Football #2: Cowboys vs Jets & Baylor Sucks

0:09 Welcome to the Treehouse Football Podcast. I'm Danilmaley along with Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma. You can always catch the regular version of the Treehouse Podcast the same places that you're getting the Treehouse Football Podcast. But if you found this one first, welcome, and you want to find the regular Treehouse Podcast, where we talk about a bunch of other just just a name stupidity outside of sports stupidity, you can find us there. Otherwise, if you're from the regular Treehouse and you found yourself in the football podcast, welcome, because now we're going to talk sports stupidly in our own special wave. So let's not let's not waste any time. Cowboys Week two, Yeah, are now two and oh against the State of New York. Yeah, that's uh. And they look, man, do they look? I was when when they when they let go of Kellen Moore, who I last season, was like, I can't believe they canna do that. He's the brains behind the play calling us.

1:17 He's young, and he's he's got ideas and he's got a new way of looking at things. And now I'm like, that was a good move because you put it back in the hands of Mike McCarthy, and you got Dan Quinn doing his magic and they look really not I hope I don't jinx it, but they look really good, uh do? And I give yourself that amount of power to Jinks the most successful sports franchise on the planet. They will do that on their own at some point, as we all know as lifelong Dallas Cowboys fans, they will find a way to disappoint us. We cannot do anything to Jinks them that they will not do themselves first. So don't don't listen to anyone ever gives themselves that power to be able to derail a train that was all writing on one wheel anyway. Yeah, because that being said, for the last pushing thirty years since the Cowboys have won a Super Bowl, Yeah, the Cowboys train has been on one side, right, It's just a matter of it's gonna tip over. Yeah, But for thirty years it has not gotten fully back on track. But this year is starting out how a handful of other years have in the past thirty years since the Cowboys won a Super Bowl, Which is, they're on that one side of the track, But it looks like they're leaning towards getting fully back on track and headed towards a super Bowl. But again, we're this is sort of like you know, Charlie Brown and the football. We're used to

2:49 it being pulled out from underneath this somewhere in the divisional round of the playoffs. So we're cautiously optimistic. Yeah, I mean, I again, if they can, if they can maintain like if everybody stays healthy, and and I love everybody's and I'm just watching Sports Center. I just love everybody's idea of played towards Michael Parsons. I'm like, please, do played towards it. Run the balls. You're just running his direction. I'm like, that sounds great. You guys keep you know what real quick just and and I don't. I don't want to get into the nuts and bolts on that strategy too much. But I will say this, so far in Michael Parson's career, he has shown you not to run away from him because he will run you down like a lion. So you know what, run at him, give it a shot. It's it's it's it's better than doing the same thing and not being successful. And I think that's what if you're watching Sports Center in the early in the morning, I think that's uh, I can't remember his name as young kid. He's like, I think that's his philosophy.

3:49 He's like, hey, how could it hurt? The other stuff's not working at that point. It's the definition of insanity. So the other option, the other option is to hire a literal big game hunter to come to the stadium and shoot Micah I'm a lion Parsons dead on the field before the game starts. That's your only other option, Trey, No, it's just I mean, at a certain point, element of surprise, everyone goes away from Micah so c see something coming at him, he might just for a split second go what the hell long enough for blocked. A bit later that, you know, maybe he might go from I'm a lion to deer in the headlights. Switch will work probably for one play. If it works, it might work for one play after that. Now he's gonna be ready for it, and he's gonna be standing there with his jaws open, just ready to eat whatever comes at him. Well, yeah, yeah, go ahead.

4:42 No, he's also if you get that one play off with him, yeah, he's gonna be pissed. You got a whole other problem. Oh no, you're right, like he already plays. He already plays with a chip on his shoulder and every other joint. So do you really wants a great point trade? That's a great point trade. Do you really want to piss him off even more? Yeah? I would just love to hear that on the opposing team sideline, like, hey, I think we made him mad. Just imagine, just imagine the team that decides to run at Michael Parsons one time, just to try that theory, right, yeah, and then he devours that team that offense for the rest of the game based on that one play. Now, imagine you're a player on the offensive side of the ball in the next week's opponent for the Cowboys, and and the game plan up on the screen that the coach puts up is we're hang on, I lost my train of thought. But the game plan is just nothing with Michael Parsons. Yeah, I just I just want to I just want to be in that coach's huddle when they're like, hey, so whose idea was this?

5:51 Who decided to do this? Can we call a time out? We're in the locker room. No, we can't call it time out. He's coming for us now, and he's angry. Let send him flowers like I don't, I don't know what you would do at that point, like to me, like I said, he like you were saying, he plays with like I think he plays angry like like that's what it like. He plays like they've they've offended him by by showing up in his house like that. That's that's how we played And if every if everybody can get on board with doing that. I was going to ask this, and only because I come from the the underdog big billy, and I talked about this when I did the radio the other day. Is my my first season of high school football.

6:35 Not to brag, I played nine seconds and uh no, it was glorious because I also got illegal motion, uh in nine seconds and I was pulled off the field. So in nine seconds, I was removed from the field with a penalty. Uh so. So so far, this story has lasted longer than your football playing days. When it comes to the Jets quarterback Wilson, is is it fair? Okay? Is they're calling him the worst quarterback in the NFL. That's statistically he is right, But then when he has the offensive line doing what they're doing, he's the second best quarterback in the NFL as a week two when he has the opportunities that a quarterback would would normally have if it were Aaron Rodgers. Uh taking the snaps? Is that is I don't know how this works as far as I mean, you you played played high school football and in trade you will understand this as well.

7:34 You guys played. Is that a fair assessment to make? Like he's not His whole thing was I'm not going to be the guy, and now he is the guy and he's not the guy, and everybody's like, well, he's not the guy. He's like I've been telling you I'm not him. So is it? Is it a fair assessment to make for a player that isn't living up to the expectations of an Aaron Rodgers? You know, you see the point I'm trying to make, Like, I don't know why everybody's coming after the guy when he's already kind of gone. Yeah, I told you guys, I'm not the guy. I'm not. I'm not sure I'll let you take the first swing at this. I mean, you have two years of him playing that shows you he's not the guy he is.

8:16 In my opinion, A bust is a first dround pick, but maybe a serviceable backup. And that's kind of where he is now. I mean, he's better than most backups. But my theory, go ahead, Tray, is he going to take you to the promised Land? I don't think so. I always so I look at that what you just said, Trey. One point is if if you can have just a serviceable quarterback take you two and win a Super Bowl, then that's then then it works. It doesn't matter whatever your pedigree is or was where you were drafted. Whereas if you're a top pick like Zach Wilson was. Believe he was number two in the in the draft after the Jets took a lot of things still have to fall into place for all that to work out. There's a lot of luck involved.

9:07 There's a reason why Eli Manning and the Manning family did not want him going to San Diego and instead we're happy to send him to the Jets. And they manipulated that whole situation because they said to San Diego, we're not going to you do not pick us. Well, so he ends up in New York and he ends up winning a pair of Super Bowls, Whereas if he goes to San Diego, who knows. And then other teams where they've had really talented quarterbacks, sometimes they get drafted into just horrible situations. Bad coach, bad GM, bad franchise. Look at any quarterback that the Redskin Slash Commanders have taken in the last fifteen years. We'll tell you what I'm talking about, which is, sometimes you just get drafted into a bad situation.

9:48 Doesn't mean you are a bad player. It just means if you were drafted into a good position, like say a Troy Aikman when he was taken number one by the Cowboys, phenomenal situation to be in and it worked out great. Well. If there was ever anyone who knows the perils of getting drafted to a bad team, it was Archie Manning. I mean, he suffered through like the horrible days of New Orleans. Yeah. But you know, if you're talking about serviceable, if you have the team around them, which you know, the team that comes to mind of serviceable quarterback winning a Super Bowl as the Baltimore Ravens, Yep, that's exactly what I hadn't in my mind. I could see his face both I mean, and it's both Dilferan and Flacco, I mean Flacco was I mean, but like he won the Super Bowl, got a big contract, and I think he died on the Jets. Speaking of which, I'd like to revisit that week to win Cowboys over Jets. It was seemingly a really bad week for the Jets.

10:50 You lose Aaron Rodgers and his achilles on on Monday night, did that, and then you get your ass? What how did that not get the slow clap? It was a seemingly bad week for the Jets, Like because I'm not done setting it all up Roger joke. Yeah, so I don't think it was seemingly or maybe it was whatever, it was a bad week for the Jets. You had Aaron Rodgers on Monday night snap his achilles in front of everybody. Then not even a week later, they get their ass whipped in Texas by the Cowboys thirty to ten. And then the military lost an actual jet which made everything really really bad for Jets all around. Yeah, they didn't lose the pilot though, so that's a good thing. No, No, the pilot is safe. The pilot I think is in better shape than Aaron Rodgers achilles and is also in better shape career wise than Zach Wilson.

11:41 Yes, I'd also like to point out that the Cowboys defense in two weeks, Granted it's only two weeks and this will change, but for two weeks, the Dallas Cowboys defense has scored the same number of touchdowns as its opposing offensive have sex if you want to be technical, Yeah, it's uh, and it's nice to see. I think I think he was out of rhythm the first week, but I think he's got his his swag back, as seeing Treyvon Diggs getting getting I think he got a second half, well he got a pick on second half, and I know they don't throw to to his side a lot, but it was nice to see because we would last year like it was just you just automatically assumed he was going to get two to three, uh, if he was on fire, two to three maybe per game, but at least two picks and it was not because I don't think he got one week one and yeah, which I just you're talking about that in the Cowboys defense. It reminds me of turnovers going back to how we started this, of running at Micah Parsons and that strip that he made, you know that, Yeah, you're all close to a touchdown and like you want to run it. That guy like that is you have you.

13:05 This brings me back to one of my favorite sports moments of all time. Daniel appreciate this rage. I don't know because we never talked about it, but the kind of element of surprise you need to run it, Michael Parsons is the same when they let Benji Malina steal second base in that playoff game. The catcher was so shocked he couldn't even get the throw off in time. That Yeah, that was right there what you call an oh shit moment because the catcher see slow ass Benja Malina running towards the next base, and I'm sure the catch is like, wait am I. He's wondering, am I still coming down off the shrooms I had last night or whatever?

13:50 Because that I can't be that. That doesn't happen. No, that's not it. Oh And then the next thing, you know, the entire dugouts yelling at him that it's happening, so, oh, what's happening? Oh I can't and then eat slow as he is, he's standing on top of the back. I don't think that was the technical term is stripping the ball. I think he was just like, give that to me, like that's the that's that's that's if you watch the replay of of Michael Parsons taking the ball, he was just like, that's not yours, like that, that's that's how we looked at it, like that's my ball, like and he and he just he took that from a grown man, like do we unders Like when I watched this stuff, like I watched it from a different perspective, I'm like, that's a grown man that just snapped that. He just no, this is what he said, is like give give me that.

14:35 Also, when it comes to I always forget their age. I forget how young of a team that the Jets are and how seasoned the Cowboys are. If that is that we do want to say old, right, they're older players, Uh, they're not older season, but you're also dealing with a younger team. So I don't know. I thought they played really well. They look good. I was wrong in my assumption that Kelvin Moore was the brains of the operation like I thought he was last year, and dan Quinn's magic that that was my That's that's my assessment of Week two so far. So I mean week week six, I could be having like dan Quinn sucks like I don't know, but hey, everything seems to be working really well.

15:24 I can't figure out why. Like I know, dan Quinn was mentioned with some head coaching jobs. Why I'm shocked that he didn't get one because I think it's because I don't think it's because a lack of desire on his part. I think it's because he has a sense of seeing this through. I think he I think he realizes that this team is really, really, really on the precipice of of of true success. Yeah, and I think he's connected enough to some of these players, like a Micah Parsons, that he really wants to be a part of something special like that and then go get another head coaching job. Like. I think this will be dan Quinn's last season as defensive coordinator for the cow unless unless something really just falls out and the train ends up in a ditch like we've seen previous seasons happen.

16:17 I think if if they if they have success beyond the divisional round of the playoffs this year, I think dan Quinn will take a head coaching job next year. Wow. Okay, Well, because Dan dan Quinn signing in the first place was huge for the Cowboys. We didn't really we weren't really sure of it at the time, but then when they resigned him, that was one of their most important offseason acquisitions. Yeah, or dan Quinn, you know, he may have figured out that being the coordinator is a much easier gig. He can demand a high you know, probably be the highest coordinator salary, but without having all the crap that a head coach. Because I mean he got his That's what I was saying. Yeah, that's what That's the angle I would have taken, is exactly that, Like, why wouldn't you just get a higher paying defensive coordinator job instead of going for because then everything then the whole team rests on your shoulders as opposed to just one side of the ball. You know, I don't know. I don't know if the mindset that it takes to be the head like I don't have that in Like, I don't think I could do that. I don't think I could have all that weight on my shoulders every single week. It's like the same thing like with being a pilot, Like I don't know if I could do that and have all these people counting on me. I'm like, can I just be over here and I'll just do the defense. I'd rather take that responsibility. Like and if we're looking at it, and I don't think dan Quinn looks at it this way, but if you wanted to have this perspective, you you could, you could assign it. Which is dan Quinn's got

17:49 a great gig because the only the only real game plan he would really have to do is to go to Micah Parsons before each game and whisper what he says the other team said about him on the other side of the field before kickoff, and then and then you just step back and you go to the safest place in the building, which is up in that booth, far away from the carnage that Michael Parsons is about to do. Yeah, that's yeah. He just basically his entire game plan could be all right, I'm gonna go down to the field, I'm gonna grab this little wind up stick on the back of Michael Parsons. I'm gonna wind it all the way up and then I'm gonna run away. Or he may just be biding his time thinking that McCarthy's gonna get fired and he goes down before the game. It just gives him some solid play calling. Hey, run more of those two yard outs. And that's the other strategy that I also think makes a lot of sense, which is basically what Jason Garrett did for a while. He could have gone off and got a head coaching job somewhere else, but he didn't because he knew he knew way Philip days were numbered and he was going to be the head coach of the Cowboys. And I think that actually is a great strategy in mind if you're Dan Quinn, which is look, Mike McCarthy's great. If we went ahead, if we went a foot jesus, if we win a football Bowl, if we win a Super Bowl together, this would be awesome. And I can go on and get a head coaching job with a with a with a Super Bowl ring, and that'll be great.

19:18 Or I stay here. The Cowboys train falls off the tracks yet again, and Mike McCarthy loses his job, and Jerry Jones now loves dan Quinn promotes him to head coach, And now you've got a new head coaching job, and you get to go down to the field every day and tell Michael Parsons what the business is. Yeah, Okay, I'm now that's what I want to happen. Okay, let's screw this season, let's get down Quint next year. Look like that's what That's what in my head. I'm like, well, that would be that would be cool to see on the sideline, Like that would be an interesting, interesting take. Yeah. No, I still think. I still think even if that were to happen, if the Cowboys season falls apart, McCarthy gets fired and and Quinn gets promoted to head coach, I still think Dan Quinn is going to do the Micah Parsons wind up and then still run up to the booth above the field, just because it's safer that way. The only head coach in the booth. There's dangerous down there. It is. It's like he has to turn to his coordinators and actually be like, yeah, this is the safe is the best spot to be. You get to see everything and you don't get accidentally eaten by Micah Parsons, which is an unfortunate thing because if you're a teammate of Micah Parsons, you have to just give him a little bit of room so he doesn't you know, munch on you at the same time, he's gonna kill people. That's why I'm up here. I would love I would love to see a head coach in the in the booth. That would if I were ahead, That's where I would be like, I'm like, can I just

20:48 sit? Yeah? I just sit and watched like you're the coach. Like I would have I would be by old high school coach. I would just have hot dog and popcorn and and a coke on, and you have the headphones on to make it look like you're doing some actual coaching, when in reality you're actually just listening to the Treehouse Football podcast. You're listening to the Treehouse visit us online, a Treehouse on Air dot com. You're listening to the Treehouse visitors online. That Treehouse on Air dot com helps. If I turned my mic on in the first two weeks season, it's still it's still a baby, but you can still glean some things out of two weeks, the Cowboys combined points are sixty to ten, So I feel I feel pretty good about going to Arizona facing the Owen two Cardinals in the late afternoon game on Sunday. Do you Trey have any at all trepidation about this game whatsoever or we get or are we about to go up like one hundred to thirteen

22:21 as far as three weeks in the NFL season. And it always scares me to say this with the Cowboys and or Longhorns or any of my teams that I don't really have a lot of fear going into Arizona. I watched some of their game, I don't I didn't even know who's playing their quarterback. It's I think it's Hobbs. I have no idea who it is. And that's who Robert Redford played in the natural. He was a great right fielder. I don't you know. He was great at the play. I don't remember how good of an arm he had. But I don't like what the age would be on the Roy Hobbs character playing quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals. The quarterback for Arizona is Josh Dobbs. So you may remember him from when he was playing with Tennessee last year, and he wasn't even on the team the week that they had to play the Cowboys, and Josh Dobbs, or maybe it was the week before he had been called up to Tennessee. Whatever it was, he wasn't on the team. They had major injuries in Tennessee.

23:27 He ends up getting a call to come play football again, and I actually I think it was against Dallas. They lose twenty seven to thirteen, and honestly, it seemed like a great, great young man. He's a he went to college for aerospace engineering, so he's got a hell of a brain on him. But unless the Cowboys, unless Dak Prescott and Josh Dobbs are taking an aerospace engineering test, I like our I like our chances. Yeah, I don't think i've I mean I used to when I was playing fantasy football. I would keep up with the Cardinals because only because I had Larry Fitzgerald as my receiver. I don't think I've kept I don't think there's anything like major that's happened with that, like the major moves that have happened, or or a player acquisitions that have happened that would make it something that we would have to worry about, Like I'm yeah, I mean, Josh Dobbs as a quarterback is not one that should scare you as the Cowboys, especially when the previous time you played Josh Dobbs, the quarterback in Tennessee.

24:37 His parents made the drive from Michigan and were caught on national television enjoying the game. Those those are the people that were viral last year after that game because it was a Sunday night football game or no Thursday night football game and Cowboys won twenty seven thirteen and his parents look like they had been abducted and forced to watch the game that their son played in. So I would imagine they're not going to be making a special trip for this game. That's the saddest picture of seed. Oh long, long story short. I feel like Trey, I feel highly confident that the Cowboys will move to three and zero after this week's game in Arizona. In trepidation on your part, No, I just you know, I'm that guy, right, I'm like, well, this is the one that they walk into going, oh, we got this. And there's a desperation on the side of the Cardinals of we've got to for our fans, for ourselves, for our morale, for our egos, we have to win this. And on the film side, the Cowboys going this is this, It's it's them and I That's when I worry, like they are the Cowboys going to come into light and then Arizona comes into heavy. So I mean, I don't think there's anything to worry about, but yeah, ahead, I think Arizona is such a dumpster fire after the Kingsbury experience that, I mean, you hired a coach that didn't even have

26:08 a winning record at Texas Tech. Yeah, and then he drafts a quarterback that he likes, and mind you never forget this. Where Kingsbury really made his name was he was the O C at A and M when they had Manzel, which the circumstances that led into that year A and M new coach, quarterback no one's ever heard of in a new conference and teams they have never played before. Because other than that, then you watched the experience from then and then everyone figured it out and no big deal. Basically, Cliff Kingsbury got to ride the wave of being the new guy for a handful of years. He got to drive he got to drive Johnny the Johnny Football wave. And then you know, just because he's a good looking guy and for something. And I don't understand this. I don't understand this with NFL when it comes to coaches or quarterbacks of why they see someone who really doesn't fit the bill, but they think, oh, but with we can make him that guy. We see the potential no one else does. It's called arrogance.

27:11 Yeah, that's what But that's what coaches like, that's what coaches do. Like when kids don't sign and this is just my perspective, kids don't sign up for peewee going I'm gonna be The coaches see that and go, that's gonna be the That guy's the quarterback. Like I see that leadership, that arrogance, that chip, whatever it is. So they want to cultivate that. Everybody wants to be the guy that picks the next big thing. Like, well, that's why I love about the Johnny Manzel story. I'm like, that dude was my spirit animal. That dude is signing autographs for money in college. I'm like, I love this dude. He was doing illegal stuff in college and I'm like, he's going to wash out so fast. I love this god like, but every coach like he's got he's got it, like we had we you know, and I hope he's not listening.

27:56 But we had a quarterback in high school that everybody, I mean, they every coach was like, he is the real deal, and it couldn't have been more incorrect. Uh just just overall, you're just a good old fashioned flame out. Huh Yeah, I mean, but I mean everybody the coaches, that's who they pick like, that's that, that's the guy. So when you're talking about how he randomly picked the guy that he likes, I think that's what at the end of the day, I think that's what it is, like I can mold this man into what I want him to be. Well, look at look at Kingsbury's experience and his successes, and you know, you look at Johnny Menzel I believe I believe he had Baker Mayfield at one point, Okay, and so he likes undersized quarterbacks that you know, maybe can scramble. And you're right, every coach wants to be the guy that says I discovered that. Yes, And it's fine if you're in high school, even in college. Yeah, but in the pros where draft picks were your first round pick is so vital, and especially the quarterback position is so vital. One bad pick, you've just screwed your franchise for three to five years and you probably are going to get fired, which is exactly what happened to Cliff Kingsbury. And now he's going to have to start all over somewhere else trying to figure out, Okay, let me find a new tiny white guy to ride back into the NFL. No, he did what Kingsbury is actually at the for his looks everything. He now has the perfect job for him, which is the offensive coordinator of the USC Trojans.

29:30 That is a good gig. And that's the sad thing is is when it comes time for meetings with his team and he puts up the game plan for the week, he's going to be really embarrassed when it has nothing to do with football and it's just photos of co eds that he's pre selected. And so we're talking more about Cliff Kingsbury than we are the actual coach of Arizona, which is which is which is the former defensive coordinate of the Eagles? Who is the coach of the I don't even yeah, who is any research before these shows? And you know what, I'm not mad about it. You know, it's just one of those there's no reason, there's no reason on this Treehouse Football podcast to get mired in details and facts let's just go on good old fashioned, stupid fan passion opinions and the occasional toilet joke.

30:26 Yeah, I just I'm not worried. I guess that's why there was no So what you're saying is, now, after we just spent the last seven minutes or so decrying the arrogance, we're now being arrogant Cowboys fans, Which is what most other teams fan bases hate about us, is when we're just two weeks good, We're only two weeks good in this season, and we're already getting cocky about going on the road to Arizona? Are we? Are we being cocky? Our slogan is America's team. We just decided that for you. Like, that's that's that's the arrogance date is about when they Well, the other thing too is Cowboys fans didn't select that, Sham didn't select that. That was NFL Films. That's the Sable family's fault. And it just suck. Yeah. I like how they just walk around like we're America's too. I'm like, yeah, we we. When I was in Ireland, uh doing shows many years ago, and that was the number one selling hat in all of Ireland. Was the Cowboys hat and the second was the Yankees. I mean there is no yeah, there's no other franchise that has has been as mediocre as the Cowboys have for the last thirty years. And that and they're one of the few teams that still move the ratings needles tremendously.

31:48 I mean, that's why they're always on the big game. They can suck, but they are still like either they love them or you hate them, but people will watch them absolutely, And that's the reason why we've got the three twenty five game in the afternoon Dallas on the road to Arizona. As Tray said, the only thing hotter in the Arizona Desert right now is the dumpster fire that is the Cardinals. I just love the term dumpster fire. I laugh every time I hear it. Has so many wonderful uses, whether it's sports or in life in general, or radio stations. Well played, well play advantage, thank you. Yeah, I think that that is the arrogance, right, Like I would have done. I would have done more research on the Arizona Cardinals when I was like, there's a chance they could win. When I asked you earlier, when I asked you do you have any hesitation or any trepidation about going on the road to Arizona, yours a respons world been. I am so not worried. I didn't even bother to look up who their head coaches or who their quarterback is. Yeah, I don't know who anybody on that team is. If I wasn't playing, if I was playing fantasy football, maybe, but uh no. The only thing I worry about is our arrogance going into it, like just just kind of taking it as like we got this. We don't have to show up and play as hard as we did the last two weeks. That's the only thing I worry about. Well, let's let's ride that wave of arrogance over

33:22 into the college game, and let's touch on trays and let's touch on trays. Longhorns. What a perfect seg not bad? Huh not bad. Right as soon as I saw it, I was like, Yeah, I see an opportunity there. I'm gonna grasp it. I'm gonna grasp this opportunity much like Micah Parsons grasps quarterbacks. And that is Trey as a massive ut fan slash alum, someone who actually uh you know, threw some pads on at UT for for a short while. How is your long? I never threw them on. I just watch one day as I got invited to walk on, and I saw what they did to walk on, and I realized then that my football playing days were over. It was a wise decision. And look at you now. So let's ride that wave of Texas football arrogance over into the college side of things. Number three ranked UT who is now three and zero playing what is sometimes in its history a dangerous game with Baylor.

34:29 Now Baylor now this has the same makings of Cowboys versus Cardinals. Cowboys are undefeated, Longhorns undefeated. Cardinals are don't have a win yet. Baylor has one win, but it was against the school whose initials are L I U. I didn't even bother to look up what school it was because I know they lost the next two games. And you know one of the schools that Baylor lost to Raja's Texas State, Yeah south with us, so well they're Texas State now when you were there in the Southwest, Texas so trade yea. So how how what's your arrogance meter playing playing a Baylor team that lost to Texas State. Any time you don't get something like that. Those guys tried well. The only, the only, the only sports organization that likes to shoot itself in the foot more than the Cowboys are the Texas, long words, and they do it with just great precision and going into it.

35:36 I mean, Baylor's bad this year. I got I watched some of their games. They're bad, and so there shouldn't be It should be kind of like the Wyoming game last Saturday. It's gonna be kind of a close first half, but ultimately, I mean, you should just wear them out and you know, have an easy win. That being said, Texas loves to screw up, so like all Texas games, I am incredibly cautiously optimistic for this one. Like if we were going into Lubbock, then I would be really scared because you can't have, you know, let down in Lubbick just we suck in love it. But I'm hopeful there. Yeah, I hate, I hate, I hate. I hate Baylor just for a personal reason, like I hate that school. I hate Yeah every time, you too, because Baylor's where my parents met. Oh really, and that didn't work out good for anybody. I did a show there and they're very Baptist and I had to type up my entire set. This is back in the day.

36:46 I'd type up my set and send it in for the Board of Regents to approve of the content, and I get the big stamped approval, the big red stamp this has approved. I'm not even making that up. They it's a big, giant red stamp that said approved for my forty five minute performance at Baylor? Was that before or after all the sexual harassment and rape and sexual assault allegations with the football program to two or three years before? Uh so? Uh? I guess it was. It was happening, but they just had it, hadn't all? This is like I think that I made a joke about it. I think the month before they were allowed to dance, like they could actually have a dance because they wouldn't. They weren't allowed to have dances. Uh. And and I made the joke on stage because I hate them. I go, uh who called? Who called?

37:45 And said it was okay? Like what what? Like Commissioner Gordon had the bat phone, does does your does your got it? Called directly from God? That says God's like, hey, it's cool if they if they shake a boot. Uh. But thirty years thirty years after Footloose came out, and I get this big red stamp saying you your set is approved. Have fun entertaining those Baptist kids. And I get to the venue and they're supposed to have a dressing room for me, and I'm not a picky guy. They were like, what do you want on your rider? I was like, can I just get a sandwich and chips and a diet coke? That's all I wanted. They gave me a four little thing little box of chocolates and went, here's your food. And they weren't even kidding. They're like, here's your food. And I had a share of dressing room with their drill team or whatever it was. And then they came back and went, hey, we forgot to tell you. One of the members of the Board of Regents wasn't present when they voted to approve it, and she voted against it, So you can't do any of your set. And I literally walked into for a sandwich and some chips. Know I had to still perform forty five minutes. They're like, just just you can't do any of the stuff that you were going to do. So they would rather they would rather you not do your pre submitted material and instead let you loose on stage without any sort of a script. Yes, how much fun did you have that night?

39:15 Robb Oh, I haven't taken a dump on a school that big and my you would have thought I had Indian food the night before, because I just have. They invited you back since then, not one time? Never? Are you okay with that? So I hope the Longhorns take a bigger dump on them than I did. And that's impressive because every time I drive to Austin, every time I passed Baylor, I literally, I'm not even making this up. I stick my finger out the window and I'm just like, the whole whole way from when McFarland Stadium starts to where Elvis ate breakfast, I just do this the whole time. It's so funny that you do that too. It's just that you and I do it for two completely different reasons. One has some childhood trauma that a lot of it so much.

40:09 So basically what we're getting at is trauma gets trauma breeds at Baylor. Yes, let's let's continue. So let's continue to ride the arrogance wave with one last little tidbit here on the Treehouse Football podcast, and that is one of the major stories that came out last week and ended this week that takes football and celebrity and entertainment and brings them two together like two scissoring lesbians on a website. And that is the story that came out that quite possibly maybe kind of sword of Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift quietly hanging out according to sources, Yeah, according to his brother, right, so they've actually well yeah, I mean that that that That's what to me adds credibility to this story is that there's not a whole lot of outright denial about it. And when there is no outright denial, that usually means something is going on. And I would and there's the reason why I mentioned the arrogant side of it is it's a story as old as time and that is an NFL player having the swag to say, you know what, you know what, that you know what that amazing most popular, powerful pop singer needs in her life. Me Ye.

41:35 Enter Travis Kelsey at a Taylor Swift Era's show in July where he shoots his shot and tries to give her his number. As as told on the podcast, that Travis and his brother do. I'll let him tell you how that went down. If you're up on Taylor Swift concerts. There are friendship bracelets and I received a bunch of them being there, But I want to give Taylor Swift one with my number on it, not right, your numbers in eighty seven or your phone number, you know which one, so that she doesn't meet anybody. And she doesn't, or at least she didn't want to meet me, so I took a personal So he's he even said in that show. Yeah, he was a little butt hurt about that, but he understood it because he later said she doesn't talk to anybody before the show because she has to sing forty four songs. She's saving her voice. So that was in July. Fast forward to just last week. Now it seems like they're quietly hanging out. Yeah. And as any time anyone's ever been attached to Taylor Swift, I always wonder, what is it you think you're gonna do different? Yeah, every time she's dating somebody, I'm like, oh, I can't. She's trying to write a new album that I think everyone has that that same thought, and then I thought, and then I started thinking about this. There has been a line of very good looking, handsome,

43:07 wealthy, talented suitors in Taylor Swift's wake, and Travis Kelsey is now throwing his cleats into her arena, saying I can do what all these other guys couldn't. And I thought, I don't know anybody else that would have that level of arrogance, And then I remembered I know Trey Trenholme, and I think when you leave such a wake of bodies behind you the way Taylor Swift has, I think deep down we all assume she's probably got a little crazy in her, and I think that is where Trey sees the spark.

43:47 Oh, I see a lot of crazy in her. You can just tell, like some of her some of her songs, they're written by a crazy person and you just you know it, and yeah, I would. I've got the liner notes and it says written by Taylor Swift and you're like, well, yeah, and you realize, yeah, she really is a disturbed, emotionally unbalanced person. And I love you would, but you would really think though Tony Romo would call you know, Kelsey, have we go hey dating a pop star that I love? That you mentioned that tree because I don't know if you'll be able to see this or not, but I put that in my notes right right here. It says, underneath Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift, I have two great examples from the cowboys recent history of dating starlets. That is Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson. That did not go well.

44:42 That was terrible for everybody involved. It was bad for Jessica Simpson, it was bad for the Cowboys, it was bad for Tony. It was kind of good for the eye hoop off of thirty five. But then Miles Austin and don't know if you guys remember this, Miles Austin for a brief time was linked with Kim carter Ashian when he was at the height of his popularity. Yes, none of those things ended well for anybody after After Miles Austin dated Kim Kardashian, I don't even know if he caught a touchdown after that. No, because the Kardashians will destroy you, and that's that's that's their function in life is to destroy talented black man like that's what they look at Kanye West, he was a musical genius. He married Kim Kardashian. Now he's got his ass crack showing on a boat in Venice, Like where if you want to talk about what they do in a black look what they did to Bruce Jenner. Yeah, that's that's the ongoing joke. And he's related. It's ongoing family, that's the ongoing joke. And like the comedy community is, uh there, there's so there's so they're so bad at being women. Bruce Jenner's like pulled my beard, Like let me show you, bitch, is how this was done. But I my joke and I've always said this, and I say it with so much passion, like, uh, the Kardashians are like bleach. Uh. If you're black and they get on you, you're ruined. Uh, that's just how that works. Every Reggie Bush, Well, here's here's what something. Here's something you need to keep in mind if you if you were if you were a black man and you're trying to date one of the Kardashians and using your bleach analogy, raj,

46:16 that is this, do not go in the bathroom when they were bleaching their butt holes, because that may be how it actually happens. Because once they're done with that you might be the butt hole they're trying to bleach' that's what it's gonna be. Like they're just Yeah, I didn't he right after Jessica Simpson didn't remo date Carrie Underwood. Wasn't he going through like like country singers. I think he was just like, let me just turn on, Like that's the arrogance. I can just turn on the country, like the country like like Tony did not learn his lesson with Jessica Simpson, although I will say that Carrie Underwood seems to have her head on her shoulders a little bit straighter than Jessica Simpson did at the time. Yeah, but both of the tail in comparison to the mountain that Taylor Swift is where Travis Kelsey is trying to climb. Yeah, that's and if and if you know, if if he if he secures the victory of dating and then you don't know marrying Taylor Swift, Like she's she's so big, Like I think was it uh some Eastern European country that she's performing in, like it helped their economy, Like that's how big her concert is, Like it's really like helped their GDP out. What would be What would be a greater accomplishment in Travis Kelsey's career winning another Super Bowl, including being named MVP in that Super Bowl, or settling down, not just landing Taylor Swift, but actually settling down and doing

47:50 the whole family thing with her, Which would be the greater accomplishment I would I would go Taylor Swift. Yeah, yeah, you know why because there's been what fifty three other Super Bowls and MVPs in those games. He would just be like the fifty fourth Whereas whereas no one's, no one's reached the summit of Taylor Swift. She's his everest. Why don't we always come back to white guys on some crazy expedition of of impossibilities. She that's his everest and all. She really needs to some green boots. Uh, that's what That's what she needs. She she should, She should settle down with an Indian dude. I think Britney Spears wouldn't have gone crazy married Indian. It al comes back to they need to marry an Indian dude. I don't know why are you? Are you offering yourself up as tribute uh to Taylor's I don't think I because now I kind of see the crazy. I didn't before.

48:52 I know she has writing I didn't. She seems this is why I need to hang out with Trey more. I've hung out with Trey enough over the years that he's my crazy. I know I'm next to him and he starts gyrating his hips just a little bit more than usual. I know that that I know to stay away. Okay, gotcha, because I mean I saw her at the VMA's and uh not. I didn't see her through. I was watching the VMA's and I saw her on and uh and she she she was having a like she was she was fan grolling out with some of the acts and was having a good time. She was dancing, she was drinking, she was having a good time. I was like, Okay, she likes to leave my hair down. That's kind of cool. I didn't see the crazy. Uh. And and then Trey uh smiled uh and went, oh, she's crazy, And I was like, oh, then he knows. Uh. And I don't know how you spotted. I don't know what you saw in her that makes her crazy, except for like like Dan was saying, the bodies that have been left behind in her wake. But I did see it. How is it that you you noticed crazy and a woman? Yeah, it's a gift. Is it a gift from God?

50:00 Some people see dead people? All right? I see crazy? Why didn't m Night Shamalan write about you? I see crazy people? Thank you for hanging out with us in the Treehouse for the football podcast. We'll see you next time in the Treehouse. Be sure to follow any and all things Treehouse, Treehouse on Air, dot Com, at Treehouse on Air. For me, it's at d Daniel Malley. For tree it's at tree Trinhoman and for Raj at comedian Raj do us favorite tell a friend at the Treehouse. Football podcast is happening. And I don't know about the remainder of the NFL season or the remainder of the season for the Cowboys, but like the Cowboys right now, I feel like we are two and oh in our young See you next time, See you two