The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 10-14-25 PREVIEW | Dan's review of the 2025 State Fair and The Brandon Aubrey Show

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

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Hey now, what you were about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full, along with the full archive, ah, shit. If you would like to hear this program in full with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at dumbzone.com. More questions than answers is a good lead in. I know we're not doing cowboy talk yet and shoddy and everything, but... You can do whatever. I listen to the Shottie Monday press conference. And you know how they always put on the website.

They'll put the press conference. And they'll quote something. And that's the title of this press conference. It will be intentionality. We play with intentionality. This is maybe not new to you, but this is something I've been really obsessed with for a long time to the point where I have a habit of sending them to Brian Curtis.

because anytime they post anything that like a player it's just so funny like they have to put something but it's just like okay jack sanborn his is called we're closer than people think solomon thomas his is called everything is correctable right kivante turpins is called my personality opened up like what exactly every every press conference they should just put the player in the date has to be named No, but I, they, the Cowboys named yesterday is something, but I've renamed it. Okay. And the name is more questions than answers.

And this is because Shadi does like to answer a question with a question. And, you know, I'll mark every time I like, I set a record for a Shadi press conference in questions. And to prove it, I give you now. The condensed version of the 30-minute press conference, this is a minute and a half, and it's called more questions than answers. That's problematic, and that starts with us as a staff. Why? You got to ask question why. We didn't sit in the meetings today and just be like, yeah, we've got to do this, but we're going to do it. No, it's why. Well, why is it happening? Why? You know, that's part of your job as head coach. Well, why is that the right call, or why is that technique being used, or why is this guy in that spot? That's your job. I don't think hero ball is it, but I do think that there's times where guys press and they're trying to make plays.

And why? Because they want to win. We want to watch kind of all the first second down runs and then all the first second out passes. Why? Well, there's breakdowns. But it doesn't mean you don't have the people to do it. It just means you have to look for solutions. And does that mean there's going to be some potential changes that you see us do differently? Yes. Is it going to be something that just jumps off the film and all we do now is play nothing

but man to man? No, that's not happening. So if you're a linebacker, you have a triangle that you read. What's the triangle? It's the center, the two guards, and the back. And again, are closed calls getting made? Yes, they're getting made. Again, do we have the victories that we want, you know, based on Dax performance?

No, we don't. But do I think that us playing nothing but man to man is the answer? No, I don't. Us playing nothing but zone, is that the answer? No. I mean, our confidence right now is a little bit, you know, of concern you know why well we're not playing great i like that he has a bunch of different

yeah it's not always porque i wanted to yeah the spanish version would be named porque right and it's uh it's like you darvish though like some he's it's all looking the same coming out but it's why why why well that's fantastic so along the theme of more questions than answers let's uh find out now blake has returned And we are high atop my garage. He had to go on the long trek to the front door because Uber eats. How do we deliver a suitcase?

My family got real familiar with the courier my whole life, so we would. I don't know. He asked the person who grabbed my bag after the Cowboys Charter. The Cowboys connected us. He apologized and said, you know, hey, let's meet up. I have your bag. and he was not thrilled when he who lives in Fort Worth discovered I live in Wiley and said okay well how about I just ship it to you and I said okay halfway whatever can

you just send it to this address in South Lake so I told him I'd be here about 11 send it then and a nice Uber driver just dropped it off for me you can do that right you just call Uber and say I want to send a bag I think there's a way on there I think there's an Uber tasks there you go oh okay Yeah, because it's because I could track the driver. It said your delivery, so it was, I don't know, it worked. I got my bag. Now there's nothing in it.

Yeah, all the clothes have been tried on. Yeah, this guy's got a full new line of TCU, U and T, Rguile. Did you ever talk to him or just text? Just email and text. Okay. Because I would, hey, you notice like your name wasn't on the bag or? Can we call him? like did you know that my bag is a different color than yours like i bought a bag

can we just tell him we have more questions and we'd like answers yeah uh i just let's let's let's not he uh blake's job that he doesn't want to lose his email signature makes him seem like he's a lot more important to uh the world and to the cowboys than me so i'm just happy to have my bag back okay that makes sense i'm just struggling to think of how someone with that level of spatial or never mind how you get to that now it's not a bunch of clothes that was in the bag you know me it was a x-box left over food from the airplane oh fantastic yeah i had three lay stacks chips i had a bunch of doritos a couple bananas if food is left out on the stacks if food is left out on the seat i'm grabbing it and it's i'm not buying those that's why i'd take them home no it's a rip

off the packaging is what you're paying and it's not for me anymore it's for my kid solid move dude on today's program Brandon Aubrey I'm saying 130ish are you texting with him now I send him the link taken over that

he said he's going to be done at one if you want to text him and tell him you know we'll expect you to he's got a charity thing or something you know you know Brandon Aubrey yeah just giving

but he says he's done at one so I don't want to like hey run to the car Give him some time to breathe. We also have the football machine. I'm trying to name this segment. We've had machine on since the beginning of the year. Why?

Well, at first it was he's really into fantasy football, and he is. And he's giving us some really good tips. But I feel like we don't have that much fantasy football talk in us, but then he also just watches all the games and loves talking football. So, like, I don't want to label his fantasy football. football necessarily. Why? Because that could turn somebody off if they're just reading the label.

But he is kind of like really into football, and I like talking football with him and throwing it around. And so I think that's kind of worked out well. I'm trying to find a name. So I've named it the football machine for today. Tell me if we are in trouble if we play this. Well, then we already are. No, it's not even on YouTube, though.

This is the open. We are on YouTube right now. This is the George Michael one. Do you remember this? The sports machine? Yeah. I don't... Yes, I remember the show.

Yeah. That isn't ringing a bell, but... It's a good thing. Yeah. I don't know. It was... Are you aware of, like, what the George Michael Sportsman... Like, all those weekly shows.

Like, this week in baseball is obviously the one. Are you aware of this week in baseball? That's... Yeah, the song brought a little bit back. Okay, yeah. Because you don't... Yeah, you had to watch Berman do the highlights. Yeah.

That was the only place. for it. It was the greatest thing up. It really was. Yeah, now you can get it all right now. Like, I miss that time where you were staying up to watch SportsCenter for the highlights because otherwise you didn't know other than just the bottom scroll. And so I make time to watch NFL prime time because I just miss that time of highlights.

And do you know who's doing it with Berman now? Is it not T.J. I didn't even know it's Burnt. You're telling me. Berman is back. But it's on like ESPN Plus or something. Yeah, I think that's the only place it lives. But is Berman on the list of things that are back?

No. Why? Well, it's been back for several years now. You just don't know because they're like, yeah, it's like a stapler guy on office space. I think Tom Jackson did do it maybe their first season back, but it is Bougar McFarland with him now. Oh, fantastic. That's a combo I like. Did you watch the Terry Bradshaw highlights?

Yeah. I got it right here, whenever you want it. And how long is it? We're going to skip around a little bit, but it's three and a half minutes, and it's all Terry. Let's hold it until after the fair review, because then we could do that with Machine or whatever. Well, remember, Bougar... Although Machine was at the Fair, too. Was on Monday Night Football.

Yeah. And was not good. They had the Bougar Mobile. I think he got a raw deal. I think he was better than Witten. but Witten was like in the booth like just from a communicating football standpoint you can watch Bougar on TV and he's not bad

Witten was never going to be good at anything on television but yeah he definitely got clowned Bougar's not great doing this either here's some little bit of NFL prime time Sam Darnold Jackson Smith and Jigma get used to it 61 yards 106

Seahawks what a season he's having Both of them. They call him JSN, boom. Yeah, and they, as in A-O-K. I mean, there's not really, I don't remember T.J. having anything during the fastest two minutes, really. Now. So now that he's going to have to try to work in some. Unless you're just a supportive thing, not like, I'm going to throw in my own thing.

Those are his initials. That's not. Wonder why they call him that. Yeah. Coach Joe. And then this is, this immediately after, I don't know, I don't think this is good by Berman. Sacked by Lawrence. DeMarcus Lawrence sacks Trevor Lawrence.

He thought that was a fun play on. Marcus Lawrence, back off injury, sacks Trevor Lawrence. It's the same field, but once upon a time. Josh Allen, sack Josh Allen five times. But I digress. No, see, that even makes me sad for boom, because in the old days he would have been like,

you know, it's not a full law firm, but the law firm of Lawrence and Lawrence or Lawrence of Arabia takes on Lawrence of the, Hey, both of their names are Lawrence. I do love that music, though. It's the greatest. Yes. That's tough.

Actually, I think we should play a little bit of this right now than Dan. Okay. All right, so here's Terry. I just want you to know. I think that they're doing this as a bit. I think this is like when we, and I was, you know, I think it's like when we got my buddy nominated for Homecoming King, when he was like disgusting and just like a he was awful he was a mean guy nobody liked him

we're like let's get it done we put him out there and they're like we have to accept this that's how i feel like they're doing tb on highlights it has time as we roll through some of the highlights from the early contest here at week six starting in baltimore all right there's ray louis on you right we all know who the goat is right there that is tom brady tackling ray there's a reverse all right let's get a go on matthew staffer to the tapuka nukua in the end zone he is shaking up on the play would be actually got up and walked off on his own folks and and he's been back out on the sideline jumping up and down so we'll see if he gets back in in the second half there's a lot of Kurt having to sort of explain to you what's actually happening on your screen right now

jumping up and down so we'll see if he gets back in in the second half they need three three at the break right there you go Seattle at Jacksonville Sam darnall having a great year up in Seattle and the great northwest one of the most beautiful cities ever Seattle Donald back. These are like 12-second highlights per game. He's like, yeah, you know, Amazon, Starbucks. I dated a girl from Seattle. Gumwall.

There he is. What a beautiful throw. Beautiful throw. A lot of speed there. 61-yard touchdown. Seahawks on the road, 10 to 6 over the Jacksonville Jaguars. During pre-game warm-ups, Chavarius Ward collides with a teammate. Ward is ruled out with a concussion.

Is that not the craziest thing? You ever done that, Howie? You ever got knocked out in pregame? Yeah. People probably wanted to knock you out. Daniel Jones. Wow. Oh, going around the right-in, three-yard touchdown run.

Are we having fun? Doing his own show. Don't really know what anything has happened. I don't know if the Terry and Howie thing was like a... Is Grunk there? No. So it's Kurt, Terry, Howie, someone else, and Edelman. Edelman?

Edelman, they'll throw in there. And, you know, we could keep golf. I'll skip a minute. Close ball game. It'd be 1311, but on fourth and eight Jets looking to get in Philgo range. And Justin Field is sacked. You ready for this? Hope.

He was sacked nine times on the day. Total offensive yardage for the judge. You ready? Just say it. The only thing I think... Didn't they have negative 10 yards passing? Oh, yeah, because they count it. When you add to sack, yeah.

It's tough. I think... On a great route, the post route. he's all for whatever reason whether it's the wind or the travel or what they just they're out of a second edelman hasn't said a thing this is the end of the segment they just they're throws it too hard for the wind to have an impact on howie little get up and go game 10 o'clock a.m. Yeah. They also missed a p.a. or like a short field goal missed opportunities. They've struggled with special teams all year long. A reminder, the game wanted the American League

what Edelman added was that the game was a early and then he was confused on whether or not they had missed a p a t or a fuel goal he also specifically addressed this to howie right i mean he's a player i guess but hey howie early and i don't know what they're paying him to be there for this but this is what he's given them they just they're out of saying too hard for the win to have an impact on howie a little get-up and go game 10 o'clock a m yeah they also missed a p a or like a short field goal missed opportunities they've struggled with special teams all year long a reminder the game one.

Yeah, if you're on that show, you might want to know what you're saying. Yeah. When Kurt Miffy gets home, I mean, does he pour himself four fingers? He's just spinning the revolver. Like, I can't believe. He's got to look at the check.

He's got to look at the check because he's just babysitting a bunch of CTE alcoholics. Like, it's insane. The dunza, dunza.