December 11, 2025 • 49 mins
Longtime Cowboys vox Brad Sham opens the show with some intel on Sunday night's game and some stories of his time in Dallas! A JJ McCarthy parody song, some super bowl odds takes and Vikes Bites fill the first hour!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Human dye to big boys back.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Now what what what did I do wrong? Just listen,
just listen, Time for two more.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Brad Sham is NFL play by play immortality er.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Nate Prescott back slant cad my pickt spins away from
the defender first down, heads to the right side, sprints
down the sideline.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Hurdles a man, Oh the way down.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Inside the ten to the six. There you are, George,
you were hiding and you come out to play.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Brad Sham has called Dallas Cowboys games on the radio
for forty seven years, which is the longest run for
any of us describing games.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Does the landry shift up and down?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Prescott takes the ball, takes the knee, and this crowd
is Tobae Rothenberg one month ago. If I told you
one month ago the Cowboys are going to beat both
the Eagles and the Chiefs, you would have said to me.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I would have said that Brat Sham says it, then
it is sold. You would have said what you would
have said to us. I'm very comfortable with you say that.
That's exactly what I would have said.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Wow, all of that is so excellent. Walks and Brad
sham joins nine to noon. Now, Hey there, Brad, looking
forward to seeing you Sunday night and hoping we get
a really good game to call.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
How are things, Paul, I'm good, thank you? Things are
things are just fine. I'm delighted to be with you.
Could not echo more strenuously your hope that we get
a good game to call. And I do want to
just full disclosure, point out that Meryl Reese and Philadelphia
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has actually got two years of seniority on me. Oh jeez,
this is a this is well, this is a an
anomaly of the calendar. I started a year before Meryll,
but in the middle nineties I left the Cowboys broadcast
for three years to do Texas Rangers baseball, and Meryl
never went anywhere. So I started a year before him.
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But he has years seniority on me, and as you
well know, he just won't stop, right, bro. I'm happy
to be in his on his coattails, Okay, well, and
I'm happy to be on yours and his And just
give me a second here so I can pull that
fifty dollars I sent to Wikipedia yesterday. Oh yeah, no,
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they're yeah right, I understand.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
But the home broadcast booth at AT and T Stadium
is named after Brad Sham. It's named after you, and
you're still very much alive. I mean, that's that's unique,
but awesome. Was it weird when they asked you if
it was okay?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Oh? They didn't ask me. They just surprised me with it.
They did it on the occasion of the first home
game of my fortieth season, and I had no idea
they were going to do anything. And you're You're quite right.
In our business, you usually have to be dead to
get an honor like that, or at the very least
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retired and in your dotage. And I remember saying to
Jerry Jones that night, as I think he had a ceremony,
he had everybody in my life was there. Everybody who
I'd ever worked with was there. Was It was just
an incredible gesture. And I remember saying to him, this
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is great, and I really and I really appreciate this,
but I'm really curious to know what you're gonna do
when I hit my fiftieth and everybody laughed and I
hadn't really I don't know about you, Paul. I never
really think about this kind of stuff until we get
to a certain point and people start asking yeah, and
so some time in the last few years, I thought,
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you know, I'm this close. Fifty is a round number.
That doesn't mean I'll stop at fifty. Depends how I feel,
how my hepe is. But why would you stop before
you got to fifty if you're already at forty seven? Right? Right?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And I'm really glad you said that, Brad about Jerry Jones,
you know, because I've heard similar stories involving former coaches
or staff members, you know, with with the owner of
the team and also the GM Jerry Jones, who obviously
is polarizing. And whether it's here in the Cornfields or
anywhere in the nation, people will formulate football related opinions
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involving Jerry when when maybe some of them are right
when it comes to good or bad moves, or if
there are power moves or.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Things like that.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
But when things like this like you described transpired, Jerry
does it ten of ten, doesn't he?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Yeah, Jerry is You're one hundred percent right about being polarizing.
He's a walking lightning rod. He's got some personality traits
that I have I'm not familiar with. He likes controversy.
He'll stir things up because I and I told him
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once he'll stir things up because he believes it's in
addition to the fact that he's got an ego. Of
course that's true, but so do we who in our
business doesn't. But he also believes that that's good for
business if they're talking about stuff. I asked him many
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years ago if he had ever heard of Bill Beck,
and he maybe he had, Maybe he had, And I said, well,
you know, Bill Beck was one of the most legendary
baseball promoters that ever lived. And there was a time
in the in the fifties, and he wrote about this
in his first memoir, which I remember reading as a teenager,
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was called Veck as in Reck, and he there was
a time in the fifties when the there was a
team in Saint Louis called the Browns, which was an
American League team that became the Baltimore Orioles. And so
he was competing with the Cardinals, and they couldn't compete
with the Cardinals, and so he hired what was in
those days called a midget to on the doubleheader. Stop
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me if you don't if you've heard this story, or
you don't have me to tell it, but no emblematic.
So he's he's got this double header in the middle
of the summer, and the Browns are terrible. So he
hires this guy from Eddie Goadell. People can look up
the story G A. E. D E. L. And he's
you know, five foot or or four foot whatever he is,
and he's gonna put him in a game to pinch hit.
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And he Vec says to Goodell, look, I want you
to keep your bat on your shoulder because your strike
zones non existent. They'll walk you because they can't possibly
throw a strike. Now, Eddie, do you see that big
building over there across the street. I'm gonna have a
sniper at the top of that building, and if that
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bat comes off your shoulder, I'm going to give him
the order. So he would not have done that, of course,
but Goadell walks. Vec gets torn to shreds in the
newspapers in Saint Louis and in Vec as in reck,
he writes, it is good for the soul to be
raised for a day, It's much better for the box
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office to be criticized for a week. Wow, that's the
philosophy that drives Jerry Jones. He wants you talk. He
doesn't care if you talk about him bad. He wants
you talking about him. And there was a little bit
of that Paul in tech Shram. There was the one
thing that tech Shram feared was was his team being ignored.
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He doesn't mind if you hate him. People called him arrogant,
and you used to say, he just didn't want to
be ignored, and neither does Jerry. And so that's the
thing that really gets under people's skin because it's not
nothing that most of us are familiar with. And so
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you combine that with I mean, it's an inescapable fact
that they haven't won a championship in thirty years, and
it's I think it's a fair criticism to say that
he has been a middling general manager at best. He's
been a great owner. He's in the Hall of Fame
because of what he's done for the league. He wouldn't
have been in the Hall of Fame if they hadn't
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won those three Super Bowls in the nineties. But that's
not why he's in the Hall of Fame. It's for
what he did for the league, television and marketing and financially.
What gets completely obscured and This is what you're talking about,
is that he does things. He does things on a
human level that he doesn't even want people to hear about,
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because that's not why he does them. Dale Hellistra was
their long snapper on the championship Team's his former offensive lineman,
and there was a time in training camp in the
middle nineties when Dale's father passed away and Jerry just
sent his plane around the country to collect up all
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the Hellistras and take them to the funeral and paid
for a lot of it and didn't want any attention
on that. Chad Hennings, a great defensive tackle on their
championship teams, has a son who has lived all his
life with some real serious physical disabilities. Jerry's clone the
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Hennings all over the world at his expense to help
research possible treatments and do things for them to try
to try to enhance the young man's life. That people
don't hear about that stuff, and he didn't care. He
doesn't that's not why he does it. But that's a
very real side to him, and so it's I don't
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consider a defense. I just think it's a part of
painting the full picture. Brad.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That's beautiful down memory lane.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
We go some more. We'll go down memory lane again
in a second. But Vikings and Cowboys Sunday Evening on
kfa in and the kfa in Audio Vikings Audio Network.
For you guys, what has the season been like? At
six six and one?
Speaker 6 (11:04):
So this is one of the most unusual seasons I've
ever seen. It started with the Micah Parsons trade, which
is still controversial, and I don't know if I'd have
done it. I don't know if I'd had the guts
to do it because of the player he is. But
it's telling to me, Paul that every if you took
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a poll of all of the people around the media,
people especially around the club who are there every day
and in the locker room and know all the people,
I would say you'd had about seventy five percent conservatively
who said, yeah, that was the right thing to do
to trade him. He was not a bad guy. He's
not a locker room cancer. He's just not a leader.
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And you're talking about giving eighteen percent of your payroll
to one guy, you know you might want to have
more than just punching a clock, albeit he punched the
hell out of it. I mean, he's a great, great
player and he always will be. But that was a
shock because with all of the contract stuff that had
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happened through the years, that had never happened, and so
that was a surprise. And then the year starts and
you've got a new head coach who's never been a
head coach, and even though a lot of people thought no,
he's got all the credentials and he had the full
ringing endorsement of the quarterback, which I personally believe had
a lot to do with his getting the job. The
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offense was okay, it was looking pretty good. The defense
was abysmal, and that's on the organization. Forget about Parsons.
They traded Parsons partly believing that a couple of people
on their roster would step up and help replace him,
and they failed, really let him down. In other areas
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of the defense, they just didn't have good players, and
that's on them for what they didn't do to add.
In addition to bringing in a new defensive coordinator for
the third year in a row, they just didn't do
enough to add to the positions where they're vulnerable. And
at those positions they're a little less vulnerable now because
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they had a couple of mid season editions from injury,
but that before the middle of November. The offense was good,
it was exciting, the games were worth watching. The defense
was horrific, and I don't know if it was the
worst they've ever had, but it was in the top
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three and it wasn't going to get any better. And
then Marshawn neland their second year defensive end died, and
it really did something to all of the players, especially
with the coaches to it. Says it's something that galvanizes
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that unusual chemistry that happens on a sports team, a
real team. They've come out of their buy in Las Vegas,
which is if you're going to play somebody in difficult
emotional circumstances, coming out of the by a bad team
might be the best one to play. But they suddenly
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had six and I called them the six horsemen of
the Apocalypse. Six players. The two that they added in trades,
the two who had been on the injured list but
had not taken a snap even in training camp, one
of whom's a rookie, and they're two starting safeties who'd
been in sick bay for three weeks. That's half a defense. Wow,
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So the team that will take the field Sunday night,
it just doesn't have anything to do on defense with
the team that played the first half of the year. Now,
the Detroit game was a regression, and we'll see if
that was the result of you know, four games in
three weeks and a combination of the Lions being pretty good,
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as you well know, especially when they're desperate, and so
we'll see. But it's just a completely different team. And
I don't think that I have ever seen a team
transform that completely on one side of the ball in
the middle of the season. I don't have anything to
compare it with.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Brad Sham forty seven year radio play by play voice
for the Dallas Cowboys. He's boxing immortality and you know
that this I hope this isn't a stretch. And with
all due respect to Neiland and his family and Sean
Taylor and his family, it reminds me of seven with
Sean Taylor, where Washington was middling. Sadly, Sean Taylor dies,
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and you're quite familiar with the situation given you guys
are in the division and what happened to Washington and
that defense, you know, moving forward, galvanizing in the name
of Sean. Does that sound analogous.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
It's certainly similar. And Sean Taylor was a much better
and more established player than Neiland was. And I think
that one thing that happens to us as observers, and
I'll include even close media observers like you and me
and fans. You know, if something happens to a star player,
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Sean Taylor is a great example that is a shock
to everyone's system. If something happens to a guy not
many people can recognize, it doesn't register very much, maybe
for most of us, but it registers exactly the same
for the players on the team. And there were some
guys very very close to Neiland and they're still I mean,
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that's going to drive them. It'll certainly drive them the
last month of this season, and it'll be interesting to
see going forward how how much they're able to carry
over some of the things they've said. But I think
it's an apt comparison.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Fuck the comeback against the Eagles a few games ago.
Now Philly hasn't Philly hasn't won.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Sense that.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It's either that or the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But that's the Cowboys season highlights so far, right, Brad, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
One hundred because they're down twenty one to nothing and
you don't come back from Granted, the NFL is now
the NBA, and so it's who's got the ball last
pretty much, and all the games are close, but you
don't come back in a division game to a team
that won the Super Bowl last year and you're clearly
inferior to them and you're down at home twenty one
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to nothing, and it was I don't I don't remember
when they had a win under the circumstances with everything
going on that felt like that. Then to come back
and beat the Chiefs. Yes they're struggling, yes they're injured,
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Yes they're not the same Chiefs, but they're still the
Kansas City Chiefs. And to then come back and beat
them in a four day span, that's impressive. Now. I
thought it was a long shot to say you're going
to go in and win in Detroit, but it's not
impossible after the last two. And that's why these next
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four are really telling about what they have and what
they can look at going forward, because I don't care
what the record is. I know the Vikings have some issues,
but they're pretty good, and that defense is scary, and
those receivers are scary, and the quarterback can if he's
on you know. Then, by the way, the ability of
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the Dallas corners to cover those receivers might have a
little something to do with how the quarterback looks. So
the Vikings are good, the Chargers are good. It's good
for the Cowboys that both of those games are at home,
but how they comport them over the last four games
has a chance to carry over. I don't believe much
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in carryover in the NFL because teams changed so much.
But this team is going to be largely the same team,
not completely, and if they finished strong and have a
representative second half after the abysmal first half on defense
that they had, and that would be significant for them.
I think going.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Forward down memory lane, we go, what was it like
calling Deon Sanders games?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
So I only had him for a year yea, because
he was with the Cowboys when I was with the Rangers.
So in ninety five when they won the Super Bowl,
I was that was my first year doing the Rangers.
I was around him for a year. It wasn't particularly
close to him, but he's an electric athlete and of
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course they were using him on both sides. Of the
ball and Troy Aikman was not usually one to buy
into gimmicks like that, but he understood the uniqueness of
the Dion Sanders and so I mean he was worth
the price of a ticket. He put on a show.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Brad Sham played by play voice for the Dallas Cowboys.
So whether you were there calling the games or not, what?
What when Tom Landry was the coach?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
When?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
When when he was replaced by Jimmy Johnson who left
Miami to replace him. What was it a super controversial
decision made by Jerry Jones.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
It was, but it shouldn't have been. Yes, Landry was,
I mean the way Bud Grant was viewed in Minnesota,
and you can I think maybe double or triple it. Wow,
here's what people don't get. And I've written about this
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up that it gets lost. I was doing a nightly
call in show in the eighties on the flagship station,
and in nineteen eighty eight, which is the worst Cowboys
team I've ever seen, worse than the one win team
in eighty nine. They won three games, but they were horrible.
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And I don't mean occasionally, I mean every night I'm
taking calls. Landry's got to go. They you know you
have to step back. Eighty six they had herschel Walker
dropped in their lap. And then Danny White was having
a great year. They were leading the league at offense.
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He broke his wrist at mid season, and they won
one more time, and they were really bad in eighty
six eighty seven the replacement Games, which was incredibly divisive
on a number of fronts, and so nobody really saw
eighty eight coming, but it blew up in their face
every night. Every night, I'm taking calls from irate cowboy
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fans Landry has got to go. The game's passed him by.
He's got to go. Now. I'm not saying they were
right or wrong. I'm just saying that's what the people
were saying. Now Here came this rube from Arkansas riding
into town and said, I'm going, yeah, okay, I'm all
replace him. And that's not what he said, but that's
what they heard. And that was the biggest story in sports,
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that was bigger than Super Bowl wins at that point.
And then, just as an interesting PostScript, I wrote a
little book twenty two years ago or so hardly anybody
ever got to read it. But it was just different
stories about things that had happened in the Cowboys past,
and so I did a chapter with this. In two
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thousand and three, I did a chapter with tex Shram,
who i'd done for twenty five years and who with
whom I spent a whole day living through things that
I had experienced. But there was a lot I didn't know.
And he died just a few months later. And among
the things Text told me was in eighty six, Landry
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came to him and said, get the next guy ready.
That's why they hired Paul Hackett from the forty nine
ers in February of eighty six. And then, of course
Landry didn't let him do anything. Here's the part that
and I verified this just in case Text was getting
forgetful in his later stages. But before the eighty eight season,
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in the winter and spring, Landry had Marty Schottenheimer, Marty
Schottenheimer in Dallas showing him houses and they were talking
about defensive coordinator. The understanding was going to be he
was going to be the next head coach. And then
Landry called a press conference in eighty seven, I mean
in the in the spring of eighty eight, and he
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and that because there was rampant speculation that he was
going to retire, which he had personally fueled to Shram.
Then he has press conference in eighty eight, does not
tell Shram in advance and announces I'm staying. All the
speculation about me retiring, No, I'm staying. So that so
much for Marty Schottenheimer being here. But Shram thought he
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was coming, and I've confirmed it with Brian and with
Mike McCarthy, who was very close to Marty Schottenheimer, and
they both said, oh yeah, Marty thought he was coming
to Dallas. So Jerry's replacing Tom Hired the raised the
ire of the public. But replacing Tom was something that
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Tom himself had begun to put in the works in
as far back as nineteen eighty six. So yes, it
was a complete shock to the public system. But it
shouldn't have been. And they were the ones calling for
it until it happened. And I've found that to be
be musing ever since.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Time for two more with Brad Sham. He's called a
Cowboys games on the Cowboys flagship and audio network for
nearly a half century and awesome, awesome stories. Brad, this
is fantastic. Can't wait to see you on Sunday now
for the penultimate. I grew up in Washington, d C.
All right, and I'm you know, I'll be sixty in
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a month, So Cowboys right birthday? Thank you brother Cowboys.
Redskins was everything. I mean, it was phenomenal. Is that
rivalry still one of the hottest in the league now?
The Commanders.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
No, But it's because it's excuse me, rivalries, as you
well know, are at their best when both teams are
good and there are two or three of them in
in your division in the North. That that tell that story.
I've done a number of Network games as well as
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Cowboy games. I learned I don't know twenty years ago
about the depth of the rivalry between the Vikings and
the Packers, and you know that can ebb and flow
if one team it'll always be there, but it can
eb and flow if one team is really good and
one team is not. The height of the Dallas Washington
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rivalry came at a time when the Cowboys really were
beginning to cement their future in a positive way, and
George Allen was tremendously as you well know, Paul a
tremendously gifted coach and also a bit of a lightning
rod to everybody else, and he was the coach when
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in the early seventies when that really got going. And
so yet I would say in the Division, it's the
Eagles who have replaced Washington in the minds of most
Dallas fans as the chief rival because they're the ones
who have been good the most recently. And then if
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you pull it back, I think there was a time.
There have been times when the forty nine Ers and
the Packers might have been stronger rivalries than in the
minds of Cowboy fans than one or two of the
Division teams. But again it's because of the stakes that
they've usually been playing for. But Dallas Washington will always
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be a unique and special rivalry, and part of it
has to do with going all the way back to
when the Cowboys came in the league in the in
nineteen sixties. There were just great stories about things that
happened when they were getting their franchise, and it built
into what it was, especially in the seventies and eighties.
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All it'll take is for both teams to be good again,
for the spark to like and the thing to explode.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Lastly, Brad and to Sunday Night. Is is Dak Prescott
maybe having the best season of his career?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Yeah, maybe he was really good two years ago. And
I think that they're better now because I really think
that Schottenheimer and his staff are a little more inventive
than McCarthy was that year at putting together an offense
that relies on the running game as well as on
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what the quarterback sees. And yeah, he's yes, he's he's good.
He'll never be viewed, in my opinion, commensurate with his
ability until he wins. And if you know, we both
know everybody knows, coaches and quarterbacks are viewed judged in
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the court of public opinion by what happens when the
regular season's over. And so if they don't, if they
don't ever get there, then you know, he'll be now
if you want to, if he has a career that
has people talking about him, and he won't buy the numbers.
But in terms of the impact of you know, there's
guys like Marino and Fouts and some pretty good quarterbacks
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who never won a Super Bowl. Kelly, there's some pretty
good quarterbacks who never won a Super Bowl. I'm not
saying he's those guys. But your question was, is it's
this the best year of his career. I think it is,
and I really think the reason that it is is
his command of the game of the field. All the
quarterbacks in the league have physical abilities. Most of them
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can make most of the throws. What separates them, as
you know, is what they see and what they can
change on the fly. And he's ten years in and
not not much has been thrown at him that he
hasn't seen, and he's he's really pretty good at handling
all of it.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Brad, those are some of the greatest stories ever shared
on this radio show, which is approaching three decades. We
are honored to have you on and and we thank
you for sharing the stories and opening a vame.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
And I'll see you Sunday night.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Okay, yeah, my pleasure. I'm looking forward to it. See ye.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
That's Brad Sham forty nearly a half century is the
vox for the Dallas Cowboys Radio audio network.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Coming a collapse.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
That's just that's one of those where you just roll
it out there and just get out of the way.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
It's kind of cool when you look more into when
you said that you were having Brad on I'm on
YouTube and when he was actually he started as an
analyst and he's with Vern Lundquist. Wow, and hearing nearly
a fifty years younger Brad Sham analyzing the game and
then finding I think Vern goes to CBS or something
in the eighties, but no, just hearing hearing the old,
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mixing it with the new, and hearing still the crispness
of those highlights I've played for you in the open
space time.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Pretty damn og. Mister Sham is out. He's ov original vox. Yeah,
memory Lane, we go.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Thank you, Brad. He'll be calling for the Cowboys. I'll
be calling for the Vikings on Sunday Night Football and
you'll up hear the vikings portion at FM one hundred
point three kfam.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Little did we know.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
First segment was going to be a Steve's Appliance's Marathon segment.
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the Timber Tech What's on Deck set list, and we
have Ben leeber Is going to be here about ten
o'clock after Vikes bites the wild of a big one
tonight against the Stars. Joe Smith from the Athletic will
join us in the eleven o'clock hour, and much much
more on the Horizon with Nordo producing.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I'm Paul Allen.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Speaking of Nordo, we have a parody song called free
Ballin and we're going to debut that around the corner
at FM one hundred point three.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
K f A n Good morning.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
And the end of the conversation with Brad Sham, the
play by play guy for the Dallas Cowboys. We talked
about Dak Prescott, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, and the
type of season he's having. A key for the Vikings
to win Sunday Night clearly involves quarterback JJ McCarthy playing
like he did or maybe even better against Washington. Just
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get out there and give us some free balling.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
It's a long year talking about our angles, the leg
whips and the fastballs too.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
He's a young kid. I hope he turns out like Elway.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
I've lost count to those that he overthrew.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Party to throw it over the middle, and it's intercepted
by isamic.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
Guppy neurological paths, the power of completions with pitch and catch.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Does it have to be this hard?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
But he's a young kid.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Gotta keep the patience even caos like.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Just go spinning around the yard.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Now he's free, free ball man.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah he's free.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
He's free ball man, JJ McCarthy. Now he's free free
ball then JJ McCarty, Well, yeay's pree.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
I got a joy one time. It's too dead.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
He's free balling.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah, nice job, brother, that was great.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
We need him to be free balling.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Nice job, free balling. Let's go JJ, Tom Petty courtesy
of Nordo. And speaking of Nordo, you know this, this
truncated segment here with the design I was thinking of
calling the Nordo's no Chancers or the Puncher's chance, and
it plays off yesterdays. Yeah, chips are chairs, but do
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they have a chance? Chips are chairs, but do they
have a chance? And the premise is off yesterday when
we established the four faves and the four favorites to
win the Super Bowl, and now a trio of long
shots with a puncher's chance and a strange, strange season.
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And when I say Nordo's no Chancers or the puncher's
chance teams that are twenty to one or higher to
win the Super Bowl, I mean that's generally a no
chance scenario. Long shots generally have no chance at winning
the Super Bowl. But this year seems to be different.
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Nordo's no Chancers, and there they are.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
We're gonna start in and you gave me so twenty
to one or higher odds, and I mean, I was
just gonna hug straight to that twenty mark because there's
a few in the mix there. The one of these
is twenty to one. I'm gonna start with the Detroit Lions.
I believe to believe in the Lions is to believe
in that coach and to believe in that top ranked offense.
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They put it around the gym better than anybody else
in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
And you know, you look at the record.
Speaker 7 (36:30):
I think it's eight and five, and they have their problems,
no doubt, but offensively doesn't appear to be one of
those issues. Their top three safeties, though, Kirby, Joseph Branch,
Harper they're out, that's the problem. So you have to
believe in their defensive front and rallying. Here's where it
finishes for them at Rams. So that's we could end
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this story here just by watching how that game turns out.
Then they host Rogers and the Steelers that at Vikes
and Bears to finish. This is chip or chair and
do they have a chance They got to get in
which means they likely take the spot of Chicago down
by a game that week eighteen tilt might mean everything,
and then as it stands at the moment, they'd be
headed to green Bay. So can they win at lambeau
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Field and not flop the way they did on an
early September day Week one, the West is probably going
to carry the top seed, whether that's Rams or Seahawks.
As we talked yesterday, green Bay and the cat bird seed,
it looks like to maintain at least the two with
the faltering East and the mediocre South. So if they
did beat the Packers, they'd go to that number one seed.
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So is it the Rams? Are we going to see
a rematch of this next week? Or then they'd go
down the road again for a title game Seattle Tampa, Philly,
San fran It's an awful road to the Super Bowl,
and that's probably why they're twenty to one. But that
offense keeps them alive in any game.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Well, since we did the bait yesterday, the Rams now
are close to three and a half to one. The
Packers went down to seven and a half to one. Yep,
Seattle eight to one, Bill nine to one. By doing
the twenty to one mark, that eliminates New England ten
to one, Denver eleven to one, Philly eleven to one,
Texans sixteen to one. So that gets us to the
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Lions and the Jags each at twenty to one. So
the question would be, if you are spotting up with
a with a mythical honeybee, or actually with your real money,
would you spot up on the Detroit Lions at twenty
to one.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
I think their paths too hard. I would not spot
up on the kiddies at this point.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
I would spot up on the kiddies if you could
guarantee me their offense is free ball.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
I always love that one.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Outside of that, that's I'm middling on this because Aiden
Hutchinson in the postseason, Ali McNeil in the postseason with
that offense.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Yeah, they can do some damage.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
They can. But the reason that I'm not spotting up
on them.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
And I'll give you my other two momentarily twenty to one.
They still have to get into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
That's great point.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
And so the other two teams I'm going to present
for you, I think in terms of just getting that
chip in that chair, they're already really in and I
think that creates problems again, Rams and Bears. Those two
games on the schedule for the Lions will determine the season.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
I think, don't forget about Christmas Day while everybody else
is giving. Maybe we are taking, as in taking playoff
related souls from the Motor City Kitties.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Who's next twenty two to one?
Speaker 7 (39:31):
The San Francisco forty nine ers, and they're largely healthy
right now, and I euke drama and all that kind
of to the side.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
They're just one game.
Speaker 7 (39:39):
We kind of forget about them when we talk about
the Rams and Seahawks and Niners are just one game
behind them, and three of the final fourward at home Titans,
then at Colts before hosting the Bears and Seahawks. So
I would actually say, of the three in the West.
Right now, the Niners might have the best chance of
actually actually again winning out and finding their way potentially
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atop the NFC West. And if they can do it,
they hold the tiebreaker over the Seahawks. If the Rams
lost in either Seattle or hosting the Cards, they'd win
the division. So they're in that spot there. They win
the West.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
That would be amazing.
Speaker 7 (40:16):
And really they truly in some ways control their own
destiny to do so.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
So they throw it well, they don't run well at all, but.
Speaker 7 (40:23):
McCaffrey still finds his way into the end zone that
the defense kind of lacks on the back end, but
good luck running against them. And it's a coach equity
towel right with Shanahan. So again controlling their own destiny.
It's twenty two to one. This is one I actually
would I would put some dollars.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Down on with the Niners.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Yeah, if it's a mythical honeybean, you can only put
it on one team.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
I'm more with the Lions right now.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
But the division, it's analogous with the forty nine ers
chasing two teams with better records than the division. So
it's this very very interesting at twenty two to one.
Next level, Shanny, who's last.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
Well, well the last one here. This is where you're
in the sportsbook. You hit a massive parlay and you
have a buddy from Florida, and so you put a
hundred bucks on the Bucks at thirty five to one.
Their path it depends on it depends on them winning
out because they have the Falcons, they got the Panthers twice,
they have the Dolphins. That puts them at eleven and six.
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I think that is a very good chance then of
pushing them up into the third seed, passing either the
Eagles or the Cowboys. In the NFC, they are getting healthy.
Tristan Wurf's is back practicing in full as of yesterday.
Mike Evans and Jalen McMillan have been activated. Bucky Irving
getting his legs back, get more productive games under his belt.
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I think their defense gets into a rut. You can
throw it on them all day, but if running the
ball in the playoffs matters, And this sounds weird and
stupid because they just i mean, the Saints just put
one forty on them, But I'm telling you that run
defense is for real in Tampa.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
And if it's open season.
Speaker 7 (41:58):
Thirty five to one is a mortgage if you can
stomach the roller coaster and walk falls the way of
the Buccaneers at thirsty five to one.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Yeah, that's where my mythical Honeybee would go at thirty
five to one, because I think they're gonna make it somehow,
some way. Now watch them lose to Atlanta tonight.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
The odds are the best, and you make compelling cases
for and or against the previous two, the Motor City
Kiddies and next Level Shanning.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
I like that. That's really cool.
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is filled with thousand Hills. Let me hit you with
this vike bite. This is a person we really haven't
talked about all season. So if I'm catching you off
and you don't have an opinion, that's fine, we'll move on.
But Ty Felton, I'm just curious about his development thirty.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
It's just like, what well, I mean, I have an opinion.
Oh goody. If you had hit it like into the
season or early in the season, holy cow, what an
opportunity to be an elite gunner this young man has
and for the most parties come through with it.
Speaker 7 (43:26):
But indeed, well, just ty Felton from an overall perspective,
So whether it's the discombobulation of the offense or is
it being behind you have Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison. At
the time you mentioned pre and early season Addison out
was suspension. He's back, Speedy Naylor Jalen Naylor. So is
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it potentially just being behind that group? Is he not ready?
Has the discombobulation of the offense stunted his growth because
he's a hardcore special teamer man as you mentioned, for
the most part, I think he's played on about seventy
percent of team, so he's finding himself to be valuable there.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
But just twenty nine offensive snaps all.
Speaker 7 (44:05):
Season two for two on catches, including a first down
chain mover.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
I just haven't seen a bunch of tie Felton this year,
that's all. And he popped in my head.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Great question.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
The pure progression of ascending the wide receiver depth chart.
Still has four games to go, and maybe there will
be some tie Felton entering the cap. Yeah, TJ Hawkinson
staying healthy, Josh Oliver catching touchdowns. Then the aforementioned three
with a eighteen to three and one. Well, that's provided
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some proverbial roadblocks. Obviously. The number one thing I will
leave the season with regarding ty Felton unless something you know,
unless he gets a lot of run a wide receiver
and just starts changing games is when you get drafted
and you're a wide receiver, you want to play wide receiver,
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and no matter who thinks you're good enough now or
whenever to get into that spot, you have a high
level of belief that you can help.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
So it's there.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
They're one of two ways you can handle that. Are
you going to be a malcontent and sulk and be
the e or in the room, or are you going
to embrace what's been put in front of you and
handle it with a plum. It's been the latter for
ty Felton, who I mean after wins and losses, he
(45:26):
wants to play more man, but he recognized his team first,
and that's something that is noteworthy with.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Ty Bikes Mike Sikes, Bye.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Thank you thousand Hills.
Speaker 7 (45:36):
Are you worried at all about TJ apparently nursing the
shin and that I'm from darisaw again A does not practice,
does not participate with the knee, right, just seeing those
things this time of year, you know, it's it's to
the point where either I'm I'm completely desensitized by it,
but then I kind of WinCE a little bit, like WHOA.
TJ loved his game, loved the tight end inclusion, and
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now he's not practicing with this shin thing, right he
bang his leg on a coffee table or what's going on?
Or is that something we're paying attention to? I assume
I suppose we are as well to get closer to
the game if t if TJ.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
Hawkinson does not play, then there will be two people
tied in Ben Simms, yeah and the aforementioned ty Felton,
who probably will be thinking to themselves. So we're not
going to play the game with TJ, which means I'm
pre balling certainly, not saying they're rooting for TJ not
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to play, but that one caught me off guard. To
per usual, monitor the Thursday and Friday practice reports really closely.
Listen to Kevin O'Connell's final press conference of the week Friday.
During the program, all of the answers will be revealed, then.
Speaker 7 (46:50):
Last little vikebite for you, and then maybe I'll I
got a couple of my pocket from mister Leber who
joins his next segment.
Speaker 6 (46:56):
Love.
Speaker 7 (46:56):
It kind of feels like they've reboot the cow Boys.
They've rebooted Javante Williams career, and it's just kind of
interesting following him from his time in Denver. You know,
for instance, he had his last two seasons in Denver
twelve hundred and eighty seven rush yards total and seven
total touchdowns. Well, he's going to out do that this year.
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He's running for four a to carry. He's got the juice.
They're using him in receiving situations as a guy out
of the backfield. You didn't see him catching as much
in Denver. He's already over one thousand yards. He has
nine rushing touchdowns that four point eight to carry. By
the way, he was averaging in the threes the last
two seasons, so they've really rebooted his career. And you know,
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is this a conversation that revolves around, well, with that
passing offense, you just got to have a pulse and
you can be effective running. But regardless, Javante taking a
big time advantage of his opportunity in Big.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
D eleven touchdowns total, but the two catching.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
They have this second year backup name Malik Davis, second
year from Florida, who they tell him is really fast.
Forty three yard touchdown rushing. That was masterful. They also
have an undrafted cat from North Dakota State University. It
is Hunter Lipke. He was undrafted in twenty twenty three.
He has a receiving touchdown. Lipkey's in North Dakota State
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type name, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (48:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (48:18):
I think he might be from Wisconsin by way of
NDSU now in the Big Deed. But what I think
will be interesting, as you hear Ben Pete and yours
to early describe it on Sunday night, is the way
they manipulate Javonte Williams, Malik Davis Lipke, Revan Spanford, Jake
Ferguson and Luke Schoonmaker. I mean we're talking h backs,
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broken eyes, wide outs. They use those guys in in
ways where Pickens and CD lammer on the field most
of CD plays, and they use those guys for outlet options,
but also with Ferguson, Schoonmaker, Lipke and maybe Williams blocking
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down the field for Pickens and CD.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
I just learned that yesterday.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
It's kind of a thing the way they use their
tight ends with no intention on most plays to catch it,
but after CD or Pickings catches a shorty watch eighty seven,
eighty six, forty eighty nine and or thirty three blocking
down the field. Okay, let's do this thing.
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
Now what what what did I do wrong? Just listen,
just listen, Time for two more.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Brad Sham is NFL play by play immortality er.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Nate Prescott back slant cad my pickt spins away from
the defender first down, heads to the right side, sprints
down the sideline.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Hurdles a man, Oh the way down.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Inside the ten to the six. There you are, George,
you were hiding and you come out to play.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Brad Sham has called Dallas Cowboys games on the radio
for forty seven years, which is the longest run for
any of us describing games.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Does the landry shift up and down?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Prescott takes the ball, takes the knee, and this crowd
is Tobae Rothenberg one month ago. If I told you
one month ago the Cowboys are going to beat both
the Eagles and the Chiefs, you would have said to me.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I would have said that Brat Sham says it, then
it is sold. You would have said what you would
have said to us. I'm very comfortable with you say that.
That's exactly what I would have said.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Wow, all of that is so excellent. Walks and Brad
sham joins nine to noon. Now, Hey there, Brad, looking
forward to seeing you Sunday night and hoping we get
a really good game to call.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
How are things, Paul, I'm good, thank you? Things are
things are just fine. I'm delighted to be with you.
Could not echo more strenuously your hope that we get
a good game to call. And I do want to
just full disclosure, point out that Meryl Reese and Philadelphia
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has actually got two years of seniority on me. Oh jeez,
this is a this is well, this is a an
anomaly of the calendar. I started a year before Meryll,
but in the middle nineties I left the Cowboys broadcast
for three years to do Texas Rangers baseball, and Meryl
never went anywhere. So I started a year before him.
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But he has years seniority on me, and as you
well know, he just won't stop, right, bro. I'm happy
to be in his on his coattails, Okay, well, and
I'm happy to be on yours and his And just
give me a second here so I can pull that
fifty dollars I sent to Wikipedia yesterday. Oh yeah, no,
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they're yeah right, I understand.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
But the home broadcast booth at AT and T Stadium
is named after Brad Sham. It's named after you, and
you're still very much alive. I mean, that's that's unique,
but awesome. Was it weird when they asked you if
it was okay?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Oh? They didn't ask me. They just surprised me with it.
They did it on the occasion of the first home
game of my fortieth season, and I had no idea
they were going to do anything. And you're You're quite right.
In our business, you usually have to be dead to
get an honor like that, or at the very least
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retired and in your dotage. And I remember saying to
Jerry Jones that night, as I think he had a ceremony,
he had everybody in my life was there. Everybody who
I'd ever worked with was there. Was It was just
an incredible gesture. And I remember saying to him, this
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is great, and I really and I really appreciate this,
but I'm really curious to know what you're gonna do
when I hit my fiftieth and everybody laughed and I
hadn't really I don't know about you, Paul. I never
really think about this kind of stuff until we get
to a certain point and people start asking yeah, and
so some time in the last few years, I thought,
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you know, I'm this close. Fifty is a round number.
That doesn't mean I'll stop at fifty. Depends how I feel,
how my hepe is. But why would you stop before
you got to fifty if you're already at forty seven? Right? Right?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And I'm really glad you said that, Brad about Jerry Jones,
you know, because I've heard similar stories involving former coaches
or staff members, you know, with with the owner of
the team and also the GM Jerry Jones, who obviously
is polarizing. And whether it's here in the Cornfields or
anywhere in the nation, people will formulate football related opinions
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involving Jerry when when maybe some of them are right
when it comes to good or bad moves, or if
there are power moves or.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Things like that.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
But when things like this like you described transpired, Jerry
does it ten of ten, doesn't he?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Yeah, Jerry is You're one hundred percent right about being polarizing.
He's a walking lightning rod. He's got some personality traits
that I have I'm not familiar with. He likes controversy.
He'll stir things up because I and I told him
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once he'll stir things up because he believes it's in
addition to the fact that he's got an ego. Of
course that's true, but so do we who in our
business doesn't. But he also believes that that's good for
business if they're talking about stuff. I asked him many
(06:17):
years ago if he had ever heard of Bill Beck,
and he maybe he had, Maybe he had, And I said, well,
you know, Bill Beck was one of the most legendary
baseball promoters that ever lived. And there was a time
in the in the fifties, and he wrote about this
in his first memoir, which I remember reading as a teenager,
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was called Veck as in Reck, and he there was
a time in the fifties when the there was a
team in Saint Louis called the Browns, which was an
American League team that became the Baltimore Orioles. And so
he was competing with the Cardinals, and they couldn't compete
with the Cardinals, and so he hired what was in
those days called a midget to on the doubleheader. Stop
(06:59):
me if you don't if you've heard this story, or
you don't have me to tell it, but no emblematic.
So he's he's got this double header in the middle
of the summer, and the Browns are terrible. So he
hires this guy from Eddie Goadell. People can look up
the story G A. E. D E. L. And he's
you know, five foot or or four foot whatever he is,
and he's gonna put him in a game to pinch hit.
(07:20):
And he Vec says to Goodell, look, I want you
to keep your bat on your shoulder because your strike
zones non existent. They'll walk you because they can't possibly
throw a strike. Now, Eddie, do you see that big
building over there across the street. I'm gonna have a
sniper at the top of that building, and if that
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bat comes off your shoulder, I'm going to give him
the order. So he would not have done that, of course,
but Goadell walks. Vec gets torn to shreds in the
newspapers in Saint Louis and in Vec as in reck,
he writes, it is good for the soul to be
raised for a day, It's much better for the box
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office to be criticized for a week. Wow, that's the
philosophy that drives Jerry Jones. He wants you talk. He
doesn't care if you talk about him bad. He wants
you talking about him. And there was a little bit
of that Paul in tech Shram. There was the one
thing that tech Shram feared was was his team being ignored.
(08:25):
He doesn't mind if you hate him. People called him arrogant,
and you used to say, he just didn't want to
be ignored, and neither does Jerry. And so that's the
thing that really gets under people's skin because it's not
nothing that most of us are familiar with. And so
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you combine that with I mean, it's an inescapable fact
that they haven't won a championship in thirty years, and
it's I think it's a fair criticism to say that
he has been a middling general manager at best. He's
been a great owner. He's in the Hall of Fame
because of what he's done for the league. He wouldn't
have been in the Hall of Fame if they hadn't
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won those three Super Bowls in the nineties. But that's
not why he's in the Hall of Fame. It's for
what he did for the league, television and marketing and financially.
What gets completely obscured and This is what you're talking about,
is that he does things. He does things on a
human level that he doesn't even want people to hear about,
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because that's not why he does them. Dale Hellistra was
their long snapper on the championship Team's his former offensive lineman,
and there was a time in training camp in the
middle nineties when Dale's father passed away and Jerry just
sent his plane around the country to collect up all
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the Hellistras and take them to the funeral and paid
for a lot of it and didn't want any attention
on that. Chad Hennings, a great defensive tackle on their
championship teams, has a son who has lived all his
life with some real serious physical disabilities. Jerry's clone the
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Hennings all over the world at his expense to help
research possible treatments and do things for them to try
to try to enhance the young man's life. That people
don't hear about that stuff, and he didn't care. He
doesn't that's not why he does it. But that's a
very real side to him, and so it's I don't
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consider a defense. I just think it's a part of
painting the full picture. Brad.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That's beautiful down memory lane.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
We go some more. We'll go down memory lane again
in a second. But Vikings and Cowboys Sunday Evening on
kfa in and the kfa in Audio Vikings Audio Network.
For you guys, what has the season been like? At
six six and one?
Speaker 6 (11:04):
So this is one of the most unusual seasons I've
ever seen. It started with the Micah Parsons trade, which
is still controversial, and I don't know if I'd have
done it. I don't know if I'd had the guts
to do it because of the player he is. But
it's telling to me, Paul that every if you took
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a poll of all of the people around the media,
people especially around the club who are there every day
and in the locker room and know all the people,
I would say you'd had about seventy five percent conservatively
who said, yeah, that was the right thing to do
to trade him. He was not a bad guy. He's
not a locker room cancer. He's just not a leader.
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And you're talking about giving eighteen percent of your payroll
to one guy, you know you might want to have
more than just punching a clock, albeit he punched the
hell out of it. I mean, he's a great, great
player and he always will be. But that was a
shock because with all of the contract stuff that had
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happened through the years, that had never happened, and so
that was a surprise. And then the year starts and
you've got a new head coach who's never been a
head coach, and even though a lot of people thought no,
he's got all the credentials and he had the full
ringing endorsement of the quarterback, which I personally believe had
a lot to do with his getting the job. The
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offense was okay, it was looking pretty good. The defense
was abysmal, and that's on the organization. Forget about Parsons.
They traded Parsons partly believing that a couple of people
on their roster would step up and help replace him,
and they failed, really let him down. In other areas
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of the defense, they just didn't have good players, and
that's on them for what they didn't do to add.
In addition to bringing in a new defensive coordinator for
the third year in a row, they just didn't do
enough to add to the positions where they're vulnerable. And
at those positions they're a little less vulnerable now because
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they had a couple of mid season editions from injury,
but that before the middle of November. The offense was good,
it was exciting, the games were worth watching. The defense
was horrific, and I don't know if it was the
worst they've ever had, but it was in the top
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three and it wasn't going to get any better. And
then Marshawn neland their second year defensive end died, and
it really did something to all of the players, especially
with the coaches to it. Says it's something that galvanizes
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that unusual chemistry that happens on a sports team, a
real team. They've come out of their buy in Las Vegas,
which is if you're going to play somebody in difficult
emotional circumstances, coming out of the by a bad team
might be the best one to play. But they suddenly
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had six and I called them the six horsemen of
the Apocalypse. Six players. The two that they added in trades,
the two who had been on the injured list but
had not taken a snap even in training camp, one
of whom's a rookie, and they're two starting safeties who'd
been in sick bay for three weeks. That's half a defense. Wow,
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So the team that will take the field Sunday night,
it just doesn't have anything to do on defense with
the team that played the first half of the year. Now,
the Detroit game was a regression, and we'll see if
that was the result of you know, four games in
three weeks and a combination of the Lions being pretty good,
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as you well know, especially when they're desperate, and so
we'll see. But it's just a completely different team. And
I don't think that I have ever seen a team
transform that completely on one side of the ball in
the middle of the season. I don't have anything to
compare it with.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Brad Sham forty seven year radio play by play voice
for the Dallas Cowboys. He's boxing immortality and you know
that this I hope this isn't a stretch. And with
all due respect to Neiland and his family and Sean
Taylor and his family, it reminds me of seven with
Sean Taylor, where Washington was middling. Sadly, Sean Taylor dies,
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and you're quite familiar with the situation given you guys
are in the division and what happened to Washington and
that defense, you know, moving forward, galvanizing in the name
of Sean. Does that sound analogous.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
It's certainly similar. And Sean Taylor was a much better
and more established player than Neiland was. And I think
that one thing that happens to us as observers, and
I'll include even close media observers like you and me
and fans. You know, if something happens to a star player,
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Sean Taylor is a great example that is a shock
to everyone's system. If something happens to a guy not
many people can recognize, it doesn't register very much, maybe
for most of us, but it registers exactly the same
for the players on the team. And there were some
guys very very close to Neiland and they're still I mean,
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that's going to drive them. It'll certainly drive them the
last month of this season, and it'll be interesting to
see going forward how how much they're able to carry
over some of the things they've said. But I think
it's an apt comparison.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Fuck the comeback against the Eagles a few games ago.
Now Philly hasn't Philly hasn't won.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Sense that.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It's either that or the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But that's the Cowboys season highlights so far, right, Brad, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
One hundred because they're down twenty one to nothing and
you don't come back from Granted, the NFL is now
the NBA, and so it's who's got the ball last
pretty much, and all the games are close, but you
don't come back in a division game to a team
that won the Super Bowl last year and you're clearly
inferior to them and you're down at home twenty one
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to nothing, and it was I don't I don't remember
when they had a win under the circumstances with everything
going on that felt like that. Then to come back
and beat the Chiefs. Yes they're struggling, yes they're injured,
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Yes they're not the same Chiefs, but they're still the
Kansas City Chiefs. And to then come back and beat
them in a four day span, that's impressive. Now. I
thought it was a long shot to say you're going
to go in and win in Detroit, but it's not
impossible after the last two. And that's why these next
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four are really telling about what they have and what
they can look at going forward, because I don't care
what the record is. I know the Vikings have some issues,
but they're pretty good, and that defense is scary, and
those receivers are scary, and the quarterback can if he's
on you know. Then, by the way, the ability of
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the Dallas corners to cover those receivers might have a
little something to do with how the quarterback looks. So
the Vikings are good, the Chargers are good. It's good
for the Cowboys that both of those games are at home,
but how they comport them over the last four games
has a chance to carry over. I don't believe much
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in carryover in the NFL because teams changed so much.
But this team is going to be largely the same team,
not completely, and if they finished strong and have a
representative second half after the abysmal first half on defense
that they had, and that would be significant for them.
I think going.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Forward down memory lane, we go, what was it like
calling Deon Sanders games?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
So I only had him for a year yea, because
he was with the Cowboys when I was with the Rangers.
So in ninety five when they won the Super Bowl,
I was that was my first year doing the Rangers.
I was around him for a year. It wasn't particularly
close to him, but he's an electric athlete and of
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course they were using him on both sides. Of the
ball and Troy Aikman was not usually one to buy
into gimmicks like that, but he understood the uniqueness of
the Dion Sanders and so I mean he was worth
the price of a ticket. He put on a show.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Brad Sham played by play voice for the Dallas Cowboys.
So whether you were there calling the games or not, what?
What when Tom Landry was the coach?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
When?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
When when he was replaced by Jimmy Johnson who left
Miami to replace him. What was it a super controversial
decision made by Jerry Jones.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
It was, but it shouldn't have been. Yes, Landry was,
I mean the way Bud Grant was viewed in Minnesota,
and you can I think maybe double or triple it. Wow,
here's what people don't get. And I've written about this
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up that it gets lost. I was doing a nightly
call in show in the eighties on the flagship station,
and in nineteen eighty eight, which is the worst Cowboys
team I've ever seen, worse than the one win team
in eighty nine. They won three games, but they were horrible.
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And I don't mean occasionally, I mean every night I'm
taking calls. Landry's got to go. They you know you
have to step back. Eighty six they had herschel Walker
dropped in their lap. And then Danny White was having
a great year. They were leading the league at offense.
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He broke his wrist at mid season, and they won
one more time, and they were really bad in eighty
six eighty seven the replacement Games, which was incredibly divisive
on a number of fronts, and so nobody really saw
eighty eight coming, but it blew up in their face
every night. Every night, I'm taking calls from irate cowboy
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fans Landry has got to go. The game's passed him by.
He's got to go. Now. I'm not saying they were
right or wrong. I'm just saying that's what the people
were saying. Now Here came this rube from Arkansas riding
into town and said, I'm going, yeah, okay, I'm all
replace him. And that's not what he said, but that's
what they heard. And that was the biggest story in sports,
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that was bigger than Super Bowl wins at that point.
And then, just as an interesting PostScript, I wrote a
little book twenty two years ago or so hardly anybody
ever got to read it. But it was just different
stories about things that had happened in the Cowboys past,
and so I did a chapter with this. In two
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thousand and three, I did a chapter with tex Shram,
who i'd done for twenty five years and who with
whom I spent a whole day living through things that
I had experienced. But there was a lot I didn't know.
And he died just a few months later. And among
the things Text told me was in eighty six, Landry
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came to him and said, get the next guy ready.
That's why they hired Paul Hackett from the forty nine
ers in February of eighty six. And then, of course
Landry didn't let him do anything. Here's the part that
and I verified this just in case Text was getting
forgetful in his later stages. But before the eighty eight season,
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in the winter and spring, Landry had Marty Schottenheimer, Marty
Schottenheimer in Dallas showing him houses and they were talking
about defensive coordinator. The understanding was going to be he
was going to be the next head coach. And then
Landry called a press conference in eighty seven, I mean
in the in the spring of eighty eight, and he
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and that because there was rampant speculation that he was
going to retire, which he had personally fueled to Shram.
Then he has press conference in eighty eight, does not
tell Shram in advance and announces I'm staying. All the
speculation about me retiring, No, I'm staying. So that so
much for Marty Schottenheimer being here. But Shram thought he
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was coming, and I've confirmed it with Brian and with
Mike McCarthy, who was very close to Marty Schottenheimer, and
they both said, oh yeah, Marty thought he was coming
to Dallas. So Jerry's replacing Tom Hired the raised the
ire of the public. But replacing Tom was something that
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Tom himself had begun to put in the works in
as far back as nineteen eighty six. So yes, it
was a complete shock to the public system. But it
shouldn't have been. And they were the ones calling for
it until it happened. And I've found that to be
be musing ever since.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Time for two more with Brad Sham. He's called a
Cowboys games on the Cowboys flagship and audio network for
nearly a half century and awesome, awesome stories. Brad, this
is fantastic. Can't wait to see you on Sunday now
for the penultimate. I grew up in Washington, d C.
All right, and I'm you know, I'll be sixty in
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a month, So Cowboys right birthday? Thank you brother Cowboys.
Redskins was everything. I mean, it was phenomenal. Is that
rivalry still one of the hottest in the league now?
The Commanders.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
No, But it's because it's excuse me, rivalries, as you
well know, are at their best when both teams are
good and there are two or three of them in
in your division in the North. That that tell that story.
I've done a number of Network games as well as
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Cowboy games. I learned I don't know twenty years ago
about the depth of the rivalry between the Vikings and
the Packers, and you know that can ebb and flow
if one team it'll always be there, but it can
eb and flow if one team is really good and
one team is not. The height of the Dallas Washington
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rivalry came at a time when the Cowboys really were
beginning to cement their future in a positive way, and
George Allen was tremendously as you well know, Paul a
tremendously gifted coach and also a bit of a lightning
rod to everybody else, and he was the coach when
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in the early seventies when that really got going. And
so yet I would say in the Division, it's the
Eagles who have replaced Washington in the minds of most
Dallas fans as the chief rival because they're the ones
who have been good the most recently. And then if
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you pull it back, I think there was a time.
There have been times when the forty nine Ers and
the Packers might have been stronger rivalries than in the
minds of Cowboy fans than one or two of the
Division teams. But again it's because of the stakes that
they've usually been playing for. But Dallas Washington will always
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be a unique and special rivalry, and part of it
has to do with going all the way back to
when the Cowboys came in the league in the in
nineteen sixties. There were just great stories about things that
happened when they were getting their franchise, and it built
into what it was, especially in the seventies and eighties.
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All it'll take is for both teams to be good again,
for the spark to like and the thing to explode.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Lastly, Brad and to Sunday Night. Is is Dak Prescott
maybe having the best season of his career?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Yeah, maybe he was really good two years ago. And
I think that they're better now because I really think
that Schottenheimer and his staff are a little more inventive
than McCarthy was that year at putting together an offense
that relies on the running game as well as on
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what the quarterback sees. And yeah, he's yes, he's he's good.
He'll never be viewed, in my opinion, commensurate with his
ability until he wins. And if you know, we both
know everybody knows, coaches and quarterbacks are viewed judged in
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the court of public opinion by what happens when the
regular season's over. And so if they don't, if they
don't ever get there, then you know, he'll be now
if you want to, if he has a career that
has people talking about him, and he won't buy the numbers.
But in terms of the impact of you know, there's
guys like Marino and Fouts and some pretty good quarterbacks
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who never won a Super Bowl. Kelly, there's some pretty
good quarterbacks who never won a Super Bowl. I'm not
saying he's those guys. But your question was, is it's
this the best year of his career. I think it is,
and I really think the reason that it is is
his command of the game of the field. All the
quarterbacks in the league have physical abilities. Most of them
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can make most of the throws. What separates them, as
you know, is what they see and what they can
change on the fly. And he's ten years in and
not not much has been thrown at him that he
hasn't seen, and he's he's really pretty good at handling
all of it.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Brad, those are some of the greatest stories ever shared
on this radio show, which is approaching three decades. We
are honored to have you on and and we thank
you for sharing the stories and opening a vame.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
And I'll see you Sunday night.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Okay, yeah, my pleasure. I'm looking forward to it. See ye.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
That's Brad Sham forty nearly a half century is the
vox for the Dallas Cowboys Radio audio network.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Coming a collapse.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
That's just that's one of those where you just roll
it out there and just get out of the way.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
It's kind of cool when you look more into when
you said that you were having Brad on I'm on
YouTube and when he was actually he started as an
analyst and he's with Vern Lundquist. Wow, and hearing nearly
a fifty years younger Brad Sham analyzing the game and
then finding I think Vern goes to CBS or something
in the eighties, but no, just hearing hearing the old,
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mixing it with the new, and hearing still the crispness
of those highlights I've played for you in the open
space time.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Pretty damn og. Mister Sham is out. He's ov original vox. Yeah,
memory Lane, we go.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Thank you, Brad. He'll be calling for the Cowboys. I'll
be calling for the Vikings on Sunday Night Football and
you'll up hear the vikings portion at FM one hundred
point three kfam.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Little did we know.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
First segment was going to be a Steve's Appliance's Marathon segment.
Marathon segment with the cooking portion of the cook top
equation belonging to Brad Sham. So go to Steve's Appliances
dot com and look at appliances if you are so inclined,
and if you need one at up to Mounds View
or work. First at Steve's appliances dot Com. Now on
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the Timber Tech What's on Deck set list, and we
have Ben leeber Is going to be here about ten
o'clock after Vikes bites the wild of a big one
tonight against the Stars. Joe Smith from the Athletic will
join us in the eleven o'clock hour, and much much
more on the Horizon with Nordo producing.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I'm Paul Allen.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Speaking of Nordo, we have a parody song called free
Ballin and we're going to debut that around the corner
at FM one hundred point three.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
K f A n Good morning.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
And the end of the conversation with Brad Sham, the
play by play guy for the Dallas Cowboys. We talked
about Dak Prescott, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, and the
type of season he's having. A key for the Vikings
to win Sunday Night clearly involves quarterback JJ McCarthy playing
like he did or maybe even better against Washington. Just
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get out there and give us some free balling.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
It's a long year talking about our angles, the leg
whips and the fastballs too.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
He's a young kid. I hope he turns out like Elway.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
I've lost count to those that he overthrew.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Party to throw it over the middle, and it's intercepted
by isamic.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
Guppy neurological paths, the power of completions with pitch and catch.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Does it have to be this hard?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
But he's a young kid.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Gotta keep the patience even caos like.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Just go spinning around the yard.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Now he's free, free ball man.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah he's free.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
He's free ball man, JJ McCarthy. Now he's free free
ball then JJ McCarty, Well, yeay's pree.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
I got a joy one time. It's too dead.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
He's free balling.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah, nice job, brother, that was great.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
We need him to be free balling.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Nice job, free balling. Let's go JJ, Tom Petty courtesy
of Nordo. And speaking of Nordo, you know this, this
truncated segment here with the design I was thinking of
calling the Nordo's no Chancers or the Puncher's chance, and
it plays off yesterdays. Yeah, chips are chairs, but do
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they have a chance? Chips are chairs, but do they
have a chance? And the premise is off yesterday when
we established the four faves and the four favorites to
win the Super Bowl, and now a trio of long
shots with a puncher's chance and a strange, strange season.
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And when I say Nordo's no Chancers or the puncher's
chance teams that are twenty to one or higher to
win the Super Bowl, I mean that's generally a no
chance scenario. Long shots generally have no chance at winning
the Super Bowl. But this year seems to be different.
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Nordo's no Chancers, and there they are.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
We're gonna start in and you gave me so twenty
to one or higher odds, and I mean, I was
just gonna hug straight to that twenty mark because there's
a few in the mix there. The one of these
is twenty to one. I'm gonna start with the Detroit Lions.
I believe to believe in the Lions is to believe
in that coach and to believe in that top ranked offense.
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They put it around the gym better than anybody else
in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
And you know, you look at the record.
Speaker 7 (36:30):
I think it's eight and five, and they have their problems,
no doubt, but offensively doesn't appear to be one of
those issues. Their top three safeties, though, Kirby, Joseph Branch,
Harper they're out, that's the problem. So you have to
believe in their defensive front and rallying. Here's where it
finishes for them at Rams. So that's we could end
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this story here just by watching how that game turns out.
Then they host Rogers and the Steelers that at Vikes
and Bears to finish. This is chip or chair and
do they have a chance They got to get in
which means they likely take the spot of Chicago down
by a game that week eighteen tilt might mean everything,
and then as it stands at the moment, they'd be
headed to green Bay. So can they win at lambeau
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Field and not flop the way they did on an
early September day Week one, the West is probably going
to carry the top seed, whether that's Rams or Seahawks.
As we talked yesterday, green Bay and the cat bird seed,
it looks like to maintain at least the two with
the faltering East and the mediocre South. So if they
did beat the Packers, they'd go to that number one seed.
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So is it the Rams? Are we going to see
a rematch of this next week? Or then they'd go
down the road again for a title game Seattle Tampa, Philly,
San fran It's an awful road to the Super Bowl,
and that's probably why they're twenty to one. But that
offense keeps them alive in any game.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Well, since we did the bait yesterday, the Rams now
are close to three and a half to one. The
Packers went down to seven and a half to one. Yep,
Seattle eight to one, Bill nine to one. By doing
the twenty to one mark, that eliminates New England ten
to one, Denver eleven to one, Philly eleven to one,
Texans sixteen to one. So that gets us to the
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Lions and the Jags each at twenty to one. So
the question would be, if you are spotting up with
a with a mythical honeybee, or actually with your real money,
would you spot up on the Detroit Lions at twenty
to one.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
I think their paths too hard. I would not spot
up on the kiddies at this point.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
I would spot up on the kiddies if you could
guarantee me their offense is free ball.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
I always love that one.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Outside of that, that's I'm middling on this because Aiden
Hutchinson in the postseason, Ali McNeil in the postseason with
that offense.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Yeah, they can do some damage.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
They can. But the reason that I'm not spotting up
on them.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
And I'll give you my other two momentarily twenty to one.
They still have to get into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
That's great point.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
And so the other two teams I'm going to present
for you, I think in terms of just getting that
chip in that chair, they're already really in and I
think that creates problems again, Rams and Bears. Those two
games on the schedule for the Lions will determine the season.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
I think, don't forget about Christmas Day while everybody else
is giving. Maybe we are taking, as in taking playoff
related souls from the Motor City Kitties.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Who's next twenty two to one?
Speaker 7 (39:31):
The San Francisco forty nine ers, and they're largely healthy
right now, and I euke drama and all that kind
of to the side.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
They're just one game.
Speaker 7 (39:39):
We kind of forget about them when we talk about
the Rams and Seahawks and Niners are just one game
behind them, and three of the final fourward at home Titans,
then at Colts before hosting the Bears and Seahawks. So
I would actually say, of the three in the West.
Right now, the Niners might have the best chance of
actually actually again winning out and finding their way potentially
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atop the NFC West. And if they can do it,
they hold the tiebreaker over the Seahawks. If the Rams
lost in either Seattle or hosting the Cards, they'd win
the division. So they're in that spot there. They win
the West.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
That would be amazing.
Speaker 7 (40:16):
And really they truly in some ways control their own
destiny to do so.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
So they throw it well, they don't run well at all, but.
Speaker 7 (40:23):
McCaffrey still finds his way into the end zone that
the defense kind of lacks on the back end, but
good luck running against them. And it's a coach equity
towel right with Shanahan. So again controlling their own destiny.
It's twenty two to one. This is one I actually
would I would put some dollars.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Down on with the Niners.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Yeah, if it's a mythical honeybean, you can only put
it on one team.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
I'm more with the Lions right now.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
But the division, it's analogous with the forty nine ers
chasing two teams with better records than the division. So
it's this very very interesting at twenty two to one.
Next level, Shanny, who's last.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
Well, well the last one here. This is where you're
in the sportsbook. You hit a massive parlay and you
have a buddy from Florida, and so you put a
hundred bucks on the Bucks at thirty five to one.
Their path it depends on it depends on them winning
out because they have the Falcons, they got the Panthers twice,
they have the Dolphins. That puts them at eleven and six.
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I think that is a very good chance then of
pushing them up into the third seed, passing either the
Eagles or the Cowboys. In the NFC, they are getting healthy.
Tristan Wurf's is back practicing in full as of yesterday.
Mike Evans and Jalen McMillan have been activated. Bucky Irving
getting his legs back, get more productive games under his belt.
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I think their defense gets into a rut. You can
throw it on them all day, but if running the
ball in the playoffs matters, And this sounds weird and
stupid because they just i mean, the Saints just put
one forty on them, But I'm telling you that run
defense is for real in Tampa.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
And if it's open season.
Speaker 7 (41:58):
Thirty five to one is a mortgage if you can
stomach the roller coaster and walk falls the way of
the Buccaneers at thirsty five to one.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Yeah, that's where my mythical Honeybee would go at thirty
five to one, because I think they're gonna make it somehow,
some way. Now watch them lose to Atlanta tonight.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
The odds are the best, and you make compelling cases
for and or against the previous two, the Motor City
Kiddies and next Level Shanning.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
I like that. That's really cool.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Vikes bites are bikes bites.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Bikes spikes, mouse bites.
Speaker 7 (42:36):
Love Mousie Mouse Vikes Bites brought to you by Thousand
Hills Lifetime Grazed Grass Fed Be Museum. You can shop online,
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(42:57):
is filled with thousand Hills. Let me hit you with
this vike bite. This is a person we really haven't
talked about all season. So if I'm catching you off
and you don't have an opinion, that's fine, we'll move on.
But Ty Felton, I'm just curious about his development thirty.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
It's just like, what well, I mean, I have an opinion.
Oh goody. If you had hit it like into the
season or early in the season, holy cow, what an
opportunity to be an elite gunner this young man has
and for the most parties come through with it.
Speaker 7 (43:26):
But indeed, well, just ty Felton from an overall perspective,
So whether it's the discombobulation of the offense or is
it being behind you have Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison. At
the time you mentioned pre and early season Addison out
was suspension. He's back, Speedy Naylor Jalen Naylor. So is
(43:46):
it potentially just being behind that group? Is he not ready?
Has the discombobulation of the offense stunted his growth because
he's a hardcore special teamer man as you mentioned, for
the most part, I think he's played on about seventy
percent of team, so he's finding himself to be valuable there.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
But just twenty nine offensive snaps all.
Speaker 7 (44:05):
Season two for two on catches, including a first down
chain mover.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
I just haven't seen a bunch of tie Felton this year,
that's all. And he popped in my head.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Great question.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
The pure progression of ascending the wide receiver depth chart.
Still has four games to go, and maybe there will
be some tie Felton entering the cap. Yeah, TJ Hawkinson
staying healthy, Josh Oliver catching touchdowns. Then the aforementioned three
with a eighteen to three and one. Well, that's provided
(44:35):
some proverbial roadblocks. Obviously. The number one thing I will
leave the season with regarding ty Felton unless something you know,
unless he gets a lot of run a wide receiver
and just starts changing games is when you get drafted
and you're a wide receiver, you want to play wide receiver,
(44:57):
and no matter who thinks you're good enough now or
whenever to get into that spot, you have a high
level of belief that you can help.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
So it's there.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
They're one of two ways you can handle that. Are
you going to be a malcontent and sulk and be
the e or in the room, or are you going
to embrace what's been put in front of you and
handle it with a plum. It's been the latter for
ty Felton, who I mean after wins and losses, he
(45:26):
wants to play more man, but he recognized his team first,
and that's something that is noteworthy with.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Ty Bikes Mike Sikes, Bye.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Thank you thousand Hills.
Speaker 7 (45:36):
Are you worried at all about TJ apparently nursing the
shin and that I'm from darisaw again A does not practice,
does not participate with the knee, right, just seeing those
things this time of year, you know, it's it's to
the point where either I'm I'm completely desensitized by it,
but then I kind of WinCE a little bit, like WHOA.
TJ loved his game, loved the tight end inclusion, and
(45:57):
now he's not practicing with this shin thing, right he
bang his leg on a coffee table or what's going on?
Or is that something we're paying attention to? I assume
I suppose we are as well to get closer to
the game if t if TJ.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
Hawkinson does not play, then there will be two people
tied in Ben Simms, yeah and the aforementioned ty Felton,
who probably will be thinking to themselves. So we're not
going to play the game with TJ, which means I'm
pre balling certainly, not saying they're rooting for TJ not
(46:32):
to play, but that one caught me off guard. To
per usual, monitor the Thursday and Friday practice reports really closely.
Listen to Kevin O'Connell's final press conference of the week Friday.
During the program, all of the answers will be revealed, then.
Speaker 7 (46:50):
Last little vikebite for you, and then maybe I'll I
got a couple of my pocket from mister Leber who
joins his next segment.
Speaker 6 (46:56):
Love.
Speaker 7 (46:56):
It kind of feels like they've reboot the cow Boys.
They've rebooted Javante Williams career, and it's just kind of
interesting following him from his time in Denver. You know,
for instance, he had his last two seasons in Denver
twelve hundred and eighty seven rush yards total and seven
total touchdowns. Well, he's going to out do that this year.
(47:17):
He's running for four a to carry. He's got the juice.
They're using him in receiving situations as a guy out
of the backfield. You didn't see him catching as much
in Denver. He's already over one thousand yards. He has
nine rushing touchdowns that four point eight to carry. By
the way, he was averaging in the threes the last
two seasons, so they've really rebooted his career. And you know,
(47:37):
is this a conversation that revolves around, well, with that
passing offense, you just got to have a pulse and
you can be effective running. But regardless, Javante taking a
big time advantage of his opportunity in Big.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
D eleven touchdowns total, but the two catching.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
They have this second year backup name Malik Davis, second
year from Florida, who they tell him is really fast.
Forty three yard touchdown rushing. That was masterful. They also
have an undrafted cat from North Dakota State University. It
is Hunter Lipke. He was undrafted in twenty twenty three.
He has a receiving touchdown. Lipkey's in North Dakota State
(48:16):
type name, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (48:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (48:18):
I think he might be from Wisconsin by way of
NDSU now in the Big Deed. But what I think
will be interesting, as you hear Ben Pete and yours
to early describe it on Sunday night, is the way
they manipulate Javonte Williams, Malik Davis Lipke, Revan Spanford, Jake
Ferguson and Luke Schoonmaker. I mean we're talking h backs,
(48:42):
broken eyes, wide outs. They use those guys in in
ways where Pickens and CD lammer on the field most
of CD plays, and they use those guys for outlet options,
but also with Ferguson, Schoonmaker, Lipke and maybe Williams blocking
(49:04):
down the field for Pickens and CD.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
I just learned that yesterday.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
It's kind of a thing the way they use their
tight ends with no intention on most plays to catch it,
but after CD or Pickings catches a shorty watch eighty seven,
eighty six, forty eighty nine and or thirty three blocking
down the field. Okay, let's do this thing.
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