was
clear taunting.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
I would say baiting. I would say baiting him.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Now, Dak says he spits a thousand times a game,
he didn't want to spit on his teammates. Okay, I'm
going to take him at his word here, Like, why
would I want to upset Jalen Carter unless I think
he's somebody I can bait. But thanks for the phone call, Doug.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
I like excitement, I like.

Speaker 7 (26:03):
Celebration, but then we always go overboard always. Yes, I
think that there is there's an element of taunting that
is great for the game. Okay, there You you can't
ask people to play a game like that that's that
physical and ask them to be that fired up, that

(26:26):
ramped up. Go out there and throw your body, get
into a car crash every play, like, do all of
this stuff, and then as soon as you're done with
that car crash, just calmly walk away back to your
huddle and then don't do it. I get that, there's
a line I do, but there is some element of
it that's good for the game.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, but it's a it's a selfish moment. Go back
in time with the NFL. Now, you did have sack dances,
but I can't remember. If you know you had these
linebacker who's gonna you know, Jack Lambert's gonna stand over
you and taunt you. It felt like I've already won

(27:01):
because I got you on the ground, or you fumble
the ball, or you threw an interception. It's just some
of the other stuff is just, hey, notice me, I'm
on camera. I did something I'm paid to do.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Look at me.

Speaker 7 (27:14):
Yes, if the icky shuffle was awesome, that wasn't taunting.
Of course it was.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
Well if he did it in somebody's face.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
He's still he did it towards the crowd whatever, it's
still it's still.

Speaker 7 (27:26):
If I was the player who just got beat looking
at that, I would be like, dang, that sucks.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
But it was fun.

Speaker 7 (27:31):
It's fun. I get there's obviously you can't spit it.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
People guess a celebration that like, you did something, you're
celebrating with the crowd there, not over somebody. I just
don't like that I stand over you. The flexing thing.
To me, it's a non call. And I like when
they do. You know, you should celebrate if you did something.
I like the joy that you have, but you have

(27:57):
to celebrate everything you do. That's what it feels like.

Speaker 7 (28:01):
It wasn't the one. I mean, he really just got
a hand on an ankle and tripped the dude up.
That's not exactly a like like if I was out
there and did that, they'd be like, Man, you got
really lucky this dude. That's not exactly a flexing moment
where you walk over somebody. You're like, that's right, I
tripped you. It's kind of That's the lame part actually,
is that it wasn't even a good hit or anything.

(28:22):
It wasn't even a hit.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
If if there's times for everything, it shouldn't be it's
always time.

Speaker 7 (28:29):
That's right, baby, I'm tripping you all day, all day,
That's right.

Speaker 11 (28:33):
Yes, Michael Irvin would signal for the first down after
a catch, but I don't think he really ever did
anyone's face, not intentionally. Maybe the defender was in the ballpark,
but with should they have thrown taunting flags for that?

Speaker 7 (28:44):
When he was saying Michael Irving, he didn't, did I
say Irving?

Speaker 11 (28:49):
No?

Speaker 7 (28:49):
No, Sorry, that just came out funny for me. That
dude he taunted everybody. The whole point of the first
down thing was to taunt people.

Speaker 11 (28:57):
I could see it as like the look at me thing,
and he selled the first down, but I don't think
he ever like pointed the first down in a defender's
face or helmet or something like that, unless maybe I
missed some of those islands.

Speaker 9 (29:08):
I think this has going on forever. If you watch
old NFL filmals of Dick Buckets and different players and
the Raiders and Lyle Alzato, they were taunting, but there
was no social media to amplify the taunting, and it
didn't become a focal point and discussion point because you
saw it once and you never saw it again. Now,
when there's taunts, a lot of the social media sites
use that stuff because it's really good and gets clicks.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
Aiden in Utah heidend, Hey.

Speaker 14 (29:37):
Bud, I want to debut a news segment this year
called most Unwatchable game in the weekend. Now, fortunately for
the NFL at Week one, so we're probably going to
watch them anyways because we're hungry for football. But I
got three candidates. Okay, they got Cardinals and Saints terrible.

(29:58):
We got Dolphins, Colts terrible. And we also got a
jack explay somebody I forgot who. But that's all three irrelevant.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
Panthers at their ship.

Speaker 14 (30:11):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Okay, so we have a apparently a new segment. Well,
the most irrelevant game of the weekend brought to you
by we do have the worst matchup of the weekend.
We've done that before. The worst game of the weekend.

Speaker 7 (30:28):
Tod Your most irrelevant game of the weekend is brought
to you.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
Bye yeah, Paul.

Speaker 9 (30:33):
But sometimes those games of two subpar teams are close
and have a good fourth quarter, and sometimes the heavyweight
games it could be a blowof But if.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
The Colts won that game, is that interesting? If Danny
Dimes plays well, is that interesting?

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Right?

Speaker 3 (30:49):
I mean, once again, you're telling me not to watch
games that I normally go out of my way to
watch because if the Bengals lose to the Browns. Right,
I got my attention there. Now there are matchups where
you go, okay, Arizona against the Saints. Well, I'm curious

(31:09):
about is this the year for Arizona? Do they make
the playoffs this year? I would be watching that. I'm curious.
Spencer Rattler, who is from Arizona, plays for New Orleans.
I'm curious and as Tyler Shuck get in the game,
you know, so I have to build in storylines sometimes.
But I'm the guy who does watch late night games

(31:32):
and probably nobody else is watching them, or it's not
Muscy TV.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Yeah point.

Speaker 9 (31:38):
But Panthers Jaguars has Travis Hunter and that's an employment
programming to see him play both ways to start the season.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
And I want to see what Liam Cohen does with
his quarterback. I think it's really a big deal. Bryce Young,
we saw him at the end of the season.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
He played.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
See I'm going to watch, but I write my own
storylines here. Yes, tod if you're writing the promo to.

Speaker 11 (32:02):
Hype up Cardinal Saints, where do you start?

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Do you end?

Speaker 11 (32:05):
How short or long is that?

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well, there's the curiosity.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
I'm going to have Kyler Murray. I don't know who
I'm going to prop up for the Saints.

Speaker 7 (32:15):
There you go again, Here you go again. Good always
got to bash the Saints. Okay, I say no, right,
you're right, because you never do that, right, right, got it?
That's it?

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Done with this.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
The city, the city of New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
That's what I do.

Speaker 9 (32:30):
Yes, when you don't have a player to pup up
in the promo, you do the city. The Cardinals and
Kyler Murray go to the Big Easy.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
Yes, will it be big easy? Cardinals Saints next? Yes,
in the French Quarter.

Speaker 7 (32:47):
It's all happening on Bourbon Street. Here comes Kyler in
the Cards.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yes, he's still around. He wasn't arrested in the off season.
Alvin Kamara and the Saints host the Cardinals in the
Pig Easy. Kyler Murray comes to town. Can he hold
on to his starting spot?

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Find out? Question mark?

Speaker 3 (33:10):
All right, let me take a break. More phone calls
coming up. Our play of the day is next.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
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Speaker 2 (33:28):
Oh my god, the play of the.

Speaker 13 (33:31):
Day webson got it.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
This is the play of the day. Check this out.

Speaker 15 (33:38):
Hurts the football He's he's looking. He steps up, still looking,
still looking. He started to law. He put the tent,
he put the phone, he's hipped the.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
Lid on, puts down tall.

Speaker 14 (33:50):
What hurts?

Speaker 4 (33:53):
Sometimes you just gotta do it yourself.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
That's Curtsey of the Eagles Radio network. Jalen Hurts has
sixteen games with multiple rushing touchdowns, most by any NFL
quarterback and second most of any active NFL player. Only
Derrick Henry with twenty seven has more. That's your play
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sure can. Should Jalen Carter be suspended further? Or was
last night enough?

Speaker 7 (34:37):
Right now? It is an overwhelming last night was enough?
But still pretty early? Okay, still pretty early.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Dak Prescott's not an innocent party here. He's not because
if you look, and we've been analyzing this, if I
look at where Dak is when this incident starts, he's
probably seven to eight yards away from Jalen Carter and
they're clearly jawing. And then you know, you have Dak saying, hey,

(35:05):
I didn't want to spit on my teammates, so I
kind of, you know, was walking past them, and then
I spit, you know, down in the direction of you know,
Jalen Carter.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
But Carter's you know, five yards six yards away.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
There's an ample opportunity for Dak Prescott to spit if
he wants to, before he gets to his teammates. They're jawing,
they're going back and forth. He spits, he winks at
Jalen Carter, and then that's when Jalen Carter is you know,
reading more into this, like, wait a minute, are you

(35:40):
spitting in my direction?

Speaker 6 (35:43):
Now?

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Once again, Jalen Carter has been punished, deserved to be
thrown out of the game. Dak Prescott is not an
innocent party here. If you look at the video, he
is not. He is engaging with Jalen Carter. He walks
past his lineman and then spits. Now he's not spitting

(36:04):
at Jalen Carter. He's spitting down. I don't I mean,
does this help Jalen Carter. Maybe it just puts it
into context of yes, I was wrong, this set me off.
But he's not an innocent party here, yeah, pulling.

Speaker 9 (36:21):
What hurts Carter as well is as they're jawing and
getting towards each other, the refs are waiting for the
signal to let's roll it. The ref starts coming towards
the huddle to see what's going on, and the ref
shows up just in time to see the anthem.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Yeah, you're right, let's see Ryan in Michigan. Hi Ryan, Hey,
good morning, Dan.

Speaker 16 (36:41):
Thanks for having me six foot one seventy five. I
just had two comments, and then I was going to
hang up and list And I feel like a lot
of people went to dead last night and didn't see
the end of the game. The Jalen Carter incident doesn't happen.

(37:03):
Are we talking about two big drops by ceedee Lamb?
I mean they were literally extended handoffs. And the second
comment or question, if Bryce Underwood goes into Norman Saturday
and plays a dragon, are we Trevor Lawrence? Are we
Vince Young?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
I'll hang up and listen.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
I'm gonna wait to watch Bryce play a little bit.
Oklahoma is a good quarterback of their own. But yeah,
I don't start the hype train. Yeah I don't Bryce
Underwood's good, but he should be. They spent a lot
of money on him. Shan Irving joining us. We had
the watch party last night. Shay of course, was front

(37:49):
and center. Marvin was there, Paulie was there.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
How do you feel today, Shay.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Disgusted with myself? What why?

Speaker 12 (38:00):
Danny?

Speaker 2 (38:01):
I really thought we had a shot last night to
win the game. I really did. I had a feeling.
It was strange, it was foreign, it was abnormal. But
I recognized it later as optimism, and I thought that
the Cowboys and the new head coach and the new
All Pro defensive tackle were going to really do something
for me. And what I got was reality. In the end,

(38:24):
I got struck down to size and back to my
own depressed Cowboys fandom.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
But they had a chance to win.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Several Danny, several CD dropping balls that's almost impossible to
think about, and stopping the run, I guess means only
giving up one hundred and fifty eight on the ground
and letting Jalen run for two freaking touchdowns.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
I feel like a fool.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
You can't get that many chances to win the game
in the fourth quarter and come up emptier than an
AA meeting on New Year's Dave, Danny, it was nothing there.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
You had optimism. You didn't think you had that. I
had that.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
You showed up and I said, they're gonna keep it close.
I thought it would be a three point game. I
thought you were doubting, and then all of a sudden,
maybe this is what is bothering you. They brought you in,
they gave you hope, that they toyed with you, and
then they acted the way you thought they would exactly.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
It's like a Ponzi scheme, Danny. I'm like looking at
returns on a piece of paper and I'm thinking, I'm rich,
and it's making so much money, and my best friend's
named Bernie madeoff and we're all gonna live in peace
and harmony in some Caribbean island. And then the rug
gets pulled to the DOJ kicks in the door and
I'm broken, penniless.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
Are we gonna do another watch party again?

Speaker 2 (39:45):
You might be my bad luck charm.

Speaker 9 (39:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
Oh, okay, I didn't drop the ball.

Speaker 6 (39:53):
No, how does CD do that?

Speaker 7 (39:55):
Like?

Speaker 2 (39:55):
What has happened? Was that the gloves?

Speaker 8 (39:57):
Danny?

Speaker 14 (39:57):
How does that happen?

Speaker 2 (39:58):
That's never happened before?

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Maybe after the lightning in the rain.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
You know what I told you about God stopping that game.
I told you the Cowboys are on a roll and
he stopped the game. I told you there was something
there Danny, you did, you did.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
But I thought God liked the Cowboys, member of the stadium,
and he gets to look down on the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
I think Jerry Jones, I told you this before. I
think he signed a deal with the devil, and this
is God punishing him and everybody else with the rings
that he got in the nineties. There needs to be
an extracism.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
Danny, thank you, Shay whatever, all right? He did say.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
He goes, this is God, God punishing us the lightning
to stop this game. I said, Wow, that's a deep
reference there. Alrighty coming up, we'll talk to South pal Antonio.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
He was there.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
We'll get his thoughts on what exactly happened last night
and the brilliant play of Jalen Hurts. One hour in
the books, two more to go on this meet Friday.
It's Todd, it's Setan, it's Marv, it's PAULI yours truly
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