You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven one The Freak all right, one hour away from some big, juicy stuff involving Aaron Rodgers and Jimmy Kimmel. Aaron Rodgers went on the Pat McAfee show yesterday and really kind of stepped in it a little bit. Jimmy Kimmel responded, we have sports beef and Hollywood beef, and it all has to do with the Epstein List, which is another just weird part of this. The Epstein List not out yet. We're
still kind of waiting. We thought it was going to come out yesterday. I'm sort of wonder now that we're a couple of days into it, like, is it going to even come out? I saw something a couple of weeks okay, something happened on the file whatever. I don't you know, I don't know if what I read. Who knows if it's true? You know, right, But you've heard that it might be a couple of weeks before it comes out January twenty first or something. Has it been pushed back
a little bit? Well again, I don't even want to because I read on John tweet while I was half asleep, hopped up on night quill that person number one oh seven filed an injunction of some kind that said this could put me in physical danger because of my current location, which I think is Middle East. Okay, yeah, now that's very possible. I saw the New York Times last night at like seven o'clock was like could come out tomorrow. So the safety part of that is interesting. And it's an angle that
Jimmy Kimmel played were one hour away from that. We'll get into that. There's audio and this goes back a little ways as well. I kind of went through a little bit of a wormhole looking at the past, and uh, it's not the first time these guys have been at odds with each other. But I didn't have Aaron Rodgers versus Jimmy Kimmel on my twenty twenty four prediction sheet. But man, pretty good in an hour. We'll get to
that. Right now is to sports and now sports at seven? All right, So we got a few things, but I'm gonna start with the maps because we're at the home of the Dallas Maps. You guys cooled that real quick. Absolutely, NBA social media is most viewed players of twenty twenty three, and we have two players on it, and he guesses, well we we yes, we have the same two guesses and we're both correct. Dwight pal and and don't excellent mass play tonight at home agats Portland. You can
catch that game here on the free Do you have the whole list? Oh no, just a quick hitter. Well, yeah, I've got it actually, yeah, okay, you're gonna play the game kind of yes, because I want to know how many people total? How many players total? Fifteen top fifteen, what most searched or uh? This is based on social media rankings based on the twenty twenty three calendar year. Most social media interaction on ex Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube. Okay, so the players
most talked about? Yeah, not the player themselves is most interact Yeah? All right, Well I'm curious if Luca's number one? No, no, I wonder if yeah, no, way, Kyrie's above Luca? Right, no, no, for amount of tweets and posts about No, but they're both in the top fifteen. So Luca has nine hundred and fourteen million views whatever that means? Is he ahead of Kyrie? He is? Okay,
what numbers are they? Lucas five? Yeah, Kyrie's twelve. Yeah, Lebron number one, Lebron number one, number two, Yama Oh, Wenmby's number three. That's really good. That's Good's Wemby's number three cause I was to most iconic player in the league outside of Lebron. Well, you could argue is Steph Curry, Steph ok they're all current players. Yes, Joannis Jannis is actually a little further back this year. He is number nine. Yeah, Milwaukee factor. But Jokic has to be just in the title run.
Yeah four, Jokic five, Luca six. This is the guy probably doesn't get as much household recognition as he should. East Coast Oh, Jaylen Brown are uh? Jason tATu Yes, correct seven? This guy bounces around. He likes Burner accounts. Durant Kevin Durant. Number eight. This guy was in the Great Film Office Christmas Party, which is the down movie of the month at Alamo Drafteuse Cinema. Jimmy Butler, Is he still doing the perm emo? Jimmy, but I think that's what put him above Jannis.
Is it what he had? And when he showed up with emo fallout boy haircut that was so funny. It is really good. Do you do you have any idea? No, he's not not. They actually they being with it now. They mentioned that his memorable impression on media day pretty great. He's a cool looking dudeen Jamal Murray the Nugs. That's another title run and he did a lot of damage in that in the finals. Davis number thirteen, Austin Reeves. Really, why do I hate him because he's white?
Because he's an annoying white dude. You don't like white guys bawling in the NBA. It's weird, you know. And he's a Laker where he was. Yeah, that's true. He just looks like a little bitch he does. Yeah, that's what all white dudes get. Freaking Grayson Allen everyone, he drives everyone insane. Yeah. Do you think Luca's The perception of Luca outside of Dallas is ten times worse than I love. We've talked about that before. I don't know, because ticket prices shoot up when Luke who comes
to town. Like, bottom line is, people want to see him. Plus he's got swag galore, And I think I think people that watch don't watch him every night, don't see him complaining to the refs like you know we do like we do. I think the brother admires the hell out of Luca. I think so too. You think he's accepted in the community. I guess I don't like, maybe more so more so than Austin, right, I don't know. I don't know. I would like to get Mike's
Aroy's opinion on what the brothers think. Let me speak for the African American community. Maybe, don't why, I don't know. I bet I don't know. Let's just move on. Let me call you the Rizzler. Look at my African American Joel Embiid and then Ja Moran. There's Oo Morant only dead last fifteenth after all that. Yeah, see that was fun. It was a little It was fun. So let's let's kind of wrap up Cowboys lines here because Dan can amble's doing some doing some radio. He's gotta have
this a weekly radio show, as some do. Let me let me let me guess. He's let it all go and he's moved on past the past Lions Gate. I think he's got this weird thing. I don't know if he's I don't know if it's still hovering him. But oddly you could hear the reporters the other day in the postgame press conference. We're scared to ask him things. And it is because he has a whole Cogan vibe. Okay, yeah, you know, and yeah, is it? Brother? I
was going for two no matter what. I'm gonna go for two three times in a row if I need to. So he's talking to a guy named Jim Costa on our sister station, ninety seven to one the ticket in Detroit? Is that how it works? Is that what they really are? Ninety
seven to one? The ticket? Is it? iHeart? Which is what people thought we were for a while, I think, and then if we learned quickly, they think we're not that Dan Cardle ticket Brother cast offs Okay, Dan Campbell with Jim Costa on Detroit Radio gets a little little heated at the end, j J Jimmy. So after that play, you had said, you told the offense you're going for two on the final drive if you
score. But from the seven, I mean, and looking back, like, was there a point of no return where you laid on your sword and kicked the extra point? Do you regret it all? The decision to go for it from the seven? Yeah, I told, I told our offense. I think I said this before, and we're going for the win and we're gonna go down, we're going to score, and we're going for two. And I wasn't coming off of that. So if it was like ten or fifteen, like a holding penalty, you still would have gone for it.
No, we're getting outside of ten every week. Good? All good? You do it every week? Oh ver s d. Yeah, when you got the penalty, you move it to say it? Say it, both of you. What say it? Say what you want to say? I think from the seven it's a low percentage play. I think your chances of winning are lower than if you kick the extra play. Would say it to anybody else. I'm on the radio. You want to say it? I thought it was a reckless decision. Thank you, okay, but you
don't regret it. No, that's great. That is so juicy. There is such value in having a coach that does that. You know, McCarthy doesn't really do that. He faces the music in front of plenty of microphones, but you don't get that kind of I love that. Yeah, say it and it was just stupid. Yeah, yeah he did. Because if Dan cambll wasn't on the phone. He's just yelling on the radio. You would have said it's stupid, and I mean, I'll say it, it was stupid. He had crazy eye. He was so mad at the getting
screwed out of the two point conversion of they already nailed. He's like, ef it go again. It was really stupid. And and then again, I like Dan Campbell a lot. And are you kidding? The Lions are relevant and their division champions. I love all that. Plus we've heard him around here forever. He's you know, he played down here, and he's been on the radio in town a lot. He's awesome. But that is not is not good, and that's sort of a sign of a I don't
know, letting your emotions get the best of you. And that's one thing that a head coach can't do. You have to take that extra breath. But he was so mad, He's like, f it, run out there and score them if the refs not good. I said that yesterday he went for two from the seven despite the refs. Right. That wasn't about winning, No, that was not about setting the Lions up to win that game
or to have a better chance to win that game. Why would you because he was mad and he was emotional, and you can't make emotional decisions in that case. And I don't care if you said, hey, we're gonna go down there and score and we're gonna get two and we're gonna win this game. You're that you're not beholden to that, And that's right out the window when you lose five yards and you would think, look, okay,
I get it that that Michael was off sides. It had no bearing on the outcome of the play, and the Cowboys stopped it cold from the seven. Well then you move up half the distance of the goal and well, no, you're at the three and a half. You've had a little bit of time to cool off the three and a half. You're not quarterback sneaking from the three and a half. Yeah, you can do that from the two, but even at that point, it's like, okay, all right, get in that kick it. Let's just go to At that point,
I'm kicking it still. Wow, from the three and a half, Dude, you too. You're looking the extra point from the three and a half after you were just had gone for it from the seventh. In that scenario, I guess maybe you don't then at that point, it's just doubling down to save face. But we all know, and they say this every dayn week. Oh, they have a package of plays that they know they need.
Okay, so you ran one of those plays and granted you grounded the throw, but it was still short of the goal line, like you ran when it was at the three and a half. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, half the distance. Yeah. So you ran a play from the three and a half that you probably had in your packages to run from the two and it was short of the goal line. Like, even if he's
shoe string caught it, I'm not sure they would have gotten in. The announcer're like, oh he would have got in if Jerry Coffin ground this thing. That's not certain to me. The line is like, once the option to run the ball is out of there and the Cowboys know you're passing, then I think I'm kicking the extra point the defining line, yes, but also I think they're the context of his situation. I think makes them look dumber too. Last week or the week before last, the Lions win their
division, big locker room moment. We've done it, man, the foundation. We told you it was gonna be a long process. He calls up Taylor Decker and some of the guys who were saw the whole rebuild lifted the two and three year win seasons of Detroit. Okay, and now we're the division champs. Like, dude, you get you don't have to play that way anymore. You're not those lines. You're the division champs. You are
a contender in the NFC. You don't have to do that. Like what are they And if you don't know, like what did that win mean for them? They were already division champs? Well technically because that happened Saturday night, they win that game, they're still the two seed at the time, and a San Francisco loss and a win, they had a chance to be the one seed. Okay, so you could they could win out and they were very likely the two seed and the and two and which means you now
the Cowboys are ahead of them? Likely is the yeah? And if it was, all the Cowboys have to do is beat the Commanders and they're the two seeds. We had a vision and the two Now if the Cowboys, uh, by the way, fudge it up this week, and they could. If the Cowboys fudge it up this week, and the Eagles, uh somehow beat the Giants for the second time in three weeks. Then the Eagles
take over. You know, what would be the three at that point, I believe because the Lions are assuming they play their players and win, they would be the two. But we're set up for a crash course. If everyone does what they're supposed to do and wins, we're set up for Detroit at Dallas in three weeks for the divisional round, the second round. If the Cowboys get passed, what will likely be the Packers and the wild card round. So I love right now as things sort of take shape, you
know, and you start to actually realize who's gonna be where. But that's why I asked that, because there's some value in efet go. Yeah, and like you love your coach when they do that, even if it doesn't work, there is some value. But that's why I asked about the tangible value of actually winning that game, which had a lot of implications for a
potential one still put you in a great position for the two seeds. So then I guess I don't know, those are decisions to me that hold teams back, though, Like those are things where I go Okay, you might have been the perfect guy for the rebuild. Now, who's the perfect guy to start winning playoff games? Now, it's gonna get a chance to go to the playoffs and show us and have a track record. He definitely deserves
that. But it's like decisions like that just go. Okay. Now we just see that you were there for the raw rah, I'm gonna make comments about my players. Are gonna go bite your kneecaps off. You know those were run through a wall. Guys, cool for a rebuild? What do you want now? And it's time to strategically beat you. I need the right guy who's gonna go win a playoff game and make good decisions for me. But they have eleven wins and they've won their first division title in forever.
Yeah, so you get plenty of time for that. Yeah, And I don't I don't blame him for I just think it's weird to say we're gonna go down there and score. We're gonna go for two and win. Okay, that sounds awesome, But if any part of him was like, damn it, I just told him we're gonna go for two. Now we're at the seven yard line. But I promised the guys, by the way, if they're the three, and in his head when he's so mad, is he like, ugh, you know I can't I can't kick it now?
Yeah, Like, I just promise these boys we're gonna go down and win this damn game. And that's that's when you need to take a beat. But if that happens in the playoffs, then I gotta think a dude who's been a great coach and has turned around, like one of the jokes of the NFL, maybe the joke. Yeah, I well, I think there's the whole of two of the offensive line for the Cowboys being a little hurt at that point with Tyler Smith, I'm thinking, I'm probably can go
win this game. If their lines are the three and the Rams are the six, we have a Jared Goff Matt Stafford Bowl. Matt Stafford returned to Detroit in the playoffs. I think the Rams could be the lines for sure. Yeah, if you kick the extra point, go to ot. There. There was nothing that the Cowboys were doing outside of Ceedee Lamb that was so scary to make you think that you couldn't win the game. You know, defensively, your offensive for sure cows hadn't done much and they were running
all over them. Yeah, that's kind of that's sort of kind of like it's dumb. It's a reckless It was a great word. I have a pretty good job by that radio host, who I probably wouldn't like in real life as a person. But it was a good like word to not cower down there, Bill cowerd down, as he said, it was a reckless decision. That was good. Cowboys have added Lyle Collins to their practice squad, working him out at tackle. I've learned so playing you've learned. It's
been the tackle part. You've learned off his tackle because he used to play left guard. Here when Tyler Smith getting hurt, you might think that, I don't know if that's more just insurance who probably he's probably not going to play right. But it makes me go, are they worried about Terrence Steele who's been kind of bad and just is not fully back from right from his A c L makes me think that also, guys, I uncovered what I
think is one of the wildless Cowboys stats of the year. The Cowboys coming up next, No, I now, I don't want to wait for that. It would have been a good tease. It would have been a good one. Coming up in a couple of minutes. Danny's got a zero risk spot. I'm ready. Actually it's a it's a one of two series to make sure that you get both of his zero res live spots today. It's a limited series. Yes, one zero spot part each way you can spell
it. See that's what we were missing yesterday. Ye were missing added element. I'm sure it's like this missing. So this floor, the fist goes down like that's not what they were with. The Cowboys are ten and oh when this happens, they're oh and five when this does not happen, ten and oh when this happens, oh and five when this does not happen this year, and he guesses, I would say some of us it's a tough one, you know, so because I'm sure see Lambs had some monster games
and losses. When Brandon Cooks has more than five targets, okay, Brandon Cooks is the answer. That's good. It's not five targets, but it's close for three or more receptions. When Brandon Cooks has at least twenty yards, the Cowboys are ten and oh. When he is under twenty yards. There are oh and five. You've cracked the code. He's got four fourth quarter touchdowns this season too, all in win on all of those loss obviously road games. Why am I surprised every time Brandon goes catches the ball?
Oh? Yeah, you know why? Because he'd never really was with one team to be an established guy. He's bounced around so much. He's great, he's really good. Everyone likes him. In the locker room. He's like, I don't know how he gets traded so much. It's very strange. Yeah, it doesn't seem like a yeah, and maybe it's because, I mean, he came out of college. I thought he'd be a big number one, you know, wide receiver, and he's put up number one
wide receiver type numbers. But week two at I'm sorry, we're going. Last few days at Miami, the loss fourteen yards. At Buffalo, the big loss ten yards. But then you look every you keep going out. The loss in Philadelphia seven yards, the loss against San Francisco one catch for seven yards, the lost to Arizona two catches for seventeen yards. Get the
man twenty yards, the Cowboys win. Simple, that's that. Mike McCarthy listening you listen to Mike get in the ball twenty yards a lightning fast text response to our question at the beginning of the segment. As we evolve about Luca and what the brother truly thinks of Luca, we had somebody as a brother, I can confirm that we accept the hell out of Luca. In fact, he's invited to the cookout. All right, And someone else said Euro white different than us white. That's true, all right, that makes
sense. Pose is kind of true. That makes sense. I want to go to the cookout too. According to the text, you're currently uninvited to the cookout. Well, what if Luca has a plus one? Will I be denied if he brings me? I think if Luca shows up to the cookout, he can bring whoever you want. Hey, then I'm in. You don't know Luca any more importantly, Luca doesn't know you. After this
zero respot, he's going to be knocking on my door, Luca. All right, the Las Vegas Sands people have done some more work in town, and hey, if you're working at a university in a high roll, maybe don't do porn. Next to ninety seven won the freak