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Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Akash Singh:Yeah. That's the cowboys from 1996 until 2024. What are we doing?
Dan McDowell:Words of wisdom from Akash Singh yesterday Indeed. During our YouTube stream of Cowboys Packers, which did not go so well for those wishing the Dallas Cowboys would win or compete or show up. Yeah. Or just give us
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Dan McDowell:Is that you? Yep. Okay.
Blake Jones:Are you listening to NHL podcasts again?
Dan McDowell:Is that how you've you've already moved on?
Jake Kemp:Yeah. No. I'm on to this next cup. Yeah. Now I'm in pain.
Dan McDowell:It's Monday. I wanna listen The day after the cowboys lose. My heart hurts in the playoffs. An important date, Monday, January 15, 2024. Some of the what would you call them?
Dan McDowell:Shackles, restrictions, weights have been lifted off of your friends here?
Jake Kemp:I thought you were gonna say Martin Luther King Day.
Dan McDowell:I'm, focusing on us right now. K. Like, we're allowed to do some things that we we weren't doing before and now but there's still some little road bumps for the next couple of weeks, but then perhaps we'll be on the, the open highway.
Jake Kemp:But also happy birthday to Martin Luther King, the King Junior.
Dan McDowell:Yes. That's why we chose this day Jeez. To have certain restrictions lifted. It wasn't because our official last day with our previous employer was July 14th. It has nothing to do with the fact that today is then 6 months later.
Dan McDowell:It's all because of Martin Luther King Junior the king. God love puss. So Hey.
Blake Jones:Just let him
Jake Kemp:have his day. Alright?
Dan McDowell:What's wrong with that on your day? Nothing. This think about it. It's his birthday. It's his birthday.
Dan McDowell:There's very good possibility that
Jake Kemp:On most of his birthdays,
Dan McDowell:he was enjoying some There was something going on there.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. Some quality
Blake Jones:More than winning chip.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. That is like do you remember the first time you ever heard about that? About what? That, like, the CIA or the FBI or whatever was spying on MLK. And that, like, their whole thing was, this guy loves the ladies.
Jake Kemp:It's like, oh.
Dan McDowell:This guy.
Jake Kemp:That's what you have on him? Yeah. He cheats on his wife. Okay. Yeah.
Jake Kemp:Tell me there's more.
Dan McDowell:Tell me that you have something else. Anyway, we did learn yesterday that doing streams are fun.
Jake Kemp:It can be.
Dan McDowell:I know you might have been going through, really loving the people who have put together Jake memes. Yeah. We are we're all Jake. The Yeah. The montage of photos.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:You've got your head in your hand. You've got your headphones being thrown to the floor. You're you weren't really under the you weren't professional broadcaster. You were, you're a fan.
Jake Kemp:You're a more fan. It's playoffs, baby.
Blake Jones:That's That's my favorite part. That's very that's genuine Jake. That's not an act that he's not playing anything up. That is that's Jake in his purest form.
Jake Kemp:And Blake knows that because Blake's watched a number of games with me both live and, on television where there was no stream. Nothing of the sort. And he knows. And in
Blake Jones:fact, it was just a regular season basketball game. 1 of 82.
Jake Kemp:It's fair.
Dan McDowell:So as you move around, we're gonna hear
Jake Kemp:oh, is that what it is? I think. Beating.
Dan McDowell:Can you not hear that, Blake? Because we're having some weird technical difficulties here today.
Blake Jones:I could there, but
Jake Kemp:not Oh,
Speaker 7:you could?
Blake Jones:Not before the show.
Jake Kemp:It's unplugged. It's not me.
Dan McDowell:Well, Jake just threw yeah. Now he threw that cord like he threw his headset last night. We got a lot of problems here in the den. It's a very, very cold day. What are we looking at right now?
Dan McDowell:I'm hearing something now. I'm not. We are we looking at, like, 15 ish?
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Currently, current temp? Yeah. Not a lot of precip, but there was a dusting of precip and probably just enough to make the roads a little bit, dangerous. You drove over here, though. I did.
Dan McDowell:Because you only live 10 minutes away.
Jake Kemp:And I don't think this is letting up for the next 24 hours. Like, they're saying tonight's gonna be really bad too.
Dan McDowell:Just the incredible cold, or or is there gonna be something dropping on my phone?
Jake Kemp:Might have a little bit more precip tonight, Blake. What do you see about that?
Blake Jones:I thought it was over, which
Jake Kemp:Okay. Yeah. You're right. It's over on precip. My wife But tonight, it will get down to 15.
Dan McDowell:Okay. Well, we're gonna do a fire. Is that gonna help you? We did a fire.
Blake Jones:Yeah. We got a fire going right now.
Dan McDowell:Look at him score boarding us all.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. Last night sucked. Yesterday sucked. How
Dan McDowell:was the roads, though?
Jake Kemp:Not too bad. Okay. Not too bad.
Dan McDowell:Blake is in Wylie. We are not. Yeah.
Blake Jones:And it's, I took a look outside this morning, and it's like real snow. Like, it's not this ice, sleet mix. I mean, it's pure snow.
Dan McDowell:Could you make a snowman?
Blake Jones:We were throwing some snowballs, but I don't know if there's enough to make a snowman.
Dan McDowell:Okay. It looks a little powdery to I didn't know that it would stick. But, again, I don't have yes. Back in the day, I would have been outside in that right there in it with the girls making a snowman because you you you gotta strike while the iron's cold when it's like this.
Jake Kemp:For sure. Because you You won't get many.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. You might not get another snow at all. You might get a bunch. You might be snowed in. How's the grid, or will we address that in today's news?
Jake Kemp:We will address that and irk it, but, so far, they are calling for conservation, but it does not look like we are going to be powerless thus far.
Dan McDowell:We'd like to thank everybody for doing the stream. All those who, came out here, and I just lost the list of people who were here, but they were all great. It was a lot of fun.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. It was great.
Dan McDowell:I well, the company was good. Yeah. Just all the people are great. Just a lot of different ideas. I I'm I'm very excited to think about the future with ours with our situation.
Dan McDowell:Let's just separate ourselves from the cowboys, if we can. But I feel like we hit upon something. That's a lot of fun. I think we
Blake Jones:can do that. Place than the Dallas cowboys right now.
Dan McDowell:We at least have hope. They have I don't know what what we're going to do because it seemed like we had everything perfect, and now we we clearly don't. But we have we we like, nothing about us has seemed like it's been perfect. So now we we we have only room to improve. Like, we're not close to being an MVP, but we have visions of possibly being that someday.
Dan McDowell:But I just thought, you know, do we do a stream with, like, a a regular stream team every week? Because I kinda think if we did, we might just have to lock up Caitlin to a long term deal.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. Caitlin's in the mix for sure.
Dan McDowell:But, just the whole thing the whole thing, I kinda like viewing errors. I kinda like if we have a studio of our own, which is our it's on our, wish list. It's on our, New Year's resolutions, I suppose. But I think you have said this in the past. I think this the cowboy game stream is is great here.
Jake Kemp:I think this is the home for it.
Dan McDowell:It's a
Jake Kemp:good feel. I agree. And the reason I like having Caitlin here is because I think she's the only other person who is as affected as I am. Yeah. Which is highly Yeah.
Jake Kemp:Affected, you know. Yeah. I know. It's, it's very fun. I love that everyone gets to watch my misery and thinks that's super funny.
Dan McDowell:Wait. Did you Uber home? No.
Jake Kemp:I ended up not. I didn't even I only had, like, 2 beers and 1 drink over 4 and a half hours. So no. Alright. It was all good.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. It looked like you were in shape to drive, but maybe it was just your the inner demeanor. Kind of just a sad, slow drive home. Take the side roads.
Blake Jones:Drive home in silence?
Jake Kemp:Oh, no. There's no doubt. Silence. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:You didn't get Jamieson to send you sad piano bed? I probably should've.
Jake Kemp:That sucked, man. It sucked. I, literally walked right to my bed and just put the covers over myself and then got up and wrote a column this morning. Okay. What time
Dan McDowell:do you get up? 4:30. So you didn't go home and watch any football?
Jake Kemp:Watched it this morning. Yeah. I didn't wanna watch any more football. Yeah. I just was, you know
Dan McDowell:Like, when you're when we were wrapping up, when everybody else had left and it was just you and me and Blake in the kitchen, and I thought you were waiting for an Uber at that time because you're kinda just standing there solemn. Mhmm. Just looking at your shoes. Yep. Just our talk then.
Dan McDowell:It was just stunned disbelief. Just of all the it's, the analogy, I suppose, with the Mavs last year when they made the Kyrie trade at the deadline, there were a lot of different possibilities that we thought could, you know, come out of that that 1 little moment. I don't think we even had in the mix at all missing the playoffs totally.
Jake Kemp:Missed the play in.
Dan McDowell:Missed the play in. Yeah. Missed every like, it was just either, you know, who who know? But, I mean, they're a playoff team at least, and then they don't even make it at all. Like, that was at least you kinda got to see that play out over a a period of time when it became a little more obvious.
Dan McDowell:So maybe the the the feeling wasn't like this because it just slapped you in the face when you're in the Q2. And you're saying, wait. Of all of the, there were many scenarios you had come up with. A Green Bay blowout was not 1 of them.
Jake Kemp:No. It was far beyond the bell curve. What? Like, a 2 to 3% chance? If you would put, you know, all the, possible outcomes in a bucket, I believe, Green Bay being up at 1.27 nothing would have been a 2 to 3% chance.
Dan McDowell:Completely illogical. It just didn't nothing really I'd love. Even when you know, and a lot of people were saying, hey. Look at Jordan Love. You know, his last, whatever, 6 to 8 games have been very similar to Dak's stats.
Dan McDowell:And but I don't know. III guess I didn't see a lot of Jordan Love in the second half of the season, but I did in the first half as I'm watching my, fantasy team, Blake. So I'm trying to Mhmm. Kinda follow and see how he's looking and and nothing about him. I don't know.
Dan McDowell:And, man, in that game, he seemed like the veteran who was on a $40,000,000 a year contract and just making, you know, nice plays and good decisions. And Yep. So Dak is Dak is looking like the guy in a 1st year of a starting job where it's a 3rd and 5 and you're in field goal range and he takes a sack. Like the you know, kind of like we said, the 1 thing that couldn't happen yesterday did. That's the 1 thing that can happen on those plays.
Dan McDowell:And sometimes you would say, but look how Steele got run over or look how so and so there was no getting out of that sack. Well, I'm talking about Dak rolling right out of the pocket, pump faking, looking downfield, seeing the guy in front of him, and then taking the sack. Yep. That's kind of inexcusable.
Blake Jones:Well, especially because when the when we saw the, alternate angle of behind the play, all of his receivers were to the left. Like, there was nothing he could have done there.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. And then they took a delay of game, which was obviously intentional and punted the ball away. That's just it's it's inexcusable. But I thought there were I thought the I guess here's the main thing. I don't think anything went well yesterday from offense, defense, coaching.
Jake Kemp:Like, how many times did they throw the ball on first down? It's incomplete. Now we're gonna run it on 2nd down. Now we're gonna set ourselves up for 3rd and 6. And if you're lucky, 3rd and 6.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. Yeah. If you're lucky. 3rd 3rd and 8. 8.
Jake Kemp:And they've done this so many times over the last, handful of years where they just put Dak in that situation and not the alibi for him at all, but it just the play calling, the the sequencing of the play calling I thought was gross. I thought the composition of their defense got exposed as we talked about a couple of weeks ago. They're small. They're small. So if a team actually decides and has a good scheme to just run the piss out of the ball, they can.
Blake Jones:But this didn't feel like Buffalo where Buffalo won only through 10 passes
Jake Kemp:and
Blake Jones:they just really just dominated down the field. They just married their run and their play action so well that I don't I don't think the Cowboys really ever knew what was coming.
Jake Kemp:I mean, I would agree with you, but they also on that opening drive, what whatever it was, like, it it 8 minute drive Yeah. To open the game. They were running the ball pretty effectively and at will. And there was not a whole lot Dallas' defense could do about it.
Blake Jones:No. And, I mean, that's what you want. Right? It is run and play action to Mary off of each other, but it just there was never a third and long where okay, here's where the Cowboys pin their ears back. No.
Blake Jones:Or here, we got them in 2nd and long. It was they were just always ahead of the chains.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. And I think they were ahead of the chains because they can Dallas could be run on.
Blake Jones:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:What do you think is the mental aspect when Green Bay in Dallas wins the toss and elects to receive and then has that drive where they march march right down the field.
Jake Kemp:Like, it Yeah. It's disrespect. That's for sure.
Dan McDowell:Because the fact that they elect to receive Yeah. And I know that's the thing. The cowboys are sporadic. They might do that occasionally too, and they'll do that to try to set the tone and kinda show, look. You're gonna have to stop us today.
Dan McDowell:But then when they do that to your team at home, it's like, woah. Wait. That's that can't happen. That's that's not how this works.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. You have the vaunted defense, and this team's like, I'd like to take it to you right now and see what you could do about this.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. In theory, that's yeah. You have the in fact, for a while, we were saying this team is that's their identity. Is their defense, and they're gonna be as good as their defense. And I guess they were.
Blake Jones:McCarthy said that. Yeah. Very early in the year.
Dan McDowell:He actually morphed into that.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. And then Lafleur Lafleur is like,
Dan McDowell:let's see it. But then their offense, you know, were world beaters as well. They were great this year. Got rid of that Kellen Moore. We know how he always folds in the playoffs.
Dan McDowell:And then your offense your offense is down 27 to nothing. Yep. That's the thing. Yeah. All pros, pro bowlers.
Dan McDowell:And that's the thing that overall, I guess I don't know.
Blake Jones:Well, I think they were deserving of the All Pros. Yeah. But They had wonderful years.
Dan McDowell:Don't you just have this feeling about the cowboys that they sit around basking in the glory of all their recent accolades? They're concerned with which media members are not giving the proper amount of respect to which teammates. They're wanting to make sure that you know that I'm the best in the game. That's the way I view it now, and that's, that's
Jake Kemp:You're paid.
Dan McDowell:They want you to know we're about to get paid. I'm gonna get paid. He got paid. He's gonna get paid again. Can't wait till, to get paid.
Dan McDowell:Because we've done everything that we need to do. Sure. They want to win in the playoffs, but is that their main focus? The they're they're building their brand. You know, everybody's got their brand.
Dan McDowell:Everybody's got their social following. Everybody's, you know, making sure that, make sure that you you shout out those all those haters all the time. Make sure you're very well aware of what Screamin' a Smith is saying every day. Make sure you you you know, whoever the they all live on you know, all these talking head shows live on Dallas cowboy talk. Oh.
Dan McDowell:Or I'm going to I'm going to rank Dak 14th of all quarterbacks, and then that's 1 thing that you wanna get the fan base riled up. Does the team need to be paying attention to that all the time? And that's what this team does. They do, and then they've answered their critics. They've answered them throughout the season.
Dan McDowell:See? CD Lamb, all pro wide receiver.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. And, you know, there's something poetic about the fact that these 3 years have ended at the hands of the 40 niners and the packers. Because those just feel like very you know, as far as the NFC goes, just to come to work blue colliery teams that just show up and punch you in the mouth.
Dan McDowell:Even though the 40 niners have a lot of big name, high priced talent.
Jake Kemp:Sure. But, I mean, think about it. Like, 1 of the first things people say about, like, Deebo Samuel is that guy will block. And I'm not saying CD doesn't. I'm just saying, like, they're known as, like, a physical, we just come to work type team.
Jake Kemp:The Packers are the effing Packers. You know? So the fact that those are the 2 teams that they've, that they've lost to over the past few years and really been bullied in all 3 games Feels feels like it says a lot. So how do you convince someone,
Dan McDowell:Like, what Blake was trying to get you to record a message for your future self during the game.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. I was having no part of that.
Dan McDowell:And you wouldn't do that and you should've. Sorry. But next year what would they have to be to make you say because this was the year. This it was all different. Right.
Dan McDowell:They had got rid of Zeke. They were focused. They had got rid of a lot of excuses. They I mean, this is a totally they're all Pretty healthy all year long and Yeah. And certainly healthy heading into the playoffs.
Dan McDowell:And then things fall right for you. Right? 5 or 6 weeks ago, it was, oh, you know, Philly will be the the 1 seed and at the worst, the 2 seed. And, well, then Philly goes in a tailspin. You win a couple games you didn't think you might have won.
Dan McDowell:All of a sudden, you have the number 2 seed. Now you're 8 and o at home. You're 8 and o last year. You're this is a or whatever. 16 wins in a row at home.
Dan McDowell:Perfectly set up. Yeah. You won't have to face San Francisco until the NFC championship game. And is that where this team team's head kind of was as things turned, as they prove the media wrong and the haters and all those that loud noise that's out there that we pay attention to all the time. And it's so loud, but we've proved them wrong because now we'll get to we don't have to, we don't have to lose until we go to San Francisco.
Dan McDowell:Like, is that kind of already in their head? We're at home. I mean, we went at home.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know.
Jake Kemp:I mean, again, as I was standing in your kitchen last night, crestfallen, the thing that just stuck out to me was even though he had a great year, their quarterback is just kind of a guy. Like, he's pretty good, but he's not he's not great. And he, you know, he he improved this year. But is he ever gonna be like a guy that you're like, I definitely think we have the best quarterback in this game, and he's going to take this over? I would have thought that yesterday.
Jake Kemp:I don't know, though. I mean, even you know, I wrote the column, that III was stunned that he improved as much as he did this year in his age 30 season. Year 8. But, I mean, are you really ever going to feel like this is the guy that's not gonna throw pick sixes? It's not gonna turn the ball over.
Jake Kemp:They can make a play outside of the structure of the offense. He's really good, but I I need to check myself and come back to the idea of, is he 1 of the 7 or 8 best quarterbacks in the league? Numbers are great. But, I mean, I've never seen, like, Patrick Mahomes do what he did yesterday.
Dan McDowell:And it not under tremendous duress. It wasn't like he
Jake Kemp:was No. I mean, it was the pressures were 10 to 16, 16 for Green Bay, 10 for Dallas, but that's a normal amount, you know. And it was on 60 drop backs. So it's you know, the rate was probably even lower for for Dak than it was, for Jordan Love. So, I mean, I don't know.
Jake Kemp:I I don't know. It's almost like everything has to be perfect for him to succeed. And I hate to say that because I love the guy, and I think he's really good. But I don't think he's going out there and, like, dueling you back into a game if you if you end up down. Right?
Jake Kemp:Like, we talked about last week with the Chiefs. Like, how many times have you seen the Chiefs be down and you're like, Mahomes is probably gonna pull them back into this. You're more surprised if they don't. I'm never confident that Prescott's gonna do that.
Blake Jones:Was it last year in the Super Bowl? They were they were down at half and Mahomes' ankle was hurt again. And you thought, okay. Yeah. This is it.
Blake Jones:And then sure enough.
Jake Kemp:And I hate to compare him, you know, to hold him up against maybe the greatest quarterback of all time, but I don't know. I mean, I think he's kinda just what he is, which might, if everything breaks right, be enough. But if a couple things get haywire, you're up you're up the creek.
Blake Jones:But the game last night, like Jared Goff wasn't anything spectacular, but they're able to win a playoff game. You know, I don't know. He doesn't have to be Superman. No. Quarterback doesn't have to be Superman for a team to win a playoff game.
Blake Jones:No. It's more than just him.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. But, I mean, you can't have a hand in things going poorly. You can't be the you can't be throwing You're throwing pick 6. I mean, Jared Goff didn't throw any interceptions. You know, he took care of the ball.
Jake Kemp:Back through 2. 1 of them went 60 plus yards the other way.
Blake Jones:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. You look at his numbers in the end. Like, if you're looking at this 20 years from now and trying to figure out what happened, you might say, Mac, I don't know. 400 yards passing, 3 touchdowns, 2 picks.
Jake Kemp:Same thing with CD stats.
Dan McDowell:I don't know if it was Dak. Yeah. CD ended up with over
Jake Kemp:a 100 yards. Almost all in garbage time.
Dan McDowell:But when they were down 27 nothing, Dak had 61 yards passing, 2 interceptions. 1 was a pick 6. 1 was in the red zone or on the, the Green Bay red zone. So when they got the pick Yeah. They were able to score pretty quickly after that.
Dan McDowell:Ends up with 87 yards after the first half. Talked about taking the sacks, couple of them at least on 3rd down that he should not have taken. 1 was pretty egregious. Oh. Locking in on CD Lamb, there probably is a difference between making sure sure you utilize your biggest offensive, weapon and forcing the ball to him.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. Which he certainly did. That 1 interception for sure. And you're sitting here looking at the necessity of a contract extension because of his brilliant agent Mhmm. And your seeming mishandling of the contractual situation with him, you know, before he was up for a new contract.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. And I know Blake likes to bring this up quite a bit, but our friend Joel Corey from CBS said it to us a year ago that it doesn't really matter what Dak does. Like, he has them completely over a barrel. And it's the worst cap is structured and the way that his contract is structured. There's just nothing they can do.
Dan McDowell:And sometimes
Blake Jones:cut them and you can't trade them.
Dan McDowell:Well, you always say you can't trade somebody. Here in the NFL, it seems like guys can be traded. And I guess if
Jake Kemp:They tend to not be traded with a number like that, though.
Dan McDowell:If Russell Wilson can be cut I mean, somehow, they got somehow Aaron Rodgers was moved.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. And he was on
Dan McDowell:the books for, like, 15,000,000 cap hit.
Jake Kemp:And I don't you know? How's that worked out? For Green Bay?
Dan McDowell:For for, They moved Aaron Rodgers and worked out great.
Jake Kemp:Well, I'm saying, like, if you're But,
Dan McDowell:again, they planned
Speaker 7:I had it yeah.
Jake Kemp:I mean, they had a 1st round pick on the bench for 3 years. Yeah. I'm just saying, like, if you're a team that wants to move your quarterback and start over, that is high highly uncertain.
Dan McDowell:Well, that's and that's the problem.
Jake Kemp:Same thing with the coach.
Dan McDowell:That's the problem you're in right now. Well, the coach, less so. But the problem you're in with the quarterback, you know, there's lots of coaches I can I I can go get 1 that can lead this team? Would you agree with that?
Jake Kemp:Certainly, an easier role to fill than franchise quarterback.
Dan McDowell:Yes. For sure. But then what do you do when your franchise quarterback is the tweener that you think everything has to be perfect around him? Do you scrap him and start over? Because if you do, yes, that might if things aren't perfect around him enough to advance, how are things going to be perfect around question mark?
Dan McDowell:Yeah. I mean, you don't go out and get cousins or somebody like that at the end of their career. You might as well just the yeah. The that's gonna be the quarterback.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. And he's gonna be a quarterback on a new contract. So I guess the conversation becomes I mean, I don't know. I feel like multiple times over the past couple of weeks, you've been like, what happens if they get run-in the 1st round? You know, like, that's what it would take to get fired.
Jake Kemp:Literally, the only thing that we all thought it would take for him to get fired happened.
Dan McDowell:Right? And now we're like, oh my gosh.
Blake Jones:There's no way.
Jake Kemp:Are they actually gonna do it?
Dan McDowell:Yeah. It is the only thing. There was no other scenario. Mhmm. It it was it was a blow.
Dan McDowell:It wasn't a hard fought, good, you know, last second something. It was getting embarrassed. And I think down 27 nothing in the second quarter, you're embarrassed. I would agree. God, I wanna know what's going through Jerry's head today.
Jake Kemp:Do you wanna listen to some of it? Sure. Yeah. I'll play a little bit. Or can I?
Jake Kemp:I don't know what our scene is here.
Dan McDowell:Are you plugged in?
Jake Kemp:No, I'm not. Because every time I plug yeah, we'll save it. We'll do it after the break. Okay. We'll figure it out.
Jake Kemp:But I mean, you know, obviously, he's doing the, like, I'm not gonna address this right now. But, I mean, last week, when asked about it, he said, we'll take it game by game. That wasn't exactly like the vote of confidence that I thought McCarthy was gonna get. Well,
Dan McDowell:then the question would be too alright. Let's say he did get rid of McCarthy. We've always thought throughout the year it was, well, you would just slide Dan Quinn over.
Jake Kemp:Dan Quinn, who just got 48 hung on him. That's the funniest part about yesterday is that all the narratives crashed together at once. And then,
Dan McDowell:you know, obviously, there is the looming specter of the greatest NFL coach of all time. Of course. Nice backdrop. That person isn't usually free. And somehow, these 2 points in time have actually connected.
Dan McDowell:Now why is he going to choose here? Number 1, he would choose here because he's chasing Sheila's record. Pretty good chance. And he can get that here. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Almost without a doubt. But to get that here, he's going to have to step back from his usual posture because this is Jerry Jones in the Jerry Jones show. And Jerry Jones, although feeling desperate and in a weird, you know, very, sad situation for himself where he thought he would be, he's not feeling the same way he was when it was the 3rd consecutive 5 and 11 season where he's like, I have to kinda let someone else do some stuff because Yeah. You know, I have to kinda swallow some like, he's he's kinda feeling like, look. My part of this is what's building this 12 and fives.
Dan McDowell:My part I'm I'm in charge. I'm the GM, which certainly is just a title for Jerry. But, you know, Will McClay, they just announced this week he's gonna be back. That's kind of the real GM. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:But it's all the parts together are the real GM. And, Jerry is, you know, some big time GM moves, but he'll always be called the GM. And I'm sure they're compensating Will McClay just like he's an actual GM. Or more. Or more.
Dan McDowell:And Will McClay doesn't have to move, and his kids are in school here. And it's it's a great scene for Will McClay. And he's proven to be great. The whole scouting department, like, they're Yeah. That's proven to be awesome.
Dan McDowell:This this is a very talented football team. So you gotta know he's thinking, why would I change this part of the the scene? I just need to change this little part here, the guy who's the coach. Yeah. But And and would Belichick accept that little role?
Jake Kemp:Man, I don't know. I mean, I never thought Parcells would come here either, and you brought that up last week of maybe Belichick is like, I don't wanna just walk too much in the Parcels footsteps, but it almost seems like, in your sixties or seventies going to coach the cowboys is like, moving to Florida. It's just like, alright. Well, it's gonna be nice. It's not really much substance here, but I'm kinda retiring.
Jake Kemp:It'll be football sunny. Yeah. I can just live out my days taking this guy's money and sorta just Can win. Walking about. Maybe.
Jake Kemp:Maybe.
Dan McDowell:I don't know. You could see why Jerry would want it because think of the marketing possibilities around God. Breaking Shula's record at Jerry World. He'd probably tell him to tank a game to make sure he could win at home.
Blake Jones:That's the net Netflix doc episode
Jake Kemp:2. Season 2, actually.
Blake Jones:Yeah. Season 1, Jimmy, Ring of Honor. Season 2, Belichick, Shula.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. I don't know because, it doesn't seem like and I thought this whenever they moved on from Jason Garrett. It doesn't seem like, Jerry's in the mood for, like, a young hotshot. Mhmm. Like, whenever people were talking about, like, Lincoln Riley or, you know like, Jerry would have never hired Mike McDaniel, for example.
Jake Kemp:Like, they're the the point on the, quote, unquote, win curve where the cowboys are with their roster and where Jerry is with, frankly, his life. I just don't think that they're going to go after somebody who's unproven. That's why McCarthy, McCarthy was almost like a perfect fit even if he had his warts. It was that this guy's won before. He kinda knows how this goes.
Jake Kemp:But once you've exercised that option, I don't know where you go from there. I mean, maybe Dan Quinn. Yes. He's been in the Super Bowl. You know, McCarthy and Dan Quinn's coaching records are not that dissimilar.
Jake Kemp:But outside of that, I mean, what what else would you do? He's not hiring Sark, you know, or whatever. You know, if you look around the league with NFL, coordinators that are available, I know that there's a handful of them that are gonna get head coaching opportunities that are young, but that I just don't feel like that's Jerry's wave at all.
Blake Jones:Harbaugh?
Jake Kemp:Maybe. But what I mean, I feel like he falls into the same thing as Belichick on most of why would you want this job. But that's not a
Dan McDowell:horrible idea. Yeah. Harbaugh probably falls into the, I wanna run things.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Like Belichick. Somebody's going to say, yeah. Like, the chargers or somebody are going to say
Jake Kemp:Harbaugh's a very difficult person to work with. I don't know how much you've read about, like, his exit from the 40 niners, but it was not
Dan McDowell:pretty. Like, everyone hated him. He also seems kind of like a builder. Yeah. Although, I'm I'm sure he would like a franchise quarterback already in place, all that kind of stuff.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. But he definitely wants to build his way.
Dan McDowell:And, again, this is this again, like you said, this was it was kind of made for McCarthy. McCarthy was used to having 0 say as far as personnel, all that kind of stuff in Green Bay. So he wasn't used to the spectacle that is the cowboys, but, you know, he was used to being the coach. Yeah. And that's what he's had to be here.
Jake Kemp:I don't know. I mean, I think the odds are probably that they bring him back. And I'm not even sure that's the wrong decision. But if
Dan McDowell:Well and they might end up bringing him back because, like, well, what else are we gonna do?
Jake Kemp:Same thing with the quarterback.
Dan McDowell:That's that's your that's your mindset with Dax. Well, what else are we gonna do? Yeah. And I think oftentimes that's not a good reason to do something. But I suppose you could also argue that making a change for change's sake is also not a good reason.
Dan McDowell:Sure. Yeah. I don't Has Garrett been snatched up by anyone?
Jake Kemp:No. Alabama is not hired. They, they went in a different direction. I I just hope and I know we're gonna play a little bit of audio and stuff, but I want I want the 2 of you as my friends to to know. And I feel like doing the stream helps this.
Jake Kemp:Like, this shit hurts me. Like, I woke up in a bad mood. I went to I drove home in a bad mood. I went to bed in a bad mood. The first thing I thought about when I got up today, like, I know we joke about it a lot, but I'm still, like, a huge Cowboys fan.
Jake Kemp:And it, like, legitimately hurts me that this went the way that it did. I'm an old man at this point. You know? I don't have a lot of things to be excited about. Yeah.
Jake Kemp:And it really, really hurts me.
Dan McDowell:People are watching the stream and seeing you going through pain and talking about that you're just gonna Uber, and we're discussing how you're going to get home. And why are Will? You remember him of the Of course. The house fire. He, he texted me.
Dan McDowell:At least Jake has a house to go home to.
Jake Kemp:Okay. Thank you for the perspective, Wire Will. That's true. Perspective.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. Appreciate that. My friend, l 4, I'll call him, said, think of it if the cowboys would have had a slinging around offense. Yep.
Jake Kemp:Could've given it the ref.
Dan McDowell:Our friend, Scott Chandler, who used to play for the Buffalo Bills, said, he's welcoming you to the Bills bandwagon if, you want. He he said you're invited on the bandwagon. K. They're kinda like the Browns except we have Josh Allen, he says.
Jake Kemp:That's 1 way to put it, I suppose.
Dan McDowell:Had a a buddy named Matt who was going to come be in the gallery to watch the game. He says I had something come up. Can't can't, be there next week for the stream. Because he he said he'd be there next week. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Ted Emmerich as well, texted later. He said good to go for next week. So Ted'll Ted'll be over here.
Jake Kemp:Okay. Cool. Hey. I'm down if you wanna hang out next Sunday.
Dan McDowell:Well, it might be zone or something. Might be the baker stream. I'm down.
Jake Kemp:I need to get out of the house. But yeah. I mean, I think you you don't really have this. Newberg had a funny text. K.
Jake Kemp:I'm sure it was awesome.
Dan McDowell:You were on it. It's just that, he he posted his tweet. He showed me his tweet. He says, so many things I'd like to say, but I'm gonna head off to I'm gonna head off I'm going to head off the stick to baseball nation, and I won't. So he will not comment.
Dan McDowell:K. Because he didn't wanna hear from the stick to baseball nation. Yep. And, he showed me that this was liked by Sports Delkus. Yep.
Jake Kemp:I'm not surprised. But yeah. I mean, let's let's do something else. I don't know. We can play audio or whatever, but I just want you to know
Dan McDowell:talk cowboys?
Jake Kemp:I just want you to know that, I'm in a bad mood.
Dan McDowell:It was pretty evident last night. If you wanna go to our YouTube page, you can also just go Yeah. Take a look and and just jump ahead to see
Jake Kemp:It sucked. It sucked.
Dan McDowell:You don't have to jump too far ahead to see some real negativity, and we were trying to talk you
Jake Kemp:out of that, but you were right. You don't, you don't get many many cracks at this, you know. You don't get many bites at the apple. And
Blake Jones:Will you please record a message for your future self?
Dan McDowell:No. Come on. Because I
Jake Kemp:by tomorrow, I'm back in.
Dan McDowell:I should have told you. I should have said this last week because when I saw this news, I said this is never going to happen.
Jake Kemp:Okay. But
Dan McDowell:how about the fact that Cowboy fans can't do a whiteout?
Jake Kemp:No. You you already know we're incapable of any form of unified fan behavior.
Dan McDowell:It's just been so cool when I've been a part of that or seen them on TV, but I was at I think I was at Miami, Oklahoma City when they did white outs. It's amazing to be a part of and look at
Jake Kemp:You don't see that often with NFL teams, though. You see it a lot with college teams and for sure with the NBA.
Dan McDowell:Is it just the amount of fans getting on
Jake Kemp:I think probably.
Dan McDowell:On board? Or
Jake Kemp:I mean look. I mean, that Penn State, they're that's capacity wise. It it Yeah. That's true. AT and T, and they pull it off fine.
Jake Kemp:So I think it's a size combined with give an f. And are you worried that you have to look cool?
Dan McDowell:And that's a Dallas Dallas crowd
Jake Kemp:for Dallas. Thing.
Dan McDowell:It wasn't even close to a white house.
Jake Kemp:No. You would never have known that they were even attempting it.
Dan McDowell:In fact, I was listening to some DAC audio from last week where he's like, can't wait. It's gonna be great. See that sea of white. Blah blah blah. Like, cowboys are like, yeah.
Dan McDowell:Let's, yeah, let's do this cool marketing thing. And they just the fans are like, you know what? I got a blue jersey.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:And that's the 1 I'm gonna wear. Here's more Dak, last week.
Speaker 8:The the players around me, the coaches, the the system that that we've we've created, the the culture that this team has, it's not it's not just about how I feel about myself, but it's it's about these other guys, the confidence that they give me, I should say. Yeah. I don't know if I've had this this much confidence or a greater greater feel than I have with this offense, with this team, with our approach, and and how we're gonna go and take care of things.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. They're ready. They are ready to take care of business.
Jake Kemp:You're a big jerk.
Dan McDowell:Hey, Dak. What about, let's talk Super Bowl? Did he did Dak say, you know what? That's way of getting ahead. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Let's let's focus on this coming up game or or, I mean, what how would Dak respond if you said let's talk Super Bowl?
Jake Kemp:Yeah. I mean, I wanna be
Speaker 8:the best. And I think, in my position, it starts with winning the Super Bowl. So, understand that this opportunity is right here in front of us. It's about attacking that and every detail that I've gotta do to make sure I get that. As far as wanting what somebody else has, I think it it everything's different.
Speaker 8:Every situation's different.
Dan McDowell:He says the right words many times.
Speaker 8:Really comparing myself. As I've told y'all before, I've got the highest expectations and and standards I I put on myself.
Dan McDowell:Here comes the bingo.
Speaker 8:I'm my biggest critic.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:My internal
Speaker 8:drive and and want is sometimes probably crazy to a lot of other people, but I think that's what pushes me what what focus what allows me to focus.
Dan McDowell:Like, look at this guy's job.
Speaker 8:To create such a great goals, to chase them, to get close to them, to to beat them.
Dan McDowell:If I would go online, I would determine that you are not your biggest critic.
Jake Kemp:I feel like I feel like I could throw a rock right now.
Speaker 7:Yeah. Oh,
Dan McDowell:Dak.
Speaker 8:Dak. Me and a bear to fight pour honey on me.
Jake Kemp:So Oh,
Dan McDowell:Dak. He's just so Dak.
Blake Jones:And remember his his, his suitcases?
Dan McDowell:Yeah. Louis Vuitton. Louis Vuitton. I was looking for that audio. I couldn't find it.
Dan McDowell:So hashtag sees everything. What is that? Is that something that people are saying about this team?
Jake Kemp:You know, sort of like the never ever quit.
Dan McDowell:Is that their motto for this playoffs? It was? Okay. Because that was just tagged on a tweet that said, let's let's go at Dallas cowboys. Hashtag sees everything.
Dan McDowell:Carpe Omnia. Right?
Jake Kemp:There it you'll see it when it
Blake Jones:was a McCarthy thing.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. Carpe Omnia. This was tweeted by senator Ted Cruz God. Before the game. Watch
Jake Kemp:my cursing.
Blake Jones:But he did it for the Texans too, so he's not the 1 with bad luck.
Dan McDowell:Did he really for the Texans?
Blake Jones:He did something.
Jake Kemp:And the longhorns. Yeah. He'll do it. Yeah. And Baylor and Houston.
Dan McDowell:Let's see before we get to Jerry audio. Just trying to look for different notes. Obviously, the Dan Quinn thing is insane.
Jake Kemp:I think Dan, excuse me. I think Des lost, like, $1,000,000.
Dan McDowell:Oh, I think I saw him. Yeah. Did he put another $10 on the game? Something. He will tell you about that.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Blake Jones:We had Cole Beasley attacking Brandon Cooks on Twitter.
Dan McDowell:Go on.
Blake Jones:They just put a video out of, the interception, the Jair Alexander interception. And somebody said about how Dak, you know, that was a bad ball or whatever. And Cole Beasley quote tweeted and said, that's a horseshit route.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. And happy
Blake Jones:to be yeah. Happy to
Jake Kemp:be agree
Dan McDowell:with both of those things?
Blake Jones:Yes. Yeah. Both can be true for sure. Cooks did not I
Jake Kemp:think I said that last night.
Blake Jones:Do a good job of boxing on his defender.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Speaker 6:Oh.
Dan McDowell:It was a bad day for all involved. Here's a fun stat. Since the Texans' 1st season
Jake Kemp:Shut up, Blake.
Dan McDowell:They have 5 playoff wins since 2002. That was their inaugural season. The Cowboys have 4. Aren't stats fun?
Jake Kemp:Did you look at Blake's email? It's insane. Oh, let's take a
Dan McDowell:look at Blake's email.
Jake Kemp:I incorporated some of that into my call home this morning.
Speaker 7:What was
Blake Jones:the what was the other stat? The Packers haven't lost at AT and T yet?
Dan McDowell:Is that true?
Blake Jones:And don't they have more playoff wins at AT and T than the cowboys do?
Dan McDowell:You know Nick? Emailer Nick?
Jake Kemp:Yes. He used
Dan McDowell:to go there. Yeah. Times changed. Says using the law of complimentary probability, there's only a 2% chance that the Cowboys would not make the NFC conference finals over 30 seasons if the 2 teams were just randomly pulled out of a hat each season. The cowboys are defying the organizational the odds of organizational incompetence going on 3 decades.
Dan McDowell:And, yeah, Blake then last night, late night Late night, Blake. Sent us a, a real nice breakdown of it's not just that the Cowboys if you would just pull 2 names out of a hat, there'd only be a 2% chance that if you did that, whatever, however many times, 30, so 60 times, that you would never get to the conference championship. Because the Browns also haven't been to the conference championship, but you think, okay. I mean, the Browns, they have the worst winning percentage in in all of football Yeah. Since they've come back to the game.
Blake Jones:Yeah. The oddity here is that the Cowboys are actually a really good
Dan McDowell:team. Like, really, really good team.
Jake Kemp:Really good.
Dan McDowell:What is their winning percentage? So you did a lot of this, Blake. Like, they're the 6th best team since Dak has been in the league. And what's that? 8 years?
Dan McDowell:So since 2021, they're the 4th best team.
Jake Kemp:And not even 4th, but they're tied. I wouldn't look that up, Blake. I don't know what what service you used, but they're right there, like, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, like, because Buffalo had a a game where a guy died.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. So they got
Jake Kemp:the They had 1 less game. But, I mean, yeah, they are with Kansas City, Buffalo, and San Francisco in the top 4 by fractions of a percentage point in winning percentage in the regular season.
Dan McDowell:And since 2016, they're with Kansas City, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, New England, and New Orleans.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. The elites.
Dan McDowell:All those yeah. All those teams, elites, elite quarterbacks. Since 2011, they're the 8th bet. So they're consistently, and since 06, Romo's 1st season.
Blake Jones:I yeah. I tried to I tried to go back to, like, when they've had a chance. I mean, you've had your franchise guy. Romo started in 06, Dax started in 16, and then a 5 year update after that. And it all kinda worked out nicely.
Blake Jones:But yeah, I mean, they're a they're a top 8 team since 2,006. And every other team in that top 8 has played for a Super Bowl.
Dan McDowell:And that's yeah. That's the thing. We're not even saying they haven't been to the Super Bowl, which we would be saying had they been to the conference championship a couple of times. They can't even get to there, which is it's baffling.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. I can't recall the exact words I used this morning, but it was something like a singular effort and failure. Like, it's almost impressive.
Dan McDowell:So you say their 6th the 6th best record since Romo's 1st season. And every other team in there has been to, actually, to a Super Bowl since then. Right?
Jake Kemp:They've won a Super Bowl.
Dan McDowell:New England, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, New Orleans, all have won a Super Bowl.
Jake Kemp:Kansas City, Seattle. Since 06. Buffalo is the only 1 that hasn't, and they've at least made a title, in AFC championship game. So yeah. I mean, their playoff record and track record is down with the worst teams in the NFL.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Their playoff record since that same year, they're the 7th worst playoff team. Miami and Washington and Vegas are over. Detroit is actually 1 and 3 in that time. Cleveland, 1 and 2. 9.
Dan McDowell:Okay. Minnesota, 37, and then you got Dallas at 49.
Jake Kemp:I mean, you gotta get there to to be able to have a bad record.
Dan McDowell:Romo's playoff record, 2 and 4. Dax, 2 and 5. Yeah.
Jake Kemp:Last night was, or yesterday was a was a legacy altering day. So their playoff success
Dan McDowell:mirrors the list of the worst teams in the league, except for the fact that, actually, 5 of the 10 worst teams in the league have made a conference championship since the Cowboys have. Yeah.
Blake Jones:Yeah. They've at least had a year or 2 years where they're
Dan McDowell:So even the very very worst, even your
Jake Kemp:Jets. Jags, Jets, Bucks, Rams, Panthers.
Blake Jones:It's just it's astonishing what they're doing. To be this good and consistent and just not be able to break through that echelon to get to the the conference title. And then I I mean, what made me start doing this was like it like what like what you were saying earlier. We were just standing around your kitchen just saying, like, this does not make sense at some point to just get lucky enough to make 1. That I thought, is this anything that we've seen in other sports as well?
Blake Jones:And so that's what made me dive into, let me compare the top 10 winningest teams in the last 20 years in other sports and see, is this more common than we think? And it's not. What they're doing is astonishing.
Dan McDowell:So these are since they act they did last make a conference championship, which was the last time they won a Super Bowl 2.
Blake Jones:I think I messed up the wording. That's the it's the last 20 years. So since 040,
Dan McDowell:20 years. 94.
Blake Jones:Yeah. Last 20 years.
Dan McDowell:Okay. So in the last 20 years, they have a top 10 winning percentage. And if you go in every other sport, like take the give me the basketball teams with the top 10 winning percentage, Most of them have won a title. Like, 7 of the 10 have won a title. 2 have been in the title game, and 1, of course, was in the conference finals.
Dan McDowell:Same thing with baseball. Top 10 winning percentages. Every team, 8 of the 10 have won a title. 2 have been in the world series. Yeah.
Blake Jones:And the Rays and the Indians. And they were and and 2 of them. They've both been the 2 world series.
Dan McDowell:Top 10 winning percentages in the NHL in the last 20 years. 9 have been in okay. I'm sorry. 7 have won a title. 2 others have at least been in the finals.
Dan McDowell:And then that last 1, just like in the NBA, has been to the conference finals, just never in the Stanley Cup finals. And then if you go to the NFL top 10 winning percentages in the past 20 years, the cowboys are in there. They are the 7th best Or excuse me, 8th best winning percentage in the last 10 years. 20. Excuse me.
Dan McDowell:20. Every 1 of the other teams has won a title. Won a title.
Jake Kemp:That's 3 games ahead.
Dan McDowell:So the top 10 winning percentages in the NFL. We got Patriots, Steelers in 20 in the last 20 years. Packers, Ravens, Colts, Seahawks, Saints, Cowboys, Eagles, and Chiefs. And they haven't even been to the it makes no sense. Unless we do say I mean, we're throwing out all of the objective facts you can.
Dan McDowell:The subjectivity of the trickle down attitude of the cowboys, you know, trickling down from the owner, the glitz and glamour that is the cowboys, the most profitable franchise in the NFL, the most profitable franchise in sports, the most valuable franchise. Like, that is what the players are all about too. They're all the most noteworthy players. Dak is brought up all the time. Micah is very you know, everybody's very camera friendly.
Dan McDowell:Everybody's on a lot of, commercials. Everybody's getting paid. Everybody's, you know, very well known. They're they're real famous. But in the end, there's just no substance behind it.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. And I've always sort of tried to resist that, designation because it feels kind of, you know, it's very qualitative and it's, like, narrative y. But at some point, like, I give up. It keeps happening time and time again. All these teams feel the same.
Jake Kemp:They have 7 all pros, and they get the piss kicked out of them by the youngest team in the league at home in the 1st round of the playoffs. I don't know what to say anymore. They may not actually just have the mental fortitude to, to compete in the playoffs. Maybe that all does come back to their, their ownership. I don't know, but I'm tired of it.
Blake Jones:That's the only consistent thing here. It's been through 2 different quarterbacks, multiple head coaches. There's been 1 consistent and it's the front office.
Jake Kemp:Should have brought Zeke back to play center.
Blake Jones:Which is crazy because they do so many things so well. They draft they're the best drafting team in the NFL. So he was
Dan McDowell:there in Dax Suite last night? Did you guys see that?
Jake Kemp:No. You can live that Des dream. We are always welcome and it's country club, baby.
Dan McDowell:Oh, he's a cowboy for life for sure. In fact, don't rule out
Jake Kemp:Shut up.
Dan McDowell:Zeke on the roster. So I want to, play you I saw this online. First of all, Jake has talked about so you've talked about when you played high school football for a very bad team. Yes. Very bad.
Dan McDowell:At some point, most games were so out of hand that you you just start playing a math game. Yeah.
Jake Kemp:I mean, I'm a believer.
Dan McDowell:And okay. Now we just gotta we gotta score in 4 plays. Mhmm. Then we have to hold them, do a 3 and out. Then we gotta you know, you're you're playing the game for your head.
Jake Kemp:Onside kick. You're trying to figure that out. We have. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:You always do this if you're gambling. Yeah. Like, oh, what's I'm sure. Yeah. You're playing every scenario out until okay.
Dan McDowell:I need a tie. I need I need overtime because then I can't yeah. So yesterday, this is we're still in the first half, I think. Jake starts doing math.
Blake Jones:Why do we still sign?
Jake Kemp:177 and a half.
Blake Jones:Get the ball back after half. It's 174 You're right back in it.
Jake Kemp:You're right back in it.
Speaker 6:Yeah. Yeah. No no problem.
Jake Kemp:You got the 2 minute warning.
Speaker 9:It's a time out. It's a
Jake Kemp:time out.
Dan McDowell:We're already doing this. 177. Okay. So we're doing it in the first half.
Jake Kemp:Well, we had to.
Dan McDowell:So apparently, Brad Sham is over there on the Cowboys Radio Network, and he's giving Jake.
Speaker 9:Okay. If you score here and they don't score again and you get to kick off and score at the beginning of the second half, it's a 1 score game. So that makes this a big second and 2. Prescott in the gun, fakes the inside handoff. Slants picked off.
Speaker 9:At the 50, this might be a house call. To the 30, it's Darnell Savage. All the way in, 50 yard plus return. That does not help.
Speaker 10:This first half is just incredible. Zach is just trying to get a little slant route to the left side.
Dan McDowell:Okay. I think this They've
Speaker 10:got a 3 by 1 pass.
Dan McDowell:Enough. You wanna hear we actually did play by play of that as well.
Jake Kemp:By the way, your girls are gone. You can't do giving Jake anymore.
Dan McDowell:We are at the 2 minute warning. We have second and short. Cowboys ball at the 40, the Green Bay 40.
Jake Kemp:We got a little Oh. We
Dan McDowell:got an interception to
Blake Jones:Oh, no.
Dan McDowell:Pick 6. Holy shorty.
Blake Jones:Oh my god.
Dan McDowell:5. He walks the Well,
Speaker 7:they actually are gonna lose.
Dan McDowell:And he is in to the end zone and that
Speaker 6:That's a stupid face. You seen
Blake Jones:me in
Speaker 8:a bear with me before, honey, when we saw.
Dan McDowell:I I think perhaps Jake's headset was on the floor at that point.
Jake Kemp:I needed a moment because I knew you were gonna play that. Your stupid honey drop. That was awful, dude. That was that was just such a it was a terrible read in the situation. It's just he just had a a an all time career low night at a really bad time.
Dan McDowell:Intercepted by the guy that got suspended. Was that the guy that 1? 0, no. No. He entered he didn't do the pick 6.
Dan McDowell:The other pick. Jair Alexander?
Jake Kemp:Mhmm. For the coin toss.
Dan McDowell:He's the guy that went out for Carolina for the coin toss. Yeah. Got suspended for the next game, and they still end up I
Jake Kemp:mean, he's arguably the best corner in the game. They still end up
Dan McDowell:barely making the playoffs. Cowboys very happy because now we get a home game against the 7 seed instead of a road game against the, you know, who knows what Baker can do? Watch tonight. Number 1, because I have this game in my little betting pool.
Jake Kemp:Okay.
Dan McDowell:And number 2, just because you will see what your life could have been, the bucks will get rolled. Well, they might. Baker's going to because Baker's in the part of this Baker cycle
Jake Kemp:to have a terrible game, I believe. Yes. As much as I appreciate the offer from Scott Chandler and Bills Mafia, and I may take them up on that. Although, I I have caught a pass from Patrick Mahomes before, so my loyalty tends to ride with the Chiefs. The only thing I care about right now is the Eagles not advancing.
Jake Kemp:That's it. That's the only thing that is giving me life. Philadelphia cannot get hot.
Blake Jones:Yeah. If it's them in San Fran in the conference championship.
Jake Kemp:I'll drive my car off bridge.
Dan McDowell:I had to look. I had some season long things going Stop laughing, Blake.
Blake Jones:I just I'm picturing Nick Sirianni in yeah. That would make you very angry.
Jake Kemp:I can't do it.
Dan McDowell:You know, I'd you know, I lost my Brock Purdy for MVP.
Jake Kemp:That's not I do know that. Yes. Mhmm.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. But, also, sprinkled a little on Kevin Stefanski to win coach of the year. Still have a chance.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. That's not crazy.
Dan McDowell:And the longest odds, this was right. This was probably 3 or 4 weeks ago. I did all these on the same day. Brock Purdey. The longest odds at that point for any what seemed to be, playoff teams, it was the Lions at plus 1425 to win the Super Bowl.
Dan McDowell:So I got in on that. Dang. So we'll see. And that's a fun 1 to root for.
Jake Kemp:You don't have to feel dirty about that. Right? Man, I feel so I
Dan McDowell:don't know if we really do any other NFL today. Maybe we should save that till tomorrow because we're gonna have 2 more games, right, to mess with?
Jake Kemp:Yeah. That that was a weird deal. Did you like the bits of, But I wanna talk to Dan Campbell. Scattershooting here a little bit. But, I think it was probably a joke, So I don't wanna, like, put too much into this potential trolling.
Jake Kemp:But when they moved the Bills game and somebody was like, I can't believe they moved Bills Steelers. They didn't move d day for weather. Like, them boys got out there and fought. And the community notes is like they did.
Dan McDowell:They actually postponed it 1 day
Jake Kemp:for weather. Yeah. Yeah. So that person might have been doing a very high level joke.
Dan McDowell:I was I was feeling bad for the governor of New York and the NFL in general. And I suppose this I'm now like the cowboys looking online and seeing criticism, and and I should instead just not pay attention to the comments. But I was. And that's kind of a no win. It's kind of like, you know, when the pandemic started and we're saying mask up and and wash your counters and and, close your schools.
Dan McDowell:Well, now you might be able to say, hey. That's those were bad ideas. We shouldn't have done it and to that degree. But when you're erring on the side of caution and you're just trying to, like, what if 1 out of every 5 people are dying from this? Yeah.
Dan McDowell:We just don't know yet. Once we figure that out, we can see, oh my gosh. We didn't need to close the school or whatever. But at the time, you have to take everybody's safety into account. So same thing with this New York thing.
Dan McDowell:If indeed there is big snow, and I think there was, so nobody's nobody's running to, compliment them on that. Mhmm. But if indeed there was no weather, there would have been lots of screaming about all the inconvenience that you made people change their plans and this and that and just this is big government and it's it's you can't win there. No. It's the evacuating for a hurricane type thing.
Dan McDowell:Same exact thing. Like, you kinda have to do it, but then and I suppose it's the same way I feel when I write the, homeowner's insurance check. Like, really? We never use it. And then anytime I can't you know, and I'm not gonna pay it now.
Dan McDowell:And then that's when that's when lightning would strike.
Jake Kemp:Very weird, though, that when we get done here today, we have a NFL pulling off game on Monday. I mean, I guess it helps that it's a holiday. Right? A lot of people are at home or off anyways. I mean, the Mavs are playing right now.
Dan McDowell:Are they really? Yeah. I thought the NBA didn't play on MLK Day. No. They are.
Dan McDowell:They play the whole day. Okay. They don't play on Election day. Election day.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. Get out the vote.
Dan McDowell:Is that working? I think it's working great. Alright. Well, let's, try and figure out our technical sitch. We will, play some Jerry audio.
Dan McDowell:We'll do some stuff, but, we'll have what we like to call a break.
Speaker 6:And how long have you been since the Cowboys
Speaker 11:Are y'all still boys after tonight? Green Bay destroy you. McCarthy, dad Prescott,
Jake Kemp:trash.
Speaker 11:Lost in the wild card, you ages stood on your star. You haven't won it for the longest time.
Speaker 7:You're listening to the dumb zone. The dumb zone. The dumb zone. The dumb zone.
Speaker 8:You see me in a bear to fight for a honey on me, sir.
Dan McDowell:So the break was a song, and then we play a song out of the song. That's right. Is that alright? It is alright. Do you like that, Blake?
Dan McDowell:Or do you like this?
Speaker 11:No puppet.
Blake Jones:Yeah. Waiting on it.
Dan McDowell:See, now that's inebriated Jake positive, feeling good. Mhmm. He's screaming no puppet at the screen. He's but last night, it's It was
Jake Kemp:also about 4 times as many drinks.
Dan McDowell:Somehow alcohol, though, can can pick you up, and it can put you down. Just when combined with, you know, victory, it's it can bring you up higher. Sure. When combined with whatever you saw yesterday.
Blake Jones:Eagles stream, Jake, was fun.
Jake Kemp:That was fun. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:So you wanna play some Jerry stuff?
Jake Kemp:Yeah. I think you need to hear a little bit of this.
Dan McDowell:Do we need me to have a backup in case something goes awry or no?
Jake Kemp:It's in there. Okay. I'll just start letting it play. And if you wanna stop and start, we can.
Speaker 12:I, I don't have, any, comments or questions or answers for how and why, we didn't do what we wanted tonight. I say this to our fans, how much you deserve, us to not have, this ending. I certainly, in no way, have spent any of my time over the last 3 hours asking how and why. What I'm zeroed in on is the fact that, I thought we were in a position. Everybody in this room thought we were in a position to advance this thing in the playoffs, and maybe, get as far as our dreams, might take us.
Speaker 12:We didn't do it. I don't have any thoughts about the reasons why or anything to do with the coaching, anything to do about the players. I wanna give, Green Bay a lot of compliments and, credit. And, this is 1 of my most surprises since I've been involved in sport, period.
Jake Kemp:Syntax? It's 1 of my most surprises.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. He's he's trying to cut everybody off at the past too
Jake Kemp:Exactly.
Dan McDowell:And not talking about McCarthy or anything and whatnot even thinking about the coaches. Yeah. Or players. Yeah.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. Yeah. And, I wonder if that worked. You know, I'm not old enough, and you're not from here. But I honestly have to believe that this is the most disappointing loss in franchise history.
Blake Jones:I I remember the, Cardinals playoff game in the mid nineties. Wasn't that pretty bad?
Jake Kemp:It was bad. But that was a team at the tail end of their contention. Right? You know, I mean The Jake Plummer game. Jake the Snake.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. Absolutely. But this is a team that is seemingly in their prime.
Dan McDowell:Right. Where expectations, they were probably high, but like you said
Jake Kemp:And, also, I don't recall the score of that game, and yesterday's score, belies what actually occurred for 60 minutes. They got destroyed. Mhmm. And they got destroyed at home by the youngest team in the NFL based on age per snap count.
Blake Jones:And it's the first time a 7 seed has won a playoff game.
Jake Kemp:Oh, well.
Blake Jones:Now Green
Jake Kemp:had New Horizons. They didn't used to have them.
Blake Jones:No. But but still.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. No. You're right. Well, it's
Dan McDowell:been 2 or 3 years.
Blake Jones:Yeah. Since 2020, but this game this game is not made for the 7 seed to win.
Dan McDowell:Right. In fact, most of the time, we're saying there's
Jake Kemp:Why is that team in the playoffs? It's been
Dan McDowell:a Right. It's been a failed experiment, I thought.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Why would you put, Yeah. Expanding the playoffs. I like to 2 buys. It it worked. It worked great.
Dan McDowell:And now every year, it's the there's these teams in there that you're like, this team should not have been in the playoffs. And you might have thought it was Green Bay until they beat the cowboy. Well, maybe
Jake Kemp:now you think it's the Cowboys. Yeah. But, seriously, when he says, like, I've never been this disappointed, I believe him because I don't know that I can come up with another loss where the expectations higher and the result was poor.
Dan McDowell:See, because I've been through and you have too, a few of these. So when you're the number 1 seed
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:And you get a buy in that 1st week, And then you have to play a wild card team that has not had any rest. You've had the red. So you didn't have that. So twice, the Cowboys have had that and lost to a division rival, the Giants. Mhmm.
Dan McDowell:Those that's pretty high expectations when you're the number 1 seed.
Jake Kemp:These games are just so much closer.
Dan McDowell:Okay. Then yeah. That's a good point. 27 That's a good point. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:First half yesterday. Yeah. Those were games.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. There's like a play you remember from each of those games.
Dan McDowell:You're like,
Jake Kemp:man, lost it in the lights or Yeah. This or that happened. I mean,
Dan McDowell:they look like the worst team in the league yesterday. Yeah. I mean, Micah was not
Jake Kemp:Not really a factor. Any tackles.
Dan McDowell:Was that Micah's crushers. I, listened to a little musers this morning. I thought I heard Junior say it was, like, his worst statistical game. Like, he's his it was his worst game of his career. Like, 1 pressure, something real.
Jake Kemp:The Buffalo game was really bad. But, yeah, it was not good. It was 1 of the worst for sure. And it's easily 1 of the worst games of Dax career.
Dan McDowell:So Well and we've seen Yeah. We always see those in the playoffs. Yeah. That's what it feels like.
Jake Kemp:Alright. Let me skip ahead a little bit here.
Speaker 12:I haven't thought about that.
Jake Kemp:McCarthy.
Speaker 12:Again, I'm not, I haven't thought about it at all. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Is that deck?
Speaker 12:Every step of the way today, I was looking, for the end of the game with us being able to
Dan McDowell:I'm not asking you to think about it. The rest of you just talk.
Speaker 12:Everything I looked at today. The plays themselves were almost a blur to me. I was just thinking, how do we get to where we can have another game here next week?
Jake Kemp:That kinda if you need fuel for your fire.
Dan McDowell:What? As far as his profit margin?
Jake Kemp:Well, no. Just the idea of, like, I'm not even thinking about like, the guy who is actually the general manager of the team is like, I'm not even really thinking about this game. I'm just thinking about the next game.
Dan McDowell:Okay. Like, how
Jake Kemp:do we get to that?
Speaker 12:And so, I haven't given it that type of of analysis or look see or what have you.
Jake Kemp:Look see. Yeah.
Speaker 12:This one's burned into our soul out here tonight, and, Green Bay got a great win.
Dan McDowell:Jerry, is there any way you can connect You know, they were absolutely looking ahead. They were looking ahead.
Jake Kemp:I mean, it's
Dan McDowell:There's no other way around it.
Jake Kemp:He's flat out saying it.
Dan McDowell:They they were they were all looking ahead. They were abs I don't know if they were thinking ahead to San Francisco already, but you know that once they got that 2 seed, they did say we they breathed a sigh of relief that they don't have to face San Francisco right away. Yeah. Because that's kind of a foregone conclusion. They might you know, Dax talking about Louis Vuitton bags and and Las Vegas and Super Bowl.
Blake Jones:Just him. They're asking Tony Pollard about the Super Bowl. They're asking CD Lamb about the Super Bowl.
Dan McDowell:Right. And
Blake Jones:That was the theme all week is how much more confident are you guys this year in in making a Super Bowl run compared to last year?
Jake Kemp:And you're gonna be asked about it.
Dan McDowell:Well, the thing is though, what you think about it. It. Yeah. And what you say. What you say.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. And then what you say might be what you think.
Blake Jones:Yeah. They and they ask them because they know they're gonna get an answer revolved around the Super Bowl. Not 1 player said, hey, we're just focused on this week. Not 1.
Dan McDowell:Nope. Gary, are you concerned
Speaker 13:at all that your comments last week in Washington may have been a distraction for Mike McCarthy?
Dan McDowell:What was that?
Jake Kemp:That's when they asked him last week about what is McCarthy's job status. And he said, a bunch of flowery things and then ended it with, we're gonna see how each game goes.
Dan McDowell:Jerry, are you concerned at
Speaker 13:all that your comments last week in Washington may have been a distraction for Mike McCarthy?
Speaker 12:That's what?
Speaker 13:That your comments last week in Washington may have been a distraction for Mike McCarthy?
Speaker 12:No. No. Not at all.
Speaker 6:For people who and the fans specifically who might wanna have questions about the head coaching direction, whether it's Mike McCarthy moving forward. Do you find it's important to give yourself time or do you think that you'll be making a decision sooner rather than later?
Speaker 12:When I start, when I think about it, which I haven't thought 1 second about it, I know how hard, how much it meant to our fans to advance. What this loss to me means again, I was opened up by saying not how, why, who didn't, who didn't do what, all of that kind of thing. The only thing that was on my mind, almost this entire game, was not an analysis of our strategy, not an analysis of the play. It was, do we get to play here again next week? And we can
Jake Kemp:Well, you're the GM. So it might be hoove you to while you're watching the team play, not just be thinking, are we going to play next week? But rather be thinking, can I evaluate what I'm watching here?
Dan McDowell:The the payday for another
Jake Kemp:playoff game. From a roster standpoint? And, I mean, it's just words. It's Jerry. I get it.
Jake Kemp:It's all a bunch of BS, but it's like I actually believe him when he says, I wasn't even thinking about anything other than are we playing next week? It's like, you're the guy who built the team. Well, there you go. Wanna, like, think about, like, oh, maybe we're a team that's only built to play with a lead. And if somebody punches us in the mouth on the ground, maybe we should be talking about what we do with the 3 of the 1 tech.
Jake Kemp:Maybe we should be beefing up linebacker a little bit more. Maybe going with smaller linebackers as safeties, maybe that's not a great idea. Maybe we should, do this or that when it comes to the the run game. And he's just like, I don't know. I don't think about any of that.
Jake Kemp:I'm just like, are we playing next week?
Dan McDowell:Again, I guess that's the trickle down mentality of the Dallas Cowboys.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. I'll play you, like, the last, minute or so. I'll pick it up at the end here.
Speaker 12:K. My complete thought, for the last several weeks have totally been about, anticipating and planning on advancing in this game.
Jake Kemp:It's 5 minutes later, by the way.
Speaker 12:Since we found out that we were gonna have this home field. And, so I'm That
Dan McDowell:goes with just what we've been saying. Yeah. That's what all they've been thinking about is how far they're going to advance now that we have home field.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:This is great. It's already written that we don't lose at home.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. I mean, it was 16 straight. That again, this is 5 minutes later.
Speaker 12:I'm going back to the complete bottom of my thought process to think about anything other than, next week's game here.
Blake Jones:After I had seen this result, do you still feel like this team's close?
Speaker 12:Again, I haven't thought about anything. And, the main thing is I sure thought it was close, coming in.
Jake Kemp:Jerry, what will be your process the next few days in analyzing what you need to do?
Speaker 12:I I don't. That, you know, every day I've got a lot of things that that you do, and so I'm not sure I know a process is from just what you do every day in terms of how that how that works, but we certainly are are have a background in, what happens after you lose a playoff game. We have too much experience with that.
Jake Kemp:I thought that was interesting. Like, yeah, I got a lot of experience when it comes to losing playoff games. It's like I've been I've been doing it for a while now. Unbelievable. Yeah.
Jake Kemp:So here we are. We'll do this whole dance again. They'll pick in the late twenties, and we'll rinse and repeat, I guess.
Blake Jones:Do they get a quarterback?
Jake Kemp:I mean,
Blake Jones:We've seen this year.
Jake Kemp:Still under contract.
Blake Jones:Oh, okay. But you pick a DT in the twenties that you thought will help shore up your run game and he didn't do anything.
Jake Kemp:Boy, as much as I love their scouting department and who knows who makes these decisions and maybe these guys turn out to be great, that draft gave you nothing.
Blake Jones:I thought the perfect end to that game was Scoone Maker not getting out of bounds with 30 seconds left.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Blake Jones:Your 2nd round pick.
Speaker 7:Like, he gave them nothing. Mozzy gave
Jake Kemp:them nothing. Overshone was hurt in camp. The 3rd round pick, it's like
Blake Jones:You didn't suit up Deuce.
Jake Kemp:They essentially just Yeah. Deuce was punted.
Dan McDowell:Incredible bust. Well, I mean, you're picking I mean, what? 7th round? Still, the that's that can't be your mindset. I mean, they've No.
Dan McDowell:I'm not saying that you should just They've had contributors in the late rounds.
Jake Kemp:I'm not saying you should just look at it and be like, oh, you know, that's a throwaway pick. But I I feel like in the same way that we make fun of it because it felt like it was AAA Sautnam pick, where it was it was, like, done for publicity, I feel like that also put a spotlight on him. That other 7th round picks, you would never even, like, think about them. But if you just look at the top 3, I mean, they got nothing from their draft this year. Nothing, which is very hard to do whenever you're ostensibly going to have the highest paid quarterback, wide receiver, pass rusher, and quarterback in the NFL.
Dan McDowell:That's tough. Yeah. It's it's also tough.
Jake Kemp:Deron Bland is about to be not cheap either, by the way.
Dan McDowell:Oh, for sure. Sorry. I mean, they've had such great success
Jake Kemp:With drafting. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:With drafting recently. You wanna give them a year? You're gonna have your bust times?
Jake Kemp:And those guys may still develop, you know, but, seemingly, there were more, like, ready to contribute guys right now in the draft than what they took. And, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I guess we could wrap it up the same way we started. Of the range of outcomes, this is literally the most unexpected and worst thing that could have possibly happened. Dak played horribly.
Jake Kemp:McCarthy got outcoached, and they got thumped at home by a young team.
Dan McDowell:And it's also the only thing that we said could have gotten McCarthy run.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:The exact template. Yeah.
Jake Kemp:And we would, like, laugh about it.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. Because it was the 1 thing that really wasn't going to happen. Yeah. Not a total embarrassment. I mean, not the way, you know when you've been through it, you somehow can combat against it.
Dan McDowell:You I mean, that's the theory. It's all theory.
Jake Kemp:Alright. Well Done for 6 months.
Dan McDowell:I guess we have a long that's the thing. In the next year, I mean, I get so juiced up for football season, and you won't believe a thing next year,
Jake Kemp:I think. Well, you know what? I actually before I wrote my column this morning, I went back and read my column from last year. Yep. And it's you know, I I wish I on 1 hand, like, I wish that I could have just copy and pasted it, but this is worse.
Jake Kemp:This is way worse.
Dan McDowell:That's that's why they have to make a coaching change. How do you sell to the fan base next year when you're 10 and 1
Jake Kemp:Well, how about to the team?
Dan McDowell:To the team or the fan base or whatever. You're 10 and 1, and things are humming. How do you sell that it's different now? You can't. That's why you just have that's the coach generally ends up being the fall guy in these situations.
Dan McDowell:And Kellen Moore probably didn't deserve to go last year, but he was in the spot. And so you had to get rid of Kellen Moore. I mean, that's just you have to every year, you kinda do a little something.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:You have to try a little something different just to say, oh, no. Here's what's different. So all year long, it was, well, yeah. But now McCarthy's calling to play. And, again, the I listened to Dax press conference from last week for for comedy this morning.
Dan McDowell:As he's, oh, you know what? I mean, me and Mike, we're on this we we have we meet every Thursday. We meet Thursday, and we've I mean, we usually meet for 2, 3 hour maybe a half hour of football talk. But, I mean, it's just about life. It's about, being a father.
Dan McDowell:It's about, like III call BS on a lot of it, just because, you know, even when you and I talk and sit around, like, much of it is about work. Yeah. Yeah. Most of it is about work even though we are friends and interested in each other. But, you know, if if we got 3 hours It's
Blake Jones:It's not. You don't tell everyone and then call it keep it real Thursday.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. No. But it's it's just the whole, you know, and then the footwork and the the thing, and we're all on the same page. And it's just that it's enormously better than last year. And now, oh, he's calling plays.
Dan McDowell:Yeah, man. I mean, the he he just has a feel for it. It's incredible because he's he's done it. It's a he's a maestro. He's he's he knows, you know, as things different things happen, and he's got the you know, you got he's the coach head coach doing it.
Dan McDowell:So he's got the big picture in mind. He's not just trying to go for remember, we I think McCarthy has thrown Kellen Moore into the bus a little bit this year and this,
Jake Kemp:you
Dan McDowell:know, hey. Sometimes you gotta manage the whole game.
Jake Kemp:You don't just He just
Dan McDowell:wants to light up the scoreboard. Yeah. You know? And you can't you're probably in a corner with the quarterback and his contract and and just the quarterback position itself. You probably can't do anything there.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. Short of, yes, let's actually look to draft his replacement before he's already too old. They got lucky with it with with with Romo and Yeah.
Jake Kemp:And, I mean, dude, that's just such a that's just such a tough road to hoe because, I mean, obviously, Lamar is an outlier. Dak is a supreme outlier. But for the most part, if you want your quarterback, you're giving up capital. And now you're in the situation of alright. So what would actually make my team better right now?
Jake Kemp:Using this capital to improve the roster that he's on or bundling it together to move up to go get, you know 1 of the top 10. Top 10 quarterback. Because it's just very unlikely that you're gonna find a franchise quarterback in the bottom half of the first round. Not impossible, but unlikely. I mean, Jordan Love was the end of the 1st round.
Jake Kemp:However, they did trade up to go get him. And if you recall, I've because I remember us playing this audio, Aaron Rodgers was not thrilled about that.
Dan McDowell:Nope. Didn't he pour himself a scotch?
Jake Kemp:Tequila or something. Fingers. Yeah. And that was because they hadn't drafted a wide receiver in, like, a 100 years in the first round.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. And I would have been bothered by that too. Yeah. Yeah. Especially the way, you know, you're even real smart.
Dan McDowell:Organizations are drafting Trey Lance at the top of the draft or Trubisky or whoever, you know, you're you can you can miss so big. You're likely to miss.
Blake Jones:But in doing my research last night, it just seems like they've been a team in the last 20 years that has not put any draft capital into their quarterback position.
Jake Kemp:They haven't had to.
Blake Jones:They're playing like well, I know. But maybe it's time to fix it because this isn't working. Relying on an undrafted quarterback and a 4th round quarterback to win playoff games has not meant success for you.
Dan McDowell:But the 8th best record in the NFL over the last 20 years also.
Blake Jones:That's cool. Is that what you want? Did you have the better quarterback on the field last night? 1 1 of them was a 4th round quarterback. 1 of them was a first.
Dan McDowell:I wonder in truth what you're a businessman. If you're Jerry, what do you really want?
Jake Kemp:I thought you meant me. I was like, thank you.
Dan McDowell:But you are, certainly. You're a small businessman. He's a big businessman. Sure. And who what do you really want?
Dan McDowell:In the mix, 8 and 8 slash 12 and 5, but you bubble, never great, Never good enough even for the NFC championship game, but always relevant, always still talked about, always in the mix. We draft the flashy name player use more often than not. I know they had to hold him back to not draft Manziel. But, otherwise, we're a CD falls. We're gonna get him.
Dan McDowell:We're gonna get Dez. We're gonna get we're gonna get names. We're gonna have fantasy football highlights for sure. You know, in your fantasy drafts, people are always picking cowboys because they'll light it up. Profitable franchise just net but or would you rather have a stretch where you have to just be really bad for a while?
Dan McDowell:Really bad. So you can get that number 1 overall pick. Or like a top 5 pick so that you could actually move up, you know, trade some of your future capital, all that.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. I mean, I feel like I've written this every year, and, it's armchair psych psychologist. You know? Because I I actually do believe that Jerry wants to win. But they have kinda kept themselves in the, we're always going to be relevant.
Jake Kemp:You're always going to be talking about us. We're not going back to 5 and 11, cycle. Which is not easy to do. People are always trying
Dan McDowell:to stay out of that cycle. Yeah. But sometimes Nobody wants to get in it.
Jake Kemp:No. No. No.
Dan McDowell:But Like, the Eagles have gotten in it.
Jake Kemp:They have. They've been good, terrible, worse than the now they're better. You know? But to break through, sometimes you gotta put it on the table a little bit. And that What does that mean?
Jake Kemp:Well, I mean, if you look at the Eagles, for example, I mean, they've made some trades that have left them with a lack of draft capital. I mean, the Cowboys could've, at any point in time over the last 2 years, like, started dealing away 2nd round, 3rd round. I mean, the Cooks and the Gilmore got
Dan McDowell:themselves AJ Brown. Exactly. The Cooks and
Jake Kemp:the Gilmore trade are step in the right direction, but those are relatively low cost.
Blake Jones:And I know Vince is not equitable to Dak, but they drafted a guy at 2 that worked their way to the Super Bowl with him and then decided he's not the guy anymore and they moved on quickly.
Dan McDowell:Quickly.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. Whereas that's just because that that is a tremendous risk.
Dan McDowell:And that's yeah. The Cowboys would not never do that. Had they decided to do that, they might have Lamar Jackson today. Correct. Because Lamar fell.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. And Dak, you weren't sure about him at the time, and you
Jake Kemp:could have let him walk. They would have there's no way they would ever do that.
Dan McDowell:Man. But
Blake Jones:to but to to shift that question from a business standpoint to a fan standpoint, is it more entertaining for the cowboys to be the cowboys, 1 of the better teams in the league and not have any playoff success or be like the Rangers where you're not a factor 9 out of 10 years, but that you have your year.
Jake Kemp:Is that 1 year Marlins debate? The Marlins Braves.
Dan McDowell:Marlins Braves of the old days. Yeah. Yeah.
Jake Kemp:I don't know. I mean, the NFL is a little bit different. But
Blake Jones:Because and there is a lot of juice going into every year where there's so much optimism, and it's like you gotta watch every game.
Jake Kemp:Dude. You
Blake Jones:know, there is something to that.
Jake Kemp:I think, our buddy Tim on Twitter reported at this out the other day. I'm pretty sure they got KB and Greg Olsen every game they were on Fox. Like, Fox is basically like,
Dan McDowell:we were we were They've never had the b team this year?
Jake Kemp:Discussing why are they doing Commanders Cowboys at noon? And I think he looked it up, like, went back and, you know, went through and was like, Fox has just decided just put the cowboys on. It doesn't matter who they're playing. It doesn't matter when they're playing. It doesn't matter what's at stake or not at stake.
Jake Kemp:Just put the Cowboys on and that works very well for the family.
Blake Jones:Perfect way to end.
Speaker 7:Alright. It was a good enter.
Dan McDowell:Here's Jake with the dumb zone news.
Jake Kemp:Well, unfortunately, my news is cowboy related because I always love this.
Blake Jones:Fights in the crowd?
Jake Kemp:No. I didn't. Did you see any? No. I didn't see any.
Jake Kemp:However, I did see this clip on Dallas, Texas TV and then went and, pulled the, longer version of it. And it's the the fun bit where where the the news reporter has to go out to a game and interview fans. Always a classic. Okay. So we got Rebecca Lopez out here, postgame last night, and there's some gold in here.
Speaker 4:Cowboy fans left here in the cold after the team was iced out of the playoffs by the Packers and this Get it?
Dan McDowell:Yes. They were iced out.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Nice Cowboy fans left here in the cold after the team was iced out of the playoffs by the Packers, and this was a team that many thought would actually make it to a Super Bowl, but they didn't even show up to play. So many fans say they're disgusted and want change.
Jake Kemp:We do here. Right? I can't believe we lost y'all.
Speaker 4:Ain't nobody else mad now. Disgusted.
Speaker 7:I am upset. You feel me? I am from Virginia. I flew all the way in today to watch
Speaker 4:this. I'm sad. Frustrated.
Speaker 6:Was that another Romo on our hands?
Speaker 4:Choke like I'm Disappointed.
Jake Kemp:They they cut it off right before she said motherfucker.
Speaker 6:It's not another Romo on our hands.
Speaker 4:Choke like I'm Disappointed.
Speaker 7:We need another quarterback, another coach, everything. It don't matter. To me, it don't matter.
Speaker 4:That's how cowboys fans felt after watching the team implode once again in the playoffs.
Speaker 11:We need help.
Speaker 7:We need Jesus. Hey, bro. Many blame we need Jesus. Jesus. Hey, bro.
Speaker 4:Many blaming the coaches.
Speaker 14:Mike McCarthy losing at home against the packers.
Speaker 6:She says a lot.
Speaker 14:I think legacy gone, man. Like, you won a Super Bowl with the packers, and then you go take over a new team and you lose at home against that team.
Speaker 6:Without Aaron Rodgers.
Jake Kemp:Drunk life. Mhmm.
Speaker 6:Without Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 14:You know?
Speaker 4:It's embarrassing. Others, the quarterback.
Speaker 11:No more Dak Prescott ASAP. New quarterback. Dak, get him out of here.
Jake Kemp:Trey Lance, the next stud. Let's go. Oh, alright. Trey Lance now. The next stud.
Jake Kemp:Let's go. Oh. Let's go, Rangers.
Speaker 4:And minivan Let's go Rangers.
Speaker 7:Alright. Okay.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. Go Rangers.
Speaker 4:And mini fans demanding change.
Speaker 11:1205, 1205, 1205. Who cares when we lose like this to the freaking packers? Who shouldn't even be here? It's disgusting. Let's get a real head coach.
Speaker 11:And if he can't do it for us, let's get a new quarterback. I'm tired.
Speaker 4:Fans came from all over and dealt with the
Jake Kemp:That's how it sounds every single time I yell at my family. I just say everything I have to say, and then I'm just like, I'm tired.
Speaker 11:Let's get a real head coach. And if he can't do it for us, let's get a new quarterback. I'm tired.
Speaker 4:Fans came from all over and dealt with the cold weather just to watch this mess.
Speaker 6:We drove far for no reason. Before.
Speaker 4:Fans say they were
Speaker 6:fed up
Speaker 4:and freezing.
Speaker 6:We're from Florida. We're freezing our
Speaker 11:I'm still here since 10. Just to freeze to lose. Not worth it.
Speaker 4:There was enough blame to go around as the Cowboys suffered 1 of the most embarrassing losses in the team's playoff history, and now fans are left disappointed once again. At AT and T Stadium, I'm Rebecca Lopez. Back to you.
Speaker 6:Oh, fans are not holding back, and I don't blame them. Still ahead tonight, firefighters braving the cold to battle a fire on water.
Speaker 7:Yeah. They they're
Dan McDowell:deservedly so. Jared, peace in your mind.
Jake Kemp:I'm surprised I never ended up on 1 of those. 1 time, man, this is so bad. The 1st football game I think I ever went to with my wife, it might have been to a college game before, but the first cowboy game I ever met, went to, it was Cowboys Giants and this was during the Victor Cruz era. What do you remember about Victor Cruz and his celebrations, Blake?
Blake Jones:Salsa dancing.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. So the Cowboys won, and it was, I think it was a good it was a good Giants team. And I honestly should have been murdered because this is, like, in my real party days. And, like, I was salsa ing in front of every Giants fan on the way out. I was like salsa salsa.
Dan McDowell:Just rubbing it in.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:You're not a good winners, you're saying?
Jake Kemp:I'm not a good winner or a good loser. No. Yeah. I was like, like, there's So
Dan McDowell:you're looking to get in a fight?
Jake Kemp:I was just looking to, you know
Blake Jones:Stir it up.
Jake Kemp:That's right. Stir it up, Blake. ERCOT, speaking of Blake, is asking us to conserve energy tomorrow morning.
Dan McDowell:So now is fine? Fat chance.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. The call in particular is for, to curb your your usage from 6 to 9, nice, tomorrow morning.
Dan McDowell:Okay. Interesting pinpointing that time frame.
Blake Jones:Is that when everybody's getting ready for work or something?
Jake Kemp:That's what I would assume.
Blake Jones:Getting ready to go to school?
Jake Kemp:Your blow dryers, you know, women. Yeah. Air curlers. Do women still use curlers?
Blake Jones:I don't think so.
Jake Kemp:Do you remember that, like, when you were a kid, like, your mom having the the full thing and you would accidentally touch it? It would just, like, scald you Yeah. For months.
Blake Jones:Curlers in the hair in the in the on the car ride over?
Jake Kemp:Oh, yeah.
Blake Jones:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:They must still use them.
Jake Kemp:I mean, I know, like, the curling iron Yeah. Is still popular, but curlers themselves. You know what I'm talking about?
Dan McDowell:Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You've been walking around. Grandma used to have those.
Jake Kemp:I just don't see those anymore. I mean, I guess I'm typically
Dan McDowell:only around 1 1 woman. Yeah. And if she doesn't use them.
Jake Kemp:Do you guys have stuff like that that that recalls, memories instantly, like smells, like the smell of the curler to me. And the hair, like I, it just puts me like I, write back in a very specific place.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. I think certain things. Certainly, to me, certain music does. But there's no. Well, no.
Dan McDowell:There's something like seventies song that actually puts me, like, into the back seat of a car. Yeah. Like, I remember hearing I must have remembered hearing this when I was a little kid or something.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. I got a couple of those, which is really weird. Yes. Smell wise for me, hey, mom. I know you're listening to this.
Jake Kemp:Can you tell my mom to stop listening?
Dan McDowell:Yeah. Quit listening. Why would she listen? Hairspray. It's not for, for ladies.
Jake Kemp:Hairspray makes me think of church. Okay. Like, my wife doesn't really use hairspray all that often. In fact, I feel like hairspray's kinda had it down couple decades. Seemed like it used to be a lot more popular.
Jake Kemp:Blake, what do you think?
Blake Jones:Yeah. That puts me back at home.
Jake Kemp:Like, does your wife use hairspray?
Blake Jones:Again, no. But I don't know if that's just her or not.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. But, like, the occasional times where I smell hairspray, I'm like, ugh, youth group.
Blake Jones:Yeah. There's some of that stuff that puts me right back in the nineties shows and music and I don't know. For me, I guess it's more like smell like food smells.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Blake Jones:You know, something that my only my extended family would cook or something.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. I remember I know, sometimes when I go to I do think of 1 college girlfriend when I when I walk through the Pappadeaux's kitchen.
Jake Kemp:Why are you in the kitchen?
Dan McDowell:I like to inspect the food prep sometimes
Speaker 12:when they're
Jake Kemp:gut What would you have?
Dan McDowell:Gutting the fish.
Blake Jones:In fact, maybe you should give her a call.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. Then I think of it. Fire up Facebook. Like, damn. Pull yeah.
Dan McDowell:Pull up her Facebook picture.
Jake Kemp:Why is this customer in the
Dan McDowell:What could've been? Yeah. I got my laptop in there with me. I'm holding it. What's your, Wi Fi password?
Jake Kemp:Oh my god. That is really weird. Really weird, dude. But, yes, we have actually had a couple of deaths and 3 injuries, on Dallas County Highways within just the last 24 hours. I suck at driving in this stuff, man.
Jake Kemp:Me too. Like, I I texted you guys this morning.
Dan McDowell:Oh, you grew up in, Ohio. You should be great at it.
Jake Kemp:I was about to say that. So Yeah. You would think. You would think.
Dan McDowell:I'm not terrible at it. I know you gotta know your strength. You know? You don't just try and steal every base. You kinda gotta judge your own speed.
Dan McDowell:So yeah.
Blake Jones:You're you're more of a yeah. You're more of a finesse driver. You're really good I was born in and out going a 100.
Dan McDowell:I right. I was born to live in Texas. Because if you go up there too, my daughter was talking about this. When you drive in New York or something Slow. Just the state of New York even.
Dan McDowell:Not just New York City when there's big traffic. The state of New York, it's, yeah, slow. It's well, she's like, if it says 55, people are driving 55, maybe 60.
Blake Jones:Suckers.
Dan McDowell:Right. They don't understand that we don't listen to big government here.
Jake Kemp:That's right. Yeah. Both these, or all 3 of these deaths occurred overnight. And, you know, for me, I post cowboy? Yeah.
Jake Kemp:It doesn't say anything. There's nothing mentioned about, like, alcohol or anything in here, but certainly could have been, cowboy related. But, yeah, like, for me, it's the you're at a light, you hit the accelerator, and you just fishtail. Mhmm. That happened to me this morning, and I'm like, okay.
Jake Kemp:This is am I just bad at this? Do I just hit it too hard? I mean,
Dan McDowell:you just shouldn't really shouldn't be out in it.
Jake Kemp:There's no Probably not. Probably not.
Dan McDowell:No real reason to unless
Jake Kemp:You have a podcast.
Dan McDowell:You have a podcast, and you have 2 kids at home, and you need to get away from them.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. On a holiday. It snow day holiday. Either way.
Dan McDowell:I wonder if, schools will be in session tomorrow. So my wife
Jake Kemp:works for least we've at least already been advised of a late start.
Dan McDowell:My wife works for a school system, and this morning, the alarm goes off like it usually does for her at 6:30. Grinder. And then it went off again because of the snooze, and then it went off again. And I'm noting it as I'm lying there. Now I'm stirred, so I'm doing some words or something.
Dan McDowell:And, yeah, it was 7:35, and she's still in bed. And I said, hey, what's what's the deal? She goes, I forgot it's MLK Day.
Jake Kemp:Turn your alarm off.
Dan McDowell:She just forgot. Like, the night before, she's prepping for it. And I guess she got up and at 6:30, she texted a friend of hers who works for the school. Or whenever 1 of those alarms, she texted her friend.
Speaker 6:Didn't let the freezing temperature Oh,
Dan McDowell:we got more audio for the news? Anyway, she woke somebody up that she works with to find out if school was closed. Because she thought
Jake Kemp:Bad coworker.
Dan McDowell:She thought the weather might be
Jake Kemp:Sorry. Bad coworker. Yeah. No. Right now on NBCDFW's website, they have their trending thing up there at the top little, trending bar.
Jake Kemp:We've got the good news newsletter. We've got Arctic Blast latest.
Dan McDowell:That's what we're in now?
Jake Kemp:Yeah. Octoblast. You're in the middle of a blast. Did you not feel it? No.
Jake Kemp:We've got Navy SEALs missing.
Blake Jones:Oh, no.
Jake Kemp:And sitting by Taylor.
Dan McDowell:Apparently, I
Jake Kemp:mean, simply caught up with someone who's set near Taylor Swift at a football game. Oh, okay.
Dan McDowell:I like the Taylor Swift memes.
Jake Kemp:I'm
Dan McDowell:Her looking through the The glass? Yeah. The the foggy window. That was my second second favorite meme to the Jake. There were a lot of Bumble memes.
Jake Kemp:Jake Bumble memes. Do
Dan McDowell:you like and subscribe. I gave you my all. No. You did. You brought it.
Dan McDowell:We can end with this.
Speaker 9:The dumb zone presents Today in History.
Dan McDowell:So if you're listening to this not on, you know, Monday 15th, maybe you just don't even wanna listen to this part and you just can bail out. Do whatever you want. Trey, you're the boss of you.
Jake Kemp:By the way, the Seahawks have put in a request to interview Dan Quinn.
Blake Jones:Take him.
Jake Kemp:Take him. Okay. We're just done with Dan Quinn now. After leading the league in turnovers over a 3 year period and pressure rate, we're just done with Dan
Dan McDowell:Quinn now. Did you hear Micah last week? Said something about DQ's my guy. Who knows? Maybe he'll take me with him.
Jake Kemp:That's not exactly what he said, but it was something jocular. He said it in a comedic vein.
Dan McDowell:So it's Monday, January 15th. It is Martin Luther King Junior, the King Day. Mhmm. On this day in 18/92, the original rules of basketball were published for the first time in Springfield, Mass. This game devised by doctor James Naismith.
Dan McDowell:The first ever rules today. Take care. Number 1, white guys only. This day in 1978, it was the first ever Super Bowl indoors.
Blake Jones:What if we had to explain to mister Nesmith that there's gonna be this guy James Harden, he's gonna do this like rip through move and KD's gonna take it on. You're gonna have to make a rule for that.
Jake Kemp:It feels like cheating, I know, but they found a little loophole.
Blake Jones:And then people are gonna start hacking this guy named Shaq and it's just gonna make a mockery of the game.
Dan McDowell:Could you go back and teach someone of that era, of his era, the Eurostep?
Jake Kemp:No. I don't I don't think that you could. Where was it? Atlanta?
Dan McDowell:New Orleans. New Orleans. Atlanta? How would the first ever Super Bowl be in Atlanta? Did they have a dome back in the seventies?
Jake Kemp:I thought they did. Did they not? Where where do they used to play?
Dan McDowell:I feel like Jake just had a really bad point. But
Jake Kemp:I I immediately followed it up with New Orleans.
Dan McDowell:I'm I'm also afraid to really go at you hard because I don't know.
Blake Jones:Why wasn't that so bad?
Dan McDowell:I just feel like Atlanta I I mean, growing up, I heard of the Astrodome, then
Speaker 12:I heard
Jake Kemp:of Astrodome?
Dan McDowell:Okay. Was that there in the seventies? I don't know. I just thought there was, like, 2 domes. I thought there was 1 dome, the Astrodome, and then New Orleans got 1.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. No. You're right. 92. I just remember, when I was growing up, I remember thinking the Falcons are a dome team.
Jake Kemp:Sue me. Please don't.
Dan McDowell:Is that the house that Dion built?
Jake Kemp:Yeah. Probably so, Dan.
Dan McDowell:Roger Staubach. What do you want? Was he quarterback Against former cowboy backup, Greg, Craig Morton. So those 2 used to actually I think there was even 1 game or 1 stretch where Tom Landry would send in the play with the quarterback. Absolutely.
Dan McDowell:So Craig Morton would run-in, do a play. Roger Staubach runs out. He gets the next play. Like Definitely. Can you imagine if that would have actually worked and that was a thing now?
Dan McDowell:No. Oh. I can't, but I want you to.
Jake Kemp:I know Steve Spurrier did it with, Florida. Oh, really? Mhmm. And for those of us who grew up playing youth football, very common. Like, I did that.
Jake Kemp:Really?
Dan McDowell:Yeah. Because I know, I believe Paul Brown would have a an offensive lineman do it. Yeah. The most common thing is
Jake Kemp:to have a receiver do it, which I also did. That makes sense. Which was really the only thing I did. It was basically a pigeon.
Blake Jones:Did you ever change the play to 1 that you got the ball?
Jake Kemp:No. Oh. Of course not.
Dan McDowell:So you're smart, but not that smart.
Jake Kemp:I'm a team player. No. Team team player.
Dan McDowell:You know Jaire Alexander. That's right. On this day in the year 2000, the Jags defeat the Dolphins 62 to 7. Jimmy. Jimmy's last coaching appearance, The 2nd largest margin in playoff history.
Dan McDowell:I don't know the first. So if you guys wanna search that, that'd be a lot of fun.
Jake Kemp:So wait. 53 over the Raiders in 1991 in an AFC championship game.
Dan McDowell:Wow. 51 to 3. So this 1 got the Jags to the AFC Jags.
Blake Jones:Been really good that year. Maybe they'll win the Super Bowl.
Jake Kemp:Nope. The first of many losses played.
Dan McDowell:So the Jags have been to the AFC championship more recently than the Cowboys.
Blake Jones:Yeah. They were in it in 2017?
Jake Kemp:Blake Bortles.
Dan McDowell:So they've been there twice
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Since the Cowboys have been there.
Blake Jones:Yes.
Dan McDowell:And oh, and this day in 2009, US Airways captain Chelsea Sullenberger put his Airbus 320 down in the Hudson River after a flock of birds disabled both engines. All 155 people aboard survived. Sully.
Jake Kemp:So you landed a plane because a bird flew into it, and you're a hero now?
Dan McDowell:And from what I understand from speaking to other pilots, we live in a pilot laden area.
Jake Kemp:We do. That's why we have so many 911 memorials. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Oh, I got another 1. I'll show you tomorrow. Yeah. There's only about 80,000 other pilots that could have pulled that off.
Jake Kemp:Thank you. He wasn't being attacked by a missile.
Dan McDowell:Like, every pilot that flies for American that I've ever met have said, yes. I would just land the I would've also not killed anyone.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. And Pretty simple. You know? There's a huge body of water here, body of water here. Oh, we hit a bird?
Jake Kemp:Yeah. I'll just land it. It's not a big deal. You could still get drink service while I'm doing it.
Dan McDowell:And this day in 2020, Chinese officials said they couldn't rule out the possibility that a new coronavirus in central China could spread between humans, but they said the risk of transmission appeared to be low. Well, good. Good. They don't lie.
Jake Kemp:They couldn't rule it out, but they're not, like, confirming it.
Dan McDowell:Today's birthdays, we have, I didn't really roll through email, so I might have gotten some emailed birthdays. Oh, no. To get those tomorrow. I'm sorry. Pretty busy with football this morning because we don't watch a lot of the broadcast.
Jake Kemp:You know? Kinda gotta go back.
Dan McDowell:I kinda get my back and anyway.
Jake Kemp:Did it get better the second time? Well, I
Dan McDowell:knew exactly what happened. Yeah.
Jake Kemp:Former cowboy Randy White, 71, has oddly taken on a Texan accent.
Dan McDowell:He's been here a long time though.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. But, I mean, so have you.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. He's the master. He could do whatever he wants. He's could he beat you up? He's 71.
Dan McDowell:Yeah.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Yeah. Probably so. Former Ranger, Mitch Garver, 33. Male prostitute. Former Ranger, Armando Galarraga is 42.
Dan McDowell:Wow. Do you know the moment in history he's famous for?
Jake Kemp:I guess not.
Dan McDowell:Blake? Baseball guy? He had a perfect game with 2 outs in the 9th inning. He was pitching for the Tigers and, got a ground ball that pulled Miggy off the bag. Throws to Galarraga covering out called safe before replay.
Jake Kemp:Oh, this is the Jim Joyce. Right? Okay. That's what he said.
Blake Jones:I I struggle remembering that guy's name.
Jake Kemp:Okay. Okay.
Dan McDowell:Very blatantly safe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Jake Kemp:Blake said Jim Joyce. I think
Dan McDowell:By a step sit. Not like bang bang. Yeah. It was not not even close at all.
Jake Kemp:Yeah.
Dan McDowell:And, yeah, I watched it again this morning. Just, unbelievable. Like the only good thing
Blake Jones:that guy did in his career. Like, he's not a good pitcher.
Dan McDowell:No. He's terrible. Former Ranger manager Jeff Bannister is 60.
Jake Kemp:Jake. Future father-in-law.
Dan McDowell:Deebo Samuel, 28. Stud. Drew Brees, 45.
Blake Jones:Has to throw left handed now.
Dan McDowell:Golfer Gary Nicholas is 45. He actually won 1, tournament on tour. Actor Andrea Martin is 77. She is the mom in life goes on. Never seen it.
Dan McDowell:Actor Chad Lowe, 56. He was Jesse in life goes on. The the, the kid who dated Becca, but he had AIDS.
Jake Kemp:What the what? It was
Dan McDowell:in the era, the nineties Yeah. So divorced parents was the era when, you had to tell everybody that AIDS is cool. It's okay. You can you could date someone that has AIDS. You could hang out with someone that has AIDS.
Jake Kemp:You could even use the same toilet. Right. Just don't let him put it in your butt. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Musician Adam Jones is 59? Pac Man. He's from TOOL. And you know Bush would open for TOOL on their tour. Not a fan.
Jake Kemp:Their music always sound like a math problem to me.
Dan McDowell:Hole opens for corn.
Jake Kemp:Okay. Sorry.
Dan McDowell:And pit bull is 43. Mister worldwide.
Jake Kemp:I think he's, like, obscenely wealthy.
Dan McDowell:You think? Isn't that the dumbest thing you've ever said? Of course, he is.
Jake Kemp:Well, no. I mean, like, I think he's
Dan McDowell:I bet Dax's girlfriend is hot.
Jake Kemp:No. No. No. No. No.
Jake Kemp:I don't mean, like, he's rich. I'm just saying, like, I thought he was 1 of these guys, like, if you ever looked up, like, 50¢ net worth? No. Like, he got into, like, vitamin water or something? So it's, like, a billion?
Jake Kemp:It's something way more than you would expect. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:How do we get into something like that?
Jake Kemp:Pitbull is only a 100,000,000. I would have expected more.
Dan McDowell:Born, now dead, Martin Luther King. This is his birthday. And Ray Chapman. Ray Chapman is the only Major League Baseball fatality. Oh.
Dan McDowell:He was a Cleveland Indian and was killed on the field of play. Died on this day.
Blake Jones:What happened? Heart attack?
Dan McDowell:No. Back in the head. Bean ball.
Blake Jones:Oh, jeez. He was he was at bat?
Dan McDowell:Yeah. I believe so. How else would he
Jake Kemp:have been hit by a bean ball?
Blake Jones:Oh, I guess I didn't process that part. I didn't know if he was, like, pitching and got a comeback or off the head or something.
Dan McDowell:I think he was at bat.
Jake Kemp:Yeah. It looks like it. Yeah.
Dan McDowell:Dang. So that happened in 1920.
Jake Kemp:Dude, listen to this. So it was a pitch thrown by Carl Mays. The sound of the ball striking Chapman's skull was so loud that Mays thought it'd hit the end of Chapman's bat. He fielded the ball and threw it to 1st base.
Dan McDowell:Wow. Certainly weren't wearing helmets back then. No.
Jake Kemp:That's interesting.
Dan McDowell:This helped cause It's like the helmet. Helmet. Yeah. He's got a really high helmet. It's because of his hair.
Dan McDowell:Is that why? I think so. That doesn't make any sense.
Jake Kemp:Well, it just, like, sits a little bit higher. Mhmm. Why would that not make any sense?
Blake Jones:Why are you so combative today?
Jake Kemp:Me?
Blake Jones:I feel like both of you are just short of patience today. No. I'm You're just ready to snap at each other.
Dan McDowell:No. No. No. This happens every MLK Day. Because Jake's like, I don't know why.
Dan McDowell:It's gotta be a federal holiday, man. I mean, jeez. Work? I'm like, he did a lot. See you in court.
Dan McDowell:Yeah.
Jake Kemp:What about all that sleeping around?
Dan McDowell:So Ray Chapman, the only Major League Baseball 5th fatality. On this day in 1968, Bill Masterson died. The only NHL fatality. He died during
Jake Kemp:a game. What a note.
Dan McDowell:I guess probably with a puck, Blake. I don't know.
Jake Kemp:Well, I mean, with hockey, you're opening yourself up to a couple of other opportunities.
Dan McDowell:Could have been a skate to the neck, but I I think, look him up real quick. I think I think it was I think he did not have puck luck.
Jake Kemp:That's PDO.
Dan McDowell:But I I'm I don't know how Bill Masterson died. Was he a Dallas star?
Jake Kemp:No. Died in 1968?
Blake Jones:Well, he was a North Star.
Dan McDowell:Was he a North Star? Okay. This I thought they might had his number retired.
Jake Kemp:Okay.
Dan McDowell:Because that's 1 sure way to get your number retired.
Jake Kemp:I think he just got checked and landed on his head.
Dan McDowell:I retire the numbers of guys who stay alive. To Donka, Kevin. After they get hit.
Blake Jones:Yeah. His head hit the ice. Oh. 0. And his teammates said it sounded like a baseball bat hitting a ball.
Dan McDowell:Teammates said it sounded like Carl Mays pitching to Ray Chapman. Yeah. And died on this day in 2016. Dan Hagerty. Do you know why he's famous, Blake?
Dan McDowell:Or Jake, I should I know the name. So have you ever heard of a show called Grizzly Adams? Yeah. Okay. I'm not that familiar.
Dan McDowell:I'm just familiar that it exists.
Jake Kemp:Didn't he, like, marry Ty Walker or something?
Dan McDowell:He performed the, wedding ceremony of Richard Hunter, and Ty Walker was there.
Jake Kemp:Attendance. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 9:And that was Today in History.
Jake Kemp:Well, thanks guys.
Dan McDowell:Tomorrow, keep, just don't run your hairdryer in the morning. That's right. Alright. Adios, mofo.
Speaker 7:I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain. The only thing that's real. The needle tears a hole. The old familiar sting.
Speaker 7:Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything. What have I become? My sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away in I will let you down. I I wear this crown of thorns upon my liars chair full of broken thoughts, I cannot repair.
Speaker 7:Beneath the stains of time, the feelings disappear. You are someone else. I am still right here. What have I become My sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away in here.
Speaker 7:And you could have it all, my empire will make you again, a 1000000 miles away,