Daily Download: January 4, 2024

Cowboys hall of famer Drew Pearson called in and told us about the Number 88 club text message group!

Episode Transcript

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I'd got to ask you number eightyeight currently CD Lamb? I mean,

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I guess. I mean he canmake a claim for being the best wide
receiver in football right now, canhe not? Absolutely? You know,
we text each other. We gotthe eighty eight club, me, Michael,
Dez and CD and our honorary memberof the club is Post Malone.
But we text each other, meand Michael, and I know I didn't

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even know who he was. Theyhad to tell me who he was.
I'm just learning. Yeah, butI know now he's bad. He's a
bad man. But anyway, wetext each other, me, Michael and
Dez during the game and I atone point where dead after CD scored that
long touchdown, and I said,hey, they're talking about McCaffrey, Dak

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the Kid, and Jackson up inBaltimore. I reek Hill all these guys
as potential most valuable players, Butwhat about C. D Lamb? Okay,
he had one hundred and two catches. It took me about four years
to get that many. He's gotsixteen hundred yards, ten touchdowns. Oh

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my god, those are the mostvaluable players numbers, guys. You know,
in NFL history, there's only beenone wide receiver or be labeled or
have been named as the most valuableplayer in NFL history, and that was
in nineteen forty two, a guynamed Don Cutson. Then you play for

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Green Bay. And I know thisbecause while we're texting each other, I'm
looking up this information so I canpass on to the other guys in the
eighty eight club. But yeah,that's amazing. But anyway, see he's
having that kind of year. There'sno question he's in that top three Mike
Evans, Ceed Lamb and maybe Tyreetill Off three receivers in the NFL right

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now. So see he's in goodcompany. And the best way to appreciate
CD, maybe at being the mostvaluable player on the Cowboys right now,
is to imagine him not being therein that Cowboy office. Imagine him not
having the season he's having within thatCowboy offense, inspecting the passing game.
You know, we wouldn't have anysuccess if CD wasn't doing what he's doing.

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So we're proud of CD wearing thenumber eighty eights. And we got
to give credit, some credit,guys, to Jerry Jones. He knows
how to pick some eighty eights.I'll tell you that, Okay, picked
Michael Irving and take bed Brian andfit CD Labs, So we'll let him
continue to do that. I can'ttell you how much little little Danny Cowboy

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fan growing up, loves to knowthat there is a number eighty eight text
group that communicates during Cowboy games.No, a question I have is CD
on this thread? So he getsto read all these after the game?
Yeah, after the game, nodoubt, that's awesome. He's on it.

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Oh yeah, a club and uh, you know, when we ever
got something going, we all texteach other and anything comes up that we
think that CD needs to know.You know, we go through the club
give them that information because we knowthey'll respond to this. Well. But
yeah, he's on the thread.But we you know, we text on
the game, but we don't wantCD to respond until after the game.

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Okay, he better not take thatface phone up that hattot. If you
see the ellipses, he changes hisMINDE. I have to ask on that.
So when he was drafted, isthere any discussion from Jerry or the
team with you and Michael and ifhe's worthy of the ADA? I mean,

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was there any discussion pre him beinggiven that number on dude, we're
considering doing this? Is this?Is this okay? And none that I
know of. He didn't talk tome about it. And I'm the original
ady, and you would think hewould talk to me first, you know,
about it. But no, it'sbeen him on his own. That's
why I say he's done a goodjob. Now, we hadn't done that

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great in the draft over the years, you know, but he certainly knows
how to pick eighty eights, youknow, so, but no, we
we had no say in that asfar as I know, And we'd leave
that up to Jerry Jerry Jones,just like you know, we leave the
Ring of Honor up to him.And let me say this, now that
he got his guys in and allthat clean, that cleared up, he

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needs to start reverting back to thepast a little bit and get some guys
like Harvey Martin to Tad Jones someconsideration the Walls people like that, some
consideration for the Ring of Honor.We're good buddies with Everson Walls, and
we've had him, we had himon in this exact role picking a couple
of games with us what you're aboutto do. And I've been friends with

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Everson for a long time, oneof my favorite humans. I've been lo
lucky enough to befriend my entire life, and I want him in just for
because what a good person he is. I'm glad you throw him into that
that list of greats. Absolutely andworking against him in practice. You know,
when he came in as a rookie, I said, this guy got
something, and I'm glad he playeddefensive back. Okay, because he might

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have had the second best hands onthe team. Okay, anything that he
touched he would catch. Of courseI had the best hand. Of course
I didn't think you were about tothrow that to Tony. No, Tony,
it was bad. Now he shouldbe that ring of honor too.
Look at his stats. His statsare better than mine, and he gets

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no consideration for that, and that'sthat's a shame.