January 22, 2022 • 48 mins
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LaVar Arrington, TJ Houshmandzadeh, and Plaxico Burress look at the head coaching carousel in the NFL and debate if the Dallas Cowboys should replace Mike McCarthy with Dan Quinn. The guys dive into the problems with the Dallas Cowboys and react to their stars on offense falling short in their playoff loss. The guys discuss issues with NFL officiating in this edition of On Ya Head with James Jackson. Plus, TJ gives his thoughts on the struggles of his Los Angeles Lakers!
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there's a lot going on. Obviously, it's it's playoff time.
There's there's this is a big weekend, a big slate
of games. I like this slate of games first and
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foremost before I go into what I'm about to add y'all,
because I'm gonna really hit y'all with one right here,
and I really am interested to hear what you guys
are thinking. How are y'all doing? First and foremost, how
is everything going? How? How was y'all's week? How? How
did everything go for you? Didn't work out the way
that you wanted it to? Did you get something done?
Did you get ahead in life? How? Well, we'll talk
to you. We know, we know for a fact you did.
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But I'm good. Was on the move, man, I was
on the move, you know. Yeah, you was on the go, chimp, Yeah,
I was in your spot. I was in your your set,
I was I was I was set tripping in your set. Yeah,
he wasn't in my in my nick of the woods
where everything is you know, lovely and some of the
greatest athletes in the world come out of Why are
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you so someth dude? Did did did y'all? Did? Did
you get a massage or something before you came on?
I'm just relaxing there, listen. I'm you know, before I'm
out here mad. It's it's mad brick out here in Jersey.
I think we might make it, you know, into the
teens today. So you know, So with that being said,
palm trees and guys plaques, palm trees is in clear
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skies out here. Man, it wasn't windy over where you
were at though, TJ like it was real windy up
up on this this nice piece of mountain property. That, yeah,
it was. It was windy. It was windy over here
yesterday and last night it was quite windy. But today,
no storms, no snow. Get up seventy degrees. Man. Well
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you know, there you go. Maybe that's why I'm excited.
Maybe that's why Plexico is sitting by the crackling fire
of the fireplace and enjoying this show. We called up
on game all right, so here we go up speaking
of fire, let me start one. Dan Quinn is probably
the most sought after or close to it, UH coaching
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recipient for these coaching vacancies. Dan Quinn I said it,
you know, I think a lot of people believed that
a lot of people subscribe to it as well. He
was going to be the lynchpin sorts. He was going
to be the MVP of if the Dallas Cowboys were
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able to have a better season, because we all knew
that the defense was the liability for this Dallas team.
The Dallas defense changes, it improves, They lead the league
in statistical categories that were important, turnovers, different things like that,
and and now you're you're looking at the possibility of
(05:29):
losing that after one season. Now everybody raves about Kellen Moore,
But when Kellen Moore had the opportunity to lead this team,
while Mike Mike McCarthy had COVID who led the team,
dan quinn experience. That's okay, So an experience would you
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in an attempt to keep what dan Quinn has brought
to this team, which is a lot would you be
willing to replace Mike McCarthy with dan Quinn knowing that
you have Kellen Moore to be able to call the
offense and now you keep in place and intact what
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was built in one season with dan Quinn for TJ?
Absolutely not. Dan Quinn is I mean? And I'm just
stating from from what he's done. He's average, He's average.
And you say, oh, why do you say he's average? TJ?
As a head coach, he's forty three and forty two.
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That's average to me, is it not? You're pretty much
a five hundred coach. You're an average coach. You've won
just as many games if you lost, So that tells
me you're an average coach. What makes him a better
coach than Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy is an average. His
record states that's not the case. Dan Quinn had a
big lead in the Super Bowl, he lost it. He
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lost it, and did he turn Dallas defense around? He did?
I give him credit for that. He put Michael Parsons
in situations that people didn't believe Michael Parsons could play
and be successful him. But it was Randy Gregory gets
hurt to Marcus Slawrence gets turned. Oh let's see if
Michael Parsons rushed pastor oh Man, he's our best pass rusher,
and he can play stack linebacker and he can play
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in the middle. He did a great job with that defense.
I will give him credit. But why would I replace
Mike McCarthy with somebody that's proven over time to be
an average head coach. He's forty three and forty two
over his career. I'm not doing that flax when we
talk about these head coaches, you know, getting an interview
for you know, for different jobs, or you know, guys
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like Dan Quinn, who you know, he had a little
bit of success in Atlantland. But digging back and just
going back to what y'all guy was saying, blowing a
twenty four point leading the Super Bowl. That's just a
Atlanta has never been the same since. They ended up
been the same since. But you know, Ben Quinny, he's
getting interviews by the New York Jiants and Chicago Bears.
Those situations, those aren't situations that you want up being
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as a head coach going into you know, being a
head coach of the second organization. Now, I would say this,
when you start talking about the coaches going places. Look
at the players that they have. If you take h
Trevon Diggs and Michael Parsons and if you put them
on any defense within these thirty two teams, they are
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automatically intended to win that division. So you gotta look
at the pieces that you have as a head coach.
You look at guys like Josh McDaniels. He had four
or five different, uh, you know, options to go be
a head coach in Indianapolis and Denver and all these places.
But you know what he know what he had he
had to go. He said, listen, I'm not leaving to
the Gold League. My job is secure. So I think
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right now, you know, some of these coaches are turning down,
you know, coaching opportunities because of because of job security.
You look at them. You look at uh, the firing
of David color. Uh. You know, Brian Flora is out
of coaching in just three years. Coaches they want to
get to that position where they can be a head coach,
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but in the back of their mind they also want security.
So if you're Dan Quinn, why would you leave If
you're a defensive mindy coach, which the Chicago bets of
a pretty good defense. But as far as New York
Johnson's concerned, he's a defensive mindy coach, You're not going
to coach a better defense in Dallas if you choose
to go anywhere else. Hey, Lavard, let me ask you
this question. If you were the head coach of eighteen
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and you were playing a game, your team was down
seventeen to thirteen with just about three minutes left, It's
fourth and golf from the one yard line. Are you
kicking the field goal? Are you going for it? What's
the what's the score total? Seventeen to thirteen, down from
seventeen thirteen. You're down. You're down seventeen to thirteen, three
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minutes left in the game. Fourth and golf from the
one yard line. Where are you gonna do in the game?
I'm going for it? Okay? Well, just so you know,
Dan Quinn was in that situation, just so you know.
In twenty fifteen he was a coach of the Falcons.
He kicked the field goal. Things that make you go.
He kicked the field goal, saying it gave us a
better chance to win. It's fourth and goal from the
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one yard line. Go for it? And get what was
they lost seventeen to sixteen. Great three points right there. Yeah,
well I wouldn't have put the ball back in Tom
Brady's hands. That's I'm gonna take a chance trying to
get the points that you also do. And that was
just a regular season game against forty niners. And I'm
referring to we're not talking about the epic collapse in
the Super Bowl. When we're not talking even though Kyle
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Shanahan deserves a lot of the blame for that, dan Quinn,
you're the head coach. It falls on your shoulders, and
I'm wiplax. He had great players, and a lot of
people have great players and they don't get the best
out of him. Dan Quinn he got the best out.
I wasn't around dan Quinn when I was in Seattle.
I like him a lot, but there's a lot of
coaches that you kind of take for granted, and Mike
(10:59):
McCarty maybe one. I didn't like the way things went
in that playoff game. I don't know if they could
have handled it better. I don't mind. You know they
could have handled it, bet I don't. I don't mind
a play call, I really don't. It was the execution
of the play call. But but I don't mind it
the way that the forty nine has played it. But
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firing a coach that has won a Super Bowl for
a coach that blew a Super Bowl, firing a coach
that has a winning record over a coach that's average
record wise, I'm not doing that all right. But what
if the logic is and here's where I think the
logic where it comes from. If you're looking at from
the fact that a lot of people think that Kellen
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Moore turned into the coach in waiting. You said it
in the beginning of the segment, experience lack of experience
was why he didn't lead the team. What if dan
Quinn is the person that holds served four Dallas to
keep going in the right direction as the head coach
until the young Prince is able to be old enough
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and wise enough to be the king. See to me,
I look at it from the perspective of if you
were to let dan Quinn go with all those good
players that you guys mentioned on the Dallas defense, this
is still a defense that I had much largely in part,
had the same defense last year with only the addition
of really Michael Parsons and I think one secondary guy,
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the second, the safety or whatever. But to me, this
defense would not have been as good if dan Quinn
isn't the defensive coordinator. So while I sit there and
say I understand the idea of looking at it from
the head coaches perspective, what if you're saying the balance
of keeping dan Quinn there and getting this defense up
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to par is really a symptom, a symptom of keeping
a team going in the right direction and not sliding back.
Because if you think about it, this offense, while it
rated high and a lot of statistical outgories, they certainly
did not come through when they needed to, especially against
(13:06):
good teams. It's it's right there in print. They did
not do well against good teams. So if Kellen Moore
is a guy that you're looking at, you don't want
this team to fall apart due to free agency and
guys leaving, and you don't want the defense to slide
back into being something else, and you run the risk
(13:27):
of this defense becoming a pedestrian defense again if you
lose dan Quinn due to free agency. As a coach,
and that's why I think that it's it actually, when
I hurt the idea of it, it would be something
that if I'm a decision maker, I think I got
to kick the tires around on this because it's like, okay,
process of elimination. If I lose Mike McCarthy versus Dan
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Quinn after this season, which one do I lose more
with if I lose that person? Now, now, LaVar, you're
a defensive player. Yeah, but have feasted because they've had
They've created a ton of turnovers. We all know you're
(14:12):
not going to create turnovers at the rate they've been
doing every year, single year. You're not going to do that.
That's been so and so. Could things be skewed a
little bit because they forced so many turnovers? Yeah, but
that they didn't next year, that they do that? When right?
But so what I'm saying is if they don't force
(14:33):
the amount of turnovers they forced this year, then what Yeah,
I mean, it's a great it's a great conversation. Is
a great great weight I thought, I mean the league
and turnover differential they led the league. I mean, I
think that it's a it's a conversation that's going to
ensue because I do think that where where there could
(14:54):
be the situation where you lose Dan Quinn. Is that
is that a blow that you rather take than maybe
possibly keeping him and losing Mike McCarthy as your head coach.
I don't know. I just think that as a conversation
you gotta have. And speaking of conversations, there's gonna be
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Let's go, let's get with it. It's like I'm on
your head with James Jackson. All Right, we got jj
hair from the Straight Backs podcast. What you got man?
Who's head y'a? On? This week? I'm on. I'm on
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somebody's head. You guys know me. So of all the
teams that I've called out this season, this is another team,
another unit that has escaped me all season. But you know,
for the for the divisional rounds, like I gotta come
back and double back to this team. And I got
three former players only with me right now. So I
hope I don't hit too much of a nerve with
this one. But last week I saw was egregious from
(21:02):
the NFL referees. Man, I gotta get on their head.
And I know that, I know that the Aaron whistle
that they blew last week and the Bagel's Raiders game
didn't decide the outcome of the game. But you're lying,
just like Joe Burrow and Zach Keylor if you tell
me you didn't hear that whistle. I mean, I'm watching
it from my TV screen and I can hear the whistle.
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So blown calls can really turn a game chaotic. We've
seen it many times. If you just look at that scene,
I mean, you got people all over the place. It
just looks like a zoo. No wonder if the Zebras
were siding with the Bengals on that one. I guess
I shouldn't be surprised. I'm really the first one to
say that you can't blame losses on officials, Like there's
so much more that happens throughout the scope of a game.
(21:44):
But we've seen some refs like decide some crucial playoff
games with the calls they make or don't make at
the end of the game and past history, like did
Gays catch it? Should the Rams have not gone to
the rollout of that non TI call? Did Brady actually
fumble the ball? Like these are all questions that arise
after you know, rest kind of put their stamp on
(22:05):
the game, right And you know, just because y'all look
like foot locker reps or foot locker employees doesn't mean
you can lose y'all shoes in the moment now, and
we still we still need you to come up in
the moment. And I'm really laughing. I'm really laughing because
I know Cowboys fans all over are listening right waiting
for me to address their situation at the end of
their game last week too. But Cowboys fans, you guys
(22:26):
did that to yourselves. I'm really only here to address
referee mistakes I'm not defending you, guys. I was just
poor decision making at the end of your game. But
bottom line is that we ask players to stuff up
their performance in the playoffs all the time. So now
I'm doing the same from the referees. Tighten up, officials,
because I'm on your head. I had to get that out.
I had to get it out. Well, let me ask
(22:49):
you guys this that the whistle mess up the outcome
of the play. See to me, I thought the play
should have been blown dead and they should have been
replayed again. But I'm not gonna sit there and say
that the play should have been blown dead and replayed
again because it impacted the outcome of the play. I thought.
(23:10):
I thought the touchdown was going to be the touchdown
no matter what at the point the whistle blew. What
do y'all think? I personally feel like when the whistle
was blown, the ball was in flight, it was going
to be a touchdown regardless. Yeah it was, and so
would the Raiders have prevented that from being a touchdown?
Absolutely not. If you replay that and the Bengals don't score,
(23:36):
you've quite possibly cost them the game. And so it
was a erroneous whistle by rule, they should have replayed it,
but I believe the right decision was made in Oh,
it's gonna be a touchdown anyway. I mean, And you
can point to the Raiders last drive, that phantom roughing,
(23:56):
the passer call that gave him fifteen yards when he
hit his shoulder, didn't touch his head. Truth. And so
the officials they have a hard job, and I'm one,
I'm on them a lot. I'm disenchanted by just it's
so many things. Oh this happens, and then oh that ball,
that's not a fumble. Somebody got in their ear and
said this or that. The replaces when you go back
(24:18):
to the McVeigh the Rams game where aj Green Is
it a catch? Is it not a catch? Was it
a fumble? And it seemed like that took ten minutes
to figure out, Like, let's get the game moving. Officials
are gonna make mistakes and guys like me are gonna
be on their head with James. But it is what
it is. I don't believe that cost them the game
(24:40):
because they had a chance to win it late they
didn't get it done. And plus you bring up a
good point because it's something that I've argued with a
lot of people before, and that's like the human element
and sports, right, like you said it, like they're human.
We all make mistakes and they're just in a such
a small margin of error positions because they're mistakes get
magnified to everybody, and like people would like to kind
(25:01):
of project down the road that if you didn't make
this call, you didn't make this call, we wont the
lost or won the game. But I do side with you,
like part of the human element of sports is, you know,
maybe having to come back from a call that didn't
necessarily go your way, but having to play beyond that
play at that and still win the game because you're
right that that whistle or non whistle doesn't decide the
outcome of that play. The Bengals were going to score anyway.
(25:24):
I'm just looking at the side of the Raiders where
if I hear the whistle, I'm telling my defense to
stop because I know if I don't that and another
play it can air it can you warrant a penalty?
So that's where I see it from the Raiders was
my big point. There's so many problems with this, this
whole blown whistle situation. In the whole New NFL replay.
(25:45):
And you know, I was listening to you know, one
of the guys Cross be saying, I listen, we heard
the whistle. So Automatical's defensive player. You basically just shutting
it down and moving on to the next play. But
then the referees they're they're reviewing the play and the
people in New York are looking at it. So I
don't know what the whole the whole uh thing is
(26:08):
for replay. If you're looking at them get it wrong,
then why can't you correct them? That's what I don't understand.
And and and as far as them scoring scoring the
touchdown on their drive, it does impact the game because
if if if they don't get that touchdown, they kicked
the field goal, they're they're going they're going into halftime
six six because the Raiders go down down the field
(26:30):
and kick a field goal. Now the game is what
it's it's uh it's ten six and ten the six six,
So it did have an impact on the game. And
then the uh Cincinnati third and they end up getting
the ball at the halftime. So it does impact the
football game. But the point that that the that the
referees when they were asked, did job blow the whistle?
(26:51):
They said they did not blow the whistle until the
ball was already caught, which is absolutely wrong. That is
the reason why. That is not what That's the reason
why they're not going to ref any more NFL games
for the rest of this postseason. How are you as
a referee when they ask you about the whistle, You're
going to say to to, to, to the the lead
(27:13):
official guy and everybody out in the world that you
didn't blow the whistle and the whistle was not blown
until that after the catch was made. I mean, everybody
heard the whistle. So my whole thing with this whole
NFL replay is if you are watching them get it
wrong and you know it's wrong, then corrected right there
(27:34):
in New York, then correct it because they're doing it right.
So I don't understand how you can just look at
it and let them just destroy the game and not
correct the problem. Man, you return that touchdown and they
don't score, Oh man, it's gonna be here, like you,
(27:54):
it don't matter. Your mistakes, shouldn't cost me your mistakes.
Like that's like as though, I mean, I don't want
to I don't want to have to pay for other
people's mistakes with my hard earn cash. But we do so,
I mean, that is what it is. That's a whole
other topic. I mean, I listen. I I agree with
plex honestly, I really do. And as as horrible as
(28:17):
it would be to have to overturn that touchdown when
it wasn't going to impact the touchdown, it's sad, but
mistakes happen, and you just got that's a part of
the game as well, is that you got to overcome
mistakes that may have happened. But it's their own rule.
It's their own rule. When the ball is in the
air and the whistle is blown, the plate is dead,
(28:39):
you're going on fourth down. They're kicking a field goal.
It's plainly simple. Yeah, I mean that's the rule. It
is by rule, it is the rule. But hey, JJ,
we appreciate you, man. Everybody makes sure you check out,
subscribe to up on Game Presents, UH Straight Facts podcasts
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(29:00):
keep keep standing on their heads, bro, keep keep staying
on the head. And now you know, I see you
working with Villanova. How how how's that going? So for
real quick. How's how's the Villanova season going for them?
They're going great. They're they're actually they're on TV right
now at Georgetown trying to get back and win. Tough.
Lost this past Wenesday at home, the first time we've
lost at home, and the putting the finner and pavilion
(29:22):
ms about twenty eighteen, I believe. But look number eleven
in the country. Bounce back. We come back on two
Bay and another one at home. You know we do wildcasts,
baby wildcats go. Come on, man. We went up to Madison.
Let we went to Madison last night, beat Wisconsin by
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I see y'all. It's trying to see in march. Big.
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What's your gag, hey, LeVar? Why don't we start with
that Villanova game right now? With Capitol One Arena in
DC number eleven, Villanova out to a twenty five to
nineteen lead over Georgetown, eight thirty seven left to play
in the first half. At Cameron Indoor Stadium, Number six,
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Duke leading Syracuse twenty seven to eighteen, five thirty four
left to play in the first half there, and West
Virginia in eighteen to seventeen lead at eighteenth ranked Texas
Tech seven thirty eight left to play in the first half.
Divisional routle of the NFL playoffs kicks off at four
thirty eastern is the Tennessee Titans host the Cincinnati Bengals.
Tonight at eight fifteen Eastern, It's the Packers in forty
(30:51):
nine ers from lambeau Field. On the coaching front, the
New York Giants announcing this morning they've interviewed Buffalo Bill's
defensive coordinator Leslie Frasier for their head coach job. Edward
A reporting that Dan Quinn's interviewing for the Chicago Bears
head coaching job this morning via zoom. Meanwhile, former Colts
and Lions head coach Jim Caldwell took to Twitter today
(31:12):
to deny a recent report that he turned down opportunities
to interview for the Vikings and Raiders head coaching jobs.
Finally in college football, fellas, are you aware of the
situation at Hawaii? Tell us this broke overnight. June Jones,
who previously was the head coach at Hawaii We're going
(31:32):
and also an NFL head coach obviously well. Hawaii offered
June Jones's head coaching job again after Todd Graham resigned,
but Jones turned it down, and he took to Twitter
to explain why. He tweeted, and I quote, I am
still interested in this job, but there is no way
I could accept with the conditions offered me. No coach
(31:54):
in their right mind would accept dictating who can be
on my staff and only two year contracts. What recruit
would come if I was here for two years? Question
mark question mark, question mark dot dot. This has never
been about money, but it is about giving me the
ability to turn our program around and not have people
tell me who was on my staff or how to
(32:16):
coach my team. Unquote, Aloha back to you, Aloha to you,
mister ail the legend. Okay, so we had some interesting
sound from from our guy courtesy of one oh five
point three the fan, Michael Irving, and we we had
(32:38):
a conversation last week as it applied to you gotta
get your stars the ball, and I mean, this is
you know, this is what we heard Troy Aikman talk
about it. But here's what Mike Irving had to say
about it, and I want to hear it. Get y'all's
opinion on it. Our stars didn't show up, We had
(32:58):
no shot. Whatever you got, disorder, dis function. We can't
have our stars putting up role player numbers like thirty
one yards Russian one te yards did not pass a rating,
and didn't have our role players putting up numbers like
Chokes and Wilson. That's a disorder. Trying to make our
(33:20):
role players stars, our saws roll players. That's a disorder,
and the team just functions. There you go. So I mean,
y'all give me, y'all, give me y'alls y'all's take on it.
I mean it's correct in what he's saying. It is
man I will say this man, from an offensive standpoint,
(33:42):
the Dallas Cowboys are loaded at every position. I mean
they have elite talent at the quarterback position, Amari Cooper,
Ceedee Lamb and Gallop and Ezekiel Elliott and Mary Rogers,
a twenty million dollars year performer, Mark Cooper, and Mark Cooper.
(34:06):
So I've been saying to myself that just seems like
days and Sundays where it's it's either feast of family
for him. He either has one of these games where
it's like four catchers, forty yards and a touchdown, and
then the following week he's like eight for one, seventy
five and three. And listen, I know how the up
(34:27):
been flow of football games take place every Sunday, but
to me, it just doesn't seem like he goes out
and competes every Sunday like he is the best wide
receiver on the football field and he's an elite talent.
He has speed, he gets separation in and out of
his breaks. But for some reason, he just hasn't climbed
(34:50):
the ladder of being that elite player at the wide
receive position that we envisit him to be. Because when
we talk about who are to talk about over he
was in all of football. His name doesn't his name
is not on the list as far as the top five.
But and I agree with ev like they have to
come out and have a kind of sensual urgest and
black listen, man, this is the playoffs. Every every possession
(35:13):
is precious. And Ceedee Lamb is is a phenomenal player.
He's also a rookie and he's going to continue to
get better. But I agree with Michael Irving one hundred percent.
Those guys that are making that kind of money as
as performers and players playing on that offense, they need
to come out and shine. And and it's all about
(35:35):
managing the football game also, And this is a fall
in It falls on Mike McCarthy and Kelly and Kelly
Moore going into this game and say, listen, I'm gonna
get a Mark Cooper and Ceedee Lamb involved in this game.
On the first drive, someway, somehow, I'm gonna get the
ball in their hands and let them get comfortable and
maybe we can find a matchup that we like and
put these guys in one on one sitsute waiting so
(35:56):
we can let their ability show and I didn't see
that from a coaching stand point. And then when it
came for a time for them to throw the football
and get the football toomb was already too late. Man,
Get get them superstars involved in the game earlier. So
you can't just put it on them. But at the
same time, they have to go out and make the
plays that you Listen, if you want to be a
great player in this league, you have to make the
(36:17):
plays that you're supposed to make and also make a
few plays that you're not supposed to make. That's what
makes a great player in this league. Indeed, listen, when
when how much just to give all these head coaches
coordinators free game right now? If you want your receiver
to be engaged from the first snap to the last snap,
(36:38):
get him the ball to first drive, or attempt to
get him the ball to first drive. When you don't
try to get the receiver to ball, we know from
the script and that meeting the night before, Okay, they're
trying to first Temple. They trying to get me the ball.
Whether I get it or not, I know you've tried
to get me the ball. I'm engaged. City Lamb didn't
(36:59):
have a cat until midway through the third quarter. You
got Jerry Jones coming out basically sitting like a Mark Cooper.
You going like a player of his stature, a player
that makes what he's supposed to make. You got to
make the plays that Plex was just talking about. Jerry
Jones is pissed, But that to me falls on the coordinator,
the head coach, and the quarterback. You gotta understand, systems
(37:23):
don't win games. Players win games. It's not the play
you're calling, it's the player that's going to make that play.
But everybody has this perception that the Dallas Cowboys are loaded.
What I saw that offensive line got man handled. That
offensive line is not loaded. That that's a myth. That's
a thing of the past. That old line is nowhere
(37:45):
near what it was. They got man ten old up front.
Forty nine ers brought four and they had that under
pressure the entire game. But get your receivers the ball
the first Throw him a quick screen, give him a
head or slat, whatever it may be. Give him a
bubble screen. We're engaged. I mean, I don't get the
(38:07):
ball in the first half. I don't even want to
play no more. And that's a fact. I went and
got me a pepsi with with a dark a dark
rum and crack some cracking RUMs because I just knew
when when they didn't, yeah, when they didn't get him
the ball like that, and you know, getting uh ceedee
lamb involved, I just knew it was about to go bad.
And I mean, it's just that's just what it felt like.
(38:28):
But hey, you know that's how is that not how
receivers feel if you get me the ball flecks? Am
I playing all game? Am I playing hard? I'm my
blocks alutely? I don't They don't understand, man. Listen, well, listen.
I knew that in the first ten plays when I
was in New York that we were we were going
to throw a deep ball. We are going to throw
the ball deep in the first ten plays in the game.
(38:50):
And you look at our tapes and we we hit
a lot of those plays and scored a lot of
touchdowns early. But that those are some of the things
I'm talking about from color Moore and you know, getting
these guys getting involved early and too me TJ from
from a quarter from a wide receiver. With the quarterback perspective,
you look at all the elite you know, relationships between
(39:11):
quarterback and wide receiver. You're talking about, uh, you know
Adams and and and Rogers, Jamar Chase, Joe Burrow. And
you look at the reports that they have, it's undeniable
for an elite wide receiver. Brother, it's Mary Cooper and
Dak Prescott. They don't have that relationship. And and for me,
that's mind boggling. Your first team players should be three
(39:34):
for Zeque, three for Cooper, three for Cdee Lamb, one
for whomever else. Now, if the coverage takes us somewhere else,
that's okay. But when that play is called, they know, oh,
this is design to go to me, that's all you want.
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I thought it was interesting. Rust didn't like it too much,
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I want to hear y'all's reaction to it's super quick?
All right, here we go, Bruss. Magic Johnson tweeted after
the game that there was not enough effort, not a
sense of urgency, and that Laker fans and Genie busters
are better from from the team that they support. I
just wanted to see if you had a reaction to
Magic's take. Oh, I do not. I do not have
(44:46):
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We got us of what that is. You can either
take it and run with it, or you can take
it and put in one of it or not the other,
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to his opinion, and he's not here every day, he's
not around us every day. He's not aware kind of
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(45:07):
things out. But I have no response to that. But
like I said, everybody in this world is entitled to
their opinion, all right, Everybody's entitled to their opinion. What
say y'all to this? We got literally like get him
to get for this? Nah. I agree with Westbrook. When
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Laker grade, he's an NBA grade. You have to respect
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(45:49):
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I'm a Laker fans at end, they gonna figure this out.
You always somebody always has to be blamed, and right
now it's Russell Westbrook. Last night he had a great game.
Can he start to string some games together? But when
people expect greatness and you've given a mediocrity as a team,
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I do have to disagree with him on this one comment.
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(02:57):
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because I'm gonna really hit y'all with one right here,
and I really am interested to hear what you guys
are thinking. How are y'all doing? First and foremost, how
is everything going? How? How was y'all's week? How? How
did everything go for you? Didn't work out the way
that you wanted it to? Did you get something done?
Did you get ahead in life? How? Well, we'll talk
to you. We know, we know for a fact you did.
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But I'm good. Was on the move, man, I was
on the move, you know. Yeah, you was on the go, chimp, Yeah,
I was in your spot. I was in your your set,
I was I was I was set tripping in your set. Yeah,
he wasn't in my in my nick of the woods
where everything is you know, lovely and some of the
greatest athletes in the world come out of Why are
(03:38):
you so someth dude? Did did did y'all? Did? Did
you get a massage or something before you came on?
I'm just relaxing there, listen. I'm you know, before I'm
out here mad. It's it's mad brick out here in Jersey.
I think we might make it, you know, into the
teens today. So you know, So with that being said,
palm trees and guys plaques, palm trees is in clear
(04:00):
skies out here. Man, it wasn't windy over where you
were at though, TJ like it was real windy up
up on this this nice piece of mountain property. That, yeah,
it was. It was windy. It was windy over here
yesterday and last night it was quite windy. But today,
no storms, no snow. Get up seventy degrees. Man. Well
(04:23):
you know, there you go. Maybe that's why I'm excited.
Maybe that's why Plexico is sitting by the crackling fire
of the fireplace and enjoying this show. We called up
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of fire, let me start one. Dan Quinn is probably
the most sought after or close to it, UH coaching
(04:45):
recipient for these coaching vacancies. Dan Quinn I said it,
you know, I think a lot of people believed that
a lot of people subscribe to it as well. He
was going to be the lynchpin sorts. He was going
to be the MVP of if the Dallas Cowboys were
(05:06):
able to have a better season, because we all knew
that the defense was the liability for this Dallas team.
The Dallas defense changes, it improves, They lead the league
in statistical categories that were important, turnovers, different things like that,
and and now you're you're looking at the possibility of
(05:29):
losing that after one season. Now everybody raves about Kellen Moore,
But when Kellen Moore had the opportunity to lead this team,
while Mike Mike McCarthy had COVID who led the team,
dan quinn experience. That's okay, So an experience would you
(05:55):
in an attempt to keep what dan Quinn has brought
to this team, which is a lot would you be
willing to replace Mike McCarthy with dan Quinn knowing that
you have Kellen Moore to be able to call the
offense and now you keep in place and intact what
(06:16):
was built in one season with dan Quinn for TJ?
Absolutely not. Dan Quinn is I mean? And I'm just
stating from from what he's done. He's average, He's average.
And you say, oh, why do you say he's average? TJ?
As a head coach, he's forty three and forty two.
(06:38):
That's average to me, is it not? You're pretty much
a five hundred coach. You're an average coach. You've won
just as many games if you lost, So that tells
me you're an average coach. What makes him a better
coach than Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy is an average. His
record states that's not the case. Dan Quinn had a
big lead in the Super Bowl, he lost it. He
(07:01):
lost it, and did he turn Dallas defense around? He did?
I give him credit for that. He put Michael Parsons
in situations that people didn't believe Michael Parsons could play
and be successful him. But it was Randy Gregory gets
hurt to Marcus Slawrence gets turned. Oh let's see if
Michael Parsons rushed pastor oh Man, he's our best pass rusher,
and he can play stack linebacker and he can play
(07:22):
in the middle. He did a great job with that defense.
I will give him credit. But why would I replace
Mike McCarthy with somebody that's proven over time to be
an average head coach. He's forty three and forty two
over his career. I'm not doing that flax when we
talk about these head coaches, you know, getting an interview
for you know, for different jobs, or you know, guys
(07:43):
like Dan Quinn, who you know, he had a little
bit of success in Atlantland. But digging back and just
going back to what y'all guy was saying, blowing a
twenty four point leading the Super Bowl. That's just a
Atlanta has never been the same since. They ended up
been the same since. But you know, Ben Quinny, he's
getting interviews by the New York Jiants and Chicago Bears.
Those situations, those aren't situations that you want up being
(08:06):
as a head coach going into you know, being a
head coach of the second organization. Now, I would say this,
when you start talking about the coaches going places. Look
at the players that they have. If you take h
Trevon Diggs and Michael Parsons and if you put them
on any defense within these thirty two teams, they are
(08:27):
automatically intended to win that division. So you gotta look
at the pieces that you have as a head coach.
You look at guys like Josh McDaniels. He had four
or five different, uh, you know, options to go be
a head coach in Indianapolis and Denver and all these places.
But you know what he know what he had he
had to go. He said, listen, I'm not leaving to
the Gold League. My job is secure. So I think
(08:47):
right now, you know, some of these coaches are turning down,
you know, coaching opportunities because of because of job security.
You look at them. You look at uh, the firing
of David color. Uh. You know, Brian Flora is out
of coaching in just three years. Coaches they want to
get to that position where they can be a head coach,
(09:08):
but in the back of their mind they also want security.
So if you're Dan Quinn, why would you leave If
you're a defensive mindy coach, which the Chicago bets of
a pretty good defense. But as far as New York
Johnson's concerned, he's a defensive mindy coach, You're not going
to coach a better defense in Dallas if you choose
to go anywhere else. Hey, Lavard, let me ask you
this question. If you were the head coach of eighteen
(09:30):
and you were playing a game, your team was down
seventeen to thirteen with just about three minutes left, It's
fourth and golf from the one yard line. Are you
kicking the field goal? Are you going for it? What's
the what's the score total? Seventeen to thirteen, down from
seventeen thirteen. You're down. You're down seventeen to thirteen, three
(09:51):
minutes left in the game. Fourth and golf from the
one yard line. Where are you gonna do in the game?
I'm going for it? Okay? Well, just so you know,
Dan Quinn was in that situation, just so you know.
In twenty fifteen he was a coach of the Falcons.
He kicked the field goal. Things that make you go.
He kicked the field goal, saying it gave us a
better chance to win. It's fourth and goal from the
(10:14):
one yard line. Go for it? And get what was
they lost seventeen to sixteen. Great three points right there. Yeah,
well I wouldn't have put the ball back in Tom
Brady's hands. That's I'm gonna take a chance trying to
get the points that you also do. And that was
just a regular season game against forty niners. And I'm
referring to we're not talking about the epic collapse in
the Super Bowl. When we're not talking even though Kyle
(10:35):
Shanahan deserves a lot of the blame for that, dan Quinn,
you're the head coach. It falls on your shoulders, and
I'm wiplax. He had great players, and a lot of
people have great players and they don't get the best
out of him. Dan Quinn he got the best out.
I wasn't around dan Quinn when I was in Seattle.
I like him a lot, but there's a lot of
coaches that you kind of take for granted, and Mike
(10:59):
McCarty maybe one. I didn't like the way things went
in that playoff game. I don't know if they could
have handled it better. I don't mind. You know they
could have handled it, bet I don't. I don't mind
a play call, I really don't. It was the execution
of the play call. But but I don't mind it
the way that the forty nine has played it. But
(11:20):
firing a coach that has won a Super Bowl for
a coach that blew a Super Bowl, firing a coach
that has a winning record over a coach that's average
record wise, I'm not doing that all right. But what
if the logic is and here's where I think the
logic where it comes from. If you're looking at from
the fact that a lot of people think that Kellen
(11:40):
Moore turned into the coach in waiting. You said it
in the beginning of the segment, experience lack of experience
was why he didn't lead the team. What if dan
Quinn is the person that holds served four Dallas to
keep going in the right direction as the head coach
until the young Prince is able to be old enough
(12:01):
and wise enough to be the king. See to me,
I look at it from the perspective of if you
were to let dan Quinn go with all those good
players that you guys mentioned on the Dallas defense, this
is still a defense that I had much largely in part,
had the same defense last year with only the addition
of really Michael Parsons and I think one secondary guy,
(12:21):
the second, the safety or whatever. But to me, this
defense would not have been as good if dan Quinn
isn't the defensive coordinator. So while I sit there and
say I understand the idea of looking at it from
the head coaches perspective, what if you're saying the balance
of keeping dan Quinn there and getting this defense up
(12:43):
to par is really a symptom, a symptom of keeping
a team going in the right direction and not sliding back.
Because if you think about it, this offense, while it
rated high and a lot of statistical outgories, they certainly
did not come through when they needed to, especially against
(13:06):
good teams. It's it's right there in print. They did
not do well against good teams. So if Kellen Moore
is a guy that you're looking at, you don't want
this team to fall apart due to free agency and
guys leaving, and you don't want the defense to slide
back into being something else, and you run the risk
(13:27):
of this defense becoming a pedestrian defense again if you
lose dan Quinn due to free agency. As a coach,
and that's why I think that it's it actually, when
I hurt the idea of it, it would be something
that if I'm a decision maker, I think I got
to kick the tires around on this because it's like, okay,
process of elimination. If I lose Mike McCarthy versus Dan
(13:51):
Quinn after this season, which one do I lose more
with if I lose that person? Now, now, LaVar, you're
a defensive player. Yeah, but have feasted because they've had
They've created a ton of turnovers. We all know you're
(14:12):
not going to create turnovers at the rate they've been
doing every year, single year. You're not going to do that.
That's been so and so. Could things be skewed a
little bit because they forced so many turnovers? Yeah, but
that they didn't next year, that they do that? When right?
But so what I'm saying is if they don't force
(14:33):
the amount of turnovers they forced this year, then what Yeah,
I mean, it's a great it's a great conversation. Is
a great great weight I thought, I mean the league
and turnover differential they led the league. I mean, I
think that it's a it's a conversation that's going to
ensue because I do think that where where there could
(14:54):
be the situation where you lose Dan Quinn. Is that
is that a blow that you rather take than maybe
possibly keeping him and losing Mike McCarthy as your head coach.
I don't know. I just think that as a conversation
you gotta have. And speaking of conversations, there's gonna be
a whole lot of conversations we got up on your
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Let's go, let's get with it. It's like I'm on
your head with James Jackson. All Right, we got jj
hair from the Straight Backs podcast. What you got man?
Who's head y'a? On? This week? I'm on. I'm on
(20:39):
somebody's head. You guys know me. So of all the
teams that I've called out this season, this is another team,
another unit that has escaped me all season. But you know,
for the for the divisional rounds, like I gotta come
back and double back to this team. And I got
three former players only with me right now. So I
hope I don't hit too much of a nerve with
this one. But last week I saw was egregious from
(21:02):
the NFL referees. Man, I gotta get on their head.
And I know that, I know that the Aaron whistle
that they blew last week and the Bagel's Raiders game
didn't decide the outcome of the game. But you're lying,
just like Joe Burrow and Zach Keylor if you tell
me you didn't hear that whistle. I mean, I'm watching
it from my TV screen and I can hear the whistle.
(21:22):
So blown calls can really turn a game chaotic. We've
seen it many times. If you just look at that scene,
I mean, you got people all over the place. It
just looks like a zoo. No wonder if the Zebras
were siding with the Bengals on that one. I guess
I shouldn't be surprised. I'm really the first one to
say that you can't blame losses on officials, Like there's
so much more that happens throughout the scope of a game.
(21:44):
But we've seen some refs like decide some crucial playoff
games with the calls they make or don't make at
the end of the game and past history, like did
Gays catch it? Should the Rams have not gone to
the rollout of that non TI call? Did Brady actually
fumble the ball? Like these are all questions that arise
after you know, rest kind of put their stamp on
(22:05):
the game, right And you know, just because y'all look
like foot locker reps or foot locker employees doesn't mean
you can lose y'all shoes in the moment now, and
we still we still need you to come up in
the moment. And I'm really laughing. I'm really laughing because
I know Cowboys fans all over are listening right waiting
for me to address their situation at the end of
their game last week too. But Cowboys fans, you guys
(22:26):
did that to yourselves. I'm really only here to address
referee mistakes I'm not defending you, guys. I was just
poor decision making at the end of your game. But
bottom line is that we ask players to stuff up
their performance in the playoffs all the time. So now
I'm doing the same from the referees. Tighten up, officials,
because I'm on your head. I had to get that out.
I had to get it out. Well, let me ask
(22:49):
you guys this that the whistle mess up the outcome
of the play. See to me, I thought the play
should have been blown dead and they should have been
replayed again. But I'm not gonna sit there and say
that the play should have been blown dead and replayed
again because it impacted the outcome of the play. I thought.
(23:10):
I thought the touchdown was going to be the touchdown
no matter what at the point the whistle blew. What
do y'all think? I personally feel like when the whistle
was blown, the ball was in flight, it was going
to be a touchdown regardless. Yeah it was, and so
would the Raiders have prevented that from being a touchdown?
Absolutely not. If you replay that and the Bengals don't score,
(23:36):
you've quite possibly cost them the game. And so it
was a erroneous whistle by rule, they should have replayed it,
but I believe the right decision was made in Oh,
it's gonna be a touchdown anyway. I mean, And you
can point to the Raiders last drive, that phantom roughing,
(23:56):
the passer call that gave him fifteen yards when he
hit his shoulder, didn't touch his head. Truth. And so
the officials they have a hard job, and I'm one,
I'm on them a lot. I'm disenchanted by just it's
so many things. Oh this happens, and then oh that ball,
that's not a fumble. Somebody got in their ear and
said this or that. The replaces when you go back
(24:18):
to the McVeigh the Rams game where aj Green Is
it a catch? Is it not a catch? Was it
a fumble? And it seemed like that took ten minutes
to figure out, Like, let's get the game moving. Officials
are gonna make mistakes and guys like me are gonna
be on their head with James. But it is what
it is. I don't believe that cost them the game
(24:40):
because they had a chance to win it late they
didn't get it done. And plus you bring up a
good point because it's something that I've argued with a
lot of people before, and that's like the human element
and sports, right, like you said it, like they're human.
We all make mistakes and they're just in a such
a small margin of error positions because they're mistakes get
magnified to everybody, and like people would like to kind
(25:01):
of project down the road that if you didn't make
this call, you didn't make this call, we wont the
lost or won the game. But I do side with you,
like part of the human element of sports is, you know,
maybe having to come back from a call that didn't
necessarily go your way, but having to play beyond that
play at that and still win the game because you're
right that that whistle or non whistle doesn't decide the
outcome of that play. The Bengals were going to score anyway.
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I'm just looking at the side of the Raiders where
if I hear the whistle, I'm telling my defense to
stop because I know if I don't that and another
play it can air it can you warrant a penalty?
So that's where I see it from the Raiders was
my big point. There's so many problems with this, this
whole blown whistle situation. In the whole New NFL replay.
(25:45):
And you know, I was listening to you know, one
of the guys Cross be saying, I listen, we heard
the whistle. So Automatical's defensive player. You basically just shutting
it down and moving on to the next play. But
then the referees they're they're reviewing the play and the
people in New York are looking at it. So I
don't know what the whole the whole uh thing is
(26:08):
for replay. If you're looking at them get it wrong,
then why can't you correct them? That's what I don't understand.
And and and as far as them scoring scoring the
touchdown on their drive, it does impact the game because
if if if they don't get that touchdown, they kicked
the field goal, they're they're going they're going into halftime
six six because the Raiders go down down the field
(26:30):
and kick a field goal. Now the game is what
it's it's uh it's ten six and ten the six six,
So it did have an impact on the game. And
then the uh Cincinnati third and they end up getting
the ball at the halftime. So it does impact the
football game. But the point that that the that the
referees when they were asked, did job blow the whistle?
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They said they did not blow the whistle until the
ball was already caught, which is absolutely wrong. That is
the reason why. That is not what That's the reason
why they're not going to ref any more NFL games
for the rest of this postseason. How are you as
a referee when they ask you about the whistle, You're
going to say to to, to, to the the lead
(27:13):
official guy and everybody out in the world that you
didn't blow the whistle and the whistle was not blown
until that after the catch was made. I mean, everybody
heard the whistle. So my whole thing with this whole
NFL replay is if you are watching them get it
wrong and you know it's wrong, then corrected right there
(27:34):
in New York, then correct it because they're doing it right.
So I don't understand how you can just look at
it and let them just destroy the game and not
correct the problem. Man, you return that touchdown and they
don't score, Oh man, it's gonna be here, like you,
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it don't matter. Your mistakes, shouldn't cost me your mistakes.
Like that's like as though, I mean, I don't want
to I don't want to have to pay for other
people's mistakes with my hard earn cash. But we do so,
I mean, that is what it is. That's a whole
other topic. I mean, I listen. I I agree with
plex honestly, I really do. And as as horrible as
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it would be to have to overturn that touchdown when
it wasn't going to impact the touchdown, it's sad, but
mistakes happen, and you just got that's a part of
the game as well, is that you got to overcome
mistakes that may have happened. But it's their own rule.
It's their own rule. When the ball is in the
air and the whistle is blown, the plate is dead,
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you're going on fourth down. They're kicking a field goal.
It's plainly simple. Yeah, I mean that's the rule. It
is by rule, it is the rule. But hey, JJ,
we appreciate you, man. Everybody makes sure you check out,
subscribe to up on Game Presents, UH Straight Facts podcasts
with my man James Jackson. JJ. If you're nasty, Uh,
(29:00):
keep keep standing on their heads, bro, keep keep staying
on the head. And now you know, I see you
working with Villanova. How how how's that going? So for
real quick. How's how's the Villanova season going for them?
They're going great. They're they're actually they're on TV right
now at Georgetown trying to get back and win. Tough.
Lost this past Wenesday at home, the first time we've
lost at home, and the putting the finner and pavilion
(29:22):
ms about twenty eighteen, I believe. But look number eleven
in the country. Bounce back. We come back on two
Bay and another one at home. You know we do wildcasts,
baby wildcats go. Come on, man. We went up to Madison.
Let we went to Madison last night, beat Wisconsin by
twelve in their building. See I see y'all. I'm still
I see y'all. It's trying to see in march. Big.
(29:44):
We're gonna see a march come right. There we go,
and we're gonna talk about it. Hopefully maybe we might
be there, depending on you know, where the world is.
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What's your gag, hey, LeVar? Why don't we start with
that Villanova game right now? With Capitol One Arena in
DC number eleven, Villanova out to a twenty five to
nineteen lead over Georgetown, eight thirty seven left to play
in the first half. At Cameron Indoor Stadium, Number six,
(30:29):
Duke leading Syracuse twenty seven to eighteen, five thirty four
left to play in the first half there, and West
Virginia in eighteen to seventeen lead at eighteenth ranked Texas
Tech seven thirty eight left to play in the first half.
Divisional routle of the NFL playoffs kicks off at four
thirty eastern is the Tennessee Titans host the Cincinnati Bengals.
Tonight at eight fifteen Eastern, It's the Packers in forty
(30:51):
nine ers from lambeau Field. On the coaching front, the
New York Giants announcing this morning they've interviewed Buffalo Bill's
defensive coordinator Leslie Frasier for their head coach job. Edward
A reporting that Dan Quinn's interviewing for the Chicago Bears
head coaching job this morning via zoom. Meanwhile, former Colts
and Lions head coach Jim Caldwell took to Twitter today
(31:12):
to deny a recent report that he turned down opportunities
to interview for the Vikings and Raiders head coaching jobs.
Finally in college football, fellas, are you aware of the
situation at Hawaii? Tell us this broke overnight. June Jones,
who previously was the head coach at Hawaii We're going
(31:32):
and also an NFL head coach obviously well. Hawaii offered
June Jones's head coaching job again after Todd Graham resigned,
but Jones turned it down, and he took to Twitter
to explain why. He tweeted, and I quote, I am
still interested in this job, but there is no way
I could accept with the conditions offered me. No coach
(31:54):
in their right mind would accept dictating who can be
on my staff and only two year contracts. What recruit
would come if I was here for two years? Question
mark question mark, question mark dot dot. This has never
been about money, but it is about giving me the
ability to turn our program around and not have people
tell me who was on my staff or how to
(32:16):
coach my team. Unquote, Aloha back to you, Aloha to you,
mister ail the legend. Okay, so we had some interesting
sound from from our guy courtesy of one oh five
point three the fan, Michael Irving, and we we had
(32:38):
a conversation last week as it applied to you gotta
get your stars the ball, and I mean, this is
you know, this is what we heard Troy Aikman talk
about it. But here's what Mike Irving had to say
about it, and I want to hear it. Get y'all's
opinion on it. Our stars didn't show up, We had
(32:58):
no shot. Whatever you got, disorder, dis function. We can't
have our stars putting up role player numbers like thirty
one yards Russian one te yards did not pass a rating,
and didn't have our role players putting up numbers like
Chokes and Wilson. That's a disorder. Trying to make our
(33:20):
role players stars, our saws roll players. That's a disorder,
and the team just functions. There you go. So I mean,
y'all give me, y'all, give me y'alls y'all's take on it.
I mean it's correct in what he's saying. It is
man I will say this man, from an offensive standpoint,
(33:42):
the Dallas Cowboys are loaded at every position. I mean
they have elite talent at the quarterback position, Amari Cooper,
Ceedee Lamb and Gallop and Ezekiel Elliott and Mary Rogers,
a twenty million dollars year performer, Mark Cooper, and Mark Cooper.
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So I've been saying to myself that just seems like
days and Sundays where it's it's either feast of family
for him. He either has one of these games where
it's like four catchers, forty yards and a touchdown, and
then the following week he's like eight for one, seventy
five and three. And listen, I know how the up
(34:27):
been flow of football games take place every Sunday, but
to me, it just doesn't seem like he goes out
and competes every Sunday like he is the best wide
receiver on the football field and he's an elite talent.
He has speed, he gets separation in and out of
his breaks. But for some reason, he just hasn't climbed
(34:50):
the ladder of being that elite player at the wide
receive position that we envisit him to be. Because when
we talk about who are to talk about over he
was in all of football. His name doesn't his name
is not on the list as far as the top five.
But and I agree with ev like they have to
come out and have a kind of sensual urgest and
black listen, man, this is the playoffs. Every every possession
(35:13):
is precious. And Ceedee Lamb is is a phenomenal player.
He's also a rookie and he's going to continue to
get better. But I agree with Michael Irving one hundred percent.
Those guys that are making that kind of money as
as performers and players playing on that offense, they need
to come out and shine. And and it's all about
(35:35):
managing the football game also, And this is a fall
in It falls on Mike McCarthy and Kelly and Kelly
Moore going into this game and say, listen, I'm gonna
get a Mark Cooper and Ceedee Lamb involved in this game.
On the first drive, someway, somehow, I'm gonna get the
ball in their hands and let them get comfortable and
maybe we can find a matchup that we like and
put these guys in one on one sitsute waiting so
(35:56):
we can let their ability show and I didn't see
that from a coaching stand point. And then when it
came for a time for them to throw the football
and get the football toomb was already too late. Man,
Get get them superstars involved in the game earlier. So
you can't just put it on them. But at the
same time, they have to go out and make the
plays that you Listen, if you want to be a
great player in this league, you have to make the
(36:17):
plays that you're supposed to make and also make a
few plays that you're not supposed to make. That's what
makes a great player in this league. Indeed, listen, when
when how much just to give all these head coaches
coordinators free game right now? If you want your receiver
to be engaged from the first snap to the last snap,
(36:38):
get him the ball to first drive, or attempt to
get him the ball to first drive. When you don't
try to get the receiver to ball, we know from
the script and that meeting the night before, Okay, they're
trying to first Temple. They trying to get me the ball.
Whether I get it or not, I know you've tried
to get me the ball. I'm engaged. City Lamb didn't
(36:59):
have a cat until midway through the third quarter. You
got Jerry Jones coming out basically sitting like a Mark Cooper.
You going like a player of his stature, a player
that makes what he's supposed to make. You got to
make the plays that Plex was just talking about. Jerry
Jones is pissed, But that to me falls on the coordinator,
the head coach, and the quarterback. You gotta understand, systems
(37:23):
don't win games. Players win games. It's not the play
you're calling, it's the player that's going to make that play.
But everybody has this perception that the Dallas Cowboys are loaded.
What I saw that offensive line got man handled. That
offensive line is not loaded. That that's a myth. That's
a thing of the past. That old line is nowhere
(37:45):
near what it was. They got man ten old up front.
Forty nine ers brought four and they had that under
pressure the entire game. But get your receivers the ball
the first Throw him a quick screen, give him a
head or slat, whatever it may be. Give him a
bubble screen. We're engaged. I mean, I don't get the
(38:07):
ball in the first half. I don't even want to
play no more. And that's a fact. I went and
got me a pepsi with with a dark a dark
rum and crack some cracking RUMs because I just knew
when when they didn't, yeah, when they didn't get him
the ball like that, and you know, getting uh ceedee
lamb involved, I just knew it was about to go bad.
And I mean, it's just that's just what it felt like.
(38:28):
But hey, you know that's how is that not how
receivers feel if you get me the ball flecks? Am
I playing all game? Am I playing hard? I'm my
blocks alutely? I don't They don't understand, man. Listen, well, listen.
I knew that in the first ten plays when I
was in New York that we were we were going
to throw a deep ball. We are going to throw
the ball deep in the first ten plays in the game.
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And you look at our tapes and we we hit
a lot of those plays and scored a lot of
touchdowns early. But that those are some of the things
I'm talking about from color Moore and you know, getting
these guys getting involved early and too me TJ from
from a quarter from a wide receiver. With the quarterback perspective,
you look at all the elite you know, relationships between
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quarterback and wide receiver. You're talking about, uh, you know
Adams and and and Rogers, Jamar Chase, Joe Burrow. And
you look at the reports that they have, it's undeniable
for an elite wide receiver. Brother, it's Mary Cooper and
Dak Prescott. They don't have that relationship. And and for me,
that's mind boggling. Your first team players should be three
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for Zeque, three for Cooper, three for Cdee Lamb, one
for whomever else. Now, if the coverage takes us somewhere else,
that's okay. But when that play is called, they know, oh,
this is design to go to me, that's all you want.
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I thought it was interesting. Rust didn't like it too much,
but you know, it is what it is, right. I Mean,
when you ain't playing well, people gonna have something to say.
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on what took place. Let's take a listen to it.
I want to hear y'all's reaction to it's super quick?
All right, here we go, Bruss. Magic Johnson tweeted after
the game that there was not enough effort, not a
sense of urgency, and that Laker fans and Genie busters
are better from from the team that they support. I
just wanted to see if you had a reaction to
Magic's take. Oh, I do not. I do not have
(44:46):
a reaction. Everybody is entitled in this world to their opinion.
We got us of what that is. You can either
take it and run with it, or you can take
it and put in one of it or not the other,
or you cannot respond to it. But Magic getting tied
to his opinion, and he's not here every day, he's
not around us every day. He's not aware kind of
what's going on internally with us and trying to figure
(45:07):
things out. But I have no response to that. But
like I said, everybody in this world is entitled to
their opinion, all right, Everybody's entitled to their opinion. What
say y'all to this? We got literally like get him
to get for this? Nah. I agree with Westbrook. When
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you're a retired player, Matgic Johnson is retired, He's a
Laker grade, he's an NBA grade. You have to respect
what the guys are going through. If if it was easy,
everybody would be good. Everybody expected Lakers to be better
than what they are. They're not. Westbrook isn't playing the
way he's been accustomed to playing and what people are
(45:49):
used to seeing him play at the level it happens.
I'm a Laker fans at end, they gonna figure this out.
You always somebody always has to be blamed, and right
now it's Russell Westbrook. Last night he had a great game.
Can he start to string some games together? But when
people expect greatness and you've given a mediocrity as a team,
(46:13):
this is what you're gonna get. That's one thing I
do have to I love Magic, he's my brother, but
I do have to disagree with him on this one comment.
As long as I've been watching NBA basketball and watching
Russell Westbrook perform, I can guarantee you a hundred out
of a hundred will say you have never ever questions
(46:34):
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He gives one hundred and ten percent every single night period.
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