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I'm Rod Bradford of Baseball's and Boring, and we're gonna have you covered every step of the way with instant reactions from players and coaches and managers and fans and reporters and everybody else who is immersed in this awesomeness and all the craziness that comes with October baseball. So follow baseball as I'm Boring in the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. (upbeat music) - It's our four of the nation here on 1053, the fan. We have Mike Golick Jr. coming up in about 20 minutes. L.A. lives coming up here at 540 on your home of the Cowboys and Rangers, 1053, the fan pregame tonight at eight, first pitch, 837. Tomorrow it's two and 237 as Kamara Rocker will be towing the rubber in Oakland. That might be the can't miss game of the season, all things considered. They're talking about potential safety concerns inside the stadium as there could be protests as the ace fans forced to say goodbye to their team and the final game at the Colosseum on the same day. Mike, get crazy, Chief. - I mean, these Oakland fans? Come on now, you get some old black hole Raider fans that are still hanging around, you know, the violent sky rocket real quick on. Okay, there's going to be shoulder pads with spikes on them in that building tomorrow. - Yeah, I believe it. - Some Niner fans probably mixed in there. - Oh, all kinds of chaos. - The amount of shanks that could take place tomorrow are serious, as high as they've ever been for a baseball game. - They're talking about sellout at that place. - Yeah, sellout, they're talking about maybe people trying to disassemble the stadium as the game is going on for taking souvenirs home. An absolute disrespect for authority, you know? All things are on the table. - Rangers might get him a win tomorrow. - It could get rabid. Well, we know see why he wants that more than anything. - Yeah. - As many victories as possible. - There you go. - What have you done for me lately? It'd be nice. You win the final game of the season and then you can kind of take that momentum into the off season with you. - Do you think he wants to win so much that if his team played pathetic, he would rant like in a boardroom or on a sideline in a clubhouse, you bet your ass he would. - Yeah, he would. - See why right there? I bet he is such a savage. He would like nothing more than to hand the Oakland A's fans in L in their fourth game. - In their final game? - Yeah, their last home game. - He's a true competitor. - He is. - He's a true alpha and we love him. All right, it's the five o'clock football hour here in the G-Bagnation presented by Buffalo Wild Wings, where B-dubs is footballs and nothing more synonymous with football than Brian Broadus. What you got, sir? - Yeah, I got a couple of things for you. Tomorrow, Dallas is wearing their color rush uniforms. - What do you mean by that? - That's the all white uniforms navy trim with white helmets. - Oh, the art fix. - Yes. - So snow flurries. - Yeah, they got color rush tomorrow against your football giants. - Kind of stormtrooper-ish. - Yeah, so I know a lot of people-- - But you're gonna get your butt kicked, at least you're gonna look pretty cool. - Everybody always likes to wear like the same color jersey that, you know, like if you're, hey, they're wearing white or navy, you know, whatever, but tomorrow is a color rush game for the, I wonder what the, I wonder if the giants, they're not gonna wear those uniforms that wore in week one. - They're done paying a lot. - Looks like the Montreal Canadiens jersey. - Yeah, they're done paying homage to the ugliest, least aesthetically pleasing area in their organization's history. - I couldn't find the numbers. It was hard to find the numbers on those jerseys when they were wearing them. When I was watching film. - It was bad. - It was tough. - No, they were probably homemade. - The original was probably homemade. Traditional blues, I believe is what they're going with, blue tops. - Yeah, well, Dallas is going color rush just for everybody wants to know. And I also wanna throw something else out to you 'cause I'm learning about these metrics. Something, they call it missed opportunities. The Cowboys have recorded 32 missed tackles this season. That's 14.7%. Resulting in the third most yards lost to missed tackles. 241 yards lost to missed tackles. - Wow. - Would you like to take a guess who's missed the moat? Well, he's, this guy is tied for the most missed tackles with nine. - Go on the team. - On the team. - Demon Clark. - No. - Over here. - It's a starter. - Kendrick. - No. - Donovan Wilson. - The Marcus Lawrence. - Oh, really? - The Marcus Lawrence is tied with the most missed tackles in 2024 with nine. Just a matchup thing, just to kind of keep an eye on. - Wow. - Devin Singletary has forced 19 missed tackles in weeks one through three. - Yeah, on a per carry basis, nobody forces more missed tackles. - That's the third, that's the third most by any player in the league this year. - Yeah. - So keep an eye on that one for you. - You think our guy tank might be a little washed? I don't know, man. - Man, it's crazy 'cause in the first game against the Browns, my gosh, it is, it felt like it was a turn back, the clock game. - It was fresh. - It was what, I could-- - He's a little burned out. - I can understand all the missed tackles. I didn't know the number was 32, to be honest. I didn't know they lost, it's like those hidden yards at 241, and I wouldn't have guessed that tank was the missing of all the tackles. - Yeah, that's quality information there. Brian brought us getting a handle on these metrics, dude. - I'm just, yeah, this is the next gen stuff that they give the teams. - Yeah. - This stuff you can't even buy. - Well, the good news is-- - Oh, really? - So that's a different, 'cause I-- - Oh, yeah. - Oh, wow, you got the leveled up version. - Yeah, this is what all the NFL teams get on a weekly basis. - The shame. - Wow, I should just go through every one of these, I mean, every one of these things, if everywhere-- - Jerry's probably celebrating the fact they only missed seven and a half tackles per game in weeks one and two. - Yeah. - You know, if you threw out the 17 that they just experienced, it's actually not that bad. I like our guys. - Okay, how about this, though? - Okay, something to build on. - Okay, throw something else and tell me if you think this is creative. They're calling this title Unique Personal. The Cowboys have used eight different offensive groupings this season. It's tied for the second most in the NFL. The Giants have used nine. The Cowboys have used zero tight end plays at the second highest rate, 10% of one of just two teams to use such personal on over five plays. The Cowboys have used two plus running backs on 19% of their plays, which is the seventh most in the league. I mean, do you feel like they've used a lot of personnel groups? - Well, a little bit, yes. I, they haven't done much with it. In general, you love the idea. If your team's got a bunch of different personnel groupings, you're like, okay, they're constantly keeping the defense on their heels a little bit with what they're gonna throw out there. But I think the Cowboys have done this in some level, you know, with some level of necessity in terms of, you had one game without Jake Ferguson. So you're going to be at times to be like, you know, we're just not even going to have a tight end on the field here. I don't know how much it really worked out for. - Plus Skoonie is terrible. So he don't want to put him on. - Yeah, span forward. - Span forward, just watching him play gives me Ajita. - Single Terry, the running back, he's recorded 16 carries for 65 yards with a touchdown in week three, with 72 of his yards coming after contact, set minus seven before contact. Single Terry was contacted behind the line of scrimmage on a career high, 75% of his carries. He generated 4.5 yards after contact per carry. His most in a game since week 16 of 2022, all 65 of his yards on the ground came on rushes to the right side, 11 carries. He gained zero yards on five carries going left. - Oh, wow. So everything was to the right side. - Everything was to the defenses left that he got. But his, all his rushes came to the right, all his positive yards came to the right. - It's like James Harden, just make him go left. - Yeah, dude, the scattering reports out. Cowie's run, he'll be fine. Single Terry, do you think he'd have success with this Cowboys team if he was running the ball? - Well, he makes people miss. - Yeah, he breaks tackles. - Yeah, he would be, I'd say he'd be all right. - Yes, I'd say he'd be all right. - He'd be all right, yeah. - It's crazy. - Make somebody miss, yeah. - Make somebody miss and break a tackle, then you get 4.5 a carry. I think we'd take that right now, wouldn't we? - Yeah, we would. We totally would. - Too rich for the Cowboys' blood. He's five and a half million a year as a free agent. - Yeah, which I will be honest with you. That was a little bit more than I was anticipating him getting. - Yeah. - I don't know that I would have wanted to give him that much necessarily, but he's clearly better than anything you got in your running back room. What are you looking at over there? - Match-up to watch, Daniel Jones versus four or fewer pass-rushers. Daniel Jones completed 17 of his 21 passes, non-Blitz pass attempts, 81% for 143 yards, two touchdowns in week three against the Browns. And they look at this, the matchup, the Cowboys' pass defense has allowed 32.8 success rate when using four or fewer rushers this season, the lowest rate in the NFL. - So they've been really good. The Cowboys have rushing four? - Yeah. - But Daniel Jones has been dominating. - He's been, yeah. When you don't blitz him, last week, non-Blitz pass attempts, he was 17 of 21, so. - Might need to dial up the blitz on him. - Might need to come after him a little bit. - Confuse him a little bit. - Yeah. - Get all wings to catch him. - Can't you win? - Yeah. - Well, yeah, I don't feel comfortable laying the five and a half with the Cowboys going on the road tomorrow night. I'll just be completely honest with you about that. I do have- - Oh yeah, that might be a money line bet. - I do have, I know it's Walchucks, Stone Cold lead pipe lock of the week and his survivor pick Cowboys victory. Vegas has him as a five and a half point road favorite. But favorites have not been doing well to start this season. Before we play a little GTS, let's go ahead and hear from Rex Ryan, who was on ESPN radio in New York. And remember, there were rumors about Rex Ryan being a guy that the Cowboys contacted about their defensive coordinator position this off season. Didn't obviously get it, he explains why. And then he has some words for Ole Mike Zimmer. - No 100%, I would have fixed it in a New York minute. But that being said, they couldn't pony up the money or I would have been there. - Oh no. - And so they never pony up. And that was why I stayed, you know, here. We brought in a guy that was like 29th in the league his last two years at Minnesota. And you know, it's in the enthusiasm he brings. You saw when he left, he blamed the players and I'm not gonna talk to him, you know. Like, that's a guy that's gonna inspire you? Like, I don't know, I think it's, this could go really bad for Dallas. Now look, their schedule sets up pretty well for him, but this could go really bad for him. - I think that's weird in Braggie from Rex, but that's kind of what we get, you know. And Rob has been very Braggie and whatnot. I don't know why you gotta take shots at Mike Zimmer. Maybe he feels like that's his job now that he's an ESPN talking head. But I mean, Mike Zimmer is one of the most accomplished and there's no reason to believe Rex Ryan would fix anything. I think that all these guys are confident, but we've seen Marinelli, Quinn, and Zimmer all basically struggle with similar personnel. It's the guys. The front office never invested in defense for like a decade straight. It was all built around the offense. You'd have a bad defense, you'd show up and lose and the playoffs and they decided to change that over the last five years or so, but they haven't been able to compile enough good players 'cause they've missed on so many. The late and van deresh injury. You know, now the Sam Williams injury on top of that. They've hit on a couple of nice players, but other than that, they've tried to flush out the rest of the roster with just budget players and you get what you pay for. Couple of injury updates, good news for the Bears, wide receiver Keenan Allen on track to return this week versus the Rams. They need him for sure. You have Dan Quinn ruling out Austin Echler after the concussion slash. Inner ear laceration, which is still one of the crazier football injuries and actual earholing took place, apparently for all Austin Echler. So home is the game. Saw this friend of the show, Bronco's linebacker, Alex Singleton played every defensive snap on Sunday despite tearing his ACL during the first quarter. Played 56 snaps. He had 10 tackles on the day. He tore his ACL in the first quarter, played through it the whole game. He's obviously not going to be out for the season, but what a monster. Yeah, seriously, dude. That's how you, that's how you, you garner some, some respect there in the locker room. Dude, that's your like lead story for the rest of your life. Like yeah, I had 10 tackles with a torn ACL once. How you doing? Yeah, that's my Twitter bio. That's my dating profile. That's exactly, that's all you need to know about me. Okay. Tough as they come. All right. Here we go. Little GTS on a football hump day. Bengals go to Carolina and the Dalton revenge game. What is the spread? We start with Brian Broadus. Panthers at home, Bengals coming to town short week. Bad taste in their mouth. Desperate team. Yeah, this would be Carolina plus five and a half. Since he minus three and a half. This is, this is going to be Cincinnati as a four and a half point favorite. So you guys are right there in the ballpark. What's the difference? Saints are going to Atlanta NFC South game. Guess that's spread. Gavin Dawson. Atlanta is a one point favorite. The Atlanta getting two and a half Atlanta two and a half point dog. Yes. I would have thought that as well with the way the Saints have been playing. But remember Eric McCoy, their center out. I think that's huge and they're off a terrible game. Of course are the Saints Falcons one and a half point home favorite. Nice work. Dawson back to you. Broadus jags go to Houston to take on the Texans. This is desperate game theory right here. This is going to be Houston giving five and a half. Okay. Dawson. Where is it in Houston? Who are they hosting? Jaguar's Houston's giving four Houston's giving seven. Oh, look at that. No respect for the jazz Broncos go to New York, but the jets, right? Sean Payton versus Nathaniel Hackett, New York minus six six point home favorite says Dawson, what say you guess that's bread, Brian brought us. I think no, this is this is jet. This is jets given four. This is jets given seven and a half. Oh, wow. I'll take the Broncos on that one about Vegas and learn their lesson with some of these big numbers. Okay. Game of the week, perhaps at least one of them Vikings going to Lambeau field. It's probably still going to be Malik Willis. Not sure the Jordan loves stuff. Definitely interesting. Uh, green bays at home. Vikings are on a heater. Gavin Dawson. Minnesota minus one and a half points chief who wrote favorite there pick them, pick them. I like it. Green Bay Packers, two and a half points, favorite at home. Wow. Wow. Maybe they think Jordan loves going to play. Yeah, maybe so. You guys buying the Vikings? I am. I'm buying the Vikings. Yeah. I wasn't after week one. After week three. I'm in. Uh, let's see here we have the Eagles going to Tampa Eagles off a win going to Tampa before we get to Michael. Junior here. What do you, what do you say? Guess that spread. Brian Broadus. Uh, Tampa, Tampa plus three. Ooh. Okay. Tampa minus one. Tampa plus two and a half nice work brought us should go out with a nice little bit of a bang there. There it is. A little GTS week for style. Thank you, chief football's finest. Most afternoons five o'clock here on your home of the Cowboys and Rangers 105 three, the fan. And tomorrow's game, by the way, tomorrow's Rangers game on KRLD AM. If you want to stay locked in on rocker, of course, we'll have the pre pre game show here for your Cowboys visiting the Giants and the official pre game is going to get in a new way at four o'clock tomorrow. We are back with Mike Golick Jr. Tonkin NFL and college football with him next year in the G back nation on 105. It's better over here. 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So follow baseballs and boring in the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, three of the fan. Welcome back. G back nation. It's time to chat with Mike Golick Jr. from draft Kings. You can catch him with his dad daily segment is brought to you by the on time experts. We have LA live with Lucius Alexander here coming up in about 14 minutes here on your home of the Cowboys and a good afternoon. Mike. How the heck are you? John. Wow. How you guys doing? We're doing wonderful. I was trying to get your money right to go after Sluka here is that we have fresh guy on the market. What do you think? You know what? I did get this point Notre Dame, especially at the quarterback because this is much depth as we've ever had in my lifetime. But I hope someone goes out there and gets that guy's paper right man. I want everyone to get paid. What do you think about the idea of of leaving mid season like I don't know what happened. I think it's just a sign that we need to get some sort of formal agreements or contracts to to establish what the dynamics are going to be. Yeah, I think that's probably the best and most clearest takeaway that we can get in a situation where it's become clear since this morning. Both sides are trying to get their version of the story out there. I'm always leading pro players. So that's the client. I'm more inclined side. I'm more inclined to believe, but I understand these are complicated pictures. But the clearest part in the middle is everyone involved would have benefited from some sort of written agreement and everybody involved in college athletics right now would benefit for some blueprint that we're all aware of that conducts these agreements and right now that's not something we have because college football has decided for a long time to masquerade under the idea that amateurism was a real thing when this has always been big business and acting like the players aren't employees doesn't actually help anybody involved most specifically the players. That's how you wind up for the situation like this. So I was kind of talking about it with dad this morning though, equating it to the NFL where you look, hey, the players are employees. What does that mean? You get a collective bargaining agreement. What does that mean? Ownership can make it really difficult for players to hold out and try and use the withholding of their services against the teams involved. That's why you see when players hold out in the off season, it rarely makes it the regular season. And even when it does, you still got to get in by a certain point so that you're contract best. Other stuff in college ball, because we're trying to act like these guys aren't employees, the red shirt system actually incentivizes these guys to go out and withhold their services so that they don't lose that year of eligibility, but they can go get paid somewhere else. So it's one of the rare places where players truly have some leverage in a situation like this. And I doubt this will be the last time we see someone work this. Do you think that the programs have any recourse or playback on this or they need some help from the rulebook? Don't they? Oh, yeah. I mean, again, it's one of those things where if a player is coming in and asking for more money later on, remember, we heard Mike Gundy reference earlier in the year where he said, Hey, we got clear windows where this is going to happen is it's all about where you stand. If you're a incredible transcendent quarterback, and I'm not saying this kid is by all account, he's fine. He's a good player, but he's by no means the second coming. If you are a player that is the second coming over, Kayla Williams, and you were a place maybe that doesn't have as many readily available quarterback prospects, but seeing you want to hold out, you're kind of worth what someone's willing to pay you and you're operating in a free market with no restriction. So the coaches might need some help there, but this is also a spot where the players need help because if it is true in this instance, that a player was promised money that he wasn't given. I don't know about you guys. I'm not showing up for much work either. If all of a sudden my employer decides, Hey, I'm going to tell you I'm going to pay you one thing and then a month into the season, you're not going to see a dime of that. I don't know of anyone that's going to show up in those circumstances. Yeah, true that true that now as it pertains to on the field, big one, of course, this weekend with Georgia and Alabama. How do you see this one going? I would still probably lean in favor of the dogs. I think Kayla and Diborz come over and done a phenomenal job at Alabama so far. We saw them whether a couple early storms, you know, the USF game was a little bit closer until late, you obviously powered through Wisconsin on the road and one of those real big out of conference matchups that we all sort of circled at the beginning of the season because they're good helmet, thicker net games, knowing full well, hey, Wisconsin probably not in the place for year two under Luke Sickle to be a true measuring stick. But I think on the other side for Georgia sustained some injuries that they had to adjust with during that Kentucky game that was a lot closer than people anticipated. They lost Tate Ratledge. They're starting guard. He got that tight rope surgery. They're hoping to get him back for the push later on, but you saw them in that game. They were a little bit out of sorts. They had to go and try and adjust that line on the fly and so the offensive execution suffered while the defense still looked every bit as vicious and usual. And I think that's just the difference. This team is so deep and talented on defense and offensively, I think now with the benefit of time to go reset that group up front, get the game plan together, accounting for that in mind and knowing what Carson back still capable of a quarterback, I think ultimately Georgia's got where it takes at this point to flip the script on the tide who we know. Hey, they haven't met the regular season in a while, but in the postseason most recently of last year, Alabama screwed up a lot of Georgia's grand plans looking like one of the best teams in college football. Mike, have you gotten used to with this conference realignment, some of these games that we've had? It seems kind of strange with the, you know, when you get the Michigan USC game and I usually think that is a Rose Bowl matchup and in USC this weekend, got Wisconsin. Have you gotten used to the realignment so far? So some of these games, you know, last weekend was the first time that really hit because you're right. We had that combination of, you know, I've had, I'm out in Southern California now I live out here and I've joked with everyone and enjoyed saying, Oh, I'm in big 10 country now every time I see USC and UCLA half, but seeing them go on the road to the big house and that'd be a conference matchup. Seeing Tennessee and Oklahoma as a conference matchup in the SEC and arguably the biggest game of last weekend where Tennessee firmly entrenched themselves, I think in that second tier of teams that's capable of certainly making the playoff, but also winning the national championship. Yeah, it was a weird one and, you know, Tennessee ready for that moment is certainly Oklahoma. Listen, we knew coming in Texas was probably going to be more suited right away for the jump than Oklahoma was and it showed OU was replacing a whole offensive line and going up against the Tennessee defense, it's one of the best in the sport. That was a matchup that I don't think they were necessarily ready for, but yeah, it's been a weird time, man. It's definitely a take for getting used to. Well, and I was going to ask you, is, is this though what we're going to get to eventually with, you know, the, the super conference with 40 college football teams the best and you'll have these types of matchups every single weekend? Do you envision something like that? I mean, it seems like the appetite for these, these games just appear to be outstanding. Yeah. I mean, that's why all this is happening, right? Because this is the sport designed now by television executives who saw all the eyeballs you get when, hey, Notre Dame Clemson and Ohio State, Oklahoma early in the season and all these games that they listen, we're allowed to get excited about too. Like I understand the sports changed a lot and that's difficult for a lot of people. But I got excited seeing Tennessee and Oklahoma on the team. Well, I got excited seeing USC and Michigan. So I think it's that understanding that we've sacrificed some of the regionality of the sport. That's always made it so great. That's made it one of the things that I've loved most in my lifetime as a sports fan as someone that was fortunate enough to play big time college football at a place like Notre Dame. I hate what we've lost in that, but I also understand, hey, especially for those of us just sitting here nationally, taking a lot of this in, man, there's going to be some really fun matchups to come because of it. And I think it's the reason we'll eventually see something resembling a super league. It's go, Joe might go junior with us here in the G bag nation. What did you think of arch manning's first start is impressive. I mean, you know, first start, you can go back to the game that, you know, he came in and stepped in for Quinn when he was injured to and just how quickly he looked comfortable. Don't get me wrong. There are still areas where you see freshmen level processing, especially compared to Quinn, you were so I thought was playing Heisman level football, coming off the win on the road in Ann Arbor against that great Michigan defense. But for arch manning, he's incredibly physically gifted. We've all made the jokes of the expense of Peyton and Eli, reminding everyone that he is in fact the receiver manning son and not the quarterback manning son. And that's very clearly evidenced by the legs, but incredibly powerful arm, incredible poise, went into the week with a U L M D coordinator given everyone the bulletin board material about how some of these guys have played and beat him in high school and yada yada. Quinn yours going down, obviously a net negative for Texas. You want to get him back for all the goals and dreams they have this year, but we got reminded Texas has the deepest quarterback room in the country and the future is very, very bright and Austin looking at the rest of the roster. Do you see them as a strong contender, the favorite in the in the championship picture this year? Uh, yeah, I would have them as the favorite right now. I mean, defensively, we know they lost a lot in the middle, but instead of building the ship out of defensive tackle bodies like they did last year, they're just building it out of pass rusher bodies this year. And I think so far, we've seen that hold up pretty well and then offensively, I mean, I think it's the best offense in college football. I think Steve Sarkeesian is the best play caller in college football and Quinn yours and his development. I think especially this year pocket manipulation is what comes to mind. He's not an overly gifted athlete. Arches certainly a better overall athlete, but the way that Quinn yours can buy time in the pocket, move around, step up and get defenses to draw into him only to deliver strike down field with a really strong arm. It's been on display. It's honestly kind of like what we're talking about right now in the NFL with Josh Allen where an unproven young group of pass catchers came in to Buffalo and Josh Allen is good enough to will them through those because he's ascended that level of quarterback for Quinn yours. Incredibly talented players who had played a bunch of college ball, but they portaled in in that receiver room, but a whole hockey line change from the group he was passing to last year. And it hasn't really mattered because the role line is really good. And because Quinn yours is taking that step to being a full blown game record quarterback. Mike, I need some help in the NFL in my survivor picks because I'm over three. And picking the survivor picks. What do you make of so many of these upsets, you know, these high lines that some of these teams have had to deal with, but so many upsets through the first two weeks of the NFL season. Yeah, it's a good reminder that as opposed to the college counterpart, even for teams like we saw last weekend with the Carolina Panthers who went out there and got their first win of the year, the talent margin is razor thin. Everyone is really incredibly talented at this level. And so coaching matters the week to week individual matchups between certain teams matters. It's a styles make fights league. And I think right now as we're sort of at an inflection point with the way the league was for the last five to 10 years where it's pace and space, the offenses are more wide open. And everyone thinks of the 2020 Kansas City Chiefs that were going over the top on everyone, Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, everyone like that. And now we're at a point where defense is adjusted to that offenses are having that deep play taken away. And so now that everyone shifted back to running the football, there are some teams equipped to run and stop the one right now. And there's others that aren't and that old cliche is coming back to be a reality because you get teams like Dallas who had sold out so much to stop the past as they left the middle of their defense hollow Cincinnati and the Bengals kind of in the same mode. And so it's created this imbalance. Well, we got great quarterbacks and high flying offenses that don't really get a chance to get out of first year right now. And if you can't do the simple stuff right anymore, it's created an opportunity for a lot of teams to win games with the margins much closer as a football guy and a foodie. Mike, I'm curious how you took in the the K state fan and what he's doing with the five layer burrito. Are you here for the content creation or is that just a huge waste of a of a great five layer burrito? Yeah, I'm inclined to go with the latter on this. Don't get me wrong. I am. I call my generation I'm 35. I'm the last of the day walkers. I had life before the internet started dialing us up on AOL when I was a kid and now I've been a part of a world where the internet has taken over and the attention economy has got us to the point where people, especially college football fans, decided that they want to either eat what comes out of their butts or put stuff into their butts that's not supposed to be going in there. So I don't know when that became the mo for for us as a college football, watching public, but I think we need to leave this behind because the question that always comes up any time content being made is who's asking for this? The answer is no one leave it behind. I see what you did there, I can't help myself. Thank you, sir. Have a great day. Enjoy it. Mike Colle Jr. Watch him on draft Kings with his daddy. Apparently he's got no problem calling him dad. You know, I'm like LeBron and Bronnie and Steven Jones. He doesn't call him goat and 903 says this guy is a lot. He's incredible. He's an encyclopedia. Yeah. And you know, usually someone that is that smart and has that much information stored in their brain has zero personality, right? They're freaking robots. They're their nerds, but he's got the best of both worlds. Yeah. He's a jock of a nerd and a hell of an entertainer at the same time and we're lucky to have him as often as we do. He always delivers. He does. Time you ever talk to me. You feel like you got a little smarter and then you got a smile on your face because of the stuff he said. For sure. Great guy. It's time now for L.A. live. We go into the pimp cup. Here's Lucius. Oh, okay. Well, hey, the glasses are on. You got to get going here, right? Yeah. Hey, I'm back. I'm back. And I feel good too, man. I've been out of it for the past two days trying to recover from what I did to myself Sunday night. Oh, yes. Oh, no. Right. No, two day hangover. Two. Well, I never was hung over. It just wasn't myself. It was a blackout on Sunday night. I have no idea how I got home when I did when I got home. The dogs were fed and I was put to bed. I don't know how to happen. I don't know how would happen. Who done it? Somebody to thank somebody to apologize to somebody. Now I have 30 wings when I woke up. There was only eight left. This is work. I had some help by somebody out here. I have no idea though. Somebody helping you out. Maybe the dog. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe the dogs. Don't drink on an empty stomach and just stay away from the alcohol period, folks. Jesus. It's not what you think it is anymore. All right. Let's get into a hump day edition of L.A. Live right into the Great Rick James, speaking of alcohol. All right. You swear. It's time. It's home. Fire up this phone. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. It'll make you dance. Everybody gets high. The reason for Hearst has come out and said he will file a grievance against the Patriots that according to NFL rules, the Cubs should not have been able to release his client because he was injured. The agent claimed that if he requested the team, Hearst has been playing with a bulging dick disc in his neck, moves into the start of the season. It's butt naked. Winston. It's all the breeze. He believed he used all. Wearing that boy's neck out. Hear what I'm saying? Yeah. This is L.A. Live for Wednesday, September 25th. Wow. This is the 25th of September already, man. September. Slow down. Where you got to go? 2024. It is a butt naked Wednesday. Hear an L.A. Live. Word to Miss Badu. I too was born underwater with three dollars and six dollars piece of the gods and it's still resting paradise Sam Putney. G back of the day. We do it every weekday here on the fan at two thirty. If you see anything floating out there, don't be afraid to hit me up. Please hit me up, shoddy. That folder's looking kind of like right now, bro. Help me out. I like my folder looking fit. You know what I'm talking about? I do. I like my folder fit. Plenty of pick from. Hit me up at Lucky Lucius Peele, social media. Lucius Alexander on Facebook. You can follow us all if you find G back nation on Twitter, which pretty soon, I'm going to be off of Twitter. I'm going to have to let old Twitter go. For sure. Gotta hit the following button. The more you button is just. God. Yeah. Twitter is awful right now. And then I block accounts and mute accounts and I still see them. Yes. Yeah. And most of these accounts are like bot accounts where they're not real accounts. It's just like aggregate just bad information on people and people just retweet it all. I'm out of here soon, but in the meantime, I'm going to have fun. It's going to be hard trying to find all my favorite follows on other accounts. You know what I mean? All right. I'll win it right here. Mr. Airy Spears, comedian Airy Spears, in some circles, he's called the gooey raccoon. Hey. He is called the gooey raccoon is some sort of back story and a half and Sage Steel is here. Well, it's just a who's who on this one right here. Sage Steel, he was on Sage Steel show showing off some of his impersonations and he has one of Tony Siprano. What's your best impersonation? No, your favorite. I mean, it's new. It feels like a new child, but I love Tony Siprano, because one, it's a white guy, Italian, and nobody expects you to do that. Ask me a question. Tony, what did you do with the body? It's a f***ing matter when I do with the f***ing body. All the guys are going to f*** marry it. Show. What's your question for? They don't have f***ing position. I'm going to give you the yerushy. I'm going to f***ing. Oh, my God, I'm watching your mouth when you do it. Is that the key? Yeah, like I said, note Tony, Tony is ish. Talk about sister jaddish. I'm going to do the jaddish. You got a headache. We got an audio, an audio, an audio, a b***h, a b***h, a b***h, a b***h, a b***h, a b***h. That's a different language you just spoke. Oh, God. Show out, bro. He was trying to show out for the old sage, right there. He did, man. B***h, b***h, b***h, b***h. Mission accomplished. Yeah, clearly it worked. Oh, my God. You just blowing my mind away. L.A. live 1053 defender on the butt naked Wednesday, I have a what to watch list. Ooh. I also have a question for the tollos, but I got to get to this what to watch list real quick for you. I got one. Oh, good for you. Hold that for a sec. I've never had cable with the house until I was like 17. So when we would hear this, it's like we made it. It's an event. We can afford the $18 a month here at 1991. Yeah. The cable box. I look like a little shoe box and it had maybe like 32 little b***h, you can hit on it. I got to go. That was the first one I remember. I got to go. I got to go. I got to go. That's like a Cox cable or something to say. I don't know. Let's see. What's the watch list? Into the fire. I don't know if anybody has seen into the fire on Netflix, into the fire, the lost daughter. Ooh. A mother discovers the daughter that she gave up for adoption many years ago has disappeared and a biological mom is looking for her. I think she got like a phone call saying, "Hey, we found some remnants of this daughter, can you?" Whew. It's amazing, bro. Eric, watch it. What's your girl? It's amazing. Anybody like, you know, say there's no sports on my football tonight or whatever. You're going to watch the Rangers. That's cool. I get it. All of that. But I got you back. If you want to sit down and watch something, what's your girl? Because she says, "You don't spend any time with me. I got you into the fire, the lost daughter on Netflix." True story, man. It's too good. Oh my God. It's too good. This is not going to be much, but it's a clip. She'd been missing 21 years when they finally found me. I was only 17 years old when I put my daughter up for adoption throughout my life. She was always in my mind. When I found out she'd went missing, I thought, "I've got to find this kid alive. I don't care if I have to walk over God's green earth, do it, if I couldn't do anything else for her, what's going to do this?" And the things she finds on the way will blow your mind, bro. Can't wait. Yeah, it's good stuff. I was reading a story yesterday about a kid that got kidnapped 68 years ago in San Francisco. Wow. They just found him in New York, 75 years old. Wow. I didn't see a headline about that. With the DNA test and they were like, "Whoa, I think you got a half cousin or something living out there." It turned out it was this gal's brother. Wow. Yeah. So he didn't even know he was being kidnapped. He kind of had foggy memories of it, but whenever he would ask the adults, he was like six years old when it happened, went to the park with his 10-year-old brother. You know, 10-year-old brother was ignoring him or whatever, and boom, got snatched. So he kind of had an idea, but he liked the people he was living with. Okay, they kidnapped him to raise their own son. They didn't kidnap him, but like, "You got kidnapped by Mr. Drummond." Yeah. He's still interested. Appreciated, sir. Moving on. Yeah. Another one right here. The evolution of the Black Quarterback is on Amazon, three-part docu-series that follows Michael Vick as he goes around a tall cell. All the Black Quarterbacks that ever played in the NFL and their stories, what they do on and off the field and their impact in the NFL and the story of the Black Quarterbacks is pretty good so far. I just finished an episode of "Bwon." What's this? Good to see you guys finally figured it out. I just want to protect so long. Another one right here. Monsters, the Lyle and Eric Menendez story on Netflix, the acting in this one is insane. We all know the story about the Menendez brothers, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, is this... They've done this before, isn't it? No, this is like a series. It's like a docu-series with actors. Okay. I thought there was... Oh, there's actors involved in this. I thought it was the actual documentaries of trial and stuff like that. Not their dad, right? Mom and dad. Mom and dad. They're going to win a whole lot of awards for this one right here because they are acting there behinds off in this historic case. They are acting. There's some real good acting right here. And Rebel Ridge, I have that in the queue, planning to watch Rebel Ridge. I can't tell you anything about it, but it looks good if you're seeing it hit me up. Okay. You seen it? It's pretty good. I would say... I would pass on it. Lucious. Oh! Okay. Oh, I watched that. I would say... Half decent. Okay. No, no. You look. Six and a half. I don't got much time out here. I don't think... I don't think... Because I watched it the other night and I was kind of left with, hmm, okay. And that was it. I didn't think it was very good. I would give it a four. Ouch. I hear you. I hear you. I see you on my list. I'm gonna take it off for Liz. Don Johnson actor. That's why we say it out loud. Yeah. That's why we say it out loud. Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was good. What's the text thing? They'll let us know in a second. I mean, it's not like a 20-episode deal you got to watch. It's a two-hour movie. Yeah. And I kind of was, you know, falling along with it. And then I just went, "Ah, no." I might have appreciated the message a little bit more than you. Did you? Yeah. Oh, okay. Now I want to see you to see the message. All right. I got a question for the toenos on the butt naked Wednesday. Be careful out here on these roads, folks. Vibe out to that. Eyesly brothers. Cool. Yeah. What else? Yeah. I like this show Supa Cell. Sorry, Lucius. I'll make it short. Supa Cell. No, I know what you're talking about. The British guys. Yeah. The British superheroes. Yeah. Okay. Amazing. And then Mr. in-between. Which is like an Australian Dexter, but he's not, you know, a serial killer. He's a hitman. Okay. And he has to kill people and then people are coming after his family. He's the same type of vibe. Oh, yeah. But it's in Australia. Okay. Yeah. A little more raw. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Question for the toenos. Give us some random advice. I asked this to the toenos that follow me on Facebook. Fellows, what's the toenolo? Turn it on, leave it on. All right. Turn it on. Leave it on. You wake up in the morning with Sean and RJ. You listen through into the K&C masterpiece and then you roll home with the G-Bag Nation. That's what I'm talking about. Give us some random advice. Got a toenolo to say check the batteries in your smoke detector. It can save your life. That's a back check. And the problem is if you take the smoke detector off the wall, you can't get it back on. Oh, that is a real thing. Why is it so difficult to do that? Why? No, you write about that. It is a real thing. If someone offers you a mint or some gum, take it. Take it. Always take it. Always hinting. Yeah. Put the gum out of their mouth and knock it out into you. Yeah. Pull it out. They pocket it, have a little lint on it. It blows it off. Yeah. Clean your windshield wipers when you fill your tank or charge your car. Yeah. It would extend their life pretty good. We have a problem with windshield wipers here because of all the heat. Yeah. It does. They don't. They don't last. That's funny that you say that because mine are scrubbling. Yeah. See those we've got. The longer a woman stays in your life, the more she's going to cost you. Like that. Wow. Yeah. Shout out to my boy Woody. Especially with your kids. Woody said that. I don't want to say if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them, baffle them with BS. That's it. Yeah. Don't drink when you're playing poker. I used to love that though. It's a great way to kill the time, right? And if you play poker with a very tight strategy, you've got to wait for your good hands, right? You can't just be playing every hand. You get bored sober. Look at this dude. He'd be knowing. I don't know anything about it. It was one of the biggest adjustments in my poker playing career when I stopped drinking because I was like, what do I do with all my time? Yeah. Now I just scroll TikToks, waiting for good hands. Do you feel like it was kind of a PED for you? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's like crack for Lawrence Taylor. Yeah. I think the best sport to play to have drinking in or do things is golf. Yeah. That's very fun. I think golf drinking is the best. Your buddies are all out there. Yeah. It's a one seed drink sport. Yes, you can have so much fun drink golf. I think that would rather do that than cards, but I'm terrible at cards. So I would be, I'd need to drink to play cards. Number one drink is board golf, huh? I think so. Okay. That are fishing. Yeah. Yeah. Fishing is fun. I'm not mad at that. Yeah. Always think about those, those Newport advertisements, when they show people like playing basketball and everything and lighting them. It's like, it's like, it's right at once! Tell me, man. Get out of here, get out of here! All right. What else we got? Ummm. Eat your veggies. Eat your veggies. There's some random advice. Yeah. Veggies are good. They're really good. I like the fiber. Mmm. If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy. There you go. That, that is, that skills. That is a good place. Yeah. Don't take sleeping pills and a laxative at the same time. Whoa. Whoa. It'll wake you up. Yeah, about two o'clock. Two o'clock. Yeah. He stumbles to the John. Yeah. Ten o'clock, man. The order you get, don't drink, but anything before you go to bed. Like, yeah, yeah, don't drink anything, don't, you know, drink all that stuff. Don't drink. You get to pee in all of your mattress. Yeah, about 3.20 in the morning, you just get stuff getting up. You had that drink that you're already standing in the bathroom? Yeah. Yeah. It's like, man, sure it's warm. Yeah. No. Of all of us on this, on this show, would wool chuck be the one guy that would do that? Do you think that wool chuck would be the guy that would actually pee him, pee in the bed or whatever? No, pee, like, stinkin' he's in the bathroom and... No. Honestly, that's, that is, it's me. Like, I'm such a deep sleeper. I want like sleep walking, sleep talking. Yeah. That is in my, in my past and sometimes in my present. Really? Okay. I, I would have guessed the wool chuck, but here we go. Life is too short for cheap tequila, I want you. Yeah, there you go. There you go. There you go. Always premium. Don't ever buy the cheapest windshield wipers. There you go. There you go. There you go. There you go. There you go. There you go. There's the rattle. Yeah, that's what you're doing. It's like it's diamond cutting into your window. Oh my God. The metal. Yeah. The metal. Your dog is barking at it every time it goes across. It's crazy. Let's see what else. How you do anything is how you do everything. That's what I said. Never bad talk your partner to your friends. Oh yeah. It's awesome. You're crazy, bro. Let's see. Never trust an electrician with no eyebrows. And don't take advice from strangers on the internet. Hey. Question for the tell-laws. You can follow me too. Lucius Alexander on the Facebook or @LuckyLusiusP on social media. All right. That's my time, folks. Again. My name is Lucius Alexander. I'll see you tomorrow. It's Cowboy's tomorrow, right? Cowboy's tomorrow. It's game day. Oh, dude. Our show for probably two to four must-win game show kicking in. Al Michaels on the pregame show tomorrow. How about that? Yeah. The 20th time he's called Cowboy's Giants. Mm-hmm. I thought that was a little low. I thought it should be higher. Yeah. Seeing as they were basically the Sunday night football week one kickoff of every NFL season it was like for you. You can ask him about pro treats dog, aren't you? Kicking the tires. Workshop. You know? You just hope and brought us as a screw-up or interview like you do with Aaron Andrews, you know. It's really the main thing. Yeah. It's probably not a safe bet. Okay. Hey, I did actually get some advice from one of my dad's friends one time. He says, "Mary, a smoke show because God will change your heart, but he won't change your face." [laughter] Is that your dad? That's my dad's friend. That's friend game. That's a pretty good, that's a pretty dang good piece of wisdom right there. Yeah. That is good. I would second that motion, right? Yeah. Coming up next here in the G back nation, it's time to get into some Cowboys. What do you think of the coaching question that was kicked around in the morning news today? We'll do that. And more stuff coming up next. And then we have a sports hodgepodge with the chief. It's next here in the G back nation. AT&T customers switching to T-Mobile has never been easier. We'll pay off your existing phone and give you a new one free, all on America's largest 5G network. Visit T-Mobile.com/carrierfreedom to switch today. Pay off up to $650 for your virtual prepaid mastercard in 15 days. Free phone up to $830 via 24 monthly bill credits plus text, qualifying port and trade and service and go 5G next to credit required. Contact us before canceling entire account to continue bill credits to credit stop and balance and required finance agreements do. Post season baseball is here and it is the absolute best time of the year. 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