And we move to Fox NFL Sunday’s quotage.
FOX NFL SUNDAY NOTES – 11/24/13
Johnson: “Cowboys Fans Have To Expect More Than Mediocrity”
Howie and Diane Long: Watching Sons Play Each Other is “Like a Dream”
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Co-Host Terry Bradshaw and Jimmy Johnson said the Dallas Cowboys are the definition of average.
Bradshaw: “I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling kind of average today.”
Johnson: “Like a Dallas Cowboy?”
Bradshaw: “I’ve had 133 wins since 1997.”
Johnson: “But you’ve had 133 losses, but some of them have been moral victories.”
Bradshaw: “I just want to be a yes-man, ok?”
Johnson: “I want to be overpaid and underachieving.”
Bradshaw: “I want to go to work and get booed.”
Johnson: “I want to fire one of my best coaches and let him go win somewhere else.”
Bradshaw: “I really do feel average.”
Bradshaw & Johnson: “Like a Dallas Cowboy!”
Johnson: “Cowboy fans have to expect more than mediocrity. Am I the only one upset that this team is .500? They’ve got to be better than that.”—————————————————————————-
Analyst Howie Long and his wife Diane joined FOX NFL SUNDAY from St. Louis, where their sons Chris and Kyle are playing against each other. Diane said the atmosphere was a lot to handle: “It’s like a dream. I’m looking around the stadium and I can’t believe that all these worlds are colliding – the Rams, the Bears, FOX – it’s almost too much to take.”
Howie added: “Kyle just walked up and kissed his mom during pregame warm-ups.”
Diane responded to an earlier feature in which Chris said he was going to “take Kyle’s head off:” “He used to say stuff like that in high school, and I thought honey, you’re trying to achieve your goal, you’re not trying to hurt the other person. I think he probably said that just to get my goat.”
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Bradshaw says Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is having more success because he’s realized the importance of winning as a team: “The one thing he has done in seven wins, he hasn’t turned the ball over – just four turnovers. I think what’s happened is, all of us coming out of college want to show how great we are at throwing the ball or catching passes, and winning … okay, if we win, great, but look how good I am. That’s kind of my impression of Cam Newton who all of a sudden has realized this winning is a lot of fun.”
Analyst Michael Strahan added that the Panthers have surprised him this season: “The Panthers were a team I was skeptical about, and then I watched them finish games against New England and San Francisco with fourth-quarter drives and tough defense. In my opinion, they are the surprise team in the NFC this year.”
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NFL Insider Jay Glazer reported that the NFL is trying to start a movement across all sports to rid locker rooms of the N-word: “They want to start a movement where they’re the ones that rid that word from the NFL locker rooms and locker rooms throughout sports. They don’t want to do it in a lawyer kind of way or a Park Avenue kind of way. They even had talks this week about maybe fining guys, flagging guys, but that doesn’t deter you enough. So they’re hoping that they maybe can get some players together and coaches together and really start a movement of just how heinous that word is and get it rid from sports once and for all.”
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Strahan says the secret to Rob Ryan’s success in New Orleans is keeping it simple: “Rob Ryan, for a guy who they said was not a great coordinator, has really turned it around because he’s become more simple. He hasn’t over-complicated things for the players. He’s kept it streamlined, and the guys have responded. Their defense is playing really well.”
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Bradshaw says Green Bay head coach Mike McCarthy is one of the game’s top offensive minds: “All you Green Bay Packers fans are witnessing one of the greatest offensive minds, and that’s Mike McCarthy. What he does, his system is just safe, it just works. [Scott] Tolzien is putting up big numbers even though he has the turnovers. So sit back – I know you’re on a losing streak – but you’ll get it turned around today.”
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Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman joined the studio during his bye week and explained how he defends receivers like analyst Randy Moss: “You want to be patient at the line of scrimmage. You want to stay with, play through his quick moves, and then stay on top of him. You want to stay in lead position with him and make sure you have an eye on the quarterback to see where he puts it, because you don’t want to get back-shouldered.”
Moss, filling in for Howie Long on Sunday’s show, replied: “The thing that I have to do to counter that, knowing that he’s trying to run and beat me to the point means that whatever I do I have to do it quick at the line because if he’s pressing or he’s bailed, that means I have to decide what he’s doing.”
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Glazer reported that umpire Roy Ellison is not a full-time NFL employee, as many people had believed: “A lot more people were appalled because supposedly Roy Ellison was one of those new full-time hires that the NFL made. Well, guess what? They never made those full-time hires. Remember last year they got the new deal done with the officials and one of the things they announced was that they’re going to start having full-time officials hired. It never happened. That part of the talks very quietly broke down, and good for Ellison, because if he was a full-time league employee, he would’ve been hit a lot harder than one game.”
Moss said Ellison’s suspension should have been more than one game: “I’m a little biased; I’ve had my run-ins with officials. I don’t think that one game was good enough. A little bit more, NFL.”
Strahan agreed: “I don’t think that was enough either. As an official, you’re supposed to be above that. I think one game is not enough.”
That concludes this post.
