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2nd hour of the G-Bag Nation: NFL News of the Day; Cowboys vs Giants Match Ups; Crusty's Corner: Broaddus takes a look at the Giants Offense
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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) - Here we go, our two GBAG Nation on 105.3. The fan, hope you're having a fantastic day. We have a big guest show today. CY at 420, Mark Schlereth talking NFL at 440 in the Eric Kendrick Show. Here on the fan coming up at five o'clock in the nation. And between now and then, a lot of sports, a lot of sports coming to you, including Zach Holchuck's NFL News today, and here's Wolchuck. - Yeah, we'll get to the Monday Night Football games here in just a moment. A lot of history was made, but some updates on this Giants Cowboys, Thursday Night Matchup, Dan Duggan, who I believe is going to be on with a KMC tomorrow, said it's not looking good for cornerback Drew Phillips or cornerback and Dory Jackson, both with calf injuries for the Giants for Thursday. Coach Dayball said he doesn't think either will go on IR. He hopes cornerback Nick McLeod, who has missed the past two games with a knee injury, can return. So maybe that would be a boost for them, but two corners looking like they're probably not going to be able to go for the Giants on Thursday night. It could be a big loss. - If they get McLeod back, that will help because they don't want to play flock. He's the one that's the liability there. Banks is pretty good. Flock plays opposite. The last couple of games they've had to play with him, and it hasn't worked out particularly well. Phillips is their nickel. - That's a Kentucky kid, right? - Right, shorter player, but moves pretty well. - Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, they really, they struggle in the secondary, but their pass rush is good and they're inside, and they're inside. They also bring blitzes too. - I know we'll get into that tomorrow. I think we got the Giants defense tomorrow. - The defense are offense today at 340. - Right, so, but yeah, that would be, if they get, if they get McLeod back, that would clearly help him because he was their starter. - Well, Malik neighbors in Trayvon Diggs, if you remember in the off season, they were kind of going back and forth via social media. So now they're getting to play each other for the first time. And Malik neighbors was asked about it at his locker today. He said it is what it is. I don't really want to talk about it now, it's game time. So this is probably the matchup to circle. Diggs versus neighbors. He has been the offense. He's carrying everything on his shoulders for them. And this is a big test for Trayvon Diggs. - Dude, this is a no brainer. You gotta, this is your matchup. This is your, you're the shadow guy. Yeah, you're traveling, right? - Well, you're the big money corner. You got a rookie on the other side. You don't have a client on the other side. This is where Diggs needs to say, "Yeah, give me the assignment." Absolutely, but this is where it also gets into a little bit of some, maybe some problems for you if you travel Diggs, that you do have a rookie on the other side. When he travels, that changes the rookie's assignments. So every time that say neighbors starts on the left side, motions to the right side and you travel, that makes everybody in the secondary's assignments different because of the travel. So that's-- - Okay, we'll football logic there. - That's why a lot of-- - No, that is logic. I don't like to hear this logic, but it is logic. But it makes, it's just for a rookie player that you think about, he doesn't have a lot of experience. Now, I'm not saying you can't, that teams don't travel. I don't know, like I say, the kid's a smart kid, but what kind of extra pressure might you put on him? I mean, you're thinking about, you know, this guy is going to move around. He's not gonna stay in one spot. - Yeah. - And so it's-- - It's a lot of on the fly adjusting. - The minute he crosses the center of the defense, now everybody in the secondary's assignments change. And so that's where you run into a little problems that way. - Yeah, I mean, maybe if you had Gilmore over there, the veteran guy, you're all right. You know, you're going to have to travel. - Or he would just, healthy blend. - Healthy blend would be fine, yeah. Well, healthy blend, you would probably play it straight up. - Yeah. - Yeah, you wouldn't mind. You wouldn't be able to be fine either way. You would be. Now, big loss for the Saints. They're Senator Eric McCoy who left their loss against the Eagles. - He's one of their best offensive linemen they have. - No question. Texas A&M zone, groin injury. He's expected to require surgery. He's gonna miss six to eight weeks. - That is a huge loss for the Saints. - There go the Saints. - Yeah, that's big time. - I think that, 'cause he went out pretty early in that game. Did that first quarter? - And so that, I mean, that was, I think that was a huge difference in the game. - They run. - And Jalen Carter had probably the game of his career. - They run the ball really, really well because of him. You know, that's one of the things. I mean, we saw them the way they dominate, but he's the one reason he gets up on your second level guys and causes problems. - Man, Jane Daniels was brilliant last night. - I don't know that we really need this double header, Monday night football deal. I mean, like if both games end up being awesome, then maybe I'd think differently. I mean, the second game was good. Like St. Bangles in Washington was fun, but the first game was an absolute blow out. Josh Allen and Bill's look absolutely incredible. We'll get to them in a second. - I don't like how it's happening at the same time. - I don't either. - Yeah, I mean, I do have multiple TVs up, but I just give me back to back or something like that, right? - Yeah, I layer 'em. - It's not necessary. - Is there a reason, I'm sorry I'm late to the party here. Is there a reason why the league did this? Is this because of the 17-game schedule? Is this they couldn't get everybody on prime time or something? I don't know. Why would they have... - Dang it. - I'm really not sure. - Or they're just trying to give sponsors more money or more opportunity. - Oh, usually this is something they do in week one. - Yes, it is usually something they do in week one. Now, last year they did it. If you remember, it was Tommy DeVito and the Giants. Was it against the Dolphins? Or like it was like Dolphins Packers was going on or Titans Packers. - And then it has, no, no, Titans Dolphins Packers Giants. - Giants, that's what it was. Got the four teams messed up the order, but so they're doing this multiple weeks this year too. So, it's the result of an 11-year media rights agreement the NFL finalized in March. So it's gonna be a deal trying to give everybody happy with the games. So it's trying to get an Amazon in on it. It's creating a little bit of value for them. - And so ESPN and ABC go ahead and get their cut as well. - Yeah, there you go. - So they're just trying to make everybody happy that they've got deals with. But Jayden Daniels, 21 of 23 for 254 yards is what he finished with. He had a 91.3 completion percentage. That sets an NFL rookie record previously held by Dak Prescott. - They haven't punted for two games. - No, they have not. And let's get to the, you haven't punted in two games. So we played. - Yeah, let's get to the haven punted in two games. - Last week, Cam Taylor, Britt, the cornerback. - Yeah, yeah, he said college offense, eh? - He did. He called them out on the college offense. Now two weeks ago, talked to trash and said, "Exave, you're worthy. How you basically can run straight." And he had the pick of the season. And they almost got the win. They played well. Nobody said anything, right? Well, this week says they got a college offense. He's asked post game. You regret saying these things. - Do you regret what you said? And can you talk us through what happened from a defensive standpoint tonight? - No, ma'am, I did not regret it. And I didn't mean anything malicious out of the comment. It was just made bigger than what it was. Yes, I can eat my word. It was definitely, we did take a hill today. It has a team. It was sort of caught us off a very quick throws. Very athletic and in the same place. And that's how the game went, man. They stuck through their plan and yeah, that's how it went. - So here comes the coach, Zach Taylor. I didn't hear anything from Zach Taylor two weeks ago. Sure he did this. But last night, he wasn't happy. - Did you have an issue with that? Do you feel like those are-- - That's not what we do. That's not what we do. We praise our own team, praise the other team. We don't need to take shots like that. That team hasn't punted in two weeks. They've scored on every single possession the last two weeks. So I've got a tremendous amount of respect for what they're doing over there. I've known Cliff a long time. I knew paired with that quarterback. This is going to be a very dangerous offense to play against and they've proven that so. And it is. They have scored on every drive in back-to-back games, excluding a kneel down. They had eight drives Monday, five touchdowns, a field goal and two ending in kneel downs at the end of each half in a week, two against the Giants. They had seven field goals and a kneel down to end the half. So basically 100% scoring rate, which is extremely rare. There has been 10 games since 2000 where a team scored on every drive excluding kneel downs. That's over a one in 1,300 chance. The commanders did this twice in a row now, making this a one in 1.7 million feet, according to CBS Sports. Wow, how crazy is this? What they've done two weeks in a row now? That is crazy. That is crazy. And then the Bengals on the other side of bad history. So they ended a streak of 126 games where the team in which from 1920, the Bengals came along to end this streak. They scored 31 points. The Bengals, okay, hold on, I got to find this. This is not good. - They didn't punt. - Okay, so they didn't punt at all. Zero punts, zero turnovers. - Zero turnovers, yeah. - Teams before them were undefeated, 126 and L. They are now the only loss in that. To have 31 points or more, zero punts, zero turnovers. Bad, bad 0 and 3. - They weren't even close. - They didn't even have it stolen from them late. - They didn't even get a stop. I mean, their defense was just getting shredded the entire game. Dean Daniels was absolutely unbelievable. Cliff wasn't his bag. And look, hey, three weeks, maybe the NFL figures him out. But last night, it looked scary. And I was thinking it from cowboy lenses, like how the hell are they going to stop this? - Not if the kid drops back and it's all covered and he takes off running, you know? And Dawson's right, the only way you kind of stop him if he gets banged up, you know, that, 'cause he, I watched him do it two years ago at LSU. He carried that team last year at LSU. You know, that team was awful on defense. And what did he do? Drop back, found receivers, found neighbors, you know, made plays that way. But when it broke down, his ability to run is just as good as the guy you played last week in Baltimore. - I mean, I think Zach Hertz was something last night that was interesting, you know? But their offense is simple, you know? Did the play that we call work? Is it easy for you with zero risk? Throw it, if not, go take six to eight yards. I mean, he's just, it's different, you know? When you have just a little bit of stability in front of him with an offensive line, good enough weapons. And somehow the defense has recovered in Washington. - Well, it, maybe, if you say you look at what maybe Dan's done, they had a lot of draft picks. You know, they gave away. I mean, that team was a shell of itself on defense last year. - They gave up their edges. - Yeah. - They kept the defensive tackles. - They kept the defensive tackles and just went around and-- - Bobby Wagner, Dorrence Armstrong. - Yeah, they just, they built it through. Signing guys, it guys off the street and stuff. So our free agents, I shouldn't say off the street. They were free agents, you know? Opportunity. - More bad news for the Bengals. Their offensive tackle Trent Brown. - He's out for the season. - He's out for the season, right? - Yeah, Tormpiteler Tenon. I feel like the Bengals are just this team where they're trying, man, to figure out this offensive line. And it's just not working for me. They tried it with, wow, Collins didn't end up working out. They bring in Trent Brown. They give him a big money deal. Now he's hurt. They did it with the Chiefs former tackle as well, who went over there and ended up not playing well for them. So it's just one of the, and Mims didn't look good. Their first round pick played right tackle. He was getting beat pretty bad. John Baptiste got him for a big time sack in that game. So we'll see what happens with the Bengals moving forward. I mean, I'm still a believer in Joe Burrow, but he did miss some throws last night. Overall, Statline was good for him, but there were some plays he probably wants back. Seems like Jamart Chase is starting to find a rhythm, but defensively they're in a world of problems and at 0 and 3, we know teams ever won the Super Bowl when you start 0 and 3. So those dreams probably dead, you would assume. - But haven't they like, haven't the Bengals made the Super Bowl after an 0 and 3 star? - 0 and 2. - 0 and 2 star. - Yeah, 0 and 2 star. So Burrow started 0 and 2 for out of his five years, but he always won in week three, which is why I told Eric yesterday, I'm like, I think you're good. - Yeah. - No, didn't happen with Washington. - No, definitely. - When Cincinnati was really good, their defense was sneaky good. Right, didn't get a lot of credit. Now it's just kind of been picked apart. - Yeah. - And it's weird because they played well against Kansas City the week before. - Yeah. - And then they just could not get a stop to save their life. - Well, they've got Kansas City kind of figured out how to play them. - Yeah, they do. - Well, the Bills and nobody circles the wagons. Like the Buffalo Bills. - Like the Buffalo Bills. - Like the Buffalo Bills. - Wow. They just destroyed, absolutely destroyed. - Like I dug Peterson, might be in some trouble. - Yeah, on a seat in the NFL. - He's done ski. - He's got to be. - How other than this one? - Yeah, Trevor Lawrence is-- - When what are you thinking about Trevor Lawrence? - Right now. - Here the front office knows that we didn't give you much, you know? And he's going to be fired at the end of the year. - All right, his contract's up. We're just going to let him sit. - That's right, that's right, yeah. - And his office for a week. And then we ask you to leave. - I got some quotes in football's finest from the owner of the Jags. - Okay. - He's hilarious. - Conned. - Yeah. - He had a great mustache that guy. - Really good. - Yeah. - But I saw the Bills, they ended up benching Keon Coleman who did catch his first career touchdown. - He's late to meetings. - Yeah, Sean McDermott. Accountability here, right? Accountability is a word that's come up a lot with the Cowboys in all three games. - Kinda. Coughlin would have probably released him. - Just cut him straight up. - Yeah, 'cause he wasn't five minutes early. So-- - That's the truth. - He's set out to the game. We sat Keon for the first quarter. It'll be a learning opportunity for him. And really, it was an issue that dealt with him being on time. And he knows that he's got to be accountable to his teammates. We addressed it, we support him, and we move forward. Cotted 24-yard touchdown on the first possession that he was back in in the second quarter. They're looking fantastic. Josh Allen's the MVP favorite right now, and did he take a shot at Stefan Diggs after the game? He said, quote, "It's a fun and wonderful thing. "When you got a bunch of guys "that don't care about the stats, "they don't care about the touchdowns." - Oh yeah, not so subtle at all, Stefan. - Not subtle. So maybe Josh Allen feeling a little bit relieved, playing a little free without Stefan Diggs. He's playing out of this world football. - That's superhuman football what he's doing. - I think Joe Brady might be a guy you need to look at as one of these coach dudes. - Maybe. - Yeah, 'cause he's helped things five years ago. - Yeah, he won a national championship at LSU. He was the guy calling the plays first. - But they went to Carolina, right? And he was as terrible as like their OCU. - Yeah, with Matt Rule. - Yeah, but Matt Rule, right. - It was a disaster, but he's bringing them back. I mean, now that they're-- - They're nine in one since he started taking over the play calling. - Wow. - Gosh. - Yeah, Josh Allen looks really, really awesome. And I mean, I see-- - They overturned a lot this off season. - Yeah. - A lot of questions with that team. - Tons of questions, everybody was expecting this to be a down year in Buffalo, for sure. But I mean, Josh Allen is, it's like, give me whatever at the skill positions and I'll make it work. He is outside of my homes. He's the next guy and their offense, they're going 80% motion. So they're fourth in the sport. Then it's the Niners, Dolphins Packers number one. So, I mean, those are offenses you wanna be like, dude. And I can't, for the life of me, understand why the Cowboys aren't doing it. - It's been that way for the last, how many years? Like, handful of years, who are the best offenses? Are they using motion? Yes, they are. I don't understand why you would just ignore that in your offense, but hey, that's what we deal with here now. - We don't steal plays around here, okay? - We're not play stealing. - Yeah, Bill's using 20% more motion to this point than they did last year. - Wow. - The last thing here NFL News of the day, Dan Campbell. We had the story last week here. It gave it to us where he was putting his house out for sale. Well, his home address was publicly leaked on social media. It was one of his daughter's classmates. Got ticked off, watching the NFC Championship game, posted on Snapchat, dumb bleep, trying to go for it and then put his- - No way. - Yeah. - That's still- - That's not trending, right? - Yeah, probably, absolutely. So now you got people that were just showing up to his house, daughter was at the house. Boyfriend goes outside, ends up getting in his vehicles, flashing headlights and anyone who was approaching the house and that caused them to like get scared and leave. Like, oh my gosh, something's gonna happen here. So eventually, there was the authorities got involved, they found the kid, but yeah, I mean, that's the bummer of, I guess, hey, people in your school, they know where you live. - Gosh, dude. - Thank you all, Chuck. - Thank you. - Match-ups to watch in week four against the Giants. We have the Cowboys news coming up next right here, the G back nation on your home of the Cowboys, home of the Rangers, 105.3, the fan. - It's better over here. - Now at T-Mobile, get four 5G phones on us and four lines for $25 a line per month when you switch with eligible trade-ins, all on America's largest 5G network. - Minimum of four lines for $25 per line per month with Autopaid discount using Devider Bank account, $5 more per line without Autopaid, plus taxes and fees and $10 device connection charge. The phones will be at 24 monthly bill credits for well qualified customers. 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Jerry Jones was on the fan this morning. On fans believing he is the biggest issue with the franchise right now, he says that's very fair. How could you think otherwise? I accept that completely. Said he's there in a little bit of a soft spot, almost talked about, you know, rostering as it's a cyclical. And right now they're in a down cycle and then they need to get it remedied. Also had similar comments about the roster as what he shared after Sunday's game here saying quote, I like where we are at all positions. So don't expect anything different, not in the medium term from Jerry Jones in the way this front office is constructed and don't expect any big changes with the roster. And that does include not even Dalvin Cook here coming up for this week's game against the Giants quite yet. Yeah, I mean, I just think it's too early for them to really admit big time mistakes in places, even benching Zeke or making him inactive for Dalvin Cook is acknowledging what we've talked about all off season as it pertains to Zeke. And they're like, no, no, no, we like, no, he was, I mean, he's comparing him with Steven A. Smith. He's comparing him to Jim Brown. And so after three weeks to be like, yeah, we're going to go for another guy who everybody knows is washed up. You know, they're just not going to make that move yet. Everything it's so early right now, but at some point he'll have to. Yeah, I mean, see their Dalvin Cook isn't any good or he's not ready. Oh, he's ready or they're too stubborn. Yeah, the ready part of it, I did check on that. And there's no setbacks or anything for him right now. You're talking about conditioning and things like that. I just reached out and said, hey, and they're like, no, we're just just kind of waiting to see what happens. I kind of feel like though that if we, okay, this is going to sound funny the way I'm going to say it, but if you knew that you can't run the ball and you're all going to say, damn broad as we know we can't run the ball, but I'm just saying, until they look at it and say, hey, we've had plenty of opportunities to run the ball and we've shown we can't run the ball, I don't think they're going to do anything until with Dalvin Cook until they get to that point. I think right now they're like, hey, we just haven't had the opportunity to run the ball. I know that everybody out there is going, yeah, broad as they can't, you know, look at it, they can't run, they can't run. And I'm telling you, I believe this is how they're thinking about it. You know, until they prove they absolutely can't run the ball, I do not see a Dalvin Cook elevation here. - I would like to believe that, hey, we started with a plan with Zeke that didn't work. Now we're on to Dowdle and Lipke, and if that doesn't work, then we go Dalvin Cook. And if that doesn't work, we'll still have a week or two before the trade deadline. - See that's, you know, but let me ask you guys. - They're starting to talk about this team like though, it's so bad that they're not going to have a chance at making the playoffs. - If you, let's say this, if you get to two and five by the by, do you think that they're going to make any trades? - I wouldn't think so, no. Let's just take our medicine to get the best pick possible that's not worth saving time. - I don't mean to be like, you know, wet blanket guy there, but if all of a sudden you look at the division in Philadelphia and say the commanders are both, you know, the commanders are four and three in Philadelphia is five and two and you're two and five. Do you go out, you think you still have a chance to win? - I guess if you feel like you're pretty clearly out of the race, like those two teams are sitting there with like still a loss, you know, and they're multiple games ahead of you. - No. - You're saying there's six and one? - Yeah, no. - And then I think that it's not worth making that move, but we saw them do this the year they traded for Amari Cooper. They were three and four. They traded for Amari leading into a Monday night game against Tennessee. - I tried to make it more severe. - I tried to make it more two and five-ish. - Right, well, they ended up being three and five 'cause they lost that first game to Marcus Mario with Amari. - Sure. - And then they ended up going on a crazy run to go 10 and six. They won, they beat the Seahawks and the playoffs and lose to the Rams. So, I mean, they might look at that and say, hey, you know, maybe if there's a player to be made, maybe it's Amari Cooper again. - Yeah, you're gonna need something to come around though. Like your defense is gonna have to start playing. So you're like, you know what, maybe we are a playmaker away offensively because we've gotten our defense figured out. But if your defense is gonna be literally worst in the league, which it's been the last two weeks, though as defensive success rate in all of football, last two weeks, it's your defense, absolutely terrible. And your offense ain't much better. So unless something changes there where you feel like, okay, we can justify one player really could help swing things. But right now, you're so much more than a player at any position. - Exactly. - And it's definitely not gonna be a running back because it's listening to Jerry today when he cut off Bobby, when Bobby was asking about Derek Henry and how you said you couldn't pay for Derek Henry and he said, you're right. Stop right there. We couldn't afford Derek Henry. But then he basically went on to say which was the truth. They didn't want to allocate more money at that position. And that's really all I needed to hear. Just be honest with it. - I think Michael Geltkin wrote about that at the start of the off season. Like they're going budgeted running back. - That's fine. - Yeah, that makes sense. I just don't think you can go budgeted running back and also not spend any draft picks to try to bring in somebody with some juice. But if you're holding off on drafting a guy until you're ready to contend and then you're like, okay, we're ready to contend. Let's start the odometer on the running back right now in this season. I think that would be a good long-term strategy. If that's what they're thinking would be the only thing that really makes sense as to why they would punt on bringing somebody in. 'Cause I think they could have a balanced offense and like not having a balanced offense because you don't have talent at running back, I think is making things significantly worse than they have to be. It's amazing how quickly things can turn in this league though it reminds me of 2010 when they had just made the playoffs and thought, wow, that could have been our year. I think they had back-to-back wins against Philadelphia that year to end the season and then the next year or the next round to start the playoffs. They beat him again and then they maybe lost to the Giants or the Vikings that year. But whatever the case, 2010, they're one in seven all of a sudden. From playoff team to horrible, has it happened again? That time around it was Wade Phillips, lame.coach. Maybe, now it's Mike McCarthy. - They quit on him. That was it. That game in Green Bay, the make- - And they were five and three the second half of the season which showed there was some ability in there. - Sure did. - And they made the right decision to cap Wade Phillips and maybe it started some momentum. How about this? About the Jamie Foxx video. Jerry said he's a great friend. We have a lot of experience watching players, talking about players, talking about games. It's kind of ironic that I think when that was supposed to have happened a few years back, but I don't recall it. It probably wasn't that out of the ordinary for Jerry to be. You're talking about those kinds of things. - Yeah, I can believe him that he has no recollection. I mean, geez, that could have been five years ago. I mean, it's not like we were even talking about he was last year. This is probably a while back. - Yeah. - And even if you did remember it, it's one of those things where you're just like, I don't remember. - Don't want to remember that's for sure. The information is there. I just don't recall. That's the old Ronnie. - I could honestly say I'm all my years of scouting. I've never been in a room that's talked about that. - Really? - Yeah. Never been in a room. - Really? - Seriously. - This was in a room situation. - People were, I'm not just saying Jerry. I'm just saying, and I was in a room with Jerry for six years. So that, but I've never been in, I was in scouting. - I guess he just didn't trust you enough. - Probably not. - It was like an old snitch. (laughing) - I'm just like a liberal. - I saw the way he started whispering around with the tuna put his thing in his face. - Yeah. - Could it accidentally have been something else he was talking about? I seen somebody try to find him. - I don't miss him. - Bill was saying it. Well, he's probably talking about a dig around. - I just, I just don't know. I don't know. I don't know. (laughing) - I'm saying too. - But I'm just saying, I've been in a war room for like meetings for 13 years, and I don't ever. There's things you've talked about, but not that. I don't ever remember anybody ever talking about that. I've been in a lot of meetings. - He only said that for his VIP guests. - I really didn't have to talk. - We've had, I've been in that tower. - Yeah, the tower, yeah. - I've been in a tower. - I've been up in that tower before too. And I don't think we've talked about that. - I was christy. - That's reserved for Chris Christie. (laughing) - Yeah, I thought it was hilarious. - Chris is a nice guy. - Yeah, I'm sure. - No, no, I'm just saying this because like I was watching film one day and he walked by and I was standing, I was just sitting there watching film and he stopped and he came back. And he's like, "Brian brought us, how you doing?" And I'm like, "I'm governor, I'm doing grill." Thank you. I just love your work. Thank you so much. - I love your content. - Yeah, he goes, "I watch your content. You do a great job." And I'm like, " Tremendous." - I'm like, "Well, thank you, sir." And he just, "Well, carry on." (laughing) - I'm like, "Oh, carry on." You know, but no, that's, you said Chris Christie. It made me think of him real quick. - Yesterday, Dawson logged out the Felix Jones nominee. - Yeah, I was trying to guess of who the player could be. You know, what was it? It was a 5'10", 210 pound running back. - He's still on his mind. (laughing) - How could this be? - What a hell of a guy. - I mean, it's obvious the guy had been a cowboy, right? I don't think you'd have that level of awareness on a college prospect that you were considering draft, but he was a razorback, you know? So he probably has been scouting him out for a while, perhaps. - He's in that locker room. (laughing) - People were tweeting at me like, "Hey, bro, some people really talk." I'm like, "I didn't even answer." "I didn't even know how to answer." I'm like, "No, no." - Moving on up on the text for the post game show too. - Yeah, you were. - Yeah. - About like, about big Felix Jones. - There was a couple of people that were like, "Bruddas, we heard that you're in the know on this. Who is it?" Who are they talking about? - Could be Joe random. - I'm serious, there's a lot. I'm always honest when I talk about draft stuff. - Never, ever. - Well, she's a Felix, you're pretty close. - It's good to hear that you don't talk like that for real. - I just go to hear that you've never heard that. - From my experience. - Yeah, that's hearing that a little bit. - I'm not trying to, and I'm not trying to protect anybody here because I told you the story about Parcels taking all those clothes off of her. I mean, that was traumatic, but-- - That's your self, man. - That was what, I don't ever remember. There's a lot of things you talk about in room, but I don't ever, ever remember that being one of them. - It's that locker room talk from the 2016 election cycle. I thought I was talking about the ladies. I didn't realize that locker room talk had, you know, come right back in a different category, but apparently it does. - Well, you know, white people, you know. - And we're just yucking it up. - Much, much more progressive in the end of early days. - Been a lot of, a lot of crank talk this week between this one and the, and the PUB Daddy story. - That's just so violent the way you said that. - That's enough. - Did you guys see Leonardo DiCaprio distancing himself from Diddy here? He says-- - Isn't everybody? - The all white party photos. He says they were not free-coffs. - Yeah. - DiCaprio would like you to know they were not free-coffs. - Now, free-coffs are later. The white party is a start in the free-coff is later. You get to leave if you want to, 'cause I don't believe Martha Stewart stayed around for the free-coff vote. - Yeah, that would be a surprise. - That'd be wild. - You're just prospecting like he wants to stay for the free-coffs. - This is really getting loose. - I got Martha being like-- - My baby little hand. - He mom, she had orange slices for everybody afterwards. - Sweet son. - Everything was all nice and laid out. It had little crafts next to it. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Some cold rags. - It's just for their necks. - It's tough time. You need to pick me up. - The thing with Cat Williams, he just, this is him, right? This is what Cat does. I mean, he comes-- - Cat's kind of cold out all of us. - Well, Cat said, yeah, Cat said it a long time ago. A lot of people have been saying it. It's been like under the air, but-- - But he's got, he says, he's got videos of people. - I don't think he said that. He better not say that. - Do you not say? - He better not say that. - I do like the theory-- - FBI will call him knocking on Cat Williams door if he says, I got video evidence of anything. I think he's saying, puffy has video evidence. Oh, a lot of things. Because there were hidden cameras in those darn rooms. So they're saying there's like athletes, entertainers, politicians, all these people that could be possibly on film at Diddy's house during the free calls. - I got stuck around just for those Martha Stewart, chocolate chip cookies, man, fresh baked. - Walk around, shiny as hell with all that baby all along. - Get a couple more-- - Shiny cookies, Martha. - I am deep in that rabbit hole in my algorithm though. Like every other video is like another dude talking about something. It's a lot. Okay, we got to Crusty's Corner coming up, brought you by Reliant Air Conditioning, gimmick-free AC Repair and Replacement. Brian, what's in store? - Yeah, let's talk about this giant's offense. It looks a lot different. We'll do that next. - Thank you, Lucius. Crusty's Corner brought you by Reliant Air Conditioning, gimmick-free AC Repair and Replacement. Here he is, Brian. - Thank you very much, Cheryl. And thank you very much to Reliant as well for being a part of this. Yeah, in the ates I said, this is a different looking giant's offense. And they're doing everything in their power to try and help their quarterback with the way that they're running the football and then the skill players that they have. I think everybody in the league is kind of taking notice of what Malik neighbors is. And what he is able to accomplish, not only at LSU, but then here in the National Football League, when you look at the number of targets, the routes he runs, all these things are top of the league when you start to talk about just not only receiver, rookie, but just receivers with the way that he's playing. And the thing that makes him so unique is his ability to play at all levels. You could throw the ball to him quick. You could throw the ball to him intermediate on cross and stuff. And then you could go down the field with this guy. And Daniel Jones sometimes isn't very accurate. - Sometimes? - Sometimes. This guy makes Daniel Jones accurate with the way that he goes and gets the football. - Bad ball catcher. - Yeah, he is a bad ball catcher for sure. And so, you know, he's the guy that you're definitely gonna have to worry about. I checked with some folks before Krusty's Corner asking about the availability of Carson. Carson is legitimately a game time decision. So we'll see how Dallas plays that. You know, with having to deal with neighbors. But they're also gonna have to deal, I think, with One-Dill Robinson. And what they do with One-Dill Robinson is, as a wide receiver, he tends to line up in the backfield. He'll play in the slot. He'll play out wide. They'll throw him the ball on screens. So now they've got a guy with like neighbors that can kind of work in all levels. They got a guy like One-Dill Robinson who can catch the ball very well. But he does it from different platforms. You know, like you can put him in the backfield, like I said, and throw the ball to him on the screen or throw him on a swing. And he's going to make things happen. He's a very good catcher of the football. He's very comfortable on third down when you throw it to him, making plays. So you'll have to deal with that. The third receiver I'd kind of be a little bit concerned about is Jalen Hyatt, the, from Tennessee, the second year player from Tennessee. Because he is a vertical player. And he's the guy that can run right by you. And we saw what happened with Saints, you know, with their Shaheed and the vertical player of that game. If they want to take a shot, it's going to be Jalen Hyatt's the one that's going to be the guy that's going to get the opportunity. So those are the three wide receivers that I would worry about. I'm not overly concerned about their tight ends, even though they use them all in this, in the way that they play. But primarily they're like underneath players or blockers. They're really not anything in the past. Saints have, I mean, the Giants have had some tight ends that have been pretty good. But this crew is just kind of pretty standard for a roster. The offensive line, they brought in a bunch of different guys. They've tried for years to draft this offensive line and it hasn't worked out for them. But the one guy that I think you kind of need to be a little concerned about is the center, John Michael Smith. - Don't tell me that. - John Jacob, John Michael Smith is a very athletic center. They use them in the polling game. They use them in the second level stuff, screen stuff. He is the most athletic guy of the group that I felt like. But the guy you need to kind of take advantage of, I believe is the first round pick the left tackle Andrew Thomas. - And Mike has eaten him up in previous matchups. - He has. And I'm interested to see how many of those tight ends they put over on that side to try and help him out here or how many times that they chip with say Tyrone Tracy or somebody like that over there. But Andrew Thomas is the one guy that has the most problem, I think with speed and he has a bigger problem when people take him down inside on the pass rush. If you can get inside on this guy, I don't think he's quick enough to cut you off from getting to the quarterback. So left tackle Andrew Thomas need to be, that's the guy I think you need to go after. But be aware like a say of John Michael Smith's the center because they will get him out in space. And the Cowboys have had some problems when they've gotten blockers out in space on him the last couple of weeks. - So he's figured it out now 'cause he was the draft rush two years ago, as you know. And he struggled a little bit as a rookie. - He did, he struggled a little bit as a rookie, but he looks a lot better than he has in the past. - Oh crap. - Daniel Jones, there's still some issues with Daniel Jones at quarterback, but they're trying to help him. Make him feel more comfortable against Cleveland. He got the ball out very quickly. They're not afraid to throw it into the flat or just underneath just to get it out of his hand. He still has a problem though. When you watch him play, he'll throw to spots. And I don't think he always sees where the coverage is. Now, can you get him to throw the football? That's gonna be the trick for the Cowboys this week. Can you make him have to be a passer in this game? Because if he has the ability to run and use the running game, then he's a lot better quarterback. But when he has to throw the ball a bunch, that's gonna be a problem for him. And I mentioned the spots. We all remember where the Cowboys this summer and what they were doing in training camp with the disguisings of the defense, if they could get into a situation where it's pass rush and coverage, then maybe you can get Daniel Jones to throw you a ball or two. Just because he doesn't read coverage, I think all that well. There are a couple of different times where you like, man, he just did not see that guy standing there. So if Mike Zimmer can get him into that situation where maybe fool him on some looks, maybe give him a cover two look and then drop that safety down into the hole. And he'll try and maybe throw the ball to that spot. Then you might get an interception out of him. I think the real big difference, his team lost Saquan Barkley, but this Devin Singletary, I didn't know much about him. I'd seen him play a Buffalo. I didn't remember much at Houston. Yeah. This kid's a legitimate player. I'm calling him a kid. He's really not a kid. But he is a legitimate player when you look at him and watch him and they like to hand him in the ball. And then the next thing you know, you're watching the tape and you hand him in the ball and it's a five, six yard game. He's, he can make the first guy miss. You could toss it to him. You could throw it to him. They throw screens to him. This guy's got some finish to him. He's got like say the ability to make him miss. Be a tough guy to bring down. Second best, Yak in the NFL at the running back position. It's crazy how, how well he's played for them, but he's a You look strong and fast. You know, he's got the traits. He's so quick. And that's something, you know, that they've, they've struggled with Saquan Barkley, you know, being healthy in a lot of these games against Dallas. Yeah, this guy looks legit. You know, you can tell they've orchestrated and worked on running and now he's benefiting. Do you feel like they're committed to running the ball more than in recent years? I feel like they really are. And, but they're, they're trying to help their line too with the pin and pull stuff combination blocks. They're not asking their guys to block a lot of one on one. They're trying to kind of get some angled blocks and, and, and allow these guys to, to not have to deal with, you know, just holding on to blocks cause in the past, that's got them in trouble with some holding calls and things like how physical are they? Pretty physical group because they're not, they're not the best. They're, they're kind of a kind of a boxy group. And I mean, boxing away of guys like John running kind of square, the center's the smallest guy, but they kind of got some size to their line. And, but when they get out in space, but this back, it takes advantage of kind of getting tucked in behind these linemen when they block. And then, you know, he makes some things happen. They ran the ball pretty decently from the film, you know, looking at the, at the rounds game. They did it with, with, I was, I was surprised. But Daniel Jones will run the ball too. You're going to see some RPO stuff from him. Yeah. They have design runs. I know last week we talked about with, with, with the Ravens quarterback there, you know, he, there's design runs in this offense too. It's, you know, pull the tight in across. And then all of a sudden everybody's blocking down, tied in across and now they're running just quarterback power going to the left. So, you know, you're. At some point teams change from, Hey, let's develop this quarterback in the pocket. Let's keep him healthy too. Everybody's playing for their jobs in the quarterbacks. Like I'm playing for my job too. Can I run please? Yeah. They're trying to get rid of them. So they're not trying to preserve Daniel Jones. No, they, they really don't. And so, uh, single terry, Tracy, Tyrone Tracy, he's a rookie. They picked him the fifth round. I mean, they throw him the ball to, but Daniel Jones, like I say, they're trying to do everything in their power not to have to make him make a bunch of throws. But when he throws the football, Malik neighbors is more than ready to catch it. Wanda Robinson is more than ready to catch it too. And then I could say you have to be worried about the Jalen Hyatt on the vertical routes because they saw Dallas give up one, you know, and I have a, I have a feeling that we're going to see a couple of deep shots against this secondary on Thursday. Well, three games in a row against a running game that could gas you for a buck 50. We'll see how much quarterback runs to. Yeah. I'm saying you get, you get a running back and a quarterback that both can run and maybe I should go to 25 then, my bad. Yeah. I mean, they just, they're off a very, very poor tackling performance and single terry is the best back in the sport at forcing missed tackles. So they're going to have their hands full. It sounds like you described a roughly 27 points against this Cowboys defense to me. I think I, when I, I was on Dallas Cowboys.com, I picked it. I picked it. What I say 26, 23 is what I picked. Wow. So I picked giants. We will all have our predictions a Thursday to kick off the show. Pregame will get underway at what? Like in the four 15 segment on Thursday? Yeah. Four o'clock, yeah. Straight up. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Brian. Thank you, Brian. Thank you. Question is corner every afternoon 340 brought you by Reliant air conditioning. Okay. 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