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(upbeat music) All right, here we go, Mike McCarthy Press Conference at the star here on Your Home of the Cowboys. So expression of emotion, you know, on Sundays always creates potential narratives and so forth. But based off our work today, you know, what needs, what's needed to be said has been said. And, you know, we're on to the Giants. We've, you know, we put in first, second and third down today. So it's been a full day. - Mike Todd Archer with ESPN, what needed to be said today in your mind? - Well, just like anything. I mean, I'm not gonna get into specifics or, you know, this isn't, you know, showing tell. It's about what being accountable and, you know, we didn't have a whole lot of time to spend on corrections. So we did that in the beginning part of it. And we had to move right into the Giants. So, you know, every time you compete, there's plenty of corrections. We obviously had too many. But, you know, we're still in position to win the game. So, and that's, and that's something that, you know, will not get lost. You know, it's part of the evaluation 'cause it's factual. And, you know, the things that you look at, you know, just the one statistic that stands out for, you know, over top of all the other ones where the execution was not in our favor. You know, we were plus two in the big play category. And, you know, so that that tells you to put you, you know, you're in position to win a game. You know, we got to make one more of those big plays. - Offensively with how you guys played for after most of the fourth quarter, you're in a two minute situation. Considering the slow starts, do you ever think like that's a way to kind of jumpstart to open up that way? Or can you go tempo that? - You know, I mean, we know how to offense is. You know, we've done it in the past, you know, I've done it throughout my whole career. But, you know, that's not where we are right now. You know, we need to, you know, the efforts here, the execution is what we focused on. - John, I'm a shower with the athletic. We talked to Jordan Lewis today, you mentioned over and over again about having to be more detailed on defense. When you watch the game over again, just on the defensive side, is it the small detail thing or what do you think it is? - Well, it's totally small details. That's all the way through the team. I mean, the defense had, you know, more of it than you like. But yeah, the details, you know, knowing the details, breach confidence, confidence makes you play faster, keeps you connected. So we need to do that throughout our whole team. So we got work to do. - Calvin Watkins, Dallas Morning News. We've talked about the details last two weeks. Is it a little frustrating that we're continuing to have these discussions with you? - Well, I think the biggest thing is you got to look at, you know, what they are. You know, I mean, continued mistakes are the things you have to definitely eliminate, especially if it's, you know, the pre-snapped penalties. You know, those, I mean, to start the game the way we did, I mean, you know, that's a kick and he asks. I mean, you take the ball for a reason. You got three penalties, you know, obviously on the kick off and then, you know, two on the first drive. So, I mean, that's not the way you want to start a football game. And, you know, that's so, I mean, it's those things that you got to make sure you stay on top of. We're going to, you know, we're going to have some bumpy times. That's part of, you know, just where we are, as far as new defense, you know, young players playing. And, but we need to be better. And, you know, we had a chance to win that game. The slow start did not help. - Bill and Carson were today's. You got a short week. What did they say? - Yeah, tomorrow I'll give you a better idea. So, you know, I thought they both did what they needed to do today, but yeah, it's, we'll know more tomorrow with both of those guys. - So, Sadh, you said the athletic mic. Where do you stand kind of on pre-snap motion offensively? What does it do? What advantage can it give the offense when you do implement it? And, and how much do you prefer to have that in your offense? - I mean, it's, it's, it's part of the, you know, winning the pre-snap potentially. You know, whether you're, you know, trying to change, you know, challenge the eye discipline of the defense, you know, create landmarks, get in reduced splits, get out of reduced splits. And, I mean, there's, there's benefits to it. So, but I think like anything, you have to have a, a menu of a number of things in this league, especially over a 17-game period. - You talked to you last year after the San Francisco game about CD Land and his body language and stuff. And I asked about it last night, but just the next day, do you have any conversations with him after, after that? - No, I'm worried about it. No, no, not worried about it. The only thing I'm focused on our passing game is we got to get a complete, completion percentage up. So, it starts with the play caller. You throw it about 51 times and you're not north of 60%. That's where my focus is. And that's where everybody's focus needs to be. - Hey. - Hey, here's what we're start tailgaring Monday. You said you guys don't have a ton of time for corrections this week, but with Jordan Lewis talking about details, Michael Parsons last night talking about accountability. How do you kind of work those conversations? - Pretty dramatic there, Nick. I'll tell you, you must practice that one. He's, I mean, well, hey, Thursday schedule. I mean, that's where we're on. I mean, it's, we didn't win the game. So, I think that's, that's, that's part of where we are. I mean, so yeah, I think they do a good job of, you know, answering your questions. It's emotional after the game. So, I'm not, I'm not ever going to referee emotional on the field or after a game. - Here. - Aaron Kazen is a little, a little, a little star live. My name's Smith played a whole ton in there. I think he had a career high in snap. How would you evaluate defensive line in general? And why do you think he-- - I can't give you really evaluations. 'Cause actually we didn't go through grading evaluation today. So I don't have the one-on-one evaluations that, so. But yeah, I thought Mazzy, especially the week that he went through, you know, for him to go out there and play as much as he did, I mean, I was proud of him. - Ed, Mike Ed Werger, WFA. Given what you've seen from the three running backs, what's your inflammation as far as this being a week that you might let me down? - I'm not here to make any, you know, decisions or proclamations on what's next. So like I said, we got first, second, and third down in. - The standard is with the APM. I'm making talk to the past about, you know, getting off the quick starts kind of being on the menu of prep during the week. I just wondered, after two slow starts in a row, is there any feeling on your part of kind of reemphasizing that and how much you do that during the week or just, I guess, a short week, too? - Reemphasize over how we already do it or? - Yeah, I mean, you reemphasize. - I imagine, for sure, week. You know, we have a session on, we call it fast start and fewer is finished Friday. So it's an emphasis on the beginning of the game, how we feel the beginning of the game is gonna go. We spend a lot of time at the end of the game. You know, we put a lot of time investing in situations. So we won't have a traditional Friday this week, so we gotta build that into the Saturday-type schedule, which would be Wednesday. So, you know, Thursday schedule puts you on a different schedule, so, but we'll still emphasize it. - Karen? - Karen, what else do you get sports, Mikey talked about during the draft, sort of building out your team with the idea of, you know, who you're gonna see regularly, facing Dexter Lawrence, the Giants, D-line with the younger O-line? What's the challenge of that? How are you preparing those guys for that? - Well, I mean, Dexter's a huge challenge, regardless, you know, who you line up with as far as, you know, youth, you know, in particular with our young guys. So, yeah, I mean, it's a lot of respect for him. He's played very well so far. I mean, you can see it. I mean, he's a presence in there. He demands, you know, double teams and so forth, but I think their line as a whole, I've been impressed with so far. - Kristy? - Kristy Scales, Kepler's Radio and the Fan. Short week, it is a familiar opponent, but they do have a new defensive coordinator. So, what kind of wrinkle is that? And I knew he went against him with the Titans. Is there anything that will find out? - Yeah, definitely. You know, Kellen called it back then, but, you know, it's different. You know, it's something, you know, in the summer we talked about, you know, you got three games to look at. They've all been different, frankly, the way he's called it. So, that is stood out. But, yes, we've done some historical work on him. - Mike Licki played 30 steps yesterday and some of it was in protection and things like that. What do you like about him in protection? And also, as a guy who catches the whole game. - Hunter's a fine football player. He's really earned these opportunities. He's, you know, he's a four-time player. He's not just a full-back. He can be a one-back, you know, he can be a, you know, three-surface player, four-surface player. We have a big catch, you know, on the keep there on third one. So, he's earned those opportunities. And, you know, I think it has been reflected in his playtime. - Coach, I should more pronounced that was dot com. You mentioned the lack of attention to percentage. I mean, off the side of the wall, if you look to get that up. The Raven's secondary, real feisty, played a lot of press as well. With the completion of percentage being down the separation was actually, it was difficult for the receivers to separate it sometimes. How do you take on that responsibility as a play caller? Do you feel like you need to, in those moments, do things to help those guys? Or do you feel like that's delegated to the winner and their match-ups? - Oh yeah, I mean, that's all part of it. You have a game playing, you have in-game decisions. You know, we went to a two-minute, you know, there in a fourth quarter. So yeah, definitely those are the things you're talking about there during the course of the game. And that's part of the adjustment. - Are you, when you look at your team right now, do you have to say, do they understand what's happening? Or do you have to just say, look, we're in a two-game leadership, we gotta act together. But do they know we gotta get to act together? How much do you kind of talk to them about those types of things? - Yeah, I talk to them every day. I have a team meeting every day. I have an opportunity to obviously talk to the offense more. But yeah, we understand where we are. We wanted to, yeah. Better first division game in front of us. All righty, thank you, Mikey. - Thank you, Mikey. - There it is. The Mike McCarthy press conference here on your home of the Cowboys 105-3, the fan. Wow, some tense moments in there. It sounded like he, you know, had to go at Nick Harris. Or we'll start telegram. - Spicy. - But yeah, frustration is definitely running high, probably short on sleep as well with the New York Giants game, a must win. I don't know how confident I can be right. Now the Cowboys are going to beat the Giants. A team who also handled Cleveland yesterday fairly handily. What do you think, Lucius? Are we breaking here? Okay, let's take a break. We'll come back, we'll recap more of that. Maybe get you some football's finest and everything breaking here in the world of sports throughout the day that's coming up. Hey, Mike Valenti here, host a cash to ticket alongside my partner, Jim Costa. It's really simple. Are you tired of podcasts claiming they're a bunch of pro betters when they live in their mommy's basement? Are you tired of podcasts that claim they hit 80% of the games? When really, they just lose like most of us. I think cash to tickets is the spot for you. We're real, we're transparent. We're having a hell of a good time with it. And we sit there and we're there for the sweat with you guys. We're just trying to figure it out just like you. Follow and listen to Cash the Ticket on the free Odyssey app or wherever. You get your podcasts. Next here in the nation. Here we go, our 4G back nation on a Cowboys Monday on 1053. The fan just coming off of a Mike McCarthy press conference here on your home of the Cowboys. Mike McCarthy said the team will know more tomorrow with cornerback Kaitlyn Carson shoulder and Marquise's Bells ankle after the two did not practice today. It got spicy a few times talking about team leaders saying players need to be more professional and not play hero ball. Based off our work, what needs to be said was said and we're on to the Giants. He did not specify further on what was said today. What did you guys take away from Mike McCarthy's presser? There's no doubt his frustration is high as it's ever been here with just team. Definitely in the defensive mode for sure. And yeah, it's just it's not good right now. And he is he's not somebody that that really likes to be peppered with these with with all these questions about his team's issues and he's already lashing out. This is three weeks into the season. My gosh, this is going to get long for him. I wonder because people are already doing the thing where they're projecting, hey, where does McCarthy lose his job here? And I wonder if if Jerry takes that thing all the way just because he doesn't want to pay somebody to not be here. He knows it's almost more of a stick in it to McCarthy to have to grind out a season like this. If his team just sucks, I could see Jerry just no, you're just going to we're just going to finish the season out with you and you're going to be miserable the whole time. The minute that Mike loses the team, the minute that they stop playing for him, that's where you need to start to watch where where the change is made. He did it with Wade Phillips in after Sunday night game. Yeah, when they when they exactly they quit on Wade and I on a Sunday night in Green Bay. And when that happened, that's when he made the determination to go with Jason Garrett. That was at one and seven. Yeah, so the minute you see them not play for him, then that's when you need to start to be worried if you're Mike McCarthy. You know, I think if you don't bounce back Thursday and you're going on the road Thursday night football, which is always, you know, worth a couple of more points for the home team, then the Steelers game, it's going to be tough to score on them, you know, and then the Lions and the Niners, you know, this could be this could be one in six. I feel like if you don't beat the Giants, things could really get away from you. Going to Atlanta, I feel like right now, that's kind of like a coin flip game. It feels like neither team is, is that good? Eagles, you know, Texans, commanders, and then back to the Giants. The schedule will soften up a bit for you as we get to the other side of Halloween and through December. But then, you know, you're going to have the Bengals and the Eagles and the Buccaneers in there sprinkled around the commanders. So, you know, I, at this point, I would bet on Mike McCarthy still making it to the end of the year. But if the frustration is there, at some point, you need to like change head coaches just so you can like cleanse the palate, you know, if frustration mounts and everybody's, you know, angry, then one way of trying to like at least get a fresh start, I think would be to fire the head coach and put a new voice up there. It's just so funny, like, who would it be? If the defense is this bad, how do you promote Mike Zimmer? Is it, it's not going to be shot, he's bones, falls, he comes bones. Wow. He comes bones, yeah. One guy who could say, you know, what's the assistant head coach Al Harris? Bones has a head coach vibe to him. Maybe Al has the assistant head coach title. I think they did that because of, you know, him not going to the commanders. Yeah. But my gut feeling would be that bones would probably be your guy. Do you think Mike McCarthy makes it to the end of the year at this point? I do. Well, Chuck, I do too, yes. Yeah, I think the stubborn nature, I think Jerry would rather him just have to sit in this disaster. Yeah. Now, now the whispers you'll start to hear, though, as we get to October and then into November, we'll be about Belichick and guys like that. Yeah, let's take a break and we'll come back. We'll hit the expressway and talk about what Belichick said as he already angling for this Cowboys job. I would definitely not appreciate it if I was one Mike Zimmer, and I saw what Bill had to say this morning with Pat McAfee. We're back to give you that in the rest of the developing world of sports, and then we'll hit the expressway and get to LA live here coming up in 540 to the G back nation of the fan shoot. Yeah, it's time now for the expressway brought to you by the on time experts. A lot going on on this Cowboys Monday here on 105 three, the family have LA live coming up here at 540 bill. Belichick with Pat McAfee today says this is the same thing that happened last year with the Cowboys. They get beat when they fall behind early teams run against him. I think there's enough talent in Dallas to get things straightened out. Man, do you think he's angling for the gig when he says that? Sure. He really likes Jerry. He really does. He's trying his best to make Jerry look good in any way he can. And so yeah, I think he would love the opportunity to coach this team. We all have a tremendous amount of reverence for Mike Zimmer. Does anybody think that if Bill Belichick stepped in was coaching this defense right now that it wouldn't be historically bad? No, that's a that's a good question. You can't help but think it would be it would be better. I mean, even when the Patriots sucked over these last few years without Brady, they were still bringing good defense to the table consistently and he's usually able to get the most out of guys, even if they're, you know, kind of just average names, he gets the most out of them. So I definitely average names. Definitely think it would be well, he drafts below average names, so he has to wait to see that they're decent in the NFL to be like, okay, now I'll take you and I'll get even more out of you. But yeah. So I do think it would be better than what Zimmer's got going on right now. Yeah, as a defensive coach, I would agree. I mean, it's not it's nothing against them because I do think this is more of a personnel issue because you're now seeing the same thing under two defensive coordinators with largely the majority of the same players on the defensive side of the football. Now a couple of new young guys and maybe they're making mistakes because they're young, right? Overshone, Leo Fau, Neil, and it's their third game they've ever played Carson. There's going to be growing pains there. But I do think Bill Belichick's pedigree is an offensive mind. He's arguably one of, if not the greatest defensive coordinators to ever play with what he was doing under Bill Parcells when the Giants were winning Super Bowls and stopping, you know, the bills and the 49ers to get to championships. And then he did it throughout his tenure in New England going up against the Colts and then, you know, winning Super Bowls, of course. They went six. Yeah. I mean, I always had a good defense and one of the things I'm guessing like Bill Belichick probably would not have allowed for them to handle the defensive tackle position the way they did this offseason. You know, he would have probably tried to not allow them to wait until mid-August to just throw, you know, crap at the wall. This is one of the reasons why I don't think he would get this job because then he upsets the apple cart. We've talked about this before that he comes in and he's like, you're going to do what? What do you mean? The caps? What? What are you going to do with the cap? No, what? You know, that's- You're going to trust Mazzie Smith and that's it. Yeah. You're going to do what? You know, and there's going to be a lot of questioning by that. Yeah. You know, now if he comes in and takes the Parcells approach where I need the gig, you know, I want to still coach, you know, Bill Parcells had some personnel control until that first round pick came around and it was like, we're going to take the Marcus Ware here. We're not going to take, you know, we're not going to take our guy there from the end up, you know, Sean Merriman. We're not going to take that guy. But there's, there's, there's things that, you know, that I think that Bill Parcells came in and said, okay, Jerry, fine. Okay. Fine. I want to bill a check would do the same thing or would, would Jerry give him the autonomy to do whatever he wanted to do? We don't want that. You want the good and not the bad with Bella check and I just don't know if that's realistic. Well, that's, that's where, like I said, I think that Steven, this is just me talking. I think Steven and Will would fight like hell to try and keep things going the way they want to go in personnel, draft and develop, sign our own, those kinds of things. Yeah. And I just don't think the good is worth the negative on, on Bill Bella check. I mean, you've had Dan Quinn and Mike Zimmer in here and you have very similar issues popping up. If Bella check could make it better with this personnel group, I think it would be just very marginal improvements. I just don't, I just don't see how, you know, you could take this many problems and fix them all, you know, Bella check never won anything without Tom Brady, you know, but it is definitely something to be interested in because I feel like right now Mike McCarthy's dead man walking that we know. Yeah, for sure. Mike to me is the selling point with Bill because I agree with everything you're saying there, Brian. I, and I, the Cowboys might not be alone in that. I don't know looking at Bill's track record if any team is going to hire him and say, we're giving you the keys to go ahead and handle the personnel side of it because you have not done a good job there. Well, maybe to get him, you have to do that. I don't see him taking a job unless he has some say and what's going on. Then he might not end up getting another job. That's, yeah. That's very possible. But somebody will be desperate enough to do it. Yeah. That guy down the road might be desperate enough to do it. But if, so if you talk to him and he's not handling player personnel, but he does have as a head coach, what Bill Parcels was able to do, we're now a roster, he's, he's a guy that the players will respect that. That's I think been the issue ever since Bill left, right? And you lived that. Yeah. But Bill was the one guy like I heard about this all the time growing up. Chris Arnold was talking to me about it today. The head coach instinct fear right in the players. They don't fear the head coach because Jerry's out there in the whole way doing a meeting after the game with, with the media. Poor Mike McCarthy series got two or three people that are in their talking to him and Jerry's going to say one thing Mike's going to say another. Jerry's trading for Trey Lance, supposedly Mike knows nothing about it. Who, who, who really counts here? Who really is to say so? Who's the final decision maker? It's Jerry. Yeah. So why do I have any respect or care for you, Mike? And now you didn't get an extension. It's one year for you. Hell, Mike might stink as a coach. I don't know. Maybe they don't respect him because of that. But Bill Belichick is going to garner respect in the locker room. That's something at least they'd have, but I don't see them. I mean, they're going to end up hiring if they lose Mike or don't re-sign him. Some coach that has a track record of they've been a head coach before. It's able, maybe it's Belichick, name whatever guy else that's out there. I don't see them ever going and being, okay, let's get creative here and bring in Clint Kubiak or Ben Johnson or Bobby Slowick or whatever the sexy young guy is that doesn't have any skins on the wall. Well, I'll disagree with you on that. And I like what you said because I think it's the right way to go. But I disagree with you just for the fact that if it turns into Steven and will be able to control things, you're better doing that with a first-year head coach than you are with a guy. It's a veteran coach. Well, again, Steven and Will are a different story to Jerry. Steven and Will might want to do that. But Jerry right now has the final say in the organization. Oh, no. That's why this is all on Jerry. No, no. It could be Steven and Will trying to convince Jerry not to hire Bill Belichick. That's where this thing could be, you know, and then now you have the struggle right there. But Will-- And I believe Steven would win that. Yeah. That's kind of where I'm thinking too. Right around the time that they took Zach Martin instead of Johnny, I think it became official. Yeah. You know, like the willingness of Jerry to overrule, he knows. The sun's the one in there rolling up his sleeve and putting in the work. Yeah. You know, has the perspective that you would want to have the final say on things. If they don't hire Belichick, I just don't see them hiring any fresh name that we would be excited about. No, I will. Yeah. You don't see it happening. You need whoever takes this job. It needs to be the legitimate interview of, okay, number one question is how do you help my quarterback? Amen. You're married to this quarterback for the next four years. And that's something he's getting no help from the sideline. Yeah. I think what they're going to try to do is, you know, they'll get a traditional coach and they'll try to get a great running back, a bell cow and great offensive lineman and try to, you know, steamroll, have the road grating, terrific offensive line coach. I, I think, you know, we're, we're probably fooling ourselves if we think they are forward thinking enough to go out there and find one of the coaches off the Shanahan tree or the McVay tree. Now they might get lucky and accidentally get one, you know, that that's possible. They've done it at the quarterback position twice now. Yeah. Yeah. You get lucky with Roma. They get lucky with deck. So maybe they can finally get lucky with a, with a head coach. The Todd Archer quote on how bad this is, it's just incredible from his story. The Cowboys allowing 557 rushing yards the most through three games since 1963. Yeah. 5.4 an attempt, the worst through three games since 79, they have given up eight rushing touchdowns, the most in franchise history through three games. So, you know, and it's not, it's not like they've played world beaters, you know, neither one of the teams they've played are a really strong contender. They're making everybody look that amazing. Dude. I mean, yeah, that's what was disheartening during the pregame show leading up to kickoff yesterday was seeing, okay, the Giants are handling the Browns and this Eagles defense. They're playing the best football they've played in probably two seasons versus an offense that just completely embarrassed you a week, week before. Yeah. So then the Ravens came limping in their offense had plenty of question marks and again, they just undressed you. You hear what Michael Irvin said about the Cowboys? I'd never worried about that old America's team moniker, but now I am. When we start talking about the lack of people at training camp and Jerry, we talk about it all the time, how much Jerry wants to promote. That means you want to be in front of people. And if no one's showing up, that means there's a lack of belief in Cowboys nation. I don't, I don't know if that matters a lot, you know, I think for Michael Irvin, it's, it's important to have that level of attention and he's so proud of it, but I'll give up the moniker of America's team if we can just get the bones, the, the foundation of a quality football team right now. I mean, that's kind of meaningless if you ask me. The Cowboys have opened as four and a half point favorites against the Giants. Guys, we only have a couple of days to get our hands around this game. Brian, I'm sure you're going to jump in and start previewing their offense and defense in the corner. Yeah, we got that covered for, we'll do offense tomorrow and defense on Wednesday. But after they fairly convincingly beat the Browns and we've seen the Cowboys struggle for two weeks. So this is crazy, but you know, what do you think about that point spread? How is this game going to go? Was this two bad football teams facing off against each other or is this a Cowboys getting right against the Giants? Oh, it's a Cowboys get right game. It is too bad teams facing off against each other. You think it's a no-brainer cover? You like, you think the line makes sense? 100% of the Cowboys will cover that. They own the Giants that plays great in the division. They're built to win within the division. They will go to New York and take care of business. They'll be two and two. They'll be feeling a little bit good, but it doesn't change the fact that no, they're not a good football team, but they're going to go and handle the New York Giants. That's the way they do this under Mike McCarthy. Sounds like the Giants are getting pressure on people. Yeah. They should be. I mean, geez. They got Brian Burns. Brian Burns. Yeah. That's what I was just kind of wondering how, you know, blocking their front, how that's going to go. No, they've got, they've got a good front, but I feel like even over the last couple of years, there's been moments where they have an index really good against the blitz. See, he finds a way to pick apart the Giants. I'm not really in the least bit worried about them. Yeah. Look, is it possible they lose? Does Devin Singletary run all over him? Does Daniel Jones maybe get creative takes off and run? Sure. There's a recipe there where it could happen. I just, I've seen enough Cowboys Giants throughout my life. They ain't losing the Giants. Yeah. And, and I guess we can't overreact to what the Giants just did to the Browns. No, the Browns are bad. I mean, we just went through the Deschaun Watson's stat and I tried to fight after the Browns got a win in week two that maybe they weren't too bad. Now the Browns think Deschaun Watson, I were worse expected points added through three weeks than any Browns quarterbacks since 2000. We read the list. Guys, it's horrible. The Browns aren't any good. So Malik neighbors is a badass for the Giants, but I don't think anything else on that offense is really worrisome. Yeah, but you're in the same places then. That's the, that's the only team you could beat. Yeah. That's why it's two bad teams. I just think the Cowboys are lesser, but generally, yeah, we know the, the larger sample size is the Cowboys versus these Giants. I do, I, I do think we have to keep an open mind idea though, we'll chuck to the idea that the Cowboys have become that bad, you know, how many young unproven players, either rookies or second year guys, are they leaning on strongly? It's like half their team, you know, and I think it happened kind of suddenly. And we saw that the rookies in Oxnard were impressive and we're like, wow, that's a guy that's going to have a nice career. But when the season starts, there's still rookies and they're not even rookies that are going to, you know, like make the all rookie team. So I just feel like we're, we're going through a tremendous amount of growing pains right now. And it's, I don't know if it can get any worse, but it's going to be a while before it gets better. Two one four says they'll absolutely hire Kellen Moore as their next head coach. That's good. That's good. Eight one seven. Here's the other thing. The Browns had to play from way behind so they couldn't run. Can you imagine the three game numbers of that? If that game was close, well, they didn't have the running back or their offensive line and they were, they were a mass unit coming in week one. So that helps you in a huge way. And the Giants just took advantage of that, that offensive line there as well with Cleveland. So I don't know. The four and a half seems interesting to me on the, on the road short week and historically bad defense right now. Devin Singletary is running the football. I don't know. It would, it, I'm, I'm still a little bit queasy about it. Indeed. Okay. Other stuff happening in the world of sports. There's questionable for the Longhorns game against Mississippi state after that first pick thrown by arch. Are you, are you more interested in seeing Quinn Ewers walk back in there or do you want to see arch? Go with it. What, what, if you're in charge right now and you could snap your fingers. What do you want to see happen? If I'm a Texas fan, I just, I think that ultimately you have national championship aspirations. You are the best team in the country. I think the, the guy who gives you the best chance to win that right now is still Quinn Ewers. So I think you could always end up going to arch if need be, but you saw some of the growing pains there. There was some misses. Now you also see some unbelievable, I mean, geez, the dude's got a cannon arm too for as fast as he is. Arch can throw the heck out of the ball, but he also missing some wide open guys that could be huge touchdowns as well. So there are those growing pains. You're trying to win a national championship. Okay. So you got to have the guy with some experience in there. Ewers today is still better than arch. Yeah. I mean, I don't think it's really a topic in the walls of Austin, right? Sark is pretty much committed to yours. That's his team. But to me, it's, it's very intriguing. Like if Quinn does not play well against Oklahoma, I don't think he's going to play this week in Mississippi state. I think that'll be arch seven open week two before the Oklahoma game. Like that's, yeah. And that's what it's going to take. Like Quinn's going to have to then just not look good against OU or against Georgia. And then maybe there can be a door that cracks where it's like, okay, we could talk about arch, but right now they're, they're going right back to Quinn. They're not leaving arch. You know, you with Quinn, you're probably not too far away from his next injury either. So it might just take care of itself. Former USC running back in 2005 Heisman winner Reggie Bush, following a lawsuit against the university, the PAC 12 and the NCAA sink in compensation for NIL during his time with the program. Bush's legal team says that the three organizations are in significant compensation thanks to Bush's significant popularity and prominence in TV contracts, merchandise, sales, and media rights. I just think there's no end to that. You know, I think that's one of those things where every single one of these players has a case, but they're going to end up protecting the billionaire entities when it, when it comes down to it. Because if you open this one and inside in favor of Bush, I think it sets a precedent. And maybe that's a president that needs to be explored. You know, maybe maybe those organizations, you know, should should be drained of their coffers and, you know, and for really what was theft. You know, that's the way I look at it over a multi decade, half century kind of process. All right, it is the G back nation here on 105 three, the fan time now to go back into that pimp cup or Lucius L.A. Love. You guys been killing that football conversation all day, doing pretty good at it, getting all the angles, I just want to let the tollos know our football coverage on the fence presented by T mobile head to T mobile.com and get a great deal on the iPhone 16 pro. All right, chumps, let's do this. The third Super Bowl that I had a chance to be involved in, I made a deal with the man upstairs and said, if you'll just do it for me, I'll never ask again. This will be it. If you'll let me win this third Super Bowl, I won't ask again. I've been trying to retrade that deal for the last 20 years and I've put a lot on the line. I'm going to shove almost every bit of it out there this time if you'll make this deal with me and let me go one more time. Oh, Jerry. Oh, Jerry, oh, Jerry and Tim fate like that boy, I'll tell you what Jerry, I'll tell you what L.A. live. This is L.A. live for Monday, September 23rd, 2024. It is a Monday Friday here in L.A. live where to the Dallas group that is no longer together PPT for coming with that name Monday Friday vibes in L.A. live. It's just where I go over some stuff I've seen over the weekend just talk to the boys about it. Some things I thought I would never see like a Toyota four runner on a record. Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't in a wreck. It was just like I've never seen a Toyota four runner never know like not work. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like you can go to 400 K miles. Yeah. They're dependable. We've seen that household for a good reason. Exactly, man. They hold their values. A good car. I've never seen one on the tow truck on the record like that. I wonder what that person did to that damn Toyota because I mean it takes a tank to kill it. My guess would be 20,000 miles no oil change has to be something insane. Speaking of Toyotas, have you seen that Lexus G X 550? I believe it is got a googling, huh? All right. That boy is beautiful. I got to get my money up. That thing is beautiful right there, boy. So sick. Yeah. It's like a Lexus G wagon. This beautiful grub. Yeah. I got to get my money up. I got to talk to mama. What can we do here? Anyway, G back of the day, we do it every weekday on the fanny 230. If you see anything floating out there, don't be afraid to hit me up at lucky Lucius P hit me up, man. Don't wait till G bag of the day to happen and then tell me I didn't play what you thought I was supposed to play. You got to. I can't read your mind. Man, just let me know, bro. Let's connect. This is a community thing. Yeah. It happens. It's a community thing, man. Help me out. It's Alexandra on Facebook. You can find me there or you can follow us on if you find G bag nation on Twitter or winner right here is why Leonard, man, why Leonard was out there at a park recorded some skateboarders doing some awesome tricks. One guy jumped over a whole table when the skateboard was amazing. That guy, that guy, you did it. There you go. All right. That's it. That's how you finish it. That's the way he just went all the way. You're right. It's like he was falling. Hey. Hey. I love that the slow fade out. You didn't just add Peter now. That's great. That's him at the height of excitement. Yeah. He really was excited too, by the way, man. That's that Brazilian dude, Tiago, from the old Tony hot game. That's what it is. This guy is like old. Really? Yeah. You got it. You never lose it, bro. Yeah. I guess you never lose it. I think New Balance has some skate shoes now. Really? All right. I think that's the one. You gonna throw them more? I think I will. Okay. Yeah. I used to have all those skates. Yeah. Late 90s, DCs. Yeah. I was talking about, yeah. Yeah. My son wears those right now. He wears a lot of them. I guess it's popular. Yeah, I don't know. All right. Anyway, LA live 105 through to Fando on a Monday, Friday. Fellows. When did y'all start cursing? Huh. I have no idea. Honestly, I think it was like on the opening kickoff, there was already a penalty. I was going to be a long one. My man said third grade. Yeah. You think it's third grade for you? Yeah. I remember vividly. Come on. Tell me about it. We are walking out to recess, Mill Plain Elementary School, had just come out of the lunch room. recess. He knows good, bro. And I asked my buddy if we had the soccer field that day or if it was the other class and he said, no, and I said, oh, boy, yeah, that's good for you, bro. There's a little PG-13 action there. It warmed up. Yeah. I was in junior high when I started. My was a G.D. Word. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, it was pretty rough. Right to the top. I went straight. Man. Listen, I had the table rolling. I had them boys rolling, milking, shooting out that, slapping the tables. I was killing them boys and then the assistant principal was right behind me as I was just dropping all G.D.s and stuff. Oh, just killed my comedy routine. Tap me on the shoulder, said Michelle would come with me, called my dad and everything. I got in trouble. Got to hold it. Oh, yeah. For G.D.'s. Yeah. You never say that one. You know. I can see G.D. Yeah. Yeah. That's how he was feeling. Not an FCC violation, but definitely frowned upon. He did not like that. I could not do it. No FCC. Vio on that? No. No, you can do it. You can totally do it. It's just a social thing. Yeah. My dad would let us do crap and heck, but no hell and no damn. Oh, can I see it? Pops. Let you do it a little bit, though. Yeah. Little crap. No, you guys don't remember any type of cursing when you started? Brodus, come on, man. No, I'll tell you my experience with my son Bennett, we were on a fishing boat together and he was, I think he was 11 and he didn't set the hook and he looked at me and I said, go ahead and he goes, ah. And I go, feel better? He goes, yeah. I thanks. But he didn't, he didn't set this and he just looked at me and I said, go ahead. Yeah. Because he's seen me do, he saw me do it before, like not set the hook and so he just dropped it right there. Like I was 11 years old. I do have been at a young age, but I don't have like a moment to where, oh, I remember that was it. But you started cursing like real young though, you think? No, and my dad, yeah, it was probably like elementary school. Yeah. Yeah. You were a rebel out there. I mean, I was watching like R-rated movies and all this. Yeah. Wow. Pretty young. Smoke and cigarettes. My parents were like, whatever. The cool parents, man. Yeah. Well, Chuck was having house parties at his place. His kid was Bart Simpson. This was all new for that and they immigrated from South Africa. They're like, oh, I mean, I can't judge the other day my three year old asked me where the bleeping fruit shoes were hilarious. No. Where's my bleeping fruit shoes? She had no idea. Oh my God. Where's my bleeping presents? She calls the fruit shoes by the way, skittle loops, which makes it hilarious. I don't know how she came up with that word, but that's what she calls them. She used that word perfectly as well in a sentence like it made like she knew exactly how to deploy that. Yeah. I think she's been hanging out with her mom too much. Yeah. She's ahead of her time. Ever gotten in trouble for cursing? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've gotten shoot out before. Yeah. Foul mouth. Were you young then? Yeah. I was like, you're young now, but you know. Threatened like, oh, I'm going to wash your mouth out with soap and all that. Oh, yeah. That happened to me too. Yeah. That's an old. That's an old. Really? I got to soap in the mouth. Yes. I got switches on the butt. Yeah. How would you, how would you get the soap in your mouth? Like how would that soap be applied? Like take a bar and just shove the bar in your mouth? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Like, what was it called? Like, it was the dove. The dove round. But it's just like a unique flavor. Yeah. Ask you to chew it or you just kind of like just get the flavor in there and then just just put it in your mouth and you just let it sit there. Yeah. My dad would just, my dad would like get like, well, just soap up his hand and then he would just stick his fingers in my mouth and just rub his fingers in my mouth. Oh, my gosh. That's hardcore. And you're like, yeah, you're like almost being gagged a little bit. You're like, oh, my gosh, I got fingers in my mouth. Wow. Do you use profanity around your kids? I mean, your parents, excuse me, your parents. No, only if it's like a, yeah, selective light, very light-hearted moment. But yeah. And I'll probably like not actually say it. I'll just whisper it. Hi. Thank you, man. I remember one time in my, my grandparents, my dad's adopted. We were in Caldwell, Texas and my dad said something, we're at the breakfast table. I was a young kid. And my dad said, you know, my grandmother was talking about some lady and my dad goes, oh, she's an old B word. And my grandmother hit him with a skillet in the back of the head like turn and drop my dad. Oh, she's just an old B word and she turned in like a straight reaction to the head with a skillet. Straight reaction. Yeah. I got in trouble for a person around my, my, my father yesterday. Yes, right. Sure did. I got a little reprimanded now, my brother's in town from California and we were hanging out. Might have had a few pops before I pulled up on pops. So I was already good and loose. Cowboy game was coming on everything and yeah, there was some flim, flam, flam, flam. I guess I was just regular talking, you know, I'm just doing my thing. Right. But when I left, I got a text from dad. No way. Yeah. I got a text. Make sure you apologize. He's talking about my stepmom. Make sure you apologize to Miss Tina. That's my stepmom. Yeah. For some of your language, quote, cursing is warranted. Love you. Wow. I said what? What? What? I'm 40. Bam. What are we talking about? So I'm going to throw in them forever. Every time we have any event over there at the house, if I hear anybody curse, shh, shh, shh. Oh my God. Don't say it. Sorry about that. Yeah. I'm trolling now. Bro. That's pretty dang funny. I've told me I can't cuss. I'm in trouble. Then I found these kids cussing. Did you cuss like it? Did you play like little football, little league football and cussing, little league? No. Or like basketball, whatever. Dude, I remember going to one of my friends' games when he was playing Pee Wee football and I was just there watching and we were in elementary school and I just, the culture around their team was players are cussing, coaches are cussing and don't matter. And I just, I'll never forget just how eye opening it was because my team, you were here in like, you know, dad gummit. We played the YMCA football. So it was young men's Christian association thing, so you had to pray before the games and stuff. So if you curse, you were gone, you couldn't like you said any kind of, they were, they were kicked out of the league for cursing, you're outed. That's funny that you say that coaches, it was all cool with the kids cursing and everything. To answer you. I did not do it at all. No, I did. The referees and the coaches. I got it. The coaches might. I barely coached in high school, I'm a custom high school football when I was out there because I didn't want to penalty for some really thing, but listen to these darn kids, they're chant. Knock it. Get loose. Knock it. Get loose. You didn't hear what he said. I couldn't. I couldn't make it. Knock a naysayers head loose. What? What? Knock it. Get loose. Knock it. Get loose. Get loose. Get loose. Oh my God. They need some whoopings. They need some whoopings, bro. I can't believe they're loud. Yeah. You don't look at a dance choreography. Yeah, man. They're doing it. The pads and everything, bro. I can't believe it, bro. I can't believe it, bro. You see that Tikes show right there? Yes. Yes. That's crazy. Brightenite Tikes. There would be a lot of swearing there. Listen. The kids were cussing. Oh, everybody was. Yeah. I mean, it's really the parents. It's like the parents are the worst. Yeah. Okay. I can get that, but I'm talking about the kids out there just cussing. They're mite up and they're cussing. That would trickle down to some of the kids. Listen, just look, kid. I may go tell you what he said, but that's cussing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is weird that we create a double standard where, like, the parents are going to cuss and the kids can't cuss. I think that's just, like, confusing for little kids, you know. I actually kind of support it. You do? If you cuss and you let your kids cuss, I know it's not socially acceptable, but that's the only problem with it is you don't want the kid embarrassing you by cussing. Well, that would look like you don't know what you're doing as a parent. Right. If I did it out in public, it was no, no. Yeah. But in our, you know, little nucleus in the safe space, okay. I had a, my friend, he was, like, a foreign kid, his name is Song. He would just cuss all in front of his mom, cuss his mom out. She didn't know English. Oh, wow. Yeah. She didn't know he was just cuss, bro. Like, right? I'm there, man. I put him to the side, man. And do that when I'm around, bro. She don't think I'm influencing you. You're the bad guy here, bro. Uh, I like this little chant right here by the kids, though. What they gonna say, we answer, but they're going to say, oh, baby. What they gonna say, we hit somebody. Oh, what they mama gonna say? Oh, my baby. That's hilarious. Uh, Jamie Foxx ends his Instagram live after Cowboys GM, Jerry Jones started talking about the size of a player's unmentionables, his private parts. Yeah. This is weird. I was asked about that. This is Candy Land and Jerry's name is now Calvin and Django was there. It's crazy. Jamie Foxx was in attendance watching the Cowboys practice with Jones. I don't know from what day this was, what gear it was, but Jones could be heard in the background. Speaking, Jerry was talking about one of the players before the listing his NFL combine measures. Okay. Sorry about that. You did he after this video. I don't know what to call them. I'm a damn good general manager who knows his players. Jerry Jones said he looked, he looked pretty good right there. He showed balance, five foot nine and a half, two, 210 pounds, four, four in the 40, nine and three inch hands. What else? How many legs? Eight and a half inches. There's a third leg. Oh, my God. Jerry, what are you doing, man? I'm not two, two, one, nine and three inch. Eight and a half inches. I like my personnel. Jamie said, oops. He cuts it off right there. This is where we're in here. Man, this is Candy Lane, yo. So I mean, who was that? Was that Felix Jones? Was that Mary and Barbara? Hello. Dawson wanted a who? So who is it? Why didn't he tell us? Oh, my God. I don't know who it was. Jerry, you need to watch yourself, bro. You need to go do something, dog. Retire. You do something, bro. I'm seeing way too much of these situations with Jerry and this two borderline for me, dog. Two borderline. Yeah. You need to chill, fam. Yes. Crazy. You can move that fast. All that extra weight. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. All right, y'all. I'll be back tomorrow. Lord willing in the creek, don't rise. My name is Lucius Alexander. Before you drink, eat and do not drive. Okay. You'll lose that. Yeah, because I blacked out. Uh oh. Blacked out, bro. I have no idea what I decided. I'm a Sunday night. I woke up like, how the hell did I get here? Oh, man, I was scared. I was scared, bro. All right. There he goes. Lucius Alexander, LA live every night, about 540 here in the G bag nation. Yeah. I meant Smith, the prototype. They're the 300 pounder for the waist down. He's just been looking for the next summit. Oh, yes. That's right. We are heading for two guys. One booth, though. It's doing pro comps. Yeah. It's real on it right there. Two guys. One booth, man. The best sounds from a cowboy game day from start to finish. This one's quite a doozy folks and it's next here in the nation. Hey, Mike Villetti here. Host a cash to ticket alongside my partner, Jim Costa. 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