Football #9: An Inconvenient Tush

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Welcome to the Treehouse Football Podcast number
nine. And it's still very troubling to

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me that we haven't decided to go
full bandwagon and do a Treehouse Baseball podcast.

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But there's no reason why we can't, you know, jam the two

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together in a little bit of a
Treehouse mashup because full disclosure, right now,

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now, now not the time.
What I mean is right now when

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we're recording this, not the time
that you are listening to it, because

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the time you were listening to it
will be Thursday. The time that we

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are recording this right now is Wednesday, So we're doing a little bit of

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a podcast time travel here. But
full disclosure, since we're recording on Wednesday,

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it's very possible that when you listen
to this on Thursday, the Rangers

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might be World Series champions. Yeah
yeah, I wait. This morning,

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I see the Rangers are now lead
the series three to one. Because we

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spent all day yesterday moving and I
had no energy to stay up past nine

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pm. Honest to god, it
was a miracle that we made it that

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late, So there was no way
I was going to make it for the

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entire Rangers game. But I had
good news waiting for me. On my

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phone. Truth of the matter is
that game. If you saw the first

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three innings, that was just about
it. Yeah, yeah, go ahead,

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rosh No, I was gonna say
the first three innings, I was

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like, well, that's a rap, and then it's me. So when

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I was like, oh, that's
a rap and then they started scoring,

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I was like, man, I
need to keep my mouth shut. I

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like how the Rangers are impervious to
your Jinxes, but the Cowboys are right

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in your crosshairs. I still haven't
a hat or a shirt with the Rangers

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on. I mean that he's a
Yankees fan, so maybe that makes him

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Yeah, I know on the Rangers. That's the See he understands me.

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That's what I was trying to say
last time, kind of like the Yankees

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didn't work on the Rangers the last
time they were on the verge of the

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World Series. What I'm saying is
like, if I buy a hat or

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a shirt, it doesn't count because
I'm a Yankees fan. So I think

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it still counts. Because the thing
is, I I like to pretend that

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I'm not superstitious, when in reality
I am. But I don't go out

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of my way to do superstitious things. I just don't do anything to mess

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with the current state of affairs,
so I don't do anything to test it,

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which in effect is superstitious. But
it's not like I go around before

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every Cowboys game or Rangers game and
say, okay, I have to have

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four toe touches on a door knob
before the game to make sure that everything

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goes well. I just don't change
anything. Yeah, I also like,

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I'm not like superstitions, like I'll
watch the get Like if I watch a

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game somewhere and they've lost, like
multiple times, whatever, whatever sport,

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whatever team it is, I won't
go back to that place to watch the

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game. I know it doesn't mean
anything, but to me it does.

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But when people have like that thing
where they're like I have to like eat

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a certain meal or they're gonna lose, like I can't imagine like if they're

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just all in the locker room,
like, hey man, do we know

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if Doug had pizza today? Because
with the good ranch, yeah, not

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the Craft, he didn't. That's
why we fed up this whole game.

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That would make postgame interviews way more
entertaining is if in the clubhouse, because

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we at home, we've got ESPN
we've got FS one. We have all

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the sports channels up there with the
tickers and a constant information. It would

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be awesome if in the clubhouse they
had the personal information of all the fans

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up like did Doug have the pizza
with the good ranch, did Kim do

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what she was supposed to do with
folding the laundry or Mike, you know,

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cleaning a toilet, you know,
counterclockwise versus whatever it is. So

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then after the game, if they
lose, they can say the laundry wrong.

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My god, I would love to
just watch just a press conference.

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Well they just get a blowout,
whatever team it is, just to blow

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out and be like, so,
what do you think went wrong today?

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It's like, you know what,
man if if he wouldn't run out of

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jelly Steve, Steve f it up
for all of us, and then they

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just cut it like just had nothing
to do with me chasing that slider in

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the dirt. But and the pictures
would give you some of the most outlandish

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stuff. Yeah, oh yeah,
that Venus wasn't in this right spot,

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or you know, it wasn't breathing
properly through his eyelids. I need the

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planets to be in a certain retro
grave for my change up to work properly

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and clearly, the planets were not
aligned today. I had nothing to do

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with my blownout acl I had mostly
to do with what Steve washed his Lucky

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shirt. You know, I would
love for just gonna knock on the door

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and Steve opens the door. There's
a clean Lucky shirt and site to what

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do you feel about today? You
know what put it in the wrong I

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put it in the wrong hamper.
You know that's what. So if we

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could just have the reverse of it. These people's done the new show about

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your house, that'd be great.
How do you explain what happened in the

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fifth innic dug? It just slowly
backs away closes the door. It took

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a different way to work today because
there was But in full disclosure, we're

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recording this on Wednesday, So by
the time you listen to this tomorrow,

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the Rangers might very well be World
Series champions, or the fact that we

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simply say that the Rangers are on
the verge of winning a world series will

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be as true today as it is
tomorrow, even if they lose tonight.

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But the important thing to remember is
this episode of the Treehouse Football slash Baseball

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podcast will still be relevant because if
the Rangers do in fact win tonight,

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there was no way we were going
to be in any shape to record a

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baseball specific episode in the morning because
we would be partying balls too hard.

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So we're I think we're clear.
Otherwise it just would have been Trey sitting

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sitting in the treehouse by himself because
Drey didn't drink, but just a little

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Rangers flag going yeah. I mean
I would show it by just being whatever

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was the night before, just finally
have one, finally have my Rangers World

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Series just asleep in front of the
microphone. This is my celebration face.

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So anyway, fingers crossed that the
Rangers actually close it out tonight and they

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win the World Series, and that
will make all of us North Texas sports

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fans very very happy because they still
don't have one. The Mavericks have one,

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the Stars have one. The Cowboys
obviously have five, so it'd be

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nice. I think, does FC
Dallas have one? I don't follow the

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other I don't think so. But
as far as the major sports go,

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the Rangers are the only team left
that doesn't have at least one, and

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the other night. I think it
was Monday night. They every So the

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was it the Rangers won the day
before the Cowboys had won the Stars one

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in the Maps one. Yeah,
so maybe this is like, maybe this

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is that planetary alignment. Maybe it's
all the sports teams have to win the

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same week for this. Let's see
what happens. The retrograde is in their

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proper position for joy for sports fans
in North Texas this week. And so

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I'm glad to bring that up because
it is still a football podcast. So

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let's mention that a little bit.
Cowboys did win on Sunday. They did

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so in such convincing fashion in the
first half that if you keep watching the

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game against the Rams in the second
half, you're like, well they don't

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look as good now, But you
have to remember the game was over in

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the first half. The second half
was just kind of like playing around.

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Yeah. At one point, am
I correct? It was like thirty three

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to three in the first half.
Yeah, and then because I was working

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during the game, so but I
think I saw special teams seems like maybe

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a touchdown, but if not,
like a block kick or something. That's

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exactly what happened. Yeah, in
the first half of the game and really

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not and it was really it's like
the first quarter and halfway and about halfway

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through the second quarter, you had
a complete dominance by the Cowboys on offense,

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defense, and special teams or is
what NFL coaches like to refer to

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complimentary football because special kick give give
Jason Garrett his homage all three phases.

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He's not the originator of all three
phases high school coach and he peach preached

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that as well, he's got to
win all three phases. But Garrett that

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that was a he'd liked to use
that phrase a lot. The downside is

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and this is where Garrett would have
benefited from Dean Lewis's comedy school, uh,

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because he would always start his postgame
press conferences Jason Garrett with the same

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material. When they won, it
was the same material every time. It's

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like, it's like, all right, this is a really good team win.

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We played complimentary football. We won
all three phases. And then take

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some questionss like mister Robot again,
whereas you know, if had he taken

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you know, Dean Lewis's class,
he might have had some different material win

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to win. And I just I
have a question after watching that because I

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think Bland had two pick sixes.
If I'm right in that game that he

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had the one, he had the
one second one. Maybe he had two

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picks. I was vacuuming during the
second half, so I'm not entirely sure.

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I thought he had two. I
could be wrong, But my question

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is because I don't know, I
hope not to jinx him as well.

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Let's just say, yeah, what
tray said you got into I'm going back

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to Trayvon dis So what are you
trying to do? Kill him? You

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are out his knee. You think
that's not good enough? I'm saying,

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do you do you? How easy
is it to get the job back?

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Oh, he'll get his job back. That's there's no question in that.

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The only you already think it way
too far ahead because he's not coming back

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till next season. So what will
happen, though, is you'll get Trayvon

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Diggs back. Hopefully you still have
Stefan Gilmore who's still playing well as the

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veteran on the other side, and
Deron Bland is emerging in the absence of

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Treyvon Diggs. I means you'll have
three top flight corners. I just know

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how Jerry Jones works, and he's
like he is that superstitious guy where he's

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like, let's not let's not move
this around. Let's see if this wins.

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Let's see if this wins it.
I think that's the reason why the

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Joneses have not invited us to the
suite, you know, during the games,

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is because they know as long as
they keep winning without us around,

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and we have to stay on the
sidelines and respect, you know, you

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know, I believe that to be
true. That's that's what's holding us back

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from being front office for the cow
Yeah. But yeah, so no convincing

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win over the Rams. Very excited
for that, and the forty nine ers

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continue they're losing streak, yes,
which makes you feel better still, but

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then that leads us to does it
what does it that? Like? I

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mean, they dominated Dallas, and
then they see what we did. It

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was a very it was a rocky
ali ropodope thing. We exhausted them by

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letting them. Yeah, and unfortunately
it's benefiting the three teams after it raj

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Then the Cowboys clearly didn't understand the
whole concept of ropid dope, right,

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come back and win? Yeah,
no, keep it? Yeah, they

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only won one face. Look,
I agree with you. I don't feel

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good yet about about the Cowboys because
it's still the Cowboys and until they can

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actually at least used to get to
a title game, if not the Super

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Bowl, then I'm not going to
be convinced that they're actually good. What

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I'm saying is I feel better about
them than what I did after the game

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against the forty nine ers. I
just on the broader, bigger picture of

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the NFL. It none of it
makes any sense to me. Like I

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said, the Eagles are one team, They're consistently good. I watched the

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Kansas City Denver game. Denver has
looked like a just dumpster fire and then

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all of a sudden they come out
there and they whip Kansas City's ass.

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Yeah, but they also didn't really
cover the fact that Mahomes was battling the

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flu up until an hour before the
game, and he had one hundred and

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three feet even I'll take Mahomes at
fifty percent over Russell Wilson and the Broncos

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half of me, and when it's
a Casey defense, And I was shocked

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at actually, and my girlfriend said
the same thing, like half of like

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Mahomes look like. And I think
that's why they were in in red pants.

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Is half of him look like,
man, please don't let me just

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just erupt in my pants for the
flu, you know, like because his

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face looked like every time he was
stepping out on the field, like it

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could be. Now, Like,
were they wearing white pants in that game?

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I don't remember, No, it
was they were. I'm positive it

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was on purpose. They're like put
the rest of the color rush stuff.

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Ok. I was watching the game, but I don't recall the colored pants

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they were wearing. Yeah, he
was right, I mean at that point,

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like if if you're if you're one
of the main players, if you're

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a if you are a Patrick Mahomes
or a Travis Kelsey, Dak Prescott went

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or of course the Cowboys default is
not white, it's you know, silver.

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But if you're one of those teams
at white pants or your default uniform,

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Yeah, and you're and you have
an upset tummy, and there's a

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possibility you might be sphinxing at halftime
or worse yet, in the middle of

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the first quarter, then I think
it makes sense to have, you know,

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an alternate brown jersey just in case, because every time he stepped out

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on the field. His face was
like please not on TV, Like that's

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that's what it said, Like,
don't trade. Did that ever happen to

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you in your football playing or any
of your sports playing days where he had

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an upset tummy and something squirted and
you know you were happy that you were

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wearing dark pants or is it just
me gross? The flag football game last

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week didn't go well. I always
got the craps before the game. Now

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mine was I don't. I guess
I was sick or whatever it was.

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I think it was. It was
I think it was my I think it

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was JV. So I think it
was sophomore year of high school JV.

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And lucky for us, our default
pants were navy. Okay, But I

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did have a little bit of an
upset tummy and something happened on a play

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and and I was, you know, I was walking back to the huddle

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and felt a little squishy, and
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scrimmage before the play, and I
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and and and and what does one
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use the term push through it,
but do you put the do you do?

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what, you know what Raj as
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preached this all the time, whether
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You have to battle through adversity and
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potty after you've checked with the training
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navy pants somewhere that you can wear. That's when that's when the that's when

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the color announcements like, I guess
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on. Now he's the only one. That's the weirdest thing. The important

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thing is though not so much my
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football player, but more so that
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discuss the tush push and the Eagles
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two I wonder is that? What? Uh? Is that what they have

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to say when they call the play
in the huddle? Did we mentioned this

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before with the Eagles and their toush
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huddle, it has to be onto
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study on that to where they see
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that would be that'd be very fitting. Yeah, you know they would do.

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It's the NFL, so they're gonna
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on two and you'd hate to be
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bad I slipped. But speaking of
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Cowboys versus Eagles on Sunday, it's
the Fox Game of the Week three

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twenty five kickoff. Eagles are seven
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two. The Eagles have stayed consistent
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not only the NFC but the NFL. The Cowboys looked good and then sucked

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and then they look good again,
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Cowboys. So we really don't know
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but we do know that it's in
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the first actual time that it's Dak
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it was the backups trading. In
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versus Gardner Minshew and then the other
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So we actually get Dak versus Jalen
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this is just going to what I
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their defense is just I mean,
it is, it's an it's it's impressive.

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Philly isn't is an impressive defensive team
to watch, like, So it

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will be. I won't say a
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I still think the Cowboys pull it
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see, I don't I don't know
what you know what I mean, I

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don't know. Did you see Tray's
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you like he's got like gotta know
Tray's eyebrow could go that high. Yeah,

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I'm just saying, uh, I
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Yeah, it's gonna be. It's
gonna be a tough game, but I

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will I will. I will reach
out to my my new friend uh And

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and former Eagles player Freddie Mitchell to
make a to make a small wager.

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So we'll see. Oh good,
And should you also wish him well?

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well. So not only will he
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down the stairs of his house.
I'll get some of his settlement money from

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that. So uh but no,
well yeah, let's see, so Dre,

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I will follow the queue of your
raised eyebrow to see it. You

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don't think is optimistically about this game, as Raj does as a Cowboys fan.

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I want to and and I will
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Cowboys have been doing the last couple
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planned or what, but is just
the thread of Dak running see to give

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their offense a little another dimension that
helps. And I like that because look

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at Jalen Hurts, that's one of
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and I it will obviously be a
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of where do they stack up?
You know, I mean, if it's

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a close game, even if they
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they're for real. Yeah. It's
interesting also because like if you go back

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and look at the scores of the
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they were all blowouts one way or
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and that one wasn't even that close. But the Cardinals game was the closest

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game the Cowboys have played all year, because when you go back and look,

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I think i'd have pulled up earlier
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they've been blowouts. So you've got
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to nothing, the next week to
beat the Jets thirty to ten, lose

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to the Cardinals twenty eight sixteen.
That's a twelve point loss in the NFL.

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That's not quite a blowout, but
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you get digits in the NFL.
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three, lose to the forty nine
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sorry there is another exception, the
Chargers game. That was their actual close

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game this year, twenty to seventeen. So they don't have a whole lot

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of close games so far this year. That's where I think it's going to

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be an interesting test. Like you're
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think I think this will be a
close game, and I still I don't

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have a lot of faith in that
if it is close at the end of

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the game, I don't have a
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really good decisions. Wow, Okay, that's one of those. I wonder

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how their two minute drill works because
in the offseason, and you know,

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in spring training we heard that Dak
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I'm not sure if he's got quite
the Peyton Manning level to where he can

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call his own plays outright, I
think, I mean, I know he's

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got the ability to audible, but
I don't know if Mike McCarthy in his

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headset during a two minute drill is
saying you just go play like you just

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call your own I don't know if
it's that, or he's calling stuff and

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then he can check out. I'm
not sure what they're set up is.

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I'd be curious to know that,
because I do know that even in the

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blowout portion of the Rams game,
they still win a little hurry up or

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a little up tempo at least no
huddle, and then they let Dak read

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the situation and call the plays.
And that and probably with Dak is is

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they're still there. It's not like
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with you know, the games on the

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line in the fourth quarter, and
I have a lot of doubts and that

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in that case, this is one
of those games. I hope that they

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have the opportunity to uh put your
doubts to bed. I hope, I

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hope it's a close game, it's
I hope it's an exciting game, and

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I hope that it's one of those
where the Cowboys and Dak have the ball

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with two minutes left to go,
the link to the field and have one

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of those you know, statement wins, not just for the season, but

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for Dak as a quarterback, and
some good clock man if they are in

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that situation, some good clock management, don't leave them enough time to come

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back. Trey, this is a
your entitlement is showing you were asking for

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way too much. If the Cowboys
have the ball in their hands with two

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minutes ago to try to beat the
Eagles, Dak's gonna have to do it

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in spite of McCarthy's clock management.
Yeah. Yeah, that's where that's where

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they need to be, Like where
Dak has to tell Mike, now I'm

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running the clock. I don't trust
you, no one, No one trusts

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you with any clocks. Everyone.
If you're wearing a watch, put it

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away. Don't let Mike McCarthy see
it, because he'll ruin it. Trey's

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got blue and white privilege. Rag, I believe you have coined a new

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thing, not just for sports,
but also for society, because white privilege

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is a thing, and as a
Cowboys fan, so is blue privilege.

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Don't even get started on the orange
privilege. All you're talking about Longhorns,

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Okay, Yeah, I don't know
if you were going seventies Buccaneers or or

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you're talking about the Astros, you
have plenty of orange privilege. Or there's

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this more trash can privilege. I
guess that's that's when you find out,

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like he's sequally an Orioles fan.
You're like, what the hell happened?

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Cowboys Eagles Sunday America's Game of the
Week on Fox. We finally get to

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see possibly the tush push in person
without having to sift through all those awkward

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internet search results. Yeah, what
if they can What if they find a

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way to stop it? If they
what if the Cowboys are the plug to

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the tush push, I know how
they can do that. It's called keeso.

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Cheese will block you right up.
Or they can get some cheese sticks

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at the standard poor Those are to
eat and they're not suppositories. Right,

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We're not trying to kill the Eagles, we just want to win. Like

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that would actually be pretty fantastic.
As Jalen Hurts approaches the line of scrimmage,

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he looks up and he sees Micah
Parsons at standing in the a gap

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with with a plate full of the
cheese sticks from the stated they come back

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from and the second plate the plate's
just empty, and the Eagles looking pain.

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Turns out the entire offensive lines lactose
tolerance just fantastic. When you're uh

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City's dishes known as the cheese Steak, it's no longer the city of brotherly

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love, but the city of irony. That would be pretty fantastic though.

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In the team meetings at the Star
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McCarthy's, you know, game plan, Eagles, and it's just a plate

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of the cheese sticks. It's like, this is how we're going to beat

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the Is it playing is what it
goes back to. That is it playing

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all three phases? Cheese sticks and
marinaire? My friend, is that a

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secret play? You're goddamn, but
it is. That's when you and I

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were watching the game, like,
what's trade doing there? Product placement?

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He's a captain. That's weird.
He's calling it trainers. They're squeezing bottles

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of ranch. Oh god, that
would be hysterical, I think. And

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you have a you have a buddy
that plays for the Cowboys right now,

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right I do? I think you
need to pass along our treehouse game plan

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for victory. I will let him
know. Yeah, I wish he's doing

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great, and uh he's we went
to the same high school, uh many

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years apart, and he's a former
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So yeah, he's he's doing great. I'm really proud of him, very

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very cool, dude. I will
let him know the secret. But if

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he can sneak in a plate of
cheese sticks, we just have to have

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them ready to go for the plane
ride. So Trayam, I have to

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call you up and be like Operation
tush Block the next thing, you know,

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Malik Jefferson just skyrockets through the depth
chart. He's the GM. Now

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that's weird. He's the head of
football one week linebacker, chief sticks,

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head of operations. Yes, so
how do we feel? Well, what's

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drey? What's our Do you know
the line on the game going in?

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Of course you know I could look
it because I'm I noticed last week it

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was the Cowboys were favored by like
six and a half over the Rams,

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and they clearly covered that. I'd
be curious to see what the what the

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betting lines are for the Cowboys and
the Eagles this week. Man. I

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was sitting when I was watching the
game, I was sitting next to a

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guy who showed up and God love
him. But it was a Newton game

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and I got there a little bit
early and he started in on the fireball

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at like eleven fifty five, and
I was like, and I can always

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tell when somebody's bet on games,
because he just he was. He was

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a drinking and by the end of
it, he just needed. All he

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needed was the Giants to win by
three. It's all he needed to cover

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every single thing, and they lost
my three And the look on his face

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was can someone help cover this?
Tap? Look, there's there's a reason

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why Vegas shines so brightly in the
middle of a desert. Philly is minus

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three, so basically home field advantage. So yeah, because yeah, on

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a neutral site, then it would
be be a pick hum game. Interesting.

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All right, So we don't typically
do this, but let's do it

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this week. Maybe we start working
this into the games more. Let's throw

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some picks in on the line.
So what do you what do you think

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in Trey, it's Eagles by three? What's your bet? I would take?

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When you call your bookie, what
is your book you want you to

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do? I would I had already
knew what I wanted. Just put me

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on the spot. I would probably
have to say I would take. I

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want to say take the points and
uh if that line line went for three

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and a half, then I would
take the points. And the Cowboys I

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want to say, they can keep
it close. I think they can keep

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it close, and then maybe take
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Ooh, is interesting. Forty six
is a tough and that's that's that's fairly

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low by today's NFL standards. Eah, I mean it's not as bad as

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like, you know, the what
was it? It was like the Ravens

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Pittsburgh game was like a thirty four
nine, that's what that's. That's when

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you know you have a problem when
you know the line on the Ravens Pittsburgh

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Like. That's when people in Pittsburgh
don't know that you're at the standard port

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looks on the pitches, you better
come to play. That was just it

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was just a one of those anomalies, and there used to be, and

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generally I think it's probably still true
that if the line is it's like below

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thirty seven, take the under.
If it's over fifty four, take the

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over, because basically what they're saying
that at that point is they can't make

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the number low enough or high enough
and get the amount of bets they want.

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Gotcha, Raj, you want me
to put you on the spot.

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You want me to give you a
minute to think about it. I don't.

406
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I don't bet so, I don't. I don't know what. Any

407
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look, I don't know what.
Try to stick a gun to his head,

408
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:41.119
don't he actually can't. It's Texas. There's already a gun pointed at

409
00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:48.359
you somewhere. Yeah, I would
you say, take the take the under,

410
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No, take the over? Is
that what you said, Well,

411
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at this point, you're just picking
the points and the winner. So it's

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like, you got the Eagles are
favored by three. You can take the

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points and the Cowboys. Maybe they
win or at least cover and still lose,

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or you take the Eagles. I'll
tell I'll take I'll take I'll take

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the I'll take the Cowboys. I'll
take the Cowboys with Yeah, very nice.

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I'm going to be the I'm going
to be, on the rare occasion,

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the pessimist in the treehouse. I
until the Cowboys can prove me,

418
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or until the Cowboys can prove otherwise. I'm going to default to what I

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believe is the better team, or
at least a team that appears to be

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the better to be the better team
weekend and week out. So I will

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take the Eagles minus three over the
Cowboys at home. Wow, call the

422
00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:34.519
Eagles at home. But you know
what I mean? Yeah, yeah,

423
00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:40.839
gotcha. Okay, why do you
hate the Cowboys? See that blue privileges

424
00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:44.759
came out? Look at them.
Now, hang on, Trey, I'm

425
00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:46.839
gonna tell you why. I First
of all, I love the Cowboys,

426
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but it is a love hate relationship. So I'm going to tell you why

427
00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:55.240
I also hate the Cowboys and it's
because they have hated me for thirty years.

428
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What they haven't won a Super Bowl
and all almost thirty years rise as

429
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a Cowboys fan. Is it isn't? It is a classic abusive relationship where

430
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where the Cowboys like, all right, this is our year, and then

431
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we believe it, and then you
know, then it's not. And then

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00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:14.359
the next year all right, no, this is our year, and then

433
00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:16.119
we believe it and then it's not. So that's what's been happening for like

434
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twenty seven, twenty eight years,
and I'm finally in the groove of sitting

435
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:27.160
back with my arms folded and just
saying prove it. Okay. So you

436
00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:30.319
see you see Trey wearing the blue. You see me wear in the white,

437
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:35.599
but you've got on the Philly green. Is this Philly green? Maybe

438
00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:37.960
it's the lighting, because to me, it's it's more of like a turquoise,

439
00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:40.039
and like terror shaking her, She's
like, that's not green, now,

440
00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:45.319
no, it's it is green.
Oh, she says, it looks

441
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:50.759
really green. All right, I'm
in that space. All right, I

442
00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:52.160
need to go change my shirt and
then we can figure this stuff out.

443
00:33:57.240 --> 00:34:01.799
I will not be wearing this shirt
on Sunday. Okay, sure, yeah,

444
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:09.639
how would we know? I'll take
a photo hold up a newspaper too

445
00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:12.559
while you're doing it. Yea,
yeah, because I couldn't take it.

446
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Thanks for hanging out with us in
the Treehouse for this football podcast. We

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will see you tomorrow. Four Wait, no Friday. See this is what

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00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:24.679
happens when you record on different days
and you're in between homes is forget what

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day you post things versus record.
The next episode of the Treehouse will be

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the Friday podcast. Will keep an
eye out for that. And in case

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00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:37.920
you have not listened to it yet, go listen to the Treehouse Halloween Special

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00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:42.800
twenty twenty three. Jowels, I
think there's some good stuff in there.

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You have not heard it yet,
just scroll down in the list it's there.

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I'll see you next time in the
Treehouse.