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Mike McCarthy press conference coming up towards the end of this hour scheduled for 4.45. Top 10 at 4.20 is coming up here in about 20 minutes. It's time now for a college football super segment. Let it fly. We'll chuck. Oh yeah, well the number one team of the country, they got themselves another victory. That would be the Texas Longhorns. They remain number one in the recent AP poll that was just released, and now they're getting ready for their first SEC showdown against Mississippi State after Texas beating up. Louisiana Monroe 51-3 in Arch Manning's debut. Did you guys see the line for this this week's game versus Mississippi State? Okay, I know it was crazy large. I saw it yesterday. I can't remember the exact number. Like 35 and a half, 36 and a half. It was Mississippi State. I think we lost our starting quarterback this weekend. Not a good situation for them. But that's an embarrassment. Well, how'd you think Arts looked? Arts so he did throw an interception on his first drive. Got hit as he threw. I think it might have been, was it his first attempt? That it might actually have been. I think it was the ball down their throat. They get into the red zone and then boom, here goes Arch with the tip interception. Yeah, I believe 'cause I saw it was a bit too totally. It's the symmetry. It was the symmetry for, yeah, Arch Manning's first, okay, it was his first drive ends with the interception versus Monroe, which is also the same way Quinn Eures's career started. Wow, hell of a Texas, which was his first drive. It was versus Monroe, and it ended in an interception as well. It was crazy 'cause I had the three TV screens set up, which is glorious for the college football. So I'm watching Jackson Arnold, Denton Geyer product, throws an interception for OU, then boom, there's Arch Manning with an interception, and then Chandler Moore's Highland Park zone for the North Texas mangerine just running in for a touchdown. I'll tell you what to the mangerine big win as well over Wyoming. I found myself kind of bouncing around. I was watching and I was interested in bowling green in Texas A&M was kind of going back and forth. It was? Well, bowling green was trying to pull the upset. Matter of fact, A&M had to make a, had an interception there to kind of seal the game off. And then I was interested in Colorado and Baylor. That was a pretty. Okay, so Colorado Baylor probably was the game of the weekends. I mean, it was outstanding. Obviously, Texas, Oklahoma, very big. I mean, he ended up at a game day there at Tennessee, yeah. Tennessee, Oklahoma, first game in the SEC for the Sooners. Carter Freeman, I believe was an attendance for that game. But hey, Josh Hypelsker. I mean, the defense was sensational. Now, unfortunately, Jackson Arnold does get hurt. Michael Hawkins Jr. comes in the game. That's a Frisco product there at quarterback, but he had the backdoor cover from the Sooners there. If you ended up taking the 11 and a half, now that line ended up going down to six and a half. My buddy Jared Jenner that he is. He's also a crazy Texas fan. He hates so you so much. He went ahead, paid extra, took the 11 and a half spread for Tennessee to cover to try and make some more money. They got the backdoor. 25 to 15 Tennessee gets the win over OU. So a very bad beat for him. I'll tell you what, Oklahoma's defense did look pretty good. I mean, they were able to, they were able to be pretty physical. I mean, Dylan Sampson's been a monster running all over everybody. And he was under four yards per carry there for Tennessee. But Tennessee, obviously, the better team. Jackson Arnold, you mentioned at quarterback before he got hurt, he ended up in Carter informed me of this. It was a 1.3 QBR. That's what Jackson Arnold, the starting quarterback for OU, was putting out that turnover. The interception was bad in the fumble. It was like, man, you can't do that. For reference, that means the computer is telling you that Jackson Arnold gave his team the Sooners a 1.3% chance to win the football game. Yeah, because their defense played well enough to give them a shot. I mean, no use defense hung in against a really good Tennessee offense. I thought Tennessee would win that game more handily than they did. But hey, sooners played tough. I flipped on and watched a little floor to state. Got their first win, got their first win. DJU, they did and they got their first win. I know John Machota still didn't look very happy yesterday when I saw. I said, John, I said, John attacks. I said, Hey, congrats. And he sent me back the laughing emoji. They eat one out, dude. They were, I mean, it was Boo Birds. It was like the worst. If you didn't know any better, you would think they have lost the game. Like they only scored. They, they win between nine, 14 points. Yeah. Yeah. Not still not a good game. It was crazy. The rest of the AP Georgia is number two. They got 13 first place votes followed by Ohio State and Alabama at number four. So we get Georgia Alabama coming up and Alabama is a rare home underdog to Georgia. So you've got number two versus number four Saturday in Tuscaloosa and on Monday, is that a two 30 game? I think it will be. But then again, I never know now. Like it used to be for certain. That was two 30. Oh, yeah. That's right. I don't know. Maybe it's a prime time game. Oh, that's right. We got, we got ESPN working now. Can we bring back like a Vern Lundquist and Gary Danielson and Tracy Wilson on the sidelines and this one? I'm missing out on my Saturday six 30 kick. Yeah. Okay. This is one of those ESPN. This is a, well, this is going to be probably then, uh, it'll probably be Herbie, Herb Street and Valor. Yeah, probably will be. They do a good job. Herb Street was calling out the OU players for faking injuries and stuff. Was he? Yeah. I'll throw it at the hodgepodge. I'm like, I'll give you the details on it. But yeah, he was, he was calling them out saying they were faking injuries. Okay. 918 is saying Arnold got benched. I, I thought he got a little hurt there, but maybe, maybe you're right. They just budged. I mean, he played poorly. So he probably, I mean, it would make sense, but this is the first time in 90 straight home games that Alabama is going to be playing as the underdog. Wow. How about that? Huh? Say it was again. I think it's like a two point two favorite for Georgia. So it's nothing crazy. And maybe that line will end up changing, but I think the moment of the night was the Hail Mary. Shador Sanders on Saturday, 38, 31 Travis Hunter is absolutely brilliant. You mentioned him earlier, but what a freaking throw from Shador. Yeah. To be, I mean, he did it twice. Isn't it twice? They set it up at the two yard line. If there was a catch made, they would have had first down and goal. They're probably with like two seconds left and then they dropped that. So last play of the game, the Hail Mary, unbelievable. And now Dave Oranda and his staff at Baylor looking at each other. I don't, I don't think that they're making it, man. I think they're already source in Texas States coach. You know, it's funny that Dave Oranda, like only a few years ago, had his team in the sugar bowl. Yeah. And ever since then, they've been so bad. Yeah. It's a new day and age, man. He was the guy that had all the answers built, built the culture, had accountability. Dave Oranda was the toast of the town. He was the guy. He was spanking his assistant coaches all the sides. Remember that? Yeah. I'll take it being celebrated for it. The minute he gets fired, I'll take him back at LSU as the defensive coordinator. Yeah. I will absolutely take that guy back as a DC. You guys are taking a, taking a big loss here and told me this yesterday during the Cowboys. Oh, this is, this is not good for us. Oh, yeah. Harold Perkins. This is not good. We, and we don't know how to use him. That's what's so unfortunate is we have no idea. He plays way too much in coverage and all ball linebacker and we really don't have a good plan for that one. Well, this is a killer. He's a projected first round pick. He's going to be out for the remainder of the season. The thing you could do is rush ACL tear. Yeah. He can rush. So how's this going to impact now his draft status then? Because we also have a corner that got her at his ACL and he's Carolina. Yeah. That was projected to be a first round. Yeah. My, my scouting buddies that have that area that East Carolina, he said, that, that quarter, that corner might been the second best corner in the country in East Carolina, the mighty pirates. How about SMU? They have some top 25 votes for the first time. They spanked TCU. They did. Last iron skillet game and you end up getting the coach ejected. Yeah. It was an incredible moment. Yeah. Sunny D. Sunny D. Take a seat. I mean, yeah. It's for T.C. Right now they're doing some soul search. No love for James Madison jumping all over North Carolina this one. That was brutal for North Carolina and I think Mac Brown afterward. He did. He was going anywhere, but he said it was embarrassing that ACC school would lose to these guys. Yeah. Well, he, he's taking full responsibility for that and he said, I shouldn't have put that much pressure on the team. I'm disappointed. I love my pressure. I love these kids. I love this place. That's why I hate losing so much because he threatened to step down. Yeah. They were seven. They scored 70 points on him. I mean, honestly, I'm sure a lot of fans were thinking, Mac, we want you to step down. Yeah. That's 70. I mean, 70 to 50 to James and now James Madison's got the James Madison's got a good program, but I mean, it's gracious. Yeah. But they hung up 70 on a burger on you, bro. It's been a new team. It's been a new team. James Madison guy. Oh, why don't you, why'd you do that? Well, yeah. Football guys. I mean, I figured I could like tee that up and you'd say, yeah, man, been a new team. You jam you. Yeah. You nailed it. There we go. Football guy. Why did I think? Why did I think like that? Was he like it pit and James Madison? He wasn't pit quality. Okay. I thought he got recruited. How many schools was he at? They went with just J.M. You man. Really? He was a loyalist. Yeah. I drafted by your coach. McCarthy McCarthy. Yeah, he sure did. And that's another thing. I mean, like, I don't know exactly what Mike McCarthy's doing to give them an advantage on game days. I mean, you're supposed to be an offensive coach. This offense looks absolutely terrible. Man. And this is just, I don't know, like I'm going to ask Stephen Jones that on Friday. Like in your opinion, what do you think Mike McCarthy does to give you a competitive advantage on game days? Oh, geez. Here we go. So it's a fair question. It's a great question. It's a great question. It's a great question. It's a great question. Now like PR, you can get them right for that. Oh, no. You know, somebody over there's listening right now. I really don't know the answer to that. I'm still searching myself. No. I mean, he and Jason Garrett are both from a school of thought that requires you to have the players that win, you know? So you got to be better at them at a bunch of spots or you're, you're damn is going to break and a guy's going to fire him and blow up your play. So that's why it's so important to, you know, have, have Shanahan or McVey tactics on your side offensively. My Huskers blew it. Yes. Yeah. As a matter of fact, I watched that game. Yeah. Friday night. Yeah. That was immediately I thought of you and you're going on and on about that overrated program that's Nebraska. At least it wasn't in Lincoln. They had been over. It was in Lincoln. You know, this year it's been. It was in Lincoln here. It was in Lincoln that we had the whole, it was there whatever sell out, whatever it was. Yeah. There is selling out. There's selling out. Gosh, Ryola had a chance, dude. It's third. It's third down. It's it's a wide open dude. What in the end zone? Well, he was wide open in the end zone. He had a chance there. And then of course they end up, Illinois and scoring experience there for the freshman program. You got beat by Brent dilemma. It's look. Yeah, you're right. I'm, I've claimed Nebraska. So you have, you have claimed Nebraska. We got bet. We got beaten by it's not Brit, Brett. It's Brett. Yeah, Brett. Yeah, Brett. Billema. Brett Billema. And that was a Brit. I said Brett Billema, didn't I? I think you nailed it. I thought I said that. I think you did probably trust pronunciation. Hey, who's the center for the Baltimore Ravens? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Linder bomb guy. We want it. Could we get in standard bomb? Right? Yeah. Linder bomb. Is that the wrong way to say is you saying Linden bomb yesterday during the pregame? That was the Tyler Smith year worked out. Okay. Linder bomb. Yeah, worked out. Linder bomb. Linder bomb. Linder bomb. Whatever it is. Tomato tomato, huh? Linder ass off whatever we do. That was a short arm thing, right? Why they didn't want to Linder bomb? No, he was too good. Yeah. No, it was a, it was a different body part. They had issues with it. Linder bomb. Well, spell that might be true. Well, speaking of Dylan Rayola, his, uh, his brother Dominic is going to join him. Why'd you call in and tell me that I was saying it wrong? I texted Eric. I thought maybe he'd pass along to you. Oh, Eric was not doing anything he's supposed to do. Oh, really? I thought he had a good friend. He was Sunday. I did. I bailed on that so quickly. Hey, we got out of there, you know, borderline unscathed. Yeah. I felt bad when we had to throw it to break there when Christie was still giving us some info. Some chocolate syrup on those Fritos. Yeah, exactly. And caramel and caramel too. Freedom might be better purposed as a treat than a snack. Just saying. I think it's a magical pairing with that vanilla. You just feel bad about the Christie thing. That's Peyton's fault. That's not your fault. What happened? What happened with the Christie thing? It was just the, the, we have the hard out going into that final hour and, you know, Christie's on the field, giving us her report and unfortunately she was not well. She was making it with in terms of what the hard out was. So she just, you know, she's chatting and I should just stepped in and say, I'm sorry, Christie, we got to go, you know, but I wasn't, you know, I didn't have my alpha confidence yesterday, I guess. It just cut her off like that. If I let the commercial break, just do it. She's made right to a commercial, you know, this is one of those games lawyers need on your side. Oh, okay. She texted me. Hey, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I go page. This is unbelievable. Yeah. That's generally what I throw. Peyton out of the bus though. That's the MVP of the day. He just leaves it sometimes. He still was yelling in the year, like 30. Yeah. 10. I'm like, Peyton, stop. Hell him. Please don't do that. Yeah. I'll probably have to say that next week. 30 is okay. One of those. Yeah. I don't need five, four, three, two, well, great college football. We can look forward to more next week. I love it. Thank you. Well, Chuck, a college football super segment is in the books. Go Huskers. It's time now for a top 10, right? Top 10 at 4 20 coming up next. So I was going to do like the top 10 thoughts from the Cowboys game might just pass things over to Brian to talk about their defense. Let's talk about. Yeah. We'll do that. Hey, Mike Vlinny 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. Think cash to tickets 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. Yeah, buddy. Welcome back. It is the G back nation here on one oh five three the fan believe we're going to get some crusties corner two point L right here and focus in on that defense segment of the nation brought to you by the Frankles life, some predictable accidents happen. Franklin Frankle the go to attorneys for car and truck wrecks and DFW. If you are a loved one has been in an accident contact the Frankles for a free consultation two, one four or eight one seven three, three, three, three, three, three, three, three, go online to Frankle firm.com. We're about 20 minutes away from big Mike's pressure. Here's Brian with some more of the corner. Thank you very much. You're appreciate that. Appreciate it by allowing me to do this. See what Bill Belichick said today about your Dallas Cowboys on defense. Same team, right? Issues are fixable. This is the same thing they ran into last year. Look at the draft. The draft is over for agency is over. I wouldn't expect a lot of big trades here. I think there's enough talent in Dallas to get this thing straight now, but they got to look in the mirror and look at each other in the eye and say, we're going to do it. Yeah. Mike says they have too many people trying to be Superman. You know what? I don't know. This is where I'm at a disadvantage now. And I used to have an advantage because when I'd watch tape, I could walk down the hall and ask somebody a question and you know, I probably could text the defensive coordinator and ask him a question, but he's up to his rear and alligators right now. Probably didn't want to be hearing from me. But I wonder if there's some things that they have tried to do scheme wise, you know, when I mentioned the crash ends and he played some 5-2 in that game. He played some 5-2 last week and it kind of worked for him and it just did it a couple of times in this game and it seemed to work for him a little bit. But I wonder if where these fits are and I keep using the word fits because when you, when you're playing against a team that's, that runs the way that well, especially against the Ravens because of all the read option stuff, you've got to play, you got somebody's got to take the ball and then somebody's got to take the defender without the ball. You know, you got to, you got to, you're playing kind of that way and it's not easy to prep for in a week, but, and then that's where they talk about preparation. You know, did they, did they do everything, the study was everybody on, you know, there's a lot of work that goes into defending this, but I wonder if the Cowboys just scheme wise tried something in this game with their edges and their linebackers weren't on the page and their safeties weren't on the page and their corners weren't on the page, that they were going to try to say, okay, let's gamble a little bit with Micah, let's gamble a little bit with, with Tank and just play, see if we can force things if we could get there before the ball, you know, because they got, they got, they got beat a couple of different times. I'll tell you another thing that, that really hurt them in this game was, was they're tackling or lack of. You know, they were in position to have, when you guys go back and you, you get your, your NFL, the film that comes in the NFL network stuff, or the, yeah, you're going to see, you're going to see some situations where they had guys in position to make plays. I know with over some, they had, it's 17 missed tackles in that game yesterday, 12 of them on Henry. Yeah. In that, in that football game. So to me, you know, that's one of those times where you look at it and you say, okay, we were in position, we couldn't finish. And I, I really did believe that when you look at Kendrick's, you know, when you look at over shown, you know, guys like that, those guys finish, those guys are, those guys, you know, when you watch them, they finish, but over shown didn't finish yesterday. You know, Kendrick's, Kendrick's ledger team and tackles, but this is a problem with this team. When you, when you, when you, when you get in position and you don't finish, then you have these huge plays, these explosive plays, these runs of 10 plus that they, they give up because they're, there are several times you're going to watch and go, oh, that's pretty good run defense right there, you know, gain a three. Oh, another one, gain a three and then all of a sudden they hit you for a 17 or a 15 or something like that because you didn't tackle. You didn't take the right angle and you, you just didn't have a guy in the gap or somebody playing in the gap is because I was talking to John owning about this and he was talking about the amount of single high that they're playing and how does that then put them at a numbers disadvantage when you're playing specifically against a team like the Ravens where the quarterback can then run because now you're able to add another blocker for the quarterback that's unaccounted for. So now all the pressure is on say Donovan Wilson or whoever it is back there to fill. You don't have enough guys to be able to come up and rally. It seemed like to me though, and I need to go back and look at the metrics on this is that they played a lot of eight men in the box yesterday to try and I need to, I need to look at the number chief. Do you have your next gen numbers up? Do they, do they give you that, that number where they say how many times they play in the box or the numbers they play in the box? I can try and find it here. Yeah, because I needed to, because I was, I was curious to say the thing that bothered me the most yesterday was the, the replacement or the lack of a replacement for a player that might have, you know, they're like, okay, we're going to take a, we're going to take a chance here. I mean, are you playing the scheme the right way? Yeah. And maybe that's when he's talking about hero ball and stuff like that, you know, are you doing what you absolutely have to do? I'm just calling them that they're playing P we level football. Yeah. Well, I don't know if they're in the wrong place, they're just getting whipped on blocks. They're just getting blocked out of the play. I'm going to tell you that I'm going to tell you this, Dawson, seriously, the Saints game was worse than this one. Yeah. It really was the Saints game when you, when you sit down and you just scored like six touchdowns in a row. Yeah. And you watch it. You're thinking like, like, okay, you understand the Saints physically just, I mean, there were guys on the ground in that game. This one though, I just kind of feel like though to me that there was some fit problems and lack of, and lack of tackling problems that led to some self inflicted stuff. We talked about Carson missing, that's a 57 yard play over shown in the hole. There was one time where it looked like it was going to be about a three yard gain. It ends up, Henry ends up to the outside and it's a 17 yards or, you know, it's, it was just, it was, it was hard to watch because they had guys in positions to make plays. They just couldn't finish the play. So to me, that's, I, when you start to look at this defense, is it, you know, the, the Saints, like progress then, well, it just got a long way to go. I don't know. Like, I don't know, like yesterday I thought the, I thought the, I thought the scheme let them down more so than the scheme and their inability to finish that they got their ass handed to him against New Orleans. But I think when you watch this game, you're going to think, oh man, it didn't, it, because I left the game yesterday thinking that it was like the New Orleans game and it really, and it really wasn't when you watch all 46 running players or 48 running players how much they had and you're thinking, okay, good, good job there. Good job. Okay. Here's the bust and they're trying so hard not to give up stuff on the edge now. They're trying to run everybody to the edge and get in position and what happens is they get everybody on one side of the field and then the ball just cuts back and they don't have anybody in, in, in position to, to make the, to make the play. You have to play with discipline and I, I don't know if I could say yesterday, I didn't see all the discipline that you really, really need, especially with the way that Jackson runs a ball. And when he pulls the ball, that's, I've never seen Michael frozen. I mean, Michael, the Eagles, the Eagles, to us, he wasn't sure like you could, you could see, but like he was literally like, Mar Jackson had him just completely. I think there's things. I think he was, I think he gets frozen because he doesn't trust what's happening behind it. I think that, I think that Michael might be worried like, okay, if I go flying down inside and try and make this play, is there somebody that's going to replace me on the edge? Yeah. But from what I understand, if you're that conflict player in the zone reader or the whatever read option, you got to go for one of them. You can't stop. Exactly. You're just in no man's land, you know, like commit to one of them at least. By the way, it's, it was 33.3% stacked box percentage for the cowboy yesterday. 33%. Yeah. So I saw a worker put out that the Ravens called 74% of their offensive plays is designed to runs, which is the most since 2006, 74% of that offense design runs eight, 161 yards before contact 113 after contact. I mean, a lot of it's just the individuals like DeMone Clark and Lea Fau aren't going to make plays. They're not going to diagnose properly. They're not going to close and finish the tackle properly. Your defensive tackles aren't good. And then you get the misdirection going, which draws me just a half step the wrong way before they flip it back the other. Now you're giving, you know, the offense leverage. Now I'm actually out of position. And even if I was in position, you would favor the other guy to beat me the majority of the times. The thing, I think that Lea Fau played a ton against the Saints and wasn't good. He played, he played a little bit in this game yesterday and he was much better. I don't know if he's your base player, but playing him limit. Some of the limits, some of his snaps helped him in that game yesterday and playing over shown more might have hurt him a little bit. They need to figure out a balance there. And I know that over shown is one of your guys that can close and tackle and all that, but playing him, all those snaps, I think hurt him yesterday. They need, they need to, they need to get a better balance with those two guys and Clark didn't play much at all in this football game. So we'll see. They also like say, Carlos Watkins, I didn't think was in the snaps that he got. Yeah. I didn't think he was a negative player. I'm great over Phil. Okay. I mean, live all Joseph was off. Live all Joseph was not good at all. We got to talk. I got to ask you about Mazi though, because I remember yesterday I was like, I think this might have been Mazi's best game. It was. It was. It was. If you watch now, the thing with Mazi and you always, you know, the bar for him is low at times. Yeah. This was the most active he'd spend. It's the most disruptive he's been with throwing blocks off and getting to where he needed to be. There are a couple of times that they turned him and he lost the ball and you could see it go through the middle and they were able to get positive plays out of that. Yeah. But if you watch him play, I say it again, the bar's kind of low for this guy. But this, this, as far as the Dallas Cowboys go, I'd be interested to see and we'll see what pro football focused those that grade on him. But I don't think he was your worst defensive player yesterday. Well, pro football focused, John, who will join us later this week, he was just raving specifically about the fourth quarter for Mazi Smith. Yeah. I think that Mazi, I think there was far more activity with him. There was far more of him getting rid of blocks and there's still times where he's laid off the ball. There, there's still times you deal with that and you could tell. But Linville Joseph is a liability for you right now at that. He just can't move anymore and they, and they really, they single block him. They don't really even double team block him anymore. No need. They single, they single block him. So that's a problem. But I feel like that when you look at OSA, you look at Mazi, those were a couple of two of some, some of the, some positive guys in this, on this defense. I know it's the defensive tackles, but they were far, far worse against the Saints than they were yesterday. Well, thank you, Brian. Thank you. We're in 2.0 here in the G bag nation. Most afternoons, 340 here on the fan coming up next, it'll be time for the Mike McCarthy press conference. We'll get his thoughts on updated stories as you hit the late afternoon here on a Cowboys Monday on your home of the Cowboys 105 through the fan. Welcome back. G bag nation. We'll hear what kind of words Mike McCarthy puts to the Cowboys to feed here coming up in just a minute, standing by for the Mike McCarthy press conference here on your home of the Cowboys. 105 three, the fan Dallas Cowboys coverage brought you by your North Texas forward dealers. Ford is the best in Texas. You know, I feel acceptance. This is a really interesting type deal after the disappointment of last year. You had a little bit of excitement coming out of training camp with so many players showing that they might be, you know, viable participants of a rotation. And then the win over Cleveland got people optimistic and here we are after back to back very sound home defeats. I expected maybe a little bit more disappointment, vitriol, passion, anger, but it's almost like the collective thought from legends and fans and media members is like, Oh yeah, this is a, you know, about what we expected. And even even the Jones boys don't seem too urgent about getting after fixing this. I think we expected it for the Ravens game. I didn't think we expected for the Saints game. Yeah, I think that's the one. If you were going to, as we played the win loss, loss, win game, you know, as we do when the schedule comes out, I think people penciled this thing in as an L. What was the vibe like last night in the post game show for you guys? I mean, there definitely were a lot of ticked off people. I mean, it's, it's, it's embarrassing. Now I think that maybe for some fans, like the fourth quarter, they make that game close and they're in it. And maybe something crazy can happen like they beat the Falcons a couple of years ago. That might have been able to remedy something to where, okay, can you hear that over to the next week? Yeah. I think that we all picked Baltimore. So I think that's it. That's a fair point. Like I do want to think that most fans probably acknowledged they're not going to stop Derek Henry and Lamar Jackson. But I think the growing sentiment is just, this is, it's Jerry, it's Jerry's fault. Jerry can, he needs to look in the mirror and this, this one's on him. I mean, we've, we've talked about a lot of the same problems that they just went and completely did not correct and remedy this off season. So I think now I brought it up himself. He did. You know, when we were at the senior bowl, Jerry talked about what do you need to do to be better? You need to stop the run and run the ball better. And they're really, that's, that's the one thing that you, you know, the, maybe a couple of things you look at right now when you just say, okay, you, you saw what your issues were and you know, you really didn't do much to Remy it. So you draft Marsh on Neil and okay, you know, but that's a rookie that you're expecting now to come in and save the day for you. They did fix the linebackers but again, scheme and linebackers, you know, but defensive tackles pretty much the same. Well, veterans. Yeah. They at worse. They're in a situation right now where, excuse me, they're, they're the thing with, you know, they were, they drafted Mazi Smith and they were not going to, I don't believe they were going to do anything. They were going to see, okay, let's see if Mazi in year two could be better. You know, that, that right or wrong, that's, that was their, their thought going in. They weren't going to be interested in adding more defensive tackles. You know, they thought, okay, we've got Mazi. Let's see what happens in year two. Oh, we've got Oso Diggie Zawag. He plays well. Okay. Let's see how that goes. It didn't seem like to me that they were very interested in adding anybody else. Remember, Golston started off at defensive tackle and they moved him to defensive end. So they, they felt like that with Mazi and Carl Davis. They drafted Rogers, you know, hey, we'll, we'll be okay. Well, they don't have the house in order financially. So like everyone else can go ahead and so Jerry makes a comment. We couldn't afford Derek Henry. So today, what do you got? Boom. Pro Football, Toxia, an article. All right. You could have afforded Derek Henry Henry's deal with the Ravens, 5.105 million cap hit. Cowboys currently have 25.8 million in cap space. Now I can know what you're going to say. They didn't at the time. All right. I said that last night. Is that true? Well, so eventually they give the deal to CDLAM that clears more than nine million in cap space. Okay. Then 10 million is cleared in cap space with Dak Prescott. Okay. Instead, the Cowboys sunk $2 million then into a reunion with Zeke who we saw. We're, they already paying Zeke dead money too. Well, it's that money that we don't do with him. They're doubling down on that. Okay. How much do you have like six, six, maybe eight million dead cap form already? So that's $10 million right there for, for Zeke. Yeah, so if you don't drag your seat on the contracts and you actually do want to improve your roster this year instead of just waiting to the last minute, which is how they operate, you could have freed up money. If you really did want to go out there and make an addition, but they didn't, they just didn't. No, they didn't want to because they want to be able to take that money for this year's cap space and roll it over for next year. Yeah, I just would have felt better if you said, Hey, we had absolutely no interest in Derek Henry. Right. Just be honest. Just, just man. And not by not signing them, they really didn't have any interest in them. Right. Cole. How you guys out there feel it eight, seven, seven, eight, one, one, oh five, three, the two one four says the opposite of love is not hate. It's apathy. People are apathetic now towards the Cowboys. I think that I think a lot can be said for that. But like the eight one seven says, here we go negative Dawson trying to tell everyone to give up after two losses. No, what I'm saying is I already gave up on this team years ago actually because they continue the same blueprint. I'm just saying like now more and more people are catching up to me, like, you know, kind of laughing at the TV screen while they're getting their buds kicked instead of throwing the remote like this is all very foreseeable at this point. If you still want to hold out hope, I salute you. I think it takes all sorts of fans to make a sports world go around. And you know, Jerry and the Cowboys really need you guys out there. If you're still believing, you know, you're, you're keeping the bandwagon going for them. And you know, you guys are the kind of fans they're speaking to when, when Jerry says, I don't see a problem out there. We don't need another running back. I like all of our personnel. You know, I just, I do feel like though for a big portion of the fan base, you know, they've reached an end to it. Will it start to show up in the TV ratings, you know, it won't and why it won is because there's just as many people that like the Cowboys, probably more that hate them and they love hate watching them. So the ratings are up, people want to see the train wreck. They do. So even if it's cowboy fans, and say, bleep this, we're not paying attention. The rest of the country, there's a reason why every single show, whether it's ESPN, Fox World, one, they're always talking about the Cowboys, even if it's the office and Cowboys haven't done anything, let's generate some sort of Cowboys topic because as many love to laugh and make fun of them as love them and hope they win. I would agree. But I do think like your core fan base, them becoming apathetic, if they stop watching that, that'll be measurable in some way, like the hate watchers will be there. But this is a lot of football left to go 15 weeks, it's gonna be a long, it's gonna be a long year. And I don't know how many wins they have. I think they probably beat, they get four wins out of their division, probably one way or another, maybe five, and then you have the Carolinas and Atlantis of the world, Pittsburgh's and they're going to give you somewhat of a chance to win and stay relevant. But if by Thanksgiving you've played such bad football that the playoff situation is out of the question, it'll be really interesting because this is unlike any year that I've seen covering this football team, even when they're mediocre, there was still hope. If they're two and five at the buy, they're going to ride this thing, aren't they? They're just going to ride it out and see what happens with the coach and all that stuff like that. They're not going to make any moves, right? I don't think so. In terms of like firing. No, I'm fired and it's way of going to get players. Oh, I think it would depend on this thing is to invite. Okay. Yeah, say it to the division, say the Eagles are your five and two or you're two and five and they're say they're five and if you're out of it, yeah, then yeah, I'm with you. If they're two and five, but there's like a game or two out of the divisions, the divisions bad, which very likely could be, then they might try and pull, you know, in a Mario Cooper like deal and do something. Well, graciano was thrown a Mario Cooper back to the Cowboys, apparently a Mario Cooper's on the chopping block there and the Cowboys are one of like five teams. You listed that are going to be interested in them. Yeah, I would be shocked if they make a move. I think they look at this and say we have so many holes. We just need to stand in here and draft a couple of more cycles and try to flush this thing out because whatever we spend on trying to fix this year isn't going to push us over the top. I mean, going back in time, I think if you got Derek Henry and actually had the ability to play ball control offense and keep your defense off the field, you might be able to make it go like I'm, I'm kind of surprised the Cowboys have punted to this extent. But to me, it's just, you know, it really confirms the idea that they're going through a rebuild. They don't really have any, any commitment to trying their best to contend. Their all in move was going and, and getting cooks in Gilmore a couple of years ago. And now that that whole thing has, has played out, it wasn't nearly enough, but that was all they had. And the fact that, you know, Stephen was talking this morning about how we have $45 million still do on Dak Prescott's deal while we're starting a new one at $60 million per year. It's going to, you know, if it's going to take a while to get the cap into a spot where they can make another push at addressing their needs in a meaningful way. And the way you get to that day is spending a couple of years to cleanse it to, to reset it. Um, so I don't, I don't think the Cowboys are going to, even though I think with a good running back, you know, you could, you could see them making a legitimate playoff push. All right. But without it, with these guys trying to run the football, like Rico Dattle is the best thing you got. Hey, he is. And it's 3.8 an attempt. Yeah. I, again, I was surprised he got four carry against that bunch yesterday. Yeah. I mean, there was some, you know, they, they, they, they never, they're not in a game to be able to run. You know, they're, they're behind. They're down 28 to six in games and stuff like that in the Orleans game. They were behind. I mean, but even when they are running, there's nothing that gives you. Oh, there's no, it doesn't, it's not, it's not running well. No, you're right. Only team without a running back to have a 10 yard run. Yeah. That's true. They got no explosive plays there. Mike McCarthy taking a few extra minutes, getting to the podium here. Should we stand by or throw it a break? Lucius. Yeah, go to break. All right. We'll step aside. We'll jump in here. 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