Softy & Dick 10-16 Hour 3: Harlan, Metcalf, Fisch Clips, RJ Choppy

In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with Kevin Harlan about all things NFL and Seahawks, then hear audio from DK Metcalf today, revisit Jedd Fisch comments about college finances, and talk about Jerry Jones’ threat with RJ Choppy.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
They are NFL champions.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
The seattlesy Hawks have won Super Bowl forty eight.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
As part of our non stop coverage of the NFL,
this is Softy's weekly visit with Kevin Harlan.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
He's a pulldowzer, He's a beast.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
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Speaker 5 (00:36):
Sucking down two great many time and distance going and
his down town touchdown.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Of thirty yards.

Speaker 5 (00:49):
Track's time by oh Man. The voice, the voice like
a fine wine, just gets better and better and better
and better and better and better with age.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
And he's way too nice to me. Man, you are way,
way way too nice. Appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
I was gonna see, I was gonna say, you're getting
up there in age too, so sounds really damn good.
But joining us every Wednesday. Courtesy of the Emerald Queen Casino.
It's our friend, Kevin Harlan, how are you, man?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
I am doing good. NBA for TMT begins tomorrow night,
so I'm on my way to Wow, on my way
to Phoenix for the Lakers and Sons. Can you believe
it's your already?

Speaker 6 (01:33):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:34):
No, I cannot believe it. And you know what's funny, work, Kevin.
We're all we're all sitting back here, you know, waiting.
There was a preseason game last Friday in Seattle, uh,
and we're all waiting for some kind of an announcement
from the NBA regarding expansion.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
I mean everyone just kind of assumed that once the
TV deal was done, that expansion was next up on
the table. And I mean, I don't know, just how
about we start there?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Are you?

Speaker 5 (01:59):
Are you hearing anything about Seattle Vegas or any expansion
announcement there, any rumblings at all.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Those are clearly the cities, and I think it's a
matter of time before it becomes official. I have not
heard anything. It's just my personal opinion those two cities
are ready, especially Seattle. And it's right now one of
those situations where I think the litigation that Turner has

(02:29):
put on top of the on top of the NBA
is the last thing to really be kind of you know,
put the bed, put a period on it, and when
that is concluded, whenever that is, I think that will
be the sign that if there is expansion, here are
the cities. I can't imagine that when that day comes

(02:53):
and that expansion announcement is made, that Seattle is not
one of the top is not the number one choice. Yeah,
but certainly if they bring into they'd be one of
the two teams for sure. I just I can't imagine.
I can't imagine it would not.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Be well, you you haven't had a chance yet, I
don't think. To see the new arena up here, it's magnificent.
And there's already rumors that the the Sonic locker rooms
and the basketball lot. There's actually NBA locker rooms in
the arena now, just in case the NBA comes back
one day and there's rumors they're being redone right now
to accommodate a team you know, when they when they

(03:29):
show up. So yeah, I mean, we can't wait for
that day. Can't wait to have you up here and
checking the arena out. But man, you saw Drake May
this weekend that that little clip there from CBS. Look
pretty damn good to me. What'd you think?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I thought he is a ride in line where their
hopes would remain intact and their future very bright, with
a ceiling that can't be measured right now. He has
all the measurables when they drafted him. Here's a third
overall picking back of Daniels at two, and certainly can't
Williams at Onely some people had him at number one,

(04:04):
some people had him at number two. If he's anything
like these guys taken before him, the Patriots who got
their future quarterback, there's nothing to say right now that
he is not the guy. You know, so many things
have got to happen. They've got to surround him with
the better line, they've got to give better receivers. But
until all that is done, we're not going to know

(04:25):
the fullness of what he's able to do. But I
thought he gave every indication with his starting to debut
this past Sunday that he was the right pick and
that he can definitely be looked upon as what they're
hoping and that is their future franchise quarterback.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah. Well, Kevin Harlan's with us.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
He's on the way to Arizona for NBA basketball, you
got money night football, you got TV on Sunday. We'll
play Where will Kevin be for TV Sunday? In a
matter of minutes here. But I got to ask you
first of all about the Jerry Jones fallout from his
radio interview in Dallas and losing is cool, threatening to
fire people, snapping back a little bit. It's been a

(05:08):
major story on the networks the last couple of days.
But what do you make of everything happening in Dallas?

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Man, Well, you know, they pay him to be on
that show, so he agreed to it. He's got a contract,
and those are the kind of questions general managers get,
and he asks. As the team's GM, he's making the picks,
he's he's doing the contracts, he's handling everything, and if
you're not prepared to handle, you know, the questions that
the media needs to ask. And I thought the guy

(05:34):
was respectful. I heard you know, I've just heard it once,
so that if maybe I need to go back and
listen to it again. But from the first time I
heard it, I thought I didn't try to bait him.
He was just asking a question that I think anybody
would ask, and his response that, but maybe he feels this,
maybe the games are on that station, maybe he feels, hey,

(05:54):
you're a partner, You're you're not a judge and jury here,
and with a partner you expect maybe a little bit
more of a general landing. And that wasn't the case.
And listen, they got their fannies kicked. And they have
had four straight games where they've played teams going back
to the playoffs against Green Bay, and they've looked bad.
They have looked at that team. It's a bad roster

(06:17):
that they're They're top heavy with a couple of players
and that's it. And I know they've got a couple
of defensive injuries that are pretty significant, Parsons and Lawrence,
but but a lot of teams are going through that
and they hold it together and that team is not.
And it's uh, I think it's an indictment of how
they've built that roster just caught up with them and
here they sit. So it's uh, I think when you

(06:38):
start blaming other people and you start to you know,
throw the criticism other ways, uh, you need to look
in the mirror first of all and say, am i
am I culpable, and in this case, he commands all
those positions. I just rattled off. He's responsible, he's the guy,
and that's the roster. It's his roster, it's his team,

(06:59):
and I I think it is what it is. I
think you can draw your conclusions by that. It says
frustration coming through. It's been a difficult forty eight hours
for him since that loss, and we heard parts of
it the other day.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
He Kevin Harlan's with us courtesy of The Emerald. Queen
and Kevin, you saw the Jets and Bills on Monday night.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Great game.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
Obviously, Jets probably should have wanted to be honest with you.
I know a lot of people agree with that. But
how much better does DeVante Adams make that team? He's
a Jet now he's going to play versus Pittsburgh this Sunday.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
He'll make him better. Clearly, their receiving corps is good,
and now they've got two number one receivers. They've got
Garrett Wilson, They're gonna have DeVante Adams. Mike Williams is
on that team and he is just having a difficult,
difficult time coming back from injury. He's not close to
what he was. He's had too many significant injuries in

(07:53):
his career, and I think it was pretty clear that
he cannot He cannot play the position like he once did,
and that's a shame, so they needed to get somebody else.
It's like when you have a great sat guy, good
rusher on the edge, he's only as effective as the
guy on the other side, because if you load up
on a great pass rusher, you can neutralize him. With

(08:15):
two or three guys, you can slow him down and
his impact will be minimal. But if you've got two,
if you've got one on each end man, that makes
it almost impossible. Now you're picking your poison, and I
think that will be the case of Adams, who knows
the offense and Rogers very well, and I think we'll
slip right into it with ease. Sounds like the injury

(08:37):
isn't caused for concern the hamstring that kept him out
the last three games for the Raiders, So I think
he'll go in there. I think he'll do well. I
think they're gonna win Thursday night. I think they'll play well,
and I think this team now is ready to go.
Their defense is good, and they got a running back
who I think could be a top fifteen back in
this league. We need to see more. But he ran

(08:57):
well the other day over one hundred yards. They had
two one yard receivers. No, I'm I'm in on the Jets.
This may be the missing piece. Now they got to
figure out what's gonna happen at Hassan Reddick. And I
know that that he'll either get traded or they're going
to get him to sign. And if they get him
to sign, that defense will be even more difficult. So there. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
Well, Kevin Harlan's all in every year for basketball football
and for some reason keeps coming back to do this
segment every week on the radio program.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Because of you. Yeah, because you take you.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
Take pity on me, you know what, whatever it takes.
Kevin Harlan's with us. Courtesy of The Emerald Queen. Did
you see Nick Siriani going after the Eagle fans and
then he brought his kids out to the press conference
the other day?

Speaker 1 (09:44):
How much hot water is he anything? In Philadelphia?

Speaker 7 (09:47):
Well?

Speaker 2 (09:47):
It was interesting, wasn't Because you got the fans and
then the kids there. You know, no one was going
to bring a tough loaded question to him with the kids. There,
so he really that was a pretty smart move, which
say I would say that that was a that was
a very deaf move by Sirianni. But but clearly the

(10:08):
team's not right. There's too much talent on that team
for them to be kind of wallowing around the way
they are. And I would guess that kind of like Peterson,
maybe Mike McCarthy down in Dallas. We've got a handful
of coaches now as we get to the midway point
of the season. This is Week seven coming up, and
as we get to the midway point of the season,
there are some coaches that are clearly being examined right now.

(10:32):
And an owner of a GM would make a move
for a couple of reasons. Number One, if you bring
in somebody else, Let's say it got somebody on your staff,
like the Jets have done when Sala was let go
and they brought in Olbrook. They want to say, we
got a guy we think could be a head coach.
Let's test drive him here for half the season and
see how he goes. And that could be the case
with some of these teams. Let's test drive And they

(10:53):
did that with Antonio Pierce with the Raiders last year
when they named him halfway through the season as their
coach and he got the job. So you get you
find out that number two, you get a head start
on finding a coach that may be out there and
and you make first contact. You're the first to contact
that coach, whether it be Belichick or whoever. There are a

(11:14):
lot of them out there and on other staffs, and
you know there's Ben Johnson who's the offensive coordinator at Detroit.
They're a handful of these guys out there that are
ready to make that jump. And my guess is is
that you would do it with a two prong thing.
If we got a guy in our staff, let's give
him a chance, see what we think. And number two,
get a head start on the coaching, you know, race

(11:37):
and get the guy that we really want who might
be out there existing, existing right now. And then the
third thing would be just a new voice in the
locker room and see if we can even try to
salvage this season in any former fashion.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
Kevin Harlan's with us courtesy the Emeral Queen. Every Wednesday
on the radio show, we mentioned DeVante Adams of the
Jetsamari Cooper went to Buffalo do the Chiefs need to
add somebody from Ah.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Well, the top two receivers are out, the best running
back is out and indefinite when they're going to come back.
Some are going for the season, so they clearly need help.
They got San Francisco, I think this weekend. Then they've
got the Raiders in Las Vegas, and so they had
to buy this past weekend. So that's what they're you know,
their most recent immediate landscape looks like they're rested. They've

(12:25):
had a chance to retool. Think Andy Reid always enjoys
a challenge of trying to make things work when he
may not have the best personnel to make it work.
So they're gonna have to kind of figure out where
they are what they are now that they've lost these
three top offensive players. I'd like to think they're pursuing somebody.
I thought Amari Cooper might have been a pretty good choice.
But Cooper's had kind of a weird season. He's dropped

(12:47):
a lot of balls, he's not in a lot of
zest in his play. I'm not sure where he is.
I think going to Buffalo will reignite him, and he's
coming off another great season last year. My feeling is
is that he'll be great for the Bills. From a
chief respective, he would have been a great receiver to get,
but I'm not sure what the asking price was, and
I'm not sure what what Buffalo, what was it a

(13:11):
was it a conditional picking? I know it was a
third for Adams from the Raiders. I never saw what
I never saw what it was for for Amari Cooper
though from Cleveland.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
The Bills got Cooper in a sixth rounder for a
third and a seventh.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
So I like I like that. I like that. Uh
that that kind of a because they're ready right now.
They think they've got enough right now to make a
run and the window is there. With Josh Allen. Uh,
they were, uh, they were a receiver poor coming into
this season as they lost Digs to Houston, gave Davis
left and those are the two top receivers. They're gone.

(13:46):
Kincaid until Monday, who had a nice game. He had
six catches in about fifty yards fifty one yards. The
tight end, a high pick last year, had not really
done much going into Monday night. He made his presence
felt and they're finding new ways to use them. But
Cooper will change that receiving room, make them better. They've
got a nice running game. They're deep at running back.

(14:07):
We saw that on Monday night. James Cook didn't play
and they went to a rookie out of Kentucky and
he was terrific in over one hundred yards. So I
think this could be a big injection of hope to
the locker room, certainly an assist for the quarterback, and
make them now formidable when they throw the ball. There's
a lot there to like about that. Definitely worth a

(14:28):
third round pick.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, hey, Kevin, I'm just curious.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
And this made feel kind of odd to talk about
this because the guy works for a different network for Fox.
But Tom Brady was approved as a minority owner of
the Raiders, right, and now he's doing TV.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Is that weird to you?

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Well, it's different, But I know they want to keep
Brady very close and the Raiders could show you some
football expertise, I think, and get that in addition, in
addition to a good foot all mine, I think he's
going to put some fingerprints on that team. But yeah,
it is weird. I think the league is going to

(15:07):
move cautiously ahead and it right, You're right, I really
don't know all the parameters and what it is. I
don't know how hard it's going to be for him
to do his job without having these interviews and asking
the kind of questions he wants to. But I think
he'll have the other guys and women on that crew
ask the questions for him in these meetings. But it

(15:27):
will be kind of weird that he won't have to
face to face. He knows the game so well. I mean,
he's reacting anyway basically to what's going on. But if
he's got a question, he'll ask. He may ask one
of the assistant coaches down there what they think and
without revealing too much. But yeah, no, it's it's interesting territory.
It's brand new and we're all going to kind of
learn on the fly here how it goes.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
Kevin Dick asked this question of Mike Florio earlier. Is
Kevin Stefanski being forced to play Deshan Watson?

Speaker 2 (15:55):
You think? He vehemently He says no. He says no,
I'm he gives us the best chance to win. But listen,
this is going to go down as is almost not quite.
It may go down as a cataclysmic trade. It's not
like the herschel Walker deal, which may have been the

(16:15):
absolute worst in the history of football when when herschel
Walker was sent to Minnesota and they got him and
they gave all those draft picks to the Dallas Cowboys,
they basically built the championship team off of that. The
Russell Wilson trade will go down as a as a
horrendous trade with horrible camp implications for the Denver Broncos

(16:39):
that are still going through him this year and again
next year. But I don't this may be the worst ever,
this one for Deshaun Watson. Not only did you bring
and only because of his off the field issues, and
they were significant and documented and in the legal system.
Not only because you're bringing in someone perhaps a questionable character,

(17:00):
certainly a lot of baggage he brings to you, but
every penny was guaranteed in a two hundred and forty
plus million dollar contract, which then hemmed you into a
certain framework and getting other free agents and signing guys
that you like on your team. So it is debilitating.
And the topper is he's not even close to what

(17:21):
he once was right now. You talk to people, you
talk to people in this league about him. They say
he wasn't even that great. Even beforehand. He was the
leading passer in the NFL a lot of yards, but
it wasn't like he was back there reading and dissecting.
He was basically doing a lot of off schedule stuff
and consequently had this incredible knack for making things work,

(17:43):
and it did. The numbers don't lie. But he's not
even close to the quarterback he was with the Houston Texans.
So on every level, this has been historically one of
the worst trades ever made, one of the worst deals
ever met.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
All right, before you go, it's time for yet another edition.
Uh where will Kevin be for TV on Sunday?

Speaker 2 (18:03):
No one cares about this, but you No one cares.
My wife didn't even cares. She goes, I know where
you're going, But good luck, come back, bring you know,
safe travels. Hope things go well. We'll see in a
couple of days. Not even my wife cares as much
as you do.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
You know what I always do. I always say about
sem it's lonely on genius island. Pal all right, it's fine.
People don't give it. Damn they don't understand the genius
that's in front of them. I'm gonna make it easy.
I'm gonna make it easy on myself. I see a
Texans Green Bay game at Lambeau across from your house,
I'm gonna say, you're gonna be held out.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
No, I'm not gonna that's number one game. That's we're
doing the Rams and Graiders good and yeah, I know it.
And that'll that's the The Rams are coming off of
Rams are coming off of Bye and we're gonna we're
gonna do our darness to make this game exciting, fun, interesting, compelling. Uh,

(19:03):
this is my job. My job is to do the
best job I can, regardless of the quality of teams
coming in. So I don't look at the record. I
just look at how can I make How can I
do the best job that I can possibly do? So
I like that challenge, and it will be a challenge.

Speaker 5 (19:19):
Maybe, yeah, maybe one day you'll be able to do it.
Maybe we'll keep waiting, keep waiting.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Okay, which game?

Speaker 5 (19:26):
Which game do you have? Monday? You got the Chargers
Cardinals Monday.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Now we're we got Tampa Bay and Baltimore. That's a
good game actually in Tampa Bay. Uh so that's uh.
We usually follow Buckman Buck and Akman. Uh, that's the
and and that's uh. The other game is only on ESPN.
Plus it's not even broadcast network. Yeah, you got to
get on your It's like, uh, they want that have

(19:51):
to be you know huge. So so they're they're testing
the Amazon Netflix, you know, waters and putting out in
prime video and putting out a game on the internet.
So uh, now this one will be on ABC and
ESPN and of course on Western One and of course
kJ R.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
I love it, absolutely great job, really well done. You
really brought the heat today and we'll talk in a week. Man,
I'll see you po.

Speaker 7 (20:18):
I see it, buddy.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
You're out of control. Man, out of control.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Kevin Harley, you bet.

Speaker 6 (20:24):
Man.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
He's got the NBA on TNT tomorrow, he's got CBS
on Sunday, he's got radio on Monday. H We got
our j Shoppy, our buddy's gonna join us. He was
taking part in that Jerry Jones interview. This should be
fun coming up at six on ninety three three kJ RFMS.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
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Speaker 1 (20:55):
Hey, the big news. You're driving me to feed? What movie?
Come on? Sorry?

Speaker 7 (21:04):
Come on?

Speaker 6 (21:05):
You know it?

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Sorry?

Speaker 7 (21:08):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (21:10):
I'm gonna play a clip here and go figure it out.

Speaker 5 (21:13):
Hey, I'm just second.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
This is tantalizing radio.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Hey, you know what not yours? I spent a lot
of time getting ready for this segment, probably evidently actually
Vegas vacation and Edna remember the Phoenix when they showed
up because of Eddie's house? Yeah, and uh and ed
just says did you tell Clark can all have a

(21:40):
good news?

Speaker 1 (21:41):
You're driving? Made him faded?

Speaker 5 (21:43):
And then Griswold just spits out his maloney sandwich.

Speaker 8 (21:47):
Oh yes, yes, yes, And then poor Ann Edna, Yeah,
he died. You know what's Sofie? It's funny they put
her on top of the cars. They you love movies
and love TV.

Speaker 9 (21:56):
Have you actually heard the newest uhst we have here
with kJ R?

Speaker 5 (22:02):
No, does it have a stupid name like Andrews Baseball Podcast.

Speaker 9 (22:05):
No, we actually decided to go with the name that
every other show has here with another weekly like the
Sounders Weekly, Right, we have Cracking Weekly. So we actually
the producer started Hollywood Weekly where me Anders and Chris
talk about movies in TV for an hour.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
So it's not durs on TV. No god, no, oh
my gosh Weekly, it's on my heart. All right, I'll
check it out. Will that put me to sleep?

Speaker 6 (22:24):
Well?

Speaker 9 (22:25):
We did a Christopher Nolan movie draft for this week
and it was very good.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
At a boy Well, I had a thought, you guys
can discuss this, okay factor fiction. Tom Hardy is the
best actor on the planet right now. That's a good debate.
Discussed that in your next I watched what did I watch?
The Bike Riders?

Speaker 10 (22:40):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Coming back?

Speaker 6 (22:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (22:41):
I thought it was okay. I was a little bit down,
to be honest. I was Austin Butler in it, though,
very very good, okay, yes?

Speaker 6 (22:46):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (22:47):
And the gal what's the gal's name that plays she's
a British coal she played the boyfriend or the the
girlfriend turned wife. I thought it was lacking a little
bit of depth, to be totally honest with you. But
it may have also been the fact that I had
to use the Delta Airline provided headphones because I don't
travel with wired headphones anymore. Really, And on the screen

(23:08):
on Delta, which you can stream it to your iPad.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
By the way, they don't have that capability.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
I did not have my boses, my Bow's noise canceling headphones,
so I could not use my EarPods on there, so
I was distracted by that the whole time. It was okay,
I just think Tom Hardy is the best thing going.
Anybody who plays Baine and then also plays uh what
was the name of the Lunatic and the Revenant that
member decapit and Cam went at it in the river

(23:38):
to be able to have that kind of range. I
think he's the best thing going right now. All right,
DK Metcalf, that's a great transition from Tom Hardy to
DK Metcalf. You've been all over DK Metcalf from day one.
He's not the best thing going, see what I mean.
So DK Metcalf spoke today with the media, I thought
very accountable and talked about isn't even aware of this?

(24:00):
The Hawks had a team meeting on Monday. Was it
a players only thing?

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Is that right?

Speaker 5 (24:04):
No, those big team meeting on Monday. DK Metcalf spoke
about it.

Speaker 11 (24:10):
Monday was a very much needed team meeting to where
you know, Mike just told us the truth of you
know it's not anything the other teams are doing. We're
just hurting ourselves penalties, Uh, you know, giving the ball away, uh,
not getting the ball on defense. So uh, he just
basically told us the truth, you know, of what we
need to clean up. Uh, you know moving forward, and

(24:30):
you know we all took it, uh you know, the
right way and we're ready to finish the season.

Speaker 5 (24:35):
Where do you feel like you're at as an offense
in terms of where you've done so far?

Speaker 7 (24:38):
One needs to happen, reporter.

Speaker 11 (24:40):
We definitely just need to get the run game going.
I think that will open up uh you know other
avenues in our offense. We still have the number one
passing offense in the league, but uh you know fixing
you know, our run blocking and run assignments will you
know help us, uh score more points and move the
ball and keep the defense off the field and rested.

Speaker 7 (25:00):
You call that a much needed beating.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Was it just kind of.

Speaker 12 (25:03):
Him pointing out kind of the way that a lot
of their stuff is self correctable.

Speaker 11 (25:07):
Or self correct Yes, sir, Uh, like you said, man
self inflicted wounds. But also, uh, the three days just
helped everybody just calm down. Uh, you know, get away
from football for a little bit and come back with
a clear mind to where Uh nothing's personal. Uh he's
not pointing the fingers at anybody. But you know, we
all just gotta look in the mirror. Like I said,
I gotta take care of the ball. We gotta score
points on offense and the defense has to take the

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ball away.

Speaker 12 (25:29):
Three turnovers? Are you including the interception against the Niners?

Speaker 7 (25:32):
And himself?

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Was there something you get that different on that fo Yeah?

Speaker 11 (25:34):
Uh, that was definitely my fault.

Speaker 6 (25:36):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (25:36):
I was drifting off fields, saw open space, trying to
do too much and let the dB undercut uh the
route when I st should have been, uh staying flat.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
When you look at this Atlanta defense, they seem to
be the input of been the GOI port w Where
do you see some opportunities.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
And how have you seen them respond this year?

Speaker 11 (25:53):
Like you said, man, they've they've been in a lot
of games.

Speaker 7 (25:55):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (25:56):
They played very complimentary football on offense, defense and special teams.
But we just gotta, you know, keep our foot on
their necks and not let them breathe. And you know,
when the opportunity, uh, you know, presents itself with the
ball in the air, we're in the open field, we
got to punch the ball in the end zone and
even in the red zone. We gotta finish better uh
than we've been doing so.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (26:14):
Just a great opportunity on the road against a very
good NFC team. You know who's who's got some quality wins.
So just another opportunity for us to go back out
there and get back on track.

Speaker 7 (26:23):
There was a.

Speaker 11 (26:24):
Remember because the Giants game the Niners game, but there
was a show on the click on the broadcast.

Speaker 7 (26:28):
So you in a headset really upset?

Speaker 11 (26:30):
Yell, Yeah, it was a Niners game.

Speaker 7 (26:31):
What was what were you upset?

Speaker 11 (26:33):
I mean we're losing. Uh, we're getting three and outs.
If anybody isn't upset about that, then you know you're
playing their own sport. I'm a very competitive person and
I like winning, and you know that just goes into it.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (26:45):
Me telling Grub, it was Grub who I was talking
to on the headset, just telling them what I see.
We got to run by run by defenders, That's what
what I was telling him.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
So sad, we need to run more, huh he did.

Speaker 5 (26:56):
The Seahawks are second to last in the NFL, and
rushing attempts. Here's the one team has fewer, and that's
the La Rams.

Speaker 8 (27:02):
By the way, of the top ten past percentage teams
in the NFL. I was doing this research while listening
to DK Metcalf. But no, this is top passing percent
like plays that they throw a pass. Seattle's number one,
by far was sixty eight percent. Of the top ten teams,
five of them are in last place. The top nine

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all have losing records, and the only team with a
winning record in the top ten is number ten Houston.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
That is it.

Speaker 8 (27:33):
Every other team that is chucking the ball at more
than sixty percent is losing.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
So the question, then, is the same one we asked
after the Niner game or before the Niner game. I mean,
Ryan Grubb is not a moron, right, we all can
agree on that. Ryan Grubb is not an idiot. Ryan
Grubb knows they need to run the football. He proved
that when he was at Washington. Ran the ball when
he had to. But he had great talent wide receiver
and a Heisman runner up at quarterback. I mean, they

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had great protection for him, all that stuff. Why isn't
he running the ball? What does he not see? What
has he not seen from his team that makes him
believe that they can run the ball with any success.

Speaker 8 (28:13):
I think there's a bit of panic that sets in.
I think there's a and I saw it. I saw
it at Washington. How did you see it at once?
But at Washington at least they had Panics and Roma
Dounsa and Jalen Polk and Jalen McMillan, and they can
throw it a ton and still win. I think panic
sets in when he sees ken Walker busting into the

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line for one yard, and he sees it over and
over for maybe three or four times in the first quarter.
He's like, man, it's just a lot easier. I can
get eight yards here and nine yards there and eight
yards here just throwing the ball.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
I mean, I don't know how else to diagnose. I
think it's obvious he doesn't trust his team to run
the ball. End the story period.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
I mean, why is he saying we should run more
than because he knows he can't. Because they have no choice,
because they know what they're doing now is not working.
They have no choice but to try, and he tried
on Thursday night. Did they run the ball effectively against
the Niners? Not at all? And they tried to run
the ball. They came out trying to run the ball
a bit more. I thought on Thursday night, I just
don't think Dick, and again this is you know, who

(29:15):
knows really what's going on in his brain When you
say he panics. I don't know if I can go
there with you, you might be very well right about that.
I don't know if I think that Ryan Grubb is
sitting there and just flipping out and completely losing his
mind as a play call. I don't think he trusts
his offensive line in this rushing game to get the

(29:35):
job done. But I think he's gonna have to find
a way to do it. I mean, now you've got
guys banged up even more Stone Foresight, Anthony Bradford, who
knows if these guys will even play on Sunday against Atlantis.
So how did Kent's going to be really hard to
run the ball?

Speaker 8 (29:51):
How did Ken Walker run it twenty times for one
hundred and three yards against the Denver Broncos who have
a top five defense in the NFL. They obviously can
do it the Denver Broncos in the last I wrote
it down in the last five games because I'm gonna
take them in the under tomorrow probably. They've allowed six, seven, nine,
and eighteen points thirteen points per game in last five games,

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and we ran it down their throat for twenty six
points in the first game of the seamon.

Speaker 5 (30:20):
I also had George Fan out there for that game,
and now they don't. I mean, that's part of it.
This line is worse than it was in the opener, right,
I mean again, I'm just tossing this out there as
he's seeing things in practice that leads into believe that
we are just a better passing offense right now than
we are rushing offense. So I'm very curious to see,
and maybe this is the weekend to do it. I
haven't looked at the Falcons rushing defense yet, but I'm

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very Actually, they give up a lot of yards and
their yards per carry is actually not great either. You
joked about the safety look that Jimmy Lake HadAM Washington.
I'm rid of curious to see if they do have
a game where they just stick with the run over
and over and over again. Does it work, because it's
going to happen at some point, and it might happen
this Sunday against Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
All right, that's got to break.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
Brian Schmetcher is going to join next for his weekly
visit on ninety three three KJRFM live from the R.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
And R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio. Now back to Softie
and Dick on your home for the Huskies and the
Kraken Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
All right, we may have to move Brian Schmetro to
a different day.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
If that's the case, then we apologize profusely to all
of these soccer fans out there.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
He might be very busy. I believe he called football.
He's a busy guy.

Speaker 5 (31:30):
Spend no time for us. Maybe he just woke up
one day and said, why do I keep calling those
idiots every single week? Just gonna stop doing blame the
guy at all. By the way, he gotta stop doing
that right now. He does have to stop doing that
question about it. Uh God, you know what if I
only had that clip right in front of me, maybe
so much better to just.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
He's got to stop doing that right now.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
So two different people have come on the show in
the last two days and talked about how they were
disappointed about what Jed Fish said on Monday about pointing
to Oregon in Ohio State having twenty million dollars nil rosters,
and they thought Jed was making excuses for what is
happening or about to happen.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
You potentially take a listen to this.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
The new world order of college football will allow us
to be able to spend what other programs are spending.
And when you have that opportunity, then it's going to
be much more of a level playing field than what
it is right now in college football. You know, we
all saw what the Ohustate Oregon game look like, and
that was a bout of two twenty million dollar rosters.
And I think what we're going to see is we're

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going to see more battles of comparable compensated rosters and
that'll make it really cool to see what football looks like.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
All right, So do we hear that and think, well,
he's making excuses. He's making excuses for being four and three.
He's making excuses for what could potentially happen when they
go to Penn State, when they go to Eugene. Blah
blah blah. Did you guys take that from that comment
from Jedfish there No.

Speaker 8 (32:57):
To me, it sounds like what he's just telling you
what's going to happen eventually when we've got you know,
collective bargaining and salary caps and those type of actual rules.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
How about this rules in college football where you will
have more teams.

Speaker 8 (33:12):
It'll be like the NFL. You'll have more teams crammed
in the middle, and more teams will be able to
compete for national championships than what we have right now.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
I think he's what I took from that, and maybe
I'm just roast colored glasses here that he's saying that
we're going to get there and we're going to be
on that level, but we're not there right now because
we have fifty one new guys in a brand new
coaching staff. Oregon's got you know, a returning head coach.
They didn't lose the guys we lost. Ohio Skates got
you know, the same thing there. They're further ahead than
we are right now. And they are I mean, that's

(33:41):
the god's honest truth. Right Ohio State and Oregon are
further ahead in a lot of ways that where Washington
is right now. Washington may have been there if Kaitlin
de Boorh hadn't taken off and gone to Alabama. So
I don't know if he's making excuses or not. I
would just say this, if they get pasted by the
Oregon Ducks in November, I'm I'm not gonna sit here
and say, well, let's just let them off the hook

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because they're not where they got to be yet.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
I mean, no, right, I mean.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
It's unfortunate that you're playing with fifty one new players,
which Oregon's not doing at Ohio State's not doing. But
I want these guys to be as competitive as possible,
and I want them to get better as the year
goes by.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
I thought Saturday was a step back for that. Yeah,
it was. It was really the first.

Speaker 8 (34:20):
Step back, I think, because I think they have looked
at least good enough to win in every single game,
good enough, good enough to win, and that's what That's
what I'm gonna look for at Penn State and what
I'm what I'm looking for in all the rest of
the games is for them to win the football game.
What I'm looking for at Penn State and at Oregon specifically,
specifically get Oregon because I think Oregon's quite a bit

(34:41):
better than Penn State. Honestly, I'm just gonna look, do
they look like a competent football team that can hang
with the best in the country, not beat them, but
hang with the best in the country despite all their turnover.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
That's what I'm looking for.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
Well, win first is what I'm looking for, and then
number two, it's that you know, are they making progress?
Because if they're not making progress, if they're getting worse
as the year goes by, then you got a problem obviously, right,
all right, We're gonna break. RJ Choppy was one half
of the Jerry Jones interview on one O five to
three the Fan in Dallas yesterday. Oh boy, did Jerry

(35:15):
Jones really threaten to fire those guys? Are they getting
heat from their bosses for going after the owner of
the Cowboys when the rights are on their radio station?
R J Choppy's going to join us next on ninety
three to three KJRFM.

Speaker 6 (35:27):
Do you think I'm interested in oma damn phone call
with you over a radio and sitting here and throwing
all the good app with the dishwater. You have got
to be smoking something over there this morning. I'm not.
This is not your job. Your job is to let
me go over all the reasons that I did something

(35:48):
and I'm sorry that I did it. That's not your job. Well,
my job is to ask on job or I'll get another.
I'll get somebody else to ask these questions.

Speaker 5 (35:56):
Man, tell me about what your life has been like
in the last tory four hours. How many idiots in
this business like us have you heard from since the
Jerry Jones conversation the other day?

Speaker 12 (36:07):
You know, it's amazing you don't hear from people for
a while, and then guys like you text me out
of nowhere and it asked me to come on.

Speaker 7 (36:13):
It's uh, yeah, I've heard quite a bit.

Speaker 12 (36:15):
Like I, I went to bed last night and I
woke up this morning, I had I still had thirty
three unread text messages from the day before that I
didn't finish and get to. By the time the show
was over, the number was over fifty. I just got
it down to seventeen. And that's where I'm matt right now.
And I haven't even gone to my direct messages on

(36:37):
other social media accounts, so I have no idea what that's.

Speaker 7 (36:41):
Going to be.

Speaker 12 (36:41):
Like, I I just need I need the weekend. I
need Friday to come here so I could just sit
down and I honestly probably just go in the bathroom
for about thirty minutes to take care of it all.

Speaker 8 (36:52):
Well, it's just bizarre how it just the conversation kind
of devolved, you know, at the end, and he made
it devolve at the end.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
And then Jerry.

Speaker 8 (37:01):
Doubles down today and goes on the Athletic and says, quote,
if I'm gonna get grilled by the tribunal, I don't
need it to be guys, I'm paying.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
So let's get that out there.

Speaker 9 (37:10):
R J.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Are you being paid by Jerry Jones?

Speaker 12 (37:15):
No, I would gladly take the money.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
You know, he wants to pay me.

Speaker 7 (37:22):
He can, he can hand me a list of questions,
but he doesn't. He doesn't. He doesn't pay the station,
he doesn't pay us. Yeah, so no, I've never.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Been paid by him.

Speaker 7 (37:33):
I'll tell you that right now.

Speaker 5 (37:34):
Well that that quote, I mean, the way I took
it is that he's basically saying we are partners. I'm
on your radio station, and I expect you know, a little,
a little consideration being a broadcast partner.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
I mean when he said, you know, I.

Speaker 5 (37:51):
Pay you, I I think that's what he meant that
you know we are we're in business together. Are you
concerned about Jerry pulling the team off the radio station
because you keep busting his balls.

Speaker 12 (38:05):
No, we're not concerned about that. I mean, the company
has been great. They've they've stood behind us. He's Jerry's
never done this before. I truly think that he was like, yeah,
because he's never been sensitive. Like to his credit, of
all the owners and all the general managers in town,
he's the least sensitive.

Speaker 7 (38:23):
Of any of them.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
He really is.

Speaker 12 (38:25):
Like, he doesn't want you to get personal with him.
He doesn't want you talk family, you know, but if
you just talk football or the team or whatever, he's
totally fine with that.

Speaker 7 (38:36):
He's never never once said something to us.

Speaker 12 (38:42):
I think the only time he called us up is
we called him a liar one time and he took
offense to that.

Speaker 7 (38:48):
Yeah, and that's it. That's it. And that was what
five ten years ago. It was a long time ago. Yeah,
we've been doing this for fourteen years.

Speaker 12 (38:55):
We do twenty of these a year, so, I mean,
that's what almost three hundred interviews that we've done with him,
and he's never done this before. And I part of
the thinks he came into this on edge. Part of
me thinks he came into this wanting to make a
statement and let the fans know that he was just

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as angry as they are, and it got a little sideways.

Speaker 5 (39:19):
Yeah, well, r J Chappi from one o five through
the fan is with US coast of Sean and RJ
Monday through Friday, five thirty to ten Central time.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Just go back and maybe clean that up a little bit.

Speaker 5 (39:31):
So for people that know, and you said it right there,
you you and Sean have been doing this show for
a long time. You've had Jerry on for a long time.
Obviously he's very open, he's very honest. Not many owners,
if any owners in the NFL are doing radio shows.
But the guy also happens to be the damn GM
for crying out loud.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
And this was not normal for him. It was not
normal for him to lose his mind like this.

Speaker 12 (39:57):
It is not normal. This is not normal for him
to do that. He never loses this clue cool. We
asked him, you know, fifteen questions a week. You know,
these interviews go on about twenty.

Speaker 7 (40:09):
Minutes, probably not fifteen.

Speaker 12 (40:10):
He can get long winded, but they're twenty twenty minute interviews.
This one was closer to thirty it's never gone like this.
I don't when I say it's never gone like this,
I mean it's never.

Speaker 7 (40:19):
Even come close. Wow.

Speaker 12 (40:20):
And we've asked him much more difficult and much more
like pointed.

Speaker 7 (40:26):
Questions like this. This was very very These are very
tame questions.

Speaker 12 (40:29):
We haven't even gotten into a lot of the hard
hitting stuff that we wanted to talk about. But it just,
I mean, he kind of dictated where it wanted to go.
It's never gotten like this. If you were to tell me,
if you were to give me, if you were to
have me show you the list of questions that we
asked over the years, I could I could come up
with twenty five different interviews that we've asked him more

(40:49):
difficult questions than this one, and that that was a surprising.

Speaker 8 (40:54):
Well, I guess it's just because the circumstances have changed
right now. I mean, he's it seems to me like
he's legitimately feeling the heat. Is that Is that your
explanation for why he would snap now and never snap
before at hard questions?

Speaker 7 (41:10):
Yeah, I mean I think that's that's part of it.

Speaker 12 (41:12):
I mean, you you're you know, he's getting older. He
understands that he doesn't have fifty years left it he's
got you know, it's.

Speaker 7 (41:22):
A more finite number.

Speaker 12 (41:24):
And he wants to win, like, make no mistake about it,
like Jerry Jones wants to win another super Bowl. And
all the fans can say Jerry doesn't care about winning.

Speaker 7 (41:31):
No, No, he cares about winning.

Speaker 12 (41:32):
I think he cares about winning his way, but he
absolutely cares about winning.

Speaker 7 (41:37):
And that's that's the problem.

Speaker 12 (41:38):
I do think he is feeling pressure from that standpoin
because I also think.

Speaker 7 (41:41):
That he knows that he messed up in the.

Speaker 12 (41:44):
Off season with the off season right with the moves,
and I think that that you know, eats at him
every day.

Speaker 5 (41:53):
He's probably really sensitive about that particular question, and that
was the one that seemed to have set him off
obviously on your show. But look, I mean from you know,
two thousand miles away, RJ and again r J. Chappy
from one O five to three to the fan in
Dallas had the now infamous interview with Jerry Jones on
his show the other day. You know, we got people

(42:14):
up here that are pissed off at the Mariners, right,
only team in baseball who have never played in a
World Series. You know, go down there, Boycott put bags
on your head, blah blah blah. I mean our Cowboy
fans getting to a point where we might see some
of that, And has that even maybe already happened a
little bit down there?

Speaker 7 (42:33):
You know it hasn't. Like, Okay, so it's happened.

Speaker 12 (42:38):
I mean the ratings are still good, right, and there's
there's one hundred thousand peoples and people in the stadium.

Speaker 7 (42:44):
So from that standpoint, no, it hasn't.

Speaker 12 (42:47):
But there is a large segment or at least a
vocal segment of the fan base that is happy when
other teams take over the stadium because they.

Speaker 7 (43:00):
Think this is like finally going to.

Speaker 12 (43:01):
Get you know, this is this is going to send
the message to Jerry. But they also think those same
people also think that Jerry doesn't care as long as
the stadium is sold out.

Speaker 13 (43:11):
Wow, so we heard that it's really a right, And
I'm sure every fan base has said something like that, right,
because every fan every town has that one owner.

Speaker 7 (43:23):
But I don't think Jerry.

Speaker 12 (43:24):
I don't think Jerry like, yes, I think a part
of it is the show he wants to show, he
wants to win his way.

Speaker 7 (43:30):
I think he would much.

Speaker 12 (43:31):
Rather lose as the GM than win with somebody else
calling the shots. I don't think it would mean the
same to him to win that way, and I think
that is part of the problem, and I think that
is a major reason why this team hasn't won and
so on.

Speaker 8 (43:47):
I've heard a lot of words used to describe the
Dallas Cowboys over the years, but the word I heard
Tony Kornheiser use yesterday of irrelevant is not one I've
ever heard before. What did you think of him calling
Cowboys on National TV and irrelevant franchise?

Speaker 7 (44:05):
Well, Tony corneris there.

Speaker 12 (44:09):
Last I checked, it is still on ESPN, and ESPN
can't go a day without talking about the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 7 (44:18):
I don't know that that word is the right word.

Speaker 10 (44:21):
But when it comes to like the actual NFL and
and winning Super Bowls, yeah, they're they're they're irrelevant from
that standpoint.

Speaker 7 (44:32):
They don't win. They don't ever win.

Speaker 12 (44:33):
Now, they go to the playoffs a lot, They've just lost it.
All this is you know, this team hasn't drafted a
quarterback in the first round since Troy Aikman, yet they
still go to the playoffs like every year.

Speaker 7 (44:44):
Like that just doesn't happen in today's NFL. Right, It's just.

Speaker 12 (44:47):
It's a much more difficult league to build a team
without an elite quarterback and go there, and they've had
really good quarterbacks, they just have an elite one. But
I can't sit here and say they're irrelevant the entire
like are we We get to eight o'clock in the
morning every day or nine o'clock and we watch Get
Up and First Take, they're on the TV in the studio. Yeah,

(45:10):
it's all they're talking about. Right, It's either that or
or Lebron James or something like that. It's every single day.
You can't say they're relevant.

Speaker 5 (45:17):
Well, you and r J shappy again from one on
five three in Dallas with us. You and you and
Sean have given ESPN content for weeks now with this interview.
I mean, are you kidding me? It's all I've heard
for for the last thirty six hours on that network
and on national TV. Is everybody talking about you. I'm
getting sick of it, for God's sakes, our J.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
This r J.

Speaker 5 (45:36):
That enough already for crying out loud, man, It's all
over the place. But have you have you guys heard
from Jerry I know we talked to Diana Russini. Have
you guys heard from him, texted with him since the
interview yesterday?

Speaker 7 (45:51):
We have not, and truthfully we don't. I don't even
have jerious number. He's never called us.

Speaker 12 (45:58):
If he knows, I'm he knows who we are, but
I don't know that he actually does know who we are.
You know, we we've we've we've met a couple of times.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
We I have a.

Speaker 7 (46:11):
The company my fiance works for her her the owner
of that.

Speaker 12 (46:15):
Company is very close to Jerry, So I've met through
him a couple of times.

Speaker 7 (46:20):
But it's I mean that that's the extent of it.
If you about.

Speaker 12 (46:24):
If he were to walk right by me on the street,
I think he would have no idea who I am.

Speaker 7 (46:28):
So no, he hasn't reached out. I don't expect him to.

Speaker 12 (46:33):
If he wants to come on the show on Tuesday,
we'll have him on the show on you know, on Tuesday.
But I I I thought there was a chance before
he thought of Diana Rassini.

Speaker 7 (46:44):
I thought there was a chance.

Speaker 12 (46:45):
He would come on today and call up out of
the blue and just clear the air. But the moment
he he talked to Rassini and said, you know that
I'm paying those guys comment.

Speaker 7 (46:56):
Yeah, I I thought that at that point that wasn't
gonna happen. I don't know. We'ren'll find out what he said,
what he does r J.

Speaker 8 (47:02):
From the team standpoint, what's it gonna take for McCarthy
to keep his job next year?

Speaker 1 (47:08):
What does he have to do?

Speaker 12 (47:12):
The conventional wisdom is that he needs to reach the
NFC Championship game.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
That that's the the base, the guess.

Speaker 12 (47:21):
That's that, that's the that's the that's the best guess
any of us can come up with. Truthfully, nobody knows
Jerry decided that he wants to keep him.

Speaker 7 (47:30):
Jerry might love him. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (47:32):
He might he might love the guy.

Speaker 12 (47:34):
Now, Jason Garrett was family and he gave Jason ten years.

Speaker 7 (47:39):
I don't think that happens. I truly think, you know,
I truly think Mike.

Speaker 12 (47:43):
Has to win at least one, uh, you know, one
or two playoff games to make it, and I don't
I don't think that even satisfies it.

Speaker 7 (47:51):
If they lose in the NFC Championship game, yeah, and it's.

Speaker 12 (47:54):
A bad loss and they lose to San Francisco again,
or they get pumped by Detroit again.

Speaker 7 (47:59):
I don't think it's out there all possibility that he
moves on. Yeah, but I don't know where he goes.
I don't know where he goes. I don't know. You
an'll think Bill's coming here.

Speaker 5 (48:07):
Well, I would love to know RJ before you go.
RJ choppy again from one O five three the Fan
in Dallas. They had that interview with Jerry Jones. Everybody's
talking about it yesterday on their radio station. There's there's
no GM in football. There's no GM in sports that
would last thirty years without making a conference or league
championship game, which is what Jerry Jones the GM.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Has done, right.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
I mean, have you ever asked him, Hey, look, man,
we know you want to win, we know you love Dallas,
we know you love the Dallas Cowboys. Why should you
still be the GM when no other GM would survive
as long as you have?

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Have you ever asked him that?

Speaker 7 (48:45):
We have asked that question a million times.

Speaker 6 (48:48):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (48:49):
Good for you, and not just him, not just us.

Speaker 12 (48:52):
Everybody in town that's ever talked to him has asked them.
And I had a question written down that I was
going to throw it in in that interview on Tuesday,
and I was like, because he's a businessman, right, he
may be the owner of the Cowboys, but he's got
a million businesses. And I was gonna say, like, if
you've done something the same way over and over in
one of your other businesses and you worn't getting the

(49:13):
desired results, you probably.

Speaker 7 (49:14):
Do something differently.

Speaker 12 (49:16):
But with your football team, you continue to do things
the same way and keep the structure of the organization
the same way. And that's just insane, right, It's just
you would.

Speaker 7 (49:24):
Think that that is.

Speaker 12 (49:27):
That is that just would not go over well in
the business role, But why does it go overwell here?

Speaker 6 (49:32):
Right?

Speaker 12 (49:32):
And he's always had the same answer, like, at the
end of the day, if I hire somebody to be
the GM, every decision they make, they're gonna have to
get my approval anyway. So why don't I just cut
out the middleman and not worry about that.

Speaker 7 (49:49):
Okay, I can see the wheels. I can see how
the wheels would turn in that direction, right.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
I could see it. You know, if you're the boss,
you're gonna have to You're gonna have.

Speaker 7 (49:57):
To get approval anyway. It just doesn't work like that
in the NFL. I don't words that professional sports.

Speaker 12 (50:02):
What owner other than Dave Keepper basically calls the shots
like right.

Speaker 5 (50:07):
Yeah, well you just ask him. Why do you trust anybody?
Why do you trust somebody? Why don't you hire a
good football mind and just trust the guy? I mean
big stuff? Right, Yeah, you get involved? But does he
not trust people?

Speaker 7 (50:19):
He's an oil guy?

Speaker 12 (50:21):
Was he out there with the surveys doing did he
bring the what do they call those.

Speaker 7 (50:25):
Things where you scan the beach for metal?

Speaker 12 (50:27):
Right to be out there like happen for oil? No,
he had somebody, He had surveyors and engineers and they
do all that.

Speaker 7 (50:37):
It's just the way he is. He doesn't want to
do it. He doesn't fundamentally believe, but that is the
right way to run. That's look, it's his team. He
can run how he wants. It's just nobody else decides
to run like that.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Crazy stuff.

Speaker 5 (50:49):
Man, Hey, I'm proud of you, right from from humble
beginnings to where you are today. You really have made
progress in your broadcasting career. And I've been waiting a
long time to say that, and I finally could say
it today, so can Congratulations pale.

Speaker 12 (51:01):
Were we were almost so we're almost a Sean and
I are almost a We're almost one full man and
one full brood.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
I love it all right, dude, go get him man,
good luck with all those messages. Thanks for doing this
and we'll talk soon.

Speaker 10 (51:14):
Peace.

Speaker 7 (51:14):
RJ love you guys.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Be good all right.

Speaker 5 (51:16):
RJ choppy with us from Dallas, Man and I would
love to get my hands on a Jerry Jones interview,
to have him on the air and just ask him
exactly that do you not trust people?

Speaker 6 (51:26):
You know?

Speaker 5 (51:26):
When you got as RJ said, when you got in
the oil business, you you weren't out there drilling for
oil and the golf you had people there were the
for you.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
The hell, Jerry, you're a successful businessman.

Speaker 8 (51:35):
Why do you throw away money by giving Dak Prescott's
seventy million dollars a year.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
We're gonna break.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
Mike Florio is going to join next ninety three to
three KJRFM.