You're listening to the downbeat on ninety one the Freak. It's one thing to hear Dan Campbell get mad the Lions head coach about what happened, But it's another thing to hear a Cowboys player tell you what he saw at the very end of the game on Saturday night against the Lions. And we want to get to that right now in Sports at seven. Quick hook, you gotta give it to that's a quick hook. Still together and now Sports at seven, Yes, we lead Sports at seven with Cowboys. Sorry, Dallas Stars.
You've been doing great though, and we hold out a thought for you. Keep up the good work. But Micah does a little thing on Bleacher Report, said a little thing. It's a highly powerful podcast on a Bleacher Report every single week, and we've got the audio of him describing what he saw and heard at the end of the game Saturday night against the Lions. Here we go. It was a monsters game. Great game. We're still
healing from that game. It was a hard fought game, I think for both sides, but obviously came up the most is a com Obviously the controversy at the end of the game, and I'm just gonna let it know right now when the ref came up to me, and for some reason, I was kind of like on edge that a play like that was already happening, But when sixty eight caught it, I did not think he was eligible the lot. The ref reported that seventy was eligible. He reported him eligible majority
of the game, so therefore, you know when it happened. When the flag was thrown, I was not surprised, but I was surprised they went for it again after I jumped off sides. That that was kind of like wow, But at the same time I love that, So that was kind of like wow. They penalized them five yards put them back to the seven. After the ineligible receiver call was made, Parsons jumps off sides. They try to go for two. Then the Cowboys snuff it out, but Parsons
is called for being off sides. They move them up three and a half and Parsons is shocked. That really bro you doing it a third time? We played that last part one more time. Not surprised, but I was surprised they went for it again after I jumped off sides. That was kind of like wow, But at the same time, I guess in their mindset. We already clinched their divisi. They already clinched their division. They kind of have nothing else to lose, so it's just kind of like we want
to beat them and any means possible. So, you know, I'm not surprised by it at all. I think that was a It was a great game. Whatever however they feel. Dan Campbell said he drew it up with the offishers before the game, but when they reported, they reported that seventy was eligible, and that's the end of the story. It happens like that, and at this point we got to move on. You win some,
you lose some. But it was a great But the guy who's been driving about not getting any holding calls all week like move on though, whatever, and he has moved on. I mean, it's the refs screwed up. That is a genius idea. You've been reporting number seventy eligible all game long and come in at the end and switch it. And I know a lot of people do think, well, you got too cute there. And Dean Blendino said the other day, or I know JJ said it the other day
too. He's like, well that's what you get. When he started because of the rest of that. But man, that is great design for this key moment the game. We're gonna switch up what we've been doing all game and maybe all season long and do this. That's why I was so mad, because they set it up the whole way everything you work for it in week seventeen, it's hard to blame them. It's really hard to blame them
for the upset because it is the ultimate ultimate idea of deception. Unfortunately, in their efforts to deceive the Cowboys, the referees fell victim to it as well, and they even ran Skipper number seventy, right, They even sort of ran him drive by buzz the tower on the ref right. Yeah, that's part of the deception, yep. And it just worked so well that
it tricked the ref ye. And you know, it's also weird. Had this worked right and sixty eight catches that and they win, we never would have really known this whole story, you know, Yeah, Like it just would have been, oh my god, big man touchdown maybe up there, you know, they might have addressed it. Yeah, this is what we did. We were running seventy the whole time, and the reporting then maybe on his show, if on his radio show, when they asked him to
dig deeper. Then, but what's the value in even explaining it further? There's none I mean you can use I mean, they may have used that trick before run it back. Maybe a similar trick has been used on a lot of big man touchdowns. Yeah, and maybe that's not a big man touchdown at sixty eight. If the ref goes sixty eight is reported is eligible, maybe they cover sixty eight. Yeah, at that point, I agree, Like I said, he was, like I had feeling something was going
on. You know, no, cowboys are not at fault for anything, shouldn't be punished, but god, the lines got screwed there. That's where you almost liked. That's where I kind of go back to. By By the way, these teams could be facing off in two weeks in the playoffs, so we may get a rematch same environment. That would be pretty cool.
But if you just kick the extra point, then we kind of finally if the refs are out of it at that point, and they might get brought back in in overtime, but then we go to find out who really won, because I mean, the lines have been kind of on that in that discussion all year of like it's been at forty nine Ers, Cowboys, Eagles. Who's next? And kind of Detroit's like us, we're playing better than Philadelphia's right now, we should beat the Cowboy Like why not us?
And then it's kind of kind interesting. Do y'all see what I mean? If you want to make my you the me, you start losing so much of marrow, then bring up the XFL or the USFL. I mean, no offense to anyone involved, but so they've merged, creating the UFL. I saw that during a commercial and I didn't know that happened. I didn't either. They've merged, Danny, that's awesome. My point is, Moose
is high up in that. Darryl the Moose Johnston for those that don't know, former Cowboys fullback kids, look it up and he basically was like, well, I've got a solution for these refs that we're having some issues with. With the referee crews that we have problems with, Come get some reps in the UFL. And I'm like, maybe, but also you got to
train some new refs. These guys do at some point have to quit, although their day job is usually accountants and lawyers and home depot but that's what she do to Brad Allen because I heard someone say that your dad forgot who it was. They're like, look, Brad Allen does not have a history
of being a bad referee. He's had he's had a bad month, yeah, like and screws it a bad month and now they can't do the playoffs this year and make a little extra money, and you're gonna go, I don't know, get some reps in a league where the rules are different, right, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Being a ref for umpire is really hard, and in Twitter Land it's even harder now. You know, when your name is out and you just get annihilated when you do screw
something up. And I think all you have to do is not screw up something really loudly. Yeah. I mean every week, every NFL city is going to have a ref that they're bitching about. And then, oh, this guy always screws. He hates us, The leagues out to get us. You know, it's just whatever nonsense we all wanted to yell. But when it's this big and then you do it on the heels of screwing up something else earlier, you don't want your name to be trending. You don't
want to know for a reason. You don't want to know the names of NFL referees unless they've got massive guns. Yea, unless they got huge guns, and then they have a kid that you have to know too, Sean Hockey Lee or you know the refs because they've moved to the broadcast booth. That's true. What do you think, Gene You know, Geneane's territory a pretty good. That's a wild thing that that job that ref kind of screwed up to. There's three flags on that play really shouldn't have been any but
he didn't know. But he didn't know either because he couldn't have and no one could have known, and things were moving fast. Other NFL news, Tyreek Hill's house caught on fire yesterday. He's so okay. Don't worry. He showed up in a walking boot. Don't worry, my fellow Dolph fans. He's all right. Oh. Is he gonna play Sunday night in the
AFC East Divisional Championship game. It's the Bills. I don't know. One thing I've learned in the last couple of years of having Tyreek Hill is that he is incredible, but he also will put on a show for you. Now I don't know if that includes him maintaining k fabe and wearing a walking boot when he's at home he doesn't need it, but I think he like five times this year it's looked like, oh no, we just lost Tyreek, and then he's back a couple of plays later, you know, like
he's he's dramatic and he's also incredibly good. But I don't think he set fired his house to get any more attention than he did. A far bigger problem is Bradley Chubb is out for the year and is even Howard hurt himself as well. So now you've lost Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb, essentially the reason why the defense can put pressure on anyone, and now you have to
deal with Josh Allen. So no, I'm not real optimistic, but I was, you know, startled by the headline of the you know, his house was a blaze, and then you see the videos of him showing up everyone was safely out of the house. Drew Rosenhaus, who was his agent, said that there were family inside when the fire began, which is a little creepy. And scary. But it's a big, old mansion, so I think they got out really quickly. Were they able to put it out or was it a total loss? No, they put it out. It
started up in the attic, is what they think. And they got everybody outside and they put it out. I'm going to take a guess. Faulty wiring. No you think you don't think gas leak? Seven million dollars, seven bedroom, eight bathroom home. Oh and that sound nice. And it always uses me that when there's more bathrooms than bedrooms, the more house you have the higher risk of a fire. People think about that. You should start downsizing. You know, they're features in his house, putting green nice?
Who wouldn't want? Do you want that? It'd be cool? Full size NBA court full size, yeah, not half out outdoor indoor an NBA sized basketball court. That's got to be an outdoor thing, doesn't have to be Yeah, probably is down there. Heated saltwater filtration pool, a spa built for ten also just ten. Also two guest houses, and lemon, mango and banana trees. So's amazing, doesn't it. I love a good mango. You really like a nice mango. Really absolutely a pineapple fan first
and foremost. I love pineapple. It's a little acidic though, Yeah, too sugary to be honest, but good. Just give me a nice honeydew on apple paint in the ass to prep too, Yeah it is. You might pay extra for the pre cut, pre sliced dip it in a little chamoy. I love all melons. I have a friend who claims he will he has nothing on this world he hates more than melon, like any kind of melon. I think it's all dude. He needs to start sucking on
some melons. That's Kevin Turner. Have you ever met anyone who's number one most hated food is melon? No, honeybody that No one talks about melons ever. The move like all the melons like honeydew and water water, yes, water, honeydew, cantlopeh huh Are those the only I'm sure there's a million melons, But I know people that don't like candlelope cantleoape can be somewhat
polarizing as far as like the melon melon. I don't know any candlopes and melon melon yeah yeah, yeah, but I mean honeydew, melon water. The ones that have the melon in their name proper, where cantelope is kind of like the weird cousin that showed up late to the party and tastes weird. Cantleop's good though, like it, But I know people that don't like candlelope. But I've never known anybody. It's like, Oh, watermelon lived at a house where you had a fruit bearing tree. I mean, yes,
California oranges amazing, isn't it in our neighborhood. Yeah, and apples. We had apples in Memphis. You walk outside, it's amazing pluck a fresh fruit. And those apples that like grow organically in the wild are so much smaller than the ones that you get at the grocery store. Yeah, Like, apples are not meant to be the size of softballs. I don't think fruit is. You look at bananas in their natural state, Yeah, they're tiny and oddly shaping. I guess all bananas are oddly shaping. But
yeah, oblong, they don't look anything like the bananas you're thinking. I pulled up a link here as I put it in the document here, guys. Another thing I don't care about at all is the Pro Bowl. I don't even know what it is. Anymore flag football. I just don't care. I don't I don't like things that don't matter. Is that that Bowl
games? You know? I don't like things that don't matter. I'm not interested preseason you name it, but don't open up the link I sent you, guys, because there was a saucy traffic girl on that link on CBS eleven. Click, so you tell us there's a saucy traffic girl and say, don't open the link, and you're looking at me and him. Guess the seven Cowboys Pro bowlers should be pretty easy, d law She was a little cross eyed, I think, but it could have just been my internet
shright. No, I'm definitely clicking if she's yeah, if she's got a got a walk? Uh? D law uh No, damn strike. Well, he started to the higher degree of diff He's the best defensive player we have. Arguably that's ode of Micah. Yes, Micah. Well, as far as productions might be an argument for another defensive player, he's incredible right now, DeMarcus Lawrence, all right, find dak c d Micah. Okay, he's on a hot streak. There's that's not hot. That's well,
you got three of the seven to keep it going. Bland, Oh four boy? Uh kicker, you said, dak c d Micah, I said Dax CD Micah Bland Aubrey, Aubrey, you gotta put anger in there to anger correct? Alright, kicker in the punter any want more? So? I think that means Bones will be coaching the team. I don't really know. That's got to be Zach. It is Zach Martin. Correct. Good job. Guys, say, say someone knows more about sports than us on the stage and you left law off of that. That is real stupid.
Uh. Yeah, he should have made it and he will go. I contend he might be the most underrated Cowboys player of the history of the franchise. Even on years he got paid and didn't have a ten sack season, people would judge him off that. I'm like, he might be the best defensive end run stopper in the league. He gets killed for sack numbers.
I guess in the public eye, he's so much more than that. Rock Love Danny pat McAfee has apologized for the comments of Aaron Rodgers on his show where Aaron Rodgers Down a Little Jabble s Talk a little Bit, said that Kimmel would be into Epstein documents. Kimmel then responded with a big tweak, calling him an a hole with two a's, which is really good, pretty funny. He started his show yesterday and addressed the situation right off the bat,
and these are quotes. He says. I can see exactly why Jimmy Kimmel felt the way he felt, especially with his position. But I think Aaron was just trying to talk. S Now, did it go too far in a lot of people's I guess opinion is the word. Jimmy Kimmel certainly said that was the case. We and I, immediately upon it happening, tried to be like whoa He continues, We obviously don't like the fact that we are associated with anything negative. Ever, we like our show to be
an uplifting one, a happy one, a fun one. But it's because we talk s and try to make light of everything. Some things, obviously people get very pissed off about, especially when there are serious allegations. We apologie for being part of it. Can't wait to hear what Aaron has to say about it. Hopefully those two will just be able to settle this,
not court wise, but be able to chit chat and move Along. He's turning in from wild ass rebel guy to now towing the company line, corporate guy as many good people lost their job so ESPN could give him eighty five million dollars to do that show. He looks like the template of what would be an animation to promote spring Break, like if you went down to Yeah, you went to Florida and bought a spring Break T shirt to have like
an animated version of him going like doing the hang ten bra. He looks like the angry guy in the group of seven guys walking to the bar together. See. I'm I'm not anti Pat McAfee like you guys are. I'm not either. I think he's kind of funny. I can't stand it, I know, but I don't know how much you've actually watched. Like, I think he's fresh in a in a world of stale and really dumb sports stuff. I think he just has a different and unique perspective. I mean,
I'm not an acolyte. I don't seek out his stuff. I'll tell you. My biggest mystery with the Pat McAfee show is why every clip I see and everything I see, a j Hawk is just kind of sitting off to the side end on a zoom, like, what's I never see him saying anything? Yeah, but he doesn't like I've watched enough of it. I never he's never funny or good. He's just kind of always there. Yeah, he's getting just your supporting role and maybe we'll have a football take?
Does he sometimes you're in there. There's also it's not like I mean, for every time Pat McAfee show makes the news, which is once a week it seems. And I'm going to add to why you you know, have your victreol for him and I don't even really want to argue with you, but it's never a J Hawk's contributions, Like he's just kind of he's
just kind of off to the side. AJ Hawks. There's also seven guys who I assume produce and cut up his podcast clips with whacky nicknames the man and you know, there's like seven guys down there, which like it's like the Yeah, he's kind of in that form. When Dan Patrick decided to take his show to an office, it looks like like just he's in a room but it's him. And then he's got eight guys on a panel that don't work for him that he just kind of talks to back and forth.
He's kind of building that model. But yeah, yeah, so yeah, good that he had to apologize BECAZ, ABC employees, Disney employees involved for Aaron. You could tell Pat did not want it going there too yesterday when it happened. I'll say Pat is also an exclusive list, Pat McAfee, of people who received the ultimate gift that the world can give you, and he's been. It's definitely not sleeves. He's been on the receiving end of a stone cold stunner. Oh not many have gotten that. No, I
want his stone cold et. The thousands have received the stone cold stunner. But Pat McAfee's one of the rocky ones. And he had a nice beer fountain. It was one of the ones where stone Cold tricksha and then you're having a beer together. Then he cheerses you and you chug half of it. Oh yeah, right when you're trying to drink it, the boot the
stunner, the fountain of beer gets spewed. It's all about how you sell the stunner right, and hence your allegiance to Pat, because it's right wrestling Pat and David Copperfield, his guys boy you just you attach somebody to magic or wrestling and they can do anything. And Mike, you will still support him. I like magic way more than wrestling. Pat David Gapperfield and Trump. Trump's a wrestling Hall of Famer, by the way, he is.
MAVs one, twenty six, Blazers ninety seven. What happened. Here's what happened. And this is the overarching importance of Kyrie being back. Luca has forty one points. Kyrie has twenty nine points in this game. And that was all hands in three quarters of play. They didn't have to play the fourth quarter. They outscored the Blazers by themselves in the first half. Yeah, they did good. They played good basketball last night, and look a
part of that Luca. We're going to have to take the load off him. He does not have like paying those forty minute games or is going to wear him down. He's already got a sensitive quad right now. Luca thirty minutes last night, Kyrie twenty eight. The problem with last night's game, though, is that Derek C. Lively and Grant Williams both go down with
ankle sprains. Kid said it's minor and they will be evaluated today. They had the Blazers again tomorrow night, you know, so if they had to miss one game, you know, at least the Blazers is a big seven game homestand for the Maps, like this is a good chance for the Maps to kind of make up a little ground because they kind of had a bad month of November a bad month of December. I mean, if they make up some ground here though, while they have seven games at home, they
gotta be in good shape. Did the seventh seed right now, but they would technically be looking at it. I mean, dude, they're two games out of the four seed. And you know, the most fun team in the NBA is the Oklahoma City Thunder. They lead the league in three point percentage. Shake Gilges, Alexander ched Holmgren and another one of Mike's guys, that's Josh Gdy. That's a tough one for me. Well, we don't know, I mean, we don't know. Gash Giddy's doing almost nothing.
I mean not almost not that he scored twenty three just the other night, but I think he scored nine last night. And just because they're so talented, he only had twenty two minutes. So they they have just don't need him to pour it in. But that dude could get a triple double every night because of all their trades and honestly borderline tanking. Fifteen first round picks in the next seven years. I love it. So they can go make
moves. If they wanted to add something I probably wouldn't. I might just let this thing go. They're the two seed in the West right now, behind Minnesota. Who's really good is that Rudy Gobert Karl Anthony Towns experiment is working maps of the seven seat They're in there, dude and Kyrie back looks good, healthy, We're in good shape. We're in good shape. Everyone relaxed. Chance for you to win MAVs tickets in thirty minutes at eight o'clock.
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