November 19, 2024 • 39 mins
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little out of hand right now at at and T
know nothing else has fallen from the roof, well except
maybe the Cowboys hopes of winning the game. Uh. Cooper
Rush is sacked. The ball is knocked out of his arms. However,
it is scooped up by offensive lineman Tyler Geiton. Great
Guidan's trying to fight for yards. Not so great. The
ball is stripped out of his arms. Derek Barnett recovers Barnett,
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who also forced the fumble out of Cooper Rush's arms.
Barnett picks up the ball runs it in for a touchdown.
It is now twenty seven to ten. The Texans lead
the Cowboys. So to recap, the Cowboys completed the pass
to an offensive lineman who got stripped fighting for more yards,
and now the Texans have a seventeen point lead, joining us. Now,
I'm a hot line. Nobody better to break this craziness
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down with longtime NFL Inside a friend of the show.
You can follow him on Twitter at Jason lockinfora check
him out on Odyssey one oh five seven, The Fen
in Baltimore, The Washington Post. Jay, what's happening, Bud?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
What's going on? Gentlemen?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
All right, So I'm gonna ask you the toughest question
the night. Right now, I don't know you can give
me an answer. Abo, I'm gonna ask it anyway.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
More embarrassing moment for the Cowboys, the piece of metal
falling off the roof, or that play that just happened
with the Texans returning.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Well, let's see we're talking to Cowboys? Are we talking
Jerry Jones. I know it's very difficult, you know, to
discriminate between the two, they are very much one and
the same. But I mean it's all on him, ultimately,
and it's all on a joke and an embarrassment. Unfortunately,
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joke is on Cowboys fans. But I mean, these people
get these football mausoleums built for them. Might they get
hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars from task players
to subsidize them, and they can't, you know, if he's
a slum landlord, it's even UPKEEPI correctly like he's damn
lucky that nobody was hurt. I'm old enough to remember
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the scan he propagated with, you know, temporary seating for
a Super Bowl that collapse. I'm working at the NFL
network and they're running around NFL employees who are supposed
to get tickets as part of you know, their package
for working for the league, like snatchy people's tickets back
from them. I don't care that your parents are here
from out of town and go to the game. We
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need these tickets back because this jackass billionaire Jerry rigged
the stadium the wrong way. And now they've got to
come up with tickets for these people whose seats can't
be used because they're you know, breaking fire hazards and
they're they're you know, there's going to be a lawsuit here.
And then to see this, you know, it's it's pretty shameful,
Like it doesn't reflect on him. He looks like a
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slum landlord. He looks like a guy who's there to
price gouge people and get as much money as out
of them as he possibly can while putting very little,
comparatively speaking, into the product itself, which now includes the
stadium and the crap product on the football field.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Making everything look like all is right again for the
Texans Joe Mixon with his touch down runs in the
first half, and and now you get to to win
going away. But at what point for the Cowboys, you know,
you throw the white flag and just say all right,
Trey Lance has to be the guy.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, I mean, if if they even think it's like
worth it, yeah, you know, like if there's a point
like what are you salvaging? Like you know, it's just
a nothing burger. It's just a nothing burger. I mean,
they took a shot and trust me, he's being given
opportunities in practice to show what he can do. And
Dak how much how much time did Dak Prescott miss
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you know what I mean in the summer, Like remember
that whole thing. You know, So like he's not practicing
and he's not playing and he's banged up and it's
kind of like a holding or whatever. They've had a
lot of opportunities to assess what that young man can do.
There's a reason you got him as cheap as you did.
So No, I just don't know that there's anything there,
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you know, like a Cooper Rushed The answer, No is
Cooper Rush a good quarterback, is starting caliber quarterback? No
is there a whole lot of upside there? No, But
like he's not a total disaster, it's not completely amateur hour,
Like I think this Trey Lance thing has the propensity
to be you want to talk about people suffering enough
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and having to worry about steel girders falling from the
sky on top of him during a horrible football game.
Like I don't know, Like I kind of feel like
for a guy who cares really only about the money
and he wants people to like there's a lot of
ant seats there and the nights a lot of Texans fans,
and he's still got a lot of football to play. Like,
I think they know that the Tree Lance thing might
be more of a bleep show things for it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
All right, Jay, I know something you've been writing about
the last twenty four hours you've been talking about. I
know all dates and on the radio. Lamar Jackson is
playing the best football of his life right up until yesterday,
where once again the Steelers find a way. I get
if Justin Tucker makes a field goal, we're not talking
about this, but he didn't, so we are. Why does
Lamar looks so good against everybody else? And yet the Steelers,
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it's boy, they find a way to be able to
keep them down and keep him down just enough basically
in every game to win.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah. I do feel like he's chasing his own ghosts
when he plays the Steelers in the teeth and rather
than just do the things that have gotten him there,
and rather than rely on the legs when yesterday there
was a lot of opportunities where Okay, some of our
smaller receivers are getting suffocated downfield, these officials are letting
them play. We're getting intimidated a little bit, but man,
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if he takes off and runs, he's extending drives. And
on another day where the Derrick Henry design runs went
pretty much nowhere, I mean one pick play for thirty
one yards and then twelve more for thirty five, they
really needed Lamar to activate his legs more. And much
like that Kansas City playoff game, there were opportunities to run,
and instead he decided to launch the ball downfield for
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low percentage throws on the run deep down the sidelines
that went nowhere. I think he had a passer rating
of like forty nine or throws that traveled at fifteen
yards or more in the air in this game, Like
it was ugly and he just came out and didn't look.
He's been so out ease and so smooth, and just
his internal clock has been magnificent. His decision making has
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been magnificent all season, better than he's ever been before,
even in the other MVP years. And he was kind
of skittish and all over the place, and you know,
it just isn't a smooth operation against certain teams. And
I do think the Steelers and the Chiefs are in
his head a little bit and you know, it doesn't
help Derek Henry fumbling, like the games they barely finished,
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the you know, the coin flip and the balls on
the ground, and it just weird things happen when these
teams play, and it never looks all that good, never
aesthetically pleasing games. But this was really bad from my mom,
I mean, it was the first real stinker he's had
since the championship game. And again, to people who watch
this closely, it kind of looked himself like a playoff
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game where you just kind of wonder, is he in
his own head too much?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Jason as as we surmised a while back, the Daniel
Jones injury notes and everything would come into play. And
so he goes to number three, which means Tommy cutlet's
back up into the ones slot. Uh, everybody got the
dreaded votes of confidence a few weeks ago. Those people
in effect, they're in New York.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
No, come on, what's you gonna say? Like, I'm making
you people suffer through this, but you know I will
fire them, you know what I mean. But I'm gonna
make you watch him coach this crap first, like you know, like,
what's he gonna say? And look everybody's calling there and
they know it's it's not really soligeable. The personnel decisions
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have been poor, the development of this, A lot of
players have been poor. Maybe the saque thing. People making
way too much out of it, Like they got a
rookie running backers damn good, Like they're running epas or
off the chart the last time weeks, Like the Barklay
thing is to me not even really. Nope, they and
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you know, the rookie wide receiver had a really came
out of the r you know, shot like a rocket.
But that's cooled down, and they don't have a whole
lot to hang their head on other than the D line,
which I think can be a really good group with
to keep it together. But you know, they were shopping
you know, old Jelenary, So I don't I don't know,
like they clearly need a reboot and a new sort
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of set of directions and directives. And I don't see
any way that there's not a complete and utter restart.
And it's not even just the Daniel Jones contract. They
still could have drafted a quarterback or moved up a
little bit to even draft a quarterback, or you know,
done something to have the next man up there already
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to where we're not looking at couplets for the last
weeks of the year. No, I think it's totally over.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Jason Locking for our guest The Jason Smizer with Mike
Carmen Lifromthtireck dot Com Studios. All Right, reaction to the
Bills and the Chiefs yesterday, I talked about this last hour.
The one thing that strikes me is that I feel
like every week the Chiefs play at their ceiling, and
that's going to be a big thing when you play
a team like Buffalo, you get to the playoffs and
the team has that extra gear because you know they
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they've been you know, they've been escaping, they've been Look
obviously they've been terrific, but boy, you're gonna get the
same performance in every week. But they kind of seem
like they're missing that little extra bit and when they
play a team like Buffalo, you sort of see that.
See what I'm saying, Like what I'm saying something different
for you for that game.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I don't know, man, you know Panton love for the
games is chrystal. I mean, I don't know. Like when
I can remember exactly where I was you know what,
I mean, what was going on the last time a
team lost the regular season game, and it's that long ago,
they're probably you know, in pretty good shape. Like it's
not it's it's just I just think we have to
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like get over the fact that it's never going to
look like it did well, you know again, at least
not this year. I mean, look, he's quietly starting to
throw more touchdown passes the last few weeks. They're gonna
get pa check go back, Like Chelsea got held in
checking that game yesterday for the first time in a while.
Like Gray had a nice game, you know, the tight
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end position still contributed. Like if that game's played at
Arrowhead in February or whatever, late January, I got news
for you, they'll probably have their kicker back by then too.
Like I still think it's kandy shity, like they're just
they're just so good at winning football games, Like they're
really really good at the one stack that matters the most.
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And it's still an elite scoring defense over the last
two years. And it's even better home than road. And
I just think as long as they don't slip up
and lose the one seeds, you're gonna have a hard
time and me to pick against them in the postseason.
That's just sort of where I am on them. They're
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just it's a great staff and they're so at ease
and nothing really rattles them or phases them. And you know,
if they get that stop and sorts down, they probably
won the football game, you know, like, and they didn't
that time, and most of the time they have. But again,
like those two teams will probably meet and the team
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that has the troubles best I can recall. Going as
far as people want to go in the playoffs, You're
not the team in the City Chiefs. I think it's
the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You can follow on Twitter at Jason lock and four
That is at Jason Locking FO one O five seven
the Fan in Baltimore, Odyssey, the Washington Post. Jay is
always buddy, appreciated, my friend. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Have fun, my pleasure, gentlemen. Have we going?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Thanks Jayson, Hi the great stuff from Jason lock and
for Look. Yeah, you know on the service you can say, yes,
it is a regular season game with the Bills and
the Chiefs. But you know, I can say, yeah, the
lost regular season game. But I don't think there's anybody
walking into this game that was saying, Okay, now, yeah,
this game doesn't really mean anything, or now that we lost,
we got to walk stuff back. Now, there were a
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lot of stakes at this game. There was a lot
out there. The Chiefs could have basically potentially wrapped up
the number one overall seat. There was a lot at
stake in this game and for the Chiefs to lose. Yes,
it was on the road against Buffalo, but you don't
know what the team's what things gonna look like. This
is a game right now. We saw both teams were
up for it, and the Bills beat the Chiefs and
we thought the Chiefs were unbeatable. There there's a lot
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to take away from this game.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
No, in the moment the you know, the show being today,
you put whatever weight and gravity to it that you want,
right and you know, to mister Lock and Forest points
and I it echoes some of what I said when
we were discussing it a little bit earlier, Jason. You
know when we talk about Harrison Butker and changing out
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to a guy who was what the fourth kicker off
a squad, Hank Trader.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Okay, but you get the point right, Budker has been
a guy who's been pretty nails for them in big moments.
Uh and Pacheco designated to return you know again, Kareem
Hunt's been good, but Checko was the guy. Uh and
just go on down and down the line. But that's
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the beauty of it is that we'll get to probably
get to see it because of the flaws of all
the other squads in the AFC. We'll get to see
that battle once again. But your point about home field advantage,
you know, shouldn't be taken lightly. I agree with you.
Would you rather play at Arrowhead or go hang out
and maybe get thrown through a table on your way
from the.
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Minutes to Go in the fourth quarter Cowboys still trailing
the Texans twenty seven to ten. We'll have more on
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Three and a half to go in the fourth quarter,
Cowboys trail the Texans twenty seven to ten. Was somewhat
of a close game until a play that might wind
up standing for the entire Cowboys season up until now happen.
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Ye Cooper rushed back to pass, he gets hit by
Derek Barnett. The ball flies out of his hand into
the arms of Tyler Geiton, offensive lineman, who catches the
ball and decides, Hey, I'm gonna try to run with it.
Except you know, this is why your offensive lineman and
you're not a wide receiver and he gets stripped. Derek Barnett,
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who calls the sack, picks it up, runs it in
for a touchdown. Twenty seven to ten. Now make it
thirty three to ten. Joe Mixon in for his third
touchdown of the night. He is having a huge night.
Now it's thirty three to ten, extra point pending three
and a half left to go. Cowboys are gonna fall
to three and seven. And Mike, what did I tell
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you a month you talk about the being ahead of
the curve? What do we say a month ago? By
the time we get to Thanksgiving that Cowboys Giants game,
the Cowboys will be absolutely irrelevant. And now we knew
the Giants to be relevant because you know, but this
is gonna be add there. Both teams will be absolutely irrelevant.
And what are we gonna have next week? And irrelevant
Dallas Cowboys team?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Seems we need to flex out all sorts of stuff.
We got to notice that they couldn't flex out the
Cowboys and the Bengals because they'd spent too much time
doing the Simpsons animation for it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
But do you think they could call the Cowboys after
the part of the roof fell down tonight and said Hey,
we can't trust you're gonna have a game. Say we're
gonna move a different game to Thursday after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You know what, I'm kind of all for it. I'll
start the change dot org document as we speak. You know,
the Cowboys at least defensively tried to show a little
bit of fight literally to on that drive where the
Texans official Twitter account going, Hey, most fight we've seen
in Arlington this week, so, you know, having their fun.
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And then Micah Parks is like, Hey, I'm gonna take
down Robert Woods. Yeah that's great. He doesn't have the ball,
So what the hell good does that?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
He got in the.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Way of you getting after CJ. Stroud. That was enough
for the the Greco Roman wrestling takedowns, like what are
we doing?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And now fans are streaming out of AT and T Stadium, Hey,
make sure you look up before you walk out. Well,
book up on your way out, look up on your
way out before you leave up.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Feel free to go buy any of these seats that
were not used tonight and grab the uh the towel
that was the giveaways A lot of empty seats, as
Jason locking For alluded to alluded to with his visit
a little bit early. I mean, you got Joe Mixon
going and celebrating.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
He's doing fan visits right now. Joe Mixon is doing
fan visits on the sideline after his third touchdown of
the night. He's shaking hands with all the fans the
side line. Hey, it was the game goes If the
game goes the way we think it's going to, you
may get a visit from one high profile to Excells player.
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We don't know what's gonna be, and it's kind of
a TVA thing. But if the game goes well, hey,
you know you're winning bid, you could wind up meeting
a really good player on the Texans. Oh yeah, Joe,
go over there, answer questions. It's fine, we don't need
you anymore. Man thirty three to ten. Go over there.
Help those people out. They've been a lot of money
to get to get on the sideline. Go ahead, boy.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I really have enjoyed the the Bengals running backs this year.
But at one point, do you think sad Joe Burrow
as he walked in the tunnel yesterday thinking about Joe Mixon.
All right, he's also probably thinking McPherson, what happened you
used to be able to actually kick the ball. But
for Joe Mixon, I mean he's living his best life.
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Monster game, ISO game, Cowboys getting run over and putting
another nail in the coffin of everything going on there. Yeah,
why not go celebrate with crowd. There were more Texans
fans there today anyway, so we'll love more in.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
This game again, about three minutes left to go, a
little bit lessan three minutes left to go, Cowboys with
the football, but it is a thirty four to ten
lead for the Texans. Now this goes into something. Two
of the biggest plays from this week and in the
NFL unfortunately involve your team in my team. Yeah. And
for the Jets lost to the Colts a day ago,
one of the big questions was why didn't the Jets
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go for two when they scored a touchdown to go
up seven in the second half? They kicked an extra
point and who knows how the game would have went,
but they wound up losing by a point twenty eight
to twenty seven. Doesn't mean that going for it ruin
the game. It's just they had a chance to go
for two to go up nine, and said they kicked
the extra point to go up eight and they wound
up losing. Now, the Texans of the Colts missed a
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two point conversion late in the game, so it just
would have been a different game. But there's there's a
bigger point to be had here. So we had that,
and then you had Matt Eberflus deciding, oh, we could
get closer for a potential game winning field goal against
the Packers. But no, no, no, that's just what they'll
be expecting us to do. So we're gonna let the
clock tick all the way down and try to kick
one from here I and again and and that's.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Exactly what you would expect us to do.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, exactly, why Bride, No, no, no, you think you
think this is you think this is gonna be something
where we're actually gonna keep trying. No, no, no, we're
gonna be Okay, let the clock tick all the way down,
and then we're gonna get our potential game winning field
goal blocked on the final play of the game because
we settled for a field goal from forty six yards out.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Now, they did file a grievance with the league because
the coaching Oh well, no, the players might sign off
on that. If I were get one up, but the
Bears did because the long snapper was technically violated by
the NFL rules.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, well, I mean but look, I mean,
if if that's where you're at it the play, you're
not gonna get that.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I mean, they're not gonna.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Violated.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Here's a letter of an apology. I mean, that's all
you're gonna get. Ah, we got it wrong because the
NBA is getting good at that. I don't if you
noticed over the weekend all of a sudden, it's like, oh, yeah,
that was wrong that guy. Yeah, but hey, hey, at
least we're telling you we got it wrong. Okay, it's
gonna apologize.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
But look, look see how nice and calm I am
talking about the Jets and the back because look, because
fine's a bigger. Jets stink. Look, I know the Jets stink.
We're terrible. We have This is gonna be the ninth
straight year the Jets have not finished higher than third
in their division. Third, not second, third, third. No, no
matter what the Jets have had going on in the
last nine years, they've not gotten it right. No matter
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who the GM was, the head coach, any of the players,
they have not gotten it right. For nine years, not
even to finish second, not even to sniff even have
one year where you think, hey, maybe we can make
the playoffs. That's how much of an absolute disaster the
Jets have been, right, So I've accepted it. But this
is a bigger point now, and it's kind of goes
into what we talked about with the Lions a week ago.
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Dan Campbell decided to instead of trying to get closer
for the game winning field goal against the Texans last week,
he was okay letting the clock tick all the way
down and trying to kick a fifty two yard to
win the game, which is ridiculous with the electric offense
that he has. I know that Jared Goff had thrown
five picks, but you have the best offense in the
NFL and you're okay trying to kick one from fifty
two yards. That's a stupid decision. And I would say
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it to his face. It's a stupid decision. But it
worked out for him. Doesn't mean he was a good decision,
but it worked out. And and Campbell campbelling is a
big concern for the Lions, right but but it worked
out because the Lion's been rolling sevens doesn't mean he
was the right decision.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
On the Jaguars.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I do have a I do have a bit about
on the Lions and Jaguars Mandego, But let let's stick
with the Jets and the Bears here with that.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
That would have been time better schit. You want to
talk about that fight, that would have been better spent
unless you're just the most ardent of Lions fans, come.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
On, better spent man. But here's the thing is that
you saw the Jets decide to not go for to him,
what did Jeff al br defensive coordinator promoted to head
coach say, I thought our defense would stop them, and
I wanted to go for two and make it an
eight point game, thinking our defense is going to be
able to They're not going to get a touchdown and
a two point conversion on our defense is going to
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stop them. And Matt Eberflus, who is a former defensive
coordinator who sees the game through a defensive lens, decides, no,
I'm good right here trying to kick from forty six yards.
These are decisions that are made by guys who always
see the game through a defensive lens. And that's why
I never want a defensive coordinator coaching my team because
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that's not the way the game is. Because they always
see the game from that perspective. If you're seeing it
from a head coach's perspective, if you're the jet, you go, oh, hey, yeah,
let's go for two to get it to nine. Right,
that makes sense, right? Why would we why would eight man?
Let's get it to Aaron Rodgers said he was confused.
Didn't know why because we talked about going for two
in the sideline, but Jeff Elbrick overruled it because he's
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a defensive coordinator and my guys will stop them. That's
not anything that is that is rooted in something he's
seen during the game. That's not anything that's rooted into
how the game went, what schemes were working. This is
simply rooted in the defense. Are my guys and now
make the plays. And that's ridiculously bad. That's why I
don't want a defensive guy as my coach, even if
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an offensive coordinator is there, Hey, forty six yard field goal,
let's get a little bit closer. We have time, it's
not like we had to worry about it, and maybe
if we completed the pass no, you had time to
get down the field more because a forty six yard
field goal is not great. And I know that. You think, well, hey,
you know, we're trying to win games a certain way.
Here you see the offense, you got to try to
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get closer. You got to try to get closer. And
this is Caleb Williams, and the offense is in the
hands of a guy that doesn't really have a feel
of how to run. Like they already had a change
of offensive coordinators and play callers. That doesn't work. Hey,
the same guys are in on the meetings and they
all have their right this is where we're going with
the offense. All we're gonna change a play call. Yeah,
that's worked, right, didn't work for the Jets, not working
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for the Bears. This is kind of the same thing
you see when you have a defensive head coach. He
doesn't see the game offensively, and your team struggles, and
especially in big moments when you need someone with that
offensive philosophy of no attack, let's get forward, or hey, no,
we can't afford that. We got to kick the field
goal here. I know running that we're not gonna have
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enough time for X, Y and Z but these are
just ridiculous decisions that are made because coaches don't have
the offensive acumen to make those tough decisions in the moment. Now, yes,
are oc is making the call? Yeah, but it's the
head coach. It says, no, no, no, let's get closer. It's
edg go no, no, no, let's get forty six yard No no,
come on man, forty six yard natural aggress No, no, no,
we're gonna kick this for We're we're gonna try to
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get closer. Oh, we can go up by nine. A
quarterback wants to go, let's go, let's go for up
by nine. If not, we're up seven, right, what does
it matter? We're up by seven eight? You know, Yes,
we're stopping the Colts from getting a two point conversion.
But why we can make it a two score game?
Why can't we do that? And I see this all
the time from defensive coordinators offensive. Yes, do offensive coordinators
to become head coach? You see the game from an
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offensive standpoint? Yeah, but you know what, they always want
the ball. That's how you win. The gets how you
score points. That's the name of the game in the NFL. Now,
you win by scoring points, right, it's not play great
defense for four quarters, run the football. Have two running
backs that have twenty five carries a piece and average
three point two yards per carry, and we're gonna get
you with three yards and a cloud of dust. That's
not how it works anymore, because this is where the
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NFL is, and I want a guy with an offensive
background who's running my team that knows what they need
to do to try to win games. And it's a
combination of making decisions in the right moments, and it's
being able to shepherd talent along and make sure they're
as good as they can be. Instead, you're looking at
Caleb Williams saying is his ceiling gonna be middle of
the pack? Now? His ceiling looks like it could have
been top of the league. Now, maybe it's middle of
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the pack if he gets a good guy in next year.
This is why I never want defensive coordinators as my
head coaches, because this is what happens offensively, and this
is what happens with big decisions that have to be
made differently.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Yeah, let me grab both these real quick. First, on
your situation. It's another one for Aaron Rodgers where he
could have really just upset the apple cart because for
years I've gone against him and his relationship with Lafleur.
Remember when it's like, all right, yeah, let's walk off
the field, let's you know, kick the field goal. Let's
(28:13):
give the ball back to Tom Brady. How'd that work
out for you? Slip them off, send the field goal
kicker back to the sideline and move on. Same thing here.
You have all your time outs. Hey, coach, I'd really
like to talk about this. Remember I'm the captain here.
They built this around me. It's my decision opportunity for
Aaron Rodgers, you know, to do what he needed to
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when it comes to Eberflus. I mean, you want to
talk about a fatalistic approach to coaching in that moment,
and I saw it echoed by the All twenty two
review of Kurt Warner and everybody else. Yeah, No, you
never know what's gonna happen. That's how you played football,
Kurt Warner. That's when you had the rams. You were
afraid you're gonna lose a yard or two, and that
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they might I don't know, sniff out what you got.
You don't trust your offense can get you that extra
three or four yards to make it an easier kick
for a guy who hasn't been nails on a terrible
playing surface we know about in the post games, like yeah, no,
the lean was over here and they were getting good pressure. No, no,
nobody saw that until post right. Yeah, just dopiness all around.
(29:23):
But to say and back in, double down on it
in posts, just like he did with Washington, this was
a great game, Thomas Brown called a great game. Caleb
Williams executed very well, twenty three to thirty one, ran
for seventy yards, took what they gave him, made some
big throws, some big plays, good decision making. This was
the cleanest they've played offensively in forever in a day.
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And to say in that moment when your season, I mean,
let's face it, you're on the in the hunt graphic,
but because it's desperation to add extra teams at this point,
but you're still technically alive, I get it. But you
have the opportunity to show confidence in your quarterback and
back what he did this week the Jay Glazer report
(30:09):
that he'd apologized to the teammates for his role and
wherever he might not have been, you know, crossing the
t's dotting the eyes. I headed the waldron firing all
of that to say, you don't think you can get
those couple of yards that are gonna give him a
better opportunity to kick that field goal. It's bleeping packers
week man to go to the walls in. I don't know, man,
(30:31):
A lot of bad things gonna happen. What about the positivity?
How the hell do you go through life that way?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
You run by an actuarial table.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Ah, you know what if.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I do this and skydive, I got this one percent
chance I'm gonna I'm not gonna fly in a plane
because you know this that the other I can't. I
get it, you know. But playing scared is losing football.
It's loser ball. And that's exactly what Iberflus did and
for the second time that he's done it once with
the Washington Commander's game. Second time here you gave away
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games by being scared and playing scared.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Time to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports with special deliveries team to say, Greste, what
do you got for us tonight?
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Interesting comments about a defensive mining coach being your head
coach in the NFL branded Staley.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Did.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
We didn't even I didn't feel like it needed to
back the truck over him.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Okay, yeah, by the way, his defense stunk for three years.
What's that too? Houston Texans won of Dallas.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
You like to go for it on fourth down? Though,
I really like to do that.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
People were so enamored with that talking point. I'm not
saying it wasn't a talking point, but you got to
stop somebody at some point. The only reason he was
hired was because he was a defensive coordinator and they
had no defense. That was a good misdirection. Exactly go
for it again. Nobody will think to look at the
Joe Maxon had three touchdown runs Tonight. Texans win at
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Dallas thirty four to ten, mixing with one hundred nine
yards rushing. It was seventeen ten at a half. Texans
wide receiver Nico Collins return, he had missed the previous
five games with a hamstring injury, at four catches fifty
four yards. Cooper Rush was sacked five times in the loss.
The Giants starting QB is now Tommy DeVito, with Drew
Locke as his backup.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Daniel Jones has.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Been benched the Giants at two to eight host Tampa
Bay on Sunday. Daniel Jones after this season, has no
guaranteed salary left on his contract. This season, he has
eight touchdown passes and seven interceptions. Panthers running back Jonathan
Brooks is due to make his NFL debut Sunday against
the Chiefs. He had ACL surgery a year ago. Bryce
Young will remain Carolinas starting QB, and wide receiver Adam
(32:47):
Thielen has set to return from injured reserve Gardner Minshew
stays as the Raiders quarterback. Forty nine ers QB Brock
Purty is day to day with a sore shoulder, and
Jacksonville wide receiver Gabe Davis is out for the seat
with a torn meniscus. To college basketball under nine minutes
to go, Number three Gonzaga still leads at San Diego
State sixty one to fifty one halftime. In the late
(33:10):
NBA game in LA, The Clippers are ahead of Golden
State fifty six. Forty five. Warriors enter with a record
of ten and two.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Orlando has won at.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Six straight Toronto one to end a seven game losing streak.
Milwaukee edged Houston on a late Damian Lillard layup, he
will back in the lineup after the concussion. New York
sent Washington to a ninth straight loss, one thirty four,
one oh six.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
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Cowboys lose tonight in Cowboys fashion to the Texans. Uh,
thirty four to ten is your final score and the
Cowboys season is over.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Weren't you worried.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
About the Texans for a little while there though, when it.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Was seventeen to ten. Yeah, because the Texans offense has
not been great and I'm wondering are they gonna really
pick it up? And they did right You had the
big pass and Eco Collins to kind of open things
up a little bit. Still, I'm not sold that the
Texans are getting their schwerve back on offensively because I'm
not it's not the it's not the same team they
were even a month ago. But I do feel a
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little bit better about them tonight.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Yeah, I feel pretty good. You know, Metchi had the
big tackle early in the game on the fake that
they tried right off the jump. That was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
So long as Joe Mixon's upright and moving, U know
that helps push away some of the ills. Nico Collins
coming back making that big play, as you said, but yeah,
letting them hang around if Aubrey actually hits that field
goal and the other one that they took the points
off the board. I mean, it's like you had opportunities
to make things interesting and then you have a big
(35:18):
punt that buries you, and then the ensuing possession is
where that defensive touchdown occurred. So that just opened the floodgates.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Now, let me throw this at you because it's something
we've discussed about a month ago when you really knew
the Cowboys season was going to end. Look, we'll probably
called the show ahead of the curve right always, So
I told you that, Hey, how does Jerry Jones keep
the Cowboys relevant? Getting headlines when the season is lost
near the end, right, because once we get the Thanksgiving
(35:48):
it's a lost season for the Dallas.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Calvin Lottery draw for the play quarterback.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Yeah, I don't. Well you had that, well, you had
you had the you know, the peace falling off the
roof tonight. Oh, make sure that peace falls off the
roof and nobody's around people right about that for a while.
It's stadium.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Say I get that as a piece of memorabilia.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I just yeah, And I'll sign it. We'll sell pieces
of it, put it on on players cards and tell
him on eBay and Harmon Kitt'll buy a lot of them.
I know we will. Uh you know, how does he
stay round? Because look, Jerry Jones knows he's got to
chase headlines if he can't chase championships. And we posited that.
How do you do that? Dak is out? What else
(36:24):
are you gonna do? You paid Dak, you paid CD.
You know you're gonna replace Mike McCarthy. And what about
Bill Belichick being that guy? Because you know, Jerry Jones,
that's the one that's the one head coach boy, Okay,
I'll go big once in a while. Uh, he went
big for Parcels about twenty years ago. I think he
would go big again now because he knows he can't
just hire another coach to come in and think it's
(36:46):
gonna work. He'll he'll he would do this for a
short term fix, and Belichick will be available, and he
would be the best. He'll have the best resume of anybody. Look,
I'm not a big fan of Belichick anymore because I
think he's lost his fastball. But doesn't mean other teams
aren't gonna be interested. So if you want Bill Belichick
and you're Jerry Jones and here you are, now your
season is lost. You know the Jaguars are this close
(37:10):
to firing Doug Peterson, right, we saw the reports before
the game yesterday, and Belichick is becoming increasingly connected with
the Jaguars because remember, Belichick's gotta go whoever hires him, right,
He's gotta be He can't turn down jobs. You know,
I'm gonna wait for this job, no whoever hires me.
I'll try to get as many wins to get that
Don Shule record as like Ken. You know that's why
he wants to keep coaching.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Yeah, to be fair, there are a lot of a
lot of teams that are gonna look for coach.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
But he can't turn it. He can't turn anything down.
He doesn't know. He went through a whole last offseason
where I got my pick of any coaching job and
the Falcons interviewed him twice. He had a two interview
lead and he couldn't get the job. So he knows, Hey,
if somebody wants me, I gotta take this job. So
knowing full well that the Jaguars could be a day
(37:53):
away from calling Belichick saying come in and coach this team,
and he'll come in and coach because however many games
the Jaguars win this year is a bonus for him.
Ever he wins, he gets closer to Don Shula's all
time record, does Jerry Jones say, Okay, I don't want
to lose out on him. Mike McCarthy, you're done. This
season's over. We need something new. Belichick's gonna come in now,
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and he's the guy coaching the Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day,
and Belichick would say yes because it's the Cowboys. Be
can't turn a job down. And see, even if he
wins two games in the last month and a half,
it's two wins closer to Don Shula's record, Do We
really Can? It's more and more apparent. I look at
this and go, boy, if Jerry Jones is gonna pull
the trigger on something Big Bill Belichick in the next
(38:37):
week and a half, I could see it.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Does he come out Thanksgiving Day like Carl Weathers and
Rocky for.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
James Brown singing the song?
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Well, I mean we need holographic James Brown at this point,
but but legious, legitimately, I mean, I'm gonna do it
with great pomp and circumstance.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
We're the going good stuff. The guy's playing the trumpets
behind it, He's got the whole band.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Well, you know, I got to see that live at
Grand Park in Chicago many many, many years ago. What
that toll that was.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Across Texas living with the cab.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
I mean, you talk about cycles, right, Jimmy Johnson eighty
nine to ninety three, and then Parcels comes in two
thousand and three, two thousand and six. Yeah, it's been
a minute. I like d Wade Phillips, he did just fine.
He was thirty four and twenty two. Everybody just thinks
he's stunk. And then Jason Garrett got to live there
for a decade. Yeah, it's time for the hard ass
again telling me let's go. It's him or Dion at
(39:35):
this point, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You know you don't want to Yeah, Dion can't leave
now because this kid is still in school.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
But uh, then you're gonna be a playoff.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
You don't want to lose out, man, You don't want
to lose out Belichick Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Wow, Well I'm out of a kettle.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
We'll have more on this game, plus other big stuff
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little out of hand right now at at and T
know nothing else has fallen from the roof, well except
maybe the Cowboys hopes of winning the game. Uh. Cooper
Rush is sacked. The ball is knocked out of his arms. However,
it is scooped up by offensive lineman Tyler Geiton. Great
Guidan's trying to fight for yards. Not so great. The
ball is stripped out of his arms. Derek Barnett recovers Barnett,
(01:14):
who also forced the fumble out of Cooper Rush's arms.
Barnett picks up the ball runs it in for a touchdown.
It is now twenty seven to ten. The Texans lead
the Cowboys. So to recap, the Cowboys completed the pass
to an offensive lineman who got stripped fighting for more yards,
and now the Texans have a seventeen point lead, joining us. Now,
I'm a hot line. Nobody better to break this craziness
(01:36):
down with longtime NFL Inside a friend of the show.
You can follow him on Twitter at Jason lockinfora check
him out on Odyssey one oh five seven, The Fen
in Baltimore, The Washington Post. Jay, what's happening, Bud?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
What's going on? Gentlemen?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
All right, So I'm gonna ask you the toughest question
the night. Right now, I don't know you can give
me an answer. Abo, I'm gonna ask it anyway.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
More embarrassing moment for the Cowboys, the piece of metal
falling off the roof, or that play that just happened
with the Texans returning.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Well, let's see we're talking to Cowboys? Are we talking
Jerry Jones. I know it's very difficult, you know, to
discriminate between the two, they are very much one and
the same. But I mean it's all on him, ultimately,
and it's all on a joke and an embarrassment. Unfortunately,
(02:30):
joke is on Cowboys fans. But I mean, these people
get these football mausoleums built for them. Might they get
hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars from task players
to subsidize them, and they can't, you know, if he's
a slum landlord, it's even UPKEEPI correctly like he's damn
lucky that nobody was hurt. I'm old enough to remember
(02:53):
the scan he propagated with, you know, temporary seating for
a Super Bowl that collapse. I'm working at the NFL
network and they're running around NFL employees who are supposed
to get tickets as part of you know, their package
for working for the league, like snatchy people's tickets back
from them. I don't care that your parents are here
from out of town and go to the game. We
(03:13):
need these tickets back because this jackass billionaire Jerry rigged
the stadium the wrong way. And now they've got to
come up with tickets for these people whose seats can't
be used because they're you know, breaking fire hazards and
they're they're you know, there's going to be a lawsuit here.
And then to see this, you know, it's it's pretty shameful,
Like it doesn't reflect on him. He looks like a
(03:37):
slum landlord. He looks like a guy who's there to
price gouge people and get as much money as out
of them as he possibly can while putting very little,
comparatively speaking, into the product itself, which now includes the
stadium and the crap product on the football field.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Making everything look like all is right again for the
Texans Joe Mixon with his touch down runs in the
first half, and and now you get to to win
going away. But at what point for the Cowboys, you know,
you throw the white flag and just say all right,
Trey Lance has to be the guy.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, I mean, if if they even think it's like
worth it, yeah, you know, like if there's a point
like what are you salvaging? Like you know, it's just
a nothing burger. It's just a nothing burger. I mean,
they took a shot and trust me, he's being given
opportunities in practice to show what he can do. And
Dak how much how much time did Dak Prescott miss
(04:35):
you know what I mean in the summer, Like remember
that whole thing. You know, So like he's not practicing
and he's not playing and he's banged up and it's
kind of like a holding or whatever. They've had a
lot of opportunities to assess what that young man can do.
There's a reason you got him as cheap as you did.
So No, I just don't know that there's anything there,
(04:57):
you know, like a Cooper Rushed The answer, No is
Cooper Rush a good quarterback, is starting caliber quarterback? No
is there a whole lot of upside there? No, But
like he's not a total disaster, it's not completely amateur hour,
Like I think this Trey Lance thing has the propensity
to be you want to talk about people suffering enough
(05:17):
and having to worry about steel girders falling from the
sky on top of him during a horrible football game.
Like I don't know, Like I kind of feel like
for a guy who cares really only about the money
and he wants people to like there's a lot of
ant seats there and the nights a lot of Texans fans,
and he's still got a lot of football to play. Like,
I think they know that the Tree Lance thing might
be more of a bleep show things for it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
All right, Jay, I know something you've been writing about
the last twenty four hours you've been talking about. I
know all dates and on the radio. Lamar Jackson is
playing the best football of his life right up until yesterday,
where once again the Steelers find a way. I get
if Justin Tucker makes a field goal, we're not talking
about this, but he didn't, so we are. Why does
Lamar looks so good against everybody else? And yet the Steelers,
(06:02):
it's boy, they find a way to be able to
keep them down and keep him down just enough basically
in every game to win.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah. I do feel like he's chasing his own ghosts
when he plays the Steelers in the teeth and rather
than just do the things that have gotten him there,
and rather than rely on the legs when yesterday there
was a lot of opportunities where Okay, some of our
smaller receivers are getting suffocated downfield, these officials are letting
them play. We're getting intimidated a little bit, but man,
(06:31):
if he takes off and runs, he's extending drives. And
on another day where the Derrick Henry design runs went
pretty much nowhere, I mean one pick play for thirty
one yards and then twelve more for thirty five, they
really needed Lamar to activate his legs more. And much
like that Kansas City playoff game, there were opportunities to run,
and instead he decided to launch the ball downfield for
(06:54):
low percentage throws on the run deep down the sidelines
that went nowhere. I think he had a passer rating
of like forty nine or throws that traveled at fifteen
yards or more in the air in this game, Like
it was ugly and he just came out and didn't look.
He's been so out ease and so smooth, and just
his internal clock has been magnificent. His decision making has
(07:17):
been magnificent all season, better than he's ever been before,
even in the other MVP years. And he was kind
of skittish and all over the place, and you know,
it just isn't a smooth operation against certain teams. And
I do think the Steelers and the Chiefs are in
his head a little bit and you know, it doesn't
help Derek Henry fumbling, like the games they barely finished,
(07:39):
the you know, the coin flip and the balls on
the ground, and it just weird things happen when these
teams play, and it never looks all that good, never
aesthetically pleasing games. But this was really bad from my mom,
I mean, it was the first real stinker he's had
since the championship game. And again, to people who watch
this closely, it kind of looked himself like a playoff
(08:01):
game where you just kind of wonder, is he in
his own head too much?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Jason as as we surmised a while back, the Daniel
Jones injury notes and everything would come into play. And
so he goes to number three, which means Tommy cutlet's
back up into the ones slot. Uh, everybody got the
dreaded votes of confidence a few weeks ago. Those people
in effect, they're in New York.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
No, come on, what's you gonna say? Like, I'm making
you people suffer through this, but you know I will
fire them, you know what I mean. But I'm gonna
make you watch him coach this crap first, like you know, like,
what's he gonna say? And look everybody's calling there and
they know it's it's not really soligeable. The personnel decisions
(08:49):
have been poor, the development of this, A lot of
players have been poor. Maybe the saque thing. People making
way too much out of it, Like they got a
rookie running backers damn good, Like they're running epas or
off the chart the last time weeks, Like the Barklay
thing is to me not even really. Nope, they and
(09:12):
you know, the rookie wide receiver had a really came
out of the r you know, shot like a rocket.
But that's cooled down, and they don't have a whole
lot to hang their head on other than the D line,
which I think can be a really good group with
to keep it together. But you know, they were shopping
you know, old Jelenary, So I don't I don't know,
like they clearly need a reboot and a new sort
(09:34):
of set of directions and directives. And I don't see
any way that there's not a complete and utter restart.
And it's not even just the Daniel Jones contract. They
still could have drafted a quarterback or moved up a
little bit to even draft a quarterback, or you know,
done something to have the next man up there already
(09:57):
to where we're not looking at couplets for the last
weeks of the year. No, I think it's totally over.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Jason Locking for our guest The Jason Smizer with Mike
Carmen Lifromthtireck dot Com Studios. All Right, reaction to the
Bills and the Chiefs yesterday, I talked about this last hour.
The one thing that strikes me is that I feel
like every week the Chiefs play at their ceiling, and
that's going to be a big thing when you play
a team like Buffalo, you get to the playoffs and
the team has that extra gear because you know they
(10:25):
they've been you know, they've been escaping, they've been Look
obviously they've been terrific, but boy, you're gonna get the
same performance in every week. But they kind of seem
like they're missing that little extra bit and when they
play a team like Buffalo, you sort of see that.
See what I'm saying, Like what I'm saying something different
for you for that game.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I don't know, man, you know Panton love for the
games is chrystal. I mean, I don't know. Like when
I can remember exactly where I was you know what,
I mean, what was going on the last time a
team lost the regular season game, and it's that long ago,
they're probably you know, in pretty good shape. Like it's
not it's it's just I just think we have to
(11:04):
like get over the fact that it's never going to
look like it did well, you know again, at least
not this year. I mean, look, he's quietly starting to
throw more touchdown passes the last few weeks. They're gonna
get pa check go back, Like Chelsea got held in
checking that game yesterday for the first time in a while.
Like Gray had a nice game, you know, the tight
(11:26):
end position still contributed. Like if that game's played at
Arrowhead in February or whatever, late January, I got news
for you, they'll probably have their kicker back by then too.
Like I still think it's kandy shity, like they're just
they're just so good at winning football games, Like they're
really really good at the one stack that matters the most.
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And it's still an elite scoring defense over the last
two years. And it's even better home than road. And
I just think as long as they don't slip up
and lose the one seeds, you're gonna have a hard
time and me to pick against them in the postseason.
That's just sort of where I am on them. They're
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just it's a great staff and they're so at ease
and nothing really rattles them or phases them. And you know,
if they get that stop and sorts down, they probably
won the football game, you know, like, and they didn't
that time, and most of the time they have. But again,
like those two teams will probably meet and the team
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that has the troubles best I can recall. Going as
far as people want to go in the playoffs, You're
not the team in the City Chiefs. I think it's
the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You can follow on Twitter at Jason lock and four
That is at Jason Locking FO one O five seven
the Fan in Baltimore, Odyssey, the Washington Post. Jay is
always buddy, appreciated, my friend. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Have fun, my pleasure, gentlemen. Have we going?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Thanks Jayson, Hi the great stuff from Jason lock and
for Look. Yeah, you know on the service you can say, yes,
it is a regular season game with the Bills and
the Chiefs. But you know, I can say, yeah, the
lost regular season game. But I don't think there's anybody
walking into this game that was saying, Okay, now, yeah,
this game doesn't really mean anything, or now that we lost,
we got to walk stuff back. Now, there were a
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lot of stakes at this game. There was a lot
out there. The Chiefs could have basically potentially wrapped up
the number one overall seat. There was a lot at
stake in this game and for the Chiefs to lose. Yes,
it was on the road against Buffalo, but you don't
know what the team's what things gonna look like. This
is a game right now. We saw both teams were
up for it, and the Bills beat the Chiefs and
we thought the Chiefs were unbeatable. There there's a lot
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to take away from this game.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
No, in the moment the you know, the show being today,
you put whatever weight and gravity to it that you want,
right and you know, to mister Lock and Forest points
and I it echoes some of what I said when
we were discussing it a little bit earlier, Jason. You
know when we talk about Harrison Butker and changing out
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to a guy who was what the fourth kicker off
a squad, Hank Trader.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Okay, but you get the point right, Budker has been
a guy who's been pretty nails for them in big moments.
Uh and Pacheco designated to return you know again, Kareem
Hunt's been good, but Checko was the guy. Uh and
just go on down and down the line. But that's
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the beauty of it is that we'll get to probably
get to see it because of the flaws of all
the other squads in the AFC. We'll get to see
that battle once again. But your point about home field advantage,
you know, shouldn't be taken lightly. I agree with you.
Would you rather play at Arrowhead or go hang out
and maybe get thrown through a table on your way
from the.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
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Minutes to Go in the fourth quarter Cowboys still trailing
the Texans twenty seven to ten. We'll have more on
this game. Plus I'll tell you something that will shock
you when we tell you about one let's just say
one NFL team that's kind of down on their luck.
It's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (15:42):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon live from the tirag dot Com Studios.
Three and a half to go in the fourth quarter,
Cowboys trail the Texans twenty seven to ten. Was somewhat
of a close game until a play that might wind
up standing for the entire Cowboys season up until now happen.
(16:04):
Ye Cooper rushed back to pass, he gets hit by
Derek Barnett. The ball flies out of his hand into
the arms of Tyler Geiton, offensive lineman, who catches the
ball and decides, Hey, I'm gonna try to run with it.
Except you know, this is why your offensive lineman and
you're not a wide receiver and he gets stripped. Derek Barnett,
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who calls the sack, picks it up, runs it in
for a touchdown. Twenty seven to ten. Now make it
thirty three to ten. Joe Mixon in for his third
touchdown of the night. He is having a huge night.
Now it's thirty three to ten, extra point pending three
and a half left to go. Cowboys are gonna fall
to three and seven. And Mike, what did I tell
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you a month you talk about the being ahead of
the curve? What do we say a month ago? By
the time we get to Thanksgiving that Cowboys Giants game,
the Cowboys will be absolutely irrelevant. And now we knew
the Giants to be relevant because you know, but this
is gonna be add there. Both teams will be absolutely irrelevant.
And what are we gonna have next week? And irrelevant
Dallas Cowboys team?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Seems we need to flex out all sorts of stuff.
We got to notice that they couldn't flex out the
Cowboys and the Bengals because they'd spent too much time
doing the Simpsons animation for it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
But do you think they could call the Cowboys after
the part of the roof fell down tonight and said Hey,
we can't trust you're gonna have a game. Say we're
gonna move a different game to Thursday after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You know what, I'm kind of all for it. I'll
start the change dot org document as we speak. You know,
the Cowboys at least defensively tried to show a little
bit of fight literally to on that drive where the
Texans official Twitter account going, Hey, most fight we've seen
in Arlington this week, so, you know, having their fun.
(17:51):
And then Micah Parks is like, Hey, I'm gonna take
down Robert Woods. Yeah that's great. He doesn't have the ball,
So what the hell good does that?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
He got in the.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Way of you getting after CJ. Stroud. That was enough
for the the Greco Roman wrestling takedowns, like what are
we doing?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And now fans are streaming out of AT and T Stadium, Hey,
make sure you look up before you walk out. Well,
book up on your way out, look up on your
way out before you leave up.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Feel free to go buy any of these seats that
were not used tonight and grab the uh the towel
that was the giveaways A lot of empty seats, as
Jason locking For alluded to alluded to with his visit
a little bit early. I mean, you got Joe Mixon
going and celebrating.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
He's doing fan visits right now. Joe Mixon is doing
fan visits on the sideline after his third touchdown of
the night. He's shaking hands with all the fans the
side line. Hey, it was the game goes If the
game goes the way we think it's going to, you
may get a visit from one high profile to Excells player.
(19:00):
We don't know what's gonna be, and it's kind of
a TVA thing. But if the game goes well, hey,
you know you're winning bid, you could wind up meeting
a really good player on the Texans. Oh yeah, Joe,
go over there, answer questions. It's fine, we don't need
you anymore. Man thirty three to ten. Go over there.
Help those people out. They've been a lot of money
to get to get on the sideline. Go ahead, boy.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I really have enjoyed the the Bengals running backs this year.
But at one point, do you think sad Joe Burrow
as he walked in the tunnel yesterday thinking about Joe Mixon.
All right, he's also probably thinking McPherson, what happened you
used to be able to actually kick the ball. But
for Joe Mixon, I mean he's living his best life.
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Monster game, ISO game, Cowboys getting run over and putting
another nail in the coffin of everything going on there. Yeah,
why not go celebrate with crowd. There were more Texans
fans there today anyway, so we'll love more in.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
This game again, about three minutes left to go, a
little bit lessan three minutes left to go, Cowboys with
the football, but it is a thirty four to ten
lead for the Texans. Now this goes into something. Two
of the biggest plays from this week and in the
NFL unfortunately involve your team in my team. Yeah. And
for the Jets lost to the Colts a day ago,
one of the big questions was why didn't the Jets
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go for two when they scored a touchdown to go
up seven in the second half? They kicked an extra
point and who knows how the game would have went,
but they wound up losing by a point twenty eight
to twenty seven. Doesn't mean that going for it ruin
the game. It's just they had a chance to go
for two to go up nine, and said they kicked
the extra point to go up eight and they wound
up losing. Now, the Texans of the Colts missed a
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two point conversion late in the game, so it just
would have been a different game. But there's there's a
bigger point to be had here. So we had that,
and then you had Matt Eberflus deciding, oh, we could
get closer for a potential game winning field goal against
the Packers. But no, no, no, that's just what they'll
be expecting us to do. So we're gonna let the
clock tick all the way down and try to kick
one from here I and again and and that's.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Exactly what you would expect us to do.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, exactly, why Bride, No, no, no, you think you
think this is you think this is gonna be something
where we're actually gonna keep trying. No, no, no, we're
gonna be Okay, let the clock tick all the way down,
and then we're gonna get our potential game winning field
goal blocked on the final play of the game because
we settled for a field goal from forty six yards out.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Now, they did file a grievance with the league because
the coaching Oh well, no, the players might sign off
on that. If I were get one up, but the
Bears did because the long snapper was technically violated by
the NFL rules.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, well, I mean but look, I mean,
if if that's where you're at it the play, you're
not gonna get that.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I mean, they're not gonna.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Violated.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Here's a letter of an apology. I mean, that's all
you're gonna get. Ah, we got it wrong because the
NBA is getting good at that. I don't if you
noticed over the weekend all of a sudden, it's like, oh, yeah,
that was wrong that guy. Yeah, but hey, hey, at
least we're telling you we got it wrong. Okay, it's
gonna apologize.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
But look, look see how nice and calm I am
talking about the Jets and the back because look, because
fine's a bigger. Jets stink. Look, I know the Jets stink.
We're terrible. We have This is gonna be the ninth
straight year the Jets have not finished higher than third
in their division. Third, not second, third, third. No, no
matter what the Jets have had going on in the
last nine years, they've not gotten it right. No matter
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who the GM was, the head coach, any of the players,
they have not gotten it right. For nine years, not
even to finish second, not even to sniff even have
one year where you think, hey, maybe we can make
the playoffs. That's how much of an absolute disaster the
Jets have been, right, So I've accepted it. But this
is a bigger point now, and it's kind of goes
into what we talked about with the Lions a week ago.
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Dan Campbell decided to instead of trying to get closer
for the game winning field goal against the Texans last week,
he was okay letting the clock tick all the way
down and trying to kick a fifty two yard to
win the game, which is ridiculous with the electric offense
that he has. I know that Jared Goff had thrown
five picks, but you have the best offense in the
NFL and you're okay trying to kick one from fifty
two yards. That's a stupid decision. And I would say
(23:16):
it to his face. It's a stupid decision. But it
worked out for him. Doesn't mean he was a good decision,
but it worked out. And and Campbell campbelling is a
big concern for the Lions, right but but it worked
out because the Lion's been rolling sevens doesn't mean he
was the right decision.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
On the Jaguars.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I do have a I do have a bit about
on the Lions and Jaguars Mandego, But let let's stick
with the Jets and the Bears here with that.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
That would have been time better schit. You want to
talk about that fight, that would have been better spent
unless you're just the most ardent of Lions fans, come.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
On, better spent man. But here's the thing is that
you saw the Jets decide to not go for to him,
what did Jeff al br defensive coordinator promoted to head
coach say, I thought our defense would stop them, and
I wanted to go for two and make it an
eight point game, thinking our defense is going to be
able to They're not going to get a touchdown and
a two point conversion on our defense is going to
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stop them. And Matt Eberflus, who is a former defensive
coordinator who sees the game through a defensive lens, decides, no,
I'm good right here trying to kick from forty six yards.
These are decisions that are made by guys who always
see the game through a defensive lens. And that's why
I never want a defensive coordinator coaching my team because
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that's not the way the game is. Because they always
see the game from that perspective. If you're seeing it
from a head coach's perspective, if you're the jet, you go, oh, hey, yeah,
let's go for two to get it to nine. Right,
that makes sense, right? Why would we why would eight man?
Let's get it to Aaron Rodgers said he was confused.
Didn't know why because we talked about going for two
in the sideline, but Jeff Elbrick overruled it because he's
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a defensive coordinator and my guys will stop them. That's
not anything that is that is rooted in something he's
seen during the game. That's not anything that's rooted into
how the game went, what schemes were working. This is
simply rooted in the defense. Are my guys and now
make the plays. And that's ridiculously bad. That's why I
don't want a defensive guy as my coach, even if
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an offensive coordinator is there, Hey, forty six yard field goal,
let's get a little bit closer. We have time, it's
not like we had to worry about it, and maybe
if we completed the pass no, you had time to
get down the field more because a forty six yard
field goal is not great. And I know that. You think, well, hey,
you know, we're trying to win games a certain way.
Here you see the offense, you got to try to
(25:35):
get closer. You got to try to get closer. And
this is Caleb Williams, and the offense is in the
hands of a guy that doesn't really have a feel
of how to run. Like they already had a change
of offensive coordinators and play callers. That doesn't work. Hey,
the same guys are in on the meetings and they
all have their right this is where we're going with
the offense. All we're gonna change a play call. Yeah,
that's worked, right, didn't work for the Jets, not working
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for the Bears. This is kind of the same thing
you see when you have a defensive head coach. He
doesn't see the game offensively, and your team struggles, and
especially in big moments when you need someone with that
offensive philosophy of no attack, let's get forward, or hey, no,
we can't afford that. We got to kick the field
goal here. I know running that we're not gonna have
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enough time for X, Y and Z but these are
just ridiculous decisions that are made because coaches don't have
the offensive acumen to make those tough decisions in the moment. Now, yes,
are oc is making the call? Yeah, but it's the
head coach. It says, no, no, no, let's get closer. It's
edg go no, no, no, let's get forty six yard No no,
come on man, forty six yard natural aggress No, no, no,
we're gonna kick this for We're we're gonna try to
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get closer. Oh, we can go up by nine. A
quarterback wants to go, let's go, let's go for up
by nine. If not, we're up seven, right, what does
it matter? We're up by seven eight? You know, Yes,
we're stopping the Colts from getting a two point conversion.
But why we can make it a two score game?
Why can't we do that? And I see this all
the time from defensive coordinators offensive. Yes, do offensive coordinators
to become head coach? You see the game from an
(27:00):
offensive standpoint? Yeah, but you know what, they always want
the ball. That's how you win. The gets how you
score points. That's the name of the game in the NFL. Now,
you win by scoring points, right, it's not play great
defense for four quarters, run the football. Have two running
backs that have twenty five carries a piece and average
three point two yards per carry, and we're gonna get
you with three yards and a cloud of dust. That's
not how it works anymore, because this is where the
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NFL is, and I want a guy with an offensive
background who's running my team that knows what they need
to do to try to win games. And it's a
combination of making decisions in the right moments, and it's
being able to shepherd talent along and make sure they're
as good as they can be. Instead, you're looking at
Caleb Williams saying is his ceiling gonna be middle of
the pack? Now? His ceiling looks like it could have
been top of the league. Now, maybe it's middle of
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the pack if he gets a good guy in next year.
This is why I never want defensive coordinators as my
head coaches, because this is what happens offensively, and this
is what happens with big decisions that have to be
made differently.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Yeah, let me grab both these real quick. First, on
your situation. It's another one for Aaron Rodgers where he
could have really just upset the apple cart because for
years I've gone against him and his relationship with Lafleur.
Remember when it's like, all right, yeah, let's walk off
the field, let's you know, kick the field goal. Let's
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give the ball back to Tom Brady. How'd that work
out for you? Slip them off, send the field goal
kicker back to the sideline and move on. Same thing here.
You have all your time outs. Hey, coach, I'd really
like to talk about this. Remember I'm the captain here.
They built this around me. It's my decision opportunity for
Aaron Rodgers, you know, to do what he needed to
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when it comes to Eberflus. I mean, you want to
talk about a fatalistic approach to coaching in that moment,
and I saw it echoed by the All twenty two
review of Kurt Warner and everybody else. Yeah, No, you
never know what's gonna happen. That's how you played football,
Kurt Warner. That's when you had the rams. You were
afraid you're gonna lose a yard or two, and that
(28:57):
they might I don't know, sniff out what you got.
You don't trust your offense can get you that extra
three or four yards to make it an easier kick
for a guy who hasn't been nails on a terrible
playing surface we know about in the post games, like yeah, no,
the lean was over here and they were getting good pressure. No, no,
nobody saw that until post right. Yeah, just dopiness all around.
(29:23):
But to say and back in, double down on it
in posts, just like he did with Washington, this was
a great game, Thomas Brown called a great game. Caleb
Williams executed very well, twenty three to thirty one, ran
for seventy yards, took what they gave him, made some
big throws, some big plays, good decision making. This was
the cleanest they've played offensively in forever in a day.
(29:47):
And to say in that moment when your season, I mean,
let's face it, you're on the in the hunt graphic,
but because it's desperation to add extra teams at this point,
but you're still technically alive, I get it. But you
have the opportunity to show confidence in your quarterback and
back what he did this week the Jay Glazer report
(30:09):
that he'd apologized to the teammates for his role and
wherever he might not have been, you know, crossing the
t's dotting the eyes. I headed the waldron firing all
of that to say, you don't think you can get
those couple of yards that are gonna give him a
better opportunity to kick that field goal. It's bleeping packers
week man to go to the walls in. I don't know, man,
(30:31):
A lot of bad things gonna happen. What about the positivity?
How the hell do you go through life that way?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
You run by an actuarial table.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Ah, you know what if.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I do this and skydive, I got this one percent
chance I'm gonna I'm not gonna fly in a plane
because you know this that the other I can't. I
get it, you know. But playing scared is losing football.
It's loser ball. And that's exactly what Iberflus did and
for the second time that he's done it once with
the Washington Commander's game. Second time here you gave away
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games by being scared and playing scared.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Time to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports with special deliveries team to say, Greste, what
do you got for us tonight?
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Interesting comments about a defensive mining coach being your head
coach in the NFL branded Staley.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Did.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
We didn't even I didn't feel like it needed to
back the truck over him.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Okay, yeah, by the way, his defense stunk for three years.
What's that too? Houston Texans won of Dallas.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
You like to go for it on fourth down? Though,
I really like to do that.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
People were so enamored with that talking point. I'm not
saying it wasn't a talking point, but you got to
stop somebody at some point. The only reason he was
hired was because he was a defensive coordinator and they
had no defense. That was a good misdirection. Exactly go
for it again. Nobody will think to look at the
Joe Maxon had three touchdown runs Tonight. Texans win at
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Dallas thirty four to ten, mixing with one hundred nine
yards rushing. It was seventeen ten at a half. Texans
wide receiver Nico Collins return, he had missed the previous
five games with a hamstring injury, at four catches fifty
four yards. Cooper Rush was sacked five times in the loss.
The Giants starting QB is now Tommy DeVito, with Drew
Locke as his backup.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Daniel Jones has.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Been benched the Giants at two to eight host Tampa
Bay on Sunday. Daniel Jones after this season, has no
guaranteed salary left on his contract. This season, he has
eight touchdown passes and seven interceptions. Panthers running back Jonathan
Brooks is due to make his NFL debut Sunday against
the Chiefs. He had ACL surgery a year ago. Bryce
Young will remain Carolinas starting QB, and wide receiver Adam
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Thielen has set to return from injured reserve Gardner Minshew
stays as the Raiders quarterback. Forty nine ers QB Brock
Purty is day to day with a sore shoulder, and
Jacksonville wide receiver Gabe Davis is out for the seat
with a torn meniscus. To college basketball under nine minutes
to go, Number three Gonzaga still leads at San Diego
State sixty one to fifty one halftime. In the late
(33:10):
NBA game in LA, The Clippers are ahead of Golden
State fifty six. Forty five. Warriors enter with a record
of ten and two.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Orlando has won at.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Six straight Toronto one to end a seven game losing streak.
Milwaukee edged Houston on a late Damian Lillard layup, he
will back in the lineup after the concussion. New York
sent Washington to a ninth straight loss, one thirty four,
one oh six.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carmon coming up next.
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Speaker 2 (33:50):
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Speaker 1 (33:57):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
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Cowboys lose tonight in Cowboys fashion to the Texans. Uh,
thirty four to ten is your final score and the
Cowboys season is over.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Weren't you worried.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
About the Texans for a little while there though, when it.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Was seventeen to ten. Yeah, because the Texans offense has
not been great and I'm wondering are they gonna really
pick it up? And they did right You had the
big pass and Eco Collins to kind of open things
up a little bit. Still, I'm not sold that the
Texans are getting their schwerve back on offensively because I'm
not it's not the it's not the same team they
were even a month ago. But I do feel a
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little bit better about them tonight.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Yeah, I feel pretty good. You know, Metchi had the
big tackle early in the game on the fake that
they tried right off the jump. That was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
So long as Joe Mixon's upright and moving, U know
that helps push away some of the ills. Nico Collins
coming back making that big play, as you said, but yeah,
letting them hang around if Aubrey actually hits that field
goal and the other one that they took the points
off the board. I mean, it's like you had opportunities
to make things interesting and then you have a big
(35:18):
punt that buries you, and then the ensuing possession is
where that defensive touchdown occurred. So that just opened the floodgates.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Now, let me throw this at you because it's something
we've discussed about a month ago when you really knew
the Cowboys season was going to end. Look, we'll probably
called the show ahead of the curve right always, So
I told you that, Hey, how does Jerry Jones keep
the Cowboys relevant? Getting headlines when the season is lost
near the end, right, because once we get the Thanksgiving
(35:48):
it's a lost season for the Dallas.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Calvin Lottery draw for the play quarterback.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Yeah, I don't. Well you had that, well, you had
you had the you know, the peace falling off the
roof tonight. Oh, make sure that peace falls off the
roof and nobody's around people right about that for a while.
It's stadium.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Say I get that as a piece of memorabilia.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I just yeah, And I'll sign it. We'll sell pieces
of it, put it on on players cards and tell
him on eBay and Harmon Kitt'll buy a lot of them.
I know we will. Uh you know, how does he
stay round? Because look, Jerry Jones knows he's got to
chase headlines if he can't chase championships. And we posited that.
How do you do that? Dak is out? What else
(36:24):
are you gonna do? You paid Dak, you paid CD.
You know you're gonna replace Mike McCarthy. And what about
Bill Belichick being that guy? Because you know, Jerry Jones,
that's the one that's the one head coach boy, Okay,
I'll go big once in a while. Uh, he went
big for Parcels about twenty years ago. I think he
would go big again now because he knows he can't
just hire another coach to come in and think it's
(36:46):
gonna work. He'll he'll he would do this for a
short term fix, and Belichick will be available, and he
would be the best. He'll have the best resume of anybody. Look,
I'm not a big fan of Belichick anymore because I
think he's lost his fastball. But doesn't mean other teams
aren't gonna be interested. So if you want Bill Belichick
and you're Jerry Jones and here you are, now your
season is lost. You know the Jaguars are this close
(37:10):
to firing Doug Peterson, right, we saw the reports before
the game yesterday, and Belichick is becoming increasingly connected with
the Jaguars because remember, Belichick's gotta go whoever hires him, right,
He's gotta be He can't turn down jobs. You know,
I'm gonna wait for this job, no whoever hires me.
I'll try to get as many wins to get that
Don Shule record as like Ken. You know that's why
he wants to keep coaching.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Yeah, to be fair, there are a lot of a
lot of teams that are gonna look for coach.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
But he can't turn it. He can't turn anything down.
He doesn't know. He went through a whole last offseason
where I got my pick of any coaching job and
the Falcons interviewed him twice. He had a two interview
lead and he couldn't get the job. So he knows, Hey,
if somebody wants me, I gotta take this job. So
knowing full well that the Jaguars could be a day
(37:53):
away from calling Belichick saying come in and coach this team,
and he'll come in and coach because however many games
the Jaguars win this year is a bonus for him.
Ever he wins, he gets closer to Don Shula's all
time record, does Jerry Jones say, Okay, I don't want
to lose out on him. Mike McCarthy, you're done. This
season's over. We need something new. Belichick's gonna come in now,
(38:14):
and he's the guy coaching the Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day,
and Belichick would say yes because it's the Cowboys. Be
can't turn a job down. And see, even if he
wins two games in the last month and a half,
it's two wins closer to Don Shula's record, Do We
really Can? It's more and more apparent. I look at
this and go, boy, if Jerry Jones is gonna pull
the trigger on something Big Bill Belichick in the next
(38:37):
week and a half, I could see it.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Does he come out Thanksgiving Day like Carl Weathers and
Rocky for.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
James Brown singing the song?
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Well, I mean we need holographic James Brown at this point,
but but legious, legitimately, I mean, I'm gonna do it
with great pomp and circumstance.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
We're the going good stuff. The guy's playing the trumpets
behind it, He's got the whole band.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Well, you know, I got to see that live at
Grand Park in Chicago many many, many years ago. What
that toll that was.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Across Texas living with the cab.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
I mean, you talk about cycles, right, Jimmy Johnson eighty
nine to ninety three, and then Parcels comes in two
thousand and three, two thousand and six. Yeah, it's been
a minute. I like d Wade Phillips, he did just fine.
He was thirty four and twenty two. Everybody just thinks
he's stunk. And then Jason Garrett got to live there
for a decade. Yeah, it's time for the hard ass
again telling me let's go. It's him or Dion at
(39:35):
this point, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You know you don't want to Yeah, Dion can't leave
now because this kid is still in school.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
But uh, then you're gonna be a playoff.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
You don't want to lose out, man, You don't want
to lose out Belichick Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Wow, Well I'm out of a kettle.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
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