Football #3: We Jinx Dem Boyz

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Welcome into the Treehouse Football Podcast.
I'd say leave your worries outside, it's

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time for the Treehouse. But this
is not that kind of a show.

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This is the football version of the
Treehouse Podcast, which means there's gonna be

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a lot of sadness in here,
a little panic, a little bit of

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panic, and a whole lot of
regret. Like going to Arizona and playing

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the Cardinals. Yeah, I'm sure
the Cowboys instantly regretted having to do that.

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But you know what, we really
need to give credit where credit is

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due, and that is not to
the Cardinals. We need to give credit

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to our very own Raj Sharmah for
Jinks, the Dallas Cowboys. Yes,

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thank you, thank you very much. Thank you said you know, you

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said it couldn't be done, And
I'm sorry that I had to prove you

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guys wrong. Yeah that's what I
said. Dan, I'm sorry, but

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I don't know that I'm gonna let
you off the hook with this because you

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were the one who absolutely stated that, you know, do not give yourself

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the power of the jinks and that
you tempted, you were tempting fate with

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that. Oh so you're blaming me
and you're trying to take their credit away

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from Raj. I'm laying it at
both of y'all's feet. Okay, so

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it's a team effort. Good good
for team Treehouse. Yes, this is

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the this is manager trade talking.
It really is. This is yeah,

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this is Trey doing the very good
manager things, spreading the blame and not

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taking any of it onto himself.
Tray, you're like the program director of

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the Treehouse podcast. Hey, I
will say this, Like I said,

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go ahead, Tray Dan, You're
you're really the very Yeah, you well

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appreciate this, but I'm like,
you know, of the history of program

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directors. I love Gavin, but
I'm like, this was just fun here.

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It's like, wow, does that
make me like Bob McNeil. That

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is a throwback name for anyone listening. I'll put some glasses right here and

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then just leave, all right.
The very quick story roars when we were

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back on CBS Radio on even five
three, which went through with two different

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names, but that was you know, we had Howard Stern in the mornings,

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and then we were you know,
we were on the Rust Martin showing

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the afternoon, the very first program
director of that station, and that station

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was on the air from I think
it was like April of two thousand through

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December of two thousand and eight.
Bob McNeil, the original program director,

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had his job down to not just
a science but an art form. Because

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I met him, didn't I you? I think I did. The name

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sounds really familiar. It's very possible
he came up on the show quite a

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bit because or he was on the
show quite a bit. So anyway,

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Bob, you know, he was
a country music programmer and they changed his

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talk format, and he was just
kind of like the format. He was

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free wheeling it and just trying to
trial an air. Let's see what happens.

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And so when on the days that
he really wasn't feeling it, feeling

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it being work, oh, he
would he would take his throw down pair

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of glasses, put them on his
desk, put on his normal glasses,

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walk out of his office, leave
the door open and the light on,

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and then he'd get in his car
and drive to a golf course and play

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golf. Everyone at the station,
however, would walk by his office and

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it appears he's just left momentarily,
and we'll be back any minute. Ah

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with the glasses. Yep, Well
play aid I like his style. Yeah,

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he was a fun boss. He
was a really, really really fun

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boss. He was more of the
management style of DA don't lose the license.

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That's exactly what it was. But
that's exactly his management style. When

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I got RAJ you did you did
my weekend show for many many years.

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When when when we first got that
show on the air, Bob's instructions to

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us were, and I quote,
have fun, don't lose the license.

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There was nothing else, There was
no structure, guidance, there was there

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was nothing. Have fun, but
don't lose the license. Got it and

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off form. And I think that
I think that for that the specific type

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of radio shows that both of them
were, I think it made for a

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productive work environment as opposed to something
that would you would feel it was a

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hindrance. Not having his presence.
Yes, he he He let you be

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you. He let you be created
without putting any constraints on you. He

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also let rust throw fireworks at us. So yeah, yeah, yeah,

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we were breaking the law on a
daily basis. Now, I will say

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this, the tactic of appearing to
be caring about what your team is doing.

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Yeah, that actually seems like kind
of like what the Cowboys game plan

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was, or at least the game
plan from Mike McCarthy, because he actually

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looked like he just set his glasses
down on the desk for the week and

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stepped out to do whatever the hell
else it was besides appearing to get the

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team ready for a game in Arizona. Now, let's get back to let's

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get back to whether or not we
need to change the name of this show,

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and maybe we do. Maybe we
do need to change the name of

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this show from the Treehouse Football Podcast
too, we Jinks dym Boys, I

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like it. And first of all, at Trey, I'm not gonna let

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you steal this moment from me.
I would like to thank everybody that didn't

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believe it was possible for me too, Jinks, an entire team of adults.

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And I did. And I said
by name who I thought was looking

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great and was back in the mix
and ready to take take on the season.

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I said his name, I said, Trayvon Diggs. And I do

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recall seeing the alert on my phone
and texting one Daniel O'Malley and saying,

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you didn't think I could do it, did you? You son of a

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bitch? Trayvon Diggs out with a
practice. It's amazing. The next damn

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day day that the day that RAJ
says he's looking good. I don't want

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to jinx it. They're looking good. I don't want to jinx it.

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The very next day, Trayvon Diggs
acl snaps and then come time for the

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game in Arizona and your jinks.
RAJ has seemingly spread like a virus through

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the team and managed to take out
three of the five offensive line starters.

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Correct, I still felt very confident
going into that game without Trevon Diggs.

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Still confidence very high. But once
I saw in the pregame that three of

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the five starting offensive linemen, including
Zach Martin, were out or questionable,

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that was when I started to get
concerned. Yeah, I knew what was

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going to happen with that, and
it happens with a lot of teams.

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Is a leader and a credible player
like Treyvon Diggs gets hurt and they lose,

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and they pin it on that particular
person being gone. Well, you

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know, the secondary wasn't ready.
The team whatever it is, Team Morales,

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secondary is not ready. Whatever it
is, They're gonna go well,

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you know, with without without Treyvon
Diggs, there that's I've heard this so

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many times in the last week.
Really, well, you know, Trayvon

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digs out. I'm like, but
he's one dude. Oh you're talking about

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just people just talking in general,
not people that actually know what they're talking

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about. Correct, just just just
overhearing people talking about the Cowboys and it's

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like, well, you know,
they didn't have and I'm like, well,

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that's correct, and hey, look
I understand. I understand they didn't

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have Diggs. And if you were
facing an elite quarterback like Patrick Mahomes or

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something, or possibly what appears to
be Jordan Love in Green Bay, those

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Lucky Packers. But in reality,
if you're playing against the Patrick Mahomes and

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you get lit up in the secondary, and then you can say, well,

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you know what, if Trayvon Diggs
is in the game, we're talking

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we're talking about a different outcome possibly. Whereas when it's rocket scientists, Josh

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Dobbs and own to Arizona Cardinals,
whose main objective at the end of this

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season is to secure the first pick
in next year's NFL draft, Yeah,

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it ain't on the fact that Trayvon
Diggs didn't play. Now, if you

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want to skew some and say,
hey, you had three out of five

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offensive lineman not playing, including one
guaranteed Hall of Famer in Zach Martin and

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possibly another Hall of Famer in Tyron
Smith. Yeah, you could point,

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as they see, that's that's amine
your problem. That could be why they

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were not successful in Arizona. But
when you actually watched the game, yeah,

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Cowboys didn't lose that game because they
had a majority of backups in on

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the offensive line. They lost the
game because they sucked. Yeah, I

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it looked like it reminded me of
the Quincy Carter days of the Cowboys.

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Here's why, Here's here's old.
No, no, no, here's why.

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Because I used to own a nightclub
in Deep Alum called Chrome, and

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a couple of those guys would come
in and I'd see them, I do

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you know, I'm I'm the owner
the club. I would go over and

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hug them and you know, give
and they would they would always pay.

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I would give them the VIP lounge
for free. And there's many a night

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that I went isn't today's Saturday?
H And I go, oh, they

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have a game tomorrow. And I
remember there was one specific game where I

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was loose for pre game. I
remember what there was one where Quincy Carter

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had four interceptions in one game and
I was like, I know why,

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Like that's called hungover and they look
like I saw some of their faces.

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I'm like, did they get to
Arizona early? Like, because Arizona is

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a great part like Phoenix Tempe that
it's a great flagstap Like, oh,

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that's a great party tap like they
have fantastic bar, that fantastic nightlife.

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Like did they get their date early
and nobody said go to bed at ten?

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Like, I don't know what happened. Oh, they'll tell them those

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things and they'll have the team meeting
the night before we're on the road.

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They're at the team hotel and all
those things and all that doesn't necessarily mean

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they follow it. Or that also
doesn't mean that they didn't bring in the

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evening's entertainment to the rooms. Okay, I don't know how it'll works.

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I'm just like some of them just
look like. I'm like, man,

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that guy looked hung over. That's
that's that's how they were playing. I

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like Dan's you know, the thought
of the fact that Mike McCarthy they have

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just put his glasses on the desk, and you have been like, whoa

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crap, we're two and oh hey, let's let's take a break. You's

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go party. Yeah, And that's
all I've seen on ESPN News is like

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is this was this just a bad
game or is this a bad sign overall

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for the remainder of the season.
I think three games in that's you would

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think, so, okay, I
would The only reason I say yes to

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that as far as a bad sign
is because that's that's what we've seen from

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Cowboys teams for the last thirty years. Yeah, not all of them,

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but like the ones that were supposedly
good, they'd be really good, and

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then they'd have a showing like this
one and then and then now you don't

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know which team you have. You
don't know which team is going to show

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up. It's the bipolar Cowboys.
Yeah. I'm just wondering, like,

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is it is it? You know, presumptuous to go. We were three

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games in, this is the season's
over? Like, well, let's hold

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on, let's see, let's see
what they do, Like what adjustments may

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I think they walked into Arizona with
we got this. I know we got

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a couple of hurt people. We
don't have to try that hard. So

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let's not over extend anybody else because
we have people that are out, So

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let's just play like we're just at
this. And then I think by the

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time it hit them, oh we
don't got this, it was way too

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late. Yeah, and it was
evident because you can see when people are

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trying to play, when they're playing
catchup. You can tell, like you

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can see like the panic on the
sidelines, and once you see that,

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even as a spectator, especially the
opposing team, like we got them,

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look at them on their heels now
because they weren't expecting this, and the

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Cardinals needed some sort of boost to
get people to come back to watch games

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that aren't season ticket holders. I
think just a quick point in there is

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like when when the Cowboys go to
Arizona. Arizona has no problem selling tickets

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because they have a huge mass of
Cowboys fans in there, and as you

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watching the game, you saw just
you know, i'd say a quarter to

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a third of the people in the
stands are wearing Cowboys stuff. Tray was

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it? What was it? You're
going to say, Oh, I mean

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I was gonna say that it's it
with the NFL. It's the tendency is

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to have these you know, big
overreactions of oh my god, what's we're

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a dumpster fire, when in point
of fact, there's so much parody that

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they could come out this weekend and
and you know, kill the Patriots and

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all as well. That's very true. I heard someone say before, and

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this is absolutely accurate. How as
Cowboys fans we live and die week to

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week. And I don't think that's
exclusive to us as Cowboys fans, but

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we seem to own a little bit
more than others. Like if you're a

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Browns fan and you lose a game
like this, you're like okay, Whereas

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as a Cowboys fan, especially one
that we're alive and watching the nineties Cowboys,

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Yeah, our highs are really high
and our lows are really low,

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and we need we need some type
of pill to you know, even us

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out. That's funny that you mentioned
that there was I saw a clip of

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a METEOROLOGI doing the weather and he
said, uh, the the hot temperature

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this week. We'll peek in the
nineties, much like the Dallas Cowboys,

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and I was like, you can't
be mad at it because it's accurate.

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It was good. I like,
I wanted to hate the guy and I

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don't know where what city was in, but I wanted to hate the guy.

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And I was like, but I
mean thinking like on your feet like

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that, Like that was clever.
Like I gotta give you credit for that.

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And there has been every season is
that is now we have the right

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people in place. So when we
got Dad and Zeke okay, we got

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and we got him, this is
going to be the guys that are gonna

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take us to the Now. It's
every season is like, who who do

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we have? Now? That's going
to be the three you know, the

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triplets or whatever, whatever slogan or
whatever, not a Moniker you want to

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give it now. We have to
find that every season and then it's a

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letdown because oh my god, we
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then now we don't. You know, I don't want to think that one

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game like this could end it,
but I mean morale wise, just being

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in town after that game, and
just Tredy knows as well, just listening

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to people talk about it, especially
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I'm like, did anybody see Denver
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Denver given up to seventy points.
I'm so glad because that actually made me

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feel a little bit better knowing at
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and had seventy points hung up on
us. Yeah. Yeah, but it

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also makes you feel worse because Miami
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ago and right now. I mean, if you want to have, you

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know, overreaction, it's like I
would put the Eagles and the Dolphins in

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the Super Bowl, and I don't
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But if you want to talk about
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especially the Dolphins are scary good like
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They're fun to watch. I never
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but I mean they've even I didn't
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He looks great when he's not concussed
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well, but it's it's like,
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so fast and he gets the ball
out quickly. Then you it does bring

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up the eternal question of the Cowboys
of you know, is Dak the man?

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Is he just a good quarterback?

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He is. He is the quintessential
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the Cowboys over the last thirty years. And unwittingly the person who would have

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had that before him was Tony Romo. And and that is you've got You've

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got two guys that are capable of
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things, but at the end of
the day, they still have nothing to

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show for it, and sometimes they
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And there's a specific version of Dak
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seeing it, and that is wide
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game like the one in Arizona on
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open like he's looking for a like
a like, a like he's looking for

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a lure, and he looks lost, as if someone pulled him out of

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a pond, dropped him in the
middle of an NFL state even say,

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play quarterback and he was a fish
five minutes earlier. Stop it now,

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keeping in mind, that's wide mouth
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Yeah. Then there's Dak who's like
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and he's screaming, let's f and
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Whenever I see wide mouth Dak,
I just my stomach starts to turn and

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I just just I feel like there's
a there's a baby bass somewhere who's missing

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daddy. That's the that's the panic
that I'm talking about. When you can

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look on the sidelines and you see
their faces, you know, you can't

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hide that. Like back in the
day the camera angles and they wouldn't zoom

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in whatever it was. Now,
i mean they're up close and personal and

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they've got you know, so much
technology to where you can see like individual

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players and their reactions to certain things, and I'm like, yeah, I

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mean they look scared and they look
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The difference with the thing that I
didn't like about Tony Romo was the a

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shucks Romo where he would throw an
interception, be like dad, damn it,

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and slap his knee and then just
hop off. I'm like, he

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didn't have that. I knew we
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I knew that for a fact.
He didn't have that killer Let me

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get in the huddle and yell at
these people as my teammates, as their

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leader to take this to the next
level of play that they're capable of.

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He was the guy that you wanted
at the party, Yeah, as opposed

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to you know, leading it to
the super Bowl. Yeah, he's like

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a cool youth pastor, you know, I mean like I know y'all,

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but here and in another lifetime he
probably was. Like if if Tony Romo

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was to be dropped into the Marvel
Cinematic universe, he probably would be a

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really cool youth pastor in one of
those other universes. Yeah, like I

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wanted to play. Do you think
that in one of those other universes he

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would have won a super Bowl or
still zero? I mean I don't,

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I don't. I don't know which
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did hours obviously because he's gone now, but yeah, he just didn't have

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that. But if you watch him
do the color commentary, like he's a

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clinical genius, Like he's calling plays
before the ball snap and everybody that works

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with him is like, well you
were right again. Tony's like, I

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know I'm this good and his quarterback
ranking was amazing, but he just didn't

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have that thing. Aikman had it. Aikman had that thing. I'm going

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to murder you in your sleep.
That is exactly what it is. Like.

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You don't win this, we don't
win this today, you die.

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I think he's drunk and serious,
like and everyone else on the sidelines telling

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you every all the other players go
like, Trey will find I mean Troy

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will find you. Yeah, he
knows where we all live. Like he

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asked for addresses at the beginning of
the season. I thought that was weird.

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online at Treehouse on air dot com. Welcome back into the Treehouse Football Podcast.

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I'm Daniel Malley along with Trey Trenholme
and Raj Sharma. Before we skip

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ahead and start thinking about the Patriots
this weekend at at and T Stadium in

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Arlington, let's uh, let's finish
up dog piling on the on the Cowboys

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effort in Arizona. I would like
to take. Outside of giving our show

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too much credit on Jinxing Dim Boys, which we may or may not have

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done, I need to say that
I am actually very impressed about something that

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Cowboys did on Sunday in Arizona,
and that was lay such a massive turd

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on the field in Arizona that tens
of thousands of people showed up to see

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it, and then millions more around
the world turned on their televisions to also

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see this massive turd in the middle
of Arizona and a football game happened around

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it. Yes, that was extremely
impressive on the Cowboys park because I know

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a lot of times, like on
sports shows, after a game, especially

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after a bad loss, and that's
all losses are bad, but sometimes when

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it's against a team that on paper
and in your heart you know you should

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have won, but you don't,
it's a bad loss. That being said,

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those shows, we'll say, all
right, look it was bad,

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But what's what's a silver lining?
What's what was something positive you could take

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out of the game. Mine was, well, you know, at least

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the Cowboys are back to being regular. We're striving for mediocrity. Well,

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you know what, when I guess
what happened in the first two weeks.

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Uh, you know it made us
feel good because you know, they put

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up you know what, like seventies
or they put up a ton of points

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in the first two games. The
defense looked phenomenal. And then and then

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they show up in Arizona and just
drop a massive turd in the middle of

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the stadium and call it a day. And that's kind of infuriating. But

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as Cowboys fans were kind of used
to it, Yes, and and I

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did uh and uh Treyvon Diggs season, and I feel terrible for it.

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Uh. And I would like to
offer uh the jinxing power that I clearly

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have to Like, let's say the
to New England that's coming up, what

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should what should I what should I
mention for them that I jinx New England.

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Now, let's just see if it
were if if if I, if

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we mentioned just give me one specific
person from New England that we can we

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can say, you know what,
I'm I will he's looking really good and

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I and that's the jinks. And
if it does happen, oh, you'll

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know. So I would like to
stop you there. I don't want us

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to wish any injury or anything like
that on the part of any player.

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So the name I'm going to give
you rag, so I would like for

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you to jinks is Bill Belichick for
this week. Okay, Boys take on

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the Patriots at home. Yeah,
and Bill Belichick has recently found himself single.

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And I don't think there's anything more
dangerous in the NFL than a Bill

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Belichick with too much free time.
Yeah. I mean, because when Bill

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Belichick has that much free time to
game plan or still your playbook or you

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know, videotape your practices, whatever
it is, that man needs a distraction.

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So what I would like for you
to do, Raj is to wish

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a girlfriend upon Bill Belichick to distract
him properly against this Calvin, I think

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he's as a human being, has
turned a corner and love will find him

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shortly. He had he had,
My heart is full, he had a

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woman. He was he had a
woman when they were winning. Actually,

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I know I would say I jinxed
them and wish Mac Jones good health,

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all right. I want him to
stay as as healthy as he possibly can

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as he makes his way to AT
and T Stadium to play hour Dallas Cowboys.

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I wish him nothing but health and
prosperity. Let's see, Trey,

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you may be my evil list of
friends. Like at this point, I

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don't think that you were ever a
real estate agent or a radio host and

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producer in your career. I don't
think that you are a service industry manager.

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I think in your real life,
I think you live at the Continental

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down the hall from john Wick,
and you find joy in ending people while

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telling them I wish you nothing but
the best. I like how he's getting

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blamed for and I'm the jinxer.
This is fantastic. Keep it up,

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I think is really good. I
think we have something on I think we

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have something we could really build on
here, which is we use Rod his

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face and Trey's words yes to just
absolutely demolish whatever the target is for that

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week against the Cowboys. So maybe
for this week and Mac Jones, we

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release a photo of Mac looking great
throwing a football. He's not broken or

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in a car crash or anything like
that on the field. But then a

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quote from Trey that says, we
hear at the Treehouse Football podcast, wish

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you nothing but the best. Yah. Yeah, good health and happiness,

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and may Belichick find the one love
of his life. But Trey. You're

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right. I know Belichick had had
his woman there for many, many years,

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even when they were winning, but
that was a long term relationship.

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She knew the deal he had.
He had laid down the lines like look,

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I gotta do football and stuff,
so she didn't distract him as much

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as as one could have. Now, if you you you drop a new

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girlfriend in his app, that's saying
you know what you're You're great. You

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don't you don't need to spend an
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Let's let's go have a drink.
Let's let's go get some dessert. Let's

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let's go, you know, let's
go meet my family or maybe you know

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Robert Kraft is like, hey,
you look tense, come with me and

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get a massage. And I don't
want to see is all of a sudden

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Belichick has a new girlfriend and he
wears number twelve. That would be bad.

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Yeah, that's a relationship that I
don't want to see backslide because that

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would be bad for everybody. Although
hilarious, it makes for a great rom

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com script. I mean, you
know that first game when you know Tom

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they retired Tom Brady's number. You
know, Belichick It's like every relationship.

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Yeah, you may have parted ways
and it wasn't great, but all of

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a sudden you look back them and
those are good times. Is good?

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No, no, no, you're
right. And what's the other thing that

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they're thinking? Man, that sex
was great. I would like to make

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this. I would like to make
this an idea possible for ABC, maybe

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next year's Golden Bachelor. Bill Belichick, I'm both intrigued and horrified. Just

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on one head, I would watch
that. On the other hand, he

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is not going to hold back on
telling those chicks why he's not having them

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on his team. No, he'll
get a power point presentation to pointers this

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wrong. You moved wrong here,
you didn't fight. I told you to

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follow the play I'm gonna need you
to grab your playbook and follow me.

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That's what he hands out, insaid
of Roses. You're still on the team.

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He just narrows it down to twelve. That's it. That's eleven and

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a backup and then and then you
know how they like to have the big

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shocker, then the shocker when the
extra turns, and then Tom Brady comes

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walking. I would watch this.
Yes, they always got to drop that

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twist. On you. All right, I feel like that's a pretty solid

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preview of Cowboys Patriots this Sunday.
Now, I do have one Cowboys question

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though, all Right, has it
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it is scheme or just person but
Cowboys backup running back might be the best

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job in sports in the NFL for
a running back because it's it seems like,

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However, I don't know, like
I said, Pollard last year,

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was Zeke great this year? But
then what's a deuce? That's a guy's

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name? I think I was really
hoping you were going to say Biggelow.

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have been right in Tray's wheelhouse of of

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misappro misplacing hosts and names of things
in different places. I still love that.

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scheme or personnel, but and how
they use the starter versus the backup.

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a sweet spot. Well you say that,

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but I mean Pollard actually had himself
a decent day. Yeah, But

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I just like he actually had a
really good day statistically. He just doesn't

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seem as explosive as he was to
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he again, I don't. I
hesitate and again, And maybe it's because

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it's so frustrated with Zeke that you
saw him and it's like, oh,

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that's great, and now it's like, I don't know. It may also

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be a compared contrast type of thing, because last year, when you have

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Zekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard, it
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Like when Tony Pollard comes in and
he's flying down the field and then Zeke

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comes back in and it looks like
his, you know, his, like

405
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:36.880
he's running in peanut butter. Then
that's an easy contrast to make, whereas

406
00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:41.000
now it's mainly Tony Pollard and he
you don't have someone stuck in peanut butter

407
00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:44.880
in front of him. But do
you also think it could be this because

408
00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:48.920
it is the NFL and the average
shelf life of a running back is about

409
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:53.720
four years, and two of that
is spent trying to get your contract,

410
00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:59.359
trying to make that money that once
they do. If you look at Zeke,

411
00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:01.880
I mean, and he he got
paid big off the jump, but

412
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:05.000
when he wanted to get his money, get his money, he was playing

413
00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:10.480
with that fire and that that passion
for the game, then got that check

414
00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:14.599
and was like, you know what, I only have a certain amount of

415
00:32:14.759 --> 00:32:19.519
life left as a player before,
you know, something catastrophic could happen or

416
00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:22.319
I have to go off and retire
whatever, So let me make my money

417
00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:25.720
now. And Pollard did the same
thing. I don't know what, because

418
00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:30.160
there is that thing in the NFL
where the owners of the team look at

419
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:38.839
running backs as a very very disposable
commodity. Right. The main the major

420
00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:45.599
theme you're talking about RAJ is one
that's has plagued sports now since the free

421
00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:50.480
agent era entered into all those sports, which is you're in a contract year.

422
00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:53.880
Players in a contract year sure do
seem to really play with a chip

423
00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:58.440
on their shoulder and because they're they're
going to get that bag. And then

424
00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:04.440
after they signed the big contract,
then it might be just because it's tainted

425
00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:07.720
now because you know they've signed their
big contract and if they don't have the

426
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:10.359
same results, then you're like,
oh, well, now they're just you

427
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:14.240
know, slacking because now they got
paid, or they just don't want to

428
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:19.240
get hurt because that position. There's
also that and those are all legitimate things

429
00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:22.319
that could be true. I think
at the end of the day. It

430
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:28.440
depends on the individual. It depends
on the individual player. If like you're

431
00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:31.160
really gonna have one or two one
out, you're sort of got I talked

432
00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:35.720
for a living, You're gonna have
one of two types. Typically, you're

433
00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:37.240
gonna have a player that's going to
go get that money. And when they

434
00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:39.640
get that money, now they're going
to tap the brakes a little bit and

435
00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:43.359
say, I have a life after
football. I've got to think about and

436
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:45.519
I have security and all these types
of things, and now that I've got

437
00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:49.759
it, I'm I'm still gonna I'm
still gonna try, but it's not gonna

438
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:52.599
be at the same level. The
other type is now that I got my

439
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:54.119
money, now I'm gonna go show
you why you should give me more of

440
00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:58.319
it, or I'm going to show
you now that you've done this, now

441
00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:00.759
I don't have to worry about money
and I can focus now on killing all

442
00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:05.079
of my enemies, sort of that
Tom Brady mentality. Yeah, I mean,

443
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:07.079
yeah, I wish and I think
you can have both. Yeah,

444
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:10.880
I just wish there was more of
the ladder right when it comes to just

445
00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:15.800
across the board on all NFL teams, like I see it where they're You're

446
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:21.559
exactly right where they're fighting for that
that season, their contract season, and

447
00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:23.159
they get that money, and it's
like, okay, cool, now I

448
00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:25.320
got it. Now I can take
a breather. The guy who's behind me,

449
00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:28.559
let him work a little bit harder
now because he's got to get his

450
00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:30.320
money too. And then they said
that trickled down, you know, like

451
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:32.480
domino effect, Like the guy behind
me, he's got to get his money

452
00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:35.599
too, So I'm gonna pump the
brakes on his and let him shine for

453
00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:39.280
a minute. So Trey did kind
of answer your question. I don't know

454
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:45.000
because on one hand, on one
hand, you know that they're because on

455
00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.599
one hand, I can tell you
this, Zeke had some plays that I

456
00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:52.480
guarantee you that they would not call
for Pollard and vice versa. Like you

457
00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:55.760
know, there are plays that they
would put in the put in the game

458
00:34:55.760 --> 00:35:00.760
plan or in the playbook for Tony
Pollard, but say, you know what,

459
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:04.199
this would not be as successful with
Zeke. So this is more of

460
00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:07.079
a Tony run type of a deal. I'm certain that that happens. But

461
00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:13.800
both running backs should be able to
execute the same core running plays that you

462
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:19.960
have in your book. And then
sometimes there's other outside influences affecting your performance

463
00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:22.079
in a game, like whether or
not RAJ has you know, Jinks to

464
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:27.280
you or not. But I will
say I will say there was one player

465
00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:31.880
that we talked about in our previous
football episode, and that was Travis Kelsey

466
00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:37.639
and the Treehouse Jinks has not affected
him one bit, because last week we're

467
00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:44.039
talking about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey
from the Chiefs. Quietly hanging out was

468
00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:50.599
the story. Well, quietly hanging
out escalated really quickly, as Ron Burgundy

469
00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:55.159
would say to Taylor Swift in the
booth with Mama Kelsey. Yeah, that's

470
00:35:55.159 --> 00:36:00.960
a hell of a leap going from
quietly hanging out to here's mama, I

471
00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:04.800
you know, does she need?
Is she working on a new album?

472
00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:07.400
What's going on? Because she is? Because everybody's like, you know,

473
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:12.679
well, what if Travis Kelsey Mary's
uh, there's I'm like, really you

474
00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:19.159
think because she's got a killer track
record of uh doing this and then the

475
00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:27.920
break up and then phenomenal music.
Yeah, that's exactly for mamma to Grammy's

476
00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:31.239
like that's ah, Like it was
a very it was a great optics wise.

477
00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:35.559
It looked fantastic. It was very
wholesome. It was there's my mom

478
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:38.519
and their high fiving and everybody's loving
the game, and my home's throw a

479
00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:43.079
touchdown at the end that you could
clearly seems like, hey, ma'm my

480
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:45.239
girls in the up there, can
you can you throw me? Something's like

481
00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:51.079
I got you? Uh and did
that? The play call was all right,

482
00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:53.320
all right, it's Swifty on too
ready break. Yes, But there

483
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:59.719
are Internet there are Internet conspiracy theories
going on. So if you look at

484
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:02.400
the line up from the Eagle standpoint, like the way it was lined up,

485
00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:08.599
it was Kelsey right, his brother
Jalen Hurts and the running back Swift.

486
00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:15.079
So it says Kelsey hurts Swift.
So that's the new conspiracy theory is

487
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:19.119
that there is like that. I'm
telling you, I watched, I saw

488
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:23.000
it. So what's the theory is
that it's it's Kelsey's doing this to hype

489
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:28.800
himself up and he's gonna break Taylor
Swift's heart. The Swifty conspiracy theories are

490
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:32.679
going don't don't trust the don't trust
the Travis Kelsey there because he's gonna Kelsey

491
00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:38.480
hurts Swift. Kelsey seems like a
fairly intelligent guy and does he does he?

492
00:37:38.679 --> 00:37:45.280
Really? And and please, I
mean if you're if you're comparing all

493
00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:47.960
time great tight ends from a mental
standpoint, yeah, I'd put him above

494
00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:58.960
Gronkowski. But that's not exactly a
high bar, all right, I guess

495
00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:04.360
that's the bar, you know.
So he looks like a road staller,

496
00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:09.559
Yeah, look like the polar Bear
out there playing tight end. Uh.

497
00:38:10.440 --> 00:38:15.719
But I mean he the Brothers seemed
fairly media savvy everything else. You have

498
00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:20.079
to know the last person you really
want to try to screw over, and

499
00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:23.719
you have to go this way into
this with some trepidation of if yo,

500
00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:29.840
if you do break up, you're
gonna get just crucified by the Swifties by

501
00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:32.760
the next album. Yeah, that's
what That's what I mean. And and

502
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:38.519
it hasn't hurt Jake Gyllenhaal at all. So he's doing okay. Like he

503
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:43.480
just may not have the fan base
with the Swifties that he had while they

504
00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:49.480
were together, but again it does. The Jersey sales went up four which

505
00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:54.599
is impressive. The outfit that he
was wearing when they walked out that was

506
00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:58.480
that by the way, was that
like a like a like a twenty first

507
00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:05.039
Century Picnic Table. Uh. I
looked it up because there's so what that

508
00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:12.000
company did in a moment of absolute
genius because their album is titled on nineteen

509
00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:16.559
eighty nine. They slapped nineteen eighty
nine on the back of that jacket and

510
00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:20.840
originally it was just the way it
looked like with Travis Kelsey wearing it.

511
00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:23.760
They went and overnight put nineteen eighty
nine on the back of the jacket and

512
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:30.000
it's sold out completely within within hours. And then, like I said,

513
00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:34.000
the you know, Travis Kelsey jerseys
four hund percent. Now they have their

514
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:38.320
own merch like people are on Etsy
designing things like Swifties are on their Etsy

515
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:45.119
accounts making Kelsey swift the T shirts
and jerseys and things like that. So

516
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:50.480
I mean, she does, i
mean boost the economy for for whoeverything.

517
00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:53.360
It's amazing. You know, she's
she's one of the few things that can

518
00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:59.360
actually put more people in an NFL
stadium than the NFL team. Yeah,

519
00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:01.159
that's the was the one meme that
I saw that was really great. It's

520
00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:04.599
like, you know, why don't
when Travis Kelsey was inviting her to the

521
00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:07.239
to the game, was like,
you know, why don't you come to

522
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:09.599
the stadium. It's gonna be totally
sold out, and she goes, yeah,

523
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:16.000
I know, I did that twice
by myself. But it's cute that

524
00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:24.119
you and dressed out friends can sell
it out too with the opposing team people

525
00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:29.880
as well. So yeah, I
mean it's and you. I wish the

526
00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:32.760
best for them both. I mean
I think that's I think that's great.

527
00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:39.239
Uh yeah, man, I mean
that's cool that Okay, are you still

528
00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:43.039
are you? Are you now stealing
already stealing my lane of Oh no,

529
00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:45.519
I wish them the best. No, no, no, no, I

530
00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:47.320
mean if it works out, that'd
be what a great story. Like she's

531
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:52.039
just you know, pop princess and
he's a great, uh talented football player,

532
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:55.159
and it's very high school like the
homecoming King the homecoming queen kind of

533
00:40:55.199 --> 00:40:59.159
thing. You know. That'd be
kind of a that's a great story.

534
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:02.000
It's a great fair tale kind of
romance. So so so like the American

535
00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:06.840
version of the Beckhams. Yeah,
I mean the kind of I mean,

536
00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:07.760
like, yeah, I guess you
could call it that, but that'd be

537
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:10.760
kind of cool and good for them
if that works. I just look at

538
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:17.119
with a slightly more wholesome feeling yeah, and and Travis Kelsey's voice actually matches

539
00:41:17.159 --> 00:41:21.760
his face, So that's a that's
if you ever heard David Beckham talk,

540
00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:23.000
You're like, how is it?
It's like the first time you heard Mike

541
00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:27.199
Tyson talk. You know, it's
like you just see this beast in front

542
00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:29.519
of it was like, so,
you know, what would you did your

543
00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:31.239
opponent? I took him to the
school with this hey and you're like,

544
00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:35.000
oh no, no, that's not
how he supposed to talk. Well,

545
00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:37.920
you mentioned that because that's also people's
reactions to when they heard Patrick Mahomes.

546
00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:44.000
Yeah, like, oh my god, someone dubbed you know, Kermit the

547
00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:49.679
Frog's voice and the Patrick Mahomes body. Uh but no, I mean that

548
00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:52.880
would be kind of a fun,
uh cool story. I just look at

549
00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:57.840
her back. Her track record is
such where it always seems like these really

550
00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:01.440
high profile romances and everything's going great, and the minute it gets too serious,

551
00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:06.199
she bails out and writes an album
about how broken hearted she is.

552
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:08.679
It was like Adele, Like Adele
did the same thing for her first couple

553
00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:12.280
albums, to the point where she
when she announced she was pregnant. I

554
00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:15.920
posted a joke on Facebook that guy
a lot of grief because all of her

555
00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:17.440
songs are so sad. I was
like, she's pregnant, that baby's never

556
00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:24.039
gonna stop crying just listening to and
then she's all happy now, and you're

557
00:42:24.079 --> 00:42:27.639
like, Okay, you've got your
residency in Vegas, you got your guy,

558
00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:31.760
everything's everything's happy, no new music, yeah, so what's what has

559
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:37.760
to happen now? And so breeds
creativity absolutely that you're sorry about the worst

560
00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:43.679
Most people don't know it, but
the worst one of all of them was

561
00:42:43.719 --> 00:42:47.400
the No Doubt because you know,
Gwen Stefani dated the guitarist and that album

562
00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:52.679
is about their breakup. Yeah,
and like not only it's number one everything

563
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:57.360
else, but then for the next
five years you're touring and every night you're

564
00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:01.440
just getting pounded with that yeah yeah. And on the flip side of it,

565
00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:05.400
for for for for my people,
we're just like, oh, an

566
00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:09.360
Indian guy was was banging Glen's all
right, dude good. Maybe maybe that's

567
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:15.599
the tray he was able to swallow
all that all that crap from the album

568
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:17.760
being sung about him as he's you
know, playing back up to Gwen Stefani

569
00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:22.239
is like rags things like yeah,
but I got her, Yeah, take

570
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:29.239
that Gavin Rossdale from Bush this album's
about me. It is kind of an

571
00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:31.079
interesting thing though, when you have
a leg up and you get to go

572
00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:36.039
to a Gavin Rossdale type and say, how do you like my sloppy seconds?

573
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.199
I would just autograph the album and
give it to him. I'm here

574
00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:45.280
you go, buddy. That's all
about me by the way. But yeah,

575
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:49.519
I mean, good luck. I
would love to see nothing more than

576
00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:52.480
I mean, I just think about
how lucky that family is, like they

577
00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:57.719
got you got two kids in the
NFL and then one could possibly date the

578
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:01.239
world's biggest pop star. Uh,
that's I don't know if you buy a

579
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:05.840
lottery ticket or if you just wait
for the lottery to come to you at

580
00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:07.840
that point, Like, I don't
know how that at that point. I

581
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:13.239
mean, if if you're if you're
mom m Kelsey, are you actually still

582
00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:19.320
going out and buying scratchers? I
mean your kids, well with your kids

583
00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:22.159
are are millionaires in the NFL.
They're great at what they do. And

584
00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:28.480
at the prospect of having your daughter
in law being one of the most popular

585
00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:32.360
and wealthiest artists in the world,
I mean, why would you Why are

586
00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:37.159
you going to the guest saying there
is you know, for every you know,

587
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:39.280
good thing that happens. He's already
come out when he was on his

588
00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:45.559
brother's podcast saying, you know,
now the paparazzi or outside international paparazzi's outside

589
00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:49.599
of my house. Now you know, I had a bit of a personal

590
00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:52.199
life. Now I don't. This
is just from yesterday. So he's already

591
00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:54.000
got there. Well, now I
don't have any but I don't have a

592
00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:57.920
personal life. I don't have this. I don't have that. Because when

593
00:44:57.920 --> 00:45:00.320
you're Travis Kelsey and you're in Kansas
City, it's you can still go places.

594
00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:04.039
Yeah, there's gonna be a mob, but it's cool, like you

595
00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:07.199
can still sign autographs and they'll throw
you some free crap or whatever. Now

596
00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:14.360
you've just taken it to international level
of superstardom and he needs and then this

597
00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:16.239
is this is an important lesson for
him to learn because Travis Kelsey's still in

598
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:20.440
his twenties, andy late twenties,
I think, so this is this is

599
00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:23.800
an important lesson for every twenty something
to learn, and that is there are

600
00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:31.320
consequences. There are consequences to when
you punch out of your weight class or

601
00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:39.079
in the football terms, when you
OutKick your coverage, which he's clearly done,

602
00:45:39.239 --> 00:45:43.639
so he's done. It's like,
I mean, it's one thing to

603
00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:45.599
be one of the best tight ends
in the game, and thinking, you

604
00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:50.000
know what, that's not enough.
It's trying to try my foot at kicking.

605
00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:55.679
Because if the kicker for the Chiefs
comes over to you after the game,

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is like, get on your bro
like, I can kick a seventy

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yard field goal, but you you
yah, Taylor Swift wearing your jersey up

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there is next to your mom.
Yeah, I mean good, good on

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him, and he tried. I
like the balls he played that he made

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when he went to her concert and
gave her Because the whole friendship bracelet thing,

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if you guys didn't pay attention,
he was wearing hers in the game.

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He was wearing a friendship bracelet that
she does. He gave her one

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with his phone number on it.
The only thing that was missing after his

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touchdown, So after his touchdown was
him actually throwing up the heart hands.

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That would have been good. Oh
yeah, you should have. You should

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have been on the PR team for
that. I'm available at people. Bill

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Belichick's calling you right now. I
would pay money to see Bill Belichick throwing

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heart hands up towards anybody all the
way. I think there's one person.

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