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(upbeat music) Here we go, it's hour number two of the G-Bag Nation on 1053, the fan Mike McCarthy Presser coming up at about 445 here on a Cowboys Monday that leaves a lot to be desired. Crusty's corner at 340, he's already looked at the film. Cowboys Twitter's coming up at 320, so we got her surrounded for you all the angles, and Wolchock's gonna take a stroll around the rest of the league here, little week three NFL news today, bully. - Yeah, let's do it, here was a positive. Outside of just Brandon Aubrey being a badass. Cowboys did become the first team to recover an on-side kick in 2024. So they've got that on their mantle. Nobody else has done it. - I did not know the rules. I didn't know the rule that if you attempted more than two, you could not do that. - This, I don't think anybody really did know until we got into this scenario. I mean, unless you're-- - Brandon Aubrey knew, I'll tell you that. - But yeah, it came out yesterday after the Cowboys successfully completed their first on-side kick, then they went for a second one, did not get that one, then it was, you're not allowed to do it again. I guess by the new rules, you're only allowed two, and I think this is one that they probably need to change. I don't really understand this, you should be allowed to kick as many damn on-side kicks as you want to, but they had already completed two, you're not allowed to do more than two. Is it easier to get them now, you feel like? It didn't look like it, did it? I mean-- - Why not, you know? - If we can pull this thing off when we're down four scores, it's the only thing that could possibly make the game interesting again. - I think they want the collisions. - Wow, there's-- - I really don't, I don't think they want the collisions on the same, because they gave you that whole thing-- - I just watched the Vontay Smith get decapitated on television yesterday, I know it's ridiculous. - I mean-- - I know what you're saying on that. - Yeah, I mean, what did they do with the kick off? Okay, dudes, get five yards apart, and we'll put you already down the field so you don't have to run down the field. - Yeah, that's fine, but we gotta figure out something else then. - I think there's something too, they don't think it's very entertaining, they think the chances of you getting an on-side kick are so extremely low, and so they're just trying to avoid it or something, they just don't think it's good television product to have the on-side kick or-- - I don't know. - What were some of the rules that they talked about? Was it maybe getting the ball like-- - Fourth and 20? - Fourth and 20. - Yeah, fourth and 20 scenario, and you go for the play, but yeah, they changed it to where you can only attempt the on-side in the fourth quarter when you're trailing, and you can't do it any more than twice. And of course, it's gotta be notified now to the opposing team, so we can match up and get everybody out there that we want safety. - That's right, gotta match personnel groupings. - Yeah, so I think they need to allow teams to do that as many times as possible. And it's probably not gonna be a conversation a ton. I mean, how many times we really see the on-side kicks. - Pretty rare. - Come on, let's go. And then we all found out, I think together, that to avoid a safety, and I know Kyle Van Neuwe put this out, today I found out that if a quarterback is going down for a safety, you can just pass it to an O lineman and you're good. - Yeah, that was that play where Dax being hit in the end zone and he's throwing it to his left guard and his left guard caught it, by the way. - He did. - I mean, Tyler Smith really unfair thing for Dax to do to Tyler right there. He's like, oh my gosh, I have the ball in my hands and I'm supposed to run. But I'm still confused. I feel like the rest were confused. Everybody's confused on what was supposed to happen there. I don't think what they decided on was appropriate. - No. - It worked out for the Cowboys in that scenario. - Yeah, thank goodness. I mean, overall, I didn't think the officiating was good at all yesterday. That was one that benefited the Cowboys 'cause they just called an eligible man downfield and now, okay, you can still punt it, but it could have been intentional grounding which would have been a safety, could have been holding in the end zone and eligible receiver. Cowboys looked out there. I don't think they really did that well. - Was there any way that the official thought that maybe he was trying to slam the ball down and it slipped out of his hand and went to Tyler? 'Cause that's what I was thinking would be the only-- - Like only he was an accident. - The only way you would interpret that to be that call. - Maybe. - I would use an explainer. - It's possible. But again, I mean, like I think this is why we talk about we'd like the refs to go to the podium after the game. Let's find out. Like they do their pool report where I guess we have to read about it, but we could have asked. We could have asked the officials in the post-game show. That would have been fun. All right, we had, you already mentioned the miraculous comeback for the Rams yesterday against the Niners. All right, they were looking at 0-3 start. They're down 24 to 14 in the fourth quarter. They don't have Puke and Akua. They don't have Cooper Cup. Matthew Stafford, get some rallied. They had a big missed field goal. Did the Niners from Jake Moody? - Moody. - I mean, come on, Moody. What the hell you're making me Moody with that miss? 'Cause now I got a bet payoff on the line. It was 100% win probability for the 49ers at one point in this fourth quarter. 100% they put on here. And the Rams quote tweeted it and said, "Oh, oops." 'Cause they come back. They get the win. Here's Sean McVey immediately after the presser. - All right. Oh. (beep) (laughing) - Oh yeah? - Yeah, oh yeah. No, that was, what a job by our group. Just continuing to battle, continuing to fight. And, you know, there's a lot of guts. There's a lot of resilience. - The passion, the emotion. I love McVey. I like being able to see just a little bit of character there. A little bit of personality. But he was even in shock. I think that whole roster was looking at each other. Like, holy hell. We just were able to, it would have been kind of the Cowboys had to stole that one yesterday against the Ravens. Like, how the hell did we just win that football game? - Yeah. And you need a miracle like punt return type of thing to really help you in a situation like that. I mean, I'm seeing here, was that the ESPN FPI one or whatever that was doing the 100% yeah. There's this wonky. Next gen had it at the Rams win probability at 3.2% with 4.14 remaining in the fourth quarter. So next gen gave him a 3% chance to win with about four minutes. - You should just have there is a percentage chance until there's zero on the clock. 'Cause you just never know. - Play through the whistle, huh? - Well, the Raiders, they also were the culprit of a bet payoff happening with the general after a 36 or 22 lost the Panthers. - 85 bears weren't gonna slow down the red rifle yesterday. - No, I don't think he was being stopped. - He didn't stand a chance. - You look at passing touchdowns for the season and he dealt in one game, three. Bryce Young in two games, three. So I feel for Bryce yelling here, but the red rifle looked great. And seven points going into the fourth quarter, a few days after rallying to beat the Ravens. Just atrocious. I think the last two weeks actually, the favorites are below 500. This is Parity's in an all-time high voice. - You never know what you need. The NFL's a strange lady, huh, Brian? - She's a strange lady. - Never stranger than this. - Well, now they put an aid-- - I'm thinking about just piling up the bet payoff seeing how many I can get and setting a record for most bet payoffs in a single show. - Well, it's gonna be a heavy weight bout between you and Brodus to see who can take the most else. - I'd be a gauntlet. - He's on a heater right now. - At this rate, Brian will have 18 bet payoffs. - Yeah. - I'll have about 14. - There might be a point where it's just like we, we're out of 'em. - What were we gonna do here? - Just dial up another Bangkok burger. - Man, this is insane. Aiden O'Connell though, might get the start. He might replace Gardner Minshew, according to Antonio Pierce. That was today when he talked to the media. This was last night, not very happy with this team. - The team just didn't seem to show up tonight. - No, they didn't. I think as the game went on, I don't think it was a team. It was, I think there was definitely some individuals that made business decisions. And we'll make business decisions going forward as well. - Wow. - Business decisions can't be making those. - All on his guys out. - Cowboys weren't making any business decisions, right? They were just bad at tackling. - Pretty much. - Yeah, they were trying. - There were times. - Yeah, there were times where they, they were really, you know, they'd come up there and they really didn't get a very good wrap up with like they needed to. So yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't trying to turn it down. I mean, heck there are young little Carson went up there and he tried to tackle and got hit in the head and stiff-armed, you know, knocked out of the way. I mean, it wasn't for lack of trying. - He just, the Agalar one felt like a lack of trying. That one just felt lazy. - That was just bad. And we just sidelined your friend here. Let's just push him out of bounds. - Just try and push him out of bounds. - That was pretty, that was pretty gut-wrenching, but he did throw himself around after that. - He did. - He was, I mean. - He was the very next series too. - He started getting serious about it. - He went into the wood on someone was like, I'm not embarrassing myself like that again. I mean, I, I know fans, you know, you, that play is gonna haunt you and it'll stick with you. I still think Kaelin Carson's got a bright future. It'll be okay. - You can't have that happen after this though. - That's gotta be a one-time game. - Absolutely. - That bad. - You can't let that happen again. You have to learn from that. You get the one, hey, you know, you're a rookie. It's your third game. Okay. That was disgusting. Don't let it happen again. - Okay. - And so far he came back and played well. - As it pertains to the Antonio Pierce Raiders stuff though, I mean, can you imagine being a fly on the wall in that, that film, Sesh, when he's calling dudes out and he's probably got like a red laser container and he's like, what's this guy's business decision? Yvonne Adams looks ready to get up out of there. I mean, he's been ready since pretty much the day after he signed the contract, but everybody's trying to get him back to Aaron Rodgers in the Jets. Sure he is too. - Yeah, he's probably requested a trade. I'm sure already and it's just, I mean, if you wanted to go to the Raiders initially, you didn't think you were gonna win a lot there, did you? That was like a lifestyle move. Like I want to move closer to home or-- - He's a West Coast guy. - He's a West Coast guy. - And Derek Gardner, man. - Yes, Derek Gardner was his buddy. - He was a Clint Kubiak away from really getting after, for at least two games. - Maybe tries to go to New Orleans, I don't know. But Sam Darnold, how about these Minnesota Vikings, huh? - Oh, dude. - Three and oh, hey, that's the best free agent signing. - Darnold? - You know, it's not Saquon Barkley. It's Darnold. - Yeah. - To this point, how could you argue? - He did get hurt in the game. He returned and Vikings get good news. MRI reveals just a knee bruise, no structural damage. So good news for the Vikings. But Kevin O'Connell, my gosh. He's rising up to coaching ranks real quick right now. That's a McVay disciple. Sam Darnold and the Vikings, they handled the Houston Texans yesterday. - Dude, CJ Stroud was putting the blender. And oh, Bobby Slowick, the Niners guy, not really getting to help his quarterback too much. Apparently, a lot of this stuff has been CJ Stroud bailing this offense out of some third and long situations. And you're not gonna be able to do that against Brian Flores. If you're gonna put, if Brian Flores has you in third and long, which I believe they were in a ridiculous number of certain tens yesterday, the Texans offense. - Did you have like that weak one stat? Stroud's number is on like third down. They were unbelievable. I think like he had two touchdown passes on third down against the Colts when they got that win. - Yes. That's what it's been a lot of there. And then at some point, that's gonna run its course on you, especially against the defense. That's flying around the way the Vikings are. And oh, Brian Flores has them absolutely dialed. Yeah, I saw it from Bill Barnwell. Texans had third and 10 or more, 10 different times in this game. That's the most any team has had since 2022. So I mean, they were in third and 10 all day. And Flores just brings the dogs. - I have it on Red Zone, if it's not the cowboy game. And the Houston Texans football that I've been able to see has looked disjointed and sloppy at times. You know, like they added players, they were good last year, but I'm not seeing they like polished veteran group. They struggled to put away the Colts week one. It was 1913 against the Bears. You know, I feel like we could have seen this coming, although there might be a lot of good things going on in Houston. I just don't feel like they're ready. - They were pressured 45% of the dropbacks they had last yesterday. - Yeah, the Vikings are serious, man. And that's another Shanahan quote unquote offense, Bobby Sloech, like Brian Flores has shown to have some serious answers. He's the guy. - And now, I mean, dude, are we getting Vikings and Packers this Sunday? - Yeah. And all of a sudden, I mean, you got O'Connell and Lefloor both looking incredible. What Lefloor is doing, you went two games from the Lake Willis. - Unbelievable, man. - I mean, and maybe you get Jordan Love back this year. Yeah, I agree with you on the first three weeks. - All right, I'm going to send you guys this video. We've got a spit yet going on. I sent it to our buddy Carter Freeman, Swell Carter doing great work. We actually have a new teammate who maybe we can introduce later on. I think she's going to be running the run stuff for the morning show. - She, teammate. - Yeah, yeah. Morning show. Replacing good old Ry Ry, Ry Ry's gone, greener pastures. And now we're adding somebody new to the fold. But we had an incident. - You just have to work with Sean. - Yeah. - This might not be good. - Well, do you warn her first about Sean not Bob? - Yeah, you have to worry about Sean for sure. Yeah, he's a demanding. I mean, he might make you cry. - Yeah, he might. - He's kind of, yeah. He's kind of, I guess. - He's got the same thing that'll make you laugh will make you cry. - Yeah, yeah. Cowboy games. - And that's true. - Funny enough, I think that was a Ray Lewis quote. - Was it? - Yeah. - It's you going in the race tomorrow week, you know? - Well, Peyton Turner has denied spitting on Devontae Smith during a contentious victory yesterday. - And this is after his decapitation. - Yeah, so he's laying on the ground with a concussion. And he leaves the game, he does not return. And there is a video it looks at, like, Peyton Turner sits up and-- - He's big 98. - Spits on him. - Yes. - Now, he says he did not do this. - I don't see a projectile. - I couldn't really confirm through that video. - I definitely see something. - Thank you. - I see something coming down there. I just, it's hard to say where it lands and it's hard to say how on purpose it was, but you can see some luge-like substance shooting from that dude's face mask. - Yeah, they really disappointed in this laptop I have right now. 'Cause I can clearly see it on your monitor. - On my PC here. - Pretty gross. Well, he's denying, denied, denied and I, and we'll see if he ends up getting a suspension or if some NFL actions take it from this. Hard to prove intent there. - Yeah, it could be one of those situations where the play is over and you're like spitting on the ground and a person happens to be there, you know? It's hard to say. - In this case, like a borderline dead body. - He doesn't make it any better than he is. - I would probably make a rule if I was in charge, if I was the commish that any spitting is a fine that goes directly to the other guy, even if it's unintentional. Dude got spit on. - Yeah, he's got to need five racks. - Send it for the sideline, let's just now do this. - There was two helmet, like just ridiculous. He just got jacked up, hits this week. It was that one there on Devontay Smith and then there was an Auburn hit in college football. - Oh, I missed it on one. - That just, I think it was an Arkansas player. - Oh, was it their quarterback, Green, who just went like Antonio Brown and tried to kick a dude in the face? Oh, that was awesome, you need to look that up too. It's early in the football game, Green's on the run and he just leaps up in the air and it is just foot straight to the domed. Like get away from me, it was great. Tried to karate chop a guy. I do feel for Dolphin fans there right now. - Why is that? - Miami Dolphins are the only team in the national footballing not to hold a lead for a single second this season. - Ouch. - And Skyler Thompson has now suffered a rib injury and they're lost to the Seahawks. That's really who we should've gone with was the damn Seahawks against Skyler Thompson and the Dolphins. - I was going to, but I already burned the Seahawks because they played bow nicks already. - See, I don't now look in 3-0, quietly, 24-3. They get the win there, no 2-0. He's on IR and the, I mean their record without 2-0 is really, really bad. - Yeah, that's the 2-0 curse. You know, if your organization is dumb enough to sign 2-0 to a long-term extension. - This is what you have now. - You get what's coming to you. - You cannot have nice things. There's an injury home in on that position right now for them in that uniform. And that offense is just completely built 4-2 and nobody else can run it. And so that's kind of an indictment on the offense to some extent. I just saw this Arkansas quarterback do the Antonio Brown kick to the face. I don't think he meant to. He was gonna go for some type of hurdle, but then he just resorted to like a Kingley and I just kicked to the chest. - Last thing here to Sean Watson. His EPA per drawback, expected points added, at weeks one through three. It is the worst of any Brown's quarterback since 2000. - Yeah, wow. - Can they chart that Kiesner guy? - I mean, you got names like Brian Hoyer, Kelly Holson, Tim Kieser. - Sean Kieser. - Kieser, he said Kiesner. - Kieser McCown. - He's the worst ever, what? - Brissette. - Yeah. - Yeah. - He's worse than him? - Charlie Fry. Yeah, he's the worst of any starting quarterback to the first three weeks in the history. - Kieser has rangers catcher on the brain. - Worse than Quinn. - Jeff Garcia's on here. - Yeah, Brady Quinn. - Tim Couch. - It's bad. - So. - Holy cow. - You got to cut bait and go at this point. - Yeah, you got to find a way to get rid of to Sean Watson. - He's trying to move along. - And Cowboys Twitter is coming up next, the top game day tweets that went viral before, during, and after. The Cowboys defeat to the Ravens. That's coming up next here. - Hey, Mike Valenti here, host a cash to take it alongside my partner, Jim Costa. It's really simple. Are you tired of podcasts claiming there are a bunch of pro bettors 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. (upbeat music) - The G-Bag Nation. Yeah, buddy, welcome back, G-Bag Nation. This segment of the nation is brought to you by Window Nation. Proud part of the Dallas Cowboys, call 866-90 Nation or go to windownation.com/cowboys. You can buy two windows, get two free. Pretty screaming deal. Okay, it's time to offer some Cowboys Twitter, top tweets going viral about America's team. What does Jerry Jones think about making a trade? Okay, Todd Archer with the tweet here. Since 2000, the Cowboys have started one or two or worse, six times. And out of those six times, they made the playoffs once. What year was that? That was 2018. The turnaround was fueled by a trade, a trade for Amari Cooper. It's like he arrived and all of a sudden, the offense had relevance once again. It was a glorious finish to the season and they made the playoffs. So Jerry was asked, "What do you think about making a trade here, Jerry?" I said, "I love our quarterback, love our receiver, "like our offensive line, frankly. "I like some of the things we're doing "in the defensive line." So I like our personnel. I say all in on personnel. I like our personnel. I don't see personnel changes out here. I see everybody doing better and getting better. And those are the things that I look for. How do you explain Jerry having that sort of a take here? I just love what he says. I love our receiver. We have one that we love. And that's pretty clear. And even he yesterday was, I mean, I don't understand the emotional situation that goes on with CD sometimes, but we've seen it now quite a bit. I think we're fumbled, wrecked and pretty good, I think. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know though. Jerry's not going to this quickly into the season, admit that the roster he's put together has some obvious flaws in it. What do you guys think about? You know, I think he's just selling. You know, Jerry says it when my lips are moving, I'm selling. What do you think about the CD DAC thing and the mica tank thing? Are we in consensus that it's just what happens when you lose and it becomes very frustrating? I can only speak from my experience and I watched, I hated the press box. I hate the press box to this day. I appreciate having a seat, but if you let me watch the game from the field, I have a better feel for it. I have a better understanding of what's happening. I can't tell you how many times I watched players MF each other and coaches MF players and players MF coaches during a game to the point where, I mean, you're fearful. I remember one time a coach walked up to me and goes, Brian, I just saw my life before my eyes because he went after a player on the sidelines and that player, you know, could have ended it for him right there. We've seen players and coaches get into altercations and stuff, it's rare. It's chaos in a way. It's not for the meek down there. And when things are going bad, it's even worse 'cause you, you know, now you're coming off, you're frustrated, you throw a helmet. Someone says, why are you throwing your helmet? And then now you get into it. Now the coaches get into it with the players and the players get it. And, you know, we've seen what happened with, what went on in Buffalo with digs and that situation with Josh. During the playoffs, him and the coach are trying to make adjustments and he's standing there screaming at him, you know, and Alan even looking up, he knows. He says, if I look up and engage in this guy, it's not going to be good. - And that's when it can become an issue for your football team where it costs you a good player. Like the situation becomes untenable between two of your best guys. I think Dak and CD will put this behind them. I think Dak's enough of a pro, but when he says we need to be more professional, you can tell you would prefer that CD not do it. And I see Dak's point here, you know, I think CD does need to be more professional. - Well, you know, and the thing about it is Dak, and he has a responsibility. He stands up there in front and takes the arrows when it's good or when it's bad. I mean, he's the guy, but he's also, you know, he, CD needs to be more professional about it. You know, walking out after the game and leaving your teammates to have to answer all the questions about why is not a good look. And then today, you know, I don't know, I haven't seen any tweets or anything. - I talked to Nick Harris. He did not talk today either. - He did not, okay, so he wasn't an open alarm. - Now it gets, you know, now that this keeps getting worse. - Yeah, see that's where I'm running. - You know, you need to handle the situation right then and there. - Sure. - You don't need to let this thing fester on. And you know, it's a short week and all that, but now what's hanging over everybody's head, you know, that CD hasn't said why. Maybe he's apologized to Dak and the coaches and the team or whatever. But yeah, to me, this-- - Part of apologizing would be coming out and speaking today though, you know. - Nate, do you guys feel like they owe us anything on that though? - No. - Never do. - See, that's what I always wonder because we, I'm the same wad, like, well, you need to come out and say something. And then I think, well, he really doesn't owe me anything. You know, he's doing his job. I mean, if we have a bad show and I'm yelling at Eric, you know, I don't, I don't, anybody in response, but it's between Eric and I. - Yeah, but as fans and as media, you'll, you wonder the longer he doesn't talk and say it's fine. - Oh, I agree. - The more it's like, is this a Josh Allen's to fund big-time spot. - I totally agree, but I'm just saying, you know, in reality, he doesn't owe us that. But, no, but to-- - He owes his teammate that. - He owes his Dak. - He owes his Dak, his leader of that. - Exactly, he goes to, that's part of being a pro, right? And that's what Dak said. - That's where you're now paid. You've got your contract that that's part of your job responsibility, right? And to me, I agree with you overall where, and I said in the post-game show, I liked seeing some life and some passion and some frustration, like, this isn't okay. We're getting our ass kicked. This is two weeks in a row at home. Like, I like to see that. I'm glad somebody showed it, but if it's then going to mentally frustrate CD to where he's now taking himself out of the game, basically, then that's where there's a problem. - Yeah, yeah, you know, and it's a, it's a story. If, you know, the guy looks at Dak and thinks I don't trust you to be good enough to get me the football. He obviously wants the football. He believes in himself. The Ravens showed up with a game plan to make sure CD lamb didn't beat them. And guys like Tolbert and Brooks couldn't win enough to make him pay off that Ferguson. Definitely won quite a bit. You know, that was one of the positives of the game. - Yeah, I saw Matt Owen, and he put out the next gen numbers. The average league separation, yards of separation for wide receivers is just under three yards of separation. And there wasn't a single cowboy that even hit that number. - Wow. - They were all either, I mean, Brandon Cook's less than a yard of separation. Jalen Brooks barely over a yard. Jalen Tolbert two yards and CD two yards. So there's no separation. Your average players can't get it. And even your, your great wide receiver one couldn't get separation yesterday. And so some of that has to fall back on your design and your route concepts and how much as a play call are you helping your wide receivers get open. - And ultimately, you know, it's going to come down to your defense being better. Michota with a tweet here from the athletic. Opposing quarterbacks combined passer rating versus the Cowboys in the last three games at AT&T. 147.1, bro. - Bro, what 158.3 is the, is perfection. - Nearly giving up. - They're flirting with it. Opposing starting running backs, which is Jones, Camara, Henry averaging 128 rushing yards and three touchdowns per game. And the Cowboys, the defensive frustrations reaching new levels. I can't stop the run over the pass. - If I'm Dak, I'm like, dude, just chill out, bro. - Okay, we got to aim our frustration at the defense. - We're good. We'll get this figured out, right? I need a better number two and number three wide receiver. We need a running back. Until those things happen, chill. We're going to be fine. But this is not the type of year where we need to get at each other's throats and ruin what's a good thing. We're quarterback and receiver of the Cowboys for the next half decade. Unless you're such a Richard, then I got to tell them to get rid of you. We don't want that. Nobody wants that. This isn't a winning year. We have nothing at running back. Our defense is horrible, dude. Just chill out, Brian. What do you think? - No, I think you're onto something. - I mean, the thing-- - Dax saying don't jump off the bandwagon. - Yeah, the thing-- - He's trying to route. He's trying to route the-- - That's public. - Yeah. - Yeah. - He's saying do. Please, please. - He's saying do, please do. - He said if you want to jump off, jump off. - And then watch what happens, okay. - Can I be critical of how bad you guys suck without jumping off the bandwagon? Do you have to have like that? - I don't think you can-- - It's funny to have that energy. Like they're the victim here. - You can't talk about it when it comes to death. - You guys have embarrassed yourselves and the entire country, your America's team, and all you do is just as in your helmet for the last three times that you've had a game at AT&T Stadium. - Yeah, the thing that bothers me the most is what I heard in the post game was the stuff about preparation, you know, and when the head coach talks about it, Dax talked about it, you know, you've got-- - You mentioned not practicing well all week. - Not practicing sports. - We got to be detailed. - Yeah, see, that to me is the most concerning thing. The fact that you have guys, especially after what happened in the Saints game, that you have a situation where, and the Ravens aren't an easy team to play. But still, when you get three or four different people talk about preparation during the week, that to me is the big, this whole yelling at each other and all that, that's fine. But if you're telling me that they're not getting ready for games every week, that's more of a problem. - Bad look, lame.coach. Maybe they're already tuning them out. - Who's fault is that? - I'm surprised that Scary Jones is fault. - No question, no question. And we thought the Mike Zimmer stuff was gonna have it be more detailed, more buttoned up, more sound, more-- - Oh, those are all things I said. - Well, no, no, I'm not saying you, I'm saying me. - No, I said that I-- - You did, yeah, absolutely. - It's just surprising that we're a couple of weeks in here. - It's not been buttoned up, they haven't done a very good job when it comes to playing run defense, and it's they don't play it in a way that you have to be, when you take chances or you make a blitz or you bring a guy down inside, you have to replace those things. You have to replace, if somebody's going to go to, if all of a sudden Mike Parsons is on that crash, somebody's gotta replace him. Somebody's gotta be there 'cause if the ball spills backside to him, then you've gotta have somebody there, and they're not doing that, and that's on Mike too. That's on Mike, it's on him, it's on his players, and it's on the way they teach. If these players aren't getting it, there's something fundamentally wrong, and that's coaching. - Yeah, yeah, do you think Jason Garrett was saying this with a smile last night on NBC when he was talking about the Cowboys saying they're not a physical football team, everyone understands this about the Cowboys now, you have to go in there and run the ball, the last two years they were dominated home, I think teams have found the formula, run the ball, get ahead, and that's what silences that pass rush, so-- - He's right, if you-- - Been that way for 12 years. - He's just this team, oh, another one, he's out. - This team is-- - There's been a lot of players who've come and gone in those 12 years. - They're built to play against 11 personnel. They're not built to play against 12, 21, 22. They're not built to play against teams that have full backs and big tight ends. The Ravens didn't motion you yesterday. Look at the motion numbers. Ravens had less motions than you did in that game. What do they do? They lined up and they kicked your ass. That's what they did. - The Cowboys will tell you-- - The Cowboys will tell you we have to choose, right? Are we gonna build a beefy team or a fast team that rushes the passer and covers speedy wide receivers? They don't believe it's possible that you could have everything and that's why they can't win playoff games. - You're not going to play against a quarterback like that every week. You're just not. I mean, that's why that guy's a two-time MVP. - Well, they looked lost. They looked unprepared for him and his ability to run the football. - But that's fine. And if you get into, if Elvison San Francisco brings back Colin Kaepernick to play like that, then I'd be worried. You know, I would be worried. But to me, they have got to figure out how to play against teams that play with fullbacks and tight ends. That quarterback is rare. He is rare. But if you get somebody that could really, really run the football like the Saints did and they play with the full back and they play with tight ends, that team's gonna put Dallas in a lot of trouble. - Golly, I hope they can beat the teams with more traditional offenses. You know, I think you can lean on that and see seven, eight, nine victories out of this year. But the schedule's tough and there aren't a ton of winnable games. Other than the division, I think you look at Carolina. - Well, if you look at coming up Pittsburgh. - Well, it's supposed to be a little bit easier, but now-- - Yeah, look at Pittsburgh with that quarterback. You think they're gonna watch your film and think, "Oh, let's just not run our quarterback." - Oh, so it's gonna roll over here. - Yeah. - Let's see how that works. - Well, let's see how Krusty's corner goes today, buddy. What do you say? - Yeah, we've got to talk about some of these things on the tape, we'll do that next. - Oh, thank you, Lucius. Time now for Krusty's corner. Brought you by Reliant air conditioning, gimmick-free AC repair and replacement. Here's the king of the Krustys, Brian. - Thank you very much, General. Thank you to Reliant as well for their continued sponsorship of Krusty's corner. - Salute, despite all the reasons you give them to avail. - Before we get started here, I'd like to say that Eric, we had the opportunity for the, once again, our friends at Legends brought us the pizza burger again. - Yeah, they did. Yes, they did. - They brought us an Eric past. What? You wanna have a kick? - Well, no, definitely not. They end up circling back in the press box at halftime with the item of the day. So it was windy out there, you know what I mean? The first time they brought it up, we were, it was preseason, we were in the Brad Shambooth. So it was more optimal for consumption. Outside windy, papers flying everywhere, trying not to call somebody the wrong name in the pregame show. I was just too focused and docked in. Yeah, just too professional. - Yesterday, that's really, - Yeah, totally professional wasn't for him. - Yeah, I'm glad somebody was professional on our group, but I tell you, I had the ice cream with the Fritos. - Fritos Sunday, man. - The Fritos Sunday. - Bluebell, homemade vanilla. - Does anybody tell you what? - I believe in it. - They got the, they got the, like the kind of the, - They got the ratio, right? - Butterscot. - Salt and fat. - Yeah, the salt, the fat. - Some sweet. - It was, I tell you what, I was kind of skeptical. Like if you're thinking, like if you went out and got drunk and you came home and like, what sounds really good? Oh, take a bag of Fritos and some bluebell ice cream and put it together. - Matt's made in heaven, dude. - It's not a bad combination. - Not bad. - I was, I was- - I was punted on the half a segment just to hammer that thing home. - Who were interviewing? - I think babe. - Oh, babe. I just laid out on the babe interviewing boat. - I saw it was ice cream and I didn't want to, I wanted to stop. I didn't want to stop eating the ice cream because I was worried about it melting. - Yeah. - No, it was, it was very impressive. Once again, legends, hospitality. - Yeah. - Just absolutely outstanding. The, the, the jerk chicken, the Caribbean jerk, whatever chicken thighs that were in there yesterday. That's the one seed for anything I've ever had in that press box. - Yeah. - It was truly, truly. - Truly good stuff. - Impressive. - There you go. You guys got any questions from what you saw yesterday? - Yeah, what the hell? - We got quite a lot. - I think it's the question. - I mean, do you want to start offense or defense? - Start, start on offense if you want. If you got a question. - There's three things. - But if not, I've got it. - What was it on offense in the fourth quarter? - Special things. - How did it happen? - I'll tell you what, come together. - Start with the positives, man. Butter. - Seriously, they did, they did a much better job with handling the Ravens front. The pressure with, you know, the, the, the thing the Ravens were able to do early in this game was with their, with their rush, with their down rush. They were able to make things happen that way. There was one time they had an unblocked, they had unblocked, Hamilton was unblocked and that caused the pressure. But other than that, it really was their, their guys that were able to kind of create some early pressure. Zack Martin didn't play particularly well this game. - I don't think any of the linemen particularly played well. - I'll tell you what though, if you look back the tackles, the tackles were not terrible in this game. And I came out of that, sitting next to Zack, I'm kind of thinking like, you know, BB and, and Guyton and those guys, I was just thinking about the tackles, I'm like, man, it doesn't look right. But on tape, it wasn't bad. - So when I go back and watch, I'll think, I'll think higher of steel. - Yeah, and I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to, I am not trying to influence anybody 'cause you'll get your tape and you'll sit down and watch but you will be surprised how they were able. They missed, they missed some throws and they missed some routes that they could have, they could have taken advantage. Now, there was a couple of pressures here and there but nothing that you normally wouldn't face in the game. I'll say this, the running backs, no more Zeke. Just, okay, let's, if you want to take-- - Just go down. - It reduced your snaps. - If you want to, if you want to, - Yeah, they got the ratio much better. - If you just want to go ahead and bring cook up and play him, sit, sit, Zeke, I have no problem with that. But the toughness that Dattle showed as a blitz pickup guy, catching the football and all those things yesterday, him, they try to throw a wheel route to Vaughn, I get it, they're trying to get him on the field and do some things with him. - Rather him do that than just hammer him up the middle for new yards. - Exactly, so to me, I thought that the offensive line was a big, big, big struggle. You see, you were going to run the ball. I mean, when they ran the ball, they were able to kind of make me kind of, a little bit more about the backs than really the blocking yesterday. - On the running, that's kind of what I'm wondering about, like on their three touchdown drives, I think they only ran it twice over the course of like 25 plays. Do you think abandoning the run is what they should be looking to do more? - They've had, to me, when they went like no huddle and hurry up off it. - They got to get tempo, get up to the line. Let's go. - I was watching, I was watching the substitutions on the sidelines with the receivers. They could play with some pace that they want because they have three guys on, three guys off. And they were constantly, they run a route, like three guys on, guys come off. You know, that's why the rotation that they were able to do, that really put the Ravens in some tough spots. And I can say, the touchdown that they threw to Tolbert, completely the combinations of the routes allowed the middle of the defense to open up. - Yeah, they finally used some crossers over the middle. - Well, it wasn't the crime. - And there was a court host to Turpin, I think, on his big catch. - Well, his big catch, you're right, but his touchdown too, they matched him up with a safety, with Washington. You know, so you're like, Washington's a safety, trying to chase Turpin out of the slot. See, to me, that's where you miss out on some things. When you think like, okay, hey, put our guy with this guy, or put this guy, our guy with that guy. - We like this match, yeah. - Yeah, and they did a much better job with the offensively picking up blitzes. Like we talked about once they got going, they were able to, the receivers did a better job of getting open, and the quarterback didn't miss throws. You know, he had a couple of throws in this game, where you're like, man, if you just hit on that throw. - For sure. - It's a big play here, but I just, like I say, I think this team can play with some tempo, and kind of make people not be able to substitute on them, and things. Now, the running game is, you know, it's, I just think you bet. You get behind in games, and it's no use of running. - Well, you're getting behind 'cause you're trying to run though, part of it. - No, you're getting behind because your run defense is ass. - That's the problem. I think your run defense makes your run offense not any good, because all of a sudden teams are driving the ball on you, and they're scoring, and they're putting you behind. And what's the one way you have to catch up throwing the football? We saw that yesterday. They couldn't run because they're behind. The last two weeks, there's been no reason for them to run. They tried to run. - They could run even when they were ahead against Cleveland, though. - They didn't try. And again, do I have to go back to the second half of the Cleveland game and tell you why? - I don't know how you were right about that, but I thought-- - But I didn't work on running. You didn't try to run. - And I didn't work on it. - You weren't gonna fix it in a half against Cleveland. - But at least you can figure-- - You can figure out though, Dawson, that the fact that you might not have a damn running game. - Yes. - Instead of right now, you're sitting there going, oh, wow, well, maybe it's nice. And what's their statement to us? Their statement is, oh, we haven't had enough opportunities. BS, you had opportunities in week one. - You didn't take advantage of it. Now that's why you are. Yeah, the backs of the back's been good. I'm surprised that'll average four yards a carry yesterday, to be honest with you. - Yeah. - I was expecting not to be a big negative game for the backs and stuff like that. - Well, you also got to a point where they were willing to give you any time you want to just run the ball for four yards with the way that game got out of hand, they're willing to give you four yards. - Any running play when you're that far behind is a negative play. - Right. - It's not gonna help you get back in that game. So to me, they don't know if they can run the ball or not. I don't know. I watch the offensive line. Sometimes they block it. Well, we're talking about expected yards per, you know, wow, that's amazing. Expected yards. They are leaving a lot of things on the field. Does that mean they can run the ball if they're leaving expected yards on the field? - They had a better runner. - It means if they had better running backs, according to that particular set of that-- - Handy the ball to seek is a negative play. - Yeah. - Handy the ball to dattle. It seems like to me, that would be a positive play. - I was the first couple of drives. I was very surprised that the offensive line I thought was getting some push. I mean, they go three yards for dattle, six yards for dattle, third and one. Then you get a penalty with span four, right? The pre-snap penalties were an issue too. They gotta clean that up. But I thought the offensive line, at least earlier, until they really had to abandon the running game, they performed way better than I thought when it came to run blocking. I left saying their run blocking was better than the past blocking. - There's nothing they do to help their offensive lineman run blocking the way they run the ball. - No, it's a disgusting stat. - There's nothing that they do scheme-wise that helps them run the ball. They could help them run the ball. - Totally. - Not the way that they currently, the way they run it. There's nothing that they do with that. I know I'm running out of time. You're gonna give me some time to talk about the defense. - Yes, sir. - Yeah. - And this afternoon. - We'll definitely carve it out. We got three hours to go. - Okay, this is where, to me, if I could finish up this thing with the young guys with BB, where BB had problems yesterday with the offensive line with the twist stunt stuff. - Yes. - That's where- - That wasn't him off. - People, he saw him late. That's where the Ravens were able to kind of make some things happen inside was that BB was so locked in to the guy he was trying to push to one of the guards. That he, when you get that locked in, it's hard for you to be able to adjust back. And there were a couple of different times where they got pressure in the middle because BB was too engaged to his guy. He's just gotta shove that guy and look for the twist. Don't go too far down, don't go too far outside. You gotta stay right where you need to be and then that guy could come to you. And that way you won't be giving up the pressure but they gave up some pressures inside just because BB was trying to help push that guy all the way to the guard. You just gotta shove him and be ready for that guy coming over the top. So I'll talk about, like I said, I'll talk about the defense 'cause I think there's some things about this cowboy defense with the run game stuff, the run defense stuff. They need to, of course, need to do a lot better but I think there's some things that they can actually build on. And we'll talk about that next time around. - Yeah, we'll carve out some time there at 5.30 for the- - Sounds good. - He's got Krusty's corner defensive edition. Nice pink shirt by the way, Brian. - Thank you. - I like that with the ball snaps. - Look for you. - Appreciate that. - Okay, college football super segment coming up which one of you knows bleaters has this for us. - We have the arch manning debut, Bama a home dog and takeaways from a wild week for in college football. That's next. - Hey Mike Felenny here, host of Cash The 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 The Ticket's the spot for you. 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