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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it is time for another edition
Speaker 1: of mix Shots inside the SWBC podcast studio high noon
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, as we turn our attention to the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and the Washington Commanders this week after and very
Speaker 1: eventful last few days of football and a obviously we
Speaker 1: start off today show and we'll spend a lot of
Speaker 1: time today talking about the events of last night and
Speaker 1: our prayers obviously with Damar Hamlin and the Buffalo Hills
Speaker 1: and DeMar's family and so forth, Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Mickey Spagnola. And it was unbelievable weekend of football
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden on Monday night, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: and it's very sobering and everyone just has Damar Hamlin
Speaker 1: in their thoughts and prayers today. You know, Um, we've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of injuries in the game of football
Speaker 1: over my however many years covering it since I was
Speaker 1: in college, but I don't recall seeing that. I don't
Speaker 1: recall seeing someone looked like a normal tackle hit, fall
Speaker 1: to the ground, get up, and then just collapse. And
Speaker 1: when I saw that, it was like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: more than a head injury, right, and that initially it
Speaker 1: was like his head did hit the ground, and I
Speaker 1: was thinking, Okay, he kind of knocked himself out. Right.
Speaker 1: Then when you see the ambulance rushing onto the field
Speaker 1: and the way the emergency personnel started running onto the field,
Speaker 1: you knew it was more than that. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: don't recall ever seeing anything like that. And boy, as
Speaker 1: you said, it was very sobering and emotional too, just
Speaker 1: thinking this is what we do for our business. We
Speaker 1: cover this stuff, right, And I immediately thought of you, thinking, well,
Speaker 1: thank god he's with us tomorrow perspective, because you know,
Speaker 1: and even I mean, we can go on and on, right,
Speaker 1: But when they were sitting there going okay, we don't
Speaker 1: know how long the delay is, I go, there is
Speaker 1: no way in hell if I'm a player that I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go back out there and play. How could I
Speaker 1: get fired up to do something after seeing that? And
Speaker 1: you know, only you just listened to everybody and um,
Speaker 1: Marcus Spears and Ryan Clark and Booger you know, and
Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, this is resonating through all these players,
Speaker 1: and it's like, I don't know how to go to
Speaker 1: practice on Wednesday. Man, Yeah, how far? How far do
Speaker 1: you take it? Right? I mean, you know, first of all,
Speaker 1: this is something that no one's ever seen before. As
Speaker 1: you talked about, Um, I mean I've I've made that
Speaker 1: tackle many times. The guy just kind of it seems like,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're when you're going lateral, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't quite have that, you know, a stance to
Speaker 1: go forward. And the running back just kind of beat
Speaker 1: him to the punch. That was it. The guy kind
Speaker 1: of lowered his head. You know, it wasn't as if
Speaker 1: it was a penalty, but you know, you you he
Speaker 1: was the more aggressive person on that play, and the
Speaker 1: guy just kind of looked like he got hit in
Speaker 1: the chin. And dude, I've got hit like that. I
Speaker 1: don't know how many times. Yeah, I mean an offensive
Speaker 1: lineman or defensively, they get hit like that every play.
Speaker 1: So here it is this guy gets up and goes
Speaker 1: down and then they say, what's the protocol? Hell I
Speaker 1: don't know who knows who knows what the protocol is.
Speaker 1: There ain't no handbook for it. It is that isn't
Speaker 1: So you know, what do you do? Now? We got
Speaker 1: to sit here and waiting and uh, you got people
Speaker 1: worried about the fantasy teams. You know, it's crazy about
Speaker 1: gambling of course, and what their tickets gonna be and
Speaker 1: and all of that, and here it is this guy.
Speaker 1: You know, the reaction is weird on one hand to
Speaker 1: where you know, people worried about the selfishness, and then
Speaker 1: the other hand, his his charity rolls up three point
Speaker 1: seven meal, it's over four now, wow, last time, chuck.
Speaker 1: So you know, you know, you know, human society, man,
Speaker 1: this is the way it goes, you capitalistic society. You know,
Speaker 1: some people are gonna be more empathetic, you know, and
Speaker 1: some are just gonna be still. You know, the bottom
Speaker 1: lines what matters. And this is what I was thinking
Speaker 1: about last night. If we were back in the eighties,
Speaker 1: how would we treat this? How would we treat this?
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't
Speaker 1: be nearly as empathetic now the way then the way
Speaker 1: we are now, because the world was different nobody cared.
Speaker 1: It's football, and just the way it is. The union
Speaker 1: wasn't as strong the players. We wasn't making enough money.
Speaker 1: So the care for those players now is greater back then.
Speaker 1: Who knows what would have happened if someone got hurt
Speaker 1: like that. Would they be as diligent, you know? Would
Speaker 1: we be talking about something like this. I don't know
Speaker 1: if anyone's ever almost died on the field. Well. Chuck Hughes,
Speaker 1: which was Detroit Lions player in nineteen seventy one. The
Speaker 1: Lions were playing the Chicago Bear at Tiger Stadium in Detroit.
Speaker 1: Late in the fourth quarter. Um Hughes entered the game
Speaker 1: as an injury replacement, caught a pass from Greg Landry
Speaker 1: for thirty two yards in a first down. Three plays later,
Speaker 1: I got to run through it here, Hughes. Um uh okay.
Speaker 1: Three plays later, m Hughes was running back to the
Speaker 1: huddle with a minute left in the game, suddenly dropped
Speaker 1: to the turf, clutching his chest. He suffered a heart
Speaker 1: attack and died. Oh wow, yeah, and but that was
Speaker 1: a minute left in a game. It was played in
Speaker 1: October in nineteen seventy one in Detroit. Obviously as you
Speaker 1: point out. I mean it's the landscape from as far
Speaker 1: as social media and everything. It's different now than what
Speaker 1: it was then. Um. But and then yeah, it was
Speaker 1: that they hate gathers is another one basketball? Right, Well,
Speaker 1: you know what it reminded me of. And this was
Speaker 1: only a couple of years ago with the Dallas Stars
Speaker 1: Rich Peverlely uh collapsed on the bench and they had
Speaker 1: to take him off the bench into the walkway to
Speaker 1: the locker room and perform CPR and I think they
Speaker 1: did the the shock treatment on them. Um. And I
Speaker 1: just found out that uh fortunate for him that they
Speaker 1: had a visiting physician there who was a heart specialist. Wow. Right,
Speaker 1: just happened to be there with the other physician as
Speaker 1: a guest, and he was able to, um, you know,
Speaker 1: help out with his expertise. But with this, um, you know,
Speaker 1: before we knew you know that it was cardiac arrest
Speaker 1: and you know, and the severity of that, it was like,
Speaker 1: well what happened? Pre existing condition? See and you think
Speaker 1: that and I this morning ESPN the Morning Show had
Speaker 1: a guest cardiologist. They did an interview with the lady
Speaker 1: from She was a heart specialist from Columbia University, and
Speaker 1: she was saying that it's a small percentage that between
Speaker 1: heart beats that you get some sort of traumatic hit
Speaker 1: and it causes your heart to stop. So the timing
Speaker 1: had to be just like one in a million. And
Speaker 1: she's saying, I don't know, but I know this can
Speaker 1: happen from a traumatic injury, So it doesn't it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It didn't matter where he got hit, right, It wasn't
Speaker 1: like he got hit in the heart. It was just
Speaker 1: a traumatic hit and his head hit. And she said,
Speaker 1: and the key thing from watching from Afar was how
Speaker 1: fast the emergency personnel got there, because when your heart stops,
Speaker 1: you're not getting oxygen to your brain. That was a
Speaker 1: big thing with Mike Leach, right, and he suffered his
Speaker 1: heart attack and he was apparently alone, and so they
Speaker 1: didn't get help to him sight enough. And she said,
Speaker 1: you know, the longer that lapse, the more after effects
Speaker 1: you will have. You know, you'll start having organ problems
Speaker 1: or whatever else. And she said that you know, when
Speaker 1: she saw the I don't know if she said she
Speaker 1: saw it, but you got the emergency vehicle on the
Speaker 1: field and start giving him oxygen right away. That helps
Speaker 1: minimize the after effect. But she didn't have any knowledge
Speaker 1: of pregis existing conditions or anything like that, and we
Speaker 1: still haven't heard anything, you know. And then the thing
Speaker 1: that I mean, it was just eerie because I mean,
Speaker 1: you knew they couldn't play right. You can't go out
Speaker 1: right and play, regardless of what the ramifications and regardless
Speaker 1: of the team. Yeah, someone was saying and on the
Speaker 1: way in, well you know if maybe if he wasn't
Speaker 1: a teammate, Well, if you view that, if you sit
Speaker 1: up there and watch somebody die and then you bring
Speaker 1: them back, if I if I, if I view that,
Speaker 1: I don't care what team them are, right, I ain't
Speaker 1: playing anymore. I remember just we were playing against the Rams,
Speaker 1: I think in the eighties. We were in hand a
Speaker 1: hun and uh, like three people in a short succession
Speaker 1: had all of a sudden they blew their knees out,
Speaker 1: Timmy Knewson being one of them. And I remember sitting
Speaker 1: up there like, man, this is getting kind of scary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just from knees being blown out right, And I was like,
Speaker 1: whoa what you know, it was very weird that you
Speaker 1: had like two or three of them in a short
Speaker 1: span in one game. That made me nervous. So you
Speaker 1: can imagine if I'm sitting up here looking at somebody
Speaker 1: teammate or not, and they pull out the things and
Speaker 1: and all that you bring them back to life, There's
Speaker 1: no way. I don't care who teammate or not. I
Speaker 1: ain't going back. Even if they told you to go
Speaker 1: back right now, I'm not going back. That's why I
Speaker 1: don't even know why there was a debate like are
Speaker 1: we gonna you know, post it's suspended, postponed, and oh
Speaker 1: you can't play. I'm thinking like who's going to practice
Speaker 1: on Wednesday? And how are they going to feel? Around
Speaker 1: the league, not just those teams. The only way that
Speaker 1: they could have resumed playing was if they got immediate
Speaker 1: good news that he's fine. But you know, then you know,
Speaker 1: and there was and even with that, you're right, and
Speaker 1: even with that, it would be tough to heard that
Speaker 1: he's doing great, you know, and you know, And then
Speaker 1: the other part of it was, um, just the pressure
Speaker 1: on the announcers, yeah, Joe and Troy, and then they
Speaker 1: go back to the studio. These people are trained to
Speaker 1: cover football, they're not They're not like news reporters that
Speaker 1: are you know, probably an immune to tragedy because that's
Speaker 1: what they cover right there. And now you got to
Speaker 1: talk about this, and you know you're gonna get emotional
Speaker 1: right when Troy said, um, you know, you know how
Speaker 1: there's just another injury. Guys on the ground. I think
Speaker 1: I was cooking some food. My daughter was coming and
Speaker 1: I was getting in some New Year's Day food. You
Speaker 1: know how you got to have to all this stuff.
Speaker 1: So I was doing that and then they said when
Speaker 1: Troy said CPR, yeah, I stopped like what wait a minute? What? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he said for several moments and that that like they're like,
Speaker 1: oh lord, you know that's when I sat down, like,
Speaker 1: oh man, what's going on here? This is this is different? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you here the word CPR, the letter CPR. That's that
Speaker 1: is not good. And you know, those guys weren't getting
Speaker 1: any information basically, and you couldn't see because they circled
Speaker 1: the players all the way around. Well, you can't get information.
Speaker 1: The doctor's not going to give you right right information.
Speaker 1: At that time, I got work to do, yeah, and
Speaker 1: so that's what that's what I wanted to get into
Speaker 1: the protocol of something like that. How do you what
Speaker 1: do you do? I mean what. I can't remember where
Speaker 1: did it come out that the teams are going to
Speaker 1: warm up for Yeah, and I heard that that whoever
Speaker 1: sent that information was wrong, right, the NFL saying no,
Speaker 1: we never never said that. But yeah, I know. It's
Speaker 1: like I can't remember if if they go in for
Speaker 1: five minutes and then they come back out, Well, that
Speaker 1: was the coaches talking. I believe that was the coaches talking,
Speaker 1: because they made that decision after the coaches came face
Speaker 1: to face with the reflease. That's what. But you knew
Speaker 1: what's going to come down from New York, right and
Speaker 1: the NFL PA, And then I think both coaches were ye,
Speaker 1: still out their crime. We're not yeah, we can't do this,
Speaker 1: but they but but the the you know, and then
Speaker 1: they act like they gave Joe and Troy a break
Speaker 1: by going to the studio, but then they're even further
Speaker 1: removed from it, and what can you say? And may
Speaker 1: keep coming back to him. Yeah, and when you can
Speaker 1: see the emotion makes sense on Booker's face, right, he
Speaker 1: was having a hard time, UM, and it's like, gosh,
Speaker 1: what do you say? And then chef chef, and then
Speaker 1: they went to the sideline. UM helped me build their silence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and she was. She was struggling, but you know what,
Speaker 1: she came back towards the end and and just nailed it, right,
Speaker 1: She got herself composed. Uh. And but again she's not
Speaker 1: used to doing that. She didn't have to do that.
Speaker 1: And you know how emotional you're gonna be. Right. I
Speaker 1: remember during the Uvaldi thing and I don't remember what
Speaker 1: station I was watching, and they threw it to a
Speaker 1: very young reporter and she broke down crying, right, and
Speaker 1: it's like, well, it's not fair, she's not she's not conditioned.
Speaker 1: Fought through this. She fought through it, right. Nate just
Speaker 1: brought up Darre Stingley. Yeah, that was crazy, right, And
Speaker 1: so you look at the difference between there's a difference
Speaker 1: right there. These things paralyzed. The game went on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the game went on. Yeah it did. The game went on,
Speaker 1: you know, and so wow, that just lets you know
Speaker 1: how far we've come. So, you know, I remember I
Speaker 1: remember when um so this would have been two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine, when the when the roof collapsed on the
Speaker 1: practice facility. We were all in there, you know, we
Speaker 1: escaped and about I don't know, maybe ten minutes later,
Speaker 1: fifteen at the most. The fan had just taken over
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys flagship station, and I got a call
Speaker 1: from one of the guys there I knew, and they said,
Speaker 1: can you go on the air. And I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, You're gonna have to give me some time.
Speaker 1: I said, you don't want me coming on here crying, right,
Speaker 1: and you I mean, you're adrenaline. You need some time
Speaker 1: with those guys. They didn't have time. They had to
Speaker 1: react and you know, keep the thing on the air
Speaker 1: for all that time. And I know they went to
Speaker 1: commercial break, but it wasn't They just didn't have anything
Speaker 1: to see here. Let's just look at the NFL itself.
Speaker 1: The NFL is made up and especially the coaches of
Speaker 1: hardened men. You think about Tom Langer, This man flew
Speaker 1: in the war. Yeah, people fought in the war. They've
Speaker 1: seen death. You know, I would imagine some of them
Speaker 1: actually saw some action, and they've they've seen people sacrifice.
Speaker 1: This exactly so when they play football and they try
Speaker 1: to keep saying it's a game compared to war, right,
Speaker 1: That's why we how we become so hardened in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You know, I just gotta keep on moving forwards. Football
Speaker 1: is football, It's it's a tough man's game. That's the
Speaker 1: that's the foundation of the NFL itself. Men have seen
Speaker 1: a lot of things. So when you see someone get
Speaker 1: here in the practice field or the football field, I mean,
Speaker 1: we used to get somebody get injured. Man, we've moved
Speaker 1: to practice up. No, you wouldn't you just moving out nobody.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't care how. I can't remember. In
Speaker 1: training camp, it's like somebody's laying out in Austin and
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, moving moving up to ten yards and
Speaker 1: let them take care of him back here. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: I mean, so we ain't got time, got time for see.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of well, that's the basis of the NFL.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad to see that we are not there anymore,
Speaker 1: because like I'm glad I didn't I'm glad they brought
Speaker 1: up there Stingley because there were moments in the NFL. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: get him out the field, let's keep on playing. So
Speaker 1: let's just think about deal Stingley and J. Stingley Junior
Speaker 1: at this point what he might be thinking right now,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't really feel I mean to do
Speaker 1: this now build The last thing I saw was the
Speaker 1: family sent out a statement and I'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: read it here. It's a little bit long, but on
Speaker 1: behalf of our family want to express our sincere gratitude
Speaker 1: for the love and support shown to Damar during this
Speaker 1: challenging time. We are deeply moved by the prayers, the
Speaker 1: kind words, and donation from fans around the country. We
Speaker 1: also want to acknowledge the dedicated first responders and help
Speaker 1: care professionals the University of Cincinnati Medical Center who have
Speaker 1: provided exceptional care to DeMar. We feel so blessed to
Speaker 1: be part of the Buffalo Bill's organization and have their support.
Speaker 1: We also want to thank Coach Taylor and the Bengals
Speaker 1: for everything they've done. Your generosity and compassion mean the
Speaker 1: world to us. Please keep DeMar in your prayers. We
Speaker 1: will release updates as soon as we have them. Imagine
Speaker 1: a few of the mothers sitting in the stands. There.
Speaker 1: You go back through his Twitter and this is a
Speaker 1: game from earlier in the season. There's a video of
Speaker 1: him before the game going up to his mom and
Speaker 1: family in the stands, and so I think the family
Speaker 1: was able to go to a lot of the game
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was a home game or not,
Speaker 1: but this one, obviously he was on the road, and
Speaker 1: so it was like a he had a hashtag family
Speaker 1: or something, you know, and he was you know, I
Speaker 1: recall too just when he came out of the draft
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. Uh, he caught my eye and
Speaker 1: as much for what kind of high character kid he was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: at the University of Pittsburgh. Yeah, and uh, I mean
Speaker 1: that's what I look for in that big green notebook
Speaker 1: or the high character guys in Tomar Hamlet. As soon
Speaker 1: as I heard it was DeMar Hamlet, I said, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's a good, good guy. Yeah. And then you go
Speaker 1: back through uh, you know, the charity stuff that he's done,
Speaker 1: even going back to his time in college before n
Speaker 1: I L was around. Really in college, he was doing
Speaker 1: that stuff, you know. And uh So anyway, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously he is uh in our thoughts and prayers. Again, overnight,
Speaker 1: the Bills did confirm that it was a cardiac arrest
Speaker 1: that he suffered on the field, and h so just
Speaker 1: praying for for a for a great outcome, Yeah, great
Speaker 1: outcome and full recovery for the bar. Yeah, we finally
Speaker 1: got a I it was late on Twitter that Jordan
Speaker 1: Rooney is a representative from his agency basically sent out
Speaker 1: an update and said his vitals are back to normal.
Speaker 1: They have put him to sleep to put a breathing
Speaker 1: tube down his throat. They are currently running tests. Will
Speaker 1: provide updates as we have them. So when I saw that,
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, you know, the vitals are good,
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, and and basically that that cardiologists pointed
Speaker 1: out that the key thing is just to keep oxygen
Speaker 1: flowing into his body because even though you might be
Speaker 1: breathing on your own, you may not be breathing as
Speaker 1: well as you need to do any more stress on
Speaker 1: your Yeah. Absolutely, all right, let's take a break and
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Speaker 1: to the NFL on Sunday. Okay, what happened was for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys was an eagle's loss to the Saints. What
Speaker 1: didn't come through for the Cowboys on Sunday? Where those
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders. They tried. I'm sitting there and the
Speaker 1: game wasn't televised here, and so I saw that it
Speaker 1: was gone over time, and so I got on my
Speaker 1: NFL app and I'm listening to the game. And it
Speaker 1: was a Dallas kid, Tayshaun Gibson out at a Kimball
Speaker 1: High School in Dallas, who got the pick for the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers and ran it back inside the ten
Speaker 1: yard line and they got the field goal to win
Speaker 1: the game. But had the Raiders pulled off that win,
Speaker 1: we'd be sitting here at all. The Cowboys would need
Speaker 1: to not only win the division obviously, would would be
Speaker 1: the Cowboys winning this week in Washington in Philadelphia losing
Speaker 1: but getting a not only home field advantage in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but a first round by in the playoffs. By those
Speaker 1: two things happening, Cowboys winning at Washington, Philadelphia losing to
Speaker 1: the Giants still a long shot on Philadelphia loser the Giants,
Speaker 1: but if the Giants decided to Yeah, And that's the
Speaker 1: other thing that went bad for the Cowboys is that
Speaker 1: the Giants clinched the playoffs, so they got nothing to
Speaker 1: play for. So what day Bowls said, we're playing now?
Speaker 1: There still is a chance. There still is a chance
Speaker 1: the Cowboys could get the first round by if they
Speaker 1: win the Eagles lose, and no, there's no chance Arizona.
Speaker 1: Arizona would have to beat or tie Sat Francis to
Speaker 1: San Francis and San Francis, i'd say, by the way,
Speaker 1: a four and twelve Cardinals team, and there's about their
Speaker 1: fourth corner. By the way, it's David. Do you say
Speaker 1: blow or blow? David blow from Carol Carol Free by
Speaker 1: the way. And the only reason I know him because
Speaker 1: Missouri played him his senior year at Purdue, and I
Speaker 1: was asking Anthony Brown. I said, so you know what
Speaker 1: Purdue got and he goes, oh, he goes, you know
Speaker 1: they're not bad, but they're starting the quarterbacks never started before.
Speaker 1: I don't know how good he is. Right well, he
Speaker 1: put five hundred yards passing on Missouri. Missouri won the game,
Speaker 1: but the kids through for five hundred yards, so they're
Speaker 1: still a shot. I always remembered his name right. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, that next week I went up
Speaker 1: to Anthony and I said, uh, you know, you're a
Speaker 1: pretty good player, but you got no future as a scout.
Speaker 1: He's got laughing because he knew what I meant. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he's going to start his second game and he's just
Speaker 1: been there a couple of weeks that you guys, you
Speaker 1: guys are telling me you're afraid to go down that
Speaker 1: that forbidden path, that that Arizona could go there and win. No,
Speaker 1: I mean the fact that we go on the road
Speaker 1: and just kick everybody's ass on the way. No, No,
Speaker 1: I was real. But it's better to have. Of course,
Speaker 1: it's the first round, by yeah, come on, and as
Speaker 1: Jerry said this morning, you know, you always want to
Speaker 1: play at home. As they were giving him the especially
Speaker 1: if you own the team they were giving him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were speaking as a player necessarily, but yeah, you could.
Speaker 1: They were giving them the choice on the two propositions.
Speaker 1: Right you you're you're the top wild card team, so
Speaker 1: you got to go on the road and play Tom
Speaker 1: Brady or you're the number two seed and you play
Speaker 1: at home. But chances are you're probably gonna play Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers in Green Bay. Which do you want? What do
Speaker 1: you want? Bring it on, Barry, Jerry, bring it on,
Speaker 1: play it at home. Bring it on, because if you
Speaker 1: win the first one, you're still at home for the
Speaker 1: second game too. Yeah, I want to see something great.
Speaker 1: I want to see something generational. That's what I want.
Speaker 1: That's what I want to see because this team has
Speaker 1: been I mean, like like Nate said, you've got the coaching,
Speaker 1: they're asking questions, answering questions, and you just blew a
Speaker 1: team out by three touchdowns, and yeah, you got to
Speaker 1: sit here at the press conference and answer all these
Speaker 1: questions about what is wrong with your team. I would
Speaker 1: love for us to just keep on going with all
Speaker 1: odds against us. Go to Tampa, go to Green Bay,
Speaker 1: I don't care where it is, and just shut those
Speaker 1: shut that up, right. That to me, that would reverse
Speaker 1: all the narrative that the Cowboys are facing. Lad, So
Speaker 1: you want the Cowboys to go the hard way? Go
Speaker 1: to Tampa Bay, beat Tom Brady, Okay, then go to
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and beat the who might be the MVP. We'll
Speaker 1: see Jalen Hurts, and then go to San Francisco and
Speaker 1: beat mystery irrelevant. Oh yes, I'd love that. I would
Speaker 1: love him. I wish. I wish because sprinkled Green Bay
Speaker 1: in there somewhere, play four games I don't care, and
Speaker 1: then get who in the Super Bowl. Well, we gotta
Speaker 1: have Joe, because Joe was the guy that has the
Speaker 1: most resiliency. I'm talking. Okay, hey there, So Burrow, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's your dream scenario, Cowboys, that's my my
Speaker 1: uh Manning, Okay, you can we can do it a
Speaker 1: different way. Let's say the Packers stay hot, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: and then so Aaron be Brady hurts Rogers. Okay, but
Speaker 1: except and Burrow. After watching Green Bay play Minnesota, they've
Speaker 1: got some sprinkled dust on them, right Because with I
Speaker 1: wrote this down one thirty two left in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: the Packers were up fourteen to three with no offensive
Speaker 1: touchdowns and fourteen total yards. They returned a kickoff for
Speaker 1: a touchdown, in an interception for a touchdown, fourteen total yards.
Speaker 1: And then Minnesota is trying to kick a field goal
Speaker 1: and their kicker, Joseph who had made thirteen consecutive field goals,
Speaker 1: he misses. And then in the first half, and then
Speaker 1: in the first half, Hyson Crosby, who we've seen four
Speaker 1: connect from fifty six yards in a playoff game, he
Speaker 1: kicks a fifty six yard field goal that doesn't clear
Speaker 1: the crossbar, it hits, it hits on top of the crossbar.
Speaker 1: If it is one centimeter this way, it bounces back
Speaker 1: or towards the field of play. Instead, it just bounced on.
Speaker 1: Where was that game played? Great Green Bay? So you're
Speaker 1: telling me that this man can kick a fifty six
Speaker 1: yard folders over the season, but we can't kick one
Speaker 1: when we were there in Green Bay. All the excuses
Speaker 1: about oh, my leg is freezing, come on, foot, my foot,
Speaker 1: putting the foot in front of the fire, and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But check, come on, don't don't
Speaker 1: have a no wait, come on now, don't ever let
Speaker 1: that narrative. Don't let the tail wag the doll. Not
Speaker 1: only did the ball hit the crossbar, it bounced so well,
Speaker 1: it bounced into the net. Yeah, into the net, that man,
Speaker 1: it bounced another ten yards. That means we could have
Speaker 1: kicked it as well. We had the best kick in
Speaker 1: the league and we didn't go for it. That's still
Speaker 1: uh chaps my butt, as Stalins would always say. But
Speaker 1: anyway we could have kicked that's Green Bay. And and
Speaker 1: and again. And this is what I wrote about yesterday,
Speaker 1: the improbability of the NFL this season. Who thought the
Speaker 1: Packers at four and eight would be sitting there at
Speaker 1: eight and eight and need one win to get in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, or Detroit four and seven needing one win
Speaker 1: in a Seattle loss to get in the playoffs. I mean,
Speaker 1: all this weird. You know. We sat there and go, well,
Speaker 1: what's the chances after they lost to the Jaguars that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys win three straight and the Eagles lose street straight. Well,
Speaker 1: we are here, we are, and they're not sure Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurt's gonna play on. I thought they were pretty positive. No, well,
Speaker 1: perhaps factoring into that they want to see who the
Speaker 1: Giants are playing well, because since the Giants don't have
Speaker 1: to win this game, right that factor. Let's remember the
Speaker 1: Giants history in two thousand and seven when they played
Speaker 1: the meaninglest game because they were the wild card team
Speaker 1: in New England and nearly beat the Patriots and got
Speaker 1: all this confidence and they went in and won the
Speaker 1: first round. And what happened. They came here and beat
Speaker 1: the Cowboys I think, I think, and went on to
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. Rights they decided they decided they
Speaker 1: were going to play that last game of the year
Speaker 1: because they wanted momentum. And they lost the game, but
Speaker 1: they gained some confidence and they wound up winning the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So all right, here's an update from the
Speaker 1: NFL on the Bills Bengals game. NFL continues to be
Speaker 1: in a regular contact with the medical team caring for
Speaker 1: Damar Hamlin, and also the Bills and Bengals organizations in
Speaker 1: the NFL Players Association. After speaking with both teams and
Speaker 1: NFLPA leadership, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and formed the clubs
Speaker 1: today that the Bills Bengals game will not be resumed
Speaker 1: this week. The NFL has made no decision regarding the
Speaker 1: possible resumption of the game at a later date. The
Speaker 1: league has not made any changes to the Week eighteen
Speaker 1: regular season schedule. We will continue to provide additional information
Speaker 1: as it becomes available. So still next we maybe play
Speaker 1: Monday night. They're playing on Sunday. Yeah, they're not changing
Speaker 1: your one game the Week eight team. I was thinking
Speaker 1: this was the last Yeah, that's where is that game?
Speaker 1: It was in Cincinnati? Wellinati, I have to look up
Speaker 1: where they're playing. You know, tell you just cancel the
Speaker 1: game and just go by winning percentage. That's yes, that's
Speaker 1: what you do, right. I don't understand why we're you
Speaker 1: can't put in. I mean, because you don't are you
Speaker 1: going to resume the game seven three at baseball? And
Speaker 1: that's the only thing they can compare it to, right,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's all they compared it to. This is baseball.
Speaker 1: I mean, And if you're if you're going to resume
Speaker 1: it next week, the earliest you could do that would
Speaker 1: be like Thursday, and then you push back the next
Speaker 1: playoff game Monday or but then you're playing. But then whoever, whoever,
Speaker 1: one of those teams is playing in the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: one of them may get the first round by and
Speaker 1: not have a game. The other one they'd be on
Speaker 1: a short week playing their playoff get their wild card game.
Speaker 1: I can't do that. Yeah, I think you just yeah,
Speaker 1: you just don't worry about it. Just it's a it's
Speaker 1: a non game, Okay. They play a sixteen game schedule.
Speaker 1: Everybody else plays seventeen. That's fine. We can handle this,
Speaker 1: and I and I dare anyone to complain that's not fair, right,
Speaker 1: go ahead and try that. Uh huh. Yeah, So, I
Speaker 1: mean Bengals host the Ravens on Sunday, and the Bills
Speaker 1: host the Patriots on Sunday, m and the and the
Speaker 1: Bills have not clinched the first the number one seed,
Speaker 1: right right, that's why that's what it's at stake here
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Kansas City is thirteen and three, the Bills
Speaker 1: are twelve and three, and the Bengals are eleven and four,
Speaker 1: So it's seating. It's it's not only first round by
Speaker 1: but if the Bengals were to beat the Bills, they
Speaker 1: could overtake them for the two seed rather than the
Speaker 1: three seed. So anyway, yeah, forget it, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: It's like just yeah, just okay, we'll continue. We've we've
Speaker 1: come to yeah, we've we've reached that decision. So all right,
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Speaker 1: For Sunday, we picked the college football semifinal games and
Speaker 1: we hit on both of it. We all picked, we
Speaker 1: all were in agreement TCU would be playing Georgia in
Speaker 1: the National Championship game, and sure enough we finally got one.
Speaker 1: What games those were? And boy did we slam that right?
Speaker 1: What did we win? Each by one point? Yeah? Really
Speaker 1: it was totally Actually TCU one by six. Sorry, might
Speaker 1: as well have been one, they said, the first time
Speaker 1: they've been decided by one score the two semifinal games. Yeah, though,
Speaker 1: I believe that. Yeah, excitements. And then yesterday at the
Speaker 1: stadium Tulane usc about what a game that was. Tulane
Speaker 1: comes from fifteen points down in the final minutes of
Speaker 1: the game to win forty six forty five. I didn't
Speaker 1: know we talked about this, but to me, the dumbest
Speaker 1: play of the game, I'll tell you exactly what it was.
Speaker 1: Would you tell me right on the goal line? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Any end zone? Yes? How? Why would you hand off
Speaker 1: four yards deep in the end twice? Twice? You did
Speaker 1: it twice and you have a Heisman Trophy winner right
Speaker 1: back here. This is my moment. Yeah, and the only okay,
Speaker 1: it's an okay. Tulane was trailing by eight points at
Speaker 1: that point in the game. That was with three twenty
Speaker 1: left of the game. The only way Tulane can win
Speaker 1: that football game is if they get a safety there
Speaker 1: cuts the lead to six and then seven and then
Speaker 1: they score touchdown seven points because there's no way to
Speaker 1: Lane's offense even against that bad deep They didn't have
Speaker 1: not enough time they made. Jerry Rice's son got off
Speaker 1: in the gap, but they had another guy over there
Speaker 1: in that green looked like Mississippi Valley colors. That kid
Speaker 1: looked like Jerry Rice's son number two. Yeah, he looked
Speaker 1: like Jerry. But there's no way Toulane was going to
Speaker 1: be able. Even if if sc punchs out of their
Speaker 1: own end zone, they cannot go down there. They can
Speaker 1: score touchdown, but then they'd have to get a two
Speaker 1: point conversion and that just gets you to overtime. They'd
Speaker 1: have to win it an overtime. As it was, you
Speaker 1: give them a safety first kick the kickoff? Is that right, right?
Speaker 1: Favorite coach with a play call and see, this guy's
Speaker 1: a genius. How do you not make Why would you
Speaker 1: you know what you know you brought the ball to
Speaker 1: you know he brought the ball too. Here's what happening
Speaker 1: these days. Is there. They don't practice the quarterback under
Speaker 1: center enough. And that was a I'm saying because he
Speaker 1: I mean what happened in the thank you? He is
Speaker 1: a Heisman troph They haven't stopped him all game long,
Speaker 1: and yet I mean he was on the ball. They
Speaker 1: were just singing his praises, this guy five o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning when he was eleven years old, even a
Speaker 1: personal trainer. All this going on, and now you got
Speaker 1: the Heisman. He's about to win this game. No he's not.
Speaker 1: I mean it looked like a zone read or an
Speaker 1: RPO and he was reading the defensive end and I
Speaker 1: don't know to complicated. If he would have taken himself,
Speaker 1: it still would not have worked. They were gonna he
Speaker 1: needed to take it, roll out and throw it down
Speaker 1: field again. Heisman Trophy winner, right, not as a runner,
Speaker 1: not tebowed Heisman Trophy winner. I mean, this guy's prolific
Speaker 1: and you can sit up there and hand the ball
Speaker 1: off to him to the running back. I just that
Speaker 1: was bad that the coach lost that game. I was
Speaker 1: watching with my son. The coach lost that game. I
Speaker 1: am just so glad that it qualified. Is my opinion
Speaker 1: that they should have had a twelve sixteen team playoff
Speaker 1: long years years ago because you never know when and
Speaker 1: it should be the game, what's gonna happen? And by
Speaker 1: the way, it should be a sixteen team play why not? Yeah,
Speaker 1: when that coming again in two years, it's a twelve
Speaker 1: team playoff. So so four teams get a first round
Speaker 1: by well, there's if you you watch enough of these
Speaker 1: Bowl games, everybody's got players. There are players all over
Speaker 1: the lot, you know, and so it's not like it
Speaker 1: was twenty years ago and they you got Cinderella's I mean,
Speaker 1: who expected TCU to make it all the way? But
Speaker 1: you go look at right at the beginning, right, But
Speaker 1: if and I've now been studying TCU's roster, you look
Speaker 1: at their roster, and I understand why they're in the
Speaker 1: National Championship game. That quarterback was he was recruited by
Speaker 1: It came down to TCU in Georgia, you know. And
Speaker 1: you you mentioned four teams get a bye, right, Two
Speaker 1: Lane's not going to get a bye, right, so the
Speaker 1: big schools are gonna get the buy Well, USC, if
Speaker 1: they beat Utah, they're in the playoffs, and they just
Speaker 1: lost to two lane, right, Okay, So there is enough.
Speaker 1: There's enough evidence right there to tell you that there
Speaker 1: shouldn't be any first round buys in this twelve team player.
Speaker 1: It needs to be a sixteen team playoff. Plus then
Speaker 1: all those group of five leagues, okay, the champion of
Speaker 1: those leagues, and it's only there's only ten conferences all told.
Speaker 1: There's five group of five leagues, and then there's five others. Okay,
Speaker 1: the champion goes. And so when when any Division one
Speaker 1: college football player starts practice in August, they know we
Speaker 1: have a chance to play for the national championship because
Speaker 1: if we win our conference, then we're in the tournament. See.
Speaker 1: And I think those those those schools they're they were
Speaker 1: worried that if it's sixteen teams, then people will trans
Speaker 1: for and go to these smaller schools and make them
Speaker 1: smaller schools better because nobody's gonna sit and wait to play.
Speaker 1: They want to play right now. Yeah. The other thing
Speaker 1: with the sixteen team is you've got you'd have ten
Speaker 1: league champions that qualify and six at large. So everybody's
Speaker 1: staying they won't have to wait so long to play
Speaker 1: the national championship, right, you know, they won't sitting out
Speaker 1: a month or whatever. They just he just started right
Speaker 1: when the regular season and then take a little break
Speaker 1: for the holidays, and then you pick it up again
Speaker 1: with January first and the championship game a week later. Hey,
Speaker 1: couple of Cowboy notes before we'd leave. Just Johnny Pollard
Speaker 1: is scheduled to practice on Wednesday. The Cowboys are going
Speaker 1: to start Matt Forny acts twenty one day ramp up
Speaker 1: off injured reserve on Wednesday, so they expect him to
Speaker 1: that at center. Yeah, that depth at center might might
Speaker 1: take on Tyler biadish as probably you know we mentioned
Speaker 1: it's a high ankle sprain. I said it wasn't as
Speaker 1: severe as normal. Probably not until the playoffs if he
Speaker 1: gets back in time for that. Layton Vanderess said he's
Speaker 1: he feels really well now, much better and probably the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say he's not playing now, he's not playing,
Speaker 1: um and anything, Hankins. I don't think anybody asked about him,
Speaker 1: but that was an original since they put him on IR.
Speaker 1: That would be the playoffs. Yeah, that's right. This would
Speaker 1: try the fourth game and I had one more um,
Speaker 1: oh it was the Eagles suffered a serious injury, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: and it sounds like it's an abductor injury. So they
Speaker 1: they paid the price for their backup in there, so
Speaker 1: we'll see uh this. I mean, it could be season
Speaker 1: ending or he's gonna have to play through something that's
Speaker 1: pretty painful. And this is the first time all year
Speaker 1: they've had to deal with an injury on their offensive line.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, even the score. Welcome to the club.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Oh, what last one? Charles Haley,
Speaker 1: he he gave Tyler Smith a autographed ninety four jersey
Speaker 1: framed for Christmas. It was, that's what he gave. He
Speaker 1: was sitting in the locker, and one to Jason Peters too,
Speaker 1: by the way, why because I don't know. He was
Speaker 1: congratulating him on the season. He wrote on the ninety
Speaker 1: four little message to each one of us, and that's
Speaker 1: got to have some value. I mean it was it's
Speaker 1: as big as that stars beautiful behind us. Yeah. So anyways,
Speaker 1: Charles Haley, that's cool. He's getting solved. Never did that
Speaker 1: for me. He is getting soft, I'll tell you all right.
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