With Case McCoy on a loveseat?

JustAGuy100 said:

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With Case McCoy on a loveseat?

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Papasan

Has anyone curated a list of the best contact information for each of the ticket hosts?

What specifically i am looking for is:

• How does one send in WTDS birthday wishes?
• send McClearin a brewery suggestion?

Send McLaren a tweet. He does read them and will respond. Don't know about wtds because I turn off the ticket at 12 45 .

EFighter said:

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Has anyone curated a list of the best contact information for each of the ticket hosts?

What specifically i am looking for is:

• How does one send in WTDS birthday wishes?
• send McClearin a brewery suggestion?

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Here you go

Thank you both

LMAO

good one

So much tension this morning when the Musers asked Troy about the reports of friction between him and Joe Buck after Buck's recent contact extension.

Cowboys Hall of Famer @TroyAikman joined The Musers this morning, and the guys gave let him have the floor to address the headlines over the last 24 hours about his situation over at ESPN, regarding his contract status.@georgedunham @junior_miller @gordonkeith pic.twitter.com/9vY8y9R2jr

— 96.7 The Ticket (@dfwticket) October 15, 2026

A bit awkward but it's been a lot more tense than that with him before (mainly Gordon driven). But he did basically confirm he's on the market so they did get some scoop.

J.P. 03 said:

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I swear, if they replace Troy on MNF with a Kelce I'm gonna lose it. It's ESPN, so you know it's coming.

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3 man booth with Buck, Kelce, and McAfee

Buck, Kelce, and Swift

Seriously though, this booth has been great and ratings have been great. That said, as indicated by CBS dumping Romo, I do think the networks are trying to back off paying these analysts crazy contracts. Aikman's current deal is 5 years for $90 mill

Is it tension with Buck or is it ESPN not wanting to pay what he is asking.

I agree. Troy had a top tier game every week at Fox. Monday night is a crap shoot at best.

It would be nice to hear him on Sundays again. But at the same time I think he and Joe are great together.

Enrico Pallazzo said:

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Buck, Kelce, and Swift

Seriously though, this booth has been great and ratings have been great. That said, as indicated by CBS dumping Romo, I do think the networks are trying to back off paying these analysts crazy contracts. Aikman's current deal is 5 years for $90 mill

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These mega deals have always seemed crazy to me. Does it really matter that much who calls the game? The NFL gets numbers regardless.

powerbelly said:

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Is it tension with Buck or is it ESPN not wanting to pay what he is asking.

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This is my question as well. Did Troy get the boot, or a crappy deal he's trying to make better, or did Joe say I need a new partner? I can't imagine it's the latter, but you never know what's going on behind the scenes.

double aught said:

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Enrico Pallazzo said:

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Buck, Kelce, and Swift

Seriously though, this booth has been great and ratings have been great. That said, as indicated by CBS dumping Romo, I do think the networks are trying to back off paying these analysts crazy contracts. Aikman's current deal is 5 years for $90 mill

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These mega deals have always seemed crazy to me. Does it really matter that much who calls the game? The NFL gets numbers regardless.

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this. I don't care if my team gets the a, b or c broadcast team.

Maybe Jerruh can hire him to be GM!

If they don't hire third leg Greg to replace Troy then it's a miss

Jub mentioned he and Troy talked yesterday evening so the runway was cleared for the question. I think Troy wanted it asked so it was done first so Troy could get out what he wanted out.

I took it as Troy knows his time on MNF is done. For whatever reason, they extended Joe but not Troy. Assumptions of McAfee and Kelce make sense. It's the direction they're heading.

I did think it was interesting he didn't say anything about tension between he and Joe even though Jub brought it up.

My guess is Troy is a little hurt Joe didn't stand lockstep with Troy. From what I remember, they were lockstep leaving Fox so guessing Troy might feel a little betrayed by Joe.

Enrico Pallazzo said:

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Buck, Kelce, and Swift

Seriously though, this booth has been great and ratings have been great. That said, as indicated by CBS dumping Romo, I do think the networks are trying to back off paying these analysts crazy contracts. Aikman's current deal is 5 years for $90 mill

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With this or Buck, Kelce, McAfee, is Buck sitting in the papasan with his socks on?

They mentioned on the Hardline that for the last contracts they announced Joe and Troy together. So while it's probably more frustration with ESPN, there was was probably some "what the hell Joe?" going on

Yeah, Buck had to work it out with Fox to get out of the last year of his deal to join ESPN with Troy. Buck signed his new deal in September - 6 years $108mm - lots of cheese while Aikman said this afternoon there have been no ESPN talks with him. Apparently it's been a few weeks of silent treatment tension between him and Buck, and then Buck broke the ice on the subject before Monday's game which resulted in the argument. Sure sounds like ESPN decided to move on from Aikman, and it would be hard to believe Buck signed a deal without knowing the broadcast partner situation/decision. But again, at the end of the day, you gotta get your own. He's not married to Aikman

AGSmith said:

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So much tension this morning when the Musers asked Troy about the reports of friction between him and Joe Buck after Buck's recent contact extension.

Cowboys Hall of Famer @TroyAikman joined The Musers this morning, and the guys gave let him have the floor to address the headlines over the last 24 hours about his situation over at ESPN, regarding his contract status.@georgedunham @junior_miller @gordonkeith pic.twitter.com/9vY8y9R2jr

— 96.7 The Ticket (@dfwticket) October 15, 2026

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He better be pumping out more of those elite light lager commercials so he can hopefully start making some Buck money

"Wear a bikini, bring a canned good, and no time of the month girls"

Put me in the camp that thinks Troy knew George and Craig were going to ask that, and probably set it up.

Someone alluded to it above, and I'm in agreement: he wanted Joe to stand with him on negotiations and possibly look elsewhere as a team. When Joe went ahead and signed, Troy is taking that personally and feels like he lost some of his negotiating power as well.

Who knows what Joe's reasoning was to go ahead and agree to the deal but Troy isn't going to let that go lightly.

Goldie Wilson said:

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J.P. 03 said:

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I swear, if they replace Troy on MNF with a Kelce I'm gonna lose it. It's ESPN, so you know it's coming.

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3 man booth with Buck, Kelce, and McAfee

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FWIW, McAfee pretty emphatically denied any discussions or interest in being in the booth:

I've already posted that this isn't real..

There's Monday Night Football business happening in a very public way..

We're BIG fans of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman..

I'm not supposed to be in a football booth and there’s never been a conversation about me being in the Monday Night… pic.twitter.com/5BzzL3ownM

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) October 15, 2026