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It might point to why he feels so sick today. Well, I do know he passed a COVID test yesterday. OK, that's good news. That's a step in the right direction. Do you think it was medication? Do you think he did the show? Do you think he's got the Eddie the Eagle? Our goalie, you know, he took the cough medicine and was saying some crazy things, acting crazy ways? There's a lot of evidence that would support that, Broadus. And he was overly medicated. I don't know if it was over-medication. Certainly over-consumption in some form or fashion. And so we'll address it and, you know, tell the tape, "I ain't this guy don't lie." I've never known Will Chuck to be undermedicated, you know? Yeah, I can go that far. That's also a good point. I think that's a really great point, yeah. You do have Carter Freeman coordinating your video. You can watch us at 105 through the fan.com twitch and YouTube. Cowboys are traveling today, right? They're flying to New York. Yep, yep. Usually a team on road trips will leave about 130, so we might be in the air right now. Well, best of luck to you guys. I'm sure many of them are streaming us here on your home of the Cowboys. Best of luck to you there in New York, where they are nearly a touchdown favorite. How about that? Significant. So Vegas is still favoring them. For me, you know, I think Vegas is kind of slow to adjust on things like this. And maybe they're taking advantage of the public, you know, naively believing the Cowboys are still better. But I just don't think there's any evidence for a reason to believe that the Cowboys have any sort of an edge going into New York. Yeah, I think that game between two disappointing teams. Yeah. I mean, Vegas has been wrong here. Plenty with some of these big favorites, not just not covering, but losing outright. Yeah. So the thing that's tough for me is trying to gauge not to overreact on the Giants behalf after they just beat the Browns. 'Cause we know just how bad that Browns football team is. Yeah. So then winning that now, granted, they wanted a way, like they cranked it up the level of difficulty when they started off with a fumble on the opening kickoff. And then DeShawn Watson makes us one good throw of the day to Amari Cooper. And you immediately, after receiving the opening kickoff, go down seven, nothing. And then you find a way to end up winning because you're clearly the better team. I just don't know how to gauge the Giants after a game like that, because I still don't have much in the way of respect for them. No. But then on the flip side, the Cowboys look that bad right now. I mean, this is, this is code red. We are absolutely bottoming out and look terrible. Yeah, this is more about the Cowboys maybe have slid all the way down to where the Giants are. Yeah, Giants are at home. It's a Thursday night football short week situation, which penalizes the road team even further. You know, I don't know about you. I hope this is rock bottom. And from here, we ascend to more respectable football because at some point we're going to be waiting for this team to make a jump from, you know, pathetic to really dang good. And if you can be just average this year, if you can hold out with this core of young football players and prevent yourself from falling into the absolute seller, then I think you have a more easy case of, Hey, if we can draft well again next year, if we can develop some of these young players here in 2024, maybe we could become a contender again. Cause right now they're clearly aren't and they need multiple player acquisition cycles to get back there. We do know a Dory Jackson is now out for the Giants. And so is Drew Phillips. Huge is big for them too. That's her nickel. So yeah, this will be an interesting contest. I kind of go back and we start to talk about the Giants. I go back to their game against the commanders in week two and 127 yards Russian in that game. You know, and we kind of talk about how do you handle the inside players for the, or the inside the tackles for the commanders. Yeah. And you know, the line back, we feel like the commanders are, they're clearly a better team on offense. You know, defense might be a little bit of a problematic thing. But when you're average in almost six yards you carry against them. And then, you know, that's your runner. And then the quarterbacks average in 6.5 a carry there. It does not bode well. But no, see, that's the thing, you know, it's to me, this is not, yeah, the Giants probably aren't any good. But your defense right now, the Cowboys is not any good. You can't defend the run. And if you're the Giants, and I'm going to say, okay, how am I going to, how is my path of winning this game? Don't turn the ball over and run it as many times as you can. Yeah. What are you doing? I mean, in the NFL, there's like 50% of the plays, over 50% of the plays that the Cowboys face are running plays now. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's no reason for teams to get out of the mode of running the football on you. And when it comes to stopping the run, I know they have Dexter Lawrence. You're going to preview the defense quite a bit for us coming up at 3.40. How's their run stuffing been? Yeah. See, that's what, yeah, you're, you're dealing with a team that can kind of make the way to beat the Giants in my opinion is you can block their, always say this. You can block their front because they do have some, the two legitimate pass pressures. The guy in the middle, Lawrence is, is incredible as a push defensive tackle and the pressure he gets. Their secondary is a problem there, but that's, it's the, like they're not good. Yeah. Can, can your tackles and your center hold up in this game? Yeah. If you can, there are plays to be made. If not, if all of a sudden, Dak drops back and there's pressure and he gets hit and the balls in the air and all these things happen, but the, but the giant, this is not the Giants of old. They've got skill players now on the offense, then they can run and they can run the ball and they got a quarterback that can run the ball, which is problems for you. On the flip side of that though, can you block their front? And there's a couple of times where even the Saints, you didn't block the Saints particularly out front very well, didn't block the Ravens, Ravens got a decent front, didn't block them particularly well until the fourth quarter of that game. So yeah, if you don't block Burns and you don't block Thibodeau and you let that monster in the middle, just push you back into the quarterbacks lap, thanks for Lawrence over at that point. Now their secondary is a little bit protected because you're given up pressure. I mean, a lot of quarterbacks can mitigate some pressure. If you say you're going to be pressured a lot and you can't run the football, it's over. Yeah. It doesn't matter who you are. I'm saying Dak handles blitz. Yeah. Pressure and blitz are to me are two different. There you go. Yeah. Good clarification. Yeah. Okay. So what can you do? You know, you just mentioned how they played in the fourth quarter. You can hope your offensive line holds up better. Yeah. And you can maybe be a little bit more aggressive with your throws, which will invite turnovers. But I think they have to go there with the game plan. Don't you? Yeah. Let's be more aggressive at the start of the game. Absolutely. And you know, and Bobby did me a favor because of the first 15, I tweeted out those numbers. It seems like to me, I kind of felt like that they haven't got off the very good starts. But yeah, you do not need to start this game. Seven nothing giants. Yeah. You know, you need to, you need to make sure that the first time the giants have the ball that you get a stop and then maybe another stop. You have to put pressure. You have to become the team that all of a sudden makes the giants have to throw the football. Yeah. Make them the team that's one dimensional and then make you one dimensional and it's crazy how far the Cowboys defense has slid so quickly. It was physical teams, it was teams that use great motion at the snap that were giving you problems. But now I kind of feel like this game is to test, can anybody do it? Is a team averaging like 16 points per game about to, you know, host you and put up 30? If that happens, then the confirmation will be there for us on Friday morning that this team has now become one of the absolute worst in the NFL because they can't stop anybody. Yeah. They're out there and allow the, the, the giants to run the ball on them like they did against the commanders and you know, give the, give the giants some hope for hanging in this game. Then yeah, that they've become, they become one of the teams in the bottom half of this thing that there's. Aren't good enough. And do you have enough guys that can get open like the yards of separation or a key factor as well? You can ask this game against this, you got to be freaking Magic Johnson to thread some of those needles. Yeah. Yeah. And you're, you're not getting much help. I have something. I do have a an advanced metric that does reflect just how poor the, the, this, this particular scheme is this plan that will get to the game for the, for the offense. Yeah. I think it really pertains. Yes. It really pertains brought us to some of that 15, you know, the 15, the first 15 plays. Yeah. It's just like, it's kind of, it's piggybacking off of that a little bit. And it just. Am I wrong about that? I feel like the start of the game has just not been really good for the Cowboys. No, you're not wrong at all. I think it's, it's really more, it's more than just that. I mean, they turned it on. They got things going a little bit there in that fourth quarter. Right. But I mean, it's, I think it's majority of the offense in general, but the first 15 plays just show you like really where their mindset is, like, you know, the first 15 plays just really revealed to you what their whole plan was coming in, what they thought they could be successful at, and what are they doing? They're doing things where it's just their first read is to the running back for a no-yard game. Yeah. They're running the ball a ton early in the game. So they're rushing attempts are up and they haven't been able to actually establish it in a particular way. Yeah. I mean, the metrics would say more aggression on early downs, right? Yeah. Oh, for sure. Yeah. I think just more aggressive, more aggression in general. Yeah. I think, you know, after all the picks in 2022, there was a, hey, let's turn it over less. And I think Jason Garrett put Dak Prescott at times and a don't turn it over type of mindset. He was, you know, good at that, but I think you need to let the pendulum swing the other way and see if you can, you know, play a little bit more risky and generate some big plays because you're not going to like execute in short chunks consistently. You know, you're just, you're not getting the yards in the running game that would allow that strategy to be anywhere close to effective. Camar Rocker tomorrow, first pitch, 237, two o'clock pregame tonight. It's going to be Cody Bradford with the eight 37 first pitch against the A's couple cool storylines. Josh Spore is making a return and trying to build for next year after being hurt for a lot of this season, Josh Spore's Mr. Only October, we coined him. And Marcus Simeon's final series at the Oakland Coliseum is pretty cool. He's from there. Yeah. He's from there. Yeah. So it's, it's, it's extra neat for him. And then we have an anxious one. Our guy, Josh Young says, quote, I don't want my career to be defined by cortisone injection. So he's taking a step away and trying to get his wrist right, still bothering him. And you know how those, those things can be so best elected him. This young was talking about a plate that was, it was inserted that's irritating a nerve. And so that's, that's been the big issue right there that maybe they need to get that plate and get that plate or move it around or do something to make it a little bit stronger. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Baltimore Orioles defeated the Yanks last night, a roar erupted inside their clubhouse at Yankee Stadium shortly after the game as they huddled around to watch the twins lose to the Marlins, clinching a playoff spot for the O's in the second straight season. And they, they party, they partied it up. Yeah. That was a big topic last year around this time when the Rangers were partying. I think maybe after beating the O's, they had won the World Series Jackson holiday had the, he had the champagne bottle, but it was, it was a different type of signage on the bottle. It was called bird bath water, zero percent alcohol for Orioles under 21. So that's what he was allowed to drink there in the house. I love it. Don't be aware, you know, you don't want to put the wrong things out there on social. Next thing you know, Mad's mad at you. I would, I would kind of like think to put the label on a real bottle like that for him, you know, you think so? Just kind of just like make it look the optics, make it look, but who cares? Brought us, brought us. I can confirm. That's exactly what they did. Did they do that? Yeah. It's a very obvious champagne bottle that they just make shifted into a 0.0 NA. This UNLV story is epic, isn't it, Brian? This quarterback Matt Sluka. Yeah. A new guy named James Kluka back in the day, but never a sluka. He left the undefeated rebels on Tuesday night over claims of unfulfilled verbal NIL promises. Yeah. UNLV has released a statement saying we didn't promise anybody anything, but his agent, Marcus Cremardi told ESPN UNLV didn't come through on it of a hundred grand and that apparently was a verbal offer from an assistant coach. I'm surprised this. This doesn't happen a little bit more. I don't know if the kids, you know, just wanting to bail on UNLV, but they're three and oh, they're number 23. And the coaches poll marking the first time the program has been ranked in any major poll ever. And they still won't pay up, dude. This just really reveals the, the, the brokeness of their financial situation. Their bag men are down in a huge way. This is, this is pretty concerning. Yeah. The collective group pocket watching these guys, they're down big. As Dawson said, the collective group put out a big statement, said, Hey, we didn't promise anything. Yeah. This is a, but to me, if I'm an alum, I'm thinking of Vegas, got some pretty, some high roller lumps. Maybe, right? Yeah. I mean, can like, I can't tell you anything about their alum. I mean, well, I think Guy Fieri with the school at UNLV, can't Guy Fieri like throw in a hundred grand and like get this kid back? I would think so. I would be appropriate at a time like this. I mean, all of a sudden, the mayor of flavor town can do whatever he wants whenever he made. Where's Mark Davis? I need Mark Davis here. Maybe to come in there and say, you know what, Mark Davis is, I would actually, I think Fieri's pockets look better than Mark Davis's that his hair definitely does Davis is all tied up in assets. Yeah. I don't know what the liquid pocket situation looks like. I'm just telling you, man, that somebody's got to step up, Phil Ivy, how about some of your car playing? I would at least get some threats of mob violence. You know, I don't know if it's poker guys or restaurant guys or whatever, but we need, we need some kind of pressure on Sluka. Somebody, I mean, we're, we're, we're a top 25 program. Yeah. We're doing this over a hundred twenty, a hundred, a hundred thousand dollars. Come on, man. Yeah. What'd you just say? Dawson, they're like at the height of their school. This is the most success their school. Well, they had. They've seen in years, yeah, and yeah, the basketball though, no, the basketball, yeah. Cherry Tartanian in that crew was pretty rocking back in the day. I'm sure Tark knows somebody that could line that young man's pockets, keep them in the mix. Plus that dude's cash out, man. I don't know. How do you rank the Cowboys top three issues, three weeks in, then your G bag of the day is coming up. Flaktober 2024 is starting Saturday morning at nine a.m. at the fire wheel. What a burger. 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Brian what do you think biggest issue through three games for your Cowboys yeah I think the inability to play run defense at a consistent level that's the fact that you you know the I said this before in my breakdown of the two games the Saints game was far more of an ass kicking than what the Ravens was the quarterback from the Ravens just is incredible the way the ball handling the way he plays Dallas was in position I was amazed the number of Miss tackles that they had I was amazed at the seventeen of them yeah I just felt like that you know if you make I'm not saying you're going to make every single tackle against Henry or even Mar Jackson but you can have seventeen miss Miss tackles and their inability to play with any consistency defending the run but make no mistake this offense needs to get going to okay and they showed me signs of that and I don't mean to just continually throw out points and stuff but I think the run defenses a is a huge problem and the their inability to to sustain any kinds of drives or get points especially down the red zone you know that's just been a big issue as well yeah I think that's part of the bummer right now is there's not just one thing it's not even like you could say man if you just fixed your run defense everything would be you'd be back to being able to win this division there's other things that have to be fixed from an offensive standpoint in a big time way but there is no doubt that the biggest issue is the defense it is specifically the run defense they're they're dead last now in rushing yards given up per game rushing per play dead last they've given up eighteen explosive runs in three games the Ravens had over 160 yards before contact and then over 110 yards after contact yeah so that's where the the missed tackles come into play but it's just it is it is like all time level bad are we missing Dan Quinn you know I think better with this is the last thing he would fix I mean even if the defense was playing well otherwise you know maybe they would have more takeaways or something like that but he was never fixing the run defense that was never a part of his plan do you think maybe lame duck coach has taken the the fight or the spirit out of the team no I just don't think they're very good at it yeah they just don't have good players I just don't I think that's the bigger issue there is I think that's what it is do I mean you know they're even when they put guys in position to make plays we've had some misses there you know there's your to me I have a lot of faith in these linebackers and I love over shown and I love his ability in his future but when he's missing tackles when Kendrick's is missing tackles Kendrick said it yesterday he's looking at himself you know he's played in this scheme a long time he should know better but they they're just not they're not very good when it when it comes to how if they could play run defense their strength is their ability to rush the passer that's their strength you know they can't get anybody to into that situation where they're rushing the passer yeah you know it's it's like constantly having to defend every time you look up it's second and two second and one you can't play winning football that one you know from a coaching standpoint defensively I think John Oning is going to have a couple of interesting talking points as it pertains to the way they defended Lamar Jackson and those own reads and doing more single high safety stuff when it's maybe better to actually do the two high safety so you have guys filling in the alley a little bit better so I think John have an interesting perspective on at least some of the coaching tactics but it's very apparent your players are not any good the athletic looked at it here number five at the beginning of games we've been talking about that the first place but you know a scripted on offense but more than that has been defense just the absolute marches that the opposition has gone on I like number four a lot depth in the passing game I just think it's it's really time to reinvest in this wide receiver core and you know maybe acknowledge that the disappointment of a guy like Jalen Tobord is complete it's final you know it's just not good enough I I will disagree with them on that point and and I understand why they used it but your best receiver was one of nine catching the ball in the fourth and that game the other day it was Tolbert it was you know it was Cooks it was you know Turpin it was Ferguson to me I mean CD was not a factor in the second half of that football game your your backups were the ones that were carried you into getting that making that game even being close Turpin and I don't know I don't know make it say the rate is this a wide receiver core that takes you into the playoffs and you have success there I'm just saying though that I I'm just the point I'm making is I disagree with them because if you watch that game the backups is are the only reason why is it is it a playoff caliber I thought at one time yes yeah at one time now again however whatever you think about the Ravens defense they made plays against that defense now the Ravens might suck on defense you know but it was it wasn't CD lamb that drove you back into that game it was everybody else other than name CD lamb that drove you back into that game the running game number three that's just that's been horrible I again I don't think any quarterback could have success with what Dak is dealing with right now I do not think this is Dak Prescott's fault I think you know it's it's a way of saying even Patrick Mahomes would be like what the hell is going on here guys yeah it's just there's no way out of this yeah it's awful defense it's no rushing attack and it's very very old and outdated and stale passing game concepts so okay the lame duck coach is neutered and the team knows it see that's what I I do think there's something to that yes the players aren't good enough as a collection but there's still like five or six guys who can make an all-pro team there's another five guys after that that could be pro bowlers or have been pro bowlers and I think you know it reminds me a lot of how the Cowboys were playing in 2010 when Wade Phillips was capped mid-season for some reason you know it lost all of the spark and the belief and I think changing head coach is about the quickest way of you know giving yourself that sort of head change okay at eight seven seven eight eight one one oh five three the biggest issue is that the Jones top priority is not winning that's from the grouch yeah in Los Angeles California absolutely says Maverick from Joshua echoes the same sentiments Brian you you were you've said that a long time ago yeah and I didn't want to believe you and I think they want to win but I think they want to win on their terms yeah that's the thing and I never won I'm like man I've lived with this I was with this organization for 14 years I know how important it is but then I it just makes me wonder now and a lot of people have said it and you were one of the first ones ever to say it and it unfortunately it it's it looks like it's true and I didn't want to believe it I really didn't because I'm like it doesn't make sense at first it took me a number of years to come around on before it came into focus I just know how bad you know they always talk about how bad you want to win how bad Jerry wants to win you know and in the post game he's apologizing to the fan base well you're the general manager sir you know go if you see something wrong with your football team go try and fix it yeah go be that guy don't don't just apologize to your fan base you know the way you make your fan base feel better is doing something about it yep and that's unfortunately where we're at right now is you know you need to go do something about it and I don't know if they will this is a long distance tease but coming up at 440 I think this whole organization has an obsession with being comfortable and being nice to each other instead of being willing to stop at nothing in order to get wins and it's why I didn't like CD Lam's apology last night more on that coming up at 440 into the Pimp Cup we go here's Laseous with you back and back oh you cowboys you cowboys I tell you what the texture was wondering what you think of these guys he gave up a long time ago a long time ago yeah 2016 2016 I was out on cowboys that was it for me long time ago right before the season started to I didn't watch maybe about two seasons I'll probably jump back in in 2020 yeah yeah around that time so yeah it's been a while for me man I've been out but I do enjoy football so I do watch you just you came back in 2020 because they were so down it was just fun to hate watching I know I wouldn't see the cowboys do good man that's good for business I'm telling you I want a new floor in my kitchen put some points on the bar yeah man it's good for business don't that's right selfishly but hey everybody's a little selfish in this we're all excited it's a communal thing at the end of the day yeah all right I'll win it right here I believe this is day day two for airy spears okay yeah he was on a sage steel show and he was showing off his impersonations and he could do a Tony Soprano kind of what's your best impersonation you're no your favorite anything that's new feels like a new child but I love Tony Soprano cuz 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 like don't you feel about it what I do with the body all the guys gonna bury it show pussy question for they don't have position I'm gonna get in a yard you see I went to another bush I'm gonna join the Johnny Jack I'm gonna bury it behind the bottom big a bunch of matter it goes with a single oh my god like I'm watching your mouth when you do it is that the key like I said notes Tony Tony is ish talk about it's just a jaddish you gotta have that metal at AJ we'll go down to all of your assubios audio bunkers he's got the matter done with the grave that's a different language you just broke hey he's he's trying to wow her bro if you watch this interview they're sitting across from each other she got her little old feet out and they're all up on the couch and everything he's trying to show off some skills I did the weirdie thing he played it he's in his bag on that now he was man he's pretty good him and oh my gosh what's my guy's name Godford the comedian him and Godfrey oh my god Godfrey is amazing let's see here this isn't one but it might be the Padres clinched on a triple play last night they did it was cool that was really cool the triple play is amazing mm-hmm which really amazing is the Spanish call of it oh whoa there's a kid at Russia or is a gun that lands on me and turn up or tracer I'm a child of Thomas Pisa uno a seconda boss a pre-bearer triple play yeah I'm gonna go get the airy I'm gonna go let's go lost father is standing play off country south in an arena who have a pretada lost I am a retard last year I'm gonna go see on Kevin Sena who got a halo for a dessert he's a child in a hugava my child of Thomas Pisa uno a seconda boss yeah crony a primera tres triple a play triple a matanza but I said a little a notch in capo de sera celebración de los padres shoot you at boy it was pretty to free play play the bookly my man tongue was my boss my man was I'm gonna learn that keep that dude away from your girl by the way that guy keep that guy away from your okay I'm telling you right now did you see how fast he was talking well you say just like I'm saying just amazing yeah oh my god watching your list she's about to risk at all with a little shoes out and everything all right let's see what we got here for you boys hey hey hey hey old school old school player was in a Jeep looks like he had to keep it running keep it moving keep it moving in order to keep it running okay sense okay I think I've been there so he read it yeah yeah so anyway somebody pulled up on him was like hey man you're running a whole lot of stop signs old school is just unreal about it though did you see the stop time beside you don't run this one over yeah but you ran the one bit behind you don't run this one over is you the pony no what about what I ran I'm just saying you support all wheels supposed to be stopped stop when I get ready for stop I'm gonna run this mother you don't get to stop my weight I'm gonna run into that too man be careful they go ahead man go ahead bro you got it you got to play them all good all my bad yeah hey hey hey hey that's the best end to one of those I've heard them old school cast me on right yeah definitely not to all center what is it then bro my starter it's not my starter started like it struggles when I try to start it all center keeps the damn thing kind of going in the sense why they got a bell problem maybe yeah the motor has to keep going okay that's your batteries all right listen bro I just know they're all in the in the same in a sense you change one you're gonna end up changing another pretty soon you change that started alternate is gonna go out you changed alternate started gonna go out and if you put a fresh batter in there that both gonna go out pick your poison pick your poison you got time now that's it bro man I was I was playing cards in Vegas last time I was there with these these old guys and it was like grumpy old men against one another I was like me how can you be so aggressively talking to one another old me right at my age if if one of us starts talking like that to the other one one the other one's gonna stand up and be like dude what are we doing here yeah you know which one do you want to crash on out right here is this it at some age you can just you can stop standing up and just keep market yeah all kinds of crazy insults forget about this guy over here I'll give you a knuckle sandwich buddy yeah it was hilarious okay our is awesome Ari Spears Tony Soprano impersonation is it the Padres triple play somebody said to carb right and bro they made him and since but 85 in a long time maybe that's how old the car that's what you could work on cars though for real when they had those joints you can work on cars now you can't work on it yeah when I take apart 30 pieces just to get to one little thing when I first started driving that was the thing when your car would break down you just kind of get together with your buddies and figure it out yeah like yeah I got a starter I think I need a fresh and ranch or something I'm not sure try your own your bike guys all those years I'll go by nappa and pick up the part and come by after work you be out there all Saturday afternoon yeah 12 pack of beer we'll figure this out boys somebody pull I can't get it or is it the old school play if in a jeep uh sorry yeah I'm gonna go with uh I'm gonna go with Ari Spears they're still a chief about you like I like a soprano's a lot yeah I think I am as well man Lucius sure I'll do that too pre-oppressure Padres triple play hey bias core three to one still your g bag of the day champion it's Ari Spears there flux capacity yeah yeah catalytic converter yeah Doc Brown'll get you right let's talk some Mavs is Jason kid underrated going into years this for year four with the Mavs what do you think about his ranking amongst the best coaches in the league that's next in the nation thank you very much Lucius welcome back it is the g bag nation here on the fan congrats to Ari Spears for winning g bag of the day once again if you ever miss the g bag of the day Lucius replays it for you every evening at 540 inside of LA live okay would you like some Mavs content man are we begin peppered with uh where's the Mavs where's the Mavs where's the Mavs nice let's do it I mean people are excited to you know talk about our contender a team you know Rangers obviously was amazing last year you know since then it's been kind of disappointing other than you know with the stars and Mavs were able to do for us in the spring so I think this is the most excited we've been for a season in a long time for the maps like I don't know if you can I think you got to go back to the dirt gears for this feeling of anticipation like no this this could actually be our year I mean last year could have been but we didn't know it yeah yeah there's there's a lot more there's a lot more confidence that you can really do something here you always knew it was possible when you have Luca when you have Kyrie anything's really on the table but now it's like now the expectations there that you're at least back in the Western Conference finals I feel like they would have already been champions if it wasn't for drew holiday ending up with the Boston Celtics that's how much I think of this this Maverick's team Brian man I kind of felt like that if Derek Lively would have had maybe three years under his belt of NBA action that that might have been a different series to yeah you know I think that's the first thing is my hope how's yeah how's the pendulum swing in your favor did clay Thompson do enough to bridge the gap to how good Boston was and maybe Lively in year two yeah I think you need a jump from Jaden Hardy yeah I kind of man I am really excited to see Lively play and and you know how his off season and then you know this this team with this team has got a shot they really do I know the West has got some some heavyweights in it but man I like where I like what they're five R right now but you keep mentioning about the defensive stuff now you got three guys on the on the court that yeah or you know below see that's the concern I think with putting faith in clay Thompson I just don't know how much he can play I think you look at it like we want clay on the court when Luca or Kyrie comes out give us playmaking give us some offense but your your ability to put four good defenders on the court and sort of win like that I think with that strategy I think it's still left to be determined if clay Thompson is going to be a net win for this basketball team am I too pessimistic about that no I don't think you're too pessimistic I think there are plenty plenty of things are on the table with the way this could go for clay Thompson so I and defensively now you're just hoping he's not a liability can you just be at least serviceable and average but you're but you need that three ball to be working form in a huge way yeah and he's going to be set up for success offensively like I don't really want him trying to be playmaker guy I like he was asked to do too much of that there towards the end in Golden State because it's like man it got to a point where it's just Steph and Clay so you got to go do a lot now he's gonna it's gonna be made easy for him offensively and as long as he hasn't lost his his three point shot I think that you're I think you're still going to be okay you have enough reinforcements to where in any given moment any type of game situation where you need defenders on the floor you have it but I still think that the clay Thompson three ball be enough to make up for whatever his deliability is yeah and I don't know what the number is that he's got to shoot above to to have that be true but I mean if he can go forty two forty three percent something like that he should have a lot of wide open corner looks that's possible but the first story here in you know you're around the Mavs or whatever is that Jason Tatum said he knew they were going to win the championship when Denver was eliminated by Minnesota he just said that the Mavs don't have enough offensive firepower and I think them getting drew holiday from Milwaukee Bucks essentially after the trade through Portland and then to Boston effectively swung the balance of power in a way that I wouldn't even come close to considering that the Mavs could beat the Celtics at this point I have to see some sort of development and I just don't know how that's going to happen because the way the Celtics play basketball it's it's well established there they haven't lost any key players and you know I don't think this is going to be much of a dynasty era in basketball but I think Boston here can go on a little bit of a run until the luxury tax and maybe contract start catching up with them ranking every head coach going into the season is what CBS Sports did and they put Jason Kidd in the middle of the pack saying he has grown more flexible in Dallas and didn't get enough credit for the work he did in 2022 out maneuvering Monty Williams and the second round against Phoenix last season's playoff run was as much or more of a function of Niko Harrison's masterful job of rebuilding the roster though man I don't know and I would hope so too. I would you know and man it doesn't see it's about it's about the players but it's about the players showing up every night he gets his teams ready to play and you know the series that they won I mean Oklahoma City Series Minnesota Series you're thinking man they got no shot and I think that the players were great but I think he did a tremendous job of understanding what the team was the conditions they were how they were playing the rotations he used you know he doesn't always come off as a great post game talker no but but I think in that locker room his players totally get him and they play defensive or yeah they play and the way he brought that group together in 2022 was unbelievable it was unbelievable and I man I'd like to believe that that he deserves more credit than you know that and these these writers we all make mistakes you know we vote and say things the wrong way I just think somebody needs to step up and and give him a lot more credit for the job that he's done the last say three years in the perfect way of managing Luca Donchich and sort of lay him be him but a key moment stepping up and saying bro you got a defend when have we you know remember when Kyrie signed here it was like oh damn here get ready for the first blow up here we go things are going you know and we haven't even thought about something like that you know your coach is the one that your coach is the one that kind of keeps the locker room the harmony there and all that and I think it's disappointing that they didn't give him a little bit more credit for for what he's how he's managed a lot of situations the sale of a team all these things that kind of came into an inexperienced general manager man there's some things that could have got really sideways here and he I think he did a really nice job yeah he's taking two different rosters to the western conference finals yeah and then obviously this latest one was actually to the NBA finals but where was he actually ranked again it was 16th or 18th or something I mean yeah it was like they did a like a tiered thing and it was like 15th 16th that's wild yeah I couldn't believe it but you know I think Jason Kidd definitely did a lot to build up a negative narrative about him with the stops in Brooklyn and Milwaukee and you know people are kind of dug in that they don't believe he's a good head coach but I think we've seen up close and personal here in Dallas you have a lot of things to appreciate to enforce a stop printing pretending Luca wasn't hurt and that wasn't a huge factor I mean I think it was a factor at times but he proved several times after getting hurt that he was capable of still playing at a high level to me again I think the biggest factor is drew holiday and you see the impact that he has with team USA you know does team USA win the gold medal it's like his ability to lock up a great player but more than that the way that he keeps his team coordinated in a team defense it just seems like a basketball team is much more difficult to score on once drew holiday is out there and it's not a coincidence at all that they won the championship in the Bucks with him and then he goes they can't get out of the first round obviously Janice was hurt but they won't be the same without him there you know they got a major roster reconstruction around because they didn't appreciate the impact that drew holiday had and let him go for outside shooting essentially and Damien Lillard NFL News the day coming up next chief over you teasing well we'll empty out the NFL insider notebook and we have some damning evidence on Old Big Mike that's next year in the nation after investing billions to light up our network T-Mobile is America's largest 5g network plus right now you can switch keep your phone and we'll pay it off up to $800 see how you can save on every plan versus Verizon AT&T at T-Mobile.com/KeepAndSwitch It's a four lines via virtual prepaid card a left 15 days qualifying unlocked device credit service ported 90+ days with device ineligible carrier and timely redemption required card has no cash access and expires in six months Post season baseball is here and it is the absolute best time of the year I'm Rob Bradford of baseballs and boring and we're going to have you covered every step of the way with instant reactions from players and coaches and managers and fans and reporters everybody else who is immersed in this awesomeness and all the craziness that comes with October baseball so follow baseballs and boring in the free honesty app or wherever you get your podcasts [MUSIC PLAYING]