The Dan Patrick ShowDan was glad to see that Jake Paul didn’t hurt Mike Tyson even though it certainly looked like he could have done serious damage. He confirms that the sky is, in fact, falling in Dallas as the Cowboys drop to 3-7 after getting rolled by the Houston Texans. NL Rookie of the Year, Pirates P Paul Skenes says it was really cool pitching to Shohei Ohtani and he’s looking forward to facing him repeatedly every year. And Army Head Football Coach, Jeff Monken shares why he thinks that Army thrives as an underdog.
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I think there was a fight on Friday night. It was Jake Paul against Mike Tyson. I think it was, but I watched, at least I tried to watch, and then I'm watching on my phone, and then all of a sudden, I'm watching on Antonio Brown's Street. Like I mean, Netflix, you got to get it together. You got six weeks before you got football games on Christmas Day. So I'm watching that, and I thought at one point that Jake Paul was being respectful to Mike and he could have hurt him, probably could have knocked him out, and I'm glad that he didn't. So you can say whatever you want about Jake Paul. I don't think he's a great boxer. I don't think he's a good boxer. I think he's a great marketer. And he held Mike up and Mike didn't have any spring in his step. As I've said many many times, if Mike doesn't get you in the first round, he's not going to get you. Jake Paul is probably a better boxer, well certainly now. But I just didn't want Mike embarrassed. That's all. And then when he said he wanted to fight Jake Paul's brother, I go, no, Mike, We're not gonna do this again. Sixty million households tuned in for that, or at least tried to with Netflix. The undercard was great, the women awesome, and then all of a sudden, you're watching and there weren't any real standout punches, no real flurries or anything like that. And Mike biting on his gloves during I didn't. He says he has some biting fixation. Oh we know that, Mike. But Mike got paid and Jake Paul is gonna take on somebody else again. Go back to when Jake Paul fought Nate Robinson, remember the former NBA player. He fought him, and Nate Robinson's like, okay, can people now get off my back? That I lost to Jake Paul, And I guess everybody you know was picking on him. Tyson loses to him, and I mean, it's not Murder's row of who he's defeated. He hadn't beat anybody, but he's a great marketer, did a wonderful job with this. And then it's buyer and beware. As I said before, you can hate him. He wants you to hate him, but he wants you to pay to hate him, and that's what you had with that fight. But I'm glad that he let Mike walk out with some dignity there, because Mike was spent at the end of that boxing match.
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If you buy into the adage when the Cowboys lose, America wins, you're having a great season. Texans handled the Cowboys, and the Texans now seven and four. The Cowboys drop to three and seven after three straight twelve win seasons. The sky is falling in Dallas, literally and figuratively. The team came in with playoff aspirations, maybe Super Bowl asper, but here we are ten games deep and it's time to accept the Cowboys for who they really are. It's a poorly built team that continues to fail to get out of its own way. They were embarrassed last night at home, so they're in the same conversation with the Patriots and the Panthers. Nobody saw this when coming the star on the helmet continues to keep Dallas in the news, and they will continue to hear about Michael Parsons contract. We'll hear about the prospects of teams or players that the team has fallen in love with. With the draft, Jerry World maybe wanting to tear down the stadium and build a new stadium, and part of the roof was falling and caving in last night. But the relationship with the Cowboys is always interesting because you either love them or you hate them. There's no middle ground. And what you're seeing right now, this is a juicy little payback to all those victories and all the attention that they receive. For a three and seventeen, we'll start with Ceedee Lamb talking about what it's like to play for the Cowboys and when you face these opponents each week, obviously everybody.
Is looking to embarrasses, right they have their opportunity. When they do, they try to, you know, put us out. And we had so much access over the last few years as far as in the regular season. It's just starting about us right now. So for us, we gotta find ways. You gotta find ways that go together, play together, and don't just thing out.
Yeah, you know, the TV executives have to be wringing their hands because they love Dallas. You got Dallas and the Giants the annual Thanksgiving Day game, then you have two primetime games on Monday Night. You got Week fourteen against the Bengals, and then you have Week sixteen against the Buccaneers. We love watching Dallas, and those who love watching Dallas succeed, and those watching Dallas fail. You get a whole lot of one and a little bit of the other one this season. Cooper Rush did okay last night. He's kind of non threatening. I don't know if they get to the point where they go, Let's just see if Trey Lance can play football. You gave up a fourth round pick, which doesn't sound like a lot, but in the NFL that's a big deal. Look at the receivers who have been traded for fourth round picks this year. Maybe see if Trey Lance can play and then if not, maybe you're moving on from him and Cooper Rush. But you're watching that Dallas team and you keep waiting for something to happen. It's not going to happen. And Mike McCarthy is basically just kind of you know, twisting in the wind, and Jerry will bring in somebody next year. But there's bigger pictures and we'll go back months and months ago, maybe last year, and Seatan first brought this up. He said, you know, Dallas has a problem because they have a guy who's going to make fifty or sixty million dollars at quarterback. They got a wide receiver going to make thirty million dollars. And then you have a defensive player who's probably going to be or want to be the highest defensive player in the game as far as how he's paid. You would think that's a good problem, but it's not because of how the team is built the other positions and they don't have a running game, and it is you know, I look at the Texans. Joe Mixon was a great pickup. Now America is never going to embrace him for what happened off the field when he was in college. But he was good with the Bengals, and he was really good last night. This really helped CJ. Stroud and CJ. Stroud has regressed a little bit, but the Texans are still a playoff caliber team and a really, really bad division. But you're watching last night and the Texans do have some playmakers there, Nico Collins. When he plays, they play well. But Dallas has lost five home games, the first five home games for the first time since nineteen eighty nine, and they're getting blown out. They're giving up thirty seven points per game at home. The last time that happened a team gave up that many points per game through five games nineteen eighty one. And if you go back to the playoff loss, you know, we may have looked at the loss to Green Bay last year as an aberration in the playoffs, but it wasn't because if you go back to that loss, the Cowboys have lost six in a row at home, and they've trailed by at least twenty points in each of their six home losses. Like these are numbers that you never would have thought with Dallas, whether you like him or not. And this isn't all just hey, Dak got injured. This is a bad team. They chose to bring back Zeke Elliott. They're just not They don't They're one dimensional team. And now with that dimension being Cooper Rush, you're not going to beat anybody. Now, I'm looking at this schedule and they have a chance to salvage. What do you guys think the over under is? According to DraftKings victories for the Dallas Cowboys, Marvin, I'll start with you. They have three how many wins over under? Cowboys five and a half? Bloop blue wow wow, yep, five and a half. The same as the Jets. The Bears they're over under six and a half. How about the Chiefs over unders fourteen and a half. And I did want to pick up on that with the Chiefs because we're going to see the Chiefs and the Bills probably again. And is Buffalo going to They're nine and two and Kansas City is nine and one. If we start to play this out now with the final, you know, six or seven games, So Kansas City's at the Panthers, they host the Raiders, they host the Chargers, they're at the Browns, host the Texans. They're at the Steelers. Two losses may be in there. Buffalo has two losses right now, so Kansas City would end up with three losses. Buffalo hosts San Francisco, they're at the Rams, They're at the Lions. Then they host the Patriots. Jets Patriots, they going to have one or two more losses and if they get to four losses, they're going to be going to Kansas City, probably for the AFC title game. Seems like a foregun conclusion in the NFC with the class being the Detroit Lions, and I don't know if the Eagles are a close second, but feels like I don't think we're quite sure what to make of the San Francisco forty nine ers. A lot of talent, they've had injuries. They are generic right now in last place.
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He is the National League Rookie of the Year. He's Paul Skins, the Pirates pitcher. Back on the program. Last time I saw you when you got the honor, you had a fireplace scene behind you look really nice and cozy. Did you make the fire.
I did not, and I think it looked all right, but not quite as good as the fireplace scene you've got behind you.
So that's why similar But I'm not winning any awards. How did you celebrate when you when you got the honor?
Yeah, I mean we had a number of my teammates and coaches and you know, some people that have just kind of affected my career in the past couple of years. So they were all there, got to celebrate with them and and you know, just it was nice to be able to to experience it with them because it takes a village to have any sort of success.
What was it like in April when you're in the minor leagues wanting to be called up but not getting that call?
Yeah, I mean that was the thing that that you know, people have been telling me, my parents, my coaches, that kind of thing since this time last year. Was just be patient because we don't know what the plan is. Necessarily, we don't know, like I mean, truthfully, we didn't know how, uh, you know, how how I was going to be because you know, had a feeling that I was going to do, you know, have success and I believe to myself and that kind of thing. But you don't really know how you're going to do until you're in it, So just be patient and put in the work and go compete and then it'll all take care of itself.
How does your personality help you benefit you because you seem pretty even keel, Yeah, I think.
I mean, it's just how I am, and I've I've I think I've realized it a lot more over this year, this past year, this past season. It definitely doesn't hurt. I think just being able to stay consistent in this game, because it's because you can really ride the roller coaster, the ups and the downs through through one hundred and sixty two. So just being able to stay consistent, and I think it helps me do that.
Okay, but when you give up a home run, you get mad internally. You don't show it, but when somebody hits a bomb off of you, what's going on?
Yeah?
Sometimes I get mad sometimes. I mean there's I think there's pictures of me this year, like smiling after I give it a home run.
Sometimes frankly, sometimes I think it's funny.
So why why is it funny?
I mean, it's just you know, kind of kind of uh, their approach, whether they executed it or not. Like there were there were a couple of times where, you know, guys just jumped me this year and I was just like, well, whatever, he can't.
You can't.
You can't really avoid that to some extent, so who cares?
What was it like facing Otani.
It was cool.
It was cool obviously the you know, the first ab and on the second ab he got me. But that is cool because we you know, we went back to his h you know, back to their place, and just having the opportunity to face him I don't know what, five or six times this year and knowing that it's going to be five or six times next year and in the year after that like that. That that's pretty cool to to look forward to to where it's not just you know, reading a scouting report and throwing to a certain certain location like you got to play baseball and and actually get the guy out.
It's it's a cool, cool experience.
He's the rookie of the Year. Pirates pitcher Paul's schemes. What's a pitcher do in the offseason?
So what I yeah, what I did was took three weeks completely off and really just on my body and my mind, settle, relax for a little bit, and then got right back into it throwing and lifting. This is the kind of the point in the off season where you're really just getting your butt kicked probably five times a week by the workouts, just because that's you know, that's where we're at in the off season and got to build strength, build work, workload, work capacity, all that and and ramping up. So it's not it's not fun necessarily, but you know, hopefully get to enjoy it a little bit too, take some trips and that kind of thing.
There. Now you're not a surprise, so the rest, you know, everybody gets a book on whether it's a hit or or a pitcher. Uh do you work on anything? You add anything in your second season? Are you working on anything?
Yeah?
I think I will. I don't know exactly what it is going to be yet because where I'm at right now, like I just can't work on any any other pitches right now. I'm only throwing fastball. So that's something that I'm a little bit more present with it this offseason rather than thinking about because last offseason I was kind of like, oh, I'm going to do this and this and this, and I was thinking about all that in September, but you can't really start doing that until December January. So I'm now I'm kind of at the point where I'm like, all right, I'll I'll figure it out a little bit and uh, you know, November December, so I don't know exactly what the you know, what the character that's going to look like. But I think there's going to be something that I'll figure out because there are ways for me to get better.
Do you have a baseball nearby?
I don't don't.
Oh is that possible? Should you have a baseball nearby? Driving in your car holding the bit? I mean, what are you doing? It's a cowboy without a hat on.
I know if I were in the car, I would have it, because I do drive with one in the car, but I don't have one right here. I got Christmas decorations, but nothing else.
Okay, we have to work on the background here, Paul, Like, if you're going to be this good for a long period of time, we have to have a better backdrop when we have you on TV.
Yeah. I'm figuring it out.
Yeah, I mean the fireplace was great, don't get me wrong, But I mean that looks like a college dorm that you got going on there. Get your girlfriend to spice it up a little bit, you know, let's let's do some decorating in there.
Yeah, we'll do. We'll do.
Well. Congratulations and well deserved and thanks for joining us as always.
Yeah, I appreciate you having me.
That's Paul Schemes, Irons Venture nationally Rookie of the Year.
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He is Jeff Mounkin, the head coach of Army. You got your pregame speech ready?
Ah?
No, that just wherever when the spirit moves me.
I guess whatever I think is appropriate at the at the time, and I'll you know, share it with the guys.
Sometimes it's nothing and sometimes it's something.
So it just hits you if you're going to say something or not.
Yeah, I don't. I don't plan a speech or anything like that.
Okay, how much have you watched a Notre Dame? What like, what's your takeaway from Notre Dame?
Really talented, really well coached. You know, they're they're they're a very complete team. There's not offensively you try to find what position maybe isn't there strengths, but they're really athletic at receiver, they're long and in physical at tight end. Their backs are downhill runners. They got great acceleration in the quarterback. He makes every throw and very sneaky run on the football. I really didn't anticipate he'd be that good of a runner, really strong on the offensive line, defensively, athletic, really good a linebacker. You know, they way out match us in the secondary. So they got a really they got a really good team.
Okay, But this kind of offensive philosophy that you guys have, I mean, it's a great offense and defensive philosophy because you guys chew up eight nine minutes if you can. Why is it so difficult? Even though Notre Dame faces this every year? But why do teams still have trouble with the Army offense?
It's different than everybody else.
And though they I'm certain have spent a lot of time in the offseason and in the spring ball, preseason camp, as you go through the season and there's eight or nine opponents doing something entirely different, and then you go back to the option plan that you have defensively, you've got to reteach that to the players and it's it's it's like playing a different sport. It's a pain in the butt for us start off in preseason face Air Force and Navy. We've got to we've got to transition our guys and it takes time to reteach it and and get them plugged back in.
How important is the passing game to your offense this year?
It's important.
What it does is, uh, it equalizes the balance between us trying to run the ball and people putting a bunch of folks in the box trying to stop us. And I'll obviously we want to run the football, we want to do that very effectively. But when there are extra hats finding their way to the ball, oftentimes that opens up opportunities for us in a play action game. And we're never going to be a team that throws it a whole lot, but we've utilized that element a lot more this year, and I think at times it's really helped us and been effective.
Do you feel like an underdog this Saturday?
We're an underdog every Saturday?
No, you're not. No, you've been favored a lot. You're undefeated, So yes, Notre Dame is favored by whatever ten points or two touchdowns. But I didn't know if you've felt that, or you know, do you want that chip on your shoulder? Your team to feel like we're an underdog every week?
We've we've always got to play that way. Prognosticators might favor us, but they haven't been to our practices and and and really come in and watched us. If they did make us an underdog every week, I know who we are. Our players are, Uh, they're they're they're humble enough and understand what we've got to do to win here. And that's all we focus on. So we we we know it's gonna taken. It just an incredible effort for us to be able to be competitive with with Notre Dame tomorrow and and uh.
And that's that's what we're focused on, trying to play our best.
How important is it for you to understand what your athletes go through off the field outside of football, Whereas most coaches don't necessarily have to worry about, you know, schooling and everything else that goes along. I mean, this is this is unique, But I don't know since you haven't gone through it to understand what they're going through.
I've been here long enough to know what they're going through. But I've also been here long enough to know that we're not going to use that as an excuse. And we're we're we've got young men here that uh, they've got to handle a lot. There's a lot of responsibility academically, the professional standards here, i e. The military part, and being a Division one football player. It's a lot of time. Nearly every moment of their day is accounted for and not controlled by them, and so it takes great self discipline to have a regiment and schedule like that.
But that's who we are.
And so I think those challenges and the decisions they got to face every day, about the time that they spend on a class, on a test, getting sleep, nutrition, whatever it may be, that that forces them to be focused. And so we never use the stuffed rucksack as they say here, you know, one hundred pounds a year and a fifty pound rucksack. We never used that as an excuse. It's just it's an opportunity for our guys to really push themselves and be the best they can be.
I think I've asked this before, but I don't know if you have any new additions. Coolest thing in your office is what.
Holy moly, man, you know what? Right over here next to me, there's a photo of my dad and I. My dad was my high school coach and it's got an army letter jacket. So our equipment manager gave my dad an army letter jacket when he was coming to all the games. My dad passed away about a year and a half ago, and he was just faithful on the sidelines. Our players loved him. And so when my dad passed away, our players got a hold of that letter letter jacket. They had it framed and put a picture of my dad and I underneath it.
And that's really special to me.
That's an addition that probably wasn't there the last time we talked.
There's your pregame speech right there, Coach.
Well, we got great we got great young men here, and you know that just speaks to the to the love that they have for this brotherhood and and uh and just the respect they have for this program. And so I really appreciate that. I appreciate our players and hopefully hopefully they'll uh, they'll have a great game tomorrow.
Good to talk to you again. Congrats on the season so far.
Thanks so much, appreciate the opportunity be Navy.
It's coach Jeff Monkin
