August 19, 2024 • 12 mins
Former Texas Longhorn great Colt McCoy announced his retirement from the NFL after 14 season with five NFL teams. McCoy, who led the Horns to the 2009 BCS National Championship, announced he will enter the TV booth as a college football analyst for NBC Sports this season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Craig Wag joined by the producer Cameron Parker here in
our number three. I know that obviously we're all zeroed
in on football, makes perfect sense. But I've got some
baseball notes we'll get to this hour that we'll talk
about as well, and we'll get to those, but I
(00:20):
go back to football first. As I mentioned going into
the top of the hour, here we are twelve days
to kick off, and the number twelve was worn by
a lot of different Longhorn football players over the years,
on both sides of the ball, offensively and defensively. Incidentally,
(00:43):
on the current Texas roster, there's a couple of triple numbers.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Where there are.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
At least at least one of those. If I'm pulling
that up, I think there's because I was looking at
the roster the other day. And of course the way
that the NCAA does this is that you are you
(01:18):
can have duplicate numbers clearly on your roster, but obviously
they can't be on the field at the same time.
So the way it almost always breaks down is one
player on offense, one player on defense, and for the
Loghorns you have two number three, so you have quinn
(01:41):
Ewers on the offensive side. You have Jalen Gilbo on
the defensive side. You have two number fours, although only
one will be out there on the field since CJ.
Baxter is out for the year. Andrew mccoubaugh also wears for.
You have two number fives Malik Muhammad on the defense,
Ryan weing Go on the offense. So anyway this goes on,
(02:01):
and you have like two number sevens Jaddey Baron and
Isaiah Bond, two number eights Trey Moore and Amari ny Black,
two number nine Jared Gibson and Gavin Holmes. There are
three number elevens now, one of those is Silas Bolden,
who's wide receiver. One of those is Colin Simmons, the
(02:25):
freshman edge rusher, and one is McCoy His first name
is McCoy McCoy Bruce, who's a freshman from Bernie.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And he's a dB.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So safe to say that if McCoy bruce is on
the field, Colin Simmons will not be on the field.
There Silas Bolden could be out there as an offensive
player or a punk return if you had that. There
are also three number fifteen's now, the odds of all
(02:56):
three well First of all, they can't all be out
there at the same time. As we know, you have
Bill Norton, who's the transfer from Arizona defensive lineman. He
wears fifteen. Will Stone, who handles kickoffs, the junior from
the region school, wears fifteen. Also, freshman quarterback Trey Owens
(03:17):
wears fifteen. But it is certainly conceivable and feasible that
against at the very least some of the non conference opponents,
if not Colorado State, maybe UTSA or ul Monroe, if
things go well, that maybe Trey Owens might get into
a ballgame. And if he did, you have to make sure.
(03:40):
Obviously Bill Norton wouldn't be out there because that'd be
defense and Will Stone would be the kickoffs. Just had
to make sure they're not. That's offense, defense, and special teams.
So there are a couple of triple numbers there, but
lots of double numbers. As you might imagine the number sixteen's.
(04:01):
You have Arch Manning Michael taff they're both number sixteens.
Ryan Niblett, whom Sark mentioned last hours really coming on
a receiver, he wears eighteen. Joe Tatum, who's a walk
on quarterback, also wears number eighteen, but Leongolezal wears eighteen,
so that's that's also the possibility. So like we say,
(04:22):
there's multiple numbers off of that, there's even in some
case in some triple numbers there as well.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It's nice for the double numbers, you know, because in
case I might be spotting for you, Craig or you
know you should.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I think I'm gonna have to call on you once
or twice this season to step in. My son Andy
won't be available for all games a couple other issues,
so he't he won't be different, So yeah, you may
have to step in and do a game or two.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So it's nice for you to have that, right, Yeah,
and for both of us to know that A forty
five there's a big difference between Ferd and Broughton and
Burt Auburn. You know, one six foot four, three hundred,
the other ones six hair has different hair.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Hair.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So that's help before the opposing broadcasters as well on
the TV broadcasters and whoever spotting for the TV network
snow forty five. Okay, it's probably not the kicker who
just sacked the Colorado State quarterback.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, there was a game. It was the twenty ten season,
the five and ten, No, it wasn't. It was two
thousand and six and Texas was playing at Nebraska and
Brent Musburger was working the telecast and he called the
(05:39):
wrong name of the placekicker for Texas who kicked the
game winning field goal through the snowflakes in Lincoln. It
was Ryan Bailey from Anderson High, who had just recently
had been added to the team of the roster because
of injuries in the kicking game. And I always remember
talking about it with John Bianco because I heard about
(06:01):
this in John of course handles. He and his staff
do a great job with the media relations for Texas,
and John said, I told him, we all told him,
but you know, sometimes it comes out to the spot
and the spider may just pointed to the wrong guy.
And Ryan Bailey was one of who knocked it through
and for that in that win against Nebraska back in
those six As we mentioned, easily easily the most celebrated
(06:26):
number twelve is Colt McCoy. His name is on the stadium.
He was the Maxwell Award winner, Walter Camp Award winner.
So I saw somebody tweeting at Crystal Conti the other
day saying we need to add when it was sixteen
days to kick off there, we need to add James Straight.
He was twenty and oh as a starter and won
(06:46):
a national championship. He's got it. We have to add
his name. And CDC gave a really good response to
the gentleman and said, unfortunately, the way the parameters are
were you must have been a National Player of the year.
He said those guidelines were set down by DKR himself
(07:07):
and I do not feel it is my duty to
change his policy on that. And so there are many
who feel like he's that James Straight, who was incredible
and was twenty to zero as a starter and they
did win the national championship in sixty nine, should be
up there. The criteria involves being a National Player of
(07:29):
the year. And Cole McCoy did not win the Heisman,
could have, if not should have won it in eight
was a finalist both to eight nine. But he was
a Walter Camp National Player of the Year and that's
a national award, and he was a Maxwell Award winner
(07:50):
as a National Player of the year. He won multiple
National Player of the Year. So anyway, his numbers up
on the stadium and then of course, it was off
to the NFL, where Colt has spent the vast majority
of his career as a backup quarterback. Card Down a
very nice living as a backup quarterback in the NFL,
(08:10):
and had his time as a starter as well, briefly
hit a career that has spanned fourteen seasons with five teams,
but he is officially retiring from football and moving into
the broadcast booth. On a video he said thank you football.
(08:31):
He posted the social media two time finals for the
Eisman Trophy, as I mentioned, and he was drafted in
the third round by the Cleveland Browns in twenty ten.
He wound up. He had thirty six career starts with
the Browns, the forty nine Ers, the Commanders, the Giants,
and the Cardinals, where he last played in twenty twenty two.
(08:53):
He threw four nearly eight thousand yards, thirty four touchdowns
thirty two interceptions during his pro career. Cam I'm sure
you'll remember the night that he stepped in his quarterback
for the Washington Commanders, and they were wearing they were
the Redskins back then, and they were wearing the old
throwback nineteen seventy and seventy one redskins uniforms that had
(09:15):
the yellow helmet with the R on the side, the
one that was designed by Vince Lombardi that they never
wore because Lombardi passed away before the before they played
in nineteen seventy, but he was one who designed it
kind of patterned a little bit after Green Bay's helmet,
and they weren't in seventy and seventy one and they
(09:35):
were wearing those uniforms and they beat the Cowboys that
night at Jerry World with Colt at quarterback.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You remember that night, Yeah, Monday Night football. Yeah, Cowboys
had a fantastic were having a great season. Think they
ended up going think they were six and two going
into that game or six and one, something like that.
And McCoy comes in and he had this incredible scramble
out of the pocket to his left and was kind
of towards the first down, and the Cowboy backer came
(10:03):
up and he just floated this little touch past the sideline,
and I remember thinking, like, man, that's the Colt McCoy
of old. I wasn't either. I think most Cowboy fans
weren't even mad. If if you're a Texas fan and
just like Hey, if we're gonna lose to the Washington Redskins,
at least it was the Longhorn. That quarterback. I mean
it threw for Twitter ninety nine yards in that game.
(10:24):
I had a rushing touchdown that was. That was a
fun game for Cold To be able to do it
in Dallas too. I don't know that his only win
in Dallas, but to do it in his home state,
I know he.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Had been an awful lot to him, no doubt. And
in visiting with his dad, Brad McCoy, who's worked as
an analyst with me on some of the high school
state championship games, it was. It was a big moment
for the family, no doubt about it. Well, now Colts
going into the broadcast booth. He's going to work for
NBC on Big Ten telecast college football. You'll serve as
(10:57):
an analyst and make his debut on September seventh with
the Colorado Nebraska game. How about that as a debut?
Is quote was College football has always held a special
place in my heart. With the expansion of the Big
Ten and new era of college football, it's the perfect
time to join NBC Sports. I can't wait to share
(11:17):
in the passion, excitement, and competitive spirit every week. So
good for cold As. I used to say the kid
from Buffalo Gap because that's where he really was from.
It was not Abilene, it was not Tuscola, and jim
Ned was the high school in Tuscola, but he was
really the family place is in Buffalo Gap, which is
(11:41):
kind of between Abilene and Tuscola, and that's where he
was from. And I'm proud of him. That's that's really
good for him. All right, coming up, we'll turn our
attention back to the current Texas quarterback because heysked. There
was another question about quen you weres in the leadership
quotient asked of Long Horn's head coach, Steve Sarcasian. We'll
(12:02):
hear Sar talk about that and more when we continue
on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the
iHeartRadio app
Craig Wag joined by the producer Cameron Parker here in
our number three. I know that obviously we're all zeroed
in on football, makes perfect sense. But I've got some
baseball notes we'll get to this hour that we'll talk
about as well, and we'll get to those, but I
(00:20):
go back to football first. As I mentioned going into
the top of the hour, here we are twelve days
to kick off, and the number twelve was worn by
a lot of different Longhorn football players over the years,
on both sides of the ball, offensively and defensively. Incidentally,
(00:43):
on the current Texas roster, there's a couple of triple numbers.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Where there are.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
At least at least one of those. If I'm pulling
that up, I think there's because I was looking at
the roster the other day. And of course the way
that the NCAA does this is that you are you
(01:18):
can have duplicate numbers clearly on your roster, but obviously
they can't be on the field at the same time.
So the way it almost always breaks down is one
player on offense, one player on defense, and for the
Loghorns you have two number three, so you have quinn
(01:41):
Ewers on the offensive side. You have Jalen Gilbo on
the defensive side. You have two number fours, although only
one will be out there on the field since CJ.
Baxter is out for the year. Andrew mccoubaugh also wears for.
You have two number fives Malik Muhammad on the defense,
Ryan weing Go on the offense. So anyway this goes on,
(02:01):
and you have like two number sevens Jaddey Baron and
Isaiah Bond, two number eights Trey Moore and Amari ny Black,
two number nine Jared Gibson and Gavin Holmes. There are
three number elevens now, one of those is Silas Bolden,
who's wide receiver. One of those is Colin Simmons, the
(02:25):
freshman edge rusher, and one is McCoy His first name
is McCoy McCoy Bruce, who's a freshman from Bernie.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And he's a dB.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So safe to say that if McCoy bruce is on
the field, Colin Simmons will not be on the field.
There Silas Bolden could be out there as an offensive
player or a punk return if you had that. There
are also three number fifteen's now, the odds of all
(02:56):
three well First of all, they can't all be out
there at the same time. As we know, you have
Bill Norton, who's the transfer from Arizona defensive lineman. He
wears fifteen. Will Stone, who handles kickoffs, the junior from
the region school, wears fifteen. Also, freshman quarterback Trey Owens
(03:17):
wears fifteen. But it is certainly conceivable and feasible that
against at the very least some of the non conference opponents,
if not Colorado State, maybe UTSA or ul Monroe, if
things go well, that maybe Trey Owens might get into
a ballgame. And if he did, you have to make sure.
(03:40):
Obviously Bill Norton wouldn't be out there because that'd be
defense and Will Stone would be the kickoffs. Just had
to make sure they're not. That's offense, defense, and special teams.
So there are a couple of triple numbers there, but
lots of double numbers. As you might imagine the number sixteen's.
(04:01):
You have Arch Manning Michael taff they're both number sixteens.
Ryan Niblett, whom Sark mentioned last hours really coming on
a receiver, he wears eighteen. Joe Tatum, who's a walk
on quarterback, also wears number eighteen, but Leongolezal wears eighteen,
so that's that's also the possibility. So like we say,
(04:22):
there's multiple numbers off of that, there's even in some
case in some triple numbers there as well.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It's nice for the double numbers, you know, because in
case I might be spotting for you, Craig or you
know you should.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I think I'm gonna have to call on you once
or twice this season to step in. My son Andy
won't be available for all games a couple other issues,
so he't he won't be different, So yeah, you may
have to step in and do a game or two.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So it's nice for you to have that, right, Yeah,
and for both of us to know that A forty
five there's a big difference between Ferd and Broughton and
Burt Auburn. You know, one six foot four, three hundred,
the other ones six hair has different hair.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Hair.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So that's help before the opposing broadcasters as well on
the TV broadcasters and whoever spotting for the TV network
snow forty five. Okay, it's probably not the kicker who
just sacked the Colorado State quarterback.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, there was a game. It was the twenty ten season,
the five and ten, No, it wasn't. It was two
thousand and six and Texas was playing at Nebraska and
Brent Musburger was working the telecast and he called the
(05:39):
wrong name of the placekicker for Texas who kicked the
game winning field goal through the snowflakes in Lincoln. It
was Ryan Bailey from Anderson High, who had just recently
had been added to the team of the roster because
of injuries in the kicking game. And I always remember
talking about it with John Bianco because I heard about
(06:01):
this in John of course handles. He and his staff
do a great job with the media relations for Texas,
and John said, I told him, we all told him,
but you know, sometimes it comes out to the spot
and the spider may just pointed to the wrong guy.
And Ryan Bailey was one of who knocked it through
and for that in that win against Nebraska back in
those six As we mentioned, easily easily the most celebrated
(06:26):
number twelve is Colt McCoy. His name is on the stadium.
He was the Maxwell Award winner, Walter Camp Award winner.
So I saw somebody tweeting at Crystal Conti the other
day saying we need to add when it was sixteen
days to kick off there, we need to add James Straight.
He was twenty and oh as a starter and won
(06:46):
a national championship. He's got it. We have to add
his name. And CDC gave a really good response to
the gentleman and said, unfortunately, the way the parameters are
were you must have been a National Player of the year.
He said those guidelines were set down by DKR himself
(07:07):
and I do not feel it is my duty to
change his policy on that. And so there are many
who feel like he's that James Straight, who was incredible
and was twenty to zero as a starter and they
did win the national championship in sixty nine, should be
up there. The criteria involves being a National Player of
(07:29):
the year. And Cole McCoy did not win the Heisman,
could have, if not should have won it in eight
was a finalist both to eight nine. But he was
a Walter Camp National Player of the Year and that's
a national award, and he was a Maxwell Award winner
(07:50):
as a National Player of the year. He won multiple
National Player of the Year. So anyway, his numbers up
on the stadium and then of course, it was off
to the NFL, where Colt has spent the vast majority
of his career as a backup quarterback. Card Down a
very nice living as a backup quarterback in the NFL,
(08:10):
and had his time as a starter as well, briefly
hit a career that has spanned fourteen seasons with five teams,
but he is officially retiring from football and moving into
the broadcast booth. On a video he said thank you football.
(08:31):
He posted the social media two time finals for the
Eisman Trophy, as I mentioned, and he was drafted in
the third round by the Cleveland Browns in twenty ten.
He wound up. He had thirty six career starts with
the Browns, the forty nine Ers, the Commanders, the Giants,
and the Cardinals, where he last played in twenty twenty two.
(08:53):
He threw four nearly eight thousand yards, thirty four touchdowns
thirty two interceptions during his pro career. Cam I'm sure
you'll remember the night that he stepped in his quarterback
for the Washington Commanders, and they were wearing they were
the Redskins back then, and they were wearing the old
throwback nineteen seventy and seventy one redskins uniforms that had
(09:15):
the yellow helmet with the R on the side, the
one that was designed by Vince Lombardi that they never
wore because Lombardi passed away before the before they played
in nineteen seventy, but he was one who designed it
kind of patterned a little bit after Green Bay's helmet,
and they weren't in seventy and seventy one and they
(09:35):
were wearing those uniforms and they beat the Cowboys that
night at Jerry World with Colt at quarterback.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You remember that night, Yeah, Monday Night football. Yeah, Cowboys
had a fantastic were having a great season. Think they
ended up going think they were six and two going
into that game or six and one, something like that.
And McCoy comes in and he had this incredible scramble
out of the pocket to his left and was kind
of towards the first down, and the Cowboy backer came
(10:03):
up and he just floated this little touch past the sideline,
and I remember thinking, like, man, that's the Colt McCoy
of old. I wasn't either. I think most Cowboy fans
weren't even mad. If if you're a Texas fan and
just like Hey, if we're gonna lose to the Washington Redskins,
at least it was the Longhorn. That quarterback. I mean
it threw for Twitter ninety nine yards in that game.
(10:24):
I had a rushing touchdown that was. That was a
fun game for Cold To be able to do it
in Dallas too. I don't know that his only win
in Dallas, but to do it in his home state,
I know he.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Had been an awful lot to him, no doubt. And
in visiting with his dad, Brad McCoy, who's worked as
an analyst with me on some of the high school
state championship games, it was. It was a big moment
for the family, no doubt about it. Well, now Colts
going into the broadcast booth. He's going to work for
NBC on Big Ten telecast college football. You'll serve as
(10:57):
an analyst and make his debut on September seventh with
the Colorado Nebraska game. How about that as a debut?
Is quote was College football has always held a special
place in my heart. With the expansion of the Big
Ten and new era of college football, it's the perfect
time to join NBC Sports. I can't wait to share
(11:17):
in the passion, excitement, and competitive spirit every week. So
good for cold As. I used to say the kid
from Buffalo Gap because that's where he really was from.
It was not Abilene, it was not Tuscola, and jim
Ned was the high school in Tuscola, but he was
really the family place is in Buffalo Gap, which is
(11:41):
kind of between Abilene and Tuscola, and that's where he
was from. And I'm proud of him. That's that's really
good for him. All right, coming up, we'll turn our
attention back to the current Texas quarterback because heysked. There
was another question about quen you weres in the leadership
quotient asked of Long Horn's head coach, Steve Sarcasian. We'll
(12:02):
hear Sar talk about that and more when we continue
on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the
iHeartRadio app
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