Football #20 | Dak or Death

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It is time to leave your worries
outside join us inside the Treehouse Football Podcast,

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where outside you I'm talking about you
leave your regular worries, but in

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here we bring in all of our
football baggage, especially when it comes to

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the Cowboys, because as Cowboys fans
for all our lives, myself and Trey,

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we have lots of Cowboys baggage,
have now for pushing thirty years,

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and now we are left in the
middle of another postseason where the Cowboys ducked

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out too soon or right on time
based on its recent history. Because were

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you really surprised? I wasn't really
surprised. I was angry, disappointed,

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hurt, all those things, but
honestly not surprised. You know, we

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we we have no no right to
be surprised. We and we we are

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as Cowboy fans, we are like
the guy on Jerry Springer who I can't

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believe the exotic dancer he met two
weeks ago is cheating on him with a

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clan member. Yeah that's you know, it's uh, that's our lot in

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life. You know, we're we're
shocked every year. We're shocked at you

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know, our stripper, you know
girlfriend is cheating on us, with with

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with the with the with the midget
twins. It's really everybody at this point.

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It's like she's she's she's taken all
comers and yeah, and we're just

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she's too sore for us. When
when it gets to be are turned you

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can almost into it right here,
because that sums it up pretty nicely.

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It's, you know, as Cowboys
fans were sore. We're sore from the

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the the pounding and the lack of
lube and the lack of emotional connection from

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our team. But yeah, so
obviously we know the Cowboys were bounced in

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the wild card round at home against
the Packers. And I will say this

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about the Dallas Cowboys and the media. The media, there's only one thing

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that the media loves more than it's
than a winning Dallas Cowboys team, because

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when the Cowboys are winning, they
bring ratings, right. But the one

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thing that the media loves more than
a winning Dallas Cowboys team is a winning

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Dallas Cowboys team that throws up in
the playoffs, because then they get the

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best of both worlds. They get
the eyeballs and the money that come with

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a successful Cowboys team. And then
when that same Cowboys team face plants in

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the playoffs, and now they get
all the negativity to go along with it,

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because, let's face it, if
the Cowboys were doing one of those

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runs that they had back in the
early two thousands where it was like what

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three straight five and eleven seasons,
yeah, there's there's really nothing there.

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They're just they're they're rebuilding, they're
just losing. There's nothing exciting there.

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That's just something that most teams go
through. But the Cowboys are their own

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animal where they'll be good enough to
get everybody's attention, because I think we've

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all seen the meme. You know, it's the Dallas Cowboys fans uh cycle

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repeat thing? Yes, and and
and and it's very accurate where it's,

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you know, you have the off
season, preseason, and then you get

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the Cowboys beat up on good teams, and then they fall apart in the

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playoffs, and then you start with
the off season back over again, and

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then it's just it's, you know, the never ending cycle. Do you

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this stat it probably it's just just
stung my soul. Do you know the

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only two teams in the NFC that
have not made it to the championship game

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this century? Well, I know
one of them, yes, and the

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other the Commanders that really should that
is the most glaring indictment on the last

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quarter century of Cowboys football or you
know, I guess twenty four years whatever.

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Your company in the basement. Is
the Commanders just the poster child for

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poorly run teams. Yes, there's
no arguing that. And I would also

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like to throw this out in addition
to the things that the media loves,

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is a successful Cowboys team and then
a failing Cowboys team because you get all

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the drama that comes with it.
And it's not just football drama, because

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nothing with the Cowboys ever stays on
the field, because everything with the Cowboys

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inevitably bleeds over into personal lives,
every day's stuff. And when you're a

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player for the Cowboys, they don't
just talk about your play on the field.

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They talk about all of it.
And that's true whether you're the quarterback,

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running back, defensive end, whatever
it is. If you have a

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high enough profile, all this stuff
is going to be under a spotlight,

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right sure, And so that exact
thing has been happening now over the past

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week plus after the Cowboys lost to
the Packers. You get all the drama

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coming out and not just normal drama, but good old fashioned family drama.

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And I don't mean football family drama
where it's you know, Ceedee Lamb saying

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something about Dak, which maybe he
did, maybe, but it's honest to

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god, Cowboys players family members taking
to social media to either support their family

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member, blast a teammate, whatever
it is. The media is eating it

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up because it's it's one thing that
we love that we crave as humans,

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and that is drama in conflict.
And they're getting it from Ceedee Lamb's mama,

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from Dak Prescott's brother, from Micah
Parson's brother. And keeping in mind,

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this is not a new thing.
Family drama. You know, family

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in sports has has bled over for
forever, but it's it's more it's usually

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like one person. It might be
like one player's wife, or it might

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be one coach's girlfriend or something along
those lines. Here it's a while for

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a while, like uh, it
was Patrick Mahomes's brother, Yes, it

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was Aaron Rodgers' brother. Hm.
You know that there was always like kind

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of I always go back to like
Bill Clinton's brother. There was always like

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that that brother cousin whatever that you
know, someone that a problem but but

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the media in the case that Clinton
might have been the brother cousin. Yeah,

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well, but there's always been you
know what's is that the the Ball

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brothers and their dad. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there

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there's always always somewhat in the media
loves that, and especially in the in

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this age of social media, it's
it's it's free content. Good god.

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But yeah, with the Cowboys because
you have I mean, it's the perfect

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storm for for media if they go, oh wait, hang out, Cowboys,

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great season. Uh they've cowboy did
in the playoffs? Oh wait,

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oh, now we've got there's a
bunch of in house bickering. Yeah,

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where's the where's t o and the
popcorn? Exactly? And that's exactly what

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we've had over the last week plus. I saw Tara and I were at

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lunch and it was on one of
the daily you know, morning sports shows.

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Uh, I say lunch morning sports
show because we're two hours ahead of

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Dallas time here on Saint John.
So we go to lunch and on one

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of the TVs, I think it
was ESPN or ESPN something, it's the

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Get Up Show with Mike Green something, Mike, thank you, and uh,

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I took a photo of it because
I wanted to uh to visit this

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and it was Cowboys family drama that
they were discussing talking about Ceedee Lamb's mom's

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comments after the game, Dak Prescott's
brother Tad's comments after the game, and

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Terrence Parsons junior Micah's brother comments after
the game, and they're eating it up

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as as I'm pointing out, because
the Cowboys were good and then they flopped

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in the playoffs and all this stuff
comes bubbling out and it's not one family

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member, it's three, and they're
all attached to the three biggest stars that

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the Cowboys currently have. And I
will give you the example. So you've

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got a d Lamb's mom Leda Ramirez
after the game, she posted, Dak

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isn't it. She also went through
in the comments as people are commenting and

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she's responding to people doubling down on
it, saying they need to get rid

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of his ass, saying that Dak
Prescott does not want a ring. She

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says other Cowboys players work hard for
a ring and her son deserves better,

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her son being you know, Ceede
Lamb. And according to this article on

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si dot com, perhaps the most
concerning part of Ramirez's rent was when she

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replied to a Houston Texans fan wishing
Lamb would join them. She writes,

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I wish he would. CJ is
great talking about c J Stroud, So

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that's CD's mama. Then you got
Dak's brother Tad, who posts on Twitter

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slash x whatever you want to call
it, the wing eding Cowboys fans?

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Why continue to DM me? Trust
me? If I could get Dak to

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leave Dallas, I would. I
two want him out of Dallas. The

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city and organization have been great to
him and our family, but done with

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drama and the so called fans.
He but he loves this team and wants

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to bring it rings and then he
followed that up with saying he's not He's

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never spoken badly about the Cowboys as
an organization. He says he's never spoken

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badly about a player on the team
or the city of Dallas. It's the

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so called fans that he has an
issue with because they're pissed off at Dak

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for failing in the playoffs. And
then it's a the trifecta. You know,

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it's like the Cowboys in the history. We like things that come in

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threes, you know, Dak and
Michael and Emmett. We like our triplets.

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In this case the triplets. The
third one is Micah Parson's brother.

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Let's see what did he have to
say? He joins in on this,

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on this rigamarole, and he had
so much so that his brother had to

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kind of separate like Mike had to
separate some of the comments. Terrence Parsons

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said in one of a series of
posts defending Micah Parsons on his Twitter account,

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I can't wait because you all are
really clueless out here. The greatest

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crimes to this man is being done
by his own organization. Y'all gonna miss

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him when he's gone, to which
Micah had to respond any comments made by

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Terrence Parsons Junior or his and his
alone. As you know, if I

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have something to say, I'm not
afraid to say to love my team or

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brothers on my team in the city
of Dallas, and I'm more committed than

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ever to bring a championship to the
greatest fan base on Earth. Ooh right

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with family drama. Yeah, and
you get that like see to me,

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especially when you when you get Micah
Parsons, it really brings back the whole

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Russell Wilson and the Seattle defense and
after you know, the Super Bowl loss

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and how that blew up, and
you know, the defense thought Russell was

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a prima donna and everything else.
Because now you want to talk about if

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you have to make me choose,
I'm gonna choose Micah over Dak. Interesting

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Why do you say that, Like, is there something in your mind where

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you think the Cowboys should choose between
one of them, that you think where

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they should do something with Dak.
I know, I'm just saying, if

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you were to make me choose,
I would take your you know, seemingly,

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you know, Hall of Famer,
you know Edge Rusher over you know,

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the evidence I have of Micah parsons
greatness is to me more complete than

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it is of Dak. That makes
sense, No, that absolutely does make

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sense, especially when you think of
in terms of talent. Quarterbacks are better

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now than they've ever been coming into
the league, right because they throw the

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ball all over the field, not
only in college, but most of them

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have started even younger. Because the
spread offenses have been in high school football

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for over a decade now, and
that then has moved its way up into

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the NFL. Rings that's why,
So, that's why the time to judge

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a quarterback, the window after he's
drafted is so much smaller now than it

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used to be. Now you get
what a handful of games, maybe a

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season, and an organization is going
to decide whether or not they think you're

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the guy, right, yeah,
and if you don't do it in that

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very small amount of time, you're
gone, Whereas in the older days,

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you're committing more money. And maybe
part of that is because of the way

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those Iroki contracts are structured, but
because because of all those things combined,

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you know, years ago, you'd
give a quarterback five six years to actually

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develop into a quarterback, whereas the
quarterbacks nowadays are really close to being NFL

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developed by the time they get there. So it's it's a shorter window.

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And because of that, I think
that lends more credibility to what you're saying

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trade, which is it's more difficult
to find a once in a once in

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a lifetime a generational talent like a
Micah Parsons versus a quarterback like Dak Prescott

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who is undoubtedly good but not great. Right, Sorry, you can go

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find another good quarterback, right,
And that's not you know the other thing

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you really have to factor into with
Dak right now, is you know they're

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wanting to restructure, you know,
his deal, and you're talking about making

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him I've heard some reports of the
highest paid quarterback in the league. I

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mean, it won't last long,
but you know, you have one of

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the biggest things I think you really
have to look at with Jerry Jones and

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the Cowboys in the history is he
won three Super Bowls before the salary cap

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was really implemented. The salary cap
that he basically came up with and and

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presented and pushed through has you know, he could money whip a team better

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than anybody, but salary caps has
not been his friend. It's only been

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in the last I'll say, I'll
give him ten year, eight to ten

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years that and I think it's been
since Steven kind of took over some of

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those duties that they've managed the salary
cap better. Which is something else that

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you're saying they're having to navigate going
into the off season, because here we

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are, we're not even past the
Super Bowl yet Cowboys have lost, and

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we're already having off season conversations like
Dak's contract because he's technically signed through twenty

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twenty six. He's got the second
highest draft cap hit going into this year.

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But they can restructure him without asking
his permission. They have some sort

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of conversion thing in the contract.
And I don't like getting too far into

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contract stuff because then it makes it
sound like lawyers. And but there's something

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they can do to convert some of
that money to lessen his cap hit,

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spread it out over a couple of
years, changing it into bonus money versus

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salary, which is not a new
thing. That something happens very commonly.

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They restructure a contract, they move
to ery and de signing bonus and there

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you have it. But they could
do that for Dak or to Dak without

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getting his permission for it. He's
still going to make a ton of money,

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don't get me wrong. But then
there's the other side of it,

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Like you're saying, Trey, is
now the time for DAC to say,

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hey, let's go ahead and just
make a whole new deal, Which if

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I'm the Cowboys, I say no. But I don't know what they would

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do because, like we were saying, you can find a quarterback more easily

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than you can another Micah Parsons,
especially for cheaper. All you got to

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do is look at rock Perty in
San Francisco and look how much he's making

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less than arch Manning is at Texas, and arch Manning is not even the

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starter. Yeah, thanks of those
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becomes, if you're Dak, do
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extension because you're just sucked in your
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I guess we'll see what he and
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think it also it highlights the other
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Cowboys especially, which is if you
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you could trade Dak and get a
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are plenty of other teams that would
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then saying, all right, we're
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go find a quarterback. So and
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thing of you know, you're talking
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year process, and Jerry didn't.
I don't think Jerry is looking for,

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you know, a five year rebuild. No, he's not. I think

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I think he knows very much that
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that's the way he's approaching things.
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I'm on Dak's side of things,
if I'm Dak's representation, which I think

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is CIA or whoever it is,
that's where you got to say, hey,

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we've got a little bit of leverage
here because we're negotiating against a man

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who's negotiating against death. And there's
no time like the present, because we

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know you, mister Ji Zones,
don't want to miss out on this window

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because if you get go with somebody
else, you're probably gonna die before they

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ever do anything worth mentioning. So
you got your guy now, so let's

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pay him like it. And that's
that's a pretty good uh uh you know

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erro to have in your quiver if
you're negotiating on the bark of Dak Prescott

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is well, what do you want
to do you want to die or do

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you want to you want at least
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Dak's agent, I'm going look,

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look, Trent Dilfer won a super
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better than Trent Dilfer. Stick with
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you're his agent to go. You've
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he's very good like he he can
he can get it for you. Yeah,

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so it really is a simple thing. I think at this point Dak

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could honestly just fire his agents and
we could hire Hi, hire the treehouse

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here, and then we could do
a very simple visual presentation of two photos

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to show to the Jones family on
resigning Dak. One is a far deck

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looking very handsome right after scoring a
touchdown, pointing the finger up to his

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mom in heaven and you're going,
let's go. And the next photo is

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a grave with a headstone that says
here lies Jerry Jones. And then you

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just tell them Dak or death.
Yeah that's and then you thank them for

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their time and they walk out and
say I await your response. Maybe that's

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you know what, Maybe that should
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season for the Cowboys. This last
year it was the carpet Omnia that sees

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everything, in which they of course
sees nothing other than the NFC East Crown,

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which is it doesn't matter if you
don't do anything with it in the

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playoffs, So you go from the
twenty twenty three motto of you know,

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seize everything carpe Onium Omnia to twenty
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and just you know, doc or
death, death very much. That's very

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much where I am. Yes,
And that's that's an interesting thing is you

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can do that. You can do
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you know, you can go to
the Jerry Jones be like dock or Death

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and then someone says death and it's
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It's like no, no, no, I meant doc. I met deck.

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All right, you can have We're
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this point, I think I think
I'm on board with this. Dock or

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Death. Dock or Death, start
printing the T shirts. Man, I

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can't wait for next season. Yeah, you're listening to the tree House.

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Just after today's episode, one more
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So now that we've covered the Cowboys family

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drama, we now have the twenty
twenty four slogan ready to roll for T

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shirts and stickers Dock or Death,
which really just puts a big will smile

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on my face as I get ready
for the next season. That gives us

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an opportunity to look back at the
divisional round that the Cowboys obviously did not

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participate in, and ahead to the
conference championships. So we've got last weekend.

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The Ravens took care of the Texans
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there. The forty nine Ers survived
the Packers twenty four to twenty one,

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the Lions sunk the Buccaneers thirty one
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of the weekend, the Chiefs on
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playoffs. They beat the Bills twenty
seven to twenty four in what basically came

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out to be kind of an anti
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again a Buffalo kicker missing a crucial
fuel goal, so I felt bad for

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that dude, but it was not
entirely his fault, although Jim Nance did

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give him one hell of a jinx
right beforehand. Yeah oh man, but

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that was the game I watched the
most closely. I watched all of that

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one, the Chiefs and the Bills
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the marquee matchup of the weekend because
it's, you know, it's it's Alan

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versus Mahomes, It's Kelsey and Kelsey
and Swift. It's got, you know,

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all the excitement that you want from
an NFL playoff game. And Mahomes

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again beats the Bills. Alan can't
quite pull it out, and again not

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because of the kicker, although he
obviously missed his opportunity, but you also

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had some key drops in that game
by Bill's wide receivers. I feel bad

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for Buffalo fans. They kept showing
that one dude in the stands crying his

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eyes out, and I feel it's
like, you know, he dug himself

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out of his house to go to
the game, to then dig out his

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own seat in the stands to only
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get it, yeah, and you
know you. I always say one of

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the most unappreciated accomplishments in sports history
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Bowls in a row. I agree, but that's still got to be just

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a bitter pill that you've made it
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a super Bowl. You know,
it's almost like a like a really twisted

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Morpheus in the matrix, Like instead
of him offering a blue pill and a

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red pill, it's his hand holding
out a blue pill and a red pill,

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and then his other hand is a
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you get really really really really close, but you never get there. Yeah.

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know, that's uh. I thought
that the the Bills game the Bill's Chiefs

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game was interesting because both teams had
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at it, very kind of for
their standards mediocre years. Yeah, I

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know, it's weird to think.
It's weird to say that because eleven and

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six for those two teams kind of
because they both had points in their season

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where they struggled, but like most
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time to make a run in the
playoffs, which, of course, as

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we covered some over previous weeks,
the Cowboys have yet to figure out how

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to do that. But as we
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you get a matchup a lot of
people that were predicting at the beginning of

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the year. It's the Ravens,
it's the Chiefs. Who are you taking

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trade? You know I have.
I've gone back and forth on this and

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I think Lamar Jackson is an incredible
talent. But at the end of the

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day, it's a cliche. But
you know, you can't beat the man

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until you beat the man, and
so right now I'm going to go with

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the Chiefs because they've done it.
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It's the one knock against Lamar Jackson
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but Baltimore is playing. Yeah,
it is probably the best team in the

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league, so they should win it. Ooh, this is why we need

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a should jar Because my wife and
I learned years ago than one of the

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most dangerous words in the English languages, the word should just because something should

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happen doesn't mean that it will.
There are numerous examples of that in our

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lives that we've had to experience.
So whenever we hear the word should,

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we get real antsy about it.
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on the eyeball test, the Ravens
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they are, although I don't think
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what the line is at the point. I don't know what Vegas thinks about

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it, but I'm certain it's razor
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think until some team can prove otherwise, you got to ride with the Chiefs.

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I've adopted the Chiefs as my team
for the remainder of this postseason one

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because they're originally from Dallas. They're
they're the original professional Dallas football team.

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were moved by the Hunt family to
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team is in Kansas City. So
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man, I'm I'm I'm I'm getting
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into the Swift Kelsey stuff, even
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It was one of those social media
algorithms that showed her something and she

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clicked on it. And then,
just like the Social Dilemma documentary on that

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Flicks, she clicked on that one
thing and then it kept feeding her stuff,

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and like pac Man, she keep
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change the Kansas City logo from Casey

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Chiefs to Casey Swifties. And I'm
I'm enthralled. I like seeing Taylor do

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the swag dance thing in the stands, and I loved even more seeing Jason

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Kelcey up in the stands shirtless,
drinking beer and giving giving Taylor Swift the

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full Kelsey family experience that she had
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that's what had left me wondering and
say, Okay, now you're getting the

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full Kelsey family experience. Are you
still in? And she seems like it.

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cracked me up. Because I don't

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know. If you saw the video
of him, you know, out in

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the parking lot, you know,
chugging beers with the Bills fans. Yeah,

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what did he do? Did he
take a shot out of a cannon

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ball or is that a bowling ball
or yeah, I'm not sure if that

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was liquor in there, or it
could have been straight up gunpowder out of

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a cannon ball, and I think
he still would have downed it. Yeah,

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just belched up a you know,
giant flame and gone about his day.

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I would like to. I would
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if Jason Kelsey is wondering what he
wants to do for the next phase of

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his life called retirement, if he
wants to have, you know, a

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part time job just to kind of
stay busy on occasion, he just he

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could hire out his services as a
one man cheering section to whoever wants him.

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I don't care if it is,
you know, the speech you have

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to give at the PTA. I
don't care if it's a motivational speech that

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you need to give your kid's t
ball team, or if I don't know,

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if it's trying to muster up the
courage to ask a girl out on

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a date. If I could have
one person as my cheering section, it

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would, honest to God, be
Jason Kelsey. I want that man in

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my corner. Okay, I don't
disagree with you at all. I think

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that is a fantastic idea. But
I think there's one better, which is

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so you remember how like Fox started
it and they did it with only Sarah

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Gusa, they do like the man
on the field, and you know he

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was the lineman and he was going
to give you the you know, the

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in game perspective of what man you
mic up. You know, Kelsey put

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him shirtless in the stands drinking beer
with the fans. I want that sideline

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report. I want that fourth quarter
commentary. You know you're right because first

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quarter man I want. I want
I want the the the right after the

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third or fourth quarter beer sales cutoff
report from the stands with kell Yeah.

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No, I think that's I think
he could do both. I think uh

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he could do he could also he
could motivate your t ball team or motivate

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you before you know, your softball
game or something. And then also I

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want that in game report from the
fans in the stands with Jason Kelsey.

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Yeah, I mean, I just
you know, I want to hear Jim

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Nance do a play by play of
of of Kelsey, you know, doing

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a beer bong, you know,
from with a ten foot you know hat

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just just something stupid, you know
what that's That's not the play by play

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we need, but it's the play
by play we deserve. Meanwhile, you've

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got the on the other side of
the conference title game. You've got the

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Detroit Lions up against the non surprising
to be there San Francisco forty nine ers.

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Who are you taking there? Niners? Yeah, there's no way you

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can believe in Detroit. I mean
that joke exists on multiple levels. I

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don't I don't believe in Detroit,
but I do believe in Dan Campbell.

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I do believe in that man's ability
to motivate people. And it's not gonna

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happen, at least not right now. But I can't help but wonder when

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I see what he's been able to
do in Detroit, and knowing that he

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started his career as a Dallas Cowboy. I'm Jason Witten. I can't help

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but think, what would a Dan
Campbell mentality due to a Cowboys team that

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especially coming off of a year like
this one where one of our biggest complaints

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with this Cowboys team was that they
seem to have, you know, no

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fire in their bellies, no balls
when they needed it. And that's everything

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Dan Campbell brings to the table.
Oh yeah, I mean you're talking about

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going from you know, no expression
on the sideline to you know, he

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you don't know if he's gonna kill
somebody or cry. Yeah, as a

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player, that's an interesting relationship to
have with your coach as you look over

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to the sideline and you're not sure
if he loves you or hates you,

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Like you don't know if he wants
to hug you or kill you, but

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you might be in danger either way. He is a hunter. He is

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a hunter, like like Micah Parsons
has his lion dance. He likes to

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say lionny type things. Meanwhile,
if he was to look over at the

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sidelines, Dan Campbell's going to be
wearing a lion and let's see how you

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respond. Then it's like like Dan
Campbell, while being a hunter, he

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doesn't necessarily have to have a trophy
wall where he puts all of his trophies

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up. He just probably just throws
him on. That's just like his T

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shirt game, a T shirt of
caps. It might be more of like

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a combination, like it's like the
it's the backward because the backward Lions head.

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That would be really impressive. All
right, I'm proposing a trade right

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now, McCarthy for Campbell, and
it's not going to be an even trade

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because they're not. We're going to
have to give a lot more to Detroit.

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Maybe maybe if we gave maybe,
if we proposed to trade with Detroit,

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we get Dan Campbell, they get
Mike McCarthy and Roanoke we got a

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nice, lovely suburb. Well you
know, I mean, I'm trying to

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think, McCart we're not gonna miss
Roanoke that much. We still got south

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Lake and Trophy Club. We have, we have North Terrence County, nice

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suburbs to spare. We can we
can we can ship one off to Detroit

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along with Mike McCarthy. If we
can get Dan Campbell wearing animal carcasses on

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the sidelines. Yeah, I'm trying
to think what else, what could sweeten

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the deal. I mean, we
can try to we could try to sneak

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Sunny Vale in there. Yeah,
I don't. I don't think that's what

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Detroit needs. I was thinking more
along, you know, like we're it's

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a little tech hub that you know, you could throw it in and then

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they could fix RoboCop. So what
we could do is sneak round rock in

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there and see if Austin noises.
Exactly awesome to be happy to get right

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of around. Let's throw a part
of the deal, all right. See,

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the entire off season has been has
been done. We're all done.

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There's no there's nothing anyone else on
any other sports choked and say we've got

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it all handled. We just need
the Jones family to pull the trigger.

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Yeah, and and set up you
know, Dan Campbell and let him go

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on a hunting trip, you know, Safari, and see what headwear he

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brings back. I'm gonna laugh when
it's Tony Pollard. I'm kidding, I'm

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kidding. We'll have more to more
football to discuss next week right here Inside

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the Tree has Football podcast. And
the only the only way that Dan Campbell

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would truly be able to to to
get Tony Pollard is because he'd probably fall

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down. We'll see you next week.