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can call in one clip stood out for Mike McCarthy's press conference. I'm'll play it for you guys. Yet this is yesterday and they found out he's coming back. It's a twenty second song. You guys ready for this? Yeah? Because the question that Jane Slater asked him was why should fans believe in you? Yeah? Because I believe that the direction, you know, the leadership, everything is in place. And I'm not very comfortable talking about myself,
but I came here to win a championship. I didn't come here to get another contor anything other than that. I came to Dallas to win the World Championship. And that's why I'm standing here and buy into us, all right, Cowwoy's fans buy into us. He was doing pretty good. He had about twenty five minutes. He kind of handled it all really well until he said buy into us, and then everyone went, oh, no, what if they win twelve games and lose in the NFC Championship game next year?
That's good. You'd bring him back a new contract. Yeah, I would, five year deal, well, three year deal. Tell me how they lost? Okay, what was the score? Yeah? Bad start. You know, I was thinking about this yesterday. I think anything short of a Super Bowl appearance gets him, he's gone. But if it is four strate twelve winners, and then you do because honestly I don't. I mean, obviously, run here. People want to win the damn Super Bowl.
But for whatever reason, that NFC Championship game seems to be the next deceptible step. And I do respect what Kevin says with the moving forward, and you can't move backward, and that would be moving forward. Like you, you're not in the promised land, but you've made it back to acceptable land. Because for the Dallas Cowboys is at least you make the NFC Title Game and that's then the okay, finish one. Yeah that was supposed to be
this year. I agree that anything short of a Super Bowl appearance, he will not be back. I got some clarity last night on some some things. I was thinking about this barely. He had one on one meeting with Jerry. Jerry was cool with moving on. Jerry had allegedly not reached out to anyone else. And it is the way Mike McCarthy won a Super Bowl for Green Bay and year five, Okay, this will be his fifth year with the Cowboys, and it is kind of the way is Jerry is maybe
the only one. I'm sure there were people in the Cowboy front office and players were like, yeah, bring him back, but Jerry can he gets credit for I'm the one who brought him back. Jerry's kind of the only one of like, hey, I'm the one who gave him a chance, and everyone wanted to fire him, Whereas if Belichick comes in would get the credit, Harball would get the credit. So that did hit me and I
was like, yeah, that might make a lot of sense. Now that also might be giving Jerry way too much credit and forward thinking where he says, I have to make the hard decisions. Yeah, but think about how easy and good that would look on Jerry for going y'all all wanted him out of town and look what he did. So yeah, as we've discussed running back here, not a bad plan. It's not a ballsy plan. And I keep judging everything against the scope of Jerry's lifespan. I really do.
That's probably not not way to run the business. But if I'm thinking about how if he's in charge and wants things, he will die. But I didn't think it was weird. He will in the next Jesus eighteen years. Okay, well yeah, if of see how safe that was. Just like I am tired, I'm flipping through last night. I was, you know, trying to get sleepy, and it was on the Golf channel, real weird and it cuts to a commercial. I don't see how commercials for books,
and I was like, oh be damn, it's Mike McCarthy. I thought this was real strange to come out, especially a date like yesterday. But I'll play you. Here's a It was almost like an infomercial type it. It was like longer than a sixty. But here's the You know the Mike McCarthy commercial from last night that I saw on the Golf channel. I'm on Macorthy. You're never working. Love Montreal Crooks, Bigfoot, Tors, Rior Biger, but I also love my job. And these those seems like
everyone's coming after your job. But there's anything I'm good at. It's winning meaningless football games, but knowing how to keep a job. You might have heard of my press conference where I said that fans should buy into us. What I meant by that is you need to buy my new book, I Had to Keep Your Job by Mike McCarthy Audio book by Jason Garrett. He's just twelve ninety nine Barns and Noble and nine ninety nine and a half priced books. And I know that's not half price, but let's face it,
nothing I do really makes sense. You read my new book How to Keep Your Job, You'll just follow those three easy steps. Number one, lie wa fight here a boss. They'll spend so much time wondering if they made
the right decision to hire you that they'll forget to fire you. For example, my introductory press conference as head coach of the thousany Walls need to confess I mean, I told Jerry I watched every play in the twenty nineteen season, but I wanted the job, so I have I haven't watched every play of the season, but it was just uh number two, have a steep goat. You know, cut dan Quinn. If you learn big books, then you cannot lie. This is not the work for you. How to
Keep Your Job is only thirteen pages long. You read it in one crap session. If you want to keep your job, by a copy of How to Keep Your Job by Mitch McCarthy featuring Jason Garrett on the audio Ordon I bought by the top of find out what the how happens to Dan Quinn. He'll get a special bundle you'll get. My book was the biography of the legendary comedian Leo Anthony Gallagher. I was just like anything else. It's a book. I'm a damn good coach, I'm a little one football games bind
us. I'll to Keep her Job by Michae McCarthy in stores today, fantastic Susan the golf channels on watching the American Express Classic, and he was referencing stuff he said in the press conference yesterday. So that was fresh, weird, was never about football here. If you know, for the Cowboys, you're always you know, doing commercials. Mark McCarthy and I love Monster Trucks, What Big Graves Tour? Why do you start with that? Just tell you who he is. He's trying to be relatable. Yeah are we all
are? And that's why we'll do this now. That is a badass. You know, it's kind of been better. I want to hear that again later, Yeah please yeah, five half So all is this brought to us by anyone? It's brought to us by you, you me, Shale Sidua, right around two hundred million people. Big Mike was one of them who says that do we know who that is? It's from Andrew Bullock in the blind Side? Okay, Big you pulled that, Big mo you played a lot. I don't ever know where the hell comes from. I always say
it, Big Mic, I never know what's from. Big Mike was one of the two hundred million or so people that watched the Super Bowl last year and every year. I've watched every Super Bowl of the last you know, thirty five, forty a lot of them, but two hundred million people, and we always were like, oh my god, that's the big dog. One point five billion people watched the World Cup final game in the last World Cup. That was a good one too, if I remember, that was
messy, right? Was it Argentina and they of course beat Danny Town. They played Britain. No way, I don't know. Don't look up, don't look it up. I'm not holding it was. It was what was like Portugal? It was something over there. It wasn't Portugal because that would have been Ronaldo versus one spaces. I looked at up Spain or Germany. Germany is usually in there. It was. I looked it up. Hold on Spain, right, I love Spain as a guest. No France,
I think I think it was Argentina France shootout. Yes, a shootout in Argentina, one of course. Like look, we're not the home of soccer. But I'll tell you right now, I don't really like soccer and don't really like it when people do it around me. People are giving soccer around me. I'm kind of out. Kevin likes monster trucks, Yeah, bigfoot, you know when the hyper guys besides you. He's just kind of doing
tricks with the soccer ball. You mean in a park. Yeah, someone just juggling a soccer ball and this makes you uncomfortable, or at the food truck, but go ahead. It was a chicken that played guitar, and he was known around town as the cock that rocks the food truck. That's how you told the guy to put when he put a soccer ball down. One point five billion people around the world watch the World Cup final, and I was definitely one of those two because as not soccer guy, I do,
I do get a little World Cup fever. I love me too. Yeah, And it's a real weird one is that the most I mean, the Olympics as a whole are the one that it's like, you don't care about any of this stuff. Oh, write none of it. I guess basketball maybe not even anymore. Well, no, I mean we like basketball, and then that's like what sport in the Olympics you actually follow year round? None, basketball of course, and hockey. Thought you'd like a world
basketball No, yeah, NBA, yeah, of course basketball nothing. I guess do they do baseball in the Olympics Now? They do golf in the Olympics now, yeah, okay, golf, but that's relatively new, but most of them no, Yeah, I'm not Katie Lidecki's in the US Championships or Shikari Richardson, but we're all gonna be ex you know, once the Olympics start, everyone knows what they're talking about track and field, But anyway, soccer's kind of in that category. I like it. I do watch
some EPL games if they're on. I like Newcastle. I love going to FC Dallas games, but I'm not a super fan. But once the World Cup hits, I'm in. I will watch whatever that very first game is.
Whispers on that one are Mexico City for the very first game, because that is an iconic venue that hosted the finals in I don't know the years, but when Maradonna won that Hand of God goal was in Mexico City, and when Pele won a World Cup I believe both those finals were in Mexico City, making Mexico City a legit candidate to host the final World Cup game in the upcoming World Cup, which is twenty twenty four. If that happens, I think I'm gonna try to go. You're gonna have to Mexico City.
I'm gonna use my cartel connections to get tickets with just the dude, that you want. You bought a bag of blow from one time. He's not a cartel connection, Danny, but he has he knows. That's how Danny gets a Peso Pluma tickets. You ate it. Trompo yesterday, Okay, Danny wouldn't even go in to watch the Peso Pluma show. He just sat out in a lawn chair outside the AAC Hispanics. Okay, let's all relax. It's not gonna be in Mexico City. You're gonna not gonna have
to go there. That's convenient, save a vacation day. The World Cup is a North American thing in that year which is hosted by the United States, America, Mexico, and Canada. And they're expanding to I think forty five teams. I don't have it right in front of you, but they're expanding thing. It's gonna be more teams, more games, bigger, and it's gonna be spread out all through Canada, United States and Mexico. And we knew Dallas at AT and T Stadium was going to be one of these
sites hosting games. But there's been this war going on for who gets the final game, the final, the big one where the eyes of the world are on it more than any other event, right, yes, any other event on the planet. This is the one that the most people care about lock In watch and it was a battle, I guess, right to the very end, and all the rumors and semi official The Sun reported it as well that the World Cup Final is going to be played at at and T
Stadium in North Texas, USA. That's huge because they're not going to get a Super Bowl in a long time, and you get this thing that's bigger, globally bigger. Yeah. I saw that the attendance charts on sometimes it's like at and T Stadium has more people than that Mexico City Stadium by like five thousand. Yeah, so if it's just that much thought, I mean, I remember that when when the Super Bowl was here, talking about squeezing
one hundred thousand in there, remember you going for that record? Yeah, they had a chair malfunctioning. Remember handyman with their work belts trying to assemble stands the day of the game and they couldn't finish them. And then people are in a stairwell that they overpaid for tickets to. How do you not have that wt? Yeah? Whatever, maybe they'll sell World Cup party passes. Yeah, they will, right, yeah, unless there's some FIFA reason
not to do it. Now, it was apparently a showdown between us AT and T Stadium and New York's MetLife Stadium to host the show piece. And it's not official official yet, like FIFA hasn't done their big announcement, which is apparently a huge thing. But I mean, reputable soccer types are like this is happening because it makes the most sense on a lot of reasons.
The other interesting thing is Dallas, Texas or the Metroplex is the main base for FIFA for the the whole event rather than New York or Miami, which I think were the two other finalis where are those offices going to be? Uh located? Got to be Frisco, right, yeah, you would think that makes sense. I don't know. I don't know, but just people having their decision made on where their hub is, do they so sort of solidifies the thought that the final would be here as well. Are the PGA
is that compound complete yet? Are they still building? They're still building. I think that Omni is complete and operational, but I don't Yeah it is, I went over there. It would make sense that if that's complete, that they would office out of there. Man, they've definitely left room for more activities over there though, to build build that out a little further. It's yeah, Mike went over there too, right, Yeah, you went over that. Yeah. I mean it's amazing. We went a couple of
weeks ago just to oh you did kill a day and there. Spent a few hours just to check it out as I've never done it yet, and it was great. It was really nice. It was kind of two cold outside to be outside and put around or anything I want to do golf wise. But a few stores, but there's room for many more stores. I think about that too. I mean I think it's one of the hunts Dan or Clark or one of them. It's all bit and skin. I think
they were talking about wanting to get Frisco as the hub. Well, hell, they could do it at the Star if it's you know, seasonally doable. Yeah. And what do they need for their hub? You know, internet offices and a good internet and printer, a money counting machine. You would need printer because it's FIFA. Yeah, you need printers. You'd need a troubleshooting czar. Okay, what maybe you get that job, Kevo, I don't want it. The thought was proximity to you know, centrally located.
If you again you were talking Canada, Mexico and the United States, perfect Dallas makes perfect sense. The stadium fifteen minutes is what the sun reports it is from the massive international airport. Tell rooms galore, it makes sense. If I'm pulling a Gerbil out of my butt, you can just tell
me this. But I think I remember when Aaron Rodgers tour his achilles and all the speculations started talking coming up about MetLife Field and how there's been a lot of acls and knee injuries there and his was an achilles and if that's an even safe playing surface, and then the discussion was like, how will this affect the World Cup? And I think they were like, well, no, they put different grass on there for the World Cup. They don't
play on that turf that the football plays on. They're questioning. So I remember that coming up, and that would make sense because it says at and T Stadium five thousand more than MetLife Stadium too. Yeah, yeah, it's bigger. But I remember when they first started pitching this and wasn't there like a raised field above the Cowboys playing surface because the soccer field I think is larger, and for the World Cup you have to, Yeah, you have
to fall within certain dimensions. They don't have to. I don't think they all have to be exactly the same to the foot, but they have to fall in new x X dimensions. Maybe in the World Cup they actually have uniformity on all fields. I don't know, but it was something about the field will be raised up a little bit, which then might factor in the field level suites. I don't know. Look, the big news is that apparently next week this announcement's hitting that at and T gets it the final.
It's incredible, like just to be one of the host cities of a game. I think there's one hundred and four games to be played in this particular version of the of the World Cup again because the expanded forty four. Well, they will also host other games. Though, Okay, here's a concern. They've got how many years to get this thing? You know, I don't know, prepare for it too. Yeah it's twenty twenty four, right,
yeah? Or no, no, it's twenty twenty six, Did I say twenty Yeah, you've they have got to make sure because can you imagine, and we've seen this happen with other arenas or facilities that get an event and then like the week leading up to it, you start getting stories out that it's like, oh, the grass isn't right, or there's a problem in this in this portion of the field, or or or there's some technical aspect of it where the players get out there and check it out and and
there's panic and they're trying to figure it out. Look, we already hosted a Super Bowl and by circumstances that were out of our control the weather. It put a kind of put a black mark on on this city for for hosting an event like that. They cannot have anything go wrong with this because that would be the worst thing on the on the the largest audience on a
global stage. For Dallas, Texas. Okay, Arlington, I get it, But for for this, you know, North Texas, for this area to get an event like that, If you start having stuff like that leak out and stories about I don't know, this is inadequate, or there's faults here, or there's errors here, I mean, they have got to start preparing for this thing immediately and making sure that it goes off without any difficulty.
Well, I think they have. I mean the pitch process. I remember the FIFA for the president of FIFA was here meeting with Jerry within the last six months, you know. I mean, that's all the planning is done. The implementation. We proved that the Super Bowl might not go off without a hitch. I don't know, it could be a problem, like imagine Jerry oversold something and delivered it. I mean, that is a possibility.
But we can handle big, live sporting event at that place despite the problems that happened during the Super Bowl, and maybe that was a shocking lesson toward the end there. I would imagine that they'll nail this and it'll look beautiful. But what I think is interesting and maybe a topic, is we get closer to this happening, which is weird. It's it's in twenty twenty six. That is a snap of the finger and a blink of the eye and the World Cup final is going to be here. But this is a
massive thing for the airity. Yeah, no doubt, I mean this is huge. This is I'm not saying this is like Dallas getting named an Olympic host city, which is a month long event too, But being it's the home of FIFA, they've chosen here. There will be pool matches here and the final here. This is huge, like little Dallas. I mean, this is the kind of thing that on a long enough, wide enough spectrum puts a city or a region in a different perspective in the for the world.
I mean, and it's your city here, guys, is home. And it's not like hosting a World Cup final that's bizarre. And it's not like the world's introduction to this city will be the day that they turn on the TV at whatever three pm to see the final game. No, there's I mean they're headquartering here and there are all of the pool matches leading up
to it. Think of all of the the global news outlets that are going to be on the city, going around trying to to discover things about the city, to make it more than just about soccer, to give you know, yes, a flavor iaor if this is the home of FIFA, this will probably be the home of international media as well. Considering you don't know exactly where your next game is going to be played, I don't think, yeah, you don't know who's going to advance out of the pool, So
you need a hub. Sure, this it will be a crazy home for international media, FIFA and a whole lot of fans as well. Says they're announcing this on February fourth, so that goes down and they're going to every match. Yeah, one hundred and four matches or something. I have all the locations. They're playing Houston as well, and Kansas City, Oh, Arrowhead. Huh Yeah, Well I bet there's a bunch of hookers going shoe shopping this weekend. Do you know it's been quiet like it was? How
big of a shoe shop? May a freak out? This was like three months ago, maybe the fire when Messi was here, Like, Messi's here on Monday? Is it likes they're playing a preseason game on Monday at the Cotton Bowl? Yep? Now how much will we play? Probably not much, but our FC Dallas Intermami preseason game Monday at the Cotton Bowl. Tickets are like eighty bucks right now, at least on a couple of ticket websites there has it's been kind of quiet that Messi's going to be in town on
Monday. Yeah, considering how big of a freak out it was for a real game, you know, six months ago, five months ago, whenever that was. That was number one story in town. Yeah, he's here on Monday. It's so weird. It's gonna snuck up on us at the Cotton Bowl. But everyone was probably expected the Cowboys to play on Sunday. Yeah, you know, it's just Fu said, Oh yeah, what else is going runs the eye cows an update? Cold this weekend? Yeah,
on Monday, though. I think Monday we're back to the fifties and sixties. Okay, I think we're gonnaod to You're right though, today and tomorrow will be cold, cold sal thank you Mike here. Well that's good. I'm actually interested in the World Cup now, and I wasn't before the segment started. I'm surely he's interested in the World Cup. That is going to be amazing to have that here. Yeah, well, let's go together. We'll call one point seven billion people maybe more watching it. Let's take a
cab out there. A guess public transit's going to be a problem. Yeah, it's be a bit of an issue. That's all right, we'll get it figured out. Go Dallas coming up next. We'll get you ready for a wild card A weekend no, it's all well Card weekend. It's not that divisional's time. This is a divisive divisional round pump session. Next to ninety seven to one the free