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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Craig right alongside the producer camera Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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So jumping into some NFL notes, I was just talking
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about college results, some of the most surprising in the NFL.
How about the Patriots nineteen and the Bears three yesterday?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Where did that come from? I think we've seen the
end of Ebra Flus as the head coach and SHANEA.
Waldron as the oc just Bears team that was on
the up and up a few weeks ago, and now
I think with three straight losses and all have been
really ugly. Kill Williams was sacked I think nine times.
That's not helping him at all. You know, he as
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a rookie quarterback. You want to be able to protect
your rookie quarterback, helping build the progress and develop as
a quarterback. And they're doing the exact opposite. So right
now things look bleak in Chicago, as you know they
usually do with this poor football franchise. But got to
get him some help in the coaching staff, get him
some helping the defensive line.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Eberflus says, Kayleb Williams will remain the storting quarterback?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Will he remain the head coach? Says? Everything else is
on the table, by the way toward that end.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And I know we've talked quite a bit about the
Cowboys today, but that's okay. Jerry was asked in that
wholeway thing where he was ranting about the curtains and
tearing down the whole damn thing and all that.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
They asked him about.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Do you anticipate making a change before the season's over?
And he said I do not, And he said he's
regretted it ever since he when he let Wade Phillips
go in twenty ten, replaced with Jason Garrett and.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
The coachmen away through the season. Yeah, so what he's saying.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And then he mentioned about letting chan Gaily go after
a couple of games away on back and said it
wasn't enough time. After three d you gotta let you
gotta let a you gotta let a guy have some time.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
He said.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So there's no point in fire McCarthy right now. I mean,
what's done is done. And at this point, with all
the injuries and you're starting quarterback out for the year,
this team is crushed. It's over with. I mean, I
know they're mathematically still alive for the playoffs, but let's
be real, they are eliminated. So let's just get a good,
good draft pick and move on from McArthur at the
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end of the year, and then let's see where we
go from there.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You see what Michael Parsons said when he was asked
about all of that, I did, and I thought it
was blown a little bit out of proportion.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He said, Well, first of all, when you're in the
locker room, and I've been in a lot of those
NFL locker rooms and the Cowboys locker room in the past,
you had a whole bunch of people, you know, with
microphones and different recording devices and things like that, and
they're pressed it on you pretty good, and it's kind
of hot and muggy and humid in there and all
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that other kind of stuff, and they're asking a lot
of questions and maybe it'll elicit some answers that in
a different setting might not be the same.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Although I didn't think there was anything.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Damaging about what he said, he was asked if he
thought what he would tell people who were wondering whether
Mike McCarthy would be the head coach next year, and
his response was, quote, that's about my pay grade if
Mike's coach again next year. All coaching aside Mike and
leave and go where he wants to go. Guys I
kind of feel bad for is guys like Zach Martin
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and guys who might be on their last year, on
their way out, because that's who I wanted to hold
the trophy for. You want to win games and do
great things with those types of legends who put in
more time and work than Mike McCarthy ever did. So
those are the kind of guys that have so much
sympathy and hurt for. I don't think it's that bad.
I mean, he's just saying I got my teammates here. Yeah,
there's nothing wrong with that quote, but I know it's
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gotten some play because it sounds kind of flipping about
the head coach.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, when you just you know, taking out of context
like that. Like with any quote, and especially in sports,
it gets blown out of proportion. But I think what
he said makes sense, right. You mean, Zach Martin's one
of those Cowboy legends who's no Cowboys have come close
but have not gotten over that hump and likely will
end his career. You know, you think he'll be in
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the Cowboys' Ring of Honor with Tyron Smith, and I
wish Travis Frederick get there. I don't think he will,
But those three guys, those three offensive linemen a huge
part of the Cowboys being so successful in contenders in
the last two decades. So I understand where Michael Parson's
coming from. And like you mentioned, Craig, they're coming off
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of butt whopping in the locker room. You know, he's
not he's not thinking about Mike McCarthy in that in
that moment.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
He was thinking about his teammates. Yeah, and I don't
think there's anything wrong with that. Some players, you know,
to stand up and say, hey, this is all us.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
C J. Stroud did it. He said this game is
on me.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
He put it all on himself, and it wasn't all
on him. He did have, you know, a critical interception
in the game, but Jared got threw five you know.
Now you know me, I'm kind of nerdy about these
historical factoids that come up. First of all, was that
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one about the Cowboys. You heard that one, didn't you.
It's it's a gem which factoid about the Cowboys losing
at home.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
One? Okay?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I heard the one about the last quarterbacks that throw
five interceptions in the game.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, that was good last night. I'll get to that
in a minute.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
But the Dallas Cowboys yesterday became the first team in
the one hundred and four year history of the National Football.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
League to.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
And this speaks to the very reason why you don't
watch them, or why Cowboy fans are so just bent
out of shape. The Cowboys yesterday became the first team
in the history of the National Football League to lose
five straight home games by twenty or more points each.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Think about that for a moment.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Five straight home games by twenty or more points each.
That kind of tells you a lot of what you
need to know. I mean, even when Jerry World opened
in two thousand and nine, I guess it was it
was nine. I remember doing the final high school football
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game ever at Texas Stadium, in Oa Carthage winning a
state championship there in two thousand and eight, but in
two thousand nine was first year. Even then they were
struggling to win at home. And it seemed like even
in the good years, even in the good years, like
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last year, it drop an important game at home.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Last year had to be the playoff game. But you
know it's it's happened.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
So now it's five in a row by twenty or
more points, which is a brand new NFL record.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Well, so is it five out of six? Track?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Because week three at home they only lost by three points.
I guess it's five out of six as they get
the double digit lost screen Bay. Then the playoffs last
year you lost by let's see twenty five to New
Orleans at home. In week two lost by ony three
to Baltimore. But then you lost You lost to Detroit
by thirty eight points at home in Philadelphia by twenty
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eight points.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So by the last six thing, yeah, I guess. And
then there was that other one. This was here's this
We'll only tell you how old I am.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
It said.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
The Texans last night became the second team since nineteen
thirty three, that was the year they started a true
NFL championship game was nineteen thirty three, when they divided
into divisions in the East and the West, and the
Bears and the Giants meant in the first one in
nineteen thirty three, So if you start from that point,
they became the second team since nineteen thirty three to
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lose a game in which they caught five interceptions, in
our words, intercepted the other team five times and led
by at least fifteen points, because they were up twenty
three to seven in that game and had five picks. Previously,
teams were three seventy three, one and one when leading
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by at least fifteen and snagging five picks. Now here's
the part where shows how old I am. The other
time a team lost in that fact was Week eleven
in nineteen seventy. Nineteen seventy was the first year of
the merger and the Bears were playing the Colts, and
that was in an NFC and AFC team. It says
the Bears lost. The colt lost to the Colts twenty
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one to twenty despite Johnny and I was one of
the greatest quarterbacks of all time throwing five interceptions. And
the thing is, I remember that game. I was watching
that game and I hated the Colts and didn't like
the Colts back then. And the Bears led twenty to
nothing in that game, and the Colts came back and
they won the game twenty one to twenty after that, So.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Didn't Did the Colts win it? Win Super Bowl that year? Yes?
They did? Super Bowl five? They beat the Cowboys, and.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Then the next year is a Jim Plunket He threw
five receptions too, and also won the Super Bowl? Is
that is that all correct?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
No? Who was the next year? The Cowboys won it?
Okay they.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I think they probably intercepted Jim Plunkett five times. He
was a rookie that year in seventy one of the
Cowboys beat him at Texas Stadium.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
League maybe he's also did he threw at five interceptions
in the season that year? Yeah, but I knew Uniteds
did it and then won the freaking Super Bowl. So
if you're a Lions fan, hey, Jared, God keep throwing
five receptions a game.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I'm here to tell you that first year of the
merger was a very strange year. And now I was
only ten years old, but I do remember a lot
about it and I've read a lot about it over
the years. How strange that nineteen seventy season was, because
in those days they did not award home field advantage.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
They rotated who.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Got the play playoff games at home, and he had
the Vikings, who had the best defense but had an
awful offense because they couldn't come to contract terms with
Joe Capp and they let him leave and he went
to the then Boston Patriots, or last year as the
Boston Patriots before they changed their name. They had terrible offense.
Vikings did and lost a home playoff game to the
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forty nine ers, and that was the other Cowboys beat
the Lions in the last playoff game ever played in
the Cotton Bowl, and the Cowboys won that game five
to nothing, five to nothing. And then the Cowboys go
to San Francisco, even though they had the better record
than the forty nine ers, and beat the forty nine
ers in the first ever NFC championship game at old
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Keysar Stadium, which is now like a public park in
San Francisco. They moved into the Candlestick the next year
and the Cowboys won that and went to the Super
Bowl and the Colts, who had more turnovers than the
Cowboys in the Super Bowl. Should have lost that game,
but the Cowboys couldn't couldn't put it together in Craig
Morton through an untimely interception late and they lost sixteen thirteen.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
So I'd have six six rings.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Could could very easily have that one, that one for sure.
So anyway, that's that was a couple of the weird
numbers that have come out of the NFL weekend. How
about the Falcons losing to the Saints. Saints were awful,
they'd lost seven in a row and fired the coach.
Well the chief, you know, fighting away to win again
and stay alive, block a field goal when it looked
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like the Broncos and everything to win.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Hey, break up your Panthers. Two wins in a row, right, they.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Beat the beat the Giants in Germany. Did you see
the film that with all the fans that are singing
take Me Home Country Roads. Yeah, it was kind of
weird that, you know, but whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Usually they sing, uh, you know, what's the song up
in Chapel Hill they play at basketball games there for
UNC at the Dean Dome. It's not taking Home Country Roads,
it's the other Oh boy.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
They should see you that nothing could be finer than
to be in Carolina. But that's not it.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
But I'm surprised Brian Devil returned from London with the Giants.
I'm surprised he did not just go ahead.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I think he's gonna be allowed to finish out the season.
It's probably what's gonna happen. He'll finish the season, all right.
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