Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

Lots of news and not all of it regards or relates to the combine itself, but rather some NFL action.

Some NFL notes.

You know, there's some people there that are pretty happy to be there, and there are some people there who are not so happy to be there,

but need to be there.

And then there's Big Mike.

Do you know who this single happiest guy right now in India is?

It's got to be Big Mike McCarthy.

Why is that?

Well, think about the last six weeks.

It hasn't even been six weeks since the Cowboys crashed and burned against the Niners in the

Divisional Round, but if you listen to Big Mike, here Big Mike right now, you would think that he's riding into Indy on a Super Bowl high.

Because yesterday Big Mike showed up and he was feeling himself. And you know frankly in his defense I think I would be too I would be too if I

just fell on my face and yet somehow was rewarded for it. For some reason, Jara watched their

alleged Super Bowl season go right up in flames and then thought to himself, you know what? You know what? You know what? You know what

Mike McCarthy needs? I mean, yeah, we were embarrassed. We were humiliated. We got our

faces broken. But you know what? You know what the big fella needs?

More authority. You know what the big fella needs? Even though we got embarrassed on a big stage, more responsibility.

The big fella needs more power.

He needs more control.

What this team really needs

is big Mike calling the plays. I mean cowboy fan. How

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