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January 7, 2025 10 mins
It's a Texan Tuesday on The Craig Way Show. Craig and Cam start the show with a look at the latest in the NFL Coaching Carousel and if the Dallas Cowboys will make a move and if so, who?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the program here on
Sports Radio AM thirteen Under the Zone.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
My name is Craig Way. Thanks so much for joining us.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
US, of course, includes the producer of the program, Cameron D.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Parker.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
The D on the birth certificate stands for Dallas, as
in his favorite pro football team that has packed away
the gear for the season. Now we kind of sit
and waite, and does Cameron hold his breath to see
if Mike McCarthy's going to return as head coach, or
will Jerry Jones grant the Chicago Bears permission to talk
and visit and interview McCarthy about their head coaching vacancy,

(00:34):
and if that doesn't work out, will the Jaguars or
Saints make a play for him.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
You're in a lot of suspense on this, aren't you going?
It's just killing me. I'm dying over here, Craig. Good afternoon, Yeah,
good afternoon. All right.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
So we'll do just a quick for instance here. Let's
say that for whatever reason, Mike McCarthy leaves, say he's
done with him, or he grants the Bears permission to
visit with him, and the Bears are from the job,
but he takes the job or whatever that he's nun

(01:09):
Who do you want to be the next head coach
of the Dallas Cowboys?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Who I want? I mean, I would love like Mike Frable,
but I just I don't think. Let's say the Patriots
hire him, which seems to be the watch gold and
maybe Ben Johnson, but he seems like a Chicago guy
in that division. Outside of that, I don't I don't
know where you go. I mean, I like blind Brian Floores.
But the Jerry's track record with hires, it's all right.

(01:34):
Either it's some dude that's already won a Super Bowl.
So that scares me because on the backside of his career, Yeah,
because then that leads me to think, boy, John Gruden,
is that someone that Jerry would go after? Wow, because
he's He's never really hired an up and coming coordinator, right,
I mean Jason Garrett, I would not say is up
and coming. He was just a OC for the Cowboys

(01:56):
when Wade Philips let go right before that. Before at Phillips,
it was obviously what's his name that was with the
Jets before Belichick, Well, what's his name that was?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
The other guys I think about them were coaches for
the Cowboys. Head coaches guys like Parcels Yeah, okay, all right,
or as Jerry used to call him, Bill Purcelles, sales.
You know, I think of guys like Chan Gaily and
you know, uh, there there were lots of men, right, Yeah,
there were a lot of those guys who were company men.

(02:28):
So but isn't there the reasonable expectation that whomever Jerry
hires is going to have to be a company man exactly?

Speaker 3 (02:36):
And that's why I wonder, like, is this really an
attractive job for the head coaches? Like McCarthy was out
of football for a year. I think he was kind
of like begging to get back into coaching. Now I'm
kind of surprised that the Bears want to interview him,
and I wouldn't be surprised we see the Saints or Jaguars.
But you know, I think, I don't know, is there
a number of coaches teams are supposed to interview at least, right,

(02:57):
and so are they just fulfilling that quota by getting
guys like McCarthy. I mean, Mike Gundy interviewed for a
head coaching job at one point in the NFL. Mike
Mike Gundy. So I don't know if there's anything really
to put into this. So the Bears requesting the interview him,
but in terms of if McCarthy does go, whether it's
fired or he leaves on his own, because I can't
imagine the Cowboys would accept the Bear's permission or request

(03:21):
to interview. I mean, why would you let your head
coach interview for another job if you want to keep
him back for another year. Now they're ready to part ways,
why not go ahead and part ways with him yesterday? Again,
this goes back to how Jerry Jones thinks again, Membory,
He's he's got a big acting career going on right
now with Lambsman, right, He's got to focus on his
acting career. Season two filming soon, all that good stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
But I don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Correct. It's a good question. Who would I want? I
think is vast different than who Jerry Jones would want
as a head coach.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
I would I.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Would love to have. I would have loved to have Belichick.
I would have loved to have Mike Frabel. But I
don't see Mike Frabel wanting to come coach for the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, I think Rabel would be a really good candidate.
But I don't.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
I don't think Rabel would count himself is a real
good He does not strike me as the kind of
guy who would want to be the so called Jerry
Jones company man. He does not strike me as that
kind of guy. He'd rather be a company man for
Bob Kraft because he played for all those years for

(04:18):
the Patriots, and Kraft knows him and he is I
found it interesting what Kraft said yesterday, how he put
Gerrod Mayo in what he called an untenable position, that
he wasn't ready to be a head coach, and they put
him there and said, now he's got to fire it
because of that. Okay, if it was your mistake, and
he said, those were the words, this was my mistake.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
This is on me.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Okay, Well, why don't you give him a chance to
grow in the position and see what he can do. Yeah,
they forced that way too early, Craig. I mean, obviously
Mail was not ready to be a head coach, and
now they're dealing with the consequences.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
But they get Mike Frable.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
It might work out for them because I think Frable,
obviously he's a better head coach than drowd mail at
this point because see fre able to take a Tennessee
team with Ryan Tannehill at quarterback and the AFFC Championship.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Game Yep, yep. So it's that Patriot.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Way and all that stuff connections with Foxborough and so
it'll be interesting to see where it goes here.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
All Right, I just wanted to start with a little
bit of the NFL because what we're gonna do during
a large measure of today's programs to let you hear
from long horn players and also a little bit from
Steve sarkaishan coming up. We're going to do that. There
was a little bit of sark sound we didn't get
to yesterday. I want to get to that. We'll do that.
But you're going to hear from Matthew Golden. You're going

(05:34):
to hear from some other Longhorn offensive players. Yesterday we
heard from defensive players. You'll hear from some offensive player
Jake Majors, the Longhorn center, you'll hear from them, Gunner
Helm on the Titan, and of course the quarterback. You'll
hear from quin Ewers that's coming up at the four
o'clock hour. You'll hear from viewers in Helm and Kelvin
Banks in the four o'clock hour. But we've got some

(05:54):
other Longhorn players we're going to get to. And we
are also going to take a take a close look
at the upcoming NFL playoffs.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
We'll do that.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
We're also going to take an upcoming look at the
college football playoffs down to the semifinal round. Almost, Cameron
at almost seems like an after thought that there's another
college football playoff semifinal before this and I and the
only reason why I say that is I say that

(06:28):
in this town because everyone is dialed into Texas Ohio State,
and I would imagine it's the same thing in Columbus, Ohio,
where folks are dialed into Ohio State and Texas, but
Notre Dame in Penn State. Two blue blood programs will
meet in Miami Gardens, Florida there at and what was

(06:50):
it called hard Rock Stadium, the Rock Cafe Stadium, Yeah,
on Thursday night in the Orange Bowl game.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
And it did look for a while.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
As though there was the possibility when these playoffs were
first starting, based on and we were thinking about higher
seeds advancing that Texas might wind up if there was
an upset, But not all of the top four seeds
who drew first round bys getting knocked out. If that
had not happened, but one or two of the higher

(07:21):
seeds that Texas might actually have to wind up going
to Miami and play in the Orange Bowl. That's not
the case. So they're in Arlington. I on purpose. Make
sure I'm not saying Dallas. I know that's the way
National TV in National Bee was that either going to Dallas.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
They're going to.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Arlington is eighteen miles west of Dallas. It's in entirely
different county. It's in Terran County. There's a reason Jerry
Jones had that stadium built there because it was going
to work out money. By same thing with the Texas
Rangers when they first moved down from Washington all the
way back in nineteen seventy one, my broadcast mentor Bill
Mercer told me that there was very little consideration of

(08:05):
build a major league ballpark in Dallas, and so the
old Turnpike Stadium there in Arlington seemed to be a
logical home.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
And that's where it wound up.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
The Mavericks and Stars are playing in Dallas because they
had originally Reunion Arenup built for that purpose and then
the American Airline Center. But it's Arlington for the Cowboys
and Rangers. By the way, Cam speaking, which marked this
on your calendar, that a week from this Thursday, No,
two weeks from this Thursday, So sixteen days from now,

(08:35):
two weeks from this Thursday, the Texas Rangers Caravan is
coming back to Dell Diamond. Ooh see, I knew that
would act urne interest. The Rangers Caravan will be back
here in the Greater Austin area. Will be a Dell
Diamond around Rock. But anyway, the Loghorns play the Ohio
State Buckeyes in Arlington, and that's coming up on Friday,

(08:59):
NYE eight. There will be those of us who will
head up tomorrow. Now we do have Longhorn Weekly. We're
recording with head coach Rodney Terry tomorrow evening at Pluckers
from six to seven o'clock. The show will air on
Thursday night at seven. Normally you'll hear Rodney Terry live
at six o'clock on Thursday nights here on the Zone.

(09:23):
But because of the compressed schedule for both men's basketball
and for the football program, and.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
For athletic staff and so many other reasons.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
The program is going to be recorded tomorrow out at Pluckers,
So if you want to come out for the program,
feel free to do so. We're going to record that
from six to seven o'clock tomorrow. It will air seven
o'clock on Thursday night, just so you'll know. That'll be
the situation with Longhorn weekly with Rodney Terry, and then
those of us will head up to Arlington. The final
head coaches press conference will take place on Thursday about

(09:58):
twelve thirty, and then the tech As women have a
home game on Thursday night against Alabama. Good Alabama team,
they're number eighteen in the country, they're fifteen and one
coming in to Moody Center.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
That's on Thursday night.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
And then of course the Cotton Bowl game itself in
the semifinals. The college Football playoff will be Friday, and
our coverage will begin at three thirty Friday afternoon or
Cam and Mike Hardball hard and Mark Henry will all
be at Boomer Jacks in Arlington.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's about a mile from the States, not far.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
It's a great place to go. It's a Galliper form
in great sports bar there. It's on North Collins right there.
Collins and I thirty. It's easy to get to and
easy to get from there to the stadium. They'll be
there at three thirty on Friday, and then of course
network pregame at five thirty and the kickoff will actually
be at six forty five, so that's where it'll be,
all right. Up next, we're gonna hear from Longhorns receiver

(10:50):
Matthew Golden, also from Long Horns head coach Steve Sarkisian
when we continue here on sports Radio AM thirteen under
the Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
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