It's the downbeat on ninety seven to one, The Freak thirty minutes away. Another murderer let loose after spending a little bit of time in jail. Details on that, a few other things that caught my interest, including a penis surgery gone wrong. Mike, it happens, It does happen, It happens. I have MAVs basketball tonight here on the Freak. Who we got We get the Blazers again. Oh yeah, you get them back to back. You stomped them on Wednesday, didn't even have to play Luca and Kyrie in
the fourth quarter. Before we get into formal sports at seven, because I think Cowboys is going to be the main topic in NFL stuff. They said, there's a story about the MAVs Jazz game on Monday night and a fan brought a sign that said, I'm gonna read this quote. What the sign said. Okay, okay, it's said. It's not me saying it, Okay, but it said I'm a Jew and I'm proud. Well, there's three fans and so we don't know. I think they brought some rabbis to
the game. There some rabbis at the game in Utah and they're holding up signs that say I'm a Jew and I'm proud. So there's a big again the internet. It takes off and the idea that Kyrie had them removed from the game. Kyrie did not have them removed from the game. It's another case of people probably throwing on their predisposed thoughts of Kyrie out there. But
Kyrie is like, no, I didn't do anything. So you know, whatever whatever happened those guys, I think we're asked to move, and I think Kyrie actually said to them Happy New Year, so to him, so I think he's a real nice and not that big of a deal. So that was weird. That was a story because it immediately the Internet's like, Kyrie had these people removed from the game or they're signs removed from the game, and they did not. So there you go. Kyri's in the clear.
It's good to have him back. Twenty nine, twenty nine the other night, I mean, that's the that's the cheat code for the MAVs, where, especially in a world right now where the Lakers are now bottoming out, Darvin Ham is like their head coach has lost the locker room and a year where it began, it was like, oh, the Lakers might be they might have it this year. The Suns cannot figure out how to play
with each other yet. Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal, and the Warriors are still farting around at you know, they blew an eighteen point win last night. Yeah, they're sub five hundred, so they're struggling. So the matters of eighteen and fourteen or whatever that was the record now actually it's eighteen twenty and fifteen, twenty and fifteenth. Sorry, kind of sitting there, and they've got a chance to kind of get a little healthy now.
Yeah, Kyrie missed all of December. Yeah, and they were bad in December. So I think that might tell you a little more than anything about Luca and Kyrie playing together. How about not have one of them miss a month? Do you know what the Lively situation. I don't know if he's gonna play tonight or not, but him and Grant Williams both had an ankle sprain. They were evaluating okay, and then they thought it was minor,
not long term, and the hope is they would be back. This is a big seven game homestand so the Master probably beat the Blazers without Lively and Grant Williams if they needed to. So maybe you're resting tonight and you get back to it on Sunday. But those are all quick MAVs updates with the Home of the MAVs and they play the Blazers tonight. But to the sport that America cares about most, let's do this' and now the sports Hell,
yeah, boys, it is week eighteen. And you know, when the NFL moved the season to seventeen games a few years ago, I didn't really love that because there's something about an even record that looks good. You know, eight and eight, ten and six. I don't know when you have teams finishing years at eight to nine and ninety eight, it's very odd. But hereek eighteen, and you're gonna get a lot of teams who don't have to play their quarterbacks. Pat Mahomes is gonna sit, Lamar Jackson's gonna
sit. These people are just not playing. The uh forty nine Ers and Rams are playing in this game could have some playoff implications that impact the Cowboys. That is going to be Sam Darnold versus Carson Wentz. So if you go out to twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen, that would have been like, hey, there's two young quarterbacks. Now it's just guys clinging on to backup jobs. Saturday, we get two games that are gonna be one of them
is gonna be fun because you're gonna get Steelers and Ravens action. Ravens don't need anything. They're the one seed. They're not playing Lamar. Like I said, the Steelers could win and have a chance to stay in the playoffs. So that's why they put that game on Saturday because technically there's a small amount of playoff possibility. The nightcap on Saturday is Colts and Texans and the win winners in. That's the biggest one of the weekend, right as far
as what matters, I mean, that's essentially just winning in. Yeah, man, I've still would argue Dolphins, yeah, Bills Sunday night. But yes, winning in and for both teams, and you know that's nothing better than that. No, that's great where you don't have to rely on other activity or other games. Is it cut and dry? I think there's a way they could get in. Both of them could get in through. Yeah, the Jaguars losing on Sunday, okay, but it's essentially heads up winning.
You're in between the Colts and Texans. Texans should be getting more love for what they should. One even glanced at a rookie QB. I saw some of the and they usually do. It's like the teams that make the biggest jump. The coach of the year is usually that. Yeah, but I saw some coach of the year. There's a big pole. I don't know if it's gonna be. The Vegas odds are bright. Dan Campbell was up there like they were supposed to be good, So I don't know about
that. Demiko Ryans of Houston Texans, Yeah, dude, he's first of all, he's awesome. Everyone loves him and they're rare. And I'm a big fan of not hiring defensive head coaches. I think you should get offensive head coaches who are very much involved in helping the offense. But he's awesome, Like every time they get a stop, he's just fired up and fist bumping his dudes. And I think kind of stays out of the offense, just kind of lets the offensive coaches handle it, you know. I kind
of like that. And then the other one is like the Effan Browns. Well, Stefanski is the favorite. The favorite, now, okay, hen he should be because they've had what four or five quarterbacks. I mean, Deshaun Watson goes down, PJ. Walker goes down. Who else did they use it quarterback? I haven't forgot who their second quarterback? Yeah, the three initial Dude, Joe Flacco is the guy, and he's playing kind of good, and they just basically said, screw it, we're gonna play aggressive.
We have Joe Flacco. We don't need to play a balance game. That's not his game. What does it feel like Joe Flacco was in the league when I was in high school. Well, he might have been, Danny, you were in high school in the eighties. He's thirty eight, okay, but he's been, you know, kicking it around as a backup third quarterback, you know. And to come in though, and I actually
don't have to learn a full offense. You just have to learn that week's game plan care of the players we're gonna call this week and the formations we're gonna call this week. But geez, their their mode has been remember with deep to a Marii Cooper all right, and maybe we'll get a pass interference, maybe we'll hit on a big play. But they're not doing a lot of like we're trying to do sixteen play drives with Joe Flacco, you know,
just like saying screw it, we're aggressive. You know who they're just hammering And who's turning into like elite level is David and Joku their tight end, Yes, who was a beast and would be on the short list of uh wrestler bodies in the NFL. Like this dude is jacked and he's always been like okay, but like kind of an underutilized weapon, and Flacco just
loves him and he's getting ten catches a game and tons of yards. He also earlier this year had some disaster where he fell into a fire or something and he was all burned up, and he showed up to the game like in a ski mask and look up David and junk fire and like big burns. The first like the whole first layer with his skin was burned off bad, like the Gowan Loved to the third degree? What show is that on the curse? Okay, that's right, Love to the third degree? You
guys probably ducked out on that didn't you. Yep, one episode Bye, hey, look that's him, like, yeah, I've seen that photo was yeah, crazy burned up. But anyway, he's a good player. And the Browns are more interesting than you would have expected, I think, as are the Colts and Texans. But I guess somebody has to make the damn playoffs. So went on, Yeah, I know, And do you remember last year what happened when it comes to the Cowboys? Do you remember what
happened in Week eighteen? Probably not, because I don't remember it. I had to go look it up. They lost in Week eighteen at Washington twenty six to six. Who cares? They had their you know, their path carved out for them. Bill knew what was gonna happen. They're gonna make the playoffs. They were gonna go to Tampa Bay beat them. Kind of the same situation as this year. Was what would have been if the Eagles would have won last week, it would have been maybe the same situation as
this year. You probably would have been going to Tampa Bay and then probably going to San Francisco. Now, the Eagles loss and the Cowboys getting that win over the Lions helped propel them to number two. But it's something Mic was talking about, like we're gonna go and we need Silly to win to win the division, so they're gonna play, and you know, there's none of that Week eight team, Like, how do we arrest some of our
guys? I mean, obviously you want to kill the team and rest your guys, but they're playing, so you don't get the bye week or anything like that, which I think can be helpful if you're trying to get guys healthy, if you take care of business, you could maybe get the by quarter. They're fairly healthy, you know, if you think about it. Dallas, Yeah, I mean, what is the big injury loss of the year outside of Treyvon Diggs, which is a big one. Everyone's kind of
there. Yeah, you've been in and out with your O line. Yeah, you know, and you'll be evolving door for a lot of the season. I was reading that the Commanders are considering not playing anybody either. Many of the Commander's veterans are just gonna chill. They're not gonna play hard. They can lose and be the number two pick in the draft. Did I
read this? I love this quote because of exactly what you said. One writer up in Washington called Sunday Showdown against the Cowboys the biggest must lose game in Washington history. Yeah, this is just a great term. I can't i'mregainying that could be no, that's that's your cue and if you hit yeah, you're sorted for a little while. So they are dying to lose. We didn't talk about this other than just mentioning it. But how in the
hell did Philadelphia lose to Arizona. I didn't watch that. I've seen a little bit of highlights, but what was the overriding kind of theme of that game? Why did they lose that game that was as much win as you could get for them? There's the overwriting theme from afar. Okay, it's one thing to lose to them like the Cowboys did earlier in the year when
you're still trying to figure some stuff out. But it's just it's so funny that both the Cowboys and the Eagles had their playoff implications directly affected at getting snake bit by the Cardinals and Cardinals anyway, you were saying, well that, for me, the overriding theme is that the Eagles can't stop anybody,
and the Cardinals dominated that entire game. The overriding thing a theme in Philadelphia, and the thing they're angry about and doing their stupid call in shows about are what was Nick Sirianni doing on that drive twenty eight to twenty eight, you know? And they had confusion and it's a it's a really good, like two minute sequence, and someone cut up the video of like all the
chaos. You've got one wide receiver running to the sideline and running back to the huddle and then a tight end and then they got they had a first and twenty. It's twenty eight, twenty eight, and then there's clearly did not get a play called, and Joan Hurts takes the snap, runs like four yards. Fans start to boo a little bit. Second sixteen, next play, same thing. There's people yelling, they're freaking out, but they
don't want to burn their time out. Joen Hurts takes a snap, runs to the right again, third and long, so then they don't end up getting a first down. That's settle for a field goal, and everyone is booing them and there's a great crowd show out of all these Eagles fans just losing their freaking mind, and they settle for a field goal. They go up thirty one to twenty eight, and then they knew they couldn't stop the
Cardinals and Kyler Murray walked right straight down the field. Cardinals score and Eagles are have enough time to score an like it was like the defense gets stopping. He won and that is a but boy, that at home and you can't get a play in. That is maddening. Now I remember there's a thing is it's inex This is actually is excusable. But the Dolphins in the
playoffs last year, you know they didn't have their quarterbacks. Skyler Thompson played right because Tua was banged up. When Mike McDaniel and they were having trouble getting plays in. Yeah the quarterback. And it was like, you know, the fans start booing and things like that. Yep, but it's like, I don't know they had a third quarterback. This is the Eagles who should be peaking, and they got demolished by the forty nine ers five weeks
ago and have not been the same ever since. And they got run all over by Arizona two hundred plus yards. James Connor ripped them up. Yeah, so it was funny to see how quickly the Eagles fans, like we all everyone kind of hates Nick Sirianni, but you assume that they like him up there, and like, just how quickly that how fragile that is?
You know, Yeah, they've been great under him, you know, went to the damn Super Bowl last year, but a couple losses and one bad loss to the Cardinals, and it says you could just feel it bubbling like a couple losses and as high as you might be at any given moment. That's just funny, man, because that team, it just seems like it was yesterday that they were a one loss team and look pretty damned unbeatable, and here they are on knocking on the door of losing their division. Now,
I think Eagles giants. So did they put that game at a noon or at three twenty five? I just said that that game would be at three twenty five two because they're gonna want the Cowboys and playing the Eagles at the same time, because both teams could technically win the division. The Eagles can only be the two or the five. There's really nothing more or that they can win and get a Cowboys loss and be the two and get a home game or they can just lose, or they can win and the Cowboys
win, they're the five. They'll go take on what will likely be Tampa Bay. Now, Tampa Bay can wrap up the four if they beat Carolina, sounds pretty easy. If Tampa Bay loses, they're out like winning, get in again, winning be the four because they don't reseed. You know, if you're a division champion, you get the top four seeds. And if Tampa Bay loses that game and New Orleans wins theirs, they win their
division. Division. I mean, it's really stupid. And the Falcons have a way where if they win and the Bucks lose, then they are the four seed. So there's a kind of a fun little threesome there. There's no winning team in that division, no no, And I've kind of and the Falcons A's seven and nine are still battling for through it all, kind of with the eight and nine division winner, just for the chaos of it. Yeah, and I'll probably take that team, whoever it is and the
points in the playoffs. It's happened. Didnt Seattle beat who? A few years ago? They were like seven to nine and they won their damn the year they bit the Saints. That was the year of the beast mode run right twenty twelve, I think yeah, for a couple of years ago, for eleven years more reason than that for the Cowboys again, they could win.
They're the two. Very simple. They lose, Eagles win, the Cowboys drop down to the five, would have an easy road game, probably an easier road game than who they'll have it at home when they play the seven seed, because the seventh seed is either going to be the Packers or the Rams, and then a chance that it's the Seahawks. Packers win and they're in the Rams play the forty nine Ers, neither team playing important players. So a Packers win in a Rams loss would give you the Rams.
I don't love the Rams right now coming into Dallas. I don't like that. What if you're a Cowboy fan? Yah, I think the Rams are a better team than the Packers right now. And because the Rams can give you just a good running back, a former MVP quarterback uh and two wide receivers who you just have to cover at all times, where the Packers give you a quarterback who's trying to learn on the fly and he is a running game that's good sometimes is Christian Watson healthy. He's gonna play this week,
but he's been on and off because he cares his hamstring every month. They have awful receivers. Well it's weird, but they're all yelling Reed and uh Romeo Dobbs and Christian No, Christian Watson can be good. Yeah, that's the thing. Their receiver corps is five guys who are in their first two years in the league. Yeah, they're the youngest offense in the league. Like they all have this. They did on purpose too. They draft all
these young guys to go with Jordan Love and all move forward together. But Christian Watson and Dobbs and Jayden Reed are not pooking the kula how do you spell it? Is that a Q hulk poking a CoA Cooper cup And then you know whatever form of you know, Van Jefferson you're gonna get her or Alan Robinson, DeMarcus Robinson. They have a lot of hym Man Rams are
good. So I think you probably want if I was if I was a Cowboy fan, I think I probably you want to win clearly, And then I think you want the Rams to go ahead and beat the forty nine ers to be the six, and then you take on the Packers as the seven. If the Packers beat the Bears, now the Packers lost, like, there's a way for Seattle to get in eight. It's not like easy, and that's maybe a game that could happen, and that would take the Bears
winning. Yeah, if Seattle wins and the Bears win, then Seattle's in. So Seattle's possible to some Packers, Rams or Seahawks. See, the Cowboys will laugh unless the Cowboys lose, which, man, you can't lose that game when you're playing for the division in a home game in Washington,
you can't come out and suck. And there's something weird about that field and there's something weird about that stadium and the way the Cowboys play them sometimes Dak has not had his best games in that stadium, where it's just like, I g't that feels gonna be a little closer than it needs to be, whether they play people or not. It's got this like slop factor on it. Yep, I agree. And isn't uh Ron rivera kind of just a
pain the ass always? And even if he is playing backups and he's very likely getting canned on Monday, Yeah, we have Black Monday right around the corner, which will be always fun. You know, Yeah, I might be a might. I mean, dude, it's weird because the Cowboys too. This is where I wish I could say this is to be the most prepared team in the league. If they are, then I'll eat my words
and give him credit next week. I there's not an ounce of me that thinks the Cowboys are going to be the most prepared, least penalized team on Sunday. Like I just they should mop them up. They should. I'm banking on that. But I hear what you're saying. Man, anything, all bets are off when you play up there. It's like playing tech at home at night. Yeah, dude, you're right. Yeah, weird things happen in Washington. And do you think when a franchise wants to lose a
game, which you know, they can't scream? But as we said earlier, the writer who called it the biggest must lose game in Washington history, so the fans everyone knows, right. Yeah, But Ron Rivera feels like he might be getting canned on Monday. So is it not only this is my job trying to win football games. I want to middle Finger on my way out the door, you know, and he can fire up some of the backup troops who normally wouldn't get this much playing time, and they have
their opportunities, like, hey, you're playing for your life. I am too. We saw the Slash Show, we saw the dude, I'm with you Houston, not Raheem Morris helped me out here, helped me out last year's Houston coach. Yeah yeah, yeah, love Smith, love Smith. And the fans are begging you, dude, loose the game. So we get the number one pick. The Texans go out and win one. He
knows he's getting fired no matter what. They go win ended up getting the number two pick in the draft, and it turns out that was the right thing to do because CJ. Stroud's right now better than Bryce Young, had better parts to work with, probably, but still like CJ. Stroud looks like the big hit and maybe you don't take him if you're the number one pick. So yeah, this kind of fascinating. Coways didn't miss out on Dalvin Cook too. Dalvin Cook was signed with the Ravens. He's gonna go
ring chasing. There are a lot of people around here were like, dude, anything to help the running game. Tony Pollard had a big interview, and he's like him in the year I expected and hadn't had many explosive plays. Minkle feels fine, but maybe I'll have some explosive plays in the next month. And I'm like, Okay, I'm not expecting that, but yeah,
ric O'dowdell's clearly more explosive than him, just the eye test. So we'll wait a hope, what's hopefully a month till the Cowboys season ends, and have a Tony Pollard discussion because what I don't know he got was weird. Man. Is it him or is it them? Yeah? I don't know, but or does it even matters? Not what we all expected with running back by numbers, with a running back by numbers league that this is. Yeah, I mean you just need a guy back there, right,
Yes, I don't know, they'll draft a guy. Yeah, but Tony Poller was just was a guy and more potential than just a guy. Well, and he's proven to be just a guy. Were his numbers this year better than Zeke's the year before? Well, he was not just a guy. The last three years they just chose not to give him the ball much
because of Zeke. I mean, if they would have chose to give to me bone of the ball and then all of his yards per carry numbers definitely would have translated to the lead back role like we don't know that and this year it would be the evidence of fine, here you go, and it's well what I think, I know, we're late, almost late. But what Pollard needs is he needs his own Pollard because the guys that are behind him really are kind of nondescript when they get in games for the most part.
Where Zeke, you know, when he was backed up by Pollard, Pollard really shined. We're his backups had never shined. I would give Rico the ball a lot personally as a Rico Daudele fan, Which is he say, bag just watching it that he heard last week. That's the problem with him, is he's hurt a lot. Yeah, and I thought Duce Vaughn was gonna save us. But neither one of those guys, neither one of those guys has popped like Pollard did backing up Zeke is my point, Crue
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