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Welcome inside the Treehouse Football Podcast.
This is episode number sixteen. I believe

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it is. This is episode sixteen
of the Treehouse Football Podcast. Although Trey's

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face doesn't seem quite as confident as
my voice does and saying it you threw

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me for a loop on that one. I was trying to think, which

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it can't be sixteen because we're only
thirteen weeks in the NFL season. Aren't

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we thirteen or fourteen weeks? I
don't know. We'll figure it out.

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I'm pretty sure it's sixteen. I'm
just trying to remember that when I was

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filling out episode information, and I
feel like the last one we did was

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fifteen. Oh you know what it
is? Because we didn't have one last

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week because instead of doing a football
podcast, I was working on my toilet

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cast. So we actually didn't have
a fifteen. Got it? Maybe I'm

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thinking of Friday episodes. We'll figure
it out. The number will be there.

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You're listening. That's all that really
matters. We got a football episode

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this week because we did not get
an opportunity to preview the big Cowboys Eagles

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game. But at least at least
now we get to look back with good,

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happy feelings at kicking a crap out
of the Eagles Cowboys by twenty on

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Sunday Night. It's the win that
the Cowboys needed moving forward in this season,

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because I couldn't help but think it
that if they lose that game Sunday

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Night against the Eagles, I think
mentally and emotionally, they're done because they

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already got trounced by the forty nine
ers, and then they went on a

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pretty good run. They lost to
the Eagles in a close game, but

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they lost that because they were mostly
made some boneheaded plays right in that first

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matchup, and then they won every
game since that loss against the Eagles and

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did so pretty convincingly. So had
they lost that game against the Eagles,

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they absolutely would have been everything that
all the national TV people say about them

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and all the other fans of teams
other than Cowboys say, which is really

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good at beating up bad teams,
can't win against good ones. And had

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that happened on Sunday Night, they
would have said, yeah, they're right,

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and they would have been. But
since they won, now it opens

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the door to see can they actually
make an honest to God run out of

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this and make an honest to God
run at the forty nine ers. I

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mean that team, that team that
played Sunday, that team can play with

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anybody. I mean that that was
by far and away one of the best

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Cowboys performances I've seen, and I
would it feels like a couple of years.

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I mean it was just it was
complete they I mean they were just

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all over it. I mean I
thought everything from coaching to execution, but

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it was all they were just like
they look so good. And keeping in

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mind that's still involved like four field
goals out of our new new phenom,

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even though he's on the older side
of things, as you know rookies go,

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he's a twenty eight year old phenom
as far as NFL kicking goes,

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like that includes four field goals out
of him, most of which he would

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have made from Fort Worth. Oh
yeah, that's where did we find him?

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The USFL. They're good for something. Bones Bones founded, old old

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old bones. Fossil dug him up
out of the USFL. They even said

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it in the in the telecast Sunday
night that Fossil had somehow seen him or

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saw a tape of him or something
and saw that he was just kicking the

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lights out of the USFL and decided
to bring him in. And obviously that

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kid has been lights out. He's
he's I mean, there's there's nothing more

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you can say. I mean,
he hasn't missed anything. It's it's hysterical

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to think that he's missed. I
think it's three extra points on the season,

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but no field goals. And I
don't even like, I can't think

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of a field goal that he's kicked
that it has even been close. I

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mean, it seems like they're all
like, I mean, I feel like

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he could take a run at seventy
mm hmm, I'm with you. Like

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the one that he kicked from sixty
or whatever it was, it looked like

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that could have been good from sixty
five plus. Yeah. The one he

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kicked after that looked like it would
have been good from about seventy. So

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yeah, So the good what news
is we got we found a new kicker.

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So the kicker doesn't seem to be
any sort of an issue. The

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defense, I don't know if they, you know, got the crib sheet

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from the forty nine ers on how
to dismantle the Eagles, but they managed

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to do that. That was a
big hurdle for them to jump and the

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offense did well. They didn't they
didn't turn the ball over. They did

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everything you're supposed to do in the
NFL to win a game. They were

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good on third down, they didn't
turn the ball over. They were at

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home and extended their home winning streak, which sounds weird to say a home

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winning streak for the Cowboys because they
really hadn't had one in this new stadium,

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they haven't had a home field advantage. I mean, you know,

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always say. One of the finest
examples of Cowboys home field advantage was the

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last game they played at Texas Stadium. They got trounced by Baltimore by like

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fifty points. Yeah, it is
sad, but ever since moving into that

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new stadium, Yeah, there absolutely
was no sort of sense of home field

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advantage, especially when because interestingly enough, the first game in that building was

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against the forty nine Ers, and
easily half the seats in that building were

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forty nine Ers fans because they all
wanted to go see the stadium. Well,

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that and Dallas is just fair weather
fandom, I mean for the most

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part, because especially for the Cowboys
games, you got to want to go

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out there, like financially, and
you know the effort. It's not like

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you can just hop on a bus
and then you get dropped off at the

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front. Yeah, now that doesn't
happen. You can though, you can

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do that with the Cotton Bowl where
the Cowboys originally played, but I don't

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recommend it. But as you know, even as many questions if we've had

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about the Cowboys, if you're an
Eagles fan, you've really got to be

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questioning everything right now because you've had
back to back ass whippings. Yes by

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the by now, which you know
to be the top two teams in the

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league because they started out the year
it was them, and then San Francisco

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was up there with them, and
now the Eagles have dropped off and now

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it's the Cowboys and the forty nine
ers at the top, and the Eagles

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are now kind of reeling. They're
trying to figure out what the hell they're

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gonna do and who they are,
because I think the Eagles are now primed

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for a tumble, even though the
remainder of their schedule is pretty soft,

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especially compared to the Cowboys. I
think back to back losses to the Niners

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and the Cowboys, they are primed
for a tumble, an emotional letdown,

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and basically an existential crisis in the
Eagles locker room, wondering, well,

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we were good but we're not.
Now why and this is going to be

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the most difficult job Nick's hearing on
he's ever had to do, oh no

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doubt. And it's like, I
don't know if if the forty nine ers

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figured out something and we copied it
or what happened, But you know,

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two things definitely unraveled. You know, someone figured out their defense and how

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to move the ball against it.
And also and I still, well,

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their line is one of the best
in the NFL. But the now that

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being said, Cowboys defense is very
solid, but they both seem to they

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neutralized that offensive line somewhat. They
did. I mean, obviously the Eagles

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still had quite a bit of success
in that game, running the ball and

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everything, but like most teams,
it's difficult. The Eagles are more built

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to take a lead than they are
to come from behind, kind of like

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how the Cowboys have been in recent
years. If they can get out to

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a lead, they're really good at
hanging on to it. But when it

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comes to you know, playing from
behind and having to really, you know,

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get lots of points chunked up pretty
quickly to come back. That's obviously

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where they're struggling. So it's what
the Eagles. You got to get on

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top of them early, and that
was that the Cowboys were able to do.

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Yeah, And I was really happy
with the Cowboys because their mo is

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generally like after that first half,
come out as and then play the third

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quarter kind of soft and all of
a sudden, make it it's a closer

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game than it should be. They
didn't do that. It was a complete

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performance. Yes, it was the
It was the game that the Cowboys needed,

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and it was the worst case scenario
for the Eagles. So it was

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a beautiful thing to watch as a
Cowboys fan because you got to see Eagles

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fans unhappy because they were talking all
sorts of trash after their five point win

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at home over the Cowboys a handful
of weeks ago, despite the fact that

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they're running around thinking like they just
won the Super Bowl again, even though

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it was a regular season game against
the Cowboys where two touchdowns get called back

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for the Cowboys, right and the
Eagles are still running around town screaming,

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ah, we're the best we're the
best. It's like, man, I

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think you should go back and watch
that game some more, because if the

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Cowboys hadn't done a couple of boneheaded
things, this would have been a completely

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different outcome. But now it doesn't
matter. Well, I think one of

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the things, you know, the
Cowboys did is this game took care of

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the ball and Philly did not,
and they capitalize on that. But yeah,

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I will say it is I'm sorry, go ahead, Drake. Oh.

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I was just gonna say it's interesting
because I don't know. After about

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five six weeks in the season,
the two teams I really thought were the

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best in the NFL were Philly and
Miami, and both of them are suffering

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some kind of crisis, especially Miami
lose to the Titans at home. Look,

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I'm in Miami right now, and
I feel like not so much an

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expert, but I can at least
speak to the mentality of people in this

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city. You have no idea,
like it took twenty minutes to get gas

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earlier. There are things in the
city that just don't make sense. So

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the Dolphins losing at home against the
Titans actually makes sense because Miami makes no

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sense. You never know what you
don't know. They might be they might

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be on a really good you know, coke binge, you know, like

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a South Beach type thing, and
they throw up seventy something points, or

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they wake up the next morning and
and their face down in the gutter,

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and then they lose to the Titans. I think you just actually gave Florida

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a new slogan, a new a
new marketing campaign and everything, you know,

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instead of Oklahoma is okay Florida.
You don't know, Yeah, the

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uh the state the state motto isn't
really words. It's just a shrug.

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The guy with like a crack pipe
hanging out of his mouth. It is

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Florida. Even the state bird has
a mugshot. Yeah, they're in the

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trims. Visit us online at Treehouseonair
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House. Visit us online at Treehouse
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inside the Treehouse Football Podcast. Whatever
number it is, we'll figure it out,

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it doesn't really matter. Ultimately,
it's the one before the Bills game.

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So we covered a little bit of
the aftermath of the Cowboys Eagles.

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Cowboys obviously winning thirty three to thirteen
last week against the Eagles. Now we

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look forward into just a couple of
days, another late afternoon game. This

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time though, this is where the
schedule really kicks it up a notch.

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It was already stepped up with the
Eagles matchup, but now now the Cowboys

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got to go on the road to
Buffalo in December take on the Bills,

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which they've had an interesting season.
But the main thing to think of is

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whatever has happened earlier in the season, Now it's coming down to the end

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of the season when all the good
teams are going to start to rise to

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the top, and the Bills have
started to do that because they're coming off

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a big emotional win over the Chiefs. So this is a huge test for

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the Cowboys after the Eagles. So
it's going to be interesting to see how

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the Cowboys can kind of keep that
energy level where it needs to be coming

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off a big division rival win and
making sure they maintain that intensity on the

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road in Buffalo. Yeah, and
against a Buffalo team that they're like,

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I mean, the Cowboys are in
the dry there, they can control their

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own destiny at this point. The
Bills, yeah, they're back against the

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is against the wall to even make
the playoffs. I mean Miami has a

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commanding lead of that of that division. And what the Bills are what like

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seven and six? That is correct? They are seven and six? Yeah,

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so and you know it's a team
that was in the super Bowl last

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year and close to winning it and
or no I'm sorry AFC championship, but

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uh yeah, they're a mess.
And Josh Allen does not look as good

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this year as he did last year. It's like he's reverted back a little

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bit to some of his more reckless
things. And that's what I'm looking forward

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to. I'm hoping that this matchup
just looks scarier on paper than what it

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ends up being on the actual field
because a lot of the thing, like

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you mentioned, Josh Allen's recklessness.
If he maintains that, the Cowboys secondary

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I think is going to eat him
up. Oh no doubt, you know

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even you know, you make him, you know under if they can get

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pressure on him. He is so
far this year shown that he's just not

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very good. But again, I
think moren't anything else. I don't think

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there's any question that the Cowboys are
a better team, but it is coming

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off a big win traveling up there
to God off with Buffalo and I haven't

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even looked at the weather, but
my guess it's gonna be butt ass cold.

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I think that's the graphic they're gonna
show on the Fox pregame. That's

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why more people watch the Fox pre
game than the CBS, because on Fox

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still put butt ass cold. On
the CBS still go ooh, frigid.

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That's I mean, that is their
home field advantage. It's butt ass cold.

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Yeah, it's kind of like Green
Bay. It's like like it's like,

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what's our home field advantage? You're
miserable, that's our advantage. Yeah,

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that's I mean, who was talking
to Oh, they were someone was

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talking about a friend of mine.
We were talking about Kansas City like it

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was some tropical paradise to play,
and they're like supposed to. Kansas City

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is not a nice place. Like
their weather sucks. It's why they don't

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have a dome and never will.
Same thing with Green Bay. Saying with

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the thing with Buffalo and Giant and
all a lot of those teams is that's

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part of the you know, their
home field advantage. It sucks to play

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there. Mm hm. And with
a place like Kansas City when you're stuck

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right in the middle of the country
like that, not only do you get

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all the heat of the summer,
but you get all the cold of winter.

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So you Kansas City is one of
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terrain. It's it's just flat land, right, it's the planes. So

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when it's hot, it's hot,
and when it's cold, it is cold.

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There is nowhere to hide and you're
just in it. Yeah, and

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and the wind is just brutal.
So so anyway, so Cowboys go to

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Buffalo take on the seven and six
Josh Allen Bills. I am, without

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getting too far ahead, I'm confident
in this game because having been a Cowboys

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fan for as long as I have
and that includes all the way back in

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the eighties and the nineties, as
long as I've been alive, I've seen

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the good. I've seen the bad, I've seen the ugly, and I've

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seen I've seen one of the most
dangerous emotions as a Cowboys fan multiple times,

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and that is hope. And the
Cowboys are very very good at giving

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us Cowboys fans hope. And because
of that hope, sometimes as Cowboys fans,

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we can be a little annoying to
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team does something good, we're happy. We support our team in doing good

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things, but we're also in an
abusive relationship with our team because they'll give

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us hope, and then they'll smack
us down, but then say they still

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love us, and then we take
them right back and that this the next

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season again, and then and then
it start over. And so what I'm

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getting at here, in a very
long winded way, is we're right back

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where we are almost every year,
which is believing in the team. They

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finally got me to believe. I
was. I was on the skeptical tree

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the whole way up until that went
against the Eagles. I said, if

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they beat this Eagles team convincingly,
then I'll believe that they're legit. Now

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that I say that, watch them
face the forty nine ers in the playoffs

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and get their asses kicked. I
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I think they're legit. I think
you described it very well in that

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it's it's just kind of an abusive
relationship. And although I am kind of

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with you, I think they've changed, and I believe in them, and

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I have hope for them, and
I'm behind them. I'm still gonna flinch

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a little bit if they raise their
hand towards me. As am. I

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think I think we all do.
Like even if you're watching the games in

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person, the whole like, at
some point, everyone in their seats goes,

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oh, yeah, don't put it
on me one more time. Please

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please don't say it again. Yeah, I get it a double whammy because

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Texas Longhorns are the same thing.
I'm glad you brought that up because since

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we were not on last week for
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chance to talk about the college football
quote unquote playoff, and once again,

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that goddamn committee, they just was
it really worth it to go to the

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four team playoff for them to still
just kind of pick and choose teams about

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who get in and then everyone and
then no matter what you do, people

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are pissed off. So it really
seems like either you just pick your top

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two teams and let them play for
the title game, or you have an

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honest to goodness eight team or ten
team playoff. Oh I'm just next year

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and next year it goes to twelve, you know so, and what's gonna

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happen? The debate is going to
be over thirteen fourteen and fifteen who should

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have got you know, because then
you get into seedings and well, yeah,

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the top two, I think I
have a bye the first week.

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All the other stuff. I will
say this, I everyone complained about the

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old Bowl system, when in point
of fact, there really weren't that many

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years that it was really screwy.
And you know, if it was,

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sometimes you had a split national championship, then you went to the BCS DCS.

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For the most part, it had
a couple of rough years, but

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it wasn't that bad. Yeah,
and this as the last year of the

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four team you know, it's it
was the one time I will give them

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credit. There was an absolute no
win situation, Mike, with the four

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teams that they put in. They
knew they were going to leave out one

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team that was going to feel extremely
slighted. And this year Florida State ate

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it. Well, I see everyone
has jumps on Florida State because they were

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thirteen to zero. And yes,
that is impressive. At the same time,

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there the committee's job is to put
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I will say this without their starting
quarterback, Florida State, I do

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not believe it was one of the
four best teams and they play in a

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fairly weak division. The team that
I really feel like got screwed was Georgia.

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You know, they were undefeated,
then they lost to Alabama in the

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SEC Championship game, and then they
go from one to five. I feel

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sorrier for them than I do for
Florida State. And I also also it

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bothers me greatly that Michigan is in
there when chances are in a two three

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years, Michigan's entire season is gonna
get wiped out because of this cheating scandal,

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and you know, so then you
have a legitimate question of really should

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they be in there. I don't
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That's where I was headed because I
know that whatever the controversy is that you

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either do or don't want to step
in with Michigan and whether or not they

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should be in there because of all
the cheating stuff, at the end of

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the day, you, as a
Longhorn alum, are just giddy that your

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team is there along with everybody else. And the good news is with with

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UT being in there, no one's
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be. Everyone seems pretty unanimous that
like, yep, No, they're good.

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There's no question that they should be
in there. No, there's not.

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And you know it. They got
the third seed because yeah, they

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the committee could not put Alabama before
Texas and and so they you know,

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Texas got the three seed. I
don't know the Pack ten or the PAC

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twelve. Is the one conference just
a lot of it. Due to of

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time zones, I seldom ever watch. I've seen a little bit of Washington.

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I know they're good. I've got
my fingers crossed. I was shocked

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that Texas got in. I just
didn't. I thought they'd be on the

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outside looking in. So I'm thrilled
and I just and as a Longhorns fan,

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I think I think you'd much rather
face off against Washington than Alabama,

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especially because did you see the reaction
video of Michigan's team announced that they drew

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Alabama. Oh my god, Yeah, I've seen more joy at a nurse

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sing home. Yeah, that's uh. When they announced those they that was

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funny because they were like, oh
yeah, wait, wait, wait,

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we're supposed to clap. Oh god, why, I'm sorry. Based on

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that reaction right there, I'd be
putting a lot of money on Alabama to

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win that game, because in that
moment, Michigan doesn't even feel like they

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can beat Alabama. It's like Jesus
Christ, guys, and Michigan's track record,

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didn't they I mean, they got
trounced by TCU last year, so

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that'll be interesting. But and you
know, I would love to see a

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Texas Alabama rematch in the National Championship. And trust me, so at Alabama

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Alabama would love nothing more than to
take out than to take out Michigan and

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to get some vengeance on your Longhorns
on the way to a national title.

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And I will say this, and
I feel like you would agree with me.

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Having to play not only Alabama,
but having to play against Nick Saban

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twice in the same year is extremely
daunting, especially if you beat him the

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first time. Oh not only you
beat him the first time, you gave

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him his worst home loss in his
career. So yes, I I absolutely

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it. It. It scares me
to no end the thought of that,

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but at least it I love the
fact that if that happens, especially right

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as they're going into the SEC,
that that it makes it look really good

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that you know they're they're playing another
set SEC team for the National Championships.

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It kisses the agis off so bad. There it is, there's there's there's

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the cherry on top for tray.
Oh yeah, no, it's it's funny

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because you know, A and M
fires Jimbo and they're paying them ninety five

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million, and then they go and
actually, actually, Aggie might be the

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best hire you've had since you got
rid of RC slocum. It's not sexy,

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it's but good quality, fundamental coach
might might actually do well. But

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it cracks me up to no end
that already A and M's rallying point isn't

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new coach, isn't anything. What
their rallying point now is Texas is back

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on our schedule. It's like the
boogeyman that they hate now back in their

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lives. And my word mark my
words. And so I think this current

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whole bull system has got about a
ten year lifespan. When it so in

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about twenty thirty, they'll start,
you know, conference realignment, people start

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talking about, you know, moving
com A and M will be the first

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one to leave the SEC and get
get away from Texas again. You think,

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so absolutely, So what you're getting
at is that A and M is

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going to live out the whole careful
what you wish for thing. A and

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M. You know, they blew
up every A lot of this conference realignment

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started because A and M. Although
every knew as well as anyone that Texas

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was getting the Longhorn Network. Now, granted, Texas handled that poorly,

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but A and M knew it,
and then they waited for it, and

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then they decided, oh, we're
leaving. You know, we're tired of

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big brother picking on us. We're
moving to the SEC. But the thing

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about it is they've suffered the same
fade in the SEC that they did in

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the Big Twelve that they did in
Southwest Conference. They have one good year

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they won the first year of the
Big Twelve, weren't really a factor ever

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since first year in the SEC,
you have Johnny Manziel, new coach.

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They no tape on them, They
beat Alabama, they don't really do anything.

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They ended up I think, playing
in the Cotton Bowl, but it

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was still that's the season, you
know, and Manziel won the Heisman and

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they were back. And since then
they just they've been aggie and it cost

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them ninety five million. Yeah,
yaggy, it's got to make you feel

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good when when the Texas Xes give
you a call or they send you your

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annual letter for your contribution back to
back to the school, and you're thinking,

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you're just glad that you're not writing
this to Jimbo Fisher, like so

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many Aggie alums are, Oh,
this is a They really didn't publicize this,

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but at that last game, after
they had fired Jimbo, the alumni

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associate the whatever they call their twelfth
Man I think it's actually the twelfth Man

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Foundation, which is they're basically athletic
booster alumni club handed the ADA check for

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one hundred and sixty one million.
So basically they just said hey, and

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they do they have it. Only
my only school has more money in A

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and M right now is Texas both
a lot of oil money. But you

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know, basically saying yeah, we're
paying for ninety four and you know,

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here's you know, an advance or
your next screw up. That really does

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seem like an Aggie thing. We're
already planning for our next failure. Yeah,

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that's you know what like I said
from you know, they FRANCIONI whatever,

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the someone to this one. You
know, they they've gone out and

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hired these big name coaches that if
you go back and look at their their

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track record, they had one good
year and they the coaches capitalize on it.

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And in point of fact, they
really weren't very good coaches, and

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they've pissed away a whole bunch of
money. That's what getting the guy from

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Duke. It's actually probably it's not
sexy, but it's a good hire.

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I think it's smart because what they
what they were bringing in before was sort

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of the equivalent of a house flipper, and what they need is someone long

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term to actually, you know,
build something from the ground up, as

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opposed to coming in and just changing
out, you know, the fixtures.

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Well they're there. They were all
honestly, the the nerd dating the really

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hot girl. She's going to leave
you sooner or later, you know,

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and she looks good, but it's
not good. And that's that. They've

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now gone out and they've you know, if Aggie is you know, a

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middle aged frumpy guy, they went
out and just kind of got a middle

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aged frumpy woman and they make they
might make a nice couple. At least

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no one's going to look at him
go what are you doing with him?

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Yeah, at least now it makes
sense now Now they can actually you know,

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hop in their RV travel around all
the national parks together, and it

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all makes sense, and they'll probably
have a nice, long, happy relationship

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because of it. Now it's A
and M. They'll still still find a

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way A and M. A and
M, you know, is the fifty

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year old guy who still thinks he's
you know, twenty two and hot,

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although he never was. So you're
saying that A and M is still going

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to end up like cousin Eddie with
the toilet outside. Uh huh, screaming

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at Texas the shitter's full. We
need to make that little graphic with a

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different team logos on the Christmas Vacation
movie. Oh yeah, little videos where

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you put like the A and M
single but Eddie and the Texas. Yeah,

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yeah, the Texas is Clark inside
and the Todd who comes out to

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go running when he smells what Eddie's
doing. That's probably I don't know,

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Baylor or TCU or somebody, And
it actually would be fitting because you know,

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then Texas, you know, plugging
in the Christmas lights, you know,

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and going completely over the top and
frying themselves. That would be very

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apropos as well, I love it, all right. I know what I'm

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doing this weekend, all right.
Thanks for hanging out with us in the

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treehouse for the football podcast coming up
next tomorrow. Hoped in for the Friday

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episode. Always fun to do that. We will see you next time right

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here in the Treehouse. See