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In fact, you're part of the crew that drafted Marcus Spears, hell of a draft pick there, the Marcus Ware, and Spears first round in that good work. Lemon and 20, man, those were home runs this draft. - My last draft, 0-5. - Well, Marcus can now join Emmet, Michael, some of the other Cowboys that have been outspoken about this football team, and here is what he had to say about the Cowboys team building, and well, does he really think they're trying to win? - Oops, I'm not convinced that Dallas really wants to win. And that's hard for me, 'cause I'm a fan of Dallas. I got, it's a lot of people in that building that I have a tremendous amount of respect for. I'm not convinced that they actually want to win, because there is no way you can look at the landscape or the NFL, over the, let's just say the last two to three years, and think that you've been in position with your work in free agency to put yourself over the top. I sit on, I sit home sometimes on the sofa with my feet up, and I listen to people say, what a roster was good enough, and the roster did this, and they got to do this, and they just got to, it's not, it hasn't been. And it's something that I've been screaming, like 12 wins is great, but if we talking about a Super Bowl, I just, I want somebody, this is what I've been praying for, Dan Rosano, you're a historian in the NFL. I want somebody to go back the last five years and tell me what team has won the Super Bowl only through the draft. Just name one of them. - No, there hasn't been one of them. - So I can't, like every time you say that, or somebody says that, I'm like, but the blueprint of winning a Super Bowl or making it to one has been to be aggressive in free agency. That's literally been the blueprint to get there. Now, the other argument, you remember me and Teddy Brucekey said here this summer, and I told him, I said, they're not good enough, Teddy. Yeah, oh, they're good enough, they got a dad, and they got, bro, Dallas got three people that you worry about on this football team. You can't win like that. And it's unfortunate, and it's not a good thing, but we, the fans and everybody talk to me about why you, bro, they're not good enough to do it. - Yeah, I hope they don't want to win, because if they do want to win and they think this is the best way to go about doing that, then the problem is even worse. You know, I hope, especially with this year, that they're like, okay, we need a year to get our cap in order, so we're not spending anything this year. And we gotta hope that the light bulb comes on, because he's right, the teams that are getting there, you either have one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, or you're so aggressive with the cap that you can get there with a Matt Stafford, or with a 43-year-old Tom Brady and finish it. - Does he include teams that won Super Bowls before the salary cap? - Well, he's just-- - I mean, I'm asking him to ask five years. - I mean, okay. - Which would be the Chiefs three times. - Okay, and I'm glad he said the last five years because-- - The Bucks and Rams. - I was sitting there thinking about all the, you know, San Francisco had a draft where it was all, I mean, if you think about teams pre salary cap-- - Yeah. - They did it all the time. - I mean, he didn't pre-2010 now. - Yeah, I mean, it kind of changed from, it was a league that if you got it as a wildcard team, you could go on this magical run. Now, there's just a couple of teams that are better constructed and are so aggressive to make sure they don't have the big problems. So, flawed rosters can't get it done, but the Cowboys still believe that's the best way to team build, is to pick the one spot that you're gonna sacrifice. And if you don't wanna have it all, then you can generally be, you know, a playoff team almost every year. And they think like just barely being a playoff team and is giving them as good of a chance as the teams that are super aggressive when it comes to free agency. And, you know, I share Marcus Spears frustration. Honestly, it sounds like Marcus Spears has been listening to our show, you know, because it's just a head scratcher that smart people could genuinely come to these kind of conclusions on how to build a contender. - You can't do it. I mean, you're putting so much pressure on Will McLean, your scouting department, to ace the draft every single year. - Yeah. - If that's the only way you're going to-- - And they've done for the most part outside of maybe the Mozier with Scuny and the second round. And I mean, we'll see. - But that has set them back. - That has, why have they gone from really good to now one of the worst? - They got worse than the last season. - They did. And those guys aren't really stepping up for you right now. Like Jalen Tolbert, this was a year and I get it. Like they said, all right, you're gonna be our third receiver. We drafted you for this. We need you to step up. And he's looked better. Maybe as the course of the season goes on, maybe he will end up getting better. But right now, I don't think we're like overly confident. Defenses aren't like, oh, Jalen Tolbert's really scaring us right now, right? - No, no. - So, yeah, and no, the Chiefs did, they've signed a lot of free agents if you look at the three years they've won the Super Bowl. Orlando Brown Jr, they brought in the left tackle. Joe Tuny, who they brought in from New England. Juju Smith Schuster, who was big for them and the Super Bowl went over the Eagles. Last year, Mark has Valdez Scantling. Two safeties, the Honey Badger, Tyron Matthew and Justin Reed. Like, sorry, that's the other thing is they have my homes. - They do, but they have a guy that gives you an edge and they're spending more than the Cowboys. - Right, and they've also made, hey, we're not gonna always pay our guy. Like most teams probably are paying Tyree kill. They said, we're gonna go ahead and not do that. We're gonna trade him, we're gonna get assets. And yes, when you have my homes in Reed, maybe you're able to do that. But all last year, that offense looked terrible. Then finally in the postseason, because my homes is my homes, somehow all of a sudden in Travis Kelsey, of course, they end up elevating their level of play. But they also let Nigeria's need go at corner. - Yeah, that's the big one I think too. That is the underlying one, which is they're willing to say, yes, we acknowledge your greatness Tyree kill, but we are willing to move on from you. And the Cowboys haven't shown their willing to do that with star players. They end up acquiescing every time. They play hard ball the whole time and then they cave in. That's what they do. The Chiefs did something different there. And now they've done it again, as you mentioned, with luxurious need and they do draft extremely well. But I mean, you say Andy Reed and Pat Mahomes, it's obviously difficult to find those things, especially finding a Pat Mahomes. But you should have an Andy Reed. There's no excuse for you not to have an Andy Reed. You're the most powerful franchise in the sport. If you actually wanted to win, you could go get the best coach anytime you want. There's no salary cap on it, nothing. You have more resources than anybody. If you just had the desire, you can go get the right coach. They just, they refuse to identify it. And you're absolutely right too. And for their defense, it's been outstanding. And it definitely was last year. I mean, they were brilliant. And hey, the one guy they paid, Chris Jones, defensive tackle in the middle. And that's one position the Cowboys just haven't seemed to have ever since Jay Ratliff. Yeah, yeah. And then, you know, things like that what Troy Ekman did. You know, I have one set of stats in the regular season. When the playoffs come, I'm going to elevate my level. I'm going to limit the mistakes even more and make sure that when I do risk the football, it's because that's what the game absolutely demands of me right now. Dude, amen, Chris Jones, perfect example. He's a guy that fourth quarter, big moments, big plays, big games, postseason. He is the best version of himself. Mahomes is the same way. Kelsey's been the same way. You need Mikey to do that. Yes, you know. You need all your guys. You need CD to do that. But specifically the guys that you're paying, like those are the guys they've committed big money to. I don't know if the Cowboys really got on the return on their investment when it comes to the guys that they've given big money to. Yeah, not when it matters. Not at all, sure. Not at all. At the end of the top 10, the top 10 weird but good food combos that people are eating out there, 877-881-1053. Have you looked at the, I'm just curious about this. Did you look at the 2023 Kansas City Chiefs and see what free agents they signed? No. Did you look at, Byron Coward. Byron Coward. Off the top of my head. Mike Edwards, Lane Gabbard, Sebastian Gutierrez, Phil Hotkins, Lamar Jackson, the quarterback from the Broncos. Richie James, Charles Aminahoo, Donovan Smith. That was many. He was pretty big for them. Yeah. Donovan Smith, Do you want Taylor? Drew Tranquil, Chris Williams. Yeah. So they had four starters there. Four starters? Yeah, both those tackles started and many who started. So the biggest, the biggest additions were that, but they, of all those guys they signed, they got two players at the two tackles, right? Yeah. That was their biggest, the biggest sign. It's not like you got to go and build your entire team free agency, but you got to at least bring in a couple of players that are going to really help you. And it was the year before that, that they loaded up on all of the offensive linemen and retooled some things after losing to Tom and the Bucks and the Super Bowl and realizing, okay, we got to, we got to get some, we got to get some new blood in here. Yeah. I'm just curious to who all these, I'm going to go through and look at all these guys who they signed. Yeah. How many do it? I mean, because like I said, if, you know, if you look okay, how about for the, let's see the draft, that's the Rams. Let me see if I can get to, go ahead and start. Yeah. We'll circle back that when you, when you've got the names, we got a lot of good techs coming in. Pemento cheese with chocolate milk. That's interesting. Mayo and ramen noodles. Spicy nuggets with chocolate frosty from Wendy's is bomb. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, that's, yeah, I could see that. For sure, with the french fries and stuff too. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the fries and the shake, like that's one. I mean, do you guys have any weird food combos that you're like, I always think that Italian food and salads don't work well together. One is hot, you know, and then one is cold. Like eating them on the same plate. Yeah. On the same plate, okay. Dressing in the marinara 'cause I have co-mingles. Okay. 'Cause at all, like that's the whole olive garden. Like I'm going for the endless salad. I went that the other day. But I get it maybe on the same point. Keep it separated. Right. What about you, Lucius? You know, like the yams and the greens touching, you don't like that? I don't, I don't. I don't like the sweets touching like the vinegar of the dressing. You don't put it on the same fork sometimes? Mm-hmm. You know, okay. There's certain things that will cross over, but those are, you know, ones that don't. So do you attack one food at a time on your plate? Or are you just, oh, wow. Yeah, I don't, and I really don't want my maple syrup leaking onto my omelet. Geez. I feel like the omelet is almost ruined. It's crazy, dude. Wow. That's, I love, I love the syrup. I kinda like it. And now it's in sausage, and there's pancake, and there's sausage, it's good. Yeah. There's hash brown. You have the sausage. It's so special. Yeah, it is, man. Uh, we'll chuck. Let's see. Popcorn and Louisiana hot sauce. Okay. Let's see that being good. Try that. Avocado slices and honey. Oh, I've never tried that. That's pretty good. Honestly, this isn't honey. The more I, the, like, honey just, it's good on everything. Everything. I like the honey on the eggs, dude. I know that might creep you out a little bit. Yeah, me too. Honey on the eggs. On chicken. I take a spoonful of honey every morning. Like, help with the allergies, type of bobs. Smart game changer. Get that local honey. Yeah, local. Yeah, local joint. Smart. Honey oatmeal. Yeah. What's the walnuts in it? Wait. Peanut butter and dill pickles. Wow. That's weird. It's very weird. Mustard on Snickers. Oh my God. Would you do that? That's bad. If you had a mustard beer coming out, Fletcher's corn dog is announcing a mustard beer that they're going to debut at the state potential. I think ketchup has the potential to make things weird more so than mustard, if you ask me. Like you put ketchup on a steak, ketchup on tacos. A ketchup on chicken strips. All of a sudden, like this really core, you know, a condiment that America has an obsession with, it just, it throws everything off to me. Number 10, according to Tasty, weird foods that are actually good combos together. Number 10, I love slicing up dill pickles in my mac and cheese. Sounds disgusting, but I love the little crunch with a bite of creamy cheese. No shame. That's weird. I cannot wait to pull all of these where you're, are you reading them first person? Yeah. Number nine, beef flavored ramen noodles with some peanut butter. It sounds weird, but it gives you that delicious Thai peanutty taste. Okay. I actually see it. Yeah. You've kind of sold me, but I do wonder like how we're executing this. Are we, are we stirring up a peanut butter spoon inside the hot soup here? I wonder as well. How's it delivered? I think a big key there would be like to take most of the water out so you can get more of a paste going. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Look at us connecting eight. And I got this on Twitter as well. And I have heard of this one, a slice of cheese, think like a craft singles melted on top of apple pie. Yeah. Can't do it. But, but yeah, but don't, don't go for the cheap cheese. So you don't, you don't like to craft a goal. Yeah. Yeah. If you're going to get good. He's just urinating on the pie. Yeah. Go for it. Go for a really good cheese and do that. That's not a bad combination there. This one I have kind of fought against, but I don't know, people do like this. I make tuna salad with pretty much whatever fruit is in my fridge. Yes. I scraped chopped apples or pears, mandarin oranges, learned it from my dad and I used to find it repulsive, but as I've gotten older, it's been fantastic. Great combination. Yeah. Absolutely. 9-2-0 catch up on tacos. What the bleep, it's, it's a thing from the 80s man in the north, you know, we didn't have a lot of taco eat and folks around to learn from. We were doing our best with the pictures we saw on TV. Number six, you probably heard the dipping french fries in a milkshake, but hear me out, chicken nuggets dipped in a milkshake. Yeah. It's like a spicy nuggets in the frosty. Number five, french fries and powdered sugar. I learned this accidentally at the beach when the wind flipped my funnel cake over in my bucket of french fries. Okay. I was going to say this is kind of like french fries funnel cake. It's greasy. Yeah, it's greasy. Sounds good. You think powdered sugar might be the most slept on, like additive? Mm-hmm. You're right. Because I remember thinking about adding powdered sugar, but I'm going to knock it. Why not? It's good. We go over to my aunt's house growing up and it was like Eggo waffles with syrup and the powdered sugar and whatever else chocolate chips. She had a dang bar out there. You're keeping it just for breakfast stuff. You ain't putting it on like, yeah, for the most part. Yeah. Yeah, you're saying slip on in a way of like, yeah, for breakfast things. Yeah. I mean, I'm not thinking you're going to put it on your legs. I'm supposed to get a baked potato or anything like that, right? No, sir. No, sir. Mostly desserts and breakfast. You could be on something there. Could be delicious. Yeah. Number four, dill pickles with sharp cheddar cheese and chunky peanut butter. I developed the snack when my wife was pregnant and it has become a mainstay in her home. Okay. That sounds awful. The pickles and cheese is kind of a charcuterie board thing, but you know. The peanut butter, yeah, it looks gross too. Number three, one combination I love is potato chips dipped into chocolate, peanut butter, and banana smoothie. It was one of the things I craved when I was pregnant, but I really have to try it again one of these days, salt salt and sweet. Yeah. And number two, balsamic vinegar on ice cream is incredible, but you have to use good, thick balsamic, not that grocery store trash, man, that that's, that's a very, very weird one. How about this? You know how to source that. I don't either. Balsamic vinegar and strawberries is good. Yep. Absolutely it is. We have the, try some of these, the two, five, four Twinkies and queso. Ooh. Twink. I'm just kidding. I would not. That back is wide. You feel what I'm saying? Basically he's creating Twinkie nachos is what he's doing. He's taking Twinkies. That's something I would think is not a weird combination, but if you use pork rinds instead of chips in your queso, it's a much better. Some of those pork rinds, I'm exploring all kinds of them right now. They have some sort of a creamy texture inside of them. I definitely don't like those. No, last one. Yeah. I'm sorry. Number one. And you said the balsamic vinegar and the strawberries are delicious. They do strawberries in black pepper. The pepper somehow enhances the strawberry flavor without making it spicy. Okay. And tree cheese. That's really good. So there's your top 10. Weird. I use good food. That was very weird. Japanese barbecue sauce on my salad as a dressing. Okay. Yep. Good list. Well, we got to run because see why I said to join us. We'll chat with the Rangers GM for the final time in this 2024 baseball season. It's next on your now at T mobile get four 5G phones on us in four lines for $25 a line per month. When you switch with eligible traders, all on America's largest 5G network minimum of four lines for $25 per line to a month without a paid discount using debit or bank account, $5 more per line without a pay plus taxes and fees and $10 device connection charge. It's time for pitch hidden run the official youth skills competition of major league baseball. Give the kids in your community a chance to flex their superpowers and they could earn a trip to the national finals at the 2025 World Series presented by Capital One. So go ahead be the one who powers their dreams and sign up to host the local pitch hidden run event. It's a free and fun way to promote baseball, softball and your organization to learn more. Go to pitch hit run.com home of the champs. Welcome back nation. It's time now for the Chris Young show here on your home of the Rangers 105 through the fan. CY show is brought to you by playscore and anheuser bush segments brought to you by soda pregame at eight o'clock tonight to first pitch about eight thirty seven here is a CY joint you now here on the fan and a good afternoon sir. How the heck are you? Hey guys. I'm well. How are you all? Oh, we're doing about the same. You know, schedule finishing up here late summer. I was wondering are you relieved that we get to take this season out to the back 40 and just be done with it for good or how you looking at the final week? Well, it's funny. I was in Boach's office two days ago and he said, see why, what do you want to see this final week? He said, Boach, I want to win. I want to win. That's the most important part to me. I want to come out and play good baseball for the last week and you know, go out and close out twenty twenty four on a winning note and then we turn the page and we move on to twenty twenty five and you know, I maybe it's just a competitor in me. I know there are a lot of young guys that you know, we'd like to see. But that said, I want to put a winning team out on the field. I want to finish strong and I want to play the baseball that I think we're capable of playing. And if we do that, I think we'll finish, we'll have a good road trip here and finish the way we want. Will that be a, you know, a good way to head off into the off season? Now, what do you think about the last series in Oakland for the Rangers? Is this, is this a, it is a place, a rich in baseball history. What first comes to mind for you? Yeah, you know, it's funny, I actually pulled into the stadium here this afternoon in the parking lot and they're already fans lined up at the, the lot waiting to get in. And you know, it's been a lot of time here as a player and I like this place. I mean, there's a lot of history here, a lot of great players, a lot of great teams that have come through Oakland and, you know, it's sad. It's sad for baseball that they're leaving and, but I am happy that we're here to close it out. I, I do have fond memories of pitching here, of playing against the A's and it's a great environment. When the place is full and the fans are here, they're rowdy and creates a great environment. I think that's what we're going to expect this, the last three games here and I'm excited to see it. And I just hope we play well and find a way to win in a rowdy environment. One of the few ballparks where you might have a possum sneak up on you or something, huh? You hope it's a possum. There may be bigger than that, but yeah, but no, it is. I mean, it's an old ballpark. It's run down. The amenities are not, are not the best, but I always thought that was part of the A's identity too is that they found a way to embrace that and just sort of have a chip on their shoulder and there wasn't much, you know, there weren't many frills of being a player in Oakland, but they always put together good teams and they play hard and this year's team is no different. Mark Hote has got them playing very, very hard and, and the guys seem to embrace kind of the, you know, the blue collar mentality that exists in playing in the Coliseum. One of the positives to the end of this season is certainly been the way Wyatt Langford's been playing had another home run over the weekend. How impressive is this for him as you look at his season coming to an end in the excitement heading into next year? Yeah. I mean, I can speak from personal experience in your first full season by the end of September. It's a, it's a mental grind. You've never been through a season that long in your life. You've never played this many games in your life. And so you kind of hope to get to the finish line. You don't expect to sprint through it and why it is accelerating as he's reaching the finish line. And it's really fun to see. He gets speaks to Wyatt's aptitude, the adjustments he's made over the course of the season, his mentality of getting better, not letting things fade them and just taking it day to day. And he's got all the attributes of a really, really good player and to see what he's done over the last six weeks and the way he's come on strong. It's so exciting to think about what he's going to be in 2025 and beyond. See why I know we have, you know, you have games still in hand that you have to finish out. But I'm curious, in the NFL, we have with the exit interviews and stuff like that, we always met with the players and talk with them and kind of told them our ideas and what we need to do for the off season. Do they do the same thing in baseball? Do you meet with everybody when, you know, when the season's over with and kind of get ideas going forward? Yes, it's why I'm on the trip and we'll meet with every player. Bochanai will meet with every player and really lay out the season, what we saw, what we think needs to improve as we go into the off season areas of focus and where players can get better and what we want collectively is a team going into the winner and coming back next year. I think it sets a tone and an expectation. I never actually believe they're not in baseball. It's not something that's commonly done and so I never had that as a player. Not one team I was on had exit interviews. I've done it three of the four years I've been here with the one exception being last year when there was the best kind of ending to the season you could possibly have. We didn't have the time to do those types of interviews but this year we are doing them. We're doing them this week over the course of the road trip and we'll do the same with the coaches when we get back to Arlington after the road trip. Well, as we talked with you about last week, the excitement was having rocker and de grom and getting to see them pitch. Have you formulated a plan at all for them moving into next year? Do you have to monitor their innings at all? Yeah, we'll approach that as we get into next year in the off season. We'll talk with the medical group and the performance department and really decide what the right threshold of innings is. I think it's not just the innings, it's the way we manage their starts and how many starts they do on four days rest, how many starts they do on five, when we need to skip a start, stuff like that. Looking at different pockets of the schedule where we may play 17 in a row or 30 out of 31 and deciding that, okay, this may be a good stretch where we skip a start or at some point if they're looking fatigued, we yell somebody to make sure that they have ample recovery time and stay strong throughout the season. So there's a number of ways to manage that, a bunch of strategic conversations and decisions that will get into the season is the off season gets underway here and really as we get into spring training, we'll have a specific plan for each player. Put into context what rockers last start means for his foreseeable future, is it relevant at all that you know, maybe you had more base runners than you would like or is that just part of the recovery process? I think it's just part of the natural assimilation of a major league starter, he just needs time and there are going to be moments where he's not feeling his best or he doesn't have his best command and he's going to run into trouble and he navigated those really well. We made an error that cost him two earned runs otherwise I felt like despite not having his best stuff, he gave his chance to win and you know, that's the making of a good pitcher when on the days you're not feeling great that you can go out and still compete and so I think we saw that. Now my hope is that this last start, it's going to be a fun start, the last game here at the Coliseum and it'll be a rowdy crowd, a day game, an environment which he's never seen. My hope is that he finishes strong and ends on a real positive outing and builds momentum into the offseason but you know, the natural, it's going to take him. I don't think we'll know what Kumar is going to truly be, you know, without seeing him at least, you know, 20 starts in the big leagues. See why my question for you then is do you anticipate any changes within the staff? I know that's something you probably have to sit down and talk about with Boach and stuff but do you anticipate any changes with your staff going forward? Yeah, Boach and I haven't had the discussion yet but I will say I believe in the staff we have. I think they're a great staff. They're very talented. It's the same staff that won the World Series last year and while we've come up short this year, I know it's no fault of the staff in terms of the effort, the energy, the commitment and the dedication that they've shown to the organizations, to the players themselves. So what I don't know is, you know, how many of them will have external opportunities or maybe some callings on staff members and in which case we need to reevaluate and decide the best way to backfill if we lose any staff members but I can't say perfectly if there will be changes right now but that's a conversation Boach and I will have in the coming days and at which point we'll evaluate the best way to structure the staff going forward and some of that may be dependent upon what transpires externally with job openings throughout the industry. And Josh Young with the hand, he's obviously shut down what's his outlook as it pertains to that. Yeah, we're trying to get some answers there and I think that it's been frustrating for Josh. He's such a hard worker and he's so committed and to have him have a little bit of a setback right now. It's been hard for him. I know he wanted to finish the season strong but this thing flared up just a little bit and it's kind of normal when they put a plate into his wrist to stabilize the bone but there's a tendon that runs along that plate that has continued to get irritated and so I think we have to step back and evaluate the best way to mitigate this and manage it moving forward and we hope to have answers within the next four or five days as to what that looks like. It's Chris Young here with us. You know here on the radio side we entertain all kinds of ideas and scenarios. Is the thought of Corey Seager transitioning to first base something that's relevant in your world at all? Well if Corey was struggling at shortstop we may consider that but Corey has been so good at short. He's played a great defense. He grades out very well in all our objective defensive metrics and external metrics from third parties. So I think that right now he's really a premier shortstop and there may come a time at which Corey, his body doesn't allow him to play short but that time is not now and we have high, high level of confidence that Corey will bounce back and be healthy next year and play a great shortstop for us. See why it's going to be the 24th year that Major League Baseball does not have a repeat champ. That'll be 25 next year when of course you and the Texas Rangers are back winning the World Series but if somebody were to say hey what were some of the biggest things you learned and challenges when it comes to repeating outside of the injuries because you were snake bitten this year. What are some of your thoughts reflecting back on that? Well, I think that and I experienced this as a player in 2015 going into the 2016 season in Kansas City when we won the World Series and I think that as a player it's natural that you have this emotional month where you reach the pinnacle of the game and you win and then you start your off season and you need time mentally and physically to recover and then you're kind of behind the eight balls so the off season accelerates on you and then you get into spring training and you think okay I got to ease into it because I'm not as far along as I was last year when there was a full off season and all of a sudden you look up and you get into May and June and you're a little bit behind the eight ball still because you haven't sped up and caught up in terms of the work that you've missed out on and I'm not sure there's a perfect way to avoid that aside from just making sure that you really have the same complete off season and do it with the same edge and mentality as you did in the losing seasons and it may be just natural that guys do let down their guard a little bit after they win and I saw that in Kansas City and I think one of the things that's important about this game is that you really never arrived. There are very few players that ever have this, you know, have the job security and they fully arrived in this game and so I think for all of our guys to stay hungry, to stay focused and continue to work because off seasons of the foundation in terms of what you can expect during the regular season. If you don't build that good, strong foundation in the off season, it's really hard to catch up during the season and of course that foundation in pro sports all, you know, flows from capital. TV money going to be right next year. Do you anticipate it'll impact your budget again or how do you look? What do we know about that? Well, I mean, to some degree, I don't know exactly the extent to which it will but we'll have those conversations. When I get back next week, I'll sit down with Ray and our ownership and really look at what what next year looks like in terms of revenues and our TV money and we'll formulate the best plan possible to put a winning team out on the field. But I am very excited about the core group that we have and I'm very confident that if we, you know, run this group out there and they all have great off seasons and come back motivated and hungry, that this team can be capable of winning and doing special things. And it's up to us to really fill out the rest of the roster around the core group that we have. And I'm looking forward to doing that. Yeah, can't wait to get a chance to catch up with you maybe in the off season, probably our last chat till then. Anytime guys, I really appreciate it. I appreciate all the support that you guys have provided this year and a tough year and really to all the fans listening. I just want to say a big thank you for what has been really the most special 10 or 11 months in Texas Rangers history and throughout the community hearing so many people, their gratitude and support for our organization, the fanfare, seeing kids and fans wearing the Ranger tee with pride throughout DFW. It's been such a rewarding experience and while I regret that we're not going to be back in the playoffs and having a chance to compete for World Series this year, it has meant so much to me and everybody affiliated with the Rangers to have the support that we have. And I can't wait to get back to work and bounce back in 2025. So thank you. Thank you to all our fans and looking forward to a great off season. We'll see why we can't wait to read the book on because you're a pros pro about the way you handle your job. And thanks for being so great to us as a station. We really we love interviewing you every week. You're a stand up guy. And again, thank you for everything you've done for us to educate us as baseball fans for sure. No, guys, the feeling is mutual. You guys do a great job. And just the support and love that you guys bleed for our organization. I can't thank you enough for it. So go, let's have a great last week here and thanks again. And I'll join you anytime you have time for me this off season. Yeah, we'll drink to that, buddy. Have a great week. We'll catch up with you soon. Chris Young brought you by PlayScore and Ann Heiser Bush, usually every Monday at four 20 here in the G bag nation. That'll do it probably until the Rangers toy drive. Yeah, we'll be out there and we'll be gathering toys and you'll be getting tickets to an upcoming Ranger game. And and hopefully see why I'll have a bounty of talent to crude. And at that point, probably December, mid December, something like that. Okay, Mark Schlerath, Mark Schlerath, talking NFL with him. And he joins us next year on 105 through the fan. Thank you, Lucius Eric Kendrick's Cowboys player show. He is coming up here at the top of the hour. We're joined now by Odyssey NFL insider Mark Schlerath, host of the Stinking Truth podcast. Insider calls are brought to you by Hellman's Real Manays, Mayo game day be delicious. And a good afternoon to you, Mark. How the heck are you? I'm doing great. How are you guys doing? Well, you know, we're doing pretty good. You know, I think just generally around the Cowboys right now, we're just wondering how bad is this football team? Yeah, that's a great question. You know, I mean, obviously, like you look at the Cowboys and I think the big things that that always seem to crop up is they don't have any problem, you know, handling the bad things. But when a good team comes to town and a good physical team comes to town, they get absolutely molly walked. And that's a, you know, that's a concern. You know, they every time you look at, you look over the last couple of years, when a good rushing team comes into town, they're putting up 150 plus. I mean, it is just like poop through a goose. And that's something that is like, Hey, man, you know, I'm going to say it. And this is a dirty four letter word and the National Football League, it's soft. And that is something that you call anybody that plays in the National Football League soft. Those are fighting words. So I'm going to hide in New York, why I call them soft, but like you give up 189 yards, Russian, sorry. I don't know what else to call you. And that has been a consistent theme when they face one of those teams, it can really be physical and control line of scrimmage. They get run through. And, you know, at some point, you know, at some point you got to put your foot down and say that's not going to happen anymore. And whether that's players do a better job, assignment football wise, or where that's coaches just saying, Hey, listen, man, we'll put nine guys in the box. We have to play zero, but you ain't running it down our throats anymore. Hey, Mark, I was wondering, you know, we do the post game show here and three different times on the podium. The head coach was talking about preparation. The players in the locker room, we're talking about preparation and lack of it is that's something that immediately got my attention when you start talking about those kinds of things is as a player, would you be worried if your teammates were saying that? Absolutely. I mean, listen, I play professional football. Sure. I'm a professional football player. And just because you play a pro sport doesn't make you a professional. And that would scare me because ultimately you are not being a professional. You are not taking care of your teammates. And listen, man, championship teams play for a bigger cause than themselves. They play for each other. And if you want to be a championship team, it's got to be sacrificial. You know, I got this text of the day from one of the guys that I kind of do some stuff with and, you know, and share scriptures and things of that nature with. And I think it mentions in the Bible leadership six times, it mentions being a servant hundreds of times. And ultimately, if you're not willing to serve one another, if you're not willing to sacrifice one another, I mean, you're not willing to be a professional to make sure your assignment sound, to make sure you don't line up in the right place, like your time at doing whatever it is you're doing is more valuable, whether it's, you know, just not study and play in video games, watching TV, whatever, you know, whatever your thing is, if you're if you can't line up in the right spot, like it's not that important to you. It's not that important to you for your for your team. Like, I like, I don't want you on my team. Sorry, you're not you're not a guy that I can count on. Like, that that would that would absolutely destroy me. And I heard that press got to talk about professionalism as well. Sure. You line up in the right spot or you're kidding me, right? Is it ever an issue when when players are are bickering at each other or venting at each other, arguing during a time like this? Well, you know, I mean, the bickering and stuff comes when some guys just aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing. And, you know, you'd like to be able to to rectify that internally, right? You'd like to be able to go address that and and fix it. But I'm telling you what that is. It is, you know, it's a concerning thing. And so yeah, we've you know, we've talked about it on the breakfast ball show that I do here in New York. And, you know, and obviously it's a it's a big deal. But you just can't you can't win that way with a lack of professionalism. And then ultimately comes down to a lack of leadership. You're either coaching that or you're allowing it to happen. Which one is it? Are you coaching on professionalism, or are you just allowing them to be unprofessional? So like, and part of that is not Mike McCarthy's fault because like what authority has he been given? Do you have the authority to cut guys? Do you have the authority to not play guys? Do you have the authority to just say, I'm not I don't I don't care how good this player is. He doesn't do the right thing. He's not the right spot. He's not going to play. Like, again, that's an organizational. This is the thing I always say with Dallas Cowboys, you know, when your owner is doing, you know, bi-weekly radio shows, I know it's great. I know it's great for the stations. You know, everybody loves that. And he's holding press conferences afterwards. And, you know, you appoint coaches, but you don't empower coaches. That is, you know, it's never a good situation. And, you know, and then players, I mean, I know how I was a player. I know how it works when you're a player. When your coach doesn't truly have authority, you know what you don't do. You don't listen to them sometimes. So, you know, I mean, hey, Mike Shanahan, I played for Mike Shanahan. Mike Shanahan would cut your ass in two seconds if you weren't in the right spot, but then he might ask you out for pizza afterwards. Like, yeah, there was no, like, it wasn't, it was one of those things where you have reverence and respect for your head coach because you have reverence for him because he puts you in the right spot to win. And he understands what it is to win. And Mike McCarthy knows that. But you also have this, I always talk about two types of fear. There is the biblical sense of fear, which is an awesome reverence and respect for the guy because of what he is, how he operates, what he does, all those things. And then there's the other type of fear, the fear where he will cut my ass in two seconds if I don't do my job. And I don't, I don't believe that exists in Dallas. Stank how scary are the commanders? Listen, they are, they're a ways away. They're a ways away talent wise from being really good. But they have something that are, you know, they have some things from Dan Quinn that are non-negotiable. And those non-negotiable, so we're going to play for one another, which obviously you don't have in Dallas right now. And we're going to play a physical brand of football, like we may get beat because we don't, we don't have the talent level that's required to be great at every level. But at the end of the day, you're going to know you're in a fistfight. And those are non-negotiables for Dan Quinn. And now with the quarterback, what he did the other night and what they did as an offense, like they're running the ball. Listen, man, that's the fifth leading rushing team in football going into, no, coming out of last night, I believe, like they're going to run the snot out of the ball, not only attempts, but Brian Robinson going to beat you up running the ball. And they're going to lean into that. And then, you know, Jayden Dan is going to run the ball as well. But they're going to lean into that physicality. And at the end of the day, they may not win, but you're going to know you were involved in a football game. There's no paddock going on there with the Washington commanders. Great football truth, Mark. Sorry. We don't have more time for you here this week. We got to run, but have a great week and we'll catch up with you soon. You got all the best. Take care. Salute, Odyssey, NFL insider Mark Schlerith, host of the Stinking Truth podcast insider calls brought to you by Hellman's Real Manays, Mayo game day, be delicious. Now we do got to run because Eric Kendrick's Cowboys player show. He's ready right at the top. And we're back with the Cowboys starting middle linebacker next right here, the G back nation on 1053. The fan is better over here. 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. 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