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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Greetings and welcome in side the Dan Patrick Show here
at Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith and Rob Parker in
for Dan and the Danets. So much football we have
for you this morning. Rob Parker actually was sleeping in
the parking garage ready to do this show today. After
the Cowboys loss yesterday. You got in your car about

(00:22):
eight o'clock at night, drove in. You had Duncan donuts.
I passed by you this morning. I knocked on your
window and said, hey, come on, we're going to do
the show. You got up. You were ready to come
in because you love Dak Prescott. Yes, I had to
jump in. I just couldn't wait to get here, just
because we've been talking about this all year long. I
mean for people who are riding the Dak Prescott do

(00:45):
you remember the first three games of the year. They
were great? Oh, yes, they were awesome. He piled up
these big numbers. Oh he's elite. To Cowboys would be
crazy not to give him the big contract right sign him.
Dak has taken that next step. The Cowboys are going
to the super Bowl because Dak Prescott has elevated his game.
They have a running game, they have a defense, they

(01:07):
have receivers. They have everything. They still do have all
those things, they just don't have enough wins. They don't
have wins. They have eight losses now. And when you
think about that, think about this only one win against
a team with a five hundred record. That was the
Rams last week, which kind of threw everybody like, oh,
wait a minute, maybe maybe this isn't gonna be that bad.

(01:28):
They're gonna come to Philly who's banged up, bruise, battered,
whatever you want to say, and they'll steamroll them, win
the division right for the third time in four years,
and all will be right in Dallas Land. No way, no,
how did that happen? Because that might be one of
the worst losses Enfranchise history for that team. So when

(01:49):
you think about how bad shape the Eagles are in
and what was at stake for the Cowboys, See, I'd
bought in. I look, the roster is so talented. The
NFC East is not picked them to go to Sea.
I picked him go to the NFC Championship. Wow, I
hadn't going to edit. I had them not going to
the playoffs, and all the beginning of the season, all
season long, I was okay. Well, now now We're going
to see the real cowboys right now. We're gonna see

(02:11):
him right now, now that Ezekiel Elliott is back in shape,
now we're gonna see him now. I felt like I
was in high school and the girl kept saying, yeah, yeah,
we'll go out at some point. Yeah, yeah, you know
I'm breaking up with so and so. All right, yeah, no,
that's cool, that's cool. It's all good, all right, all right,
how about this week? No, this week's not good, but
maybe next week we can go go and do all right,
all right, great, Greig, And I kept waiting. It's been

(02:32):
it's been four months of waiting. I mean I did
that in high school too, but it's been four months
of waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, and then yesterday they don't
give his equel at the football, which which is mind
boggling considering considering his success against the Eagles. They don't
give him the foot, leave him thirteen carries. And this
is why you look. It comes down too. It wasn't
like it was a blowout and you needed to throw
the ball and we down no one score game, you

(02:55):
went through, you were within striking distance. Why do you
not run the football? This is where this is the
game where if you were making the Jason Garrett coffin,
you were putting tap tap tap tap tap tap tap
tap tap tap tap. Oh, I'm just putting the final
nails in tap top tap tap tap tap tap tap
tap tap tap tap tap tap, because you had yesterday
everything on display of what's going to happen with the

(03:15):
Cowboys now that they failed. This is Jerry Jones's roster, right,
He's never going to take responsibility for it. He put
together a pretty talented roster top to bottom. Are they thin, Yes,
they're thin. They have a lot of stars at the top.
And you go eleven deep on offense, eleven deep on defense.
That's that's pretty talented. But they don't have depth because
you're top paid players are all offensive linemen. Jason Garrett

(03:38):
is going to bear the brunt of this, and I
can't defend him at all, especially when you look at
the final play, the real final play of the game yesterday,
the fourth down play. Their entire season is on this play, right,
It's fourth and eight. They gotta get in the end zone.
They got to get two point conversion. Not on the
field is a Mari Cooper and Randall copwl right. Amari

(03:59):
Cooper's says, I had just run a go route to
play before the coaches took me out Randall Cobble. He
didn't ask to be They just said, come out Randall Cobb,
who had caught three passes on that drive and was
uncoverable on that final drive. He is on the sideline.
Why is he out on the field? And who they
throw the ball too? Is Michael Gallup who had just
dropped a short touchdown pass three passes before, well, you know,

(04:22):
by the way, and then Dak Press got missus Tavon
Austin on what should have been a touchdown pass six plays.
How are your two biggest threats on the play of
the season. You need this, I understand. We want to
keep three timeouts because we're gonna have to might give
him the ball back and we might want to, you know,
have the timeouts left. This is where you call a timeout, too,

(04:42):
said you gotta put your best players out, have to
call a timeout. Could you need to get just what
you said, your best players on the field. Foot at
that that was the season, that could have been the season.
Right now you went from uh, your fate was in
your own hands. So now you can win next weekend,
it still won't matter. So you just gave that up,
and why not call a time out. Let's get our

(05:04):
best players out there on this most important drive. The
game is still not out of reach because you can
get a touchdown at the two point conversion, tied at
least forced it to overtime, right, and still have a
chance to come back when you were basically dead the
whole game. And to say that here Jerry Jones say
he's disappointed. If I'm a Cowboys fan, I'm I'm pissed. Disappointed.

(05:28):
How about devastated that they can't beat beat up Philadelphia
Eagles team. I know the game was in Philly, but
still they should have been able to go in there
and beat them. Dak and that all the talk was
that Dak and Ezekiel had never lost to the Eagles, right,
Oh no, those guys they had never lost to the

(05:48):
Eagles together. So now they go in there in the
biggest game of the year. But this has been them
all year, other than the first three games where they
piled up numbers and all that stuff against the also
rans and really terrible teams of Miami, Washington and uh.
I forgot the other team, but the three bad teams
early on in the season, I would say the Jets,
but the Jets actually beat them Redskins offense. And then

(06:13):
I'm glad you brought that up because the other game
was the Jets game, and the Jets have played better
of late, but not when the Cowboys had played them.
The Jets were still bad and uh and they couldn't
beat the Jets. So this is bad. And I'm gonna
say this and proclaim it. I say it to Chris
Bussard on The Odd Couple on Fox Sports Radio all
the time. You're doing shout outs on the show, right,

(06:34):
Dak Presscrott. It's a fraud. He's a straight up fraud, Jason.
And you could pile up all these numbers and tell
me about his intangibles and all of his teammates like
him and all the other stuff that goes there. That's
a game you gotta win. It's the same guy when
New Orleans was down uh and and didn't have um

(06:58):
Drew Brees and didn't throw a touchdown in that game
and lost. Do you remember that? That's another game he
didn't throw a touchdown. Wait, is he the is he
the myth pote for you? Is he the most fraudulent
player of all time? The place you have the you
have them, but you have the m boat hat exactly,
that's right, which is the Hayting his brother of all time?
The boat. Yeah, so he got exactly you got a

(07:21):
hat with that made on him. We got to do
that because Brady is the lot the luckiest of all time.
Lebron is the fote final failure of all times. And
and uh, you have the whole like you could be
like the new LaVar ball with these hats you have
out there. And Kevin Durant is the missout, the most
sensitive of all time. You could have a pop up
shop going on with all these hats. Gunn there we go. Hey,

(07:42):
I'm rubber. Hey, come on and buy my hat whatever
you want. I could personalize it for you. You want.
Adam Gates, you got w oway t worst of all
time for you. But I'll tell you I'm just like,
go ahead, cowboys, I understand signed him. Maybe that's the
reason that they haven't signed him yet. It is because
they don't fully believe in him. But if you could
sit there and make all the excuses about drop passes yesterday,

(08:05):
drop passes happy happened every game in the NFL, So
don't give me that. What about the miss throws, Well,
guys will open well. Guy said he missed Tavon Austin
on a huge throw. You know you know who he is,
Dak Prescott, even if you want to just take this
season into account. Jason Smith Rob Parker in for Dan
and the Danettes here on Fox Sports Radio. His worst

(08:27):
games of the year, right, Dak Prescott's his best games
versus worst games. His best games were against the Giants, Redskins,
the Giants, Detroit, and the Rams. Right, those are those
are his highly rated, most highly rated games. Quarterback rating
was up over one ten. What are those five teams
have in common? Their defense is stink right, even the

(08:48):
Rams defense? How many times has that gotten torched this year?
It's not the same defense. Who were his worst games
against where his quarterback rating is up around ninety or below. Chicago, Buffalo,
New England, New Orleans, Green Bay and the Jets. Those
are all defenses that are either pretty good or do

(09:09):
a few things pretty well defensively. The Jets run defense
is really good. But those are his worst games. So
he was great when the opposition was okay or and
the defense was just okay. But against the best teams,
those are all his worst games. I mean, that's who
Dak Prescots. At the very least for the Cowboys, his
price has gone down. I mean, you can't say, here's

(09:30):
thirty seven million dollars year for Dak Prescott after this show.
At least Erry Jones can say, well, I'm saving about
twelve or fifteen million a year, down about down about
eight million a year, and now it's about a franchise tag.
I wouldn't sign this guy after this year? Are you
kidding me? Not? At this point, and then there's those
people tell you it's only going to cost you more later.
You got to really determine and decide where he fits

(09:51):
in because this team is way too talented. People were
talking Super Bowl. You you yourself, Jason, you had him
in the NFC Championship Game. The reason I picked them
to miss the playoffs. I was duped. I was young.
You would dupe. You didn't know what it was in college.
It was one time I don't know what I did
and you didn't inhale right, no, no, no, there's no video,

(10:12):
no video. But I didn't buy into dak because the
roster's there. This is the reason I picked them not
nt to make the playoffs. And people said I was crazy, Ah,
you just hate the Cowboys. No, it's the same reason
I didn't buy into the Browns where everybody got on
that bandwagon. I did not pick the Browns. You know what,
I picked Baltimore to win. I picked Pittsburgh and the

(10:36):
Browns not to make the playoffs. Didn't you you had
a Dolphins Redskins Super Bowl. I did not have. No
you did. You had a Dolphins Red scot I think
you had that on your list. That was the games
we picked. I think that's what you had. That was
the day I quit the radio. How old are you?
I quit the radio. Quit the radio. I'm I'm not
gonna go watch my programs. I quit the radio. Let's

(10:56):
hear from Jerry Jones real faster. This is him talking
about his disappointment after the loss yesterday to the Philadelphia Eagles.
It is very meaningful get him because of the content
of their circumstances within the league. And we've had times
this year, a lot when we didn't play as well
as we wanted to play, but we had in mind

(11:19):
stepping back up here and getting on run and having
some good things happened. This is the disappointing set back
for that lock woman for all. Let must not know
what it is for the fans. Now there's the reality
for Dak Prescott, and then there's the reality of what
the Dallas Cowboys are gonna do. Dak Prescott is Jerry
Jones's guy, right, Jerry Jones who goes out of the

(11:39):
way to tell you I'm the GM of this team,
right when at big in radio interview couples, I don't know,
I don't everything comes to me any right. I would
say the players are never gonna be his fault. It's
gonna be here are the players, and how are you
going to make them into winners? Because I'm giving you
the players, right, So Dak Prescott is going to be fine.

(11:59):
He'll still stay because oh that that's who we drafted
to replace Tony and he's everybody on this roster is
Jerry Jones's guy, everything else, everything else. So it's going
to be Jason Garrett obviously. And the one thing he
had going for him was we can still win the
NFC East. We can maybe get into the playoffs and

(12:20):
pull a surprise the first week. You never know what
could happen, and I could keep my job. But now
that's not going to happen because now they're gonna miss
because the Eagles have the Giants next week, and it's
gonna be a long off season, and it's going to
be the time where Jerry Jones decides, because he does
this every few years, I'm gonna go with a strong
head coach, and then it's puppets that wind up doing

(12:44):
what I want. But every once in a while he's
got which is white with bill parcels for those couples,
I I gotta jump up the franchise a little bit.
So that's why he's gone out of his way to
talk about obliquely around Oh we're not talking to urban Meyer.
Doesn't mean I wouldn't talk to Urban Meyer. Lincoln Rile,
even though was in his suite right he thought, Yeah,
he's gonna go with a big name because he needs

(13:05):
to take make sure this roster now gets to the
next level. So he's gonna wind up doing that. It's
gonna be a big name. It's happening. That's the guy
who had the worst day out of anybody. Yesterday's Jason Garrett.
We'll have more on this, more on all the big
action from yesterday in the National Football League, Odell Beckham's
rant on the sideline, and more. Keep it right here,
Jason Smith, Rob Parker. This is Fox Sports Radio. Be

(13:25):
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So it wasn't just the Cowboys who lost a big
game yesterday. We saw the Browns get eliminated after their
loss in Odell Beckham Junior got into a bit of
a sideline rant. Officials, don't worry, which it's about the

(13:48):
official Everything is fine, Everything's fine. Joining us down the hotline.
No one better to break it down. The editor in
chief at fansided dot com, longtime NFL insider, and this
may shock you, Rob park He is a Pro Football
Hall of Fame voter. Wow, it is Jason cole Jacoles happening.
What's up? Number one? Where's my intro music? Because I

(14:09):
just can't do this without being in the right mood
and frame of mind. So that's number one. You know,
this just go on during the day. No, no, no no,
I speak at this moment, interrupt me, excuse me? How
this works? Okay, if you're going to do the show,
do it right and make sure that I have my
proper music. Okay, I'm an artist. How this works? Artist

(14:31):
formerly known as Jason Cole Now he's the Taylor Swift
of football at I have serious diva qualities. Okay. So
that's number one. Okay, Number two. I think Chris Broussard
has the I hate Rob Parker burner account. You already
know that. Oh that's a beautiful thing. I just ither

(14:54):
buddy who's like, he's such a serious Cowboys fan that
he doesn't like you can't even text him in the
middle of the game and for like an hour afterwards
unless they win. Of course, he just you know, he
goes into that dark recesses of his mind, right, and
I just keep telling him, like, Dak is no good

(15:15):
on third down. He's just no good on third down.
And yesterday it's like that, the one where Amari Cooper
was just wide open and just you know, throws it high.
It's just not good on third down. And you pay
for third down. You pay a lot of money for
third down. He's just not good enough on that. That's
just a game that was teed up for them, considering

(15:36):
where the Eagles were banged up, bruise battered, and they
were coming off the game against the Rams, so everybody
thought everything had fallen back into place. And I kept reading, Oh,
the Cowboys are a scary team if they make it
into the playoffs, I would be afraid to play them.
And then and then yesterday happened. But this is what

(15:57):
they've been for the last what eight years. Yeah, they've
had some good seasons and then they've had a couple
of down seasons. They're just the tale of mediocrity. And
it's mental as much as anything, because every time they
win a game or a couple of games that are
perceived as big games, or they get off to a
four and one start or anything like that, it's like, oh,

(16:18):
this this team's just red hot. They're awesome, and everybody
overlooks what they're not. And they're not deep, they're they're
not mentally tough. They are they're just a reflection of
a team that's that's rudderless. And that's in a large part,
and this is not necessarily Jason Garrett's fault, but he

(16:42):
has bought into it, which is you're subservient to Jerry
as the leader. Jerry is the guy who everybody looks
at and says, well, how's the team plan, what's going on?
They don't look at Jason Garrett, just like they didn't
look at Dave Campo, our chan Gaily. Now Parcels a
little different, but that's because Jerry he needed something from
Parcels for at least so for at least a couple

(17:03):
of years to get Parcels his way. Okay, he needed
Parcels there to win that vote locally and get the
team to be better so that they could get the
new stadium. But once he got that, it was back
to old Jerry. And so Jerry is the guy that
he's the guy that everybody takes their cues from, and

(17:23):
and so the coaches are basically meaningless. You really want
my Jerry Jones impression, now, don't you? Yes, yes, yes
you did. No, I will I swear, I will hang up.
I would swear, I will have I promise you I
will hang up that he's not bad for America. You
are going to destroy Dan Patrick's show. Wow by doing that, Well,

(17:46):
I'll tell you Dan could be a great head coach
taken over for Jason. I could, but you're daring me.
I just don't hang up, Jay Cole, we need more
stuff from you, don't. He could be the offensive coordinator,
Mick Loven be on special team. Zach. You know the
thing is, Jacole is you know you said it's not
on Jason Garrett. But obviously he's going to be the

(18:09):
guy that bears the brunt of everything for him. He's
really got let's go right. But when I when I
look at the final play yesterday and I see, okay,
here's fourth and eight, and this is your entire season
and Amari Cooper and Randall Cobb are both not in
the game. Cobb has been your best receiver on the
drive and was uncoverable. Amari Cooper, who is your guy?

(18:29):
I look and go what was that? And you had
three timeouts? Well, I mean look, I will say that
that begs a question what are you think? And that's
where you just sit there and goes got You know,
your seasons on the line. Your best guys have to
be on the field. There's no rotation this or rotation that.
It's like, yo, get those guys out there. Um. At

(18:52):
the same time, even if you have Cooper and Cobb
on the field, he's probably going to throw to the
single on against the number four corner and goll It is,
you know, is a good receiver. He's been very effective
this year, right, so he's probably going to throw that
pass anyways, and Gollada just wasn't good enough. I mean,

(19:16):
like Sidney Jones did a heck of a job, nice
job of coverage, So I'm not sure that the play
actually ends up being any different because you're looking for
one on one coverage and that's what you've got on
that play, which begs the question of Jim Schwartz, but
he got away with it because Jones did such an
effective job. Look, my question is, like, forget the one play.

(19:40):
What happened the first fifty nine plus minutes when we
only score three field goals with with all that talent,
like and it's not like Philadelphia, Um, you know his
bringing the wood all season, right, like they're they're not
this awesome, right, But you've got Ezekiel Elliott and those
receivers and you put three field goals up. That's a

(20:03):
much bigger concern to me then than the one last
play that that really haunts me. J Cole. How about this? Uh,
our producer Justin told us a stat I don't know
where you got it from, but that since two thousand,
since it completely made it up in ten years, right
as it was since twenty two thousand and ten, that only, uh,

(20:27):
in all the major sports and all the coaches that
there's only there's a list of coaches that haven't won
a championship since twenty ten. And guess how many people
on that list that are still a coach still around? Yeah,
that's it. That's only one guy. I mean, what what what? Yeah?

(20:49):
What they have done, what they have accomplished is really
hard to do, Okay because normally the normally, uh, the
owner comes in and say, this is just not good
enough and I've given especially with the talent that we have,
you're supposed to have done something by now. Right. The
thing about it is that Jerry, Jerry kept Garrett because

(21:11):
Garrett played along all right with what Jerry wanted. He acquiesced,
and so it was you know, is this whole thing
has always been uh, it's not quite a death spiral,
but it's it's like a mediocrity spiral. It's like, you know,
nobody's in charge and you just acquiesced Jerry. So again,
the coach means nothing, and and ultimately you just end

(21:36):
up with a mediocre team year after year because you
don't have it. You have a lot of talent, but
you have no leadership. And that's what the that's what
the Cowboys have done, and this is what Jerry has
created because this is what Jerry wants. Jerry wants to
be in charge. Um. Now, he'll give up a little
bit of that rope every once in a while, but overall,

(21:59):
he wants total control. All the stuff. He just said,
he said, we accomplished something that was difficult to do.
So I'll take that as a compliment from Jason. Jason
by myself a ring with that. Fine, just fine, okay,
And it'll just be like Jimmy was here, but I
was the one in charge, okay, because all those things

(22:19):
that Jimmy didd is, that team that he created, that
was that was really me. It was me because I
proved it when I brought in Switzer, because everybody knows
he was dumb as a stump, okay, so it had
to be me. It's somewhere in this it's me. I know,
it's me. My impression is way better than yours. Oh
it is your. Yours just sounds like you're you run
out of breath after every few seconds. Lead Jason coll

(22:45):
Is our guest editor in chief and Fansided dot com
longtime NFL insider. All right, now, from where things are
bad to where things are just as bad. We watched
Cleveland get eliminated from the playoff chase yesterday. There's a
lot of drama about Odell. Becca in his sideline ranted
Freddie Kitchens, Boy, that this is you know, if if
this isn't the poster child team for Hey, when things

(23:08):
go good, things are okay. When things go bad, things
are terrible. I don't know what it is. Martha. Yeah,
they are the ultimate and and Obj is just a
complete weather vane. If it's blown bad, he's done right
with it. Yeah, he's he's worthless as a leader. I mean,
all those things about redderless and worthless and leaderless, I
mean you apply those to Obj and Freddie and Miles

(23:31):
Garrett and the rest of that crew. I'm gonna talked
to the people in that in that building, and they're
just they're dumb struck by how little leadership there is
on a team. And you know, Browns fans just like
they just they lived in denial. It's like the dude's
not showing up in the off season. If the dude
isn't showing up in the off season and doesn't want
to be there working with you, what do you think

(23:53):
it's going to be like when things get hard in
the regular season, you lose a few games. That's what
you know. That's what DJ's career is defined by. And
here's the other part. What was the last time he
was really any good? It was like three years ago. Now,
the talent is there, we all recognize that. I'm not
I'm not questioning that. But at the end of the day,

(24:16):
this is about production, and for three straight years he
hasn't produced, not like a superstar, not like not like
the diva he acts like, um, I mean, because he's
certainly more of a deva than I am. But I've
got deva quality. But isn't this bigger than just him?
I mean, Freddie Kitchens, he's said out he's a symptom.

(24:37):
He's a symptom of a bigger problem, which is exactly
they have no leaders. I mean I mean they hired it.
They tried to force Freddie Kitchen on every coach that
came in for an interview, said you had to take him.
Baker Mayfield put up numbers, go back and look, last
year beat one team over five hundred, didn't beat any team.
Did you pick him before the season to make the

(25:00):
layoffs to Browns? Oh? I think one defeated. I think
that's what it was. I wanted to buy into this
hype because I wanted it to be as spectacular as
I never brought into it. I never brought I just
didn't look. I always said they have no leaders, and
when your highest paid guy doesn't show up, that reflects

(25:21):
on the rest of the team, right, But they take
their two from the highest paid guy. So yeah, this
was part of the problem and Freddie Kitchens. The problem
is actually the other way. It's everybody that they hired
for that staff. None of those guys were Freddie's guys.
Freddie didn't hire his own coaching staff, which is right.
And see this is all this is all part of it. Now.

(25:44):
Freddie's not a leader, Okay, he's he's at least not yet,
and he proved that with that. You know that stupid
Pittsburgh they started it shirt you know which you know,
you look, you won the game, walk away from it.
But just be happy, right But again and again, he's
not that guy. John Dorsey should have just and he
should do it now, which is just call Mike McCarthy

(26:07):
and I look, I know McCarthy is not the most
popular coach in the world, but he knows how to
run a program. It's sort of like Marty Schottenheimer. Marty
Schottenheimer might not win you a championship, and McCarthy has
won a championship, but he might not win you a championship,
but he's gonna make you win games, and he's gonna
run a good program, and he's gonna get guys going

(26:27):
in the right direction. And there's a lot to that,
and then you hope that everything comes together. So Dorsey
should just say, Okay, I'm made a mistake here, get
rid of kitchen. McCarthy, what do you want? Just you know, look,
we're friends. I know it's going to cost me a lot.
What do you want and just get get yourself here,
And that's what he should do, and just you know,
run have a well run program by a guy who

(26:50):
knows how to run a keen. He can fall him
on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That is at
Jason Cole sixty two. All your Pro Football Hall of
Fame voter needs as well go along with that Twitter account.
Actually a serious conversation that made me look good for
Football Hall of Fame Burday. Yeah. You don't want to
take the stuff you and I do at night. You
don't want to put that. They'll fire you from it. No,

(27:11):
they'll ban you further. Yeah, that's still on your normal show.
Nobody in the country listens, right, you know what, I
never missed that show. I never listened to it, so
I've never missed. They're changing the locks and canton as
we speak to Yeah, yeah, you want to throw that
kind of fire here, Jay Cole, Happy holidays, My friend
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to you by Mercedes AMG Driving Performance. You know, this
is the funny thing about the Browns and here, you know,
here's Mike McCarthy. What do you want to come in
and do this? Freddy Kitchens is going to go because
obviously he is not cut out for this. He's like
Rex Ryan Light, He's less was less ready to be
a head coach than Rex Ryan was, but he still
thinks he can be that bombastic got to the AFC

(27:56):
chap right exactly why he had. He had early success
and then never was able to learn from his mistakes
because when you have success that early, it's hard to realize, Oh,
I was doing things a little bit differently and the
butt fumble didn't help. But I ask you, this is
the Browns a good job? Is the Browns a job
that Mike McCarthy wants. It was a great job last
year when Baker Mayfield was coming off his rookie year,

(28:17):
you thought he was going to be really good. Good
step by making changes. You signed Kareem Hunt, who was
going to come in and be great. Jarvis Landry comes in,
Odell Beckham's coming in. Oh this is great? Now is
this a good job? Are you in a position to succeed?
And they couldn't get guys last year? When when when
the job looked good because there was so much volatility.

(28:37):
Well also, but a big part of it was just
what happened to Kitchens where they hired his staff. They
wanted that whoever took the job had to take Freddie
Kitchens because of his relationship with Baker Mayfield. And you notice, Jason,
you can't have coaches. You can't do that. You can't
do it when you force somebody on a coach and

(28:57):
say you gotta have your own guys and guys you
believe in and have been you know, been to war
with and you know who they are. And to take
a staff and have people put together a staff, it's
it's it's a bad look. And that's why I think
they are where they are. They made a huge mistake
in force feeding Freddie Kitchens. Yeah, but even even if
you do that, now, let's say you tell a coach

(29:17):
come in, you'll have control. You bring in your own guys.
Are you in a position to succeed? I mean that's it?
Or are you in a position to fail? But you're
expected to get to the super Bowl And if you don't,
it's your fault. Because they elevated Baker Mayfield into being
the most important person in the organization. And we have
no idea if he's any good. He was terrible this

(29:39):
year and Freddie Kitchens was his guy, right, That's why
Freddie Kitchens got the job because Baker Mayfield was impressive
last year. Now was he impressive in two games against
the Bengals and just okay against the rest of the league.
That's what it looks like, because this year he's been bad.
I mean, I think he's the thirty second rated quarterback
in the NFL. That's terrible. So now that the weapons
he has, it seems inconceiva. Is it a good job?

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Can you come in and say, oh, I can win
with Baker Mayfield or is it? Boy? I don't know
if this quarterback is any good. But he's not gonna
get any to blame because he's the guy you anointed.
He's the most important person in the organization. And then
you have Odell and all the drama he brings. And
you know what, all the off season headlines is he in?
Is he out? You're gonna hear reports in the off
season Nobel's not happy. So I yet, who wants this job?

(30:23):
If they couldn't get anybody last year, how they gonna
get somebody now? I think they still can get someone.
Only from the standpoint most of the time, when you
take over a team, it's because there's issues there that
that's the reason the other coach got fired, right, So
you know, most of the time you are taking on
something and nobody's handing you a great team and everything's
working right, you wouldn't beat it. Other guy would still

(30:44):
have his job. So you have to look at the
only thing. If I'm a prospective coach, do they have
town I can't win without talent? Can I fix some things?
Fix the locker room, you know, put a different philosophy
on it, you know what I mean. And if I'm
Mike McCarthy, like, well, I want a champ a super Bowl,
I got a chance that they can listen to me

(31:04):
because I can go on and say we raised the
trophy at the end of the year. A lot of
guys don't have that cache, so it's harder to buy in.
People go, what are we listening to this dude that's
going to buy in your new breed of quarterback? There.
If I don't like something, I'm gonna say it. I
get it, and nothing is my fault. Nothing's look and

(31:24):
when things happen, I'm gonna talk about it. I'm upset
because you're not treating Odell's injury the right way. Dude,
Johnson should be up which public you go talk to
the head coach in his office rather than to the media.
But I get your point. I just think if I'm
a coach and I was sitting on the sidelines and
I'm looking for an opportunity, the thing I want the

(31:46):
most is to have some talent to where I have
a chance to win, That's all. And now I got
to whip it into shape, do whatever I have to do.
But I don't want to take a team with a
cupboard's bear and I'm gonna get whacked in two years anyway.
I see. I look at it as you're inheriting guys
that you don't know you can win, and you're expected
to go win with these guys. Well wait, so now
I'm coming in and you're asking me to win with

(32:06):
guys that I might not want on the team or
have as my quarterback. We're number one wide receiver or anything.
I mean, that's why that's a tough job. Tough twitter at.
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I told everybody the Jets we're gonna win yesterday. Everybody knew,
you I knew they were gonna show up. I know, Look,

(32:49):
it's my team. I know when they're gonna show up.
I know when they're not. And I'm enjoying everybody thanking
me on Twitter for you know, all Titans fans, everybody,
thanks for beating the Steelers. I'm like, yeah, like I
had a lot to do it, like you you out
there on the field. I was just gonna put some
Christmas money on that. I even I even knew. I said,
it's gonna be like a seventeen sixteen, sixteen thirteen type game.

(33:10):
It's gonna be ugly. They'll put enough points up, sure enough,
sixteen ten. Really, I mean that's a big blow to Pittsburgh.
They needed to win. I mean, look, they've gone so
far this year and Mike Tomlin clearly, you know, see
what kind of coach he is being able to lose
all his stars and still stay relevant. I get, but
this is really, this is really a flawed team, and

(33:31):
they this is as far as you're gonna go with
that kind of time. You had a beautiful resident Jets
fan at Fox Sports Radio. Are you uh? You said
they wouldn't win the game, But it doesn't help to
the Jets where they draft actually are losing ground by winning.
Would you rather win? I'm just I'm asking. It's not
like if we had one win or two wins, I
would be different. We're in the middle of the pack

(33:51):
and we're gonna get Adam Gates next year anyway, So
how excited can I really? If they win the last
game and finish what seven and nine? Seven? Great, Look,
he's gonna be great. He's terrible. He is absolutely terrible.
But now we're gonna get him for one more year, right,
at least one more, but at least uh, you know,
the Jets wind up winning more games. I actually had
them as a wild card. I like the way the
team was put together. I wasn't that crazy. I'm with

(34:13):
you about hiring Adam Gays, who didn't do anything in Miami.
I didn't get that, but it is what it is
so from that game, I told you they were gonna win.
Michael Thomas now sits at one hundred and forty five
reception counting. He is the all time leader in NFL
history after passing Marvin Harrison yesterday in the Saints win.
And for all the talk, and this is something we

(34:35):
talked about on a night show for a while, Lamar
Jackson clearly is going to be the MVP of the NFL.
For for all the talk about Lamar and Russell Wilson.
Russell Wilson will get votes. He'll get votes, but I
won't be unanimous, like some people were arguing at one
point that it should be unanimous. It's not going to
be unanimous. But here, but here's the thing. As good
of season as Russell Wilson is having, Lamar Jackson just

(34:58):
has the it factor about him and what he the
jump he was able to make. He's got his team
the best team in the AFC and the odds on
favorite to win the Super Bowl. Then the people who
would would look and say, well, he has eleven other
Pro Bowlers on his team. Isn't all him? You know,
he's getting all the credit and accolades. They got a
hell of a football team there, Baltimore. Oh, they do.
But he's also leading the league in touchdowns and he's

(35:19):
run for a thing he would does he need to do,
He would get my vote. So I'm not saying that,
but I think that there are other people out there
who might not follow suit and say that what Russell
Wilson was able to do. Right, he only has one
other Pro bowler on his team. Well, that's why I
can make a great argument from Michael Thomas as the

(35:39):
MVP fella. All Right, he's gonna get to the number
that cuts through the clutter, one hundred and fifty receptions, right,
all time leader. He's gonna They're gonna do everything they
can to get him those five catches next week. One
hundred and fifty receptions number we've never seen. Marvin Harrison's
record stood for seventeen years. But more importantly is that
there's nobody else that you can throw the ball to

(36:00):
New Orleans. He has over a hundred more catches than
the next closest receiver to him. Jared Cook has forty
one catches, but that's the number two. He's got one
hundred and forty five. The only guy defenses rolled towards
Michael Thomas, and still he makes those catches, and still
he's the only guy in that offense. But a wide
receiver has never won. So you're trying to like shadow records.

(36:22):
And here's the other thing, the other record you just
talked about for seventeen years. The only problem I have
with this is they throw a hell of a lot
more now, so some of the numbers are skewed. It's
just like even Dak Prescott and some of these guys,
with all the numbers, he's the second most yards ever
in the history of Dallas Cowboy passing yards right, second

(36:44):
all time. Well, they throw the football a lot, and
the other in the old days, they didn't throw to
football at this rate. So even and I'm not trying
to poop pool, but still they throw the football all
the time now and it still stood for seventeen years.
I get it. But they throw a lot more the
last couple of years than they ever had, and I
just the record is a little a little hollow to me.

(37:06):
It's gonna be one hundred and fifty, ten hundred and
twenty now, it's gonna be one hundred and foot Do
you agree that they throw the football they Okay, that's
all I'm saying to you. Throw it more, but one
hundred and fifty when there's nobody else. I mean, think
about it. I don't think he's MVP worthy when you
think about some of the other seasons that the two
quarterbacks have had. When we talk about Jackson and Wilson,

(37:30):
uh and and um, just a history of the award,
it would be so Earth's chattering because if that was
the case, Um, when the record was set seventeen years ago,
why why didn't he get the MVP. You're the h
wrote now wide receiver of all time. Oh, I'm just
hitting it. Hate not a guy who who's gonna do something.

(37:51):
And I agree if you're if you're a wide receiver,
you're a non quarterback, you need to do something special
that no one's ever seen before. One hundred fifty catches. Now,
if he was able to get to two thousand yards
one fifty and two thousand, I would say that's a
toss up between him and Lamar jack Now, he's not
going to get to two thousand yards. You're gonna probably
finish up around eighteen hundred, which is still a phenomenal number.

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I'm not even trying to discount you talk about Lamar, Jackson,
lov and Pro bowlers, Like I said, Alvin Kamara is
the only guy catching passes and he's doing it out
of the backfield nobody. He's got a hundred more receptions
than the next closest pass catch drug a hundred more.
So you know how teams roll coverages towards him. And
still that big wingspan, he doesn't drop. He had one

(38:34):
drop pass and the last twenty five games. I mean,
that's how good he is. His first four years the
league have been absolutely amazing. I get it, and he
said a record, but I just think where we are
in the NFL, and when you take a look at
what Lamar did this year, a lot of people you
had Bill Polian before he was even draft talking about
he should try out for a wide receiver, and people

(38:56):
who totally discounted him despite him winning a hisman. We've
seen a lot of guys win Heisman and not be
able to do anything in the NFL. So that's not
that shocking, even though he want to Heisman, but he
shook up the NFL this year. You gotta give him that,
and I think that's why he'll be the MVP. Yeah,
I'm just hoping that Michael Thomas gets the love he should.

(39:17):
He should finish second, because if you're talking about two
quarterbacks and you're giving it to Lamar Jackson, all right, well,
then Russell Wilson can't be the MVP. Michael Thomas should
be that should be that guy you want him to be,
like Jerry Rice who finished second one time as MVP.
Sure he should, absolutely he should be. He should be
number two with a bullet and if he had two
thousand yards, I'd say it'd be a toss up, yeah,
because those are numbers that just no matter what you

(39:39):
want to say, that cuts through. But the thing is,
when you think about this football season twenty nineteen, you
think about Lamar Jackson, you do, but am I right?
You do? But you're you can't tell the story of
this season without Michael Thomas being at the very top.
One hundred and fifty, Rob one fifty. You thinking about
the Cowboys thinking as well, yeah, that's the thing about
that that's out there too. So there's that, but that's
a good thing for most people. Uh. Speaking of the

(40:01):
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(41:27):
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But The Dan Patrick Show continues straight on into twenty twenty.
Who here has their house decorated. Yeah, we got all
kinds of the special things that we have, like around
the door. And can you bring in a pile flakes? Yeah?
I guess that could picture. Yeah, he brings in a
company and decorate his house for Chris. I think I'm

(41:49):
less lazy more. Just I just know my limitations and
I can't. You can't hang some something up and another
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College bull season is here from the Mercedes Ben Studios
in Los Angeles. This is the Dan Patrick show. Well,
and don't forget Star Wars Rise of Skywalker that's here too.

(42:09):
I mean pretty much every other win, every other Christmas
is going to be a Star Wars see it? Yes
I did. I'm thinking about going and I'm not a
big movie goer. I used to be, but not anymore.
It's an event you have to go. So did you
dress up and all that? No? Well, I wore a
Star Wars T shirt. Did I dress up like as
a Tweetleck or anything? The boy? What a nerd of mine?
I just said, tweet like? And here I am last

(42:30):
night watching U. What was it? Return of to Jedi?
Was flipping? Oh yeah, they had all everything was a
bust to meet you know what I mean? It was.
I started watching it and then I saw that Return
of the Jedi was on, so I watched it. Look,
I don't spoil it. Don't spoil Return of the Jedi. No,
people haven't seen some people don't. No, don't spoil it.
I mean you get to tell people what happens on

(42:52):
End or Sorrow spoiler Look at you, no, but I'll
tell you this spoiler free. Rise of Skywalker. I mean
that's where Pizza Hut, the Hut eats him self is.
Rise of Skywalker is a perfectly acceptable and fine and
fun ride and end to the Skywalker saga. You're always

(43:14):
gonna get a loud group of people who hate the
movie because it's not because it's what's on the screen, right.
They don't know what they want. I just don't like
what's on the screen. So you get a small But
when small groups are really loud, it sounds like it's
so much bigger than it is. Rise of Skywalker was
was pretty good. There's a lot of action right from
the get go in a long movie. It's about two

(43:36):
and a half hours, but it doesn't seem like okay,
because that's a long time to sit somewhere. Yeah, you're
you're you're summing up the end, you know, I know
you got to go to the bathroom in the middle.
I know you're like one of those You're you're like
a millennial. I gotta get on my phone. I gotta
send a time to send a text in an hour
and a half. Yeah, but it was. It was a
it was a fun way. It was. It was. It
was a movie that you will cheer. You'll you'll be

(44:01):
ten years old again. It was absolutely fine. What did it?
Did it remake the the history is it? Is it
a transcendent experience in movie theater? No? But if you're
a Star Wars fan, it was a pretty good movie. Okay,
And if but if you was, I just don't like it.
Why because it's what they did and I want something else. Okay,
great that Unfortunately that's what's going to be out there.

(44:22):
But it was absolutely fun. All right, I'm thinking about
going to see it during the holiday. I was seeing
a Star Wars movie in a while. They had like
R rated previews for it, though, I'm like, whoa, what
what you have an R rated? They liked there's another
bad boys movie, believe it or not, and they had
bad boys. I'm going, WHOA, Well, you can't have an
R rated movie. Previous is Star Wars. What the hell
is going on here? It's amazing. Yeah, I'm like, I'm

(44:44):
telling my daughter, going, Hey, so let's talk about after
the movie. I don't want to, you know, I don't
know what Martin Lawrence is gonna say in a promo,
no R rated movie, Hey, so after we're gonna get that.
I was really I was really stunned about that. I
was really stunned. But I say the Skywalker is pretty good. Hey,
I'm not saying go see Cats, but Rise of Skywalker,
you know, go see So you haven't seen a movie

(45:06):
in a while, don't make it Cats? Right? I think
Castle Blanka was the last movie I went to see.
Here's how bad it is for Cats. R's how bad.
They're actually sending a new version of Cats to theaters
with better special effects in because the director said over
the weekend, oh, I didn't really get a chance. We
barely finished the effects in time for the movie to
come out. So they're sending a quote new movie to theaters.

(45:27):
I read that this weekend. Yeah, A new version to
get people to go see it. Hopefully that's not a
Snopes thing, but wow, just you know, I'm I'm not
saying go see cats. No, I'm also not saying expect
the Cowboys in the playoffs, even though I want to.
I would like to hear the mister mustaphilis at you know, look,

(45:48):
give it up? Are you gonna sing memory for us?
You're not going to do that. Sure, you just thought
I was a sports hack. I don't have any culture.
I go to Broadway shows. I'm from New York. Originally,
you have no idea I had missed him as thou.
Oh that was a Winter Garden Theater pull out. That
was pretty nice, but obviously the big topic of the

(46:09):
big story at a big weekend in the National Football League.
Eagles beat the Cowboys. They take the NFC East lead,
and the Cowboys are now looking for explanations as to
what went wrong. Now we'll get to that in a second,
but this may be the best part of the weekend,
and it happened after the game right now. Way do
you see the ratings for this game yesterday? It's gonna
be It's gonna be absolutely through the room. Whenever a

(46:31):
division is on the line, like that, it's the Cowboys, right,
so that that had to be if they didn't get
big ratings on that they're in trouble. I mean that
that's a rating bonanza. After the game was over, Doug Peterson,
Eagles head coach, is answering questions at his press conference,
and a reportedly drunk fan got to sneak into the

(46:51):
interview room and ask a question before he was removed.
Now we're gonna play the audio for it wasn't that
somebody was drunk asking a question that he wasn't credential.
That's probably what it was. Where were you yesterday around
seven thirty Eastern time? Where I was heading to the
park A lot to wait to come talk about the Cowboy?
What happen? Hey, Doug, tell me what happened? So what

(47:14):
you're gonna hear the audio? It's you're gonna hear. A
reporter is starting to ask a question and this fan
interrupts him and starts asking Doug Peterson about playing Eli
Manning next week, because that's the game the Eagles have
to try to clinch the division. So here's the ideas,
Daniel Jones playing through like eleven touchdowns yesterday. Yeah, all right,

(47:34):
so Eli's not playing. But anyway, well here, but here's
the beginning of the story. A reportedly drunk fan. So
that that's the beginning. It's not, you know, a MENSA
member you know, walked into the you know that's that's
not how the story begins. I got it. So here
listen to the audio from the beginning. You'll hear the
fan ask an Eli manning question. Then he gets ushered away.

(47:57):
Who is who? Who? Who is this? Is he credentialed?
Can I question time out? Yeah? I want a full
cal Eli next week? What do you think? What do
you think? But I love Peterson right there, like the

(48:20):
first thing, he got it right away. He's aware of
who's asking him questions. I'm serious because he didn't just
take the question and he could have could have answered it,
I guess, but he's like, who is that? I don't
I don't even know who that is? And and is
he credentialed? Like can he go He didn't go off.
I'm just saying like, that's that's the way you're supposed
to do it. And who is this? Well, if he's
the guy walking in with a backwards Eagles hatt and

(48:41):
Harold Carmichael Jersey said, Hey, what do you think Eli?
Next week? I'm gonna go on the assumption the media.
I mean, I know there's the blogosphere now, and who
knows who gets credential, But that's I'm gonna say that.
The issue that is the is you just said it.
There's a lot of people, uh you know, acting or
or masquerading as reporters because they have some website or

(49:04):
do you know what I mean, or some blog or something.
And I'm not knocking those people, but they're not credential
reporters and that and and a lot of those guys
wind up getting into press conferences. I don't know how. Look,
but I hear you, but what would you have rather
heard the easy questions that you're gonna get. Would you
rather hear this guy who was allegedly drunk asking him

(49:25):
questions about Eli? I'd rather I understand. But that was
that that Uh, well, the big thing is that Wentz
in a lifetime performed the last two weeks. They had
bad teams and had to come back and he had
to throw touchdowns laying the game to win, and people
were were, you know, knocking them all that day. It
was a struggle against Washington and it was a who

(49:48):
they played it the other week struggled against uh the
other team that they beat at the end. But the
bottom line is that they got it done. And in
this game, Carson Wentz showed up for his team. His
team was depleted and down there number one receiver yesterday
went you a former quarterback, so that they didn't have anybody.
He didn't use that as a crutch or whatnot. He

(50:09):
just went out there and played. He had a really
good game. Uh, and a couple of miss field goals
that would have been even you know, they had two
miss field goals that were makeable or doable that would
have run up to score even more. So he was
in control of that game. He played really well. Uh.
Doug talks for a minute about Carson Wentz, like that's
you're getting the press. Carson had a great day today, right, Oh,

(50:33):
I'm supposed to talk now. I mean, I mean, honestly,
when what funny was when I worked in Detroit, if
you didn't ask Bill lamb Beer a question and you
made a statement, you hear some guys do that. That
was a really good game y'all had today. Well, what's
what's the question? Do you know what I mean? And
Bill Lambier would say, you have a question, that's not

(50:54):
a question, You just made a statement. He would hold
people to that to make them ask questions. And and
I agree with that. You don't just ramble and and
and the other one is and you've been there, Jason.
But you see the guys who have the mics, uh,
probably getting sound for radio and they kind of twirl
it around. Hey, tell me about just like you said,

(51:16):
tell me about Carson Witt. Yeah, well he's six foot
four and uh, he went to this school, and you know,
I mean, tell me about him. Ask a question about
his performance and what he did. Doug, was your plan
to run and throw the ball today? Yeah? I mean really,
I mean these are reporters, and I'm I don't want
to rip on reporters, but you see press conferences where

(51:37):
just ask a good question, but instead that's what you get,
you get your well hew, you know, yeah, I'm with
a bloggersphere unlimited. Um, your uniforms are really green today. Yeah,
can you tell me did did they use some sort
of did you use tide or you know, or something
that brought out the color of the Green or something

(51:58):
crazy like that. But the Eagles would you expect think
about to be so low scoring? Did you expect this?
But this is huge? This is DieHarder Christmas. Yeah, that
would have been a nice one. What what what? Yeah?
What is die? Because I think lethal weapons a Christmas
movie too Rocky or Rambo coach, God, you can't do that.

(52:18):
But but but a big win for the Eagles. Now
they control their own destiny. All they have to do
is win next week, doesn't matter what the Cowboys do.
And uh, if they went wind up winning the division,
which I thought they would originally when the season started.
I like their roster, but they had so many injuries
and everything. If they are able to pull this out,

(52:39):
this will be some story for the Eagles. Yeah, it'll
be because it will end after that because they don't
have a roster that can be with the elite of
the NFC. You know, it's Vikings, nine Ers, Seahawks, and Boys,
and there could be the Packers depending on how things
go tonight. But for the Eagles, things look great. For
the Cowboys things are abysmal. Because as much as you

(53:00):
want to talk about Dak Prescott and we'll get into
him in a couple of seconds, because I know how
much you've you've been waiting to talk about Dak Prescott.
Is that the Jason Garrett situation is where the sword
is going to fall for this, all right, Jason Garrett,
it's easy, look because it's not Jerry Jones's fault. And
if it's not Jerry Jones's fault, it's not the player's
fault because this is Jerry Jones's roster. It's the one

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roster that he put together. Look at, here's the players.
I'm the general manager. And now Jason Garrett, you have
to you have to do it. I don't have a
lot of sympathy for him because he's had ten years.
He has been the coach since two thousand and ten.
Now it's you know, I get that you're coaching with
and against Jerry Jones, but you've had a lot of time.
The fact that you go to the end of the

(53:43):
game yesterday and your final fourth down player where your
whole season is on the line, and Amari Cooper and
Randall Cobb are not on the field. Cob who is
the best receiver that final drive called three big first
down passes. Cooper is your number one guy. But because
he ran a go route to play before he's got
to be on the sideline, you could have called the
time out. It's fourth and eight. You want to make
sure your best players are out there. I'm on fourth

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and eight. And you still would have had two timeouts left, right,
didn't they have three? Yeah, so it wouldn't have killed
you to use one of them to get your right
personnel and make a play and try to make a
play to save your season. And they didn't do it.
Jason Garrett is exactly what uh you know, Jerry Jones wants,
which is basically a puppet to do so that Jerry

(54:26):
could coach through Jason and but but but not get
all the blame for it, you know what I mean,
because Jerry wouldn't go down there and coach. But but
that's where we are. And and if you're a Dallas
Cowboy fan, you should be you should be really mad
and upset, uh this morning that that that they didn't
win that game and win a division twitter at how
about a Fresca Robert Rob Parker FS one and you

(54:49):
you spent all night in the parking garage because you
wanted to come in and talk about the Cowboys and
Dak Prescott not being for real id roll, I had
to wake you up to say, come on, recommind I
walked by your come on, time to go do the show. Yeah,
I told you. I've been telling Chris boussaw this for
the entire season. When they started off three and oh
all those numbers. We could go back and look look

(55:10):
at his numbers against the bad teams. You brought it
up earlier in the program. It is very obvious. And
when they played the better teams or the teams with
better defenses, he struggles. We saw a game against Minnesota
they lost, He didn't the Vikings didn't have a touchdown
in the game, and the Cowboys loss, didn't have a touchdown.
And then he doesn't throw a touchdown in this game,

(55:31):
which they desperately needed. They can't get one touchdown, settling
for field goals. It didn't make any sense to me.
I would not if I'm the Cowboys, n ot signed
Dak Prescott to any kind of contract, and they'll probably
franchise tag him, take another look for one more year
at him. But I'm telling you I'm not sold at all.

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In fact, I would be looking for a new quarterback.
You call him them a vote the most fraudulent of
all time. There you go, he is the fault. Remember
that Twitter writ out about a fresco rob at Rob
Parker FS one, Jason Smith, Rob Parker in for Dan
and the Dan Netts. Got Mike Pereira coming up next,
Fox Officiating Analyst, a former VP of NFL officiate, got

(56:16):
a lot of NFL to get to the day after.
And no, by the way, we'll look up ahead at
the Monday night game because I got a big statement.
Tell you what's going to happen tonight in the other
game of the week besides the Cowboys and the Eagles,
that's coming up next here at Fox Sports Radio. Be
sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple with
Chris Broussard and Rob Parker weekdays at seven pm Eastern

(56:36):
four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio
app Fox Sports Radio, The Dan Patrick Show, Jason Smith,
Rob Parker in for Dan and the Dan Netts. Rob
Parker making a big cross country trip. After asking Doug
Peterson a question the postgame press cut was that you
thought I was a drunk. I'm as the drunk reporter

(56:57):
in the press conference that was not me, That wasn't you. No.
I mean because I know the the dancing uh you
went out to do last night following the Cowboys last dancing.
I'm a professional guy. I'm a reporter. I don't root.
You know what I root for? You call you called
Dak Prescott the fote. He's the most fraudulent of all time, right,

(57:17):
But I don't root. That's just me giving my opinion
on it. I'm an analyst. I do not root. I
don't care if the Cowboys were to lose, but I
never bought into him. That's all I'm gonna tell you.
I did not buy into them. Everybody was ranting ray
Remember it was their division to lose. There were three
and zero to start this season. Well they were, they

(57:38):
were good. And then the thing about the Cowboys is
Dak Prescott. You want to break it down, This easy
for him against the bad teams this year, he was
good when you faced it. When he faced a team
with a defense that was pretty good, then he was bad.
All right. His best games this year Giants, Redskins, Detroit
and the Rams, those are all his best games. All
those defenses were terrible La Ramps. How many times the

(58:00):
Rams get lit up this season. It wasn't last year, right,
But when he plays a good defense, he's got a
bad game. All the games are. His passer rating was
was ninety year lower. Philadelphia, who's even middle of the pack, Chicago, Buffalo,
the Jets, who have one of the best run defenses
in the NFL, New England, Green Bay, New Orleans, all
those good defenses, and he struggled with all those right there,

(58:21):
joining us now on the hotline for more and the Cowboys,
Eagles and all the other big news in the NFL.
Fox Sports Rules Analysts, former VP of NFL Officiating, It's
Mike Pereira. Now normally, Mike, you come on the show
at night. You're a couple of glasses of wine in
I mean it's very early in the morning today, so
I wonder where you are right now. It's coffee in Philadelphia.

(58:44):
You did the game. You did the game yesterday. First
of all, before we get to your expertise, how shocked
will you buy that game? Considering where the Cowboys were
and just the Eagles were banged up? Well, I mean
pretty shocked. I mean the most people thought, I guess
it was going to be a close game. That wasn't
me based on the performance against the Rams, the Cowboys

(59:07):
performance that was the week before. To me, it was
reminiscent of the Cowboys in weeks one, two, and three,
and I thought maybe they had found it. And so
I went in pretty confident that the game was going
to go the Cowboys ways. But you know, you kind
of seemed to get a sense from the Cowboys early on,
and we know that they had a couple of games

(59:28):
where they went right down the field and scored in
the first drive, and then they went flats. And you know,
to me, they basically started flat and pretty much ended flat,
and it didn't seem a lot of energy from the
Cowboys standpoint. And so as the game went on, and
I would say, you know, probably midway through the second quarter,

(59:50):
it kind of became apparent to me that they just
didn't have the mojo working that they had the week before,
and that you know, week seventeen, it was going to
take that to see who ends up winning the NFC East.
So pretty surprised. You know, the last play of the
game yesterday, Mike, We've talked a lot about that though.
The last real offensive play for the Cowboys, the fourth

(01:00:10):
down pass gets broken up in the end zone. They
went back and looked at it for interference, and when
they went to you for your analysis, I could just
tell from your voice going, if they overturned this and
give the Cowboys a first down, I'm going to be really,
really mad. I mean I inferred that from your voice
and you were talking about that. Well, you know I
would have been because that would have been so far

(01:00:31):
different than where this rule was, if you know, basically
the first three quarters of the season, because it had
to be so clear and obvious, it had to be
so agreed just that quite frankly, it went too far
in that direction. And now they've tried to reel it
back in and by day I'm saying how Rivern in
New York and Russell Yerk is assistant in replay, and

(01:00:53):
they reeled it back in. But still it needs to
be clear and obvious. And that's one of those where
you know, I'm going at it and talking at the
same time, and I'm saying, you know, yes, there is
a there is contact. Does he really pin his arm down,
and you know, does the receiver really initiate the first
contact by sticking an arm and the defender's chest a

(01:01:16):
lot of ifs, and you know, Joe says during the broadcast,
but it looks like he may have the arm and
you know, yeah may possibly timing wise close all of
those where you don't want to get involved in basically
reofficiating the play. I mean, if you went back and said, Okay,
let's put this playoff isitor, isn't it officiate the play

(01:01:37):
and act like no call was being made on the field,
then it might have taken a little longer to come
up with. I think the same conclusion that it didn't
significantly hinder the receiver. There's always hand fighting both ways,
and to me, if they would have put you know,
pass interference on that play, then I think they would

(01:01:57):
have made a mockery out of the rule the same
they were there, the same way they were making a
mockery out of it in the first three quarters of
the season, but in the opposite direction. So I never
for one second thought they would put it on. I
thought it was more of a pr thing since it
was the fourth down play at the end of the
game and decided basically the outcome. I think they did it.

(01:02:20):
I never thought they would put it on, and I
think rightfully so they didn't. Now Mike can't. We got
the NFL celebrating it's one hundredth anniversary this year, and
now we got to rechange the coin toss because it's
too complicated. How in the world, how can we just
say that Dak Prescott for whatever reason just botched it

(01:02:40):
and keep it as is. What needs to change. I
don't get it. Nothing needs to change. There is nothing
to change in the rule. Look at we've changed it
twice already articulate in my time and memory. You know,
we changed it on the field, luck at one with
the Steelers and Jerome better the old tough tails, and

(01:03:02):
so we said at that point, then okay, the captain
must call it first. And then you know, we changed
it again a second time when the you know, when
the conversation came of the coin sticking in the ground.
Was it heads or was it tail? And if you
basically didn't get the coin to flip, then we said, okay,

(01:03:22):
you could reflip it if it doesn't flip. Now leave
the damn thing alone, please and just use some common sense.
And just if you're the referee, just if a guy
says kick, you know we want to kick, just say
to him immediately, wait a minute, do you know what
you're saying? And if you're a captain, be just as
as positive as Dak was yesterday when he immediately shouted

(01:03:46):
out defer. I wish Tony, I wish Tony Corenny would
have use the little personality and said, are you sure
you want to defer? Yeah? I mean it might. It
would have been. It would have been very if it
would have been very funny, very very money. But there's
no need. There's no need to change the coin toss rule. None.

(01:04:06):
I agree. I just I think it's an overreaction to
everything a pass interference changes because of what happened to
the Saints. It's just every year it's like an overreaction.
It just it's crazy. Hey, Mike, one of the big
plays from last night, we haven't gotten to a little
bit yet. We had the Patrick Mahomes touchdown and he
walks off the field counting the number of players who
were taken before him in the draft. Was that flagworthy

(01:04:29):
for you or no? Well, listen, I believe any dance
after a touchdown is flagworthy. I mean, I'm remember, I'm
the old president. What are you doing? I'm the past
president of the No Fun League. Ah, that's bad. It's
a game, and hey, real life is a game, Mike,
I know, but I'm all, listen, I'm the I'm the

(01:04:51):
guy that's seventy you know that remembers the sayers Gayale says,
handing the ball to the official after he scores a
touchdown and acting like he's been there. I'm all, I
have to give me that. And I'm also in the minority,
so you got to give me that too. But I can't.
I can't. Just I just like this game to be
a team game and not an individual game. When you know,

(01:05:12):
you put individual attention on yourself or some of your teammates.
If it's a receiver, you know, do a dance, but
forget about the quarterback that threw you the past, and
do a dance and forget about the lineman the block
to the quarterback. Okay, I'm old, I'm no Fun League,
but I'm done. I'm never gonna say that again. But
what I what Holmes did? I thought it was pretty funny.

(01:05:34):
To tell you the truth, it is. It was fun.
And you know what, we do have a tape of
you from a couple of years back when you're still
with the league. Hey, you kids, get off my lord,
well bring bring a camera to my house tomorrow. You'll
get the same thing. The Micrari reality show. You can

(01:05:56):
follow as you as you both know. Just bring it
before for the evening time, exactly, everybody, bring before four.
You'll be going out on on your way to an
early bird special for dinner. He's on Twitter at Mike
Pereira on Twitter at Mike Prayer of Fox Sports Rules analyst.
Mike has always appreciated I have a great holiday. We'll

(01:06:16):
talk to you next. Great stuff there for Mike. Now,
when when Pereira comes on my show at night, he's
always like, yeah, three glasses of wine. I've had two
glasses of wine. Yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready, I'm ready,
and he takes a pause. And when when he did
he was on with us last week, he actually stopped going,
wait a minute, I've been talking too long. I need

(01:06:36):
to sip of wine. And he took a sip there
on the show. Very nice. Pereira is the best look.
I understand the over the top celebration that you don't
want anything to get because what what the officials don't
want is they don't want the game to get out
of control. If someone has some kind of crazy celebration,
this means they're gonna get a little extra shot or

(01:06:56):
a helmet to helmet hit next time, because the defense
is going to be pissed off about it. I understand.
I used to love the NFL with the Fun Bunch
and all that. I had no issue with. I really didn't.
I just you know what, if you don't, if you
don't want those guys to celebrate and dance, stop them
from scoring, you know what I mean? Like I just
thought it added to it. You remember that the Cabbage
Patch and the Fun Bunch in Washington and all Ernest

(01:07:17):
Gibons had the Electric Slide. I love the Electric. There
was a lot of stuff that was just fun and creative,
and all of a sudden became the No Fun League,
like he said, And now they're going back to letting
people have a little fun. I don't want to uh
you know, cheerleaders jumping out of the stands and all
kinds of other stuff like holding up the game. But

(01:07:38):
if they come up with something that's uh fun or
and then my homes thing was was pretty good, wasn't it.
I watched them go, Yeah, we passed on him. We're
one of those teams I don't play. Yet we passed
on him. We could have had Patrick, you know. And
that's the crazy thing because you look at the Chiefs
who a month ago had problems Jason Smith, Rob Parker

(01:08:00):
for Dan Patrick, the Dan as here at Fox Sports Radio.
I mean, they had a lot of problems. Their defense
wasn't playing well. They weren't scoring as dynamically as the
work because they couldn't run the football, and that was
that was a real big issue a month ago. But
now you fast forward and maybe because they were out
of the limelight a bit, it helped because now they're
one game away from being the number two seed in

(01:08:21):
the AFC. And is New England gonna go into Kansas
City this year and win with that kind of offense?
I don't see it. I don't either. I know they
want and they beat Buffalo, I'm not so sure. If
Josh Allen had just a decent game, I think that
Buffalo would have won that game from where they were.
He didn't play that well. Um for the like the

(01:08:43):
first half, he was they what they have forty something
yards before they scored that touchdown. It was really really
bad early on. But I just and even with New
England winning that game, I'm not buying into him that
this was this is last year. Oh they struggled and
then they on that last two games and then they
won a Super Bowl. I'm not buying that. I don't

(01:09:04):
think that that team is that good. And the teams
that they have to face an AFC and they would
have to go on the road again, I don't buy
that the Patriots would be able to win. I bet
Skip Bayless on Undisputed that the Pats wouldn't make it
to the AFC Championship game. That's a great bet, right now,
that's a great bet. But you bet them not to

(01:09:25):
make it. This was before the season started. The only
thing that hurts is that, of course they have the
other team's plays. Yeah, everything, You know that that's a
tough part. But you know, but even even this year,
you're seeing with the Patriots that as good as they are,
they're still not as good as the best teams in
the AFC. No one's riding to their rescue. No, no,
there's no offensive help that's coming there. Oh suddenly this

(01:09:48):
is going to bring the Patriots offense back up to
the level they were at when they were dominant. All right,
Gronks not coming back, they're not bringing Antonio brownback. None
of these things are happening. So when you're playing a
team that's challenged offensively, your defense is playing well enough,
you're gonna win these games. But it's for the Patriots,
it's like Lebron. It's about finals. It's not about winning
a couple of games in the playoffs. It's about making

(01:10:09):
it to the super Bowl. And you got two teams
in front of you. You're not gonna win. You're not.
You're not gonna beat the Ravens, right. I would be
stunned if they were able to beat any of those
teams because the way that they've played and what they've
had this year. And you know, people can act like
Tom Brady'll flip a switch and all that. I've been
watching him all year and he's not the same guy.

(01:10:32):
This is the guy who won a super Bowl last year,
who didn't throw a touchdown, had a pick and a fumble,
and barely had two hundred what do you have two
hundred something yards? Barely, So he didn't play that well
in the super Bowl. Going back to a year ago,
Well that that's really the beginning of it. I mean,
the Rams defense was better last year than it was
this year, but that was the beginning of the Okay,
let me see the downtick because the offensive line has

(01:10:55):
not been as great. Brady is under a lot more duress.
And you saw it more pronounced years ago when if
Tom Brady got hit earlier, just you around him early
everything was every throw was rushed and it was low.
I mean, I was right. I got to get rid
of the football because I can't stand in there and
take a hit, right, And that's Look, no quarterbacks like
to get hit. But Brady is not going to stand

(01:11:16):
in there and take a hit and deliver the football.
That's the one thing I agree. And then at forty two,
and he knowing he's forty two, his body's telling them that.
And that's the one if you want to take a
wide angle lens on the Patriots and an almost twenty
years of dominance. Look, we give the Dallas Cowboys a
lot of credit for Hey, they built a team from
the offensive line out. Look how good there? We want

(01:11:37):
to do that for them a few years ago. Remember
there was a big run when Dax rookie year was well,
the Cowboys offensive line is really the MVP of the NFL.
Bill Belich has got to be saying, I figured that
thing out in two thousand and three because Tom Brady,
when did he ever really get hit? But when was
he ever not comfortable in the pocket. And that makes
a big difference if you give a quarterback time and protection.

(01:11:59):
I'm talking about you don't have to be the greatest quarterback. Seriously,
you can deliver the football if you have that time
and you know, you got a little time to be
able to survey the field and look for your receivers.
The problem comes when you're under duress and you just
got to kind of get rid of the football. And
that's what the mistakes, that's what you throw the picks,
that's what those things happen you or you fumble the football.

(01:12:21):
So Tom Brady has had that benefit, no doubt about it. Yeah,
And that's the difference between a quarterback like Brady and
a guy like Ben Roethlisberger, who when the play breaks
down he can step up in the pocket buy an
extra couple of seconds. Who would find Antonio Brown wide
open or something would be that was the big kryptonite
for them. But that's the thing is that they figured

(01:12:42):
that out as Belichick, as they've always had a good
offensive line, there's never been this is the first time
where you can see the erosion because Brady's getting a
little bit older and the offensive line isn't quite as
good and now it's boy Brady drops back and he's
under pressure. And because you don't have Randy Moss and
Wes Welker, it's tighter windows to throw the football in it,

(01:13:04):
you got to throw it faster. It's just not working
as much for him. And that that's the that's the
real takeaway from this, because if you put Tom Brady
on a different team, like let's just say Tom Brady
left the Patriots at which it looks like he's going
to do right avoiding his contract, selling his house, Alex Carrero,
selling his outs, all of these things. It looks like
he's gonna go someplace else. Can you imagine him next

(01:13:24):
year on the Chargers per se, when you have weapons
in the backfield to get the ball to, you have
weapons at wide receiver. You got Keenan Allen still in
his pride, and they got they got a lot of
things that make that attractive. And remember they're trying to
sell tickets to a brand new stadium. I think that
that's that scenario is realistic. And when you think about
the history of the NFL and all these great quarterbacks, right,

(01:13:47):
Joe Montana played in played elsewhere? Uh? Um who else? Uh?
Peyton man where he's trying to lay somewhere. No, but
I'm just saying, but they all moved on, and Brett
Farve played somewhere else. All these great quarterbacks didn't play

(01:14:07):
the entire career and they moved on. Eli would have
been somewhere. I'm not saying put him in the same class,
but he won two Super Bowls with the Giants. If
he was willing to, he would have probably would have
wound up in Jacksonville, right. He probably could have been
down there if he wanted to, but he just decided
that he wanted to stay. But most quarterbacks don't wind
up getting to stay the whole time. And I think
if you're the Patriot, you got to think about the future. Well,

(01:14:29):
I think I think that's like almost a fad to
complete at this point, that Brady's gonna leave after this
year and he's looking at doing what Peyton Manning did.
Peyton Manning leaving the Colts. I'm coming off this injury.
Where am I gonna go and still be Peyton Manning? Right,
I'm gonna go to Denver where I'm gonna get ten
more yards on all of my passes at home because
of the thin air. We have weapons on offense, we
have a really good defense. I'm gonna go and I'm

(01:14:51):
gonna give myself a great last three or four years.
And Brady wants to do the exact same thing. Where
am I gonna go for the next three to four years.
I'm still a really good quarterback. But if he chooses
the Chargers, they have the weapons, have the new stadium
to have the nice weather. That certainly is a great
option for him. The Bears could be an option for him,
depending on them moving on. But because there's where's my

(01:15:14):
spot gonna be? Or I can be Brady again and
maybe win one or two more and show Belichick, who
I've had this love hate relationship with for most of
my career, Hey, I can win before you can. I
totally agree that there's a degree of that where he
wants to win. Where it says I wasn't just a
product or system of Bill Belichick's system. That it was

(01:15:36):
about me and if you go win somewhere all the
same thing. If Belichick could have won without Brady, you
know what I mean, You take a look and say,
well it wasn't Brady. Jason Smith, Rob Parker in for
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(01:15:57):
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(01:16:19):
don't want anything new. Nancy Sinatra's boots are made for walking.
No Ariana Grande. Now I just want my hundred favorite
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(01:16:41):
I'm the guy who still watching Star Trek. We run.
I'm just like that show went off in like the sixties. Hey,
and you're gonna go see a new Star Wars movie
right right, Skywalk. I'm gonna try to do something different, okay.
And you know, I don't think I'm gonna get what
I want for Christmas because I asked my nieces and
nephews for ruby want or think too? Do you say
a VHS recorder that could so that could tape the

(01:17:05):
Star Trek? Yeah that I think. Yeah, you're younger than me.
But today's when we used to tape stuff and come
home and watch it, and you had to decide because
your video tape, you could tape it at a good
quality if you taped on the two hours, but it
was lower quality for four six exactly those days. Yeah,
you could barely see stuff on the on the six.
I got three movies on this VC VHS tape. I

(01:17:28):
can remember being at a big at a wedding with
friends and and and it just so it was a
Sunday night wedding and back then Uh, and Love and
Living Color was the big show on on Sunday nights.
Everybody loved it. So we were all sitting around at
this wedding talking about Uh, that was James Kerry. That's
right that our VCRs were, Uh, we're taping this show

(01:17:50):
and we couldn't wait to get home to watch it.
How sad it was? Sad? Well, the end comes for
all of us. Rod Parker, the end looks like it's
coming a couple of quarterbacks, especially after what we saw
in Week sixteen Philip Rivers and the Chargers fall to
the Raiders. And look, it's a shame that Philip Rivers
has to go out in a stadium that is mainly

(01:18:12):
filled with the opposing teams fans every week against the Raiders. Oh,
I thought they want the road. I'm sorry about you know.
Look I feel bad for because he's had a Hall
of Fame career, but he said, oh sure he has.
You look at Philip Rivers. He's got a Hall of
Fame career, he's still playing and he and he's got time.
He knows he can still play at a high level.
I don't see that. The Chargers know they have to

(01:18:34):
move on it. Was clear this year he's not quite
the same quarterback he was. I don't know who says yes,
Philip Rivers for a year and then we can bridge
to our next quarterback. I think he might have to
retire in the offseason. I agree with you. I'm I
don't see it, especially when you have an escape clause.
He doesn't have a con It's different if he had

(01:18:56):
one year left and and you know what I mean,
and you just decide to well, let's just go one
more year or whatever. But he's done, they can wash
their hands and move forward. So it would only make
sense that you need to do something else to resign
Philip Rivers. And I've asked people forever, some people you
just talked about at a Hall of Fame career steady
guy played all these years. I would take an Eli

(01:19:19):
Manning's career, which wasn't great during the regular season but
has two Super Bowls any day over Philip Rivers any day. Oh. Look,
they're both going to the Hall of Fame. Especially Eli
got his all time record back to five hundred before
they said Eli sit out. All right, great, I don't
want to. I don't want to be under five hundred
because the Hall of Fame is gonna go. Oh, he's
not even over five hundred for his career. So we
got it back to five hundred at least. But but

(01:19:40):
the other stuff, it's about winning. And when you talk
about the same thing with Philip Rivers, there's something empty there.
And he had players. LT was there with him. There
were some great players along the way. They just never
could win. There were those playoff games that they lost
when Schottenheimer was the coach, you know what I mean.

(01:20:01):
So they were in the mix, they just never got there.
But it's about winning. So I would take a guy especially.
I always say anybody can win one. That the stars
a line, everything works out, you get the right bounce.
You know, anybody could You think it's no. I didn't
say it's easy, just said anybody could win anybody, but

(01:20:21):
anybody can win the Kitchens. No, he can't win one.
But once you win twice, I think you just put
you in a different do you know what I mean?
Put differ because two times you can't get lucky twice.
You can get lucky once, hard to get lucky twice.
That's why I think Eli. A lot of people don't
think that he's a Hall of Famer, and I think
there would be. They're mistaken that for a guy to

(01:20:43):
win two Super Bowls be the Super Bowl MVP of
both and Jason have signature throws in both games. People
forget the David Tyree. You want to call it lucky,
that's fine. That didn't win the game. That wasn't a touchdown.
Eli still had to throw a touchdown to Plexico burd
to win the game. So for people always say, wow,

(01:21:03):
but that was lucky. Dude. Watch that play again. See
how Eli avoids the rush and makes the play. I mean,
that's a that's a hell of and then the throw
to Manningham is as good as it gets. Oh you
drop it? Yeah, that was That was a phenomenal throats.
He's going to the Hall of Fame. But Philip Rivers,
I come on, thank you very much. But unless he's

(01:21:26):
starting a football team with his all of his kids,
there's no way I want Philip Rivers on my team.
I think it's also ending and should be ending for
Mitchell Trubisky in Chicago. Look, they lose last night twenty
six to three, but it's not about last night. It's
a fact that this is three years in to Mitchell Trubisky,
and clearly he is not improved. He regressed this year

(01:21:47):
and you're seeing guys now, it's just a different time
in the NFL where if you're a first round quarterback,
you get a couple of years, but then we're gonna
move on from you. Look, Josh Rosen had a year
before the cardinal said Okay, we have a high enough
draft pick, we're moving on. And here's the other Rubisky
has just not been good. You can't waste that defense
that if you're the Bears, do you know what I mean?
So you got to really decide if you're gonna fix

(01:22:09):
this now or hope that he bounces back. When they
started the year, remember against the Packers and they what
they scored three points or seven? I think it was
kind of seven or it was bad from the beginning
and it really never got better. No, he's he's a
player that if he had more around because I will
give him this, he doesn't have nearly enough weapons around

(01:22:31):
him to succeed. They don't have any anybody any depth
at wide receiver. But besides Alan Robinson, the running game
is not as strong. He needs better players around him.
But bottom line, he's not a transcending quarterback. He's not
someone that's even shown I can win football games when
you give me a chance, I can pull things out
in the clutch. It looked like he was getting there
a little bit last year, but this year has just

(01:22:53):
been such a regression. I mean, look, he's gonna finish year.
He's not gonna throw twenty touchdowns. He's barely gonna crack
three thousand yards. It's in passing. Yeah, I mean, I
wouldn't be surprised if then the league that Tom Brady says, Hey,
maybe I go to Chicago. I could throw the ball
in bad weather. Just make sure you get me some
more weapons. And I got a great defense. But I
mean that's where the Bears have to be looking at.

(01:23:14):
We got to find an upgrade here at quarterback. No,
I agree. I think that if they're serious about trying
to win and they got a defense in place, you
need a better quarterback. And Trubisky has taken a step back,
and you and you really if you bring him back
and just think that things are going to be okay,
then I think Bears fans will be bummed. Twitter At

(01:23:36):
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(01:25:35):
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Tons of NFL to look back to and tons of
NFL to look forward to. This hour in the show
will take a look at the Packers Vikings game coming
up tonight. The other game of the week besides the
Cowboys and the Eagles. We have big news in the
NFL that's coming in regarding a potential reunion. And also

(01:26:18):
in twenty minutes, we have Jane Slater, Cowboys insider, who
is going to stop by with us, and she's got
a phenomenal run on her Twitter account as to what
happened to the Cowboys last night following their loss to
the Philadelphia Eagles. While Doug Peterson was dealing with drunk
fans invading his fostgame press conference asking questions, the Cowboys

(01:26:41):
bus was stuck at the Link for three hours following
their loss because the plane wasn't ready. Just think about
how miserable that is. You lose the game, you lose
your grip on first place, your season is falling apart.
You're in Philadelphia. All you want to do is get home,
and you get on the bus and you're waiting and

(01:27:02):
it's cold, and the bus is pumping in the hot
air and you're uncomfortable. You just want to get to
the plane and get home. And you have to sit
in that bus because it stayed at the Link for
three hours and then until their plane was ready, And
there's no cheese steak place next to the bus, so
you need to have to do without. We got some
cheese steaks. There was one thing. If I had, like
a cheese steak, I could I'll sit there for three hours,

(01:27:24):
monch down a couple of cheese steaks and a fresco. Okay,
about a fresca fresca here? Wow? Even do they still
sell letto? No, they do actually sell diet fresca. That. Yes,
you go in any grocery store. I'm not saying you
got to go to a special one. No, go to
any grocery store. In the big soda aisle, you know,
there they'll sell diet fresco. About a tab, I don't

(01:27:45):
think they sell tab. Tab had sacharin in it. That
was tab was saccharin was bad. So I was killing
rats and I think the killing I think saccharin was
like it was like like if you put some on
your finger, it gave you. It gave you something that
was unbelievable. You know, tab it was bad for you.
And then he kind of soda that came in a
pink can remember, Oh yeah, this pepsi free. There was
all those different as sure, there was all those you know,

(01:28:07):
we need, we need. We got too many flavored waters.
We need, we need more. Give me a new soda. Now,
give me a really good new soda. We got new
flavored waters all the time. Give me a new soda.
There is none, that's all. I mean. You think somebody
could come up with something besides diet cherry doctor pepper,
But I mean, I just gotta come up with that.
How about the Cowboys coming up with some offense in

(01:28:28):
a big spot. No, no, no, I'm not gonna get that. No,
you'd rather get new Koke will come back before that'll happen.
This is this is why you can't buy in the
DAK that yesterday's game was a perfect example. He was
twenty five for forty four two hundred and sixty five,
but zero at Goose Egg, no touchdowns. And for all
the drops, and you know all the dak apologists, well

(01:28:49):
they dropped the football. They drops every week. Okay, with
every quarterback in the NFL they dropped. What about the
miss throws? He had at least two he made mistake
and Austin on what should have been a touchdown, Am
I right? Yeah, he is wide open, overthrew him. Then
he had the good throw to Michael Gallup, who driving
who dropped a short touchdown on the final drive. You
can't miss two touchdowns and expect, oh we're gonna go

(01:29:12):
and get in the end zone. You you gave two
plays away to the Eagles where they were clearly beat
and they had no idea what was going. The Cowboys
were moving great in that final drive. But when you overthrow, okay,
well we made one mistake, all that would drop touchdown.
Eventually they're gonna figure out a way to tighten up
their coverage, right, And so there you are. Now they
can't worry about anybody their faith. Faith is not in

(01:29:36):
their hands because if the Eagles win on Sunday, it's
all over. The Eagles win in division, they go to
the playoffs and the Cowboys are out. So that's what
was on the line. And it was the biggest game
obviously all the season for the Cowboys. Here this a
season that started, as you know, where people were thinking
of Cowboys but got it all, especially once they signed Dak,

(01:29:57):
I mean Ezekiel and he was back. Oh no, they're
gonna run the table. They started the season three and
oh they're running nobody. Also, rans Dak looked great. He's
on his way to elite status. I heard it all.
I was fooled. I felt for it. I felt for it.
And you had them going to the NFC Championship. I
know I felt the fort the season and when they
were three and oh, did you feel pretty good? I

(01:30:18):
felt good. I felt good. But now I feel bad.
I feel I don't know what. I don't know what
I did. I'm sorry. It was one time. It was
in college. I don't know. What did you do? I mean,
what do you do? Horrible? Look Dak is look what
you want? Da? Are you good? For? Simple? For Dak?
If they're playing a bad team, Dak plays well and
that's every game. Every good game he's had this year

(01:30:39):
has been against a bad defense. What do he's played
defenses that are good? Dak has struggled and the Eagles
defense is not great, but it's at least middle of
the pack. But they struggled against the Eagles, against the Jets,
who have a really good run defense, against the Patriots,
against the Bills. Look, go look, go look at Dak's games.
When does he have a quarterback rating of a hundred

(01:31:00):
above when he plays a bad defense? He plays the
Giants and the and the Redskins, and the Dolphins, and
and even the later games of the year against the Rams,
whose defense is really terrible. This is when he plays well,
and when he plays a good defense, he doesn't play well.
But if you're the Cowboys, you see this. It's it's
out there in front of you. Are you just committed

(01:31:20):
to him because he was your draft guy? You don't
have a you don't have a replacement, but but you
you're gonna have to sign this guy at some point
or make a decision, or do you just give him
a franchise tag? Take one more look at him, because
to me, I still think it's an indictment that they
never signed him. To me, the hardest thing to get

(01:31:41):
in the National Football League is a franchise quarterback. Everybody's
looking for one. If you really believed he was that guy,
you would have signed him before they signed everybody else,
because it only costs you more money the longer you wait.
Would you agree with that? And Jerry's guy, Jerry wants
to give him. This is what I'm saying, So that's
why they should have signed him, And it makes no

(01:32:02):
sense to sign everybody else except for him, and now
have to decide where you're gonna go franchise tag him
and then take one more look at him. I don't
believe that they they're fully committed, even though they say
all the right thing. Yeah, no, they'll they'll go one
more year because now they got to fit other players
in because they don't have a lot of money. So
they'll franchise him for one year and then they'll make

(01:32:23):
a decision. But he could wind up being someone I
was like, you know, you see it in baseball a
lot where some guys come out and have an incredible
rookie season and that's their best season, and every year
after that is a little bit less, a little bit less,
little bit. Sometimes you peak that early, and Dak could
be that guy. He peeked o early with that great
offensive line and Ezekiel Elliott when he was fresh and
hungry and want he was waiting to become a superstar

(01:32:47):
in the NFL. That could be that. Think Dak Prescott
could be that kind of guy. Twitter out how about
a Fresco Robert Rob Parker FS one. We'll have more
on the Cowboys from Jane Slater coming up in about
fifteen minutes, But this new out of Seattle, get ready
for a beast mode return after Chris Carson went down
last night with what looks to be a season ending injury.

(01:33:09):
The Seahawks running back situation, which looked great a couple
of weeks ago, now they have no answers as everybody's hurt.
Marshawn Lynch will meet with the Seahawks today about the
possibility of returning to play for them, according to insiders
or the NFL on this, NFL media saying both sides
are open to a reunion with Marshawn Lynch for the

(01:33:32):
Seattle Seahawks. Robbie, I know where you're on this. Oh,
they're trying to bring the band back together in Seattle. Yeah,
I just I don't know. Marshawn Lynch does he have
to check his walker on the plane because what is
Seattle doing? I don't even get it. They wouldn't give
him the football, were nan a chance to win the

(01:33:53):
Super Bowl? Now they want to bring him back. Not now?
That may be the first line in the in the interview.
You know you give me the football that you want
to give it to me now, I mean, I just
don't understand this. There's nobody else on the planet who
can run the football. Other than Marshawn Lynch. Is he
the only one who knows what the addresses to the
stadium in Seattle? I don't get it. I get the injuries.

(01:34:15):
You a lot to look around and see who's out there.
There's gotta be somebody with fresh legs who can run
the football for you can help you? Does nobody else?
Desperation is a stinky cologne, Rob Pat, I can get it.
It is. Here's how it can work. Hold on Steve,
Steve lodging on line one? Can you run the football

(01:34:37):
Steve instead of catching it? Can do that? Now, here's
how it can work. And here's my insight into what
the Seahawks are thinking. All right, it's week seventeen. Who's
really out there that we can go out and get?
All right, Marshawn Lynch was great for us for a
long time. In the little bit he played with Oakland,
he was still okay. It wasn't quite the same Marshall Lynch,

(01:34:57):
but still was over four yards to carry the A's
offensive line wasn't that great, but he was okay. Now
he hasn't played since then, But like I said, Week
seventeen of twenty nineteen, you have kind of slim pickens.
If the idea is to bring him in and to
give a jolt of energy to the team where just
his presence can evoke memories of Super Bowls and and hey,

(01:35:20):
remember we played at a high level and maybe Marshawn
can come in and save us. Just if they believe
the possibility is there that Marshawn can play well, that
might help the rest of the team at least mentally,
because look, they're kind of limping to the finish line
a little bit. Seahawks aren't closing, you know, like thoroughbreds.
They're kind of limping with a big game next week.

(01:35:40):
But if you're gonna bring in Marshawn Lynch and you're
gonna say, okay, you're gonna be our goal line guy.
We need a guy in the goal line. That's quite obvious.
And we're not quite going to give you the football
twenty five times a game. But if you if you
can give us a little bit of a spark, if
we give it to you ten or twelve times a game,
if that can spark the team. That's why I can
see this working. That's where I can see Pete Carroll thinking,

(01:36:02):
you know what this might be a big energy boost
for the team for us, and if he can still
play a little bit. He fit well with our team.
He was at his best with us. Maybe it's a
fit with us. It's still the same system, blocking system
that he's used to, being able to run the football.
Everything will be new again. Everything that's that's new will
be really old hat for him. Maybe comes and gives

(01:36:22):
us a little bit of that. That's how I can
see this working. I just can't. I just find it
to be amazing that the same guy you wouldn't give
the football to to win a Super Bowl, now you're
asking to come back and be our goal line guy.
I just I just think it's ironic. That's why they
didn't win that Super Bowl. They coughed it up instead
of doing They had two chances to run the football
and with the best running back in the league at

(01:36:44):
the time, and they didn't do it, and it cost
them that. They'll never live, you know, Pete Carroll will
never live that down in that situation. But I think
sometimes you need to go forward and not go backwards.
I get it, people do it all the time, you know,
go back. Hey, I thought you retired. No, I'm not retired.

(01:37:04):
I'll come back and uh take over my afternoon radio
slot again and then see how that works out. Wow,
look a workout. Look at look at that thinly veiled
shot at my friends. I'm not you know what I mean.
You don't go backwards, That's all I'm saying. Sometimes I'm
going back and it felt good because you were what's comfortable.

(01:37:25):
He had big success. I'm talking about Marshaw left. Get
what you're saying. Yes, yes, but it doesn't always, you
know what I mean. Chris Berman left the ESPN, retired,
big party everything right now he's back. Sometimes I'm just
saying to myself, don't go backwards, go forward, go find
somebody new. But this is okay. If if it was

(01:37:45):
the beginning of the season, the offseason, I get it,
all right, we need it. But this is week seventeen,
it's kind of okay. There's not a lot left you
It's like being at the buffet at midnight. You know,
I want to make I want to think that there's
gonna be roast beef and every but maybe there's just
a little bit of cheese and there's a half of croissant,
and I got a kind of make my own sandwich.
Here with a grape. I mean, that's kind of what
you have to do if you're Seattle here. I'm just
I just find it to be surprising that that's who

(01:38:09):
they're meeting with. And I'm sure there must be some
other people, but it just seems weird considering how they split,
just how everything went. Yeah, Jim Brown, Colonels Martin, Yeah,
I think me with all these all these saying, come on,
there's other guys, Ladanian Tomlinson will come out and play
a little bit to do that. Now, Look, I understand
what they're doing, and if he doesn't have anything, and
if they can't run the football or and no situations,

(01:38:31):
then people will look back and go, what what were
they thinking? That's that's the other part. I just think
that this is, uh, you know, putting the band back together.
Oh this feels so great reunited and all that. I'm
not buying it. And I have nothing against Marshawn Lynch,
who is a fabulous football player. But if he was
so fabulous, he'd be playing right now. But Francis, you

(01:38:53):
have a lot of twitter out. How about a Fresco
rob Rob Parker one? Again, this story coming in NFL
media reporting that the Seahawks will meet with Marshawn Lynch
today and both sides are open to a reunion as
a Seahawks backfield incredibly banged up, so they could be
getting Marshawn Lynch back for the postseason. Coming up next,

(01:39:16):
we'll go to Dallas get the absolute latest after the
meltdown last night with Jane Slater. Keep it right here,
Jason Smith, Rob Parker in for Dan and the Danettes
Fox Sports Radio. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Odd Couple with Chris Brussar then Rob Parker weekdays
at seven pm Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the iHeartRadio app. You think it would be

(01:39:39):
enough for the Cowboys to lose a game yesterday to
the Philadelphia Eagles watch their season just evaporate in front
of their eyes, and then they spend three hours on
the team bus because their plane had a failure and
they had to wait for it to be fixed and
wait for a solution, So they sat on a bus
for three hours at like. The only good part is

(01:40:01):
that I think the most of Philadelphia Eagles fans didn't
know the Cowboys bus was still there, because that could
returned ugly pretty quick. Rob Parker, no doubt about it.
Joining us now on the hot line to break it
all down for US NFL Network reporter Cowboys insider Jane Slater,
you can follow on Twitter at Slater NFL and Jane,
I gotta tell you, there's been nothing more entertaining than

(01:40:21):
following your Twitter feed with the whole Cowboys bus gate
from last night. Now was fantastic. Love it. What's up, Jane?
It was? It was sort of Murphy's Law in Philadelphia.
Anything that could go wrong did and that was sort
of the nail in the coffin because if you had
gone into that locker room and you just felt the dejection,
the frustration. Michael Bennett, you know, essentially summing it up

(01:40:44):
the best that you know, at one point you had
destiny essentially like in your hands, and now you've got
to rely on other people to decide your destiny in
the postseason. And you know, he's only been in Dallas
just a short time, but he does have such a
championship mindset, and I feel his frustration just when I'm
around him. I think, you know, he'll explain it to you.

(01:41:08):
This team's guts, all the talent in the world, and
yet they haven't been able to put it together on
the football field. And we've gone back and forth all season. Guys,
is this coaching? Is it players? Is it coaching? Is
it players? And I got to tell you Jason Garrett
when he went on one oh five to be the
fan here in Dallas, sort of dug himself a hole.

(01:41:28):
And not only do you want one hundred percent believe
that some of this is on the players, but you
are emphatically pointing your fingers at some of the coaching decisions,
specifically in that final drive, in that final play of
the game. You know, you said on Twitter that you
don't understand why he does these Monday interviews after a loss.
He doesn't do himself any favors were play him. Well,
of course, but let's do it on Tuesday. Let's do

(01:41:51):
it on Wednesday Monday. Well, what are some of the
things that you're seeing that Jason Garrett's not helping himself with. Well,
you know, I'll go back to the Vikings game. There
was a big issue about the accountability after the game.
He had said that Tavon Austen at the end of
the game it had the option to fair faircatcher run
them all out. Well, when I talked to people inside

(01:42:12):
that locker room, that was not the case. In fact,
Keith o quinn told him on the sideline, faircatch the ball.
And so when he goes on the radio the next morning,
he essentially kicked one of the players that sort of
beloved on this team, Tavon Austin, who I know a
lot of people laugh at because they didn't see a
ton of productivity in out you know, with the Rams.
But when he's here with this team, he's shown you

(01:42:34):
a speed. You saw the fifty eight yard touchdown he
had against the Rams last weekend. This is a guide
that the team loves. And so when I heard that,
I thought to myself, this is not good because I
believe that Jason Garrett has remained in Dallas as long
as he has because the locker room really loved him.
I mean I talked to former players and current players,
and they say that he does things we don't see,
holds them accountable, gets them ready for games. He treats

(01:42:57):
them as if he's there. You know, their children, they have,
you know, this strong relationship with Garrett. But by him
throwing time on Austin or the bus, I was like
this could go two ways in this lost room, and
this may not be a good thing for Jason. So
in the morning when he goes on the radio, he
said that and then later changes that response on Monday
when he met with the reporters again at forth. So

(01:43:19):
there were just like sort of different answers, and so
he was didding himself the whole there. I don't feel
like he got the whole story. And so when I
pressed him on that on Wednesday, you know, I said,
when did you get the information? I felt like I
was grilling him, like I was opposing him, but he
was saying, you know, he had essentially talked to you know,
his coaches. You know, they did tell tame On Austin
a fair catch. And I asked him, I said, well,

(01:43:39):
where were you on the sidelines when Keith O'Quinn called
that in? And he said he was standing right there
next to him. And so this morning they're asking him
about fourth and eighth, the final drive of the game,
the final play. And I had talked to one of
my Cowboys sources, and I said, what happened to Mary Cooper?
Why is your number one wide receiver not fair? And
I was told it was because they wanted to get
tame On Austin a shot at the DBS because the

(01:44:01):
Eagles were having a harder time with a smaller, quick guys.
And then they said that Cooper caught the ball in
place fifty eight fifty nine. He runs a go route
on the sixty A seven route on play sixty one,
and I was told that a Mari Cooper had no
gas on the next play to run another go route,
so they stubbed in Tabon Austin and they said that
Tavon won the route. I even said, look, Cooper one
hundred percent healthy, in other words, were you trying to

(01:44:22):
hold it back? They just thought he was gassed. He
wasn't going to be able to be as effective on
that worth and eighth play that could have helped them,
you know, at least tie the game at that point.
So then Jason Gurrett goes on the radio again today
and he explains that Kellen Moore came up with the
play call. San Jay Law was the one that decided
about rotating his receivers out, putting Tabon Austin on the

(01:44:44):
outside on the right in favor of an Amari Cooper.
He had Michael Gallup in the least he wanted the
two Titans there. And then he also said that you know,
they were asking him, do you can't you essentially make
a change, and he essentially said he's not trying to
like micromanage his guys, that they have these conversations throughout
the week, and you know they're all on board. The
reason why I didn't use its time out was because

(01:45:06):
they were all on board with this decision. It was
a look they wanted, it was a look they got.
It just didn't work out, and I just thought to myself,
it might have been why given that hears you know,
stuck on that bus is the link they've been marinating
in the loss. You can have to talk to the
media again at four o'clock to day, Maybe just let
Jason have a breather, let him go back to be
the tape, get on the same page with this coaches,

(01:45:28):
and maybe come out with a better response. It doesn't
look like you're throwing your guys under the bus, and
that you're all on the same page. It's just it's
I don't feel like it's doing him any favors. And
now it looks like here's a guy that's literally kicked
some of his coaches under the bus, and I don't
know if that's necessarily the case with Jason Joe Jane.
Let me let me ask you about Dak Prescott and

(01:45:49):
where does the blame fall for him? Biggest game of
the year. I mean, you get no touchdowns and I
could hear people talking about the apologies, thought they were
drops and what not. Sure that drops in almost every game,
but what about the miss throws. He's only seemed to
put up really big numbers against bad defenses and bad teams,
and when they go up against better teams, he struggles.

(01:46:12):
I mean, when do you look at him and say,
is he really that guy? Is that the reason why
he doesn't have a contract signed as a franchise quarterback?
Or where are you on Dak Prescott? And how much
blame should he get for what happened yesterday? Well, let
me clear up some of those things. So it's my
belief that he hasn't signed the lunch. It's not because

(01:46:33):
the Childboys haven't wanted to give him the long term deal.
Todd France, his agent, very trud has wanted to give
him what I've been told more of a four year
deal as opposed to this long term deal because when
this CBA comes out, there's more money, they can go
back to the open market and renegotiate a higher per
year value. So that's what's been the hold of of that.

(01:46:53):
Now you could argue he hasn't helped his case with
this final stretch of the season. They should have gotten
it done, when of course he would kind of all
these gotty pasting numbers and was throwing efficiently. The problem
I see people look at Dak Prescott and they were
signing a lot of blame to him. But if you
had seen these backup quarterbacks in camp, you wouldn't have
wanted to put Trooper Russian at quarterback against the Eagles.

(01:47:17):
But think I think it was admirable the way that
he played in that game, and not only that, throughout
the week he was jalvinizing his teammates to play right.
But I feel like a lot of his teammates didn't
do him a lot of favors yesterday amounting thing Jane
and I get it, and you know, I always say,
well you don't if it's not Dak who you're gonna
put in. I get all that, But when you're a

(01:47:38):
franchise that has won four playoff games in twenty five years,
and people coming into this year picked them to go
to the super Bowl. A lot of people thought that
Cowboys were going to go to the Super Bowl. Jason
had him to the NFC Championship game, and now they
have a chance of not being in the playoffs at
all after starting three and oh, I just you know,

(01:47:58):
we could look back and say, well, oh, who else
would you want? I thought he had a char This
has been a bad, bad year for Dak Prescott. When
you look at those things, I mean, can't you say
that when you look at his numbers? I think the
numbers are fraudulent. They're fraudulent to me. But but I'm
saying this is I mean, if you're looking at his
passing numbers, can you say he's a bad quarterback or
a quarterbacks? Do this deserve contrast where he's throwing for

(01:48:19):
over four thousand yards? I mean, I don't. I don't
know if if if that's a fair argument. I think
a better argument is why aren't they utilizing his skill
set better? Why didn't they run the ball? I understand
that the Eagles stacked the box yesterday, but they were
a mash unit by the time that game was over,
you couldn't name some of the guys on the roster.

(01:48:40):
It was a fourth, it was a guy that was
fourth on the depth chart that ended up beating you
at the end of the game at quarterbacks. So I
think it's been a mix of things. I think that's
what it's so frustrating about about this year. But if
I had to say guys that have actually played with
a ton of hearts, that have put in the works,
that have tried to improve dak treks up at the

(01:49:01):
top of my list, then I'd probably go down the
list and I'd put Michael Gallop there even though yesterday
and work out for him. I'd put Michael Bennett on
that list. I'd say I would even put Sean Lee,
who has really stepped up in the absence of Layton Vanderache.
But a lot of these other guys this year, I mean,
you could definitely make arguments where have you been? What

(01:49:22):
happened to you? Jalen Smith is one of the ones
that I think deserves a little criticism this year as well,
because you went out and got paid. If you look
at the number of snaps he's been on and then
the tackles for a lot they don't add up. Jane. Lastly,
obviously things are different now for the Cowboys looking up
at the Philadelphia Eagels. It's been pretty much a drama

(01:49:42):
free season for them so far. But now after everything
happened yesterday, what do you expect this week to be like?
For the Cowboys getting ready for their last game, knowing
they gotta win and get some help. That's what's so
wild about this season, guys. I mean, I really want
to take you behind the scenes and paint the picture.
You know, all of us are there training camp and
offstard and you know I on one of the few

(01:50:02):
reporters the NFL network that doesn't move off their team,
so I get I'm here four days a week on
a training camp. I mean, I live on this b
And when you saw them at training camp and you
looked at them on paper and even the eyeball pet
when you look at the depth, I mean you look
Michael Gallfinmark Cooper was sort of one A one B
in terms of wide receiver. Randall Cobb felt like an
upgrade at the slot position, although when you look at

(01:50:25):
Coldbasan when he's done with the Bills, you know, I
could see why some of the Beasley fans are going
now come on that kind of fair argument. I just
think Randall Cobb's given them some veteran leadership this year
when you look at having a Zekiel Elliott, but then
the added benefit of the guy like Tony Pollard, who
while he fumbled yesterday, he's been pretty efficient out there
his rookie season. Just looking at offense, I think it

(01:50:48):
was a bit of a deploy In other words, we
were so focused on offense we didn't start looking at
some of the deficiencies on defense, namely the cornerback position,
the defensive line, the linebackers, that we're going to deal
with a decimation of injuries, the fact they had to
bring in Malcolm Smith, you six year removed from a
Super Bowl to step in because you know you've got
yet another injury there Gifford last week going on IR

(01:51:09):
So they're pay persented positions. I don't think we focused
so much on the defense, and the defense has been
an acchully killed with them at time. You bring in
Kellen Moore, who's your offensive coordinator, you think he's going
to be your Sean McBay the answer to innovation and
while he's had the passing games looked like it's it's
been on pace. The running game, you've sort of wondered
what happened to it this year? That was the identity
of your team. Why have you moved away from it?

(01:51:32):
You paid a Zekiel Elliott all that money, and so
you look at all these things, and when you started
the season and you look at the schedule, you're like, well,
the schedule is going to be tough, especially when they
go deep into Philly and Chicago and the cloves. They
didn't have to deal with whether elements this year when
they faced a lot of these winning teams, they didn't
have a lot of their starters. This team just failed
to put it together and capitalize on opportunities throughout the season.

(01:51:55):
And I think that's the most frustrating thing for everybody
at the Star in Fritzgo because I think as much
as Jerry thought they were close to a super Bowl,
they feel so far away. It feels like they're gonna
have to rebuild again. You can follow on Twitter at
Slater NFL. That's at Slater NFL, NFL Network Reporter Cowboys
inside of James Slater, Jane phenomenal stuff thanks so much

(01:52:16):
for stopping buying us. We'll talk to you down the road.
Thanks guys. All right, great stuff there from Jane. Look,
and she makes really good points obviously about how hey,
we talk a lot about Dak and Ezekiel Ellie all
but defensively, Look, they allowed Carson Wentz, who's had an
up and down season to throw for three hundred yards
when clearly that was a game they should have looked.
The Eagles have nobody, They had nobody that you should

(01:52:38):
steal on the road. You should win that game. I mean,
you're not going to shut them out seventeen points on
the road. That's not Winnabowl for the Cowboys. You gotta
win that. You're talking a late December game on the road,
and the elements, you know, scores are going to be lower.
Its not every game is not going to be indoors
on carpet. I just think that she, you know, I
wanted to have a drop with the Jetsons at the JASP,

(01:53:00):
this crazy thing where she's talking about Dak only from
the standpoint of Jenson. I just think, I just think, dude,
you got to really take a good look at him.
And if I'm the Cowboys I'm afraid of Dak Prescott.
I don't know if you get to where you think
you're gonna get and which is a super Bowl. Thanks
to James Slader for stopping by. If you miss any

(01:53:20):
of our celebrity interviews this week from Mercedes AMG Man Cave,
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watch and listen from inside the Mercedes AMG Man Cave
Mercedes AMG Driving Performance. All right, so from that game
of the week, now we have to turn the page
to tonight Minnesota and Green Bay where this is. This
game means everything for the Packers, for the Vikings because

(01:53:41):
there's only a couple of teams that can win the
Super Bowl coming out of the NFC, and it's all
going to depend on home field and who's got it.
I know what Kirk Cousins record is on Monday Night.
I know how bad he is in primetime games. I
know he's O and eight. I know there's no Dalvin
Cook tonight. I get all of this, Rob Parker, I
understand tonight is going to be the Kirk Cousins stop it.

(01:54:03):
Nice's gonna be Jason. You will regret this. Minnesota's offense
is rolling they're playing at home. You really want to
talk about fraudulent, The Packers are more fraudulent than a
lot of other teams they've beaten. They've beaten better teams.
It's always about who you beat as well. They went
to Dallas, they won. They beat the Bearing saw that

(01:54:25):
a big no. But I'm talking about on the road,
on the road. I'm just saying there were games that
they've that they've won. They beat Minnesota earlier this year,
they beat the Bears. You could go through their their
their wins, and the wins are impressive, and that's what
it's about. Winning. It's not pretty. I'll be the first
to tell you, no fancy dress, no high heels. It

(01:54:47):
hasn't been pretty. But they've won and that's what it's about.
Do they have a running back that they haven't had
before Jason Yes, seventeen touchdowns last time, but he's not
as dynamic as we thought as we thought he was
gonna be middle of the season. They make plays defensively.
I'm not saying they're a great defense. May get decent
number of plays, they get takeaways, right. All I'm saying

(01:55:07):
is this is different from what Aaron Rodgers has ever
had and if Aaron Rodgers the guy shows up and
has a has a good game, this team could be
very dangerous because they have the running aspect and they
have a defense that can make plays. That's all I'm saying.
I do not if Dalvin Cook was playing, I would
be with you. I do not believe that this is

(01:55:28):
going to be Kirk cousins coming out party and he's
finally gonna do it. His record against teams over five
hundred is also very poor. He just hasn't beaten won
those games. And I'm and I'll wait to see when
he does. With this game being as big as it
is and on the line for the Packers and what
they've worked for all year, I believe that they win
this game. Doesn't matter tonight. Vikings also won in Dallas

(01:55:51):
on the road. Their offense is really rolling. Kirk Cousins
has been a pretty good quarterback throughout his career. Has
he beaten the great teams, but he's still someone's gonna
throw thirty some odd touchdowns and have a three to
one touchdown to interception ratio, and the Packers have something
to play for. Home field is what they would which
makes them a tougher out if you do play up

(01:56:13):
in Lambo, would you at least give me that the
elements in the play. That's why I Field is such
a big deal. It's a big deal for Minnesota as well.
They don't want to They don't want to play a
game in grimm Nobody else wants to play a game
in Green Bay. No, I get it, But I think
Green Bay, of all the teams in the NFL, that place,
there's still something about it, and you want to get there,
and it's cold, and other people are used to it,

(01:56:34):
and you know, you got to go to the Walmart
downtown green Bay. There's not much going on. You gotta
go to Walmart. Do you know? Have you been down?
Have you been in downtown Green Bay? Have not been.
I've been to Madison, but I have not been to
Green Bay. Unbelievable. All right there, Now you understand this
game tonight is being played in Minnesota. I do understand that.
I get they're playing for This game is in Minnesota.

(01:56:55):
This game is happening. Kirk Cousins has had a phenomenal
He has had a Pro Bowl Oliver year, even though
we got snubbed because you have quarterbacks that made it
that are all very similar. In the NFC. They could
have taken Kirk Cousins to the Pro Bowl, they could
have not taken but they didn't take them. You know why.
The reason that they didn't take them is because I
think that you gotta look at who do you beat that.

(01:57:15):
I think that that factors in a lot, you know,
with who are you beating? Are you beating me? Also?
Rans are you beating the good teams? And I think
that those things matter. And that's why Dak's numbers early
on didn't matter to me the three and old start,
because they were against the three worst teams in the league.
Would you agree with that at that point? Three worst

(01:57:35):
teams and all of them wind up having horrible seasons? Right?
But you're tendant for You're not You're not seven and seven.
You're tendant for the Viking. You've beaaten almost everybody, nobody, anybody,
I get it. But I think the Packers have a
have a better run and I think that a better
record or resume, I'll say a better resume, And if
they beat them again and beat them in Minnesota, this
will be exactly what they want. I think this is

(01:57:56):
the game that Aaron Rodgers wants to come out, play
well indoors. Right. You gotta running back, have a defense,
one or two turnovers, takeaways, and you're good to go. Well,
the good news is you and I are gonna get
to find out which one of us is right tomorrow
because we're doing the show together tomorrow. Yes, I'm gonna
be right. The Kirk Cousins Game. We're gonna it's gonna

(01:58:17):
have a name O the Kirk Cousins Game. He's gonna
rewrite everything. He's just gonna have that. This is his season.
This is why making me. You like Chris buss A.
You're gonna have me in the park a lot after
he tanks it tonight, and I'll be waiting to come
in again. I have to sleep in the parking lot
waiting to get at you tomorrow. Here on the damn
Patrick Show, Rob Parker, I like Rob Parker. I don't

(01:58:37):
love him, but I like him. I do a show
with Robbies. You know, Rob, I don't. I don't know
you like my Christmas. That's pretty good. We got more NFL,
but a very big baseball story coming your way next,
a huge free agent pitchers found a new team, and boy,
this is not gonna go over well for the Los
Angeles Dodgers. That's coming up next. This is Fox Sports Radio.

(01:59:00):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
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iHeartRadio app. And we got a big baseball story in
a second, but just real quick to follow up on
our the story that broke earlier this hour. Marshawn Lynch
is meeting with the Seahawks about a potential reunion, with

(01:59:22):
the Seahawks losing Chris Carson likely for the season due
to a hip injury. The Seahawks looked like they had everything,
you know, rolling, but now they are kind of limping
towards the playoffs. And I know you and I talked
about earlier this hour why it could work or not work.
I think it can work a certain way. You don't
like it. But the thing for the Seahawks is that
they're vulnerable now. I mean they went from a month

(01:59:43):
ago I would say, boy, the road of the Super
Bowl is going to go through Seattle, and now they're
really struggling. Would just see what they're did to them
at all. They're desperate. No, right, that's why Marshawn Lynch
is there, gonna meet with them today because they are desperate.
So you know, they need to take a look and
see what they're gonna do here. Because it looked like

(02:00:03):
a juggernaut. It is no longer a juggernaut, so we'll
keep an eye on that. Again, it's unclear if he
officially filed retirement paperwork with the league, This coming from
NFL Network NFL Media, but the two sides meeting this
morning and both are open to a reunion, so this
could actually happen at some point later on today. Meanwhile,
in baseball, a big domino fell in free agency as

(02:00:27):
young Jin Ryue is leaving the Dodgers, agreeing to a
four year, eighty million dollar contract with the Toronto Blue Jays.
Wait a minute, what was the deal. Well, he's on
four years, eighty millions and the Blue Jays had to
have a coupon with that because they got it. I
mean they had a group on, oh, half price for
you for Molson's and a cheese steak to be named

(02:00:51):
later exactly. I mean, seriously, that's not a big deal
in eighty million dollars for starting pitcher. No, he's got
the best era in baseball the past two years out
side of Jacob de grand I mean, it's just steal.
How in the world could the Dodgers unless they have
some other plan and they just haven't executed it yet. Seriously,
you can't let a guy like this go. Jason went

(02:01:13):
out having what is your plan? Well, well, that's the
thing about the Dodgers is that they've not gotten better
this offseason. If anything, now they've gotten worse. They've taken
one of their best pitchers and now you've subtracted him.
They've been linked to a lot of big players, but
now they have to come up with somebody big to
make this worthwhile. So I get that you think Dustin
may can be great and we can replay put him

(02:01:33):
in the lunch. You don't know a lot of young players,
but you don't know you left a guy who has proven,
especially a proven commodity at Chevez Ravine as good as
he is at home. They have to come up with
something big now, whether it's lindor they gotta come up now.
Clevenger supposedly is why they didn't get Clueber, because they
like Clevenger better. Than Clueber. Lindora has been talked about
at nauseam. Okay, so I've heard that. And then the

(02:01:56):
other thing was the Price David Price and Mookie Better
from the Red Sox sort of deal. You remember the
last time they had the big deals, Oh my god,
and they they sunk called Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez
a players. Look, Gonzalez was good, but the rest of
that trade was all boys not good, right, because Carl
Crawford was a good player until he signed that deal
and just never really bounced back. But in this case,

(02:02:17):
you just wonder. I know Friedman came from their their
GM or president came from Tampa Bay, but I think
he's still there. I just don't understand, like the Dodgers
can't get anybody since win, can't the Dodgers get anybody.
People are going to the Angels over them. They're going everywhere,
but the Dodgers. Dude, you can't keep winning NL division

(02:02:39):
NLS Division titles and not winning a World Series when
you haven't won Jason since nineteen eighty eight. See, but
that's I'm gonna take the optimistic. Look, that's something biggest
coming because what did the Dodgers try to do the
past few years while they're winning all the NLS crowns,
right every year, what's our deficiency, Let's fix it, right,
what's we need more bullpen guys. Let's fix it. And

(02:02:59):
they still need to improve their bullpen. But that can come,
you know that that can come in secondary tertiary forms.
They had a big signing last week as well. But
now they could I think get him for another year training.
I mean that that could suddenly work. But they saw
last year they took a step back. All right, this
was not even a World Series year. This was boy,
we lost the team that went on to beat the

(02:03:21):
team to win the World Series. This is not a
case of well we just need to add a guy here,
add a guy here. They know, you know what, this
mix didn't work and it didn't achieve the lad the
way the last two teams do. So now we need
something bigger. So I'm going to give them the benefit
of the doubt that there are going to have something
huge that's gonna drop over the holidays, whether it's bets
and price, a combination something like that, to make things

(02:03:44):
to kind of change things up a little bit, change
the chemistry a little and obviously you're gonna see some
players are gonna go out of town. But you know,
if you bring in a player, you can trade somebody else.
You bring in Lindor you know, maybe that doesn't leave
room for whether it's Justin Turner or somebody else, but
you can turn them into somebody else. I think they're
gonna they have something really big. They know, because there's
no way you let you walk out the door like

(02:04:05):
this for only twenty million year unless you need that money.
You need that space for something bigger because that that deal.
I mean, we're seeing pictures signed for two forty five,
three twenty four. And I'm not saying where you where
you is one of those guys, but eighty million dollars
a Dodgers couldn't keep a guy who is lights out,
especially at Dodger Stadium. He's lights out there. That that's

(02:04:28):
really eye opening that he's not that they didn't sign
him or couldn't sign him. So now I'm with you,
they better have something up their sleeves big time over
to holidays or whatever to get Dodger fans back into
it from the stampoint. Don't remember this, don't forget the
scene at Dodger Stadium when they walked out after that
home run by Kendricks, that Grand Slam, and people walked

(02:04:50):
out of Dodger Stadium in disgust. Now, look they know
that what they had. It's not just reload. It's a
little bit of rebuilding. And the good news is you
have so many good young players because look, the young
players from the Yankees and the Dodgers farm systems are
always more valued than a player from the Phillies or

(02:05:11):
the Mets or the eighth That's just the way it is.
So that's a good thing because you can say, hey,
you really want Gavin Lux. I mean, Gavin Lux may
be a great player, he may not be, but right
now because he's the next great Dodger player. And the
Dodgers have guys that come up every year that hit
three fifty and come in and hit walk offs and
get gatorade. Baskett. Boy, look how great this guy is.
They have more than enough capital to make a big

(02:05:33):
deal like this happens. And if you gotta trade Gavin
Lux to get Francisco Lindoor, you gotta trade Gavin Lux
because that's what minor league guys are for, is you
have to give up something to get something right. So
if if you don't know what lucks, you can say
whatever you want. And you know what, The Dodgers have
had a lot of rookies come up be rookies in
the year, and what has it gotten them? Championship wise?

(02:05:53):
Zero hasn't gotten him anything. So at some point you
have to take a dive in and go get that
established player. If you could get Price at Mookie Betts,
then I'm looking at the team differently. Yeah, even though
David Price has been a little underwhelming, no doubt did
better for him, and he bounced back in that World
Series against the Dodgers right when he finally won some
postseason games. Twitter at how about a Frescos also a

(02:06:16):
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