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5th hour of the G-Bag Nation: Two Guys One Booth: The best of the Cowboys radio broadcast week 3; Sports Hodge Podge; Trouble with the Cowboys
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In my hot little hand is the 2024 Flagtober Tour Day DFW schedule. You can find this momentarily at 105 to the fan.com, it's going to start in Garland at the Fire Wheel Parkway, Whataburger. It's going to go to Carrollton and Denton and the Colony and Keller and Fort Worth, Cleber, Midlothi and Duncanville. And Grand Prairie by six o'clock that night, you look at it, nine and a half hours of touring DFW and handing out the all new 2024 Whataburger G Bag Nation flag and iconic image. And yours is waiting for you. If not Saturday, you can find us Friday at Southern Leisure Spaz and Patio and Flairmount. We'd love to see you out there. And then at any 105 to the fan remotes and appearances while supplies last, here's Wolchuck and Chia followed with two guys, one booth. - Yes, this is a great audio extravaganza of all nine hours of a broadcast game day here on the fan. There is NFL news is we have a double header tonight on Monday night football, but an update on Christian McCaffrey very quickly. He's stretching on Hargrave. - Yeah, and Hargrave, bad news for the 49ers are all around, but McCaffrey is now traveling to Germany over the weekend to visit a specialist to that Achilles injury that he's dealing with. - Oh, that's never good. - And then the 49ers, Siobhan Hargrave is out for the season. I believe it's a torn bicep. - Is McCaffrey going to a different country where there's more things that you can use from a recovery standpoint? Isn't that what, didn't like Kobe do something like that for his needs? - Isn't that, that platelet-rich plasma therapy was outlawed in the U.S. now it's legal. So there might be something else something new or it might just be like a better doctor in Germany or with the founder of it or something. - If they're pulling out to go to Germany and see the specialist move, that is not encouraging. - If you're an octopus though, I'd go over there as well. - It's going to get a couple of brats. - Why not? - I know we're gonna get two guys, one booth, but did you guys see last week that story about insurance and how the Niners are using this to like get a huge advantage? They've recouped $54 million in cap space over the last 10 years. And Christian McCaffrey is just the latest. So if you put insurance on a guy, not only do you get the money back if he misses games, but you get the cap space back. And in San Francisco, virtually every player who's not on a rookie minimum deal has that insurance. So for every game McCaffrey misses, they get like a million dollars of cap space back for next year. - Holy. - That's extremely smart. I mean, that's how you're paying on Trent Williams in both and all these guys top of the market when they miss games, we're saving. - And the Niners and Eagles have the most, the Cowboys are in the game too, like both of Dak's big contracts have been insured, but you know, this is one of those things where if you have a highly paid player, you're like, well, as long as we stay in playoff contention, maybe it wouldn't be bad if he missed 10 games. - Yeah, right. Yeah, there are scenarios where it just absolutely benefits you. - Player gets his bag and team gets cap space back. The only loss is for the owner who's actually got to write the check for the insurance. - The insurance, yeah. - And that's what it is. That's your owner being willing to spend more money and having, you're still spending the dollars, but you're having more cap space so that you can then spend more money to, 'cause you really want to win, you know? That's somebody who really wants to win. - Yeah, that's fascinating, very good, but not good for the Niners. They're dealing with- - They're talking about closing the loophole, I think. - Okay, maybe this won't be a thing moving forward. I know too has got insurance on his deal, but like personal insurance to where like, he's not going to be forfeiting a ton of money. If he had to retire, I know that came out last week with all that coming out so too, he should be okay. - Somewhere an insurance claim guy is getting fired for issuing that policy. - Well, that's Lords of London. Don't they used to do those things? I mean, they, like you can, you pay this- - They used the Lords of London again. - Lords of London, I think is, I think they still have that availability. A lot of these players used to ensure themselves before the draft and things. So if something happened to them, they could, but there's places that will take on huge policies like that, but the premiums are pretty extensive. - Oh, interesting. - All right, let's go ahead and hit some two guys. One of those, yeah. - Oh, interesting. - Extensive premiums. - I don't know, guys, I think brought us, we should get back to brought us on these expensive premiums. - Damn it, give me the premiums. - Let's do it. - Where Wolves of London? - Let's do it. - Deep dive. - Lords of London. - Where Wolves of London. - On the premiums. - Ooh, okay. - All right, we're stopping down a pregame show. - Yeah, the pre-prey. - Yeah, this is your good old-fashioned tailgate show. Fred Davis in the three-time Hall of Famer, Chris Arnold making Hall of Fame highlights day in, day out. This one's no different. And perhaps a G-bag of the day nominee on a future date, take it away, CA. - There's games kicking off right now. So let me go ahead and get the total of some of these inactives and updates. - Yes. - Active and inactive. Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love is not going to come on the field. Hey, warm up. Okay. - It's good for him. - It's good for everybody. - That's good for everybody. - We're all winning on Sunday. - He's not going to make a turn to the field. How about that? Is that a bad way to put it? - That's a bad way to put it. - Might have to Sean Watson's situation down there. - Oh man, just like the, he's reading and the pause there. It just, he wanted to just a freaking peer right there. I know he did. - I really did. - As soon as we showed up to, for the pre-game show, the text, when I pulled up the text, I saw so many texts. I'm like, "Oh, C-A-G bag of the day." C-S, I was like, "Oh, I can't wait to hear this." - Yeah, good. Thank you to Kevin Walker for pulling this. I texted Kevin was like, "Man, we're going to make sure "we have this for two guys one bit." - It's Sunday. - Yeah. - It's Sunday. And Chris, we've got to see him at the stadium yesterday. He had a good laugh about that. All right, let's go to Brian, this is part of the pre-game show. And anytime you try and say some names, sometimes we get some gold. - Oh, no. For a long way. - For a long way. - For a long way, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. - Take it away, Brian. - Yeah. - Look, we got to find other ways to stop them regardless of when a boss is out here or not. - Let me tell you what, Daniel, I can't, for a long way. - Hallele. - Hallele. - Yeah, for a long way. - For a long way. - For a long way. - But if he plays, if he plays, quickness. - You can tell the recovery. - What the hell was it? Is it filele? - He was gathering himself after tripping over the photo. - I was, I said it perfectly like three times. And then at one time I'm like, oh, Jesus. That was a big give up. - Quick correction, Southern Leisure is next Friday. They're in Florida, not this Friday. - October the four. - October the four. - We'll be getting after it. Gosh, I love Southern Leisure Spots and Patios so much. - Is that a cold fudge challenge? - That's gonna be a, well, as long as wall chuck approves it, you know, the level of difficulty, then yes. - That's a tough one right there. - I will do this. - That does not sound fun. - I will tuck my shirt into my khakis with my belt on Jim Harbaugh style and I'll get in there. That's if I lose, you know what I mean? And shout out to the Bengals, hopefully getting a dub for me tonight. - You just been rolling, bro. - Yeah, well. - Good stat on the Bengals, Joe Burrow. - By the way, you sang very well on Friday. - Yeah, we didn't give enough credit for that. - I was trying to. - You guys were too drunk to appropriately apply. - We were having a great time. - I thought you did a great job of singing. - Thank you. Thank you very much. - Seriously. - I think I might have left out a couple sentences. Like I thought it's, you nailed it. - I wasn't sure if I was like a hundred percent accurate on all of the lyrics, but I think I was still in the 90s of percentile, so. - I think you and the Rockets red glare somewhere else. - Yeah, something happened with the Rockets. - Something happened with the Rockets, yeah. - But a lot of red glare reached out and said that they were more inspired as an American than they ever had been, you know, so. - Yeah, let's get you to the cowboy game here soon. - I was just surprised you weren't a horrible singer. - That was true. How loud you sing is impressive as well. - Really? - Yeah, well, that was like, I was, you know, there was, we had a lot of that SAG of more rye. - We did. - Yeah, the point you and Wolchuck wanted to like have like a, let's go out, let's go out there and settle this at the okay corral. - Yeah, I thought you were gonna have to come to blows, man. - Doc Holliday out there. - Who says we didn't? - All right, who says we didn't? - Whiskey, whiskey in some fist fighting. - For you, by the way, you're good. He's undefeated week three, eight touchdowns, two picks. He started 0 and 2 in four of his five career seasons. This is familiar territory for Joe. They're getting the win tonight. - Oh, that does make me feel good. I needed to add the vote to confidence, man. - Okay. - All right, let's get to the coin toss. Ladies and gentlemen, Brad Shamm, take it away. - But we have Ron Torbert as our referee. - Oh. - Here's the coin that we will use. The side with the NFL shield, his heads, the side with my number 62. - Oh, well, you're not. - Is tales. Baltimore, you are a bit nervous. - Wow. - What's the call? Tales of the call, tales of the call. - Well, that was certainly some foreshadowing there. Ron wanted to make it about himself yesterday. - Oh, the Ron Show. - It was his number on the coin. - Oh, yeah. - And it was from the first whistle. It was laundry on the field. - Three pillows the first drive. - Yeah, it was exhausting. - Yeah, I mean, pre-snap penalties. Yeah, it's spanned forward with a false start and it ends up being Ferguson on another drive. They're not said. - Turpin gets called for holding on a return. - Yeah, it's just unreal, so annoying. But this also started off with a bang. We'd wondered, I mean, hey, cowboys, do you just take the football since you need to try and play with the lead for this defense to settle in? Well, Izzy McQuamoo was out there. And when they win the toss, he set the tone. - This has won the toss. - Give us that (beep) ball, buddy! - What do you want to come? - The cowboys won the toss and have decided to take the ball. (laughing) - Sure sounds like they have, yeah. They took the ball and they basically just took a dump on the ball to, that was their scripted plays where just everybody pulled their pants down like that Dolphins player. Did you see the Dolphins player get his cheeks thrown out yesterday? - Oh, so did that really happen? - Yeah, that really happened. - Oh, I thought maybe that was like... - I'm honestly surprised it doesn't happen more where somebody's like trying to attack you from behind. They dive out and they just like grab your pants and pull them down and it was just bare cheeks. I think it might have been River Craycraft. - Craycraft. - Julian Hill, I don't know, but it was definitely, I mean, the Dolphins absolutely showed their ass in Seattle yesterday. - They'd be like a brass bear, they sure did. - All right, let's go to, oh, well, it's Lamar Jackson doing what he does. - Craycraft rocks the ball into the garden through the picket fence. - That is a lot of butt out there. Holy cow, it's full moon. - It's full moon. - Yeah. - You see this, Brian? - That's not just a typical run-of-the-butt plumber crack. - No, yeah. - Ladies, we're happy with that one. We have something regarding kitchen appliances here on the broadcast. - Six-foot 355 for Michael Pierce. - He is a low wood. - No, that's a kitchen appliance. - Yeah. - It's not a man, it's a kitchen appliance. - He is a low wood dude. - It's what C.A. says. - My Jerry's roving off on the broadcast. - Let's see. - Yeah, that was some Jordan Love analysis once again. - There. - Making a toy under the Dallas Cowboys radio network. All right, let's see, who's the get cute kind of guy? - I'm not gonna get cute. - Well, he's not a get cute kind of guy. (laughing) He's not a get rattle kind of guy either, I like that, I like that in the kitchen. - I like that in the kitchen. - That must be about our guy Brandon. - Gotta be. - The local legend. - MVP right there. - How about third dude missing one? - Brandon Aubrey, I tried to miss it. - Yeah, we knew. - He did. - Turning point of the game. - We knew, yeah, exactly. - We had the kicking advantage, man. - You did. - Sure did. - Oh, we got rid of the pregame. - Know who our best players. - Follow away. - They tried to throw a follow away, follow along, follow along. - Here's Deuce Vaughn getting into the action. (crowd cheering) - Short to the middle. (whistle blowing) - Oh, come on, you don't need to be that way. - No, it's Deuce Vaughn who caught it, but I didn't know that when I said it was short. (laughing) - But it was. (laughing) - But it was. - Short to the middle, it's a good observation there by big. - Yeah, you didn't have to say that, come on. - They really were absolutely dominating yesterday in the booth. - Every time I had the opportunity to hear them on the call, it was wonderful. And here is the point in the game where I guess babes like looking around, like, you know, if they don't get this, man, you might just want to go ahead and pack it in. - All right, third and 14. If you can't get them off here, Brad, you might as well get in your car and listen to Brad and Babe on the way home, right? - Yeah. - Third and 14. (laughing) - And it happened. - Sham, there were a lot of people leaving. - Yeah, including my father-in-law. He left and then they started rallying. Maybe he's just a bad luck. He needs to just stop going to games. - I'm just glad you and I didn't go to the game yesterday together 'cause that would have been the case. - We would have left early. - Yeah, we went downstairs. Remember, we hung around. We usually, like, at the six-minute mark, we were lingering. I started packing, like, what, with nine minutes to go. - And then I'm like, oh, outside kick, we got to see the outside kick, Brian. Come on, uncle, Brian, Brian. We got to stay for the outside kick. - Glad you did. - And it worked, they got it. All right, Brad, Sham, he was not happy with CD. - Back to throwing over the middle, Slant. In and out of Lamb's hands, he stops, slams his hands on his head. He's a frustrated young man right now. He's not happy with the game, he's not happy with himself, he's not happy with my offense. - What is he happy about, Brad? - Right now, at this minute, he's probably not even happy with a contract he just signed to. - He's not happy, just in general, unhappiness. What do you think he's most unhappy with? - His quarterback, the offense. - I think that fumble wrecked him in that game. - Yeah, but this isn't the first time he's done this. - But no, but to me, it just seemed like when he, that point on it was pressing, pressing, trying to get it back, I think that, I think the fumble really hurt him in that game. - Yeah, I mean, it seems like, I mean, I don't know, even on the play where it's in the end zone, and it's the, he gets the flag called, but he's still kind of throwing a fit to Lamb and like he's upset about something. And then there's a play where they throw it to Ferguson and he doesn't get the ball, and he's-- - Oh no, it's the third and 15. - He's the third and 15, and then there's the, just get me the f-ing ball. - And that's what I think what it is. - I think he just wants the ball. - Yeah, but I just think the pressure of him having to make plays. - Yeah. - That's just, because I could say that fumble, that fumble was bad. - That's the turning point, I mean, that's where everything-- - Well, there were a lot of bad in the way. - Yeah, it was the one, because that's the one time you were actually moving the ball with a little rhythm to it. - Exactly. - And then you just completely fall apart. - No doubt, I mean, right after the quarter, as soon as the quarter changes, like, oh God. - Well, one guy who was impressive yesterday, it's our man, Hunter Lipke. - Snap to Prescott, protected, pumps, throws it out, caught by Lipke, he made a man miss, 25, 30, 35, right for the 40. You cannot stop Hunter Lipke, you can only hope to contain it. - He made two guys miss. - That's our guy. - He made Humphrey and Hamilton miss on the play, too. - Amazing. - Pretty good tackler for him. - He had the second most snaps yesterday behind Dattle, as far as your backs, I think they're getting it figured out. - And they play, plays with those special team snaps, too. - He's got some versatility. Can line up full back tight ends. - There's a lot of the game, yeah. - In the backfield. - His pass pros is-- - Pass pros, had a couple of good blocks yesterday. I mean, the route that he, he won on Hamilton, was pretty damn nice, nice catch. - Yeah, that's the type of football player that you would see a Shanahan or a LaFloor or a Ben Johnson get the most out of. You know, like, man, he showed a heck of a lot more athleticism yesterday than I ever knew he had. But McCarthy loves him, he's found out a way to improve this offense a little bit. All right, here's Christie shutting it down with, well, just get the hell out of here in the second half. - Yeah, that was the only rushing in the second half was the fans to the exits. Just a minute into the fourth quarter. So yeah, it's mostly purple down here behind the visiting bench in the first level. - I've never known Christie to be a cheap shot gal, Brad, but just one air. Little shade, little shade. - That was deserved. - That was a damn good bar right there by Christie. And that's unfortunately the situation that we were in. That's just her unbiased reporting going on right there. There were a lot of Ravens fans. I mean, there were times where you close your eyes in there, you think you're at a Ravens home game, right? - Yeah, something happened there during the national anthem. They yelled something. I didn't know if that was like a Baltimore Raven thing, but I'd never heard of it before. I couldn't pick up what they yelled. - Yeah, they were loud and proud, deservedly so. And there it is, two guys, one boo. - I feel like we're gonna get a lot more of that, don't you? - Yeah, they're a lot more road crowd fired up. - They're selling their tickets for sure. - I'd want to recoup something out of this season. It's probably not gonna be a good time at AT&T Stadium. So I'm trying to get paid and maybe save up my money for when they're good in a next go round, which by my count, I think you're looking at 2026. I think we got about another, what would that be? 33 games of bad, of blah, before you get out of cap hell and this organization. Assuming they draft properly, which they should. I mean, they got out of their comfort zone, out of their wheelhouse a couple of years back there with the Maasie Smith and Skoonie deal. But other than that, they're drafting well enough to believe it's about to happen. But if I'm a fan right now, I don't want to go, I don't even want to go leave the house, you know? Let's, we're gonna have a killer party at the tailgate. Maybe I got, I got meat church mats locked and I know where I'm going for some terrific brisket sliders on Hawaiian rolls, you know? That'll get me off the couch. - Yeah, hell yeah. - You know, let's give them to the neighbors, let somebody else go to the game. But I damn sure don't want to, you know, inconvenience myself in a way that involves spending lots and lots of money to go, you know, watch that absolute disaster of a football team, which is what they are right now. I'm not sure how much they are better than the Giants. I'm looking forward to Thursday night where we can get some clarity on that. But coming up next, Chief, what's in store? - Go little sports hodgepodge here. We'll take a next gen look at our football Sunday and we got some college football stuff for you next year in the nation. - Hey Mike Felenny here, host of Cash The Ticket alongside my partner, Jim Costa. It's really simple. 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And now it feels like they've just gone right back to the same mentality they had to start last year where their offense was inept and there was no explosive plays. They can't run the ball. They can't pass the ball down the field and defenses are a step ahead of them. And the Cowboys, I saw a Skywalker steal, Cowboys drop back 55 times and use pre snap motion just 15 times. I mean, on 17 past attempts yesterday, you saw Baltimore use the motion 12 times. The previous week, the Raiders, who have Luke Getzy calling their plays, which is just patently awful. The Raiders last week, when they beat the Ravens, they dropped back 43 times. They use pre snap motion 33 of those times. And you can see how much that screwed things up, communication wise, they're in the back end for the Ravens and the Raiders were able to, I mean, Brock Bowers ate against them, the rookie tight end, of course, Devontae Adams did as well. And then you come out and you're just super, super stagnant. I don't, I don't get it. And then I think the other really disappointing thing too, is just all your best players were bad. Well, it's like even the, wasn't like, hey, all the guys we've paid were a little top heavy here, but all the guys we've paid really, you know, did their thing and the rest of the rosters got to catch up to them. It's like, no, the guys you've paid or the guys you're about to pay, guys you depend on, guys that are supposed to be the, your foundation for your squad here. It's Dak, it's Lamb, it's Diggs, it's Tyler Smith, it's Micah, Demarcus Lawrence, awful. I mean, Zach Martin, not quite himself. I mean, all of what are supposed to be your best players lets you down quite a bit yesterday. And that sucks, man. - Donovan Wilson. - Yeah, you need them, especially with so much youth on the team. Looking back to last year, how it finished, following that Seahawks game, which was kind of like the get right. Oh, yes, they really got it. You know, it's 10 points against Buffalo, 20 against Miami, 20 against Detroit. Then you get the worst team in football on a week 18 to Washington. But then after that, you go Green Bay and you know, the second half against Cleveland, right? New Orleans, Baltimore. It's like, we're looking at a sample size now of like nine games. Other than horrible football teams in the first half against Cleveland, your offense has fallen apart, is really kind of what's happened. And, you know, I don't even know quite how to explain it because it's been so sudden. Like up until that point, it was 45 and 49 and 43, all in the course of five weeks span that they were dropping. They look like what the Saints have, you know, looked like over the last, well, excluding yesterday. So, you know, to me, I don't know how much different it was last year, you know, looking at how that season finished. They did make some adjustments at the buy, but I think they went into the off season and thought that that buy week adjustment didn't fix them. And they need to go back to what, you know, their foundation has been, which is less motion. Well, it definitely, it worked for them. They pivoted last year, it worked for them for a good chunk of the season, and then teams started to have answers for what it is you wanted to do. Now teams have counters. You've gone seven, eight, nine games, putting things out there. And now defenses understand what you want to do. And then there was no counter punch from the Cowboys. And so the last month of the season and all the way up into Green Bay, it's just the defenses are a step ahead of you. And then it's like, okay, what can you do now to take what you did, which was an improvement after five games last year, you got a lot more motion going on, pushing the ball down the field a lot more. And then, okay, defenses found, you know, figured out what you wanted to do. How do you evolve from there? How do you say, okay, now what's our counter to their counters? Cause we've clearly got something here, but no, they've just gone right back to what they were to start last year, which is like just thinking your quarterback can't push the ball down the field. Awful route concepts, a lot of curl routes. Nobody's getting open. The separation for you is terrible. Like they're continuing to increase the amount of coverage that they're playing on you. They're continuing to disrespect your run game more and more. But you can still at least do motion. You can still have route concepts that did not benefit from running motion, right? That was in the stat last year that run, specifically on their runs, but in their passing attack, it worked tremendously. Okay. I'm thinking of multiple plays last year. Here's Turpin finding himself wide open because he was in motion or whatever. They upped that and at least for the passing attack, it worked. Now there's a lot of choreography that goes on in the rushing attack and you start adding the motion stuff. They clearly weren't really, they weren't really adept at nailing that portion of it because they were switching things mid-season, but their passing game, it worked for them. At least up until defense has really got a hold of what they want to do. I think it's like probably that Buffalo game where it was really like, oh, okay, now things are out there and you're struggling in a huge way. And it's just weird. It's weird that they're doing it. And again, I think it's funny that there's also who are you blaming here? 'Cause this is McCarthy's offense. Absolutely Mike McCarthy. But then it's also, but again, everybody wants to tell him this is Dax offense. Dax welling the show. I think he's, what do we, where is the disconnect here? Is he changing the plays of the line of scrimmage? I think as much as any quarterback in the league is. Yeah, he's not designing it or calling the plays. He's choosing from two different plays that he's given and coming up and checking out of the runs quite a bit. But as far as him being responsible for constructing the offense, he said after the Saints game, I'm trying to get more of this stuff in our offense. I want to do more of this, which suggested to me that he's not the architect of it, even though he's deciding at the line, are we going to do the run play or the pass play? Then that certainly makes, that makes sense that I'm just surprised that he hasn't just completely combusted at the microphone. Just because out of so much frustration, watching the other team do things, he's on the sideline, watching his defense. And he's like, wow, what, look what these offenses are doing. And then we're running out there and in our scripted plays, we're running arrow routes out of the backfield to a slow running back at the line of scrimmage so we can just get to second and nine as quickly as possible. It's brutal. What are we doing? You know, I think there is definitely part of Dak that is a good soldier that wants to follow what the coaches want. When he first got here, he never changed the play. And it wasn't until Amari Cooper got here and in the huddle was like, dude, you've got to change the play. The Eagles are giving us this thing over the top. And it was one of the first times that Dak actually did and the big play happens and, you know, the Cowboys beat the Eagles and they go on and win the division that year and get to the playoffs. But I think he is hardwired to be a good soldier. That's part of, you know, being a leader is being willing to follow the chain of command. And, you know, I would look for him to figure out a way to get those ideas upstairs to Jerry. It's at this point in a quarterback's career on the other side of 30 that you can start like working with the front office and hopefully choosing a coach that, you know, will bring the things to life that he desperately needs. I mean, to not be able to find any way of generating offense when the defense is consistently, just taking one thing away from you. They're just worried about the chunk play and you're not able to exploit that in a bigger way. I think a lot of coaches have to be watching the Cowboys struggle like this and laughing. - Yeah. Well, I couldn't believe seeing the Derek Henry, the way he takes care of himself. And they talked about that on the, he spends $250,000 a year on his health. No fried food, no dairy, no gluten, no artificial sugars. Doesn't eat till 4 p.m. or 5 p.m. during the season and eats an avocado or banana before practice. - That's different. - I don't understand how this dude can be, I mean, he's huge. I don't understand how you can be that big and just you don't eat until 4 o'clock every day. - Genetics. - You know the story with Herschel Walker where the doctors brought him in like thinking he had to be on all kinds of roids and they ran all bunch of tests on him. They're like, this is incredible. The guy's producing more muscle, more power, more speed. There's not a single synthetic thing in his body. He just generates like four times the amount of testosterone and the average male does. (laughing) - Right, I'm gosh dude. And what Jim Harbaugh still had more rushing yards than him. It just makes no sense. - Yeah. - But yeah, I guess that's what it is, man. It's just, it's genetic greatness and like DK Metcalfe. He just like snacks on candy and stuff all day. He looks like, he looks like the just the most incredible physical specimen you've ever seen. Okay, let's take a look some other things around the NFL. I did feel bad for the better's last night who had the over on the rushing yards for Pat Mahomes at 19 and a half. He had 30 rushing yards before taking three knees to end the game. He went minus five, minus four, minus four. He finished with 17 rushing yards. And so the under 19 and a half hits after he had already gotten to 30 and then kneeled his way to the under rushing yards prop. That definitely stings bad beat style. - Could have been even worse for him. He turf monster got him on the second to last one. He went for one of those slides where you're trying to stall for an extra half second. Caught him. Oh yeah, and he was kind of gimping around a little bit. - Yeah, looked ugly for a second. - Stat of the day on Jalen Hurts, he has the most turnovers since the start of last season with 26. That is a volatile player, man. It's like there's some awesome plays and some head scratchers and I can't believe with the way that Siriani was calling that game. They still find a way, the Eagles to beat the Saints in New Orleans. Dick Fangio had that defense flying around, credit to him. And then after the game, you had CJ Gardner Johnson, Eagles defensive back talking about the Saints. His quote was, they ain't no contenders. They're pretenders. They have Derek Carr. Remember that. - Ouch. - That's the quote there from CJ Gardner Johnson who was doing a lot of ranting 'cause he's a former saint and I think he felt disrespected and they were playing dirty, you know, potentially spitting on play. Like, they hit the dirty hit on the decapitation of Devontay. Smith was certainly unsavory. Hey, Lane Johnson had a concussion and he's being reported. Pam Oliver's like, yeah, Lane's vomiting on the sideline right now because, you know, his head's spinning basically due to concussion. They asked Jimmy as that game was wrapping up, what was the difference between what the Saints have done the first two weeks in this game against the Eagles? He said talent, you know. So maybe Philly has replaced their front and, you know, they're gonna be one of the better defenses. That's kind of what it looked like. But that was like worst case scenario for, I think for the Cowboys to see what Philadelphia did. But I still think the Saints defense is really dang good. - Oh yeah. - They slowed Philly down quite a bit. - Sequan reached a top speed of 21.66 miles per hour on that 65 yard touchdown run second fastest by a ball carrier this season and the fastest on a run play according to next gen. - I did. - Is there a difference in the game? - Absolutely it was. Yeah. I mean, that and George or Dallas Goddard, excuse me, with the one handed grab where, and he was a yak monster on that play, but I mean, they, they, they racked up a ton of yards. The Eagles offense did, but they are shooting themselves in the foot on these fourth down decisions, man. They, they actually should have kicked the field goal. And they go forward on fourth. The coach coaches. - What were they on fourth down? - They were one of her three on fourth down, weren't they? - I think that's what it ended up being. Yeah. I mean, that's one of those games where the Eagles win and their fans are still like, we hate our coach so much. And I'd certainly get that. Did you see the, the, looked like a designed lateral touchdown, Detroit Lions. That was one of the coolest type of round. It was, it was, well, Saint Brown, two Jameer Gibbs. - Yeah, okay. - It was like going to call play? - Yeah, it was badass. - It looks like a design down field lateral. - And he was just getting him to the end zone. Is that what he was doing? It wasn't a hooking ladder? - So it's a, yeah, it's a slant. It's a slant to Saint Brown. - Right. - Jameer Gibbs runs out of the backfield and just crosses his face there, running the opposite direction. And as soon as Brown catches the slant, he flips it to Jameer who's now going the other way and runs like 20 yards for a touchdown. It looks, I mean, it looks like a designed down field lateral hook and ladder style. It was, it was awesome and it was executed to perfection. - Yeah. - I think team should be doing more of this kind of stuff. - I'll take a creative, you know, out of the box thinking. - Yeah. Yeah. - And you need, you need legitimate skill players, not, you know, DB's masquerading as receivers or running backs or something to get this done. You need, you know, guys that played quarterback in high school. - Yeah. And speaking of super guys, you know, super bees who can get it done right now, skill guys. Malik neighbors will be seeing him Thursday night. He was targeted 12 times. Eight catches, 78 yards, two touchdowns, accounted for 57% of the Giants, air yards as a team. And he's the only receiver in the NFL to account for over half his team's air yards on the season. - Man, everything is just functional about the Giants until Malik neighbors is on screen. And then suddenly everything looks pretty good. Dudes wide open, dudes catching everything. You know, Danny Dimes is on the money. Like it's pretty cool to watch him play, you know, even though he's a giant, I think they finally got one right. - Yeah. He's, he's, what did Nick Saban call him in college? An F in problem. - Yeah. - That's exactly. - That's exactly what he is. - He's easy, dude. - Yeah, he does. And finally here, speaking of making it look easy, Patrick Sertan corner, my goodness. He's now gone three games. He's covered DK Metcalf, George Pickens, and Mike Evans. He's given up six catches for 63 yards on the season. He just shut down Mike Evans yesterday, like it was nothing. So salute to him. - Thank you, Chief. Cowboys hours coming up at seven o'clock. Brought to you by your North Texas. Four dealers, four is the best in Texas. And we're back to mix with the fan after dark. Get you set for the evening here in the nation. - Thank you very much, Lucius. It is the G back nation here on a 105-3, the fan. The fan after dark is coming up from eight to 11. The Cowboys hour is coming up from seven to eight here on your home of the Cowboys, 105-3, the fan. What do you guys think? Is there hope that this season can get turned around, Brian? You know, Belichick says this is fixable. Will the Cowboys at some point, or is this just going to be a continuation for the next three and a half months? - Well, you got to figure out exactly, you know, with you're likely better than the Giants. See what happens with the Steelers. You know, they've got a quarterback that's really good at running. They play really good defense. And then, you know, the Lions are a physical running team as well. It just doesn't bode very well for the deficiencies that you have. - No Lions won't revenge. - Yeah, but you got to find a way offensively too to help your defense out. You know, you got to start, you know, what you saw in the end of the third, after the Miss Fuel Gold and the end of the third, end of the fourth, they'll say, so this offense can work, you know? I mean, they don't have the ability to run the ball right now, but you can see what happened. They can open some things up and get some rhythm with their offense, but they're going to be stagnant on offense and not play run defense. They're not going to win many games this year. You know, that's going to be a big, big problem. - And that's what's in the coaches DNA. - Yeah, and they're about to, again, embark on, you know, the Steelers have found a way to play football. - Yeah. - They run, they play defense. They're quarterback actually started the game nine for nine yesterday. - Yeah, he looks pretty good in there. - As first time in his career, these won three straight games. - I mean, they're not racking up points or anything, they're playing complimentary football. - They play really good on defense and they don't f up the games, so yeah. - Well coached. - We'll have fun trying to figure out a cool and fun way to talk about, you know, week four with Eric Kendrick's tomorrow. He's going to join us at five o'clock. It's always interesting doing a player show when the season turns ugly. I always remember 2010, my first year here, our player was J Ratliff. - Oh gosh, surly dude. - And he was fired up about how bad it had gone, you know? He was intense, you know? He was looking to be confrontational about it. So it was like a high wire act on thin ice. - I bet, dude. - To get through that. We were doing it live at a bar where there were like intoxicated fans coming up to him and asking him questions - It was like in person in his life. - Yeah. - Did he ever, like, was there ever a moment? - I mean, there were moments where he was fired up, you know? But I never felt like J. Rallis about to lose it. He would just go on really impassioned ramps. - I saw, I saw he and Calvin Watkins go nose to nose. Calvin Watkins didn't back down from him one time. - Calvin's the man. - Calvin went after him and he went after Calvin and I literally thought there was going to be a fist fight in the locker room there at Valley Ranch. - Yeah. - Calvin didn't back down from him. Like Calvin was like, everybody's like trying to pull him apart. You know, and Calvin's, you know, Calvin's trying to fight to kind of get to the guy. - Yeah, he's a savage beast. - I'm like, I'm like, geez, Calvin, that was saying he goes, I ain't gonna let that MF do that. You know, that kind of thing. - That's the season. - What was he going to do when his hands on him though? - With the player? - No, what was Calvin going to do when he actually got to him? - Calvin was going to try, I mean, he and Calvin Lucius were, they were literally like, their noses were touching that, they're that close. - That must have been adrenaline 'cause you ain't doing that for a J-Rattler bro. You're doing nothing with him. - He got you about 120 pounds. - I give Calvin credit. - But I like the standing in there. - Oh yeah, I get it. Yeah. - Hold me back, fam, please. - Hang tough in the body. - Please, please, hold me back. - You want some? - No, he, no, it wasn't like a fake, hold me back situation. Calvin was like, they started that close and then it turned to where you, you know, pulled him apart, kind of a thing. Like he, yeah, Calvin might have got destroyed but he was not going to let that guy get away with you. - He got some heart. - Yeah, give it to him. - Sometimes as the younger guy, you can get in somebody's face and think, there's no way this big guy is actually going to kick my ass. You know, he probably feels bad for me right now. Or there's just no way a player is going to actually beat up a medium member. I think I can bow up here, I'm safe, you know? And Calvin Watkins was safe that day. I think Jerry Jones actually had a face-to-face with J-Rattler as well. Maybe the following year or shortly thereafter, things got a little bit chaotic because J refused to play. He was like, nope, I'm hurt not playing for you. And so the Cowboys were like, okay, I guess we're cutting you. And then the next week he was playing with the Bears, you know? So things definitely got a little heated and personal. Big show tomorrow though, not only Eric Kendrick's, we're going to have the Rangers player show. Not sure who we're going to get prior to Grom, you know? - Prior to Grom, yeah. - Or, I don't know, but it will. - Maybe, who knows? - We'll have CY on for sure at 4.20. So that'll be a lot of fun. And then Mark Schlarath is going to join us once again. We'll be talking football with Mark Schlarath, Stink. - Thank you. - Former Bronco and former commander there. Stinkay in the 4.40. What position is most in need right now? Brian, I heard over there.com you guys are talking about. Maybe we need to, you know, generate the draft show a little earlier this year. What do you think is going to be the focal point right now? - Let's assume they're picking around 15th. - Let's see, that means you're right there about nine and eight, right, with your record and stuff. - Probably about right. - Just barely in or barely out. - We nailed our prediction, if that's the case. - We did. I mean, I'm looking, I think at the top of the board right now. - I wish I knew all the players, 'cause I can tell you what position. - It's deep, again, I think there's like five projected first round receivers right now. There are a couple of running backs that we'll have in the conversation. - Do you think they would take a running back? - Not in the first round. - Oh, what? - You put it past the Cowboys, take a running back in the first round. - I sure as hell hope not. We'll chuck, but now that you got me second guessing. - But no, I wouldn't put it past them, but defensive tackle, I don't think they're going to go down that route again. That seems like a big defensive end. - Yeah, you need pass rushers, man. I mean, you only got one pass rush. - You kind of feel like that they could take any position to try to work out for them, except maybe, well, you know, maybe not the offensive line. We'll see what they got young players. - Yeah, but you kind of feel like the TJ Bass, right? That would be the plug and play in there. - Yeah, I think you could plug and play unless you want to go get some greatness. - I could maybe get some something better. I mean, like if I found if there was a center that I had graded really highly, I would move BB to guard and he's good to rock there. - I would think, this sounds like to me that I bet you they take a defensive lineman. I bet you they take a defensive lineman. - I mean, don't you need another wide receiver pretty bad? You don't have a number two. - Yeah, but what happens, what happens is this, we'll get in this draft and means that we'll look at 215 players and 40 of them will be wide receivers. - Oh, we can get one in the second or third. - We can get you one in the third round. - Yeah, yeah. - Mind Justin Jefferson, or seeing an animal with the neighbors on another Michael Gal. - No, that's a little different that you probably have to do, but every year it seems like the draft is really deep with corners and it's really deep with wide receivers. - Well, they just took Neland, I don't know, maybe Tank retires, they could definitely use another end. I feel like they could use another corner. - Yeah, I think that's a position that's always good to take a shot at. - Obviously, if there's a stud linebacker in the middle of the first round, a middle linebacker who can cover and tackle and diagnose and everything, you're taking a middle linebacker there, wouldn't you? - Well, you don't, yeah, I mean, - I'm considering a linebacker, absolutely. - Depending on what you're thinking about with, somebody's show like in this, during the season when the young guy's wears overshone and Clark or somebody like that, it might be your middle linebacker too. They might say, well, we've got guys in place. I'm not against another linebacker, but I don't know if they would, they could have dressed that last year with the kid from North Carolina State. - Oh, well, yes, yes, they could have. - And they didn't, it did not. - What a day, what a Cowboys Monday, as a rock bottom I feel like was hit yesterday, acceptance that this is gonna be a long road out there. I don't think there's a quick fix on this season. I'd be fascinated to see what could happen with a pretty good running back. Jerry Jones getting dunked all over when asked, why couldn't the Cowboys afford Derrick Henry in the off season? He laughed and said, why can't you buy a mansion when you live in a different kind of house? We couldn't afford it, we couldn't make that all fit. It's as simple as that. I mean, the only way it makes sense to me is they just thought we're not a running back away. We could get a running back and our defense is gonna be so depleted, which it appears to be that it wouldn't matter. That's the only way I could justify it because how good they were last year, I would look at it and say our offensive line's gonna be a little bit better in the running game as we get younger. If we could get the equivalent of a younger Tony Pollard, a guy who could actually make house calls, hit the whole fast, I would think that opens it up to being like an actual balanced offense that could take pressure off of your defense. It worked in a big way in 2014 and 2016. And I would think they'd wanna circle back around to that, but the only thing that makes sense to me is that they're gonna keep dry powder to take something from Mav's years gone Bible. We got a run nation. Thanks so much to Lucius Alexander and the Pimp Cup over there at Master Control here, 75 and fits you. Thanks to Carter Freeman, coordinating your video. 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