Football #12: Cowboys vs Commanders Thanksgiving Pregame

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Welcome inside the Treehouse Football Podcast.
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say it properly the Treehouse Football Podcast. I'm really sure why I started saying

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it that way, but I feel
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doing it. It just feels right, it's pleasant, it makes me,

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it makes me chuckle every time.
Oh, thank you, Raj h so

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again, thank you for joining us
inside the Treehouse Football Podcast. I'm danil

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Malley along with Tree Trenholm and Raj
Sharma. You know you do you do

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football and Friday like that? Yeah? Yeah, we'll have to try the

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F bomb. The Cowboys lost to
Carolina, you would have heard it along

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with all its other friends. Uh
yeah, or maybe on the Plus show

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we can just have a the appearance
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Friday shows all wrapped into one tidy
treehouse you like to keep things kind of

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neat around here on occasion. But
there was one f bomb this morning,

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and that was when I woke up
and I saw that. Unfortunately it's the

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Philadelphia Eagles and everybody else because they
managed to beat the Chiefs some Monday night

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football in Kansas City, and I
was really really hopeful that the Chiefs would

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knock them down a notch, but
instead it really does appear to be the

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Eagles and the top slot and everyone
else is kind of clamoring for a second.

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Am I wrong? No, you're
right. I I was at I

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was having dinner at Whiskey Cake and
watching the game and it was great.

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I watched the first half and I
was like, that's there. We go

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got to the third quarter and I
was like there. You know what all

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they got to do is all the
time management. You know, run the

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ball, kill the clock, you
know, a classic standard, drive it

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into the ground, easy to do. And I went from Whiskey Cake to

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what the f I went Whiskey Cake
to And I came home and I turned

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the TV and I was like,
what what happened? I live eight minutes

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away from Whiskey Cake. What is
what happened? Raj is you went from

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Whiskey cake to what Trey and I
know as whiskey tango fox Trot. Yeah,

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I was. And then it just
they just kind of they had the

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one possible moment, that one bit
of hope when Valdez Scandling almost caught that

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there was sixty yard pass or forty
five yard pass something like that and it

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was in his hands and you know, you gotta you know whatever it is

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maybe slightly a bit maybe overthrown because
he had to stretch out for it,

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and then the weather conditions it was
slick, and then after that they just

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kind of melted down. And I
was like, Okay, I'm good.

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And I blamed this squarely on Taylor
Swift. Oh interesting, she wasn't there.

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No, not that, because during
the bye week, our buddy and

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romantic tight end, Travis Kelsey,
flew to Buenos Aires to attend the Taylor

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Swift concert and that's a thirteen hour
flight each way, so I'm sure he

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wasn't going coach though, So no, no, I'm not listen. I've

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traveled coach, I've traveled first class, business class, and I have traveled

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private. It's still tiring. It
doesn't matter how it's still thirteen hours at

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a time difference, and then spent
the day with her and then the concert,

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and then the next day and then
flew out. So on their bye

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week he spent three and a half
days to almost four days traveling and attending

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a concert. So I'm glad you
brought this up, because when I saw

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Travis Kelcey at the Swift concert in
South America, I immediately thought of Tony

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Romo, Jason Witten, and often
forgotten that Bobby Carpenter was also there.

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The bye week, or not the
bye week, but the off week that

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the Cowboys had because they had a
first round by in the playoffs, and

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they spent it in Mexico. They
went to Cabo with their women, and

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then they promptly lost in that divisional
round and everyone blamed their lack of focus

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and all that because they took a
trip, and I wondered, is Travis

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Kelcey going to face some of the
same criticism as well. I mean,

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again, it's not even criticism,
it's just it's just what when you travel

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like that, it's it is what
it is. It is there. It's

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like when going to India. I've
done it on Emirates coach, and I've

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done it in Emirates business Class and
business class Emirates is just they might as

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well just build you an apartment.
Yeah, I've seen those on YouTube.

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Yeah that's not fair. There there
are apartments in New York smaller than those

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seats. Yeah, yes, and
there's a full bar and there's a DJ.

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And I'm also pretty sure that coach
on Emirates is still better than most

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airlines Business class. Yes it is. It's wonderful. I mean, you

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know the prospect of Jennifer Aniston popping
out of the shower, Yeah, that

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is true, and like they again
they have the showers. And then there's

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one I think there's one that goes
in New York to Dubai that has a

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three bedroom apartment in it that is
like twenty nine or thirty thousand dollars each

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leg per person. So I've done
that. But it's still when you're going

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to India, you get there,
their time difference, Uh yeah, you've

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slept and but you but you're sleeping
on your schedule, so it doesn't.

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Your contention, though, is that
the travel must have played a role and

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that's that's why the Chiefs lost.
But there's not a lot of there's not

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a lot of same basically same time
zones and not that's not that big of

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an issue. I mean, let
me ask you a question, Yes,

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what do you think is harder that? Or you know, if they he

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and the boys took a three day
trip to Vegas? Uh, the same,

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You're just you're still, you're still. I mean, it has nothing

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to do with it the concert.
It's the it's the exhaustion from travel.

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And then you're an elite player and
you're coming back into an elite sport.

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So you went from like, oh, fine, I'll just get I'll hop

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on my private jet and I'll sleep
the whole way. That's the thought,

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I'll sleep the whole way. Doesn't
It's funny that you think he's got a

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private jet, you know damn well
it was hers, Oh that's a yeah,

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or or he rented or he borrowed
Patrick's. Maybe maybe that was it.

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So then my question would be what
do you think was more tiring for

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Travis Kelce the flight to and from
South America or the sex with Taylor while

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he was there? Uh? Yeah, both, And then you have the

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air quality because she had to she
had to miss a concert I believe,

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or there's some there was a I
think a fan something that got injured or

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died or something like that, and
they had to postpone one of them.

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And then there's the air quality issues
like she was on stage at one point

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like she was having trouble breathing.
And so you have the air quality,

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you have the travel, you have, the the as much sex as you

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can. Uh, and and then
if you're trying to regain your strength.

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I'm sure the food is great,
but it's still you're eating internationally, so

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you have to adjust to that.
So you don't know what gastro intestinal issues

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Travis Kelsey was facing UH and Mahomes
in that press conference afterwards. Still looks

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like he hasn't recovered from the flu, and I don't I'm serious. He

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looked, he looked exhausted, and
so I don't know where he went in

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there bye week like that. Nobody
don't. Nobody's covering him anymore, the

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Kelsey Swift UH era now and nobody's
covering him in old Britney. Mahomes like

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there are we are we are we
going through this whole thing just to rationalize

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that the Eagles aren't as good as
they actually are, I think. No,

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I'm I'm just trying. I was
just boggled my mind how they just

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kind of fell apart and they looked
they looked decent in the first half and

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then got completely shut out in the
second half. And that when That's why

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I asked the question, is it
the Eagles and everybody else? Try?

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Yes, yeah, until and until
someone can can show otherwise. I think

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that is the case. Go ahead, try. I'm still I'm at the

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beginning of the season. After the
first two weeks, I think Eagles and

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and the Dolphins maybe the two best
teams. And I've still I'm not really

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shying away from that because the Bills
have are kind of a miss uh like

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Bill's Chiefs and the Dolphins seem to
be the three that one of them is

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kind of comeing out of the A. But right now, like and I

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after the Cowboys game on Sunday,
I was sitting here thinking about this.

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We're, you know, ten games
in. I still don't know jecksh crap

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about that team. I can't figure
out if they're they're good or you know,

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they're actually they can be really good, and they've just had some bad

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games. I don't know. I
know the Eagles look, for the most

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part, look really good week in
and week out. And I think what

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you've done there, Trey, is
you hit the nail on the head for

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pretty much every team underneath the Eagles, because you have a number of teams

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in that similar win category. Uel, You've got the that was a dog,

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that's what That's what a fifteen sixteen
year old dog sounds like when like

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hack sneezes. Wow. It's also
coincidentally what I sounded like after the Cowboys

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lost to the Eagles Grandpa was visiting. You do have a few teams in

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that same sort of vicinity wreck wise. You got the Cowboys, you got

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the Seahawks, the Dolphins, like
you mentioned, Trey's San Francisco obviously,

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and I think a lot of those
teams are still trying to figure out exactly

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where they are. They know they're
better than most everybody, but they're trying

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to figure out, Okay, can
we get better enough to where we could

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actually do the whole thing? Yeah. I mean, it is not taking

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anything away from Philadelphia. They look
incredible and that comeback was amazing, and

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they did exactly what I was trying
to tell the Chiefs to do it is

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like, just just just kill the
clock. That's all you gotta do,

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and they did an excellent job of
that. But yeah, it is I

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think you guys are I think Tray's
hit it on the head. They're very

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I think I don't know what it
is, but what it appears to me

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is like they psyche themselves out based
on media hype. Right, so it's

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like, can they beat the Eagles, can they beat the Niners? Is

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this gonna be? Like is this
gonna be a repeat of last year?

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And then they get there with all
the confidence that they've had from a previous

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win or a bye week and everybody, so it's as healthy as they can

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be. And then they come in
they're like, I don't think we it's

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just a look on their faces,
like the start off like they're in an

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uphill battle when they should just level
the playing field and start from there.

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At every game, and granted,
I know that both outcomes were blowouts,

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but I am somewhat optimistic at the
beginning of the last two games against Carolina

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and against the Giants. It's not
like the Cowboys took that opening kickoff at

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that opening series and March right down
the field and got a touchdown. Both

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were not successful, right right,
and they didn't let that get to them.

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And sometimes I feel like that does
like if they don't get out to

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a quick start, then they seem
to have that deer in headlights looked on

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their faces. Yeah, I don't
know if we can do this today.

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It's like, my god, you're
gonna have at least, you know,

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like ten more possessions in this game. That one didn't work, go figure

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it out for the next one.
And that was if you're going back to

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last week, that kind of fragile
psyche is why that on that first drive

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going for it on fourth and goal. I was like, just take the

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points because you don't know how that's
gonna affect that team. You're right,

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maybe that's what it is. Maybe
maybe, uh, maybe McCarthy needs to

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treat these grown men, professional athletes
more like the little giants and and realize

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that if they don't do well in
that opening uh series, they can get

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you know, kind of tanter me, not like you know, angry tantamy,

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but just like sad and and wanting
their their their bankies and things because

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things didn't go exactly as they wanted
to, and they don't really seem to

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know how to respond. And I
think that's the problem. I I think

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we need angry tanter me, not
you know, give me your binkie in

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a bottle. Yeah, that's the
fists pounding in the zone. Ye,

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yes, that's uh, that's the
thing that I was talking about. The

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I don't know what when they say, you know, he's got it whatever

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it is like Aikman had that I
have. I never saw it in Romo.

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I never saw him with that it
factor. I think Dak does.

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But he's like they're all his buddies
and he doesn't want to yell at his

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buddies. It's a very it's a
very gen z millennial whatever you want to

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call it, where it's like I
don't want to yell at you, man,

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but please do your job and be
greatly appreciated. Like that's the kind

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of stuff that comes across. It's
like it's like, oh, instead,

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it's it's a passive aggressively liking other
wide receivers catching balls in the end zone.

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Yes, that's that's what it is. Like, Hey man, it's

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no, it's nothing against you.
It's just you know, I got to

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give him a chance too, and
you're like, come on, guys,

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let's we're all athletes, we're all
making millions of dollars. Let's stop.

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But it is that deer in the
headlights. Look. I was trying to

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figure out what it is. But
it's like they get like they get lost,

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and it's even in Dak's eyes,
Like I want to see that.

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I want to see like what I
can which game it was, but Aikman

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was not happy. And I don't
know if he just didn't get enough to

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drink during halftime or whatever it was, but he threw his helmet. I

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remember one time, threw his helmet
across the bench, uh and started yelling

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at the offensive line and I was
like, hey man, that's awesome,

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but they're way out numbered and they're
way btter than you. And then he

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knew how to lit a light of
fire. And I haven't seen anybody since

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then. Yes, now now in
his defense, and this is something you

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always have to remember, yeah,
is and in a lot of his years,

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Aikman really this that was pre salary
cap and if Egman really wanted to,

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if he really had a problem with
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and say cut him and they would
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like it. He still had the thing

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when he could go as the last
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you know, absolutely irate showing you
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everyone's ass. You just don't see
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we were all brought up like you
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and it makes you want to not
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us is like, oh, it's
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joke. I joke about it all
the time when I do the when I

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talk about the playing you know,
on stage, when I talk about playing

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football. I was like, you
know, like this generation, like you

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know who told me I sucked?
My coach who told me I was terrible?

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back into Jim's mor and work harder. Yeah, that's what it was.

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It was a big fu uh And
I don't see that. It's like Tony

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Rome was the aw shucks thing,
like whenever he throw an interception, like,

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oh darn, I'll get it next
time. I'm like, what are

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you doing, dude? Like what
they're paying you millions of dollars? Uh,

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what are you doing? And it's
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that is Dak where he doesn't he's
got the he's got the drive and he's

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got the intensity, but he can't
like he can't get that to his teammates.

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of like, if rom whoever started
really taking it seriously when he threw an

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interception that I think he would have
fallen apart. I think that was that

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more that Brett Favre gunslinger attitude of
you know what you're gonna miss, you

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know some of the shots you take, but we're gonna still, you know,

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keep taking them. I mean,
you look at his quarterback rating and

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it was one of the best in
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there's no doubt. But he just
didn't he couldn't get to the he couldn't

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get to the dance. And that's
the thing. It wasn't like it was

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a well, you know, we
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looked good, the team, the
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like was that year he got injured
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team that I think if he ever
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to make it, that was the
team. I feel like if for for

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Romo Cowboys seasons, there were three
that really really should have gone differently.

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string at the time, third or
fourth string because and then he gets the

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opportunity and it never gets back to
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that team was built. This is
this is Romo's last ride. The

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one before that, I believe it's
a twenty fourteen season, the des caught

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It game. Everyone remembers that game
because it's does caught it? Dos caught

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it? Does caught it. Had
DeMarco Murray not fumbled it earlier in the

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game, he would still be running
in Green Bay. He would have taken

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that possibly to the house, and
it would have been a different game.

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Even if he just doesn't fumble and
gets tackled five yards later, it's a

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different game. And then the one
before that, the Giants divisional round loss,

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when it's it's Patrick Crayton drops the
pass from Romo that would have been

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a first down and instead he drops
the pass incomplete, Giants get the ball

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back. Game over. Yeah,
those those are three things, and that's

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and it's obviously way off, you
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know, the Eagles and everybody else. Well, we've kind of answered that,

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yes it is, and then we're
back to wondering can the Cowboys this

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is what in essence, what we've
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the Cowboys make that leap to get
to that threshold where the Eagles are?

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because you know, they got to
come to Arlington. I think that this

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week, the Thanksgiving game actually may
provide some you know, clarity because Detroit

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is not a bad team. No, they're good, right, and which

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makes me glad I'm not playing them
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might not think, but yeah,
I mean when you talk about just

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dynamic players like you you know,
Dak is great, but Ceedee Lamb is

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dynamic. Uh, you know,
turping every time there's a kick return.

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I'm looking at him like, is
this the one that goes to the house?

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Like he's a dynamic player. And
I just wish they had more moments

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of that where they can show other
people on that team that are that are

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superstars that can bring that could elevate
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I would love to just like what
what what Trey was saying is like

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I can't figure it out. Sometimes
one person does and three in the next

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game, three people do, or
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what we need? Yeah, I
realized what the Cowboys need. They just

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need what you're saying, Raj,
Like Aikman had that edge that it that

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he could, you know, you
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That's what the Cowboys seem to need
because we haven't seen it from anybody,

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right, we don't see someone really
getting in that ass. And what

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they need is someone to scream at
them and and threaten them and to make

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them feel like their jobs and their
lives are on the line. I nominate

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Trade Trenholme that he could do it. And here's the thing you can put

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that. You can put that play
sheet in front of your mouth all day

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and everyone's everyone's still gonna hear it, and everyone's gonna feel it. You're

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just gonna see the vein in his
head stick out. The players on the

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other side of the field, they're
thinking, Man, I'm glad we're over

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here. Why is he saying punt
so much? You know that's that's not

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Welcome back to the Treehouse Football Podcast. So now that we know it's

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the Eagles and everybody else, the
question mark is still are the Cowboys good

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or not? Which is not a
new question. That's something we ask every

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stinking year and have for thirty years. And this is another one of those

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seasons where we're not going to find
out until the playoffs at this point,

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assuming they're making it, and we'll
see what happens. But if history has

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taught us anything it's that they'll cough
it up, either in the wild card

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or definitely the divisional round. But
we'll see. Maybe this year will be

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different. It's clearly the definition of
insanity. But don't know what it is

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to be a Cowboys fan. All
that being said, now Cowboys are in

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it. They're in that Thanksgiving gauntlet. They come off the win in Carolina.

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While impressive, it's still against at
the time a one in eight Carolina

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team against a rookie quarterback. So
what is what it is. We'll take

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the win, We'll take it with
some style points and go into this week

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a divisional matchup against Washington, and
Washington sort of in that tier just below

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the Cowboys record wise, although I
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state than they were a week ago
because they just lost to the Giants.

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Yeah, that was that was an
interesting like I couldn't. I was actually

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in San Marcus. What. I
was watching the game with a buddy of

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mine and his girl is a Washington
I saw a Giants fan and I was

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like, and she was. She
was trying to tell me she was wearing

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Cowboy blue and I'm like, that's
not that's that's not the same blue.

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And she's like, I just want
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I was like, okay, Giants
fan, and she kept checking the score

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and she was laughing. I was
like, what's going on. She's like,

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we're beating the Commanders. And I
was like, oh, you're not

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stop it silly with Danny DeVito or
Derek Davito or whatever whoever it is this

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week, Derek whatever his name is, I don't know if his mom dropped

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him off in time for the game. I don't know what's going on.

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And then she was very you know, She's like, well, let's get

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another round of beers. I was
like, oh, okay. And then

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turns out they win with this guy, and I'm like, all right,

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man, good And here's the only
thing I could think. It's like,

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good for that kid. He's gonna
have so much to talk to his parents

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on the way home. Here's the
thing that was actually a road game.

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think happens there is Tommy DeVito uh not

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only gets driven to the airport by
by his parents by mom, but then

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I'm assuming they have to check him
in with the the gate agents as part

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of the minor traveling alone program.
He's got this little name Plattern around.

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It's gonna a little tour of the
cockpit. He's gonna get the little little

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souvenir wings because the pilot let him
sit on his lap and asked him if

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he like Gladiator movies and then gave
him an extra bag of nuts, and

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then finished the trip to Washington where
they he looked actually pretty darn good and

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beat up on the commanders and then
gets put back on the plane with the

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minor traveling alone assistance. Yeah,
and maybe he gets ice cream on the

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way home after mom and Dad picked
him up from the airport. You know,

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I mean, you can still mamie. Mom and Dad rode with him

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on the train from New York to
DC. You can still do that.

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And maybe they went sightseeing. They
they went and saw the White Actually know,

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I know the backstory. I actually
know the whole story on that.

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He was not able to go sightseeing
with the rest of the team because his

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parents didn't fill out the permissions.
They just left him. He's too young

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to understand anything anyway, So it's
okay, poor fellow, But he won

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a game. It's so good he
did win a game. So again,

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now we get back to Washington feeling
extra low because they got whipped up on

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by a minor traveling alone quarterbacking the
Giants, and now they got to go

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on the road to Arlington on Thanksgiving
and face the Cowboys who are coming off

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of how much I've off the top
of my head of brain farted now how

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many points they've scored in like the
last three weeks. But I mean it

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was what forty the week before you
got thirty three three? So I mean

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one hundred points in the last couple
of weeks. Yeah, yeah, I

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mean it's gonna be you know again, I'll pre it's gonna be a blowout

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again. It's just is they they
lost to the Giants, and they were

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coming in with that energy and we
one hundred points in the last three weeks,

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that that kind of energy, and
I think that makes a world of

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difference. And you're going into now
you're going into like what Trey was saying,

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like, now we have to figure
out do we how do we look

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going into this these last few uh, these last you know, several games,

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and what team are we now?
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this game is, Like Tray was
saying, this game is what we'll see

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and go, oh, okay,
yes they can do it, and they

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can they can take on the Eagles
when they come home, when they come

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to Arlington or or not or and
you can kind of go, you know

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what, it's it was a good
season. You know, we can see

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what they're going to kind of do. But I I think it's gonna be

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a blowout for this one. So
it's gonna be fun to watch. It's

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gonna definitely taste better on a on
a Cowboys victory Thanksgiving. It does,

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it does. And I got mine
for a dollar, so my the dollar

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turkey is gonna taste as an Indian. Uh, it's gonna be even great.

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That's the best Cowboys and Indians Thanksgiving
ever. Uh because my dollar turkey's

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gonna taste like a million bucks when
they win. So it's gonna be It's

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gonna be nice. It does make
you wonder though, like the kids that

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are you know, like halftime football, are they you know, are they

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still They're probably not doing Cowboys and
Indians anymore because it's not PC, but

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are they actually going on? But
it's Cowboys versus commanders? What is a

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commander? Like? I don't understand, like what is your mask? My

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problem is when they renamed themselves the
commanders, I was knee deep in watching

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Handmaid's Tales, So that was really
a poor choice of mask. Yeah,

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nobody filled them in on that one. Okay, yeah, I just uh,

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I don't even know what they're What
is it? Who's there? What

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is their mascot? I don't even
know what that is. It's a commander?

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Do we know what it is?
Honestly, does anybody know what they're

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that Scott his I think it's a
guy. His name is Steve Commander where

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we laugh? But it may actually
be something I'm not sure. I'm not

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I'm not. I am not up
to date on NFL mascots. I will

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freely admit that. Yeah, I
mean like you got lions, we get

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it right, Seahawks, okay,
you're a bird. Falcons commanders like I

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can't figure out it's like that,
like the Guardians, like, I think

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that's named after a bridge. Actually, I was putting too much thought into

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it. They really didn't do much
of a a new mascot other than they

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The commander's new mascot is Major Tuddy
the Hog. Major Tuddy the Hog little

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hat tip to the old hog offensive
lineman back in the day for the Washington

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Redskins. Gotcha okay, uh,
all right, the major Tuddy the hog.

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All right, does that mean he
has a hat? He does?

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He has headwear and there you go. He has headwear worn by actual military

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commanders. They went, they went
extra far to be PC, They went

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the farthest you could. He needs
a hat. Thank you for your service.

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I'm gonna put it on a pig. This is all funny now,

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but if the Cowboys lose to them
on Thanksgiving, I'm gonna everywhere all over.

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It's going to be Thanksgiving all over
the walls. Yeah. I will

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never eat Thanksgiving again. No,
actually, you know what I will.

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The difference is, though, I
will be switching out pig for the turkey.

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It's a Thanksgiving pat on his head
because it's got to be official.

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All right. I don't know about
you guys, but I feel like my

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pregame is ready and concluded and I
am now ready for Cowboys commanders. Take

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that Fox NFL pregame show. Be
sure to follow any and all things Treehouse,

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Treehouse on Air dot com at Treehouse
on Air. Tell a friend about

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the Treehouse Football Podcast. We'll see
you on the next version of the show,

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which is the Faday Show. Coming
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the treehouse, go cowboys, see
you.