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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to a hump Day Wednesday here
on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone. My name
is Craig Way. Thanks so much for joining us. Glad
to have you with us. I always say it if
Wednesday is indeed the day where you try to get
over the hump, more power to you.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I hope you can do that.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
For those of you for whom Wednesday is the start
of a work week or the end of a work week,
thoughts and best wishes to you as well, but hopefully
it goes well. It is during the Monday through Friday
world that the producer, Cameron Parker and I exist, and
it would be the Humpday because we bring in this
program each and every afternoon during the week the weekday,
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starting at two o'clock. So with that we do welcome
you to the program. The producer is Cameron D.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Parker.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The D on the birth certificate stands for Dallas as
in the team that his dad rooted and still root
so ardently for Cameron as well, although he's pledged not
to watch them this show.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I haven't even asked you.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
This is your dad sped up or as disgusted with
the state of the Dallas Cowboys as you are.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Really, now he'll still watch I think for the most part,
if if his work schedule allows it. He's not completely
out on watching them like I am.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, So if if let's say, let's say that you're
out on a early Sunday afternoon, whether you're playing golf
or whether you want to get to eat or seeing
some friends, and then you come back to your place
and your dad's sitting there in the living room and
you got the Cowboys. He's got the Cowboys on. Do
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you like walk past him and go last thing out
of and you close your eyes and cover your ears
and go upstairs?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Is that how it works?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Dumb and Dumber style from carry Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Do you do that?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I mean if it, I mean, like I said, there's
gonna be there's gonna be. Uh. I won't be able
to avoid it completely.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Right If I'm in a sports bar or at a restaurant,
there's TVs around, and I'm sure I'll be around friends
who will be constantly updating me.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I'll have group chats with my friends making.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Fun of me because the Cowboys just give up another
touchdown or dak through his third interception of the game
or something like that, something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Which Cowboy player are you the most disillusioned with?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Disillusion like, most frustrated with. I don't think any of them.
I don't think any of them. I think Dak's a
fantastic quarterback.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But all the times you take those little pointed.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Barbs about how he's and when Dak throws another interception, oh,
I mean, you know, we've seen it in the playoffs
from time to time. I don't think I'm disillusioned with
any of the players. Maybe the one I'm most frustrated
with is not because who he is is because Jerry
Jones signed him. That was Ezekiel Elliott and there's still
still just can't fathom that he's going to be the
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starting running back for this team in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
But I have no ill will for the Cowboys players.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
In fact, you know, saw some encouraging reports about Cooper
beebe in Kansas State, former Kansas State Wildcat, who I
believe took over getting first team center reps this week
over Bronck Huff And so, I mean it looks like
Dallas may end up hitting another draft pick of Cooper
BB does turn into be an excellent starting center. But
it's more my frustrations with the head coach in the
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GM and ownership.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You know, I read a thing a couple of days ago.
I meant to bring this up yesterday, and we got
to bring it up. It was kind of a Cowboy
fans frustration Meeter thing, and it wasn't just about the
way things are and you know what Jerry hasn't done
and you know, Ceedee Lamb still being unsigned, although that
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feeds into this type of thing, but there was a
subset of that, and there was like stuff like stuff
that Jerry's done and not done that gets people upset
and has had people upset. And then there's player shortcomings.
And there was a thing that was ranking asked people,
you know what singular moment about Dak Prescott bothered.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Fan the most?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And can you guess what singular moment. It might surprise
you might not, but it might not immediately come to mind.
What singular moment from Dak Prescott frustrated at least this
group of Cowboy fans who were surveyed about him from
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his entire career with the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yes, singular moment.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Singular moment, that's a good question.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I think off the top of my head, was there
a game, there's twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
This is a definite moment, this happened. There's nothing esoteric
or something like. It's a definite. Was it in Philadelphia
last year? No, although that was listed, but that wasn't it.
It might surprise you to learned that number two on
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the list was his injury.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
That's unfair. Yeah, yeah, it's unfair to him.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But you know, the most frustrating moment for this group
that was surveyed, what is it? It was the running
out of time against the forty nine ers, the running
up and them not getting the playoffs, not getting the
line of scrimmage and they put all that ondack and
that that's unfortunately, say's not but they didn't because it
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fell a a lot of different ways, you were, they
didn't get the ball to the official, They didn't do
you know, there were two or three things they didn't
do right. Although Dac with the play leading up to
that running out of time, frustrating fans about them not
getting out of bounds or not, you know, not doing
so that that one play, that one moment was the
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most frustrating moment for this group of Cowboy fans that
were surveyed about what frustrated in the most about Dak Prescott,
because you know how the fans are, a lot of
fans wanted gone. Won't matter, they don't you know, don't
resign it, let him go, trade him, do you know
all this other kind of stuff. So there was this
list of what moment in his Cowboys career has has
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bothered you the most or frustrated to you the most,
And there were five or six different ones, but the
but the one at the top was the running out
of time against the forty nine ers. Yeah, I last
year against Green Bay was was also listed there. Yeah,
I mean the whole getting to the getting into the
line of scrimmage. Cowboys lost that game for a million reasons,
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and that that wasn't the reason why. I'll just say
that there's a lot of missed opportunities in that game.
I mean Dak through I think two interceptions, Yeah, in
that game, you know those those two are more costly
than not getting the ball snapped.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I think the word singular moment, those words probably just
kind of triggered it in the mind of some Cowboy
fan who knows what triggers Cowboy fans, right.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I do you who's the most frustrating quarterback to Cowboy?
I'm guys, think it's Tony Romo. You think Romo's number one?
Just going off with the Seattle Seahawks game in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Well on the extra point. You know, history changes some things.
I would say you're probably correct, but I will tell
you this. At the time that he retired, the most
unpopular Dallas Cowboy was Don Meredith, a quarterback, because he
couldn't get them over the hump. They lost the Ice
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Bowl tough Deal day. They'd lost barely to Green Bay
the year before that, and then they had back to
back terrible losses to the Browns when they had better
records than Cleveland in the Eastern Conference Championship game. One
game was in Cleveland because they used to rotate it.
The other was in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, and
they went eleven to and one that year in sixty
nine and played terribly at home. And Craig Morton was
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the quarterback for that team. Meredith had been the quarterback
the year before they retired. And but it's funny how
time changes the perspective. I see a lot of I
perused a lot of reading on a lot of different
Facebook groups and things like that. One is about old
cowboys and stuff, and the way it's listed now is
a lot of folks feel that Don Meredith really got
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a raw deal for banged up as he was, and
I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
But to your point, yeah, probably Romo.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And then most of the loved is Roger Staubach.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Without questioning, Yeah, Aikman would be number two, but Staubach
was number one, even though Troy won more Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, but well, my dad's a cowboy.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Is Roger Captain America? Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
As a Ram fan, he was the cause of a
lot of misery and heartbreak for me. I can tell
you in the seventies meet him twice in an NFC
championship game and once in a divisional playoff, which is
which made it all the more ironic that his final
game was a playoff loss to the Rams.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
And I was there at age nineteen.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
They're in nineteen seventy nine at Texas Stadium when they
lost his final game, but a really good guy to
They had a chance to interview him two or three
times and did a show where he was out there
was when the old Tony Romans restaurant.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Shows that we did up in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Are just just a great guy, and you think about
something else, Cameron, in a world that we unfortunately have
as part of our existence CTE and what has happened
to ex football players and the brain injuries done and
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all that other kind of stuff in that kind of
world For a guy who had countable I think seven
or eight concussions in his career, it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Is not knock on wood.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But I mean he's in his eighties now, but Roger
Staubach has been not further affected by that. It's one
of the most successful commercial real estate developers in the world.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
So that was good. But yes, you're right.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
He was rated the number one among Cowboy fans, their
number one quarterback of all time.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Absolutely all right.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Coming up on the program, speaking of injuries, we're on
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floor exercise kerfuffle controversy. It's not done yet, and there's
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