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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio Hour two.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
On this Friday, it's a meat Friday. We'll check in
with the Cowboys. The Great Reporter ed Warder will update
us on what's going on. How about them Cowboys. Stat
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I started watching the Cowboys documentary on Netflix. I'm underwhelmed
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by it, and I'm not a Cowboy fan, but I
don't hate the Cowboys. I just didn't grow up as
a Cowboy fan, but I appreciate who they are, what
they do, what they mean, what Jerry has done with
that franchise, the history of that franchise. I mean, I
go back to when Don Meredith was playing. I go
back to the Ice Bowl when the Cowboys played the
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Packers in Green Bay, and I've always appreciated the talent.
They're overrated, obviously, but they're overcovered as well. I'm just
not really hearing anything that I haven't heard before. And
if you get Jerry Jones to sign up for forty
hours of being interviewed, I'm gonna guess it's probably not
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too spicy. Or negative, and maybe I'm tuning in because
that's what I'm hoping for, Like maybe there's something there
that I hadn't heard.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I mean, Jerry's Jerry. It just felt like it was.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
An extended PR documentary with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, pulling.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I think there's certain documentaries that don't work because we
know everything about the topic. The most overcovered sports team
of the last century. We know every story. It gets
brought up again and again and again, and the documentary
has very little place to go.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And you know, they have everybody in there that you
would want to hear from. But it just felt like
it was a family reunion and everybody's telling fun stories.
You know, the Michael Irvin stuff. But I already knew
that because I know Michael, and no, I probably probably
knew a few stories that they didn't include or they
didn't know about. But I've been around for forty years,
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and you're gonna hear stories. Yeah, Marvin.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Yeah, I'm up to part four right now. During the
Jimmy Jerry split. And I was a kid when all
that stuff was going on, so I didn't know about
all the details, and I really wasn't paying attention to
what was going on with Jimmy and Jerry at that time.
So I'm learning a lot going forward, But as far
as the games and the Super Bowls and all that,
You're completely right, it's nothing new.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And I'm watching it different than anybody else because of
my age. You know, if you've once again forty years
that you've been around them, or you've watched them, or
you've listened to stories, or you've interviewed people. Everybody, we
haven't had Jerry on. I don't think so, but most
of the people in that documentary we've had on. Jerry
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does enough TV and radio that probably doesn't have time
to squeeze us in. But maybe maybe in the final
year that he'll take some time and you know, give
us a little bit. He probably doesn't like my impersonation
of him because maybe I'm not a leader and he's
maybe looking for a leader who's more mature.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Yes, Marvin, here's one part that just gives me all
I need to know about Jerry Jones and what his
goal is. Is him getting cameras in the draft room
and Jimmy Johnson's like.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Why.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I know Jimmy was trying to coach a team. Jerry
was trying to promote a team, but he was ahead
of his time. I mean, he understands how to market.
He is really really good at that. It just it
builds up the expectations. They can never live up to
those expectations unless they win a Super Bowl. Even now
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this year, if they don't win a playoff game. Let's
say they win a playoff game, is that a good season?
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It might be for other franchises, but if I'm a
Cowboy fan, I'm like, no, it's like a Steelers, Hey,
we made the playoffs. Did you win a game. No,
that's not a good season. Now. If you said Jacksonville's
gonna win a playoff game, then you might go, all right,
pretty good. If the Browns are Bengals, yeah, pretty good,
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Arizona Cardinals, Bears. Not these other franchises like Green Bay.
You're going to the playoffs. Now, you got to win
a game or two. Steelers, you got to win a
game or two. We know the Eagles expectations. There's certain
fan bases where you're like the forty nine Ers this year.
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They're probably one of the most undercovered teams this year,
and I'm not quite sure. It feels like they can
be really good or really bad again, and they had
all those injuries. They have injuries again. They're wide receivers.
I don't know if you can count on Christian McCaffrey
just got paid. So now it's not one of those
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feel good stories. It's you're making fifty million dollars, go
out there and make some plays. Well, you don't have
your playmakers. There's a whole lot more pressure on him
this year. But uh, I mean, you can still watch
the Cowboys. If you're younger, then you're going to learn
some things. But just for me, I didn't. I haven't
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learned anything. I'm five episodes in. It's still fun to
go down memory lane and open up the scrap book there.
But I'm just not hearing anything that I hadn't heard before. Yeah, PAULI.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Even the concept of Jerry Jones participating with a documentary
that's not really called for tells you everything you want
to know about him. He's like a documentary. I get
to talk for forty hours.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Sign me up.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
If I just went over thirty I don't think I
would be part of a documentary.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
The timing is terrible. Oh, for the last thirty years.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
But he He's a pr driven person right to a
fall he wants. He's always selling, always selling, always selling,
and the more he gets in front of a microphone,
the more opportunities he gets to sell.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yes, Tod, it's nice to.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Learn something or if there's something new in the documentary.
I've only seen the first two so far, but if
nothing else, I still enjoy hearing summer All and Madden
and trying to guess who the players are when you
only catch a little part of the back of their name,
and just seeing how the technology the technology change from
the eighties and nineties to now, so that that much
is fun anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
David in Ohio, Hi.
Speaker 10 (06:27):
David, Hey Dan, Happy meet Friday. Nobody got a few
Cowboys roast highlights here, Michael Parsons scrubbing the Cowboys office
Socials is the closest thing Dallas is down to a
racing history. Do you better?
Speaker 11 (06:43):
I can't scrub thirsty years without a Super Bowl. We
got another one. The Cowboys don't need a fast rusher,
they need Michael J. Fox at the time Machine to
go back to when they actually matters.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Cute, all right?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
How about David David roasting there going nicky Glaze are
there Jeff Ross roast? Wouldn't that be interesting? Would Jerry
Jones do a Netflix roast where Nicky Glazer was up
there hosting and you brought in other comedians. That'd be spicy.
He would do the Tom Brady roast and Jerry would
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be up there. Do you think that would sell? Do
you think Jerry would do it?
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Yes, Marvin, as much as Jerry loves the Spotlight, he's
got to watch the Tom Brady Roast because you don't
want any parts of that.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Seaton. What do you think Jerry Jones Netflick roast? I
would advise him.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Not to do Oh no, no, no, I would tell
him not to do it. But I'm all about content.
Speaker 12 (07:47):
But he.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Because he doesn't get to talk, he has to listen,
and he doesn't strike me as a good listener.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
No.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
Yes, he could schedule it for midwet February.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Wow, you can schedule it for January?
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Trying to be nice?
Speaker 9 (08:04):
Yeah, yes, Todd, I think if there's any chance of
him and greenks that I'd have to kind of pre
screen all the jokes and know exactly what's coming at
him ahead of time so he can come back with
the retort or say nope, the third one, eighth one,
and fifteenth one, you're not going to say.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well, that's the feeling I got with the documentary. It
felt scripted. It just didn't come off as you know,
the Jordan documentary that didn't feel scripted. I mean, it
was scripted that Mike had some things he wanted to say,
but it felt like there were more of those oh
wow moments with Jerry and the Cowboys. It just feels
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like Emmett's saying something nice, and Troy says something nice.
Steve Young who's going to join us next hour, he's
involved in the documentary, and so it just didn't have
those wow moments that I was hoping for. And you know,
the two brothers, the way brothers who do this with
the Untold, they've had a lot of you know, success,
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This one felt like, Hey, we'd like to do a
documentary on the Cowboys, and Jerry probably saying well, I
want to have sign off on this, and whether that
happened or not, it just feels like there's a hey,
look at what we did, I'd like to see it.
And I'm going to guess that probably were putting that
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under the microscope yeah, Paulin.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I read a few stories about the Tom Brady Netflix
roast and the comedians were encouraged to avoid a couple topics,
and a couple of the comedians blew right through the
stop side.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
And you saw that on the air.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, And they said stay away from his wife and
stay away from his kids.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Well, you can't stay away from his wife. I'm sorry now.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I think it was Kevin Hart who said, you know, Tom,
what's wrong with you? Your wife is with a jiu
jitsu instructor and she's only a white belt. You know,
she's with him eight hours a day. You know that
A good line, like come on earlier, dude, Yes, I know.
That's when Tom was like, man, that almost felt like
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the New York Giants pass rushers the defensive line in
the Super Bowl. It's like, oh, damn, this is going
to hurt.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
NFL.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I got some information here. The NFL sent out some information.
Good news, concussions are at their lowest level, but illegal
sexual gestures are soaring. Okay, the NFL put out information
talking about the decrease in concussions and that's including regular season, postseason, preseason,
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and that's good. I'm happy for that. I think safer
helmets have played a large part here. Those guardian caps
in practice, players also want to use them in games
they were allowed to. In twenty twenty four, the dynamic
kickoff set up, we don't have players going at full
speed and dangerous collisions. Helmet technology has improved. Aaron Rodgers
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had to change his helmet. There were older models that
were outlawed. This season he was forced to get a
safer helmet and he's been complaining about that. The dynamic
kickoff is here to stay with the league. If you
look at the numbers now, about one third of kickoffs
were return last season and twenty twenty three one fifth
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of kickoffs were return and they know the league got
concerned because it became ceremonial as their word. Super Bowl
fifty eight Chiefs and the Niners thirteen kickoffs, none return.
Fifty nine returns covered at least forty yards in twenty
twenty four. That's the most since twenty sixteen. There were
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seven return for touchdowns, most since twenty twenty one. Field
position changing touchbacks will be brought out to the thirty
five yard line, not the thirty. There's less punts, therefore
less collisions. Taunting is up fifty five percent from last year.
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Unsportsmanlike gestures, whether either simulating or shooting a gun, well,
they're not shooting a gun. They're simulating shooting a gun,
or carrying a gun or brandishing a gun. Inappropriate gestures,
throat slash, sexual gestures that were made. Those were up
almost one and thirty three percent. Let's see anything else
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that the league wants us to know.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
That's pretty good. That's a positive news there.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Yes, Paul, it appears the point of emphasis will be
if you make a gun gesture or grab your undercarriage
in some fashion after.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I touchdown, if you grab your gun, yes, okay, happiness
is a warm gun.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
And taunting. You could taunt, but you have to taunt
away from the person. So let's say you're gonna celebrate
after a touchdown, you have to do so towards the crowd,
not towards the defender. That's actually a serious thing.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, the concussion part, that's great. The fact that you
don't have regular kickoffs where you have those everybody running
at full speed and you know, it's like a scene
out of Brave Heart. You don't have those anymore. You're
getting kickoffs returned yes, Seeton the Yeah.
Speaker 12 (13:33):
You also have to be careful taunting the crowd too,
because if you taunt too closely to the crowd, you'll
still get an unsportsmanlike penalty, I believe, right, So you
kind of have to do it within a certain buffer
zone of taunting.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
That area.
Speaker 12 (13:47):
I always used to marvel at the guys during kickoff,
who as soon as the ball is kicked off, you know,
they would start sprinting down the field and the returning
player would catch the ball you know, down or whatever
touch back, and some of those guys would continue running
for like another thirty yards and very very very slowly
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let off the speed. I understand you can't immediately hit
the brakes, but surely you could slow down somewhere sooner
than thirty to forty yards extra that you're running.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Bud, keep this in mind, that might be their only
TV time. That's straw true, So you get thirty more
yards of TV time even though you didn't do anything.
You know, you got your mom and dad and they're watching.
They're going, look at Jimmy, let's see coach. I finish
out every play. Coach, I finish out every play.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
How I play?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, that's him forty three. Watch him right into the
end zone. Didn't do anything?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yes, don How.
Speaker 9 (14:42):
Tenuous is the condition of your hamstring where you can't
just stop a little sooner where you think you're gonna
blow out the back of your leg, you have to
go another forty yard?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Wait, wait, look who's talking.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Well, I'm I'm not a professional athlete.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I'm sitting here, but but you can't even play wiffle ball.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I get injured very easily.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yes, your feelings get hurt. You hurt your arm, foot,
your foot.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I'm a mess. I'm feeling my age plus ten.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Okay, all right, let me take a break. Ed warder,
he said.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Decorated reporter formerly of the Mothership and Covers. The Cowboys
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Speaker 3 (15:29):
Right into the Cowboys?
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Wait?
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Wait, hold on?
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Edwarder work twenty six years at ESPN. Recognized by the
Pro Football Hall of Fame. He's been covering the Cowboys
since nineteen eighty nine, and this season he's covering the
Boys for WFAA TV. Ed Werder, Cowboy Insider, joining us
on the program. What was your first impression of Jerry Jones?
Speaker 15 (17:02):
My first impression of Jerry Jones was formed in nineteen
eighty nine, when I first moved to Dallas Metroplex to
cover the Cowboys for the Fort Worth Star Telegram. He
was definitely a huge personality. I didn't have a lot
to compare it to at the time. I've been covering
the Denver Broncos and Pat Bowlin was obviously maintained a
different profile, but yeah, it was It was clear that,
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you know, Jerry was somebody who could not embrace criticism,
but he.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Could withstand it, and that he was going to be a.
Speaker 15 (17:34):
Very prominent personality in the league for as long as
he owned the franchise.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Why do we have a Cowboy documentary?
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Like?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Why now is? And did you learn anything new?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And I know you're interviewed in this, but why now
for a Cowboy documentary?
Speaker 15 (17:55):
I think it's kind of a legacy, you know piece
for Jerry. He's eighty two years old. They've been irrelevant
in terms of competing for championships for thirty years. I
think Jerry wanted, you know, something that sort of documented
his place in the NFL and how it all began
and what he accomplished during his career. And he wanted
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to take credit for certain things for which he has
not yet been given credit. And I mean there's just
always there's always the soap opera.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I mean, there's always drama around the team.
Speaker 15 (18:30):
I mean, you know, Dan, most most coaches, most general managers,
the first thing that they want to do, other than
have a healthy football team is eliminate distractions.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
And Jerry's different in that.
Speaker 15 (18:42):
He has said as recently as this training camp, when
it gets quiet, I like to stir it up. And
so for all of those reasons, the Cowboys are very
good theater, and he had an offer of, you know,
fifty million dollars to cooperate and.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Do this piece.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
In Dallas could vote whether they wanted Jerry to continue
as the owner.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
How would that go.
Speaker 15 (19:09):
I think the Jerry would win the three votes of
his family members who were involved in the organization, and
might lose all of the remaining votes. I think the
media would like to have Keith Jerry around. He's he's
obviously good for what we do, always has been good
for our business. But yeah, I mean, I thought that
was one of the interesting things about this documentary and
the timing, and one of the things that struck me
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while watching it was when Jerry came here in nineteen
eighty nine, he was vilified, he was hated very you know,
strong dislike for him for you know, firing Tom Landry
franchise icon even though he had been losing in many people,
including his bosses within the organization. Tech Stram thought the
end was had come or was near for Tom Landry.
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Jerry's the one who actually did it, and you know,
and here we are thirty five years later, and a
lot of that.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Still remains towards Jerry.
Speaker 15 (20:02):
And I didn't know if Cowboys fans, if football fans
in general, would watch this documentary just out of curiosity
or to have a sense of nostalgia, or they would
refuse to do so in protest over the way Jerry
runs his business.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Any chance that Michael Parson's agent is the issue here
in these negotiations.
Speaker 15 (20:26):
Look, I think that first of all, it's not uncommon
for the Cowboys to be this close to their opener
and have a very prominent player unsigned. It happened last
year with Ceedee Lamb. It happened with Ezekiel Elliott, who
signed the week of Jason Garrett's first game of his
final season. Happened Dak Prescott was about to get out
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on the bus to go to the stadium. If Jerry
would have waited any longer to sign Dak Prescott would
had to have Mike McCarthy call a time out in
the first quarter. But I think there I don't know
that David Mulagetti is to blame specifically for this. He's
had clients, certainly, you know, who have forced the issue
to get the terms that they think are fair to them.
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And I mean Jalen Ramsey claimed the back injury, missed
three game checks and ultimately got traded.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Which was his desire.
Speaker 15 (21:17):
Michah Parsons might want to follow that routine to a point.
I don't think Michael Parsons wants to be traded, and
I think ultimately Dan like both sides are complicit in
where they are today. Michael Parsons was, you know, naive
to engage Jerry Jones in contract negotiations without muliged at
his representation being present. And Jerry was wrong, after thirty
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five years of being a general manager to think that
he could reach a binding agreement with a superstar player
while his agent was not involved.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
We're talking to Ed Werder. He's been covering the Cowboys
since nineteen eighty nine, working for WFAATV in Dallas. Let's
talk about the team on the field, though, because it
feels like we talk about everything else on the periphery
with the Cowboys. Comes down to how threatening is this
team if everybody's on the field, how good of the Cowboys?
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Generally speaking?
Speaker 15 (22:13):
When Dak Prescott has been healthy and played most or
all of the season as a starting quarterback, the Cowboys
have been in the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I think this is the.
Speaker 15 (22:23):
First time in Dak's ten year career as a Cowboys
starting quarterback back they go into the season as probably
the third best team in their own division. I mean,
Philadelphia and Washington played the NFC championship game last year.
The Cowboys went one in three against those two teams,
although they didn't have Dak Prescott. I mean, Prescott's been
the most dominant player in the division. In the regular season,
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He's thirty three to eight against division opponents. But the
division is certainly stronger now than it was early in
his career, and so division championship are harder to win
when the defending Super Bowl champion is in your division
and you're opening at them in less than two weeks
and they have a first time you know, head coach
and Brian Schottenheimer, who Dany has two jobs this year
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that he didn't have a year ago. One he's a
head coach. He wasn't the head coach. Last year he
was the offensive coordinatorbody wasn't the play caller. Now he's
a play caller and the head coach. He's got a
lot to deal with that he hasn't had to do in.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
His previous career.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
And also more pressure on the Cowboys after what the
Commanders have done and they've got their quarterback. It's a
young team there, meant, you know, if they get Terry
McLaurin in there, we think they're going to be formidable.
The Giants it feels like it's maybe wait till next year.
Dak in his age and what he gets paid and
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like that surprised me. I've been very vocal that I
like Dak as a person. He's been very good to
the show. I just wouldn't sign him up for that
kind of money. I just I didn't understand that, you know,
bringing back Zeke Kelly, Like there's certain things that Jerry
has done really well or his team has done really well,
but part of it thirty two coming off an injury
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and you're paying him sixty million dollars.
Speaker 15 (24:05):
It's amazing that a year later he still has, by
five million dollars, the highest average salary in the NFL
among players at any position. That just speaks I think,
not only to his value to the Cowboys and Jerry's
fear of not having a franchise type quarterback going into
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a season without somebody he thinks can win games on
a consistent basis. I mean, how fortunate are the Cowboys.
Dak Presco was a fourth round pick, Tony Romo was
an undrafted player. They've had twenty years of high level
quarterback and without investing a first round pick. And in
the case of Dak and his salary, I mean, it's
really just leverage.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
It's what Micah Parsons is going through now. You know.
Speaker 15 (24:51):
Dak and his agent mastered that. I mean, they forced
the Cowboys to franchise tag. They'd never franchise tagged a
quarterback in their history. Franchise tag Dack twice, and ultimately
Jerry feared losing.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Him and so he did what it took.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
How did the Eagles not end up back in this
Super Bowl?
Speaker 15 (25:12):
I think it all comes down to injuries. If you
know Jalen Hurts stays healthy. If they're you know, defense
with Vic Fangio, which could be the youngest in the
NFL this year, holds up.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
I do expect the Eagles to be the first.
Speaker 15 (25:25):
Team to repeat as division champions since Philadelphia did that
in two thousand and four with Andy Reid.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
This is a division, as you know.
Speaker 15 (25:33):
Interestingly, YEF has had a new champion for twenty plus
consecutive years. That being said, I still think there's a
big difference between Washington and Philadelphia, all things being equal.
We saw that in the NFC Championship game when Philadelphia
dominated that game and dominated the.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Chiefs in the Super Bowl. They're a really good team.
Speaker 15 (25:52):
Their front office takes a completely different approach to being
proactive and signing their best players. You would think maybe
Jerry Jones would study that and apply that to his franchise.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
He chose to do just the opposite.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
What's the craziest story you've ever been involved in or
heard about the Cowboys? You can leave out names if
you need to.
Speaker 15 (26:15):
I mean, I think we've we saw him in the documentary,
you know, the Michael Irvin situation being arrested with drug charges,
there being a murder for higher plot involved in the trial,
him ultimately missing six games to start a season, and
Deon Sanders becoming, you know, Treykman's number one receiver. So
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it's hard to it's hard to say that there's just
been so much Dan over time, and it's all played
out very publicly. So I don't know that there's something
that we haven't that we're not aware of that I
could share with you, even if I eliminated the names,
that would be more curious than all of the things
we've seen happen hopidly.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, I felt the same way when I watched the documentary.
But you know, I've been around, you know, doing this
professionally for forty years. But somebody who was younger, Let's
say you're thirty years of age and your entire lifetime,
Dallas hasn't won anything, and then all of a sudden,
you take a trip down memory lane you're like, damn,
we used to be good. We used to We used
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to have stars who wore that star on their helmet.
Speaker 15 (27:22):
Well, I think the thing that you know comes through
when you watch the documentary is what a great coach
Jimmy Johnson was not only in terms of identifying and
developing talent and making you know the herschel Walker trade,
which was a unique move in the whole history of
the league by a relatively novice NFL coach at the time,
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but he also was a master psychologist, and the players
on that team, the principal leaders of that team, unlike
those today, like they met the challenge in the postseason,
they were up for it. We haven't seen that from
a Cowboys team in over thirty years. Where the Cowboys
play their best in the biggest moments against the best opponents.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Always great to talk to you, you always have something
to cover, though with the Cowboys. You imagine if you
were covering Jacksonville, Arizona.
Speaker 15 (28:17):
I'm very fortunate that I took an offer from the
Fort Worth Star Telegram when I was a young reporter,
even though it wasn't really a job I wanted at
the time. I wanted to stay in Denver and work
at the Denver Post and had.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
The opportunity to do that, but wind up coming.
Speaker 15 (28:31):
To Fort Worth covering the Cowboys ever since. And yeah,
I've always said I wouldn't have had the career I've
had if not for the fact I was so close
to covering. You know, I was involved in covering the
Cowboys and all the curious situations that happened with them.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I'm glad you are good to talk to you. Thanks again,
Sam Edwarder, Cowboys insider for WFAA TV in Dallas. It's
it's not something where you show up at work and
you go, now, maybe something today. You know, when you
show up at worked, something is going to happen. That's
just the way. It's been a couple of phone calls
in here, Ellen in Wisconsin, Hi Ellen, what's on your
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mind today?
Speaker 16 (29:09):
But I wanted to give the young man who's going
to be proposing this week in some old lady advice.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Okay, that's Aidan and Utah is getting engaged this weekend, Okay, Ellen.
Speaker 16 (29:21):
Quickly flowers, flowers and more flowers. And now the important
one is he needs to reach out to her best
friend or her sister. This buys him two things. Number one,
it buys him goodwill that he wants to keep saying
the word perfect, perfect, perfect perfect. Number two, what it
really does is it absolves him of all guilt and
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you know, all blamed if she or even worse, her
mother doesn't like the way it went down, all right.
You got to keep the mother in law quiet as
long as humanly profitable. That's all I've got. You guys,
have a great weekend.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Thank you, Thank you. Ellen.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I think you're making a little more complicated than it
needs to be. Now I get her best friend and
maybe her mom involved, and then people can't keep a secret.
The less the better, make it quick. The less people know,
the better. Yes, marm question for everybody in the room.
Did you guys ask your wife's dads for permission?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
No? No Seatan? I did, Yeah, Todd, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
I made both parents aware of what the game plan
was going to be.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Did you ask or you just made them aware.
Speaker 9 (30:40):
I didn't formally say about asking their hand in marriage.
I think I basically said I'm going to be knowing
that they wanted me to, that I'm going to be
proposing on this day in time, and just to make
them aware.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
That baggage claim at JFK.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
I actually needed them.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
To be following behind because I was getting picked up
by Jenet the airport and I needed the in laws
to bring up so they would have a close from
Miami to not ruin the surprise that we were heading
to Miami, right after.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Proposing nothing more romantic than baggage claim at JFK.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Got that right.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I see that in movies all the time. You know,
Tom Hanks or Julia Roberts. It's probably a baggage claim. Yes,
it is something right out of a movie. Actually it
really is. Yeah. See that's where you get with the
baggage claim guy. And then you get a piece of luggage,
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her luggage, and then you have it come off the
choote and it says, will you marry me?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Oh? I'm writing scripts here, I am writing scripts?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Is there really a baggage claim guy? These days? Like
this as someone that's assigned to the carousel five.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Todd, you're a producer.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I find Michael Jordan used to pay the guy at
the airport extra money, like twenty bucks to make sure
his bags came off first, because they had always bet
whose bags would come off first.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Well, that's just it. That's twenty bucks.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
I'd be giving him like two or three singles and
he's like, get out of here, and then they would
never have it.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
Yes, Paul, I don't think I heard before that.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Todd, after the proposal, whisked his wife away to Miami
on a surprise trip.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Yeah, I had a red eye flight from LA to
New York.
Speaker 9 (32:14):
I landed like six in the morning, and I had
a nine am scheduled flight for both of us to
assuming she was gonna say yes to celebrate.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
For three nights at the Eden Rock Hotel. I'm South
Beach colins An.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
That's a strong move. I'm gonna give him bonus points
for that.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
It would have been a lot of things to cancel
up for flights and hotels and said, you know what,
I met some bug.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Well, you do have a girlfriend in Miami, an ex girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
I do.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
I don't know if she still lives there. It's been
I haven't communicated with her in a while. But yeah,
that would be the lovely Lana Lana.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Little Russian girl from the hoods, from the.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Oh I know.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
And remember we were at the Clevelander, I think, and
all of a sudden, I see Fritzy with this woman,
and you like.
Speaker 9 (32:56):
Did very quickly he said, you know, I got a
lot of yent, there's a lot of gossiping staff member.
Let's just get out of here before he started asking questions.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
And then I see him later, I go, what was that?
He goes on just a old girlfriend. I said, well,
you made it worse by kind of sneaking.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
It didn't make it worse. I just said, this is
a girl I used to go out. She wanted to
come see the show. Was a poster. Let's get out
of here before now.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Find out what.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
She was.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
She was good looking, she answered me.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
She just made her friend back at the apartment, and
that's pretty much where it ended.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Hen get that.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
Get that on record.
Speaker 9 (33:31):
There's a big difference between thought bubbles and things that
actually happened in the world.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Oh, you lead the league.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
And I'm guilty of a major I thought you. I'll
go to.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Jail with your thought bubbles, all right when we come back.
Best week in sports?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
You got like I can talk sports at three hours.
Yankees five Guardians three, Get over it.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
That was at Big Deans in Santa Monica when we
did the meet and greet, and of course Todd ran
into somebody who had his face on her shirt.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
And next thing you know, Todd is chatting her up
for I know.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
You, Why is your face on her shirt? It's so weird.
What do you guys do for a living?
Speaker 9 (34:11):
Ninety ninety three Pistons get on with it.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I do think that's your best impersonation because you do
capture that girl who's sitting next to her sister, and
her sister has your face on her T shirt and
she can't understand it because she has no idea who you.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Are, no idea at all.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Best weekend sports we'll have that for you coming up
top of the hour Steve Young, and in about forty
minutes from now, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
John Fogerty back after this.
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tour championship. What do you think of this? Comp for
Scotti Scheffler. We've mentioned people like Pete Sampras, Tim Duncan,
Mike Trout just personality wise. Lennox Lewis was a heavyweight
champ for quite a few years, but there wasn't anything
(35:41):
dynamic about him. I mean, he was just I think
fundamentally a great boxer and you know, six', five he
was From. England BUT i think people forget just how
great he. Was Mike tyson avoided him for years and
for good reason because when they did fight at you,
Know Lennox lewis was a boxer And, mike you, know
(36:03):
was a. Puncher but it's just it's almost Like Greg
maddox throwing a fastball on his first pitch and then
the next pitch is you, know gonna find the plate as.
Well that's What scotty. Does it's in the, fairway it's
on the. Green maybe he's gonna one, putt probably just two.
(36:24):
Putt don't wait for him to make mistakes because it's
not gonna. Happen and here he. Is you, know he's
one of the biggest favorites we've had at an event Since.
Tiger now the odds are a little bit. Different Patrick
kentley shot a nine Under scotty only shot a seven
under so you have that this, weekend you have a
(36:47):
top twenty five matchup to start the college football. Season
number twenty Two Iowa, state number, seventeen K State Fresno
state In. Kansas Kurt warner's son E j Is Fresno state's.
ORDERBACK i Like Jalen Daniels. KANSAS i think he's a talented.
Quarterback Yankees Red sox, again, Uh dodgers at The Padres
(37:11):
dodgers seventy three, Wins padres seventy. Two and For Seaton,
Soccer Manchester city Versus. Tottenham, yeah let's go get slide
into the. Weekend Kings hawaian go To kingsawaian dot com
all your recipe. Inspirations Best week In? Sports who had
the best week in? Sports, Todd we've made fun of them.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Enough i'm going to give some love to The Colorado.
Speaker 9 (37:35):
Rockies they've won seven of their last, ten including splitting
a four game series with The. Dodgers so let's give
it up to The rockies playing some better.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Baseball Seaton Best week In sports turned in By i'm.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Going With Corvin carroll of The Arizona.
Speaker 12 (37:47):
Diamondbacks he made Major league baseball history this week by
becoming the second player since nineteen sixty five to have
sixteen triples and twenty seven home runs in a single.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Season he's like almost single.
Speaker 12 (37:59):
Handily powering a little bit of A diamonds bounce, Back but,
Uh diamondbacks bounce, back.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
That's WHAT i should.
Speaker 12 (38:08):
Say six, snakes, yees snakes are. Alive sixteen triples and
twenty seven home.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Runs that's.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Awesome, dang when's the last time somebody had twenty triples
in A? Cee is the triple coming? Back the triple
is so? Back, Yeah i'm wondering the last time somebody
that's a lot of? Triples marvin best week In sports
turned in By Giancarlo.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
Stanton since you said he wasn't A hall Of, famer he,
said three home runs in the past.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Week take THAT.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Dp, Well, NO i didn't say he.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
WASN'T i just wondered if five hundred home runs would
get Gian Carlos stanton into The Baseball Hall.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
Fame you meant to, say first, ballot Mister. Marlin Gen
carlo stan.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Shouldn't shouldn't The cowboys put Herschel walker in Their ring
of honor with what he did for that brand?
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Contributions, yes, Yes. Paul best week in sports turned in buying.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
On, triples by the, way the most triples in the
past quarter. CENTURY i Got Curtis granderson with twenty three
in two thousand and.
Speaker 8 (39:10):
Seven how about that best week in?
Speaker 5 (39:13):
Sports Remember Malik, beasley the solid guard for The, pistons
and he was a couple months ago the subject of
a federal gambling. Investigation two days before he was about
to sign a three, year fifty million dollar contract extension
which went to some other. Player according To Associated, Press
beasley is no longer a target of the gambling investigation
(39:35):
in any way by The Eastern district Of New, york
clearing him to get back into THE, nba.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
But not get that, contract not, necessarily but a.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Chance giovanni In, Sarasota, giovanni what's on your mind?
Speaker 17 (39:50):
Today good, morning Mister. Patrick it's a pleasure to talk to,
you first time, ever And i'd like to have the
honor to say nobody ever said it For i'm your
number One columbian. FAN i have a question, sport a related.
Question that, IS i have a comment AND i have a.
(40:11):
Compliment IF i, May i'd like to Tell fritzy no matter,
what anybody says he's great at what he, does and
what he just said up by his proposal clears all
the negativity that he's done in the past or even
my book on.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
That.
Speaker 17 (40:27):
Polly Appreciate, polly all your knowledge that you bring to the.
Show we will learn from. That, seaton your laugh is.
Contagious keep it. Up And, marvin you're living up to the,
Expectations so keep up the good, work Mister. Patrick me
and my Wife celebrator are thirty first year anniversary last,
YEAR i mean last, month and WHEN i asked what
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she wanted to to get for that celebration SINCE i
always messed that, up she told me the same, thing
since you always mess it. UP i went to get
us sticks for next months to see The. Samman she
she'll frank me with that BECAUSE i should be the
one doing.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
That, yeah that'll be. Great you'll appreciate Sand. Man he
puts on a great. Show he's been touring the. Country
and congratulations on thirty one years and all the kind words,
There Jay Vonnie Final hour on The way ten minutes from.
Now one of my favorite guests of all, Time Steve
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