The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 11-25-25 PREVIEW | The Brandon Aubrey Show following his game-winning kick over the Eagles

Episode Date: November 25, 2025

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Hey now, what you're about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of the DumbZone. 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. So after Brandon Aubrey hits a walk-off, what is the evening like? What is the party scene for Brandon Aubrey? There's not much of a party with a Thursday game looming, so up to the, locker room, get a beer with the guys, and then head over to the family room with all the family and get some dinner, wait out the traffic, and then head home and flip on Sunday

night football. And then we have practice the next day. So right into the Chiefs Week, need another win. We need a bunch of wins. They let you guys take leftovers? I haven't tried, but I'm sure they wouldn't stop me. not not after you have a game-winning kick at least you know some nights they might yeah no i mean i have seen where they put family family members for tickets so i don't know yeah i but i was thinking what what brandon's seen was sunday night myself because i was taking out the garbage thinking you know knowing brandon he's probably like just taking out the garbage or something the night right he's probably just kind of cleaning up he was handed a handed a crying toddler when he walked in the door

and it's just I didn't picture he was great he went to the game and he was he was great he didn't cry at all he's passed out by the time we got home and he he stayed passed out during the diaper change which is must mean he's exhausted wow that's the goal right make him tired enough to go to bed mm-hmm um oh here's another thing hard knox is in the building now oh yeah what's that uh is that

Is that new or have they been around all season? You know, I think that this week is the week that they decided to start. You just see a few more cameras around. It's not abnormal. There's cameras all over the place here. So it's hard to even really tell the difference, to be honest. They mic up a few players during practice. Doubt it will ever be me because I'm not really out at practice all that often.

So those guys will be told, I'm sure, that they're miced up. and they just got to kind of watch what they're saying they give brandon one and it's just three four hours of like and trent stands over the pud this to win it's just the straight pGA game over and over i mean when you say the uh what you say trit doesn't win golf very often oh yeah let's make it accurate okay when you say there's cameras everywhere do you mean because like the the cowboys do put out a lot of content and they've got a lot of stuff for fans. Is it that or is it that and just people taking pictures of you?

Yeah, we got tours going. So those people have their cameras on their phones. You've got practice cameras, just recording practice. You've got cameras in meetings, recording meetings. You've got the social team. We've got a video crew that does like documentaries and long form content. So there's cameras all over the place, all got their own job. Yeah, so it's nothing new.

There's one more crew out here now and a couple more mics on people in practice. You've got to just be careful what you're saying. What's your Thanksgiving plans? We're going to beat the Chiefs. I mean, you and Jen and the family. Yeah, we'll get together. And my family and Jen's family at my parents' house,

have a big feast. We got Friday and Saturday off after the game. So it'll be nice. just have a big family gathering and eat until he pass out and then wake up and, you know, eat until he pass out again with leftovers. So is your week, it's Thursday to Thursday? So now is it going to be a normal week after? Almost, yeah, because we've got the two off days, giving us an extra off day.

So our film breakdown day might get at least pushed onto yourself to do it at home. Or maybe Wednesday will be a little bit long. to compensate for the loss of a day, but almost a normal week. It's not many normal weeks left this year. As you know, I'm a fan. You actually play for the team. You know that as well. So we're both in a position to sort of overinflate the chances here.

So we need to believe. I also know you're a guy who worked in somewhat in numbers and was into fantasy football. Do you ever look at like playoff simulators? Because I know you also watch a lot of ball. Do you ever look at those things to think, like, okay, do I want San Francisco or Carolina here? Like, how aware of that are you? Yeah, I do pay attention to that stuff. It gives you rooting interests during Sunday night football and games like that.

Don't really pay too close attention to the numbers. Obviously, at the end of the day, we have to win our games to get into the playoffs. So that's what you want to do. But it's fun to flip on a game and cheer for a team with an actual reason, as opposed to just like watching it for fun. And, you know, even I heard the, we wanted the Panthers to win that game mathematically, but it feels like to me,

kind of want teams to stack wins and losses. And that way, like, there's only, there's three teams going into the wild card spot and you want those three teams, one of them to be us to just stack wins and the rest of them to lose to kind of make some separation there. So I felt like I was kind of cheering for the 49ers

in that regard, but I guess mathematics, says I'm wrong. Analytics. I had a couple questions about penalties. You know, the first, the first Eagles punt may have been deflected, which would have negated the roughing. Did you guys get any clarification on that? Yeah, definitely was tipped.

A little bit late. I mean, we can challenge that, but don't want to burn a time out in case it's not seen. and we didn't get the camera angle that showed that until, you know, a little bit later, which is tough. I mean, it's, it's a game-changing play. You wish it didn't happen. You wish the replay center had all of the angles. You think they would, but they don't.

And just the way it is, you got to go out there and recover and find a way to win the game anyways, because they're humans. The ruffs are humans. They're going to make mistakes. Just we weren't perfect on Sunday either, so otherwise. we would have won by 40. And then the other one, when Bangor got knocked down, I mean, I know he didn't hit his plant leg, but Shottie and all the coaches were livid on the sidelines that that wasn't roughing.

I mean, is it just because they didn't hit his plant leg? Yeah, so Letter of the Law, kicking foot is just running into plant foot is roughing. I think there's a little bit of, you have to let him land there. But that's the letter of the law. I've heard a lot about forcible contact and bangers complaining he never had a chance to have a plant foot because he was in air when he got hit. But the refs just follow the letter of the law there. So I think it was the right call, whether it doesn't really help our team that way that much. But yeah, I thought it was correct.

May be correct, but it's incorrect that they call that running into the kicker when they distinguish the punter as a different player on the roster elsewhere. it's roughing or running into the punter. Sort of speaking of that, have you ever heard of David Beeler? David Beeler? No, I have not. Are you aware that the Cowboys once drafted a kicker in the fifth round to just do kickoffs? Oh, yes, I have. I have heard of David, okay.

I was just thinking about how far the kicker position has come and the fact that the Cowboys have the one that is the premier and, you know, you know all this and just trying to pushing where the game is going. They once had a guy that they drafted because they thought he could make tackles on kickoff. It was a wild time.

And I just wasn't sure if you were aware that they actually had two kickers at one point. Yep. I'm thankful we only have one on the roster this year. Yeah. He was a wild guy. Hey, I was thinking about this when Trent ran down and recovered that fumble.

What if he gets hurt? Oh, boy, yeah. If Trent gets hurt, then we're going to be putting Jake Ferguson in there to snap the ball for us. So hopefully he doesn't get hurt as well. It's going to be not the cleanest operation. It's going to be slightly slower. So I need the protection to step up and really deliver for us. But probably going for two, I'd imagine, if that's the case, unless it's a really big one point, like the 20 to 20.

extra point, but it's not going to look pretty. We've got to just got to find a way to get that job done. But he can do it? Ferguson, I'm talking about, and it looks okay? Or it's not something he practices? Okay. Yeah, he can do it. We'll put it that way.

He can do it. So how often do you guys practice with Jake Ferguson as the long snapper? Once a week. He gets one rep a week, which. One rep. is more than any other place I've been. Well, just the stallions. Okay, they wouldn't give the backup.

Who's your backup holder? Backup holder is Hunter Lupke. He can do it all. He's actually also potentially backup long snapper. No surprise. Yeah. Best football player on the team. And is Bangor the backup kicker?

Is that dumb question? Of course he is, right? Yeah, he's the backup kicker. and if I were to get hurt and Banger were to get hurt, but you can't guess who's punting. Uh, Dack. It's Hunter Lupke.

Oh, I should have guessed that. You just said he does everything. Yeah. So if, if, uh, Kavante Turpin gets hurt, Hunter Lepke steps in and. You got it. Ready to, uh,

ready to return. I had an email from Tom, emu Tom, who wanted, uh, He said, I'm wondering if Brandon has considered insuring his leg. He says it's a reasonable question considering his potential contract in contrast to his current earnings. This is Tom. He's a business guy.

And he is pointing out that his question is reasonable. I wanted to do that. But is your leg insured? My leg is not insured. I have considered it. Bones was a big proponent of doing that for guys. who were on contract years. But I've never really looked into it.

Don't want to jinx anything here, but kickers aren't at the highest risk of getting injured, especially with the coverage team that we have. So haven't really dove into the numbers. I've heard it's very expensive, though. Okay. Do you know anybody else, like, who's done that? I don't.

CJ thought about it. C.J. Goodwin thought about it for a while, but he never did either. Okay. Now, and I don't mean to pry. I just didn't know, like, if guys up and down the roster are doing this or if it's just, you know, if it's just guys who are maybe lower tier on the earning or what? I don't know how this works. Yeah, I would assume it would be your, like, rookie contract quarterbacks that would consider it the highest. But, I mean, you're, like, trying to ensure something that's likely going to happen. So it's going to be super expensive. Yeah. I'd imagine. Well, you know, if you could also write children's books if

these things go south. That's true. Hey, we should probably promote that for the holidays. That'd be a nice holiday gift. Brandon Aubrey has... Cowboy fans. Has written a children's book. Yeah. About the dream in front of the other. You sold a few of those last year, right? Yes. Yep. What's it called? One dream in front of the other. Going to be actually signing some of them here pretty soon in preparation for Christmas just like you said and then going to be you know selling the autographed versions because we're out of all the autographed versions so far are we still do are we still doing cameo we are doing cameo I've slowed down a little bit with a season and go and so I've missed a few recently I probably missed like four or five one but I was on like 160 streak which

I didn't miss any during training camp and whatnot what does that mean 160 days days in a row 160 orders fulfilled in a row oh yeah like four to one day to respond to the orders based on the type and um i'd been making a point to get them done and then just falling falling behind not enough time to get get around to it other priorities so let a few fall by the wayside there sure we get you get AI brandon how do we help sell the book well we gave the name i know but he's if he's doing autographed ones if he wants some sort of oh okay that's not just on post on my instagram okay soon maybe all can uh throw that on your story or something yeah done so on uh and then our goal for this thursday wait not this week right do we want to ruin uh well yeah i'll just tell you the following thursday you guys are on amazon the Amazon broadcast. And we wanted to get Blake to get on the sideline

to get a picture with Kirk Herb Street's dog. Oh. Come on, man. He hates Kirk Herb Street's dog. Well, you see if you can hit the dog with a ball and warm-ups or something. We can only have one dog. We had a dog.

We all loved his dog, but there's only one dog. Blake's right about this. I don't have a hard stance on the dog. You hear about Brady's dog? Tom Brady? Oh, that he cloned it, right? Yeah, he spent a lot of money to do so. Yeah, I don't think I'd do that, but I do love my cat.

I know you guys probably aren't cat guys, but I have a cat, I would never clone him. You do? I do. I'd never had one my entire life. My mom was really against them. It's like, you know, people say they're allergic. They're just, they're creeped out by it. But for me, I feel like it was legit, a turning point in my life where I stopped trying to be, like, macho.

I'm like, I'm not a cat guy. and then I got a cat, and I don't think I've ever loved an animal more. Yeah. Does he cuddle? Oh, my gosh. She, yes. Like, hers gets up close on you, like on the computer. Every day it's the rest.

What is the name of Brandon Aubrey's cat? Montgomery, Scott Aubrey. And this is actually timed pretty well. Jen actually found a second cat at the local park. and before I was ever a professional kicker decided to name it Patrick Mahomes the third robbery also chief was his nickname yeah okay I think this is kind of coming back to me now your family's Kansas City fans huh not mine my family my family is cowboys yeah her family chief fans yeah wow but I think we've converted them now I think they're thoroughly

Cowboys fans. They've had their fill of success with the Chiefs and I think they got bored, now they're ready to be Cowboys fans. Is Taylor Swift going to be there Thursday? I don't know. Post he will be. Yes, he will.

That's right. Maybe she'll be a surprise performer with him. That'll be pretty cool. They have a song together, right? He'll probably be wearing his Brandon Aubrey jersey. There's a very good chance of that. I bet you could bet on that. Yeah, I wouldn't do well.

Oh, buddy. I'm not doing good. I heard you at 0 for 10 this week. Why are you knowing that? You shouldn't know that. A really bad beat. And he spent more time on it than anyone else, I promise you. Oh, my gosh.

Process of results. I am in last place now. I'm sorry. But, you know, that's, I... And coincidentally, the guy who's in first continues to put all of his chips on the Dallas Cowboys, so you tell me what that says about how this season's going. You're right. it in the right direction.

I'm not good to pick a cowboy games, but I am good at motivating the Cowboys. There you go. They know I didn't pick them. So this matchup with the Super Bowl champions, what did you sense in this rematch and what did this one mean? Blake is now asking you questions

that you were asked by the generic reporters Sunday after the game, right? Which I thought he handled wonderfully. What did I say? What did I say? It was a simple we, I actually thought about, I thought it was a good answer because I do think I wonder what Brandon

is thinking throughout the game and at 21 nothing i'd be thinking there's no chance they're going to need me to do shit today yeah yeah and then won't be setting the record today or it may be setting the record but you're definitely not kicking a walk off winter yeah and then an hour later he's like and he said i felt like we were in it the whole time like it wasn't like they were just blowing us out it was we were in it and then we had a chance to get back in it yeah i don't know if you felt that way as well but it definitely felt like we were the better team but just trying to handing them place over and over again and then keeping their drives alive with penalties turning the ball over on the goal line missing field goals is just like man we just got to stop killing ourselves and if there's

enough time on the clock we'll beat this team yes now i'd be lying if i told you i thought there was enough left and i can't lie because the video's out there but at 21 nothing after you go blank at the goal line. I'm like, all right, well, that's it. That's why I don't believe in momentum because if I did, I would have said there's too much momentum against us here. Hopefully, Jake can find this in a second,

but you have a new nickname on the team given to you by George Pickens. Have you heard this? Yeah, the executioner. Yes. Kind of. Awesome. Kind of.

Yeah, I do like it. I feel like I've, in my lifetime, I've never really been a planner. I've ever been kind of the person who, rah-rah, like, cheers on guys. So I've always just been somebody who goes out there and does a job well, does his job, his specific task pretty well. So, I mean, I know it's not what he's going for, but I've always thought I execute well and that's what I do well. I don't really plan or motivate well. So it makes sense.

I know he's talking about chopping heads off. That's what I'm going with. What did he say, though? Executionist. That's what I'll probably say. When his number is called, man, he always kind of comes through. He missed one earlier, and then we called on his number. Executionist.

Executionist. What's that guy like? He's just what he seems like in interviews. He's genuine. He's high energy, no filter. Seems to be having a lot of fun. Doesn't really care too much what other people think. So I'm going to get what you get.

And hopefully it's good for the day. And for the most part, he's been a fantastic. player he's been a fantastic energy guy for us and um just need to keep all of the potential off the field stuff um wrapped up which he's done a fantastic job outside of the one thing in Vegas so um hopefully that's just a blip on the radar and he continues to be a fantastic teammate that he has been yeah he seems wild he seems fun now yes lots of fun takes all different types yeah yeah all right man well this has been a lot of fun and uh we'll talk to you some time next week.

Enjoy that mariachi band. Yeah. I don't think they're gone. Could you hear them? Faintly. A fajita day or something. We'll see you.

Take care. There he is, the executionist. Yeah. The great Brandon Aubrey brought to us by community mechanical. So from the file of this might only be funny to me,

the mariachi band, the fajita thing. That just made me think of something I heard on the Cowboys pregame show. I heard this is the Raiders game. So this is right after, this is the first game after Marshawn Neelan's passing. And Christy Scales was kind of setting the scene.

And everything the Cowboys do is so sponsored. You know, it's just idiocracy in football form. And this made me laugh at the time. Well, we're in the early portion of pregame. So all of the Cowboys players and coaches are wearing the blue t-shirts that have Marshawn's image. It's the same one that you saw posted, you know, that they used it, the vigil that they showed in the Plaza, Tostito's Plaza.

I mean, did I need to know that it was the Tostitos Plaza where they were honoring the guy who killed himself? Tostitos paid that money. The plaza would have been fine. Somebody mentions the plaza. The plaza would have been. fine. I just, I got really hung up on the depressing nature of the Tostito's Plaza. But she caught herself. Because she, in fact, said it wrong the first time.

They used it, the vigil that they used, they showed in the Plaza, Tostito's Plaza. So it's the picture of him.