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Hour 2: 10 storylines for the Ravens game; players missing at Cowboys practice,Ravens offense preview
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(upbeat music) Yeah, here we go, it's hour number two with a Gback Nation on 105.3, the fan time for your NFL news of the day. And here he is, Zach Wultchuck. Well, Jordan Love is back on the practice field already, and he told reporters today that he is hopeful he can play on Sunday against the Titans of Tennessee. So what a quick recovery for Jordan Love. That went from, oh my gosh, I think we all thought we saw that thing pop in there in that knee, and that could be a season ender for you. - That's different. - Maybe you just miss a week, maybe just a week. Now, if you're Green Bay, you did manage to get a victory, if he's not fully healthy, I'm sure they're not gonna push that, but that's got to be great news. Courtesy of Rob D'Amaski, if you're a Packer fan. - I think if you're in the floor, not only do you side to the cautionary side of things with Jordan Love, but also you wanna give Malik Willis a chance at his own revenge game. 'Cause they're playing Tennessee. - Yeah, the Titans, I like that. - I mean, I just think that's what you do. - And will Levis probably gonna throw you the game in the fourth quarter, or fumble it anyway. - Exactly, exactly. Will Levis will lose that football game for the Titans. You can still get the victory, and Malik Willis can feel like he's not getting the pity game ball. He's getting the petty game ball, and he kind of earned it a little bit. - Well, Debo is still out for the Niners, but they are getting their outstanding safety back. Tallanoa Hafunga is gonna be back practicing this week for San Francisco, so they're wounded offensively. No CMC and no Debo, but they're now fully back healthy. Outside of Drake Ringlow, of course, on defense. - I watched that San Francisco Minnesota game on tape this morning, had an hour to kill. And I was thinking that maybe Minnesota did some crazy things to 'em to make 'em play the way they did. San Francisco's running their offense, man. They had a block punt, a fork down play that went right. And he threw an interception and ended up on their zone seven yard line. And Minnesota tackled really well in this game, but San Francisco ran their offense. - So it wasn't something-- - It wasn't, yeah, it wasn't something like, I was thinking they tricked 'em a little bit. They did something a little different, you know? But just watching the game, San Francisco's offense really was doing what they had to do. It's just the turnovers, the block punt, the-- - Shoot yourself in the first party with a couple of bad decisions here or there. - You did nail something there though. You said they tackled really well. And I think regardless, no matter of your scheme, if you want a chance against San Francisco, you've got attack. - They did tackle is the key. - They did tackle well, but man, there was some bad, there was some bad, bad things that went on in that football game for San Francisco. - Well, this was a crazy week. Of course, Bryce Young gets benched. He has pissed according to reports from ESPN, Jeremy Fowler. Now, there's been a lot of support thrown his way, LeBron James even showing support on social media for Bryce Young. He took to X, saying rooting for you. I know this ain't on you, continue to put in the work and it shall prevail. Baker Mayfield, who played with him for a little while, said that his story is far from finish today. Dave Kanell as their head coach was asked if they'd consider trading Bryce Young. He said that's not something we're really considering. Said it's all hands on deck for this week and that he still believes that Bryce Young can be a franchise quarterback. Well, Mel Kuiper, he's been new for a good Kuiper rant. She reached her preaching in defense of Bryce Young here. - The quarterback coach, everything's there. The senior assistant, everything's in place. And then you see him beat CJ Stroud on the field is a rookie, right? If you take out the three games you threw multiple interceptions, he was five touchdowns, six touchdowns, three picks, okay? Had some decent games last year, okay? But then you go into this year, you change everything 'cause CJ Stroud's doing so well in Houston. We gotta destroy this thing. We gotta blow it up and start over because CJ Stroud's doing so great in Houston. These coaches aren't getting it done. So we bring in an offensive coach who was with Baker and others, right? Bringing a new pass game coordinator, new quarterback coach for Bryce Young. Then we don't play him in a preseason. We play him one series in the final preseason game against the AOGs. Now those guys are playing for Buffalo, by the way. They went one series down the field and they're rah, rah, great, we got it, we accomplished everything we wanted to. I'll give you a little note. CJ Stroud played two preseason games this year. Okay, he played four. Derek Carr played in two preseason games. Why? 'Cause Clint Kubiak was coming in with a new offense and Derek Carr's a veteran played two preseason games. Bryce Young played one series of final preseason game against the nobody's with defense for the Buffalo Bills. Does that make sense to you? When two games in, we're saying he can't play. Yes, his confidence was shattered, right? Yes, he does need to sit behind it. He thought for a little bit. But the blame this on Bryce Young is ridiculous. This is the blame here goes to the organization, the owner for a mishandling this young quarterback. Yeah, I mean, the organization might be struggling as well, but I just think this is like the draft guys who don't want to admit they're wrong. Yeah, no, no, this is true. This is true. I mean, but, you know, to be able to be any good at this, you have to admit you're wrong. You know, there's guys that you have to wear some of these. You know, and next time when you start to think about quarterbacks that are 5'10", you know, play behind a massive offensive line, you know, have all kinds of skill players around them. It's like, okay, that's where they thrive. But if you don't have these things, it's going to be really hard for him to have success. Yeah, because he played. He played behind an NFL offensive line. He threw to NFL receivers. Sure did. He handed the ball to NFL running backs. You know, that's, hey, I tell you, that's a perfect recipe for being drafted first overall. You know, hey, that Texas game last year or the, several years ago. Two years ago. Yeah, when they played in Austin when they got-- That's final drive. He won that game. Sure did. That's the kind of stuff you're looking like, man. Okay, maybe you get that in the NFL. Maybe, you know, Daniels right now with the commanders, similar body style, similar thin, but taller type guy, that'll test you with your saying, well, do we really want to do this with this style of guy? And I think to me that you wear this one, if you were a fan of his and thought that he was going to be a great player, you wear it. And next time that one of these guys comes and looks like that, make sure you check all the boxes and look and see where, you know, you think this guy really can because, or where he could play, because this guy's having his struggles for sure. Yeah, I mean, he's dead last and it's 18 games to start his career. He's dead last in a lot of important categories. I saw something. If you look at his first 18 games and Trevor Lawrence's first 18 games, very similar. If you look at the number. Maybe at some of the raw numbers stuff for when losses, I mean, that first year with Urban Meyer and Trevor Lawrence was his bad years. You could ever. I was terrible. I think everything Kuiper said about that organization, though, and the way that they've handled this, like Bryce Young probably is not any good from what we've seen. He does not look like he is an NFL quarterback. It is not the same player that I watched on tape at Alabama. He was very confident. He was very calm. The moment never seemed too big for him. He looks like he, as soon as the snap, he doesn't trust anything he sees. Bailing out of it. Looks like he's about to burst into tears out there. He's lost all confidence. He's completely shattered. But I don't know that there is a worse organization right now in the National Football League than what David Tepper is running with the Carolina Panther. Yeah, that's very fair. And you know, to that point, if I was a team that had, you know, a good supporting cast for a young quarterback, I would be calling Carolina right now and offering them like a four, you know? And seeing if they're that willing to cut bait and I'll try to find, you know, a way 'cause there's plenty of examples of shorter guys with less tools succeeding. You know, I'd like to see what it could look like if you gave him some weeks off and put him in an environment that was more similar to what he experienced at Bama. The Panthers are officially the worst team in the NFL since Tepper purchased the team in 2018. They're 31 and 70 since he took over. So they're lost over the weekend coupled with a Jets victory. Ooh. Makes that the worst record in the NFL over that span. So thank you Brian. It's more winter than I would have predicted. Yeah. 30 something. Yeah. I thought maybe 10, you know? They've won 30% of the games since he's taken over as owner. Gotcha. We're gonna have to monitor this, man. This is a back and forth all season long which is in the Panthers and the Jets to see who can be the worst since 2018. We do. We need to have this update every single Monday or Tuesday if one of those teams play on Monday and night. Big loss for the Colts to Forest Buckner is going to be on IR. He's gonna miss at least four games. That's a big hit to their run defense. It has an MRI reveal that he suffered a right high ankle sprain in their loss to the Packers. So that's a team that's struggling at 0 and 2 right now. They're an NFL worst allowing 237 rushing yards per game through two weeks. And that's not going to help them at all with the Forest Buckner sideline. Now we're getting tons of great audio from Bill Belichick. Of course, I thought he was fantastic on the Manning gas. He was. We played a little bit of that yesterday. But now Devin McCordy who's on the NFL network was sharing a story of playing for Bill in New England and how he perfectly predicted none other than win patterns. It's my rookie year. We're playing the Jets on a Monday night. So we're doing a nighttime walk through Sunday night before the game and he grabs all the corners and he grabs me and he says, hey, when we're running down this sideline, the way the win pattern is in our stadium, going towards the open end, the win world's like this. So the ball's going to look like it's going further than what it is, but it's going to hit that wind and it's just going to drop. So when you're running on this side, make sure you turn around and get your head back. And I remember sitting out like really do the win pattern and sure enough I get a go ball on that side against brilliant Edwards. I turn and then I look back at him and then I remember like what Bill said, I turn my head back, ball drops right in my lap, get an interception. From that point on, there was nothing a guy could tell me that I would be like, nope, I believe in everything. I was drinking a Kool-Aid head the afternoon. - Amazing, like the attention to detail, it's that stuff right there where it's like, okay, you can definitely dangle the carrot of Bill Belichick in front of me as the next head coach, the Cowboys, and despite the, I don't want him touching my personnel and handling the draft and doesn't make me nervous. The idea of him bringing in Josh McDaniel's as an offensive coordinator, of course it does. - Or worse, Fat Patricia or Joe Judge. - That would be worse. Like I could like, okay, Josh, don't bring anyone else, but McDaniel's maybe, I mean, he did somehow have nine wins with Matt Jones and take him to the playoffs his rookie year. So I don't know, maybe he's not totally asked like the rest are, but that's an incredible story from Bill Belichick. Like everything, he is so dialed in with that. And also, Braylon Edwards, 877-881153, name a random receiver. I had not heard that name in quite some time. - Yeah, I had a couple of great years what in Cleveland, and things kind of got weird. - Awesome. - Yeah, it's amazing. You know, Belichick was so good at what he did, had so much success, partially due to Tom Brady that he had, you know, basically unchecked authority to do whatever he wants. And that's where it kind of went wrong ultimately for him. If you could put him back in a, in just a hey, let's get the best out of Bill Belichick. I'd be excited to add that to a coaching staff or to an organization, you know? I think at this age, at this success level, would you want that much of a demotion? No, I think we're probably seeing the last of Belichick coaching. - Put me down for Lee Evans, Walt Chuck. - Lee Evans, Wisconsin. - Oh, that's a good full right. - Yeah, that was a guy who got buckets with the bill. - Reagan's too, I think AFC Championship drop had an opportunity on the Super Bowl. - Oh, yes, big time drop. Yeah, yeah, for Baltimore, that does. It stings a little bit. - Man, this is pretty cool. If you're going to go to Falcon's Chiefs this weekend, now half of this is cool, half of this is actually hilarious. You're getting free food. So you've got at Mercedes, Ben's Dome, 72,000 fans, you're going to receive free hot dogs, chips and Coca-Cola products in a souvenir cup. Now there's a too hot dog limit per person, but unlimited refills on drinks. Now why is this happening? - Yeah. - Falcon's owner, Arthur Blank, is getting into the franchise's ring of honor. (laughing) - The party. - This can be looked at as a tip of the cap by ownership to the fans as he gears up for his enshrinedment now. - As ownership gives ownership, the tip of the cap for ownership. - He's putting himself in the ring of honor as well. And they haven't done anything internally. They've won an NFC Championship. And then they famously went 20, lost 28 to three in the Super Bowl. Otherwise, we're not doing a whole lot of winning here. I mean, they've been, Michael Vick took him to an NFC Championship game. I think maybe what three NFC Championship appearances? - Green Bay had never lost, I don't know if he was, I think he was owner of this. - He took over no two, which might have been the Vick Lambo wild card game we're talking about. - Green Bay had never lost a playoff game at home until Michael Vick went out there and cold, cold day. - But Arthur Blank putting himself in the ring of honor there and Atlanta putting free food for everybody. - Yeah, yeah, you got to do that. A-17 says Santana Moss, by the way. - Like that. - Santana Moss was a cowboy commander game on it. - Yeah, he did not think it was the game. The triplets got put into the ring of honor Monday night football, final two minutes, two bombs to Santana Moss over Aaron Glenn and Roy freaking Williams for touchdowns Cowboys lose 14 to 13. - I've never haunts me. - I've never seen an owner put himself. This is usually like an after death respect, right? Where an owner gets thrown up into the ring of honor or he has, I guess sold the team. - Yeah, you don't do this for yourself. - It's just weird. - I can't think of any, it doesn't make any sense. It is hilarious. But the fact that he's making it free food and- - That's a big win. - And beverage and free refill. - And they sell, I mean, they know about the concession prices. Like they're hitting on this. It's $5 for a beer there. - That souvenir cup's just gonna be Arthur Blank on it, right? - Right. - The one that everybody's gonna get and keep and take them forever, the collectors, the cup collectors like Brodus. - I love to have it. You don't want for Ryan, maybe on the bet payoff board we should say you gotta dress up like Arthur Blank 'cause he does look like a butler. And that's your dream. - Oh gosh, yes. My man, he will wear a red vest on you. Like the black chest and style. He's got some flair to him. He sure does. - Some of these names are great. Okay, we got Pierre Garcon from Pastry Chef Eric. - No, that's good. - Pierre Rain-Crobat, great poll from the 817. - Was he a concussion guy? - Wink or bet from the Jets was a concussion guy. - Yeah, yeah. - But awesome player. - JJ Stokes, 972. - JJ Stokes was UCLA. - And then San Francisco. - Yeah. - How about Laverne as Cole? She had a cup of coffee with the Cowboys. - There you go. That's New York Jets, right? - Yup. - Heinz Ward. - Heinz Ward. - He's not a random dude. - Yeah, we're just trying not to work stuff. - Heinz Ward's a possible Hall of Famer. Mario Manningham. - Mario Manningham is a Jets. - Giants. Michigan? - Michigan. - Had an outstanding catch in that Super Bowl. - Oh. - Gee Charles Rogers, Jericho Caughtry, Antoine Randall L. Keep him coming. This is fun. - There's Jennifer, he's at a-- - Peerless Price. - Peerless Price is a good one. - There was Price is a good one. I believe that was Lee Evans' partner, wasn't it? - Yeah, I believe so. - Okay, we're coming back with the C note. Cowboys news of the evening. We have a very frustrated Cowboys player in the locker room after practice. Today, we'll give you the details on that and more coming up next here in the day. - Hey, Mike Valenti here. Hosted a cash to ticket alongside my partner, Jim Costa. It's really simple. Are you tired of podcast claiming they're a bunch of pro betters when they live in their mommy's basement? Are you tired of podcast 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. 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Has a quote here from defensive tackle, Jordan Phillips, who has a reported wrist injury, landed him on the IR, says, I don't know, that's above my pay grade. You have to ask the people making the decisions, was clearly frustrated in the locker room today and said his wrist is fine. Brian, what's going on here? Did he play that bad against him, a phantom injury? - He did, he did play that bad. - It would, no, he was, he was not good at all. And yeah, this was, I felt like this is one of those things that maybe, if he does have the injury that he says he does it, but if he does, then you put him on that list and then you can work on an injury settlement and then move him off. You know, you give him a couple of game checks and then-- - So he just got fired, basically, what energy he was today? - I kind of feel like that's the direction that you're going there. - It's tough break, I know we had high hopes for this group of tackles. - I absolutely did, I mean, like I said, I won't-- - They could hand him the pink slip after the game on Sunday. - Well, they basically did. You know, if you look at what we're at right now-- - No, I hear you. - Yeah, but I mean literally. - But they needed the spot and they didn't want to make another move, so yeah, you can have the injury and then an injury settlement who'll get two or three game checks and then you move on. - So they have moved on, they brought in Carlos Watkins, who was on the commander's practice spot, right? - Well, I was seeing Carlos play in a while, so I mean-- - Did he play with the Cowboys last year? - Yeah, a couple years ago. - It was 18, 17, 18-- - And he was just, I think it was more recent. I think it was with Under McCarthy. - Yeah. - Was it? - Yeah. - But-- - He came from the Texans, I remember that. - Yes, yes, he did. And he wasn't bad during his time here. - Oh, it's fun. - But big body, you know, I mean, we'll see. Again, right now, you're just trying to get some healthy bodies out there. - You need to be tackling. - You need to be tackling these Raven Lyman coming off the ball so they don't get to your linebackers. If you get a, if that referee's called holding, you know, defensive holding. - Who cares? - So be with it, maybe. - So it plays you get away with it. - So be it, there'll be some, hopefully it'll be some plays you can get away with it. - I mean, the, the pro football focus, lowest graded interior delignment, three of the four worst interior delignment in the sport are on your team. - Holy cow, okay, Krusty's corner's coming up here in about 15 minutes or so and he's gonna preview the Raven's offense. If you wanna know maybe why the point spread has swung from a point and a half favor in the Cowboys to favoring the Ravens, just stick around. But we did have Mazi leaving the practice field today with a trainer. - Type back. - Type back. - Type back. - So hopefully that's not too bad. How would you rank the Cowboys defensive tackles right now? Ose is the best, right? - Yeah. - Is it, is, is Mazi next? - I, you know what? You might even have to consider putting Golston back inside some, you know, because what are you gonna do at the backup three? That's, that's the question you have to ask yourself now. - Yeah, I mean, let him. - Jordan Rodgers now on the Bengals practice score. That was a seventh round pick that didn't look bad and camp, that's a puzzling play. - Golston's just so much better on the edge too. It'd be a shame to have to bring him back in. - I know, but, you know, but you don't, who's your backup three? - No, you don't have, hey, listen, you don't have a, yeah, you got squat right there. - Right. - It's, it is very, very bad. They have to figure out. - What's so unfortunate is one time they made an effort to draft a guy high enough. And they, and they picked the wrong guy. - They did. - They picked the wrong guy. - Michigan curse got him again. - Yeah. - Dude, I mean, I saw it was our buddy Brandon Lori who put like, since 2020 in the McCarthy era just listed all the big dudes in the middle of your defense that you've cycled through. And it is just a bunch of nothing. They can't identify, they can't identify the position. They can't draft it in the first round. They can't sign it as a free agent. They can't get the veteran guy. They can't, they can't steal a guy. Like it feels like every team can have like a fifth or six round defensive tackle. That is at least a NFL starting caliber player. - Yeah. - Who's not gonna get pushed around constantly. It seems like every team is able to have a fifth round pick who can pull that off. Yours ends up being Ridgeway or whatever and he doesn't work out. - Ridgeway played against you last week. Not Ridgeway. Yeah. Ridgeway played against you last week for the Saints. - Yeah. The Vanilla Gorilla, right? - Yeah. - Yeah. - I remember all the hype about him. - He's managed to be a starter in the league. They let him go. - They traded for him. - The Hankins trade was the best one. And then he wants to leave. He goes to Seattle and wants to play with Aidan Dirty. So it's a bummer. - Yeah. - So confident now that they can find corners, at least that is turned over the last five or six years. That's become a good. Obviously they can find offensive lineman. But other than that, I mean, they've gotten lucky at quarterback. I think they can find wide receivers. They're good at that. They've found another tight end who's good enough. They can't find a great tight end, but they can find a good enough tight end. So yeah, I really think this personal department has some real strengths and weaknesses. At running back, other than taking Zeke, which they way overdrafted, you can't even say that's a mistake, paying Zeke was a mistake. They had Tony Pollard on their team for four years. He could have been a superstar. And they waited until he got hurt and they franchised tagged him to give him the full responsibility. So some of these things are weird. The good news, Duran Bland was working to the side today and Jake Ferguson is back. So we are getting some good progress. Well, we know, is that a sign that Jake Ferguson is going to play this week? Yeah, I think the fact that Jake practicing today gives you good indication unless something happens tomorrow where he comes back in and things aren't right, but all indications were that things were good. Former Cowboys center Travis Frederick among the first time nominees for the Hall of Fame. How about that? Is he an H.O. F.R.? Tell you what, man. No, he's not, unfortunately. One of the greats of his era, longevity. Yeah, it's just he didn't play long enough. I don't think offensive linemen always get the love in which they deserve, I mean, was he the best center? Like, unequivocally, during the time we was playing, there might have been a couple of years where you'd say, yes, I mean, he was a fantastic player. I wish they're missing him to this day, right? I'm hoping Cooper BB turns out to be, you know, a good, but I don't know that they're ever going to find quite what Travis Frederick was giving you that position, but I just don't think he's going to be a Hall of Fame. For what, for the things that he had to overcome to play, I mean, everybody, nobody, including me, were, it's not very high like, man, that was a, here's a guy, maybe a third round pick, you know. They tried back, take him 31 overall. Yeah, Dallas takes him really late in the first round, and all of a sudden he's off and running. So I didn't realize how short his career was. It was five seasons, Guy and Barre. And then the 2019 season, which wasn't quite as good as. When he, when he couldn't, when he couldn't grab those guys like he did one time, when he was, you know, when second level blocks and stuff, when he lost that ability to grab those guys and hold on to him and stay connected to him, that's when he knew he couldn't play anymore. 'Cause he was so good at doing that. Yeah, Hall of Fame talent for sure. And a Hall of Fame person. Yes. And he still gives back to the community here locally. I didn't know that he went to the high school in Wisconsin called Bigfoot. Yeah, that's awesome. He went to Bigfoot High. Bennett, remember Bennett used to show this thing called the Bennett Minute when he was like, like he was young, they used to have him in Dallas Cowboys.com and he interviewed the players. Nepitism, huh? He asked, he asked- Like this kid's got talent? The kid drew some numbers, it was crazy. But he asked Travis Frederick one time a question. He says, you went to Bigfoot High School, do you believe in Bigfoot? And Travis Frederick looked at me and goes, you know, I do. I really do. And they got into this discussion about- Is it a hell of a question actually? Yeah. But Bennett asked, I made Bennett ask his own questions or come up with his own questions. I had him and he asked Dan Bailey goes, Dan, do you think you can make a 35-yard field goal blindfolded? Good question. And Dan was like, well, I've never tried. Because I think I could. If you line me up and so, yeah, Bennett always got there and do it. I don't think Dan did it. That would have been the next step in this right now. Let's go out there and do it. Bennett always came up with these kind of off-the-wall questions, you know, that was kind of, he did get at it. I agree. I'm getting sick and tired of Dawson Slender and the Great Jake Ferguson like this. Good enough. We see differently on any set. Jake, I do. He's going to be a top five tied in. He's had some good games. He's going to be the man. It's the same thing that makes it look like Dak is a lead, you know? I'm not pretty expected to die right now. This one. This one takes a stray there. Wow. I was an impressive maneuver. What the hell? Oh, he'll maneuver all day. Going at top speed. Come on, man. We've been working. I tipped my cap. I mean, what more do you need to see, right? You need to see a lot more, I guess. This has been like Fool's Gold for what, eight years now, eight years, fallen for it. Oh, for yeah. You tried Dak? No, well, I mean, so many things on the offense. Oh, I agree. This is a great offense. No, it's not. You know, it's a team that uniquely takes advantage of teams there better than and runs the score up on them somehow. Yeah. Yeah. You know, they used to as well on top of that. I don't know if they're going to do this anymore. They used to go down like three scores and then spend the second half piling up like 220 yards of offense and three scores to make it look like it was a close game. They don't do that anymore. So well, the Packers came a little bit. Yes, you're right about that. I mean, it's still it was a 19 point. Oh, and who had three touchdowns in that game, baby? Big bird. Big biscuit. Gosh, man. Dak was dealing in that second half. Crusty's corners coming up next, Brian. What you got? Yeah. Let's talk about this Ravens offense. We'll do that next. Thank you very much. Lucius Doug Farmer talking college football is coming up at four o'clock. It's time now for the crustaceans corner, brought to you by a reliant air conditioning gimmick free AC repair and replacement. Here's Brian. Thank you very much, General. Thank you very much to Reliant as well for being a part of this tweeted out just a little bit ago. All right. G back nation flax. Oh, it's so beautiful. Salute to water burger and iconic image. Yeah. Thank you to water burger for being part and pretty badass to you to be partnering with the water burger. You can leave. Salute leisure too, right? Yeah. So the leisure. Yeah, I got a couple of people involved. But yeah. We'll be out there. I think we got an appearance in southern leisure coming up pretty soon. There we go. Well, that's, that's really cool looking forward to that. And, but thank you to the flag. It looks super cool. Yeah. I mean, I, when you're part of some of your thing and we were talking about, yeah, the orange color and this, that and then you get the colors that that water burger has and then you incorporate into a flag. So if if you have it, if you want to check it out, you can look at, I think all our Twitter handles have that, right? Everything we all posted that. For sure. Yeah. Match made in heaven. You know what kind of gave us the idea last year was the, the Rangers, what a burger Josh Young Jersey. That was sweet. It was like, wait, this is killer. Yeah. Can we get this on a G bag flag? And now it has happened. Yes. There you go. Well, every, if you want to check that out, I can't wait to hang it in my master bedroom with, it's going to pair well with my water burger sheets that I have on the bed. You guys knew I had those. No, 90. She should take your hoodie yet. The bright orange. Lose that hoodie. No, it's been hot. You know, but that doesn't, that shouldn't bother Bobby. Yeah. Bobby, Bobby. He'll take it. Bobby's going to a pool party. He's got it on out there. He just pushes up the sleeves like no one's going to notice him at fan bowl. That was unreal. Seeing him walking. He agrees. Everybody just melting. I was in California. That's it. What happened at the fan bowl real quick? Real quick. I'm sorry. Super hot day. Final. It was hotter in hell. The tent did not have AC and Bobby had a full on like thick cotton hoodie on the entire time. It's Bobby. Got hammered. Got hammered. His wife was livid because he kept saying he was going to go. And then he would disappear. Yeah. So for like 45 minutes, she was like, I thought we were going to go. It was awesome to watch her events about that. So there's a lot, a lot of good entertainment. A lot of good entertainment. That happens a lot. And have been done in Vegas. The Super Bowl too. Well, he decided to chug wine. Yeah. We went to the bottomless wine Italian place and his poor wife sitting there like, I thought Sean was going to punch him in the face. Bobby, I thought he's tweeting like or treating 12 ounces worth of red wine like a shot. Yeah. It's really unreal. Real quick too. Where were we when he drank like four shots in a row? Rutter room. The rudder room. That's right. You know that energy? Like the first couple of times you drink where you're just like, ah, you're raging so hard. You have no control. That's him every time. It's the rudder room. He's that there. For the side. Adderall. He's a true mark of consistency. Yeah. The Ravens. This is another one of those teams you need. We all understand what you're dealing with with Lamar Jackson. We understand that part of this game is going to be very, very difficult for you to have to deal with him with his running ability. It's elite that, you know, when even when he drops back to pass and watching the opening game against Kansas City, then watching the, the raider game and the Raiders did a good job of really pressuring him. But then all of a sudden, you know, you get back there. You think you have him trapped. He ducks. He moves. He jumps. He's now, and now it's a 15 yard run instead of an eight yard sack. It's a 15 yard run and you know, that's, that's, that's what you're going to deal with in this football game. Now, the thing you're also going to deal with is this is a team very similar to with, with Todd Motkin as the coordinator, Todd is a, was a collegiate offensive coordinator was a Georgia and stuff. So he, he, he understands power football, running the ball. That's kind of his thing. But he's a little bit like what you see with the, with what you had with the Saints. He's going to play with tight ends. He's going to play with a fullback. Patrick Card is their, their fullback. As you, if you follow 42, you can find where the ball is going to go because that's, that's where he generally ends up in front of the ball. And they've also got these tight ends with Mark Andrews and Isaiah, likely, they like to get in like bunch, these like tight bunch formations, you know, so they'll put Andrews likely and record all on one side and you're thinking, okay, here we go. We're about to load this thing up, come into this right side over here. You're thinking that, well, and next, you know, the, the inside fake goes to Derek Henry or to Justice Hill and everybody's going to write. And then he pulls the ball Jackson and runs out the left side with nobody there. That's so tough. I mean, it's just he, they, they're going to test you in every way to play run defense in this game. Combination of physicality and eye candy is not good for this. Not good at all. And this offensive line will come off the football. But they, they do have their issues in past protection at one particular spot with, with Daniel Palerle is, is there a left side and they did a, and the draft and stash with Andrew Voorhees, which they, they're so good at doing and he's turning into a hell of a player at left guard. Yeah, they, they've got a, they've got a really, I think a quality offensive line when it comes to the, the protection, like I say, the Raiders got after him pretty, pretty good. But the right guard is where the majority of the pressures are going to come from. Cause he's a, he's a six, eight, 380 pound guy. And he, he is very slow footed. I mean, he's a mammoth guy. So he does have problems with quickness. Now, can you take advantage of that? Can you put Oso over him? Can you put Micah Parsons in that gap? Can you do something to make this guy have to block one on one, but you got to get them to throw in the football, right? The best way to beat the Ravens on offense is to get them to throw the football, but they got it. They got a quality receiver. I think they've got a couple of quality receivers. I really do like Zay Flowers, who they got from Boston college. And he's number four and Zay is a always on the move guy. When they get under center, they'll hand him the jet sweep. When they get under the center, they'll fake the jet sweep to him and then flip the ball to Henry or to Hill, you know, they're trying to be a little creative of how they get flowers the ball. Henry Hill. Isn't that the good fella? Henry Hill is a good fella. Yeah. But Justice Hill is, is there backup running back? Oklahoma State. He is mainly the guy they use on third down. So he's their third down back. And when they get in long yard situations, they like to throw the screen. That seems to be either the tight and delay screen or they'll throw the screen to Hill. This receiving core, it's, it's with Bateman Flowers and Nelson Aguilar. What they try to do too is with, and Mark Andrews is included in this, is they want to make as easy as they can throws for the quarterback. So you'll see them go up the field and then curl inside, up the field and outs, up, you know, everything is pretty simple. It's not these massive, you know, they've thrown some crossing routes and things like that. The Saints did to you last week with the crossing routes and the, and I, the Ravens will probably try. But the quarterback is kind of a, what I would call like a wrist thrower. He's not really a winded up. He flicks it. He flicks it. Yeah. He flicks it. And then that way he's not always accurate. So there's sometimes behind, you know, sometimes there's a, the ball is not where it needs to be. Like if he follows through and he throws it, he could throw it on a line or he would throw it on a line. And then the guy would be in front of me and catch it. You know, kind of flicking it, it sometimes doesn't go exactly where he wants to go. He's proper technique. It's exciting to think about the possibility of if you can force him to throw the ball, but that's such a big ask. And I worry the, the Zayflowers and his speed and quickness. Yeah. I think Chris O'Law. They took advantage of Kaelyn Carson a little bit last week with the speed that, that might be a matchup to, to kind of circle for you. Yeah. How does Kaelyn Carson bounce back flowers leads the league in average separation? Yeah. That's the thing. This dude is open. He's, but the thing, and the reason, I think that he's always open or the separation, he's always on the move. Yeah. He's not a stationary player. Well, Lamar's always buying so much time to where he comes open. Yeah. There was one time in the, in the, in the Raiders game where they've got Jackson trapped on the right side of the formation. So he's kind of scrambling, moving and flowers keeps going, moving and moves all the way to Jackson's left. I mean far left down the field and he gets between the safeties and the linebackers. So they lose him. And now Jackson's kind of running around over here to the right side of what does he do? He throws the ball all the way across the middle of the field to the flower standing right there for a big, but the Raiders lost him in coverage. Yeah. Because of the way that he was playing on the move. So can I ask you this? Yeah. Because, because Zimmer talked about, he was, that's about over shown as a spy. Maybe Lamar Jackson. He said, Micah, he thinks could match up well. Did you have over shown kind of on one of these tight ends? I mean, likely was so good week one against Kansas city, but you'd think over shown can run with these guys. You think that over shown could run with these guys, to me, I, with, I, I worry more, this is going to sound strange. I worry more about Mark Andrews, okay, than I do the light. But the thing with likely is he is a good catcher of the football. I just think Mark Andrews is a guy that catches, he's kind of a bad ball catcher. He's a, he's a contested catcher, you know, how do you, how do you cover him? Yeah. I think it's going to be the, the, you know, how do you, how do you choose to match up? You obviously have to have some size. I don't think he runs, I don't think either tight end runs great. I mean, good enough. I mean, when you start talking about running down the field, so, you know, the whole thing is going to be about who do you match up with that can handle big guys, but be able to run with them in a way that when the ball goes near, you're going to have to make it contested place because Mark Andrews and likely both will get the ball. I mean, that's, that's, that's, that's going to be a key for them. I believe no NFL team has more pass attempts out of 12 personnel than the Ravens do. So likely in Andrews are running routes together constantly, constantly. And that's where you have to worry about them too. When I mentioned that tight bunch formation where they get, they get all these guys together and then also maybe I talked about having the full back in there, but then they put flowers in there. So now they got, they got Andrews likely in flowers and you're kind of thinking, okay, well, here comes the crack, here comes the crack talk and then they scatter out of that, but it's, they, they, they will, they will challenge, they are going to challenge this Dallas and rightfully so, you challenge Dallas to play run defense in this game, because everything that the Saints do when it comes to running a football with multiple tight ends and playing a full back and the moment, the movement, the motions and things like that, the Ravens can do the same thing. They would probably love nothing more than Lamar Jackson not having to throw many passes in this game. Yeah. Well, it's even, it's even more difficult because of the added dimension of Lamar Jackson being able to run on you like the car couldn't, you know, I mean, this is, this is an absolutely awful matchup for the Cowboys. Where, where Karth can throw very well, it's the opposite, where car cannot run, it's the opposite that way. Cause this guy, when, when, when Jackson pulls the ball, you just, you could see fear. I mean, literally I was like, Oh no, you're watching the tape and you're going, Oh no, this is about to be a big play. He's one of the old-time greats because his ability to ball handling and things like that, you get him to throw, he will make mistakes. He will make mistakes in the game if you can get him to throw, but do you think he's the best runner running quarterback ever? Man, I saw Randall Cunningham. I thought he was pretty damn good. I saw Mike Vic. Mm hmm. Thought he was pretty damn good. This guy. I mean, you probably rather have Steve Young, Steve Young, but as far as a pure runner. We always, we always had good luck against Steve Young when we were in Green Bay. I mean, but he, he has that ability, the elusiveness. I think this guy's got probably better elusiveness than all the guys that I mentioned now. You know, his ability just to run out of run out of just problems, you know, with things breaking down and their offensive line to me, I, last week, I thought there were a couple of different spots you could attack these guys. I mean, this Tyler Lindenbaum, the center, you know, we talked about him. I know in the draft show a bunch undersides and all that, man. He's leading sweeps. He's getting out the second level. He's just a really good athlete. They've got some guys, Ronnie Stanley, they've got some really good offense. That left side's really good. It's going to be a challenge. It's absolutely amazing that as fear, fearsome as that running game is, it does not equate to a passing game when they need it in big situation. Yeah. If you, you know, you find a way to stay with or stay ahead or, you know, then make him have to throw the football, if they do, they get down to the final couple of minutes of games and stuff like that. That's a challenge for them. We're talking college football with Doug Farmer coming up next right here. It's the G back nation on 105 three, the family. Hey Mike Valenti here host a cash to take it alongside my partner, Jim Costa. It's really simple. We're tired of podcast claiming there are a bunch of pro betters when they live in their mommy's basement. Are you tired of podcast that claim they had 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. 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