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See now it's coming up at 320, we got a Dalvin Cook update. I'll get you some Dallas stars in there as well. Okay, right now it's time for the NFL News of the day, and here he is, Zach. Cowboys did make the official move earlier today, which we knew was coming, but they did put Demarcus Lawrence on IR for the Liz Frank injury. Does not need surgery, which is good news. And if you missed it, we highlighted at the beginning of the show, but former defensive end of the Washington commanders and Cincinnati Bengals, who was recently on their practice squad, KJ Henry, has signed with the Cowboys. So trying to add some more depth there. Brian had a great breakdown about him during Crusty's Corner yesterday, and we'll get more Crusty's Corner coming up in about 40 minutes. But last night, my gosh, tremendous Monday night football game, one of them was good. The other doubleheader, not good. The Dolphins and Titans game, although Tony Pollard did have himself a decent game. Will Levis got hurt? Mason Rudolph comes in, gets the win. But this Dolphins offense just looks completely inept. Mike McDaniel afterwards, as they have fallen to one in three, they have technically not led for a single second, because when they beat the Jags Week one, it was on a field goal. Walk off as time expired. So they now ranked 26th in yards. They're 30 second in points so far this season. Last year, at this time, of course, they were second in points. They were third in terms of longest drives in the national football league. Without Tuah, this offense is a shell of itself. Everything is on the table. Says Mike McDaniel, but right now, as much as I've been a Mike McDaniel fan, big fan of his offense. He's got to figure this out, man. Well, you know, I think no matter how good the scheme is, if you don't have guys capable of making the blocks or a decision maker at quarterback of running it, it doesn't matter, you know? And, you know, I think right now you're looking at an appreciation for Tuah, and it's just one of the sad things of his career, you know, that he can't stay healthy. But ultimately, the Dolphins are serving their pennants for not obeying the sports injury gods, you know? And that might have been the biggest disobeying that we've seen since the Mavs traded all that for Porzingis. You would think a team in last year, you know, thankfully Tuah was healthy for the majority of not all of the season. But they should have prioritized backup quarterback, maybe more so than any team in the NFL. When you look at the injury history, the Tuah has had even dating back to college and they did not do that. And that is something that they're living with now in a terrible, terrible way. They bring in Tyler Huntley, he didn't do well. Skyler Thompson, I mean, I don't know how you can go into a season thinking, Skyler Thompson is a backup quarterback for us that can win us a game. He can't. - So, I mean, Mike McDaniel, I think the frustration that I've read about Dolphin fans is he doesn't really change anything with his play calling and the way the offense runs when Tuah is out. They have a good running scheme. - That's kind of all he knows. - Yeah, but you've got a good running scheme, right? - No, that's insane. - You're right, like A-Chan still there. I get where he most shirts been out, Jeff Wilson got hurt pregame warmups, but they drafted Jalen Wright, who's very capable, run the football more. And you haven't really seen any type of tweaks. I mean, I think what makes most of the coaches and sets apart the good ones from the great ones is when you're injured, how are you able to problem solve? - I think you hit the nail on the head. The problem is the quarterback. - Yeah. - They didn't date, you know, they thought that they, and sometimes coaches just believe that they can, you know, hey, we could take this guy, we'll be just fine. Skyler Thompson can't play. Tyler Huntley can't play, you know? You look at your situations and when you have a quarterback that has fragile health, like Tua, that would have been the first damn thing I would have done. Like, how do I go get a quarterback that can play in my system and then can, you know, that we could maybe win games with? They can't win games with any of these guys. Tim Boyle, throw him in there too. All three of their quarterbacks they can't win games with. So I, you know, you're right, Dawson, you kind of get what you deserve. You know, if you go in, it's like, what did Jerry and Jerry told us at the senior bowl? Hey, gotta stop the run and gotta run the ball better. They haven't done either one. - Yeah. - He'd your words. - But I kind of get your point, Wolchuck. I mean, he's a young guy, it's got a lot of credit for the scheme that he runs. And with a quality quarterback or somebody competent, he can do wonders, but it's a far cry from like where art broils would be. Like, oh, my quarterback's down, I'm gonna install a running offense this week. You know, I think there's probably a lot for Mike to learn here. - Yeah, I mean, it was impressive watching what Green Bay did for two weeks. Like, they had a quarterback, they didn't believe it in terms of malleaguability to really run the offense, but what they do, they played to his strengths and they found a way to get two wins. - Well, that's Cowboys did done it with-- - With Cooper Rush. - With Cooper Rush. - They did. And like the Cowboys had a defense that was playing at an extremely high level. Miami does not have that. So, so I understand, but I mean, they have not been competitive for the last three games and they've got to figure something out there. 'Cause I mean, to, I don't know, like what, what does the future, I know he wants to come back and play week eight, but I think that's a big question mark moving forward there at quarterback now. So, this is something they're probably gonna be dealing with. Now, on the other side, Titans get a win, but Ryan Callahan saying Will Levis, who didn't play well, then gets hurt, is still going to be their quarterback one. I mean, they're committed to Will Levis, but this is gonna be with Brian Callahan and the Titans. They get their first win of the season. Mason Rudolph didn't exactly look great. He goes nine of 17 for 85 yards and his Titans debut. But that's kind of a mess with their quarterback situation in Tennessee. What's not a mess is what the Lions are doing. - Hello. - Holy. - That's what contention looks like. - Wow, I mean, both those offenses were humming. Seattle and Detroit. I mean, you had Geno who was spinning it. They were running the football really well. They're in Seattle, but Jared Goff was perfect. Most attempts in an NFL game without an incompletion, 18 for 18 was Jared Goff last night, as he makes NFL history, two touchdowns, also received a touchdown. Believe it or not though, he did not get the game ball. What the hell happened here, man Campbell? - Well, I just gave the game ball to somebody else, so I feel awful right now. (audience laughing) Yeah, no, well, I knew he played a heck of a game. I did not realize he was perfect. I did not know he was literally 18 for 18. I mean, that, but I knew he played really well. You could feel it, and... - Man, I mean, he was brilliant leading. - Yeah, there was a, you know, and this game should have been closer. The penalty with like five, nine minutes to go on Charbonneau. The Seahawks are driving. They got a fourth and third converted in an inconsequential flag, forces them to punt at midfield instead of having like a first down on the 30. And that was where it really got locked in for the Lions, just a really unfortunate, and they, you know, Detroit goes down and scores a touchdown right there to make it like a 15 point game or whatever it was. 42, 27, I think at that point. - Yeah, and Gino was hot after that. - Yeah, I mean, Gino looks good, too. - Yeah, Gino's playing well. - I would not be in a hurry to replace him. - In fact, and this is one that maybe I'm gonna regret, and I'm not gonna end up having to do a bet payoff. It's weird, she got Giants long week. They get the mini buy. Seattle's gonna have a short week, but I'm locking in my survivor pick this week. Seattle at home against the Giants. - You're spending against the Giants every week now, aren't you? - Gonna do that. I'm gonna lean against the Giants here. But Seattle looked pretty good. I was impressed. I think they can run the football really, really well, even if for some reason Gino is not playing right now. The big news we've got today with Devontae Adams, the report is coming out of Vegas and some of their beat reporters that a league source with knowledge of the situation confirmed that the Raiders are growing open to the idea of trading Devontae Adams. The club has begun reaching out to teams to kind of gauge interest on the veteran wide receiver. So Antonio Pierce was caught liking a, don't be surprised if Devontae Adams has already played his last snap with the Raiders, according to Michael Fabiano, who's illustrated. - Watch your likes coach. - Like bye, Antonio Pierce, the head coach. So Devontae Adams has a weekly visit on Tuesdays with K Adams on her up and Adam Show and K asked Devontae, did coach Pierce reach out to you? Have you guys talked at all since then? - Yeah, I haven't heard from him. I've been, I haven't talked to him. So I've been, yeah, I don't know. I don't really know exactly what that was about. Obviously I got, you know, social media as a beast. So there's a lot of people out there that saw it and, you know, wonder what's going on if people reach an album. Yeah, I haven't spoke to him. - I'm surprised by that. I would think he'd hate, I would, that's, okay. - Well, I would think he'd, I mean, you work together every day. So if that, I would say, oh, shoot, I accidentally hit that, I unlike it. Now it's this huge story. Is that just kind of like what the dynamic is? That's not something that you want to hear from him? - Honestly, it's hard to comment on. - Okay. - I'm sure you would imagine as such, but it's one of situations where I just keep my head down and keep doing my thing and, you know, let the ships fall where they may as it pertains to that, but I haven't, yeah, there's been no communication with anybody from the tapes since that became a thing. - The Raiders fans that like their guy Pierce are saying, you know, Adams has been a drama queen. He's tough to have in your locker room. You know, and if that's the case, I wouldn't be surprised. You know, if a head coach in a moment of frustration, you know, maybe venting a little bit, hit the like button intentionally on something thinking, you know, no one's going to really going to track this thing down, but they will, you know, and it's crazy. I think, you know, if you have a bad team though and your best player isn't happy there, it's a no brainer to move on from this situation. If you're the Raiders GM right now, you're trying to keep this story as quiet as possible so you can recoup as much value as you can possibly from Adams. You don't want this to look like a fire sale, but your head coach did you really know favors that? - No, do you think he runs his own account? - Yeah. - Do you? - Yeah. - Okay. I mean, I'm just throwing it out there. - I do wonder like how many players coaches run their own. - There's no advantage to what he just did. - No. - There's none. And you've only created more problems. And I wonder if somebody in the social department with the Raiders is getting their ass ripped right now about it, you know, like, why, you know, and, you know, if he would come out and say, somebody would ask him, like, did you like that? And I guarantee you, somebody's going to get thrown under the bus or he's going to no comment this thing. - Well, I mean, they should have, to your point, they should have said, oh, he doesn't run his own account. - Yeah. - You know, it's all promotional, and I would imagine from this point forward, if I'm Antonio Pierce, I don't want to run my own account. I'm like, I'm done with social media, dude. That's a mess. - Yeah, that's a, I'm interested to see where the Monte Adams ends up moving. I know, you know, inevitably you're going to have cowboy fans that wonder I've already been tagged and asked like, hey, what do you think about the Monte Adams? - If there's a splash move the Cowboys like to make, it's going and trading for receivers. We've seen that several times. Monte Adams is way too expensive. And at 31 years old, I don't think that that's, that there's no upside in there. - Not enough upside in there. Not enough reality in there. - No. - And I don't think he'd fix the Cowboys offense. He would just be super covered. - I don't either. - Yeah. - I mean, would you trust them right now to even use a player of that caliber correctly? I don't know. I don't think they're using Brandon Cooks correctly right now. I hope the Brandon Cooks continues to improve as the season goes on. We don't have any official news yet of an ACL tear when it comes to Rishi Rice. He is going to require more tests. - They're waiting for the swelling to go down. - Yeah, which, I mean, I remember that happened with Michael Gallup. Like it took Gallup, I think like a month or two after the injury before he even had surgery. So they're still uncertain over the extent of the injury. But certainly that's a team. I know that's in- - The trainers know though, they isolate that joint and then move the shin around. - They can tell. - And they know within like a minute as soon as the trainer dude gets out there, the MRI is just going to tell you how bad it is. - Yeah. But the swelling would be a problem too when they want to do surgery. - Yeah. - That's a problem. - So they don't know for sure like what exactly is the diagnosis, but I would say the safe assumption is he's done for the season. So we'll have to see what the Chiefs end up doing. Now, Hassan Redick's still out there. He's still holding out. He's losing a bunch of money with the New York Jets because he doesn't want to play for them. We did see Ian Rappaport say and Hassan Redick had come out and was like, I'd like to just go back to the Eagles at this point. I don't want to be here, trade him back. - They can't trade him back. - Can't do it. Per NFL rules, it's not possible. Teams can't trade a player then reacquired him via trade until two years elapsed. So Redick cannot go back too filthy on a deal. So if Hassan Redick wants to move, it won't be going back to the Eagles. However, I will say you're on year three now since the Cowboys traded Maury Cooper to Cleveland. I don't think that happens either. I think there's bad blood there, but you technically would be allowed to get around that rule if you want to do acquire Maury Cooper back from the Cleveland Browns. - We can't do it within the same calendar year, right? - Two years. - Two years. - That's what Ian Rappaport said. Did you guys see Chase Brown running back of the Bengals, walking off the field and you had a Carolina fan dumping a drink on him as he is. - Didn't see that one. - Heading into the locker room. Now, I mean, I guess that there's already been a president said that this is okay because you've got the owner of the Panthers. - He'll drink on fans all the time. - So you can't really blame the fans there for thinking like, oh, this is cool. Chase Brown said I was walking in, felt the liquid or whatever that was. And then when I saw the video back, I'm like, "Damn, that really happens." So the NFL is looking into this incident. Maybe if they find out who the fan is, that fan ends up getting banned. - Yeah. - But you're not welcome around here. - We just don't need to be doing that stuff. And then the fights that are going down at these stadiums, it's insane every week we're seeing them. And now we're getting-- - How hard is this to find the fan at Carolina? He might be the only dude throwing a beer on somebody, right? - Yeah, you have very, very cheap tickets. They do there in Carolina. And then finally here in the film news of the day, that ex-jags employee who was in prison-- - The gambler? - For stealing 22 million from the team is now suing FanDuel for $250 million. I don't know what the hell is going on and he thinks he's gonna win this, but he's suing for 10 times the amount. And it's Amit Patel is his name. He stole from the jags over the course of four years before his scheme blew up in his face. And now he's in jail. - He should be better at gambling. - He's in jail and suing back? - He's suing back. He's been sentenced to six and a half years in prison after he pled guilty to theft over someone. - Got a lot of time in his hand to think these things out. - Jags sue him. - I'm gonna like the law library. - So now he's putting his own $250 million-- - He's in traffic and character assassination. - Yeah, well the lawsuit claims that he was intentionally targeted and preyed upon. - Yeah. - They dangled millions and millions of dollars and put me in charge of it, knowing my greed. - This was not my fault, okay? I was a VIP host, all right? And I was allowed to do these things. No, you weren't. - I was a VIP host, I was allowed. - What he says. - He's an influencer. - Yeah, you know, like how not to do it. - I was allowed, but bizarre. - I was just dipping into the petty cash. - Come on, judge. - Me, we're suing everybody. - What's amazing is that like, he got away with this for four years. - For four years. - Yeah. - Like somebody, like the controller or the team, nobody even noticed, we're missing $22 million. - Yeah. - That's what's wild. - That is, man. - There's trouble going down there. - There's trouble going down there. - All right. - Are you gonna film these today? - Thank you, Wolchuck. We got a scene out, Dalvin Cook update, plus we're gonna talk stars with you here. - Stars. - As the hockey season is right around the corner and we're back with that here in the G-Bagnet. - The seasons may be changing, but the deals at the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? It's your girl, Tasha McKia. 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If you're a football fan, the former Cowboy Scout and I feel executive will stand and deliver once again, okay? We do have a Calvin Cook update. He said he's fresh, fresh, and remaining patient. It says it's part of a situation to men right now, but for me, it's about getting better and getting ready. And I know we're gonna be in a situation where we're playing some meaningful games. I know how this league works. It's a long season, just be ready. Of course, he's talking about injuries. And that's a reality. I don't think he's rooting for injuries. He's rooting for wins and everybody to be happy and healthy, but he knows the opportunity might just present itself. I mean, the average running back can only play 13, 14 games a year because they are inevitable. But I don't know about his confidence in meaningful games. He says we're going to be playing in some, I hope so. I think this Steelers game is mandatory 'cause Lions Niners, after that, gonna be tough sled. So we'll keep our fingers crossed for that, Dalvin, that by the time he does make his Cabo a debut, these games are meaningful. I was listening to Mickey earlier, a Mickey Spagnola, dallascalboys.com. He was on with the KMC masterpiece. And, you know, he was making some good points here. It makes sense to not use up Dalvin Cook's elevations. When you do move on, he said it would likely include releasing another one of those running backs, you know? So when you make this move, it's, you know, it's likely a goodbye to somebody. I don't think they want to say goodbye to either of those three gentlemen right now. So it definitely makes sense that you would wait for an injury where you could IR the dude and it's just cleaner and nicer. Sure. But he also pointed out that teams have been adding running backs like the Chiefs needed one, they get cream hunt. You know, that's telling, you know? And there's the film of what happened not only last year with the Jets, but also the Ravens where they used them for one playoff game. He got three yards in an attempt. He didn't play the next game. Dalvin Cook didn't. So, you know, I think what the Cowboys are doing here is looking at this and saying, Dalvin Cook's not going to make our running game any better. We have to disrupt things in order to put him in here that we don't want to do. And there's tremendous amount of benefit in just being patient and waiting for the situation to resolve itself. Cook said the guys that have been here, they haven't even been getting the reps and touches they deserve. We just got to get him into a rhythm as a team and as an offense and get some more reps, more plays out there. So he's doing the right thing being a pro, saying the right thing in public, even though he's probably anxious to get a shot. Yeah, I think deep down inside, he's probably wondering what the hell he's doing there. You know, if, you know, he's, you can talk about the guys not getting shots and stuff like that or opportunities, but you know, he's probably thinking, well, if I could get any shot that I could prove to them and I need to be on the 53. I, me personally, I just, you've got, you've got, I'm not asking you to get rid of Vaughn or Dattle, you know, or Hunter Lip Gear, you know, those guys. Ezekiel, it can't help you. He played 10 snaps against the Giants. Can't help you, you know, I mean. That's never too. To me, to me, I would rather, I would rather see what I had in Dalvin Cook. You know, maybe it is for, maybe it is for, if he shows up like he did when the Ravens in that game, you know, and he didn't get many opportunities and the Jets were awful. But if that's the guy, then you move on. That's what player personnel is. It's evaluation. You have a guy there, if nothing's wrong. I mean, I'm hearing he's healthy and ready to go. I'm not hearing like, oh, he doesn't know the plays and this, that, Jimmy would turn it. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta look at opportunities here that maybe that, okay, we'll see. You know, give him a chance and if it doesn't work, there's no harm to that, you move on, you know? Who's the guy you feel like you can move on from? - Zeke. - Zeke. - Yeah. - Yeah. So nobody's gonna, nobody's gonna, you know, but the thing about it is that, you know, there's like this, Zeke is, we all know this. He's just, he's not. - He's likable. He's, everybody there loves him. He, he, you know, he did some great things for this team and they feel loyal to that more than doing whatever it takes to win and make the roster better. And that's what this organization is about, telling themselves on a com, comforting lies, you know? Like, oh no, our running game isn't bad. We just haven't had the chance to do it. 'Cause we haven't played from ahead BS. You had the chance against Cleveland. And you didn't run it because you knew running it would get you two yards and a punt in about a minute and a half. So you were like, let's throw it more. Like I like what the 972 here, he says, here's, here's my take guys with all these injuries. This is DAX time to prove why he is the highest paid quarterback. That's your best chance throwing a lot on early downs. Even when you run and it's blocked up well. - Well, that's what they did the last four minutes of the Giants game. - Yeah, and it worked well. - They threw, they threw up first down. They got it to second in three or four and then they ran. - Stay ahead of the chance. - They were just trying to, they, they wasn't run, run, pass. It was pass, make it manageable, get six, seven yards and then run the ball the next play. - It was the opposite of what you had been doing, which was now when he dagged to bail us out on third and long. - Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna hope that they're gonna lead with the pass here on the early downs and continue to have as much success as they had against the Giants. Although, you know, not, not, not many teams are gonna cooperate like the Giants will. - We go to the morning news, one area of focus for each returning Dallas Stars player this season. The season will begin nine days from today. - It's awesome. - Look at that, October 10th. - Hadn't lost a preseason game yet, have we? - I don't think so. - No, they're undefeated. - They're five and no. - Yeah. - Yeah, Logan Stanko and has been crushing it. - And this is awesome, you know, because I, you know, I just feel like the Stars are, are totally capable of getting this thing done. Obviously you gotta get some breaks and stay healthy and all that, maybe make a, a trade deadline acquisition. We got our Jamie Ben, what's the big question around him? - Trying to trade Jamie Ben? - No, I think he's a free agent after this year. - This is probably his last chance. - Yeah, it's just, you just think you're just going to a story is what you're doing. - Yeah, I'm going, yeah. - It's not like you were trying to, you're talking about trades. - It's not like Jamie Ben. - Leah, for the morning news here, the Stars writer, she-- - I can't say that last name either. I avoided, I think it's Greek. - Asomakah, Papalas, yeah, I think so. - Asomel, asapapalas. - Acapalas, okay, so my bad, Leah. - Good booker tomorrow. - It's a beautiful last name, okay. And I'm very uncultured, especially when it comes to-- - Is it Tola? - Greek names. - Yes, but Jamie Ben, last chance here. We got to get it done. Hopefully he can, you know, stay young, be the team leader, be the team tough guy, everything, you know about him. Dedonoff, health is the key for him, suffered one of the longest term injuries the Stars had all season lower body fracture. Kept amount of lineup for nine weeks, maintained as half point per game average from the year before and proved to be an important depth piece. Dedonoff's played for Dubor on three different teams and the Stars head coach trusts him and will count on him for forward depth as long as he is healthy. You love that Dedonoff wall chuck, I know he's kind of-- - Big fan of Dedonoff and losing him was tough. I mean, he's a two-way player. That did a lot of some physicality, but his goal scoring, I think, was missed at times last year. - I mean, you look at this roster, we talk about these guys, it's just so impressive the kind of roster that Jim's put together. Matt DeShane, they're looking for a year two jump. Recent history of players making noticeable jumps in their second years with the squad, Povelsky, Marchman, Wyatt Johnston. Just a few to see noticeable improvements in their second season. Press at first, your scored 25 goals, 40 assists for DuShane. Isn't much room for improvement, but with his same line mates, he should be set for further success. That was a big time pickup last year. He was awesome. Tom is Harley, prioritizing defense. The offense ability as a defenseman has never been called into question, but he was kept in the AHL for an extra year to develop his defense. That area of his game took significant steps forward last season, but as he is expected to be paired with Ilya this year, it could be easy for Harley to stray from those goals. The stars will need him to equally prioritize offense and defense this year and continue to produce now with a four million bucks to his name. That's been the big issue, you know, is you want to play an aggressive style, but how do you balance that with not getting so opened up in transition? The counter-attack goals were brutal, especially in the postseason. - And the turnovers at times, I'm a big Thomas Harley fan. I think he is one of their better up-and-coming young players, but he's got to figure out one, he needs to be more physical in the postseason. I think that's a huge thing for this entire team. Did they get more physical? I think that cost them at times against a lot of teams. They were never going to be a team that went into a series and led to it in terms of hits. And to me, Thomas Harley is the guy that needs to take a step in that direction too. - Yeah, you know, it's a big body. I wonder about that in today's game, like how important is physicality? It's important in the postseason, it still is. - Well, the one thing that Dallas was actually really, really good at last year, I mean, among other things, I mean, it was a heck of a run. They killed penalties and they were good on penalties when they got the demand advantage. And so now you've kind of moved on from some players there. And I think that's what's, you know, when used to, Radik Foxa was one of those guys that when they were on, when they were on the kill, he was-- - Well, they were really good at winning phase-offs. - And they traded him away. I mean, so they've got some guys that that's the question, can they continue to kill and can they be productive win? Because they put a lot of teams in bad spots when they got onto the power play. - Oh, and it's really what flipped the series against Edmonton. - That they were great in terms of penalty kill and as soon as the Oilers figured that out, they could stop them. - Then they were, yeah, then they were junk. - 817 are requesting Leah on the show so we can know how her name is supposed to be set. - That would be cool. - I think that's fair. - On it. - 817 Zeke's a gosh darn legend around here and y'all drug him through the mud like he's a jag. I did the same to Whitten. - Playing like a jag right now. - It's really dragging the front office through the mud. You know, the players are collateral damage. But Miro's next up here on the list, playing on his dominant side, the left handed defense. - I knew we were going to get this name. - Played on the right side for most of his career and while he's still been elite in doing so, Hayskine may get the chance to show what he can do on his dominant side through camp. He's been paired alongside Matt Dumba and excelled in pre-season games. Hayskine's game could reach new heights as a result. That's exciting, Leah. - Leah, a semicopolis. - A semicopolis. - According to the hockey, Hock. - Thank you, Mr. Spittle. - Awesome. - No, not to Leah. - Mr. Popper, Georgeio. - Yes, Popper, no. - Popper-dapolis. - There you go. Yes. That was Webster, right? - Yeah, yeah. - Popper, yeah. - A little baklava. - Yeah. - What a show. Man, but Spittle runs one of the best stars podcast out there. - Yes, who does? - So you should check it out. Rupey Hintz, taking scoring to a new level. Wyatt Josten producing as a known star. - It's incredible. I mean, sure, Rangers and Mavs have really done a nice job with their roster. But you look at the blend of young players, prime players and veterans on this team. Lindell, leadership, Lundfest, consistency, Marchment, drawing, rather than committing penalties. Yeah, no doubt. Robertson, you're looking for a quick start. Tyler Sagan, health, Stankovin, reliable goal scoring. Sam Steele, elite penalty killing. Jake Ottinger, resiliency. Okay, you can read the rest of Leah's great work here in the morning news. She posted it this morning and salute to her for the content. Okay, we're coming back. G back nation with Krusty's corner. Brought to you by Reliant. Brian, where are you taking us? - Yeah, I'll fill you in on the player that they just signed and then I also got some really good questions for my guys at the Lancer. We'll do that next. - Yes, sir. Thank you, Lucius. Coming up at four o'clock, we have some Cowboys Twitter, Tom Tweets going viral about America's team and funny audio of them trying to answer questions. Okay, it's time now for Krusty's corner. Brought to you by Reliant to air conditioning, gimmick-free AC repair and replacement. Here he is, the king himself, Brian. - Thank you very much, General. Appreciate that. Lucius, is that the killers? - Yeah, Mr. Brightside, right? - Mr. Brightside. - I love him. Lucius does stuff like that. - I love this song. - Oh, Mr. Brightside. - Comment on it. Okay. - I love that. - That's fine. - I was thinking about, they had a tour. The killers were in, they were having to be in London. And it was during the World Cup, or the, it was not to work up the Euros. - Okay. - And when England was playing and they didn't go on stage until they were waiting. - So the match was over? - Well, yeah, they were on stage and then they were showing it like the actual, like the penalty kicks and then England won. And then they went into Mr. Brightside. It is what they did. - That's really cool. - Like the balloons and all that stuff like that. So. - You think, how many people you think, do you think real quick? You think that athletes want to be performers more or performers want to be athletes more? - I think performers would wanna be athletes more. - I think NBA people definitely wanna be performers. They wanna be hard to so bad. They love rappers. - Yeah. - How many try to have their own rap. - Yeah, they all love them. - Like Dave Lillard. - Yeah. - Because I always wonder, 'cause you do, you see kind of athletes get starstruck with performers and then the performers are like super like starstruck of the athletes. So I'd always, always wondered. - The post Malone's probably like, man, it'd be pretty dope to play for the Cowboys. - I thought that was hilarious. He kept calling Christie Scales, ma'am. - That was great. - That was awesome. - He was supposed to. - He was like Southern Hospital and that man's for grand prayer. - Yeah. - She was like, yeah. - He had his boots on, his blue jeans. - He was posted, he was posted right on and on and yes ma'am, yes ma'am. - Yeah, at least two yes ma'am's per answer. - I thought that was so cool. I really did. Like, you know, his dad worked with a club and stuff like that. So he probably knew damn good will who Christie Scales was. - Yeah. - I think if you were like an average successful musician, right, then you would rather be the athlete 'cause you're gonna make a lot of money as an athlete. As a successful musician, you might be touring and like trying to make your six figures a year and, you know, keep things going. But if you could be like post Malone high, you know, where you've just printed money, then you're gonna be able to make millions and millions of dollars every year for the rest of your life. That might be the ideal choice there. - Do you think Drake would give it all up to be on the Lakers or or something? - Hell yeah. - Right now. - Right now. - Well, no, that's a good timing for it. - I'm just saying as a guy who's out there as always being in the middle of. - Yeah, he wants to be a Hooper. He has those Hooper tournaments at his house where they play like, they have like real trophies and rings. They have all his, yeah. - Is he good? - Everything. - Yeah. - Well, you know, it's his own rim. I don't know. - I don't know. - They play him always for himself. - He's got his own gym. - He's got everything going on. - So it's like a real NBA game. It's at his house. - They have like a horn like that. - Everything. - He's just like waiting at the score. Stay able to get in. - Yeah, they have everything, bro. - All right. - And another thing too. - All right, go ahead. - Guitar guys. - Yeah. - If you're up there playing a guitar on stage. - Yeah. - It's just like baseball players. - Okay. - Hooting the blowfish. - Yeah. - Those guys are always at baseball games. - Well, like Darius Rucker, right? - Yeah. - Darius Rucker, Hooting the Blowfish. Huge Miami Dolphins fan. Like he is a- - He sure is. - He loves the Miami Dolphins. Matter of fact, one of his songs, he sings the Dolphins make him cry. Just one of his songs. - They're out of hair. - Yeah. - Then Dolphins cry. (laughing) - Wagon wheeled, Dolphins cry. No, I'm just combining two songs. - No, I do think there's a lot of musicians though that maybe aren't sports people, you know? They're RC types. - Yeah. I just always wondered if the athlete wanted to be the performer more than the performer wanted to be the athlete. - The other thing with a performer though is you're like small, you know? Like you could be six, five, two, 20, you know? - He was an athlete. - Got it, physically tiny. - Physically? - Yeah. - Yeah, you're typically not big, you know? You can't kick any ass, you know? Chicks only like you 'cause of your musical talent, you know what I'm saying? So I'd rather have the physicality on top of that and the money, myself. - All right, you know. - Appreciate you up on that. - All right. - KJ Henry. - Facts, right? - KJ Henry. - Facts, right, facts, facts. - Facts, facts, what up? - Facts, KJ Henry, if you missed it earlier, where have you been? KJ Henry, the Cowboys. We talked about this guy yesterday. - We did. - And this is zone. - I wanna thank, I wanna thank the gang of seven for giving me some names. You know, I said, "Hey, I go up guys and need some edges." Need to look at some edges, give me some practice squads and thinking about trying to take a guy off a practice squad. And so, you know, they gave me these names and KJ Henry from the Cincinnati Bengals was one of these guys. - Now, Henry was drafted by the commanders. So, Jeff Zagina, the coach, the Cowboys defensive line coach, has a history this guy from last year. - I feel like the Cowboys do that a lot. - Yeah, maybe so it's one of these, well, who should we go get? You know, you get a name as you guys. - I know this guy. - Yeah, I know some, yeah. - Should we talk to our scouting department? - Yeah. - No. - Which one of you guys had an end that might be available right now? He could text in you for an opportunity. - I shouldn't even have brought that up. - Let's take care of your friends. - I knew Dawson was getting, Dawson saw the opening. He looked like, yeah, he looked like Henry running the ball. Like, he saw the opening and it's like, I'm gonna go 87 yards here and nobody's gonna stop me. - Yeah. - Nobody's gonna stop me. But he was a fifth round pick by the commanders. - Do you have any friends that could use millions of dollars? 'Cause seriously, we have a roster spot here. What a clown show. - Sorry. - Don't do that. - Too much bassic. - Yeah. - That was too much bassic. - No, no, no. - The right amount of bassic. - Yeah. He was on the Bingles practice squad. That's where they got him. This guy has length as a player as an edge. I watched this guy through all the preseason. I like the way this guy does play off these blocks 'cause of the length that he has. So he could play some edge. He's really pretty decent as a run defender. So, but he also plays as a stand up guy at times. So you could probably play him a little bit on the outside as a line back you want. But he plays hand down, stand up both. But he's a long guy, a rangey guy. He does a good job of playing the read option too. There were a couple of times where sometimes you get influenced by the quarterback. You get influenced by the blocker. There was sometimes in the summer where he was able to kind of show balance, maintain discipline and then attack the quarterback two different times where I was like, okay, this guy's not gonna get fooled playing that way. He's like, he's played this before. But he's good with the inside moves on the pass rush. He can close down from the back side. I like the way he squeezed the hole, like taking the blocker down inside and then trying to kind of compress that hole. So the ball would spill to the outside. He's got the good movement from the back side. He can gain some ground with this first step. You see him get up the field. He can find his way to the corner, but to capture that corner is a little bit of a problem for him. To just get around that corner is a little bit of an issue for him. He's just, he can get there, but he just doesn't have that burst or able to lower that shoulder to get around the corner. I thought he needed to be a little bit more consistent of trying to do that. If you wanna, if you wanna look at something that he might need some work on. I was impressed with the way he controlled blockers and the way he was able to extend on him. And I think he's a guy that can provide some depth. I was just thinking of guys that when you start to look at, okay, do you have to play with wheat and maybe, you know, with gold, son of gold, son is gonna be a starter now. This guy, he kind of fits into that mode right now. So if you were thinking about maybe they were gonna go get Muhammad, we talked about that yesterday, going out and getting a guy off a practice squad that's ready. He's been practicing, he has experience, and they have some familiarity with him. That's why they did what they did. So KJ Henry, you're a new edge for the Dallas Cowboys. - Go Hank. - Go Hank. - Hank, Hank. - All right. I got some questions for my boys here. Well, let's do it. - I know I got a few minutes, so I'll try and get these questions. Willie, boy, I'll start with you. - Okay. If you could ask Jerry Jones or Mike McCarthy one question and get an in-depth, honest answer, what would that question be? - I would ask Jerry why he absolutely refuses to acknowledge that his hand is general manager of the football team has resulted in three decades of a lack of a championship. - So your question would be, why do you continue on as the general manager? - Would you ever fire yourself? And if so, why not? - So you're gonna get an honest answer. - Yeah, I'd love to hear honestly. - Why? - What's going on here? But other than I'm the owner, I don't wanna work for anybody else, this is my football team. It's like, okay, that's cool, but you can still be the owner and just acknowledge I can have somebody else be the GM. You can still be the final say guy if you want to. - Yeah. - So you would ask him, why are you still the general manager? - Is it really just stubbornness? I mean, is some of this stuff that we hear from the outside, like what's the truth here? I'd love to just get a real and honest answer. - No, that's what I'm saying, you're gonna get a real honest answer. And that's the question. - Just to me, the crux of all of this, like there's one person that's still standing in 28, 29, 30 years of futility, and it's that. And he likes to say publicly that it's an advantage because you don't have to have two people, there's not a GM and an owner to sell. It's much more streamlined like this, but I think the real answer. - Yeah, you can ask McCarthy or Jerry a question. McCarthy or Jerry, the other one here. - Yeah, I think the real answer to that question would be just people, they crave a feeling of importance, and whether they can annunciate that or not or are aware of that or not. That's why Jerry does what he does. He likes the celebrity and the feeling that it gives him of being the man. For my question, it would be like, why won't you acknowledge that the salary cap strategy has shifted so massively? And you guys are 15 years behind in how to build a Super Bowl champion. 'Cause I actually think you could leave him in charge, the personnel is flowing. If you just changed them with their salary cap approach, I absolutely think they could win a Super Bowl with Dak. - So the question you would ask him is, why do you continue this salary cap approach? - Yeah. - Yeah, and you get an honest answer. Okay, that's good enough, I like that. Right, Dawson. - Yes, sir. - Other than Prescott, you need this offensive player to be huge the next two weeks. Other than Prescott, you need this offensive player to be huge the next two weeks. That's Pittsburgh and Detroit. Let me go with your guy, Hunter Lipke. Okay, give me some chunk plays and be a good in the running game. Maybe Dattle, Dattle or Lipke. - I mean, I think CDLAM goes without saying, so I'm gonna go with Tyler Geiden. - Yeah. - I think Tyler Geiden's gonna have a couple of tough match-ups here if they wanna move TJ water round in the next week with Aiden Hutchinson for the Lions. I mean, those are players that certainly can exploit you. So I think Tyler Geiden, we saw at times the offense got bogged down as he was getting beat. You need that left tackle to stand up for you. - Yeah, I kind of feel like to me that I'm looking at both offensive tackles right now. Because of what you're gonna do with Pittsburgh and what you're gonna do with Detroit. I just think those are gonna be probably two spots. How much help can you really give Geiden? They didn't give him any help really at all. He had 90% one-on-one blocking. I think they're gonna have to help him in this football game, but at what cost? Is it gonna cost you 100 Lipke or somebody off the edge? - I just didn't. - Yeah, exactly. So, all right, that's it for my time. - Thank you, sir. Crusty's corner brought you by a reliant air conditioning every afternoon, 340 here in the G-Bagnation. On that note, is anybody getting a kick out of watching these guys try to answer simple questions about their football team? Cowboys Twitter coming up next right here. It's the G-Bagnation of the fam. - The seasons may be changing, but the deals and the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on, it's your girl, Tasha McKia. And I need you to join the sharpest rides for their fall into savings event, where they're offering incredible prices on their massive inventory. That's right, everything is on sale now. 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