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(upbeat music) Shoot ya, here we go, it's hour four of the Gback Nation on 105.3. The fan were 20 minutes from the expressway, were 40 minutes from LA live with Lucius Alexander, and Rangers return to action here coming up tonight at 6.30. See why join us back at 4.20 if you wanna go back and listen to that, it is available to ya. We'll hear from Michael Parsons coming up at 5.20, play some cuts from his podcast, as he reacts to one of the most devastating losses the Cowboys have had in a while, here with the audio coming up at 5.20. It's time now for an addition to the finest. Here's our chief follow. Thank you, sample sizes are small, of course at this point in the season, but there is a glaring issue with the Cowboys offense right now, and there's a handful of them, but I think this one is probably the biggest, and it's the lack of explosive plays. And when you look at the explosive play rate throughout the entire league right now, the Cowboys are right there towards the bottom. They are even with teams like the Cleveland Browns, the Steelers, the Bears, and the Panthers. Those are the types of teams you are associated with through two games as it pertains to how often you are generating explosive plays for your offense. This is either a 10 or more yard run, or a 20 or more yard pass. And so they are struggling at this in a very big way right now. And I saw from Warren Sharp, this was just before the season started, and I noted it, and what the explosive play stuff reveals is that, and this is for a context of just any play that's 15 or more yards. If you don't have any plays on a drive that go for 15 or more yards, you have a 2.3% chance to score a touchdown. - My goodness. - If you have zero explosives on your drive, you have under 3% chance of scoring a touchdown. If you have just one explosive play, one play that goes for 15 or more yards on your drive, you have a 28% chance at scoring a touchdown. You're like literally 10 times more likely to score a touchdown on a drive. If you just have at least one play that is considered explosive, which is 15 or more yards, and the Cowboys right now cannot do it. And then when you couple that with their red zone offense being what it is, so you can't generate explosive plays to score touchdowns. So, okay, well then you'll wanna nickel and dime your way down the field, then you get into the red zone, maybe you're dialed there, and that's how you can make up with the fact that you're not very explosive offensively. Well, unfortunately through two games, you're not very good in the red zone either. So this is a huge problem, and I think there's a multitude of reasons for this. I mean, do you guys think that's a more of a lack of players issue? Is that a personnel issue, or do you look at that as more of a concept and scheme and design issue? I think the concept and scheme can work if they would have enough good players. I don't think they have a good running back, I don't think they have a good enough line, and I don't think they have enough depth at playmaking positions. But this is really depressing. I mean, they're not getting explosives. You can't run the ball. I mean, this is not painting a good picture. It really, you know, 30 points per game last year, you have to wonder how much are they gonna fall here in 2024 in the offensive point per game rankings? Seems like we were having the same conversation this time last year, right? The first portion of the season. Yeah, first four or five games. Where are the explosive plays? This offense is kind of living in like a 15 yard box, and then, you know, the bi-week came and things changed. So I guess maybe I'm holding on to a little optimism that this is just early in the season, and maybe the game stripped against Cleveland when you get a big lead, and maybe you didn't want to kill-- Well, you're seeing good physical defenses right now. Sure, right. I mean, let's get back in division and have some 40 burgers. Yes, yeah. I mean, hey, who you're playing against? I mean, Baltimore, the AFC North, that's probably gonna be a physical game again on Sunday, but I do think, you know, when you got Brandon Cooks more involved, that was an issue from the start of the season last year, then some more explosive plays happen. It can't just be CD-LAM. Like right now, I think CD-LAM's the only person you can rely on for explosive plays on offense. You're not gonna get it run in the football. You gotta find a way to get Brandon Cooks more involved. Maybe Tolbert can step up for you for ease out. Is he coming back? See, that's where I would focus, because Ferguson averaged 10 yards a catch for you last year. There's your metric of 10-plus yards for an explosive play. This guy had 71 catches, but for an average of 10.7 yards. And he's good after the catch. Yeah, and that's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's not, you're right. They don't have enough, but if a guy like Ferguson, and maybe he wouldn't have made a difference in that game the other day, but if you're taking away a guy out of that, out of that mix, it averages 10 yards a catch, that you're losing some explosive there. Maybe catch this ball four times. That could be, you know, that could be 40 yards worth of explosive plays for you there. So I'm, yeah, they need to get better sure. Playing out Ferguson, I don't think helps. Oh, no question about it. Yeah, absolutely. But that just shows you how fragile things are and how lacking of skill set like skill players that can really do some damage down the field. It's like with Ferguson's out, it's not like your middle of the pack offensively. You're down there and again, small sample, but you're down there. There's only three teams worse than you in the sport at it right now. It's not like Ferguson's fixing all of those problems, but there's no question in the health is a huge factor. Brooks falling down when it could have been a big play for you that. Right. We talked about Tobit along the sidelines, but just extend for the ball. That could have been a big play. Yeah, they've, you know, how about the fact that the quarterback missed on the wheel route that we talked about through the ball short, that got knocked down. There could have been some explosive plays out there, but they didn't, you're right, they didn't execute them at all. I'm glad you brought this topic up because I talk a lot about the run game, right? And, you know, people will invariably say on social media, you're an idiot. Don't you know, chunk plays dictate who wins the game? Why can't the Cowboys get chunk plays? They're not making the defense defend the whole field. Could you get the chunk play when they have to worry about what might happen? Right. And the running game helps to open things up. There's no doubt about that. You always have to have some substance of a running game if you want to have success in the league. I mean, no, there's no question points will come from big plays, absolutely. But if you look at teams who are winning in January, they all have some form of a running game. You can't just ignore the run. Yeah, puts way too much on deck. It's unfair to him. It's insane that they can't figure that out. You're asking him to basically be Superman every single game. And that's- Which, what's his nickname in high school, by the way? Well, yeah, what does buddies call them? Not it's called deck Superman. That's fantastic. The S on his chest. 'Cause he played everything that the best. You know, he was the baller in basketball and football. It's like, dude, this guy just shows up and kills. It's the bad ass. That makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah, just another, another little topic here as it pertains to the explosive stuff. I did see that Patrick Mahomes after his 44 yard touchdown pass to Rishi Rice. He's now already thrown as many deep touchdown passes, 20 or more air yards this season. As the previous two seasons combined. Wow. That was like, I thought next gen might be trying to ballsack me on that one. For the last two seasons, he only had two Mahomes over the last two years, only had two touchdowns that were 20 or more air yards. And it's still not humming. I think he threw for a buck 51 on Sunday. Yes, no. Hey, listen, for as much as we talk about Joe Burrow and the confidence you have in him, probably the main reason you feel better about the Bengals versus the Chiefs than any other team versus the Chiefs is because of what Lou Anurumo, the defensive coordinator has been able to do in stifling Mahomes and that Chiefs offense plenty. And so yeah, it was only 151 yards or whatever for Mahomes over the weekend. And so that was definitely not good. But just the idea that he's already thrown as many deep touchdown passes this season as he had the two previous seasons combined is just absolutely ridiculous. But okay, looking elsewhere. Now, good news is when you look at the Ravens at this particular thing, as it pertains to the explosive plays, they're only a tick better than you at this point. So it's not like they've been absolutely lighting the world on fire with huge plays and a couple other Ravens nuggets, they're kicking situation. You definitely have the kicking advantage. We know that with our guy, Aubrey, but I mean-- Tucker's missing 50 yard field goals now, huh? Yeah. Kickers? It's the only two misses I think in the league from 50 plus this year. Yes. Yes, I saw that. Kickers are currently 35 of 37 on field goals that are longer than 50 yards this year. I didn't realize, maybe because I wouldn't pay an attention late, but that game-winning extra point last night was from 49 yards. Yes. After the unsportsman-like conduct penalty. Young Wakeu, man, that was a nerve-wracking PAT, but he made it. Thank goodness gracious. Yeah, thank God he did make it. But yeah, some people were thinking maybe you should take that penalty and put that on the kickoff so that your offense just starts a little bit sooner. I don't really know what the rival is there. You know what, man, that probably would have been the play. Yeah, that would have, but that guy would have probably kicked it to the one. Put it back to the, you know, you move it back and he's gonna kick it down there. Yeah, that's when I guess you needed, like, scout, how strong is that Kickers like? Yeah, I mean, how strong is this leg? Can he kick it inside that red zone? Or whether they call it the green zone or the-- Yeah, the green zone. What do they call it? They got a name for that thing. The landing zone. The landing zone. There you go. The landing zone. Not a strip, it's his zone. Yeah, I don't know what the metrics or analytics would reveal about what you should do there in that scenario. But, I mean, pushing them back to make it basically a 50 yard game-winning field goals. Ultimately, the pressure you're putting on that kicker right there. That's, I mean, it's big. I think that's a fair thing to do. But I know, hey, he was like, man, I would have just put that and forced that on the kickoff so now my offense maybe has better field position as they go and try it. That's a fair game-winning field goal themselves. That's fair. Yeah, plenty of decisions to second-guess with the Eagles last night. Now, you have also, when it comes to the Ravens, over the past four years, they have lost 10 games where they had a lead in the fourth quarter by seven or more points. Wow. Which is obviously first in the league over that span. So this is, they just did it to the Ravens. The Eagles are trying to catch up with them on this. Eagles, Eagles, I think, have lost four games in the last two minutes of it. They've got a- Oof, that's brutal. Pretty nice little streak going here. But this Ravens thing is weird. Like you said, Brodice yesterday, you think of the Ravens as being more of like a buttoned-up kind of team. Oh, yeah. And if you're up by a touchdown or more in the fourth quarter, you should not be losing that. But they have done it at a bigger rate than anybody over the last four seasons. And so we'll see. We'll see what it looks like in the fourth quarter here. But this is the one team that maybe the Cowboys, if they do get down early in this game, you could feel like, hey, guys, we can have some resilience. We still have a chance to go here. We don't just have to put up three points in the second half. Is that the downfall of the running quarterback who's not a great passer? You know, we're going to load up on you. We know you're running. I'm just not going to give it to your running back because you're up, you know? Raven fans were like losing their mind on social media about Harbaugh and the clock management. It feels like that's kind of the theme, like the coaches and the bad clock management. Maybe that has some to do with it. But that could be like, hey, you can't close out a game that way. But I know the Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys.com put out their 12 and two in the last three years following a loss. They've been really good. Only the bills are tied with the bills for the most wins after a loss during that span. So there's a little chicken soup for your cowboy soul. Yeah, man. We'll take what we can get right now. Yeah, we need anything that we can get. The Ravens are going to be coming in here. I mean, this is about as much win as it gets. They're going to have the bills. They have the Bengals. Like this is all coming up for them. If they drop to 0 and 3, and then you got to take on the bills, which the bills are playing much like the Saints, to some extent, just like the best football in the sport through two weeks. That's what we were thinking that they were going to have a down year, not the case. Buffalo is absolutely clicking. So if you're a Ravens fan right now, you have to be nervous because you know, you're better than Owen too. You know, you're a better football team than that, but you lose to the Cowboys. All of a sudden now it's now it's Buffalo. Now it's Cincinnati. Goodness gracious. That's tough. Wow. Would you like play 10 in the box and dare him to throw the ball? If you're, if you're the Cowboys. I mean, I'm just being. I mean, which is, yeah, would you just say, OK, we're not, we're going to load the box up so badly. We're going to dare you to throw the ball on. Yeah, for both teams, you want to play to the weakness. If you're the Ravens. Dare him to dare Dallas to run. Dare Dallas to run. Yeah, it's the opposite. Dare the Ravens to throw. Yep. Yeah, I could get on board with that. Yeah, and the Ravens offensive line is a problem. So I know that brought us tomorrow. Oh, yeah, they give us the right tackles, giving up a ton of pressure, I believe, is what I, I looked at the little metrics on who was giving up pressures and stuff. There, I think it's their right tackle. It's had some, that's some problems. Well, they had some problems this last game. They had to go up against Max Crosby the entire game. That dude doesn't miss a snap. No, he has to be the only defensive lineman that doesn't get any type of rotation. A hundred percent of the snaps Max Crosby has played to start the season. That's what he does. And that's his track record. He's just an absolute iron man. You guys remember when there was a restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina that had the Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper storming in there to have some confrontation because he didn't like the way they were conducting their business, making fun of the Panthers with some signage. So they did that, I guess that was last year where it was over the off season. Please let the coach and GM pick this year. That was like the sign outside their restaurant there. And he stormed in there and had a word with him. Well, they're back now. This is, this is the Dilworth neighborhood grill. And their new sign has Mayfield. And it says 2 and 0, Darnell 2 and 0, rule for Matt Rule 3 and 0, and then Young for Bryce Young 0 and 2. So their last couple of starting quarterbacks may field in Darnell. They have their undefeated record up. And then their last coaches, well, all right. Now it's two coaches ago, Matt Rule. And he's 3 and 0. So I wonder if Tepper is going to storm in there after they've benched Bryce Young. Who do you guys think is now the next favorite to be the quarterback that gets benched? Now that Bryce Young's already been the first quarterback benched on the season, who's the next guy in line to get sent to the bench? Danny Dimes. Danny Dimes, 4 to 1. Nice work, wall chuck. And then it's Bonix. Then it's Jacobi Bressette. Oh, Bonix? No, I heard so many good things about Bonix this summer. Yeah, the preseason seemed like all the rookies were playing really well in the actual Real Football started. No, we've regressed. Yeah, jokes on you if you're buying into the Bonix hype. And then Will Levis would be after that and Gardner wants you, so-- Will Levis, what are you doing? He's doing unforgivable things. I mean, it's like dude, just play to live another day. What are you following? He's just a walking brain fart at the quarterback position. I guess. A lot of that going on. Thank you, chief. OK, coming up next, it's time to hit the expressway. We'll go commercial free to the top LA lives right around the corner. What do you think of what happened in the post game locker room last night for the Eagles? And what's Micah have to say about the Cowboys big loss and we'll have the audio on that for you next year. That's the G-bag. Hey, Mike Villetti 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 to Ticket on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. [MUSIC PLAYING] Nation of the fan. Welcome back. It is the G-bag nation here on 105. Three of the fan time now to hit the expressway. We're going commercial free to the top, baby. Brought you by the on time experts. segments presented by cars for kids. Donate today carsforkids.org. Just a reminder to the Jones family, if either of you are heading home right now, you want to win with Dak, get him a running game. 500 quarterback now when he throws 35 times or more, 25 and 25 in his career. That's 50 game sample size. What's his record when he throws 40 plus times? Eight and 16. It's just not going to work. I don't know. Some quarterbacks can make it work with like, hey, the running game's not working. So we're going short passing game like Tom Brady was famous for that. Running game doesn't work. We're going to short passing game the hell out of you with like guys like D on Lewis until you're just-- you're gash so much right around the line of scrimmage. We'll make you defend that part of the field one way or another. I don't think Dak is accurate enough in that short passing game and screen game to hit guys on the run in a way that allows them to make explosive plays. So that's just a note on that. But Brian, I wanted to get your thoughts on this story out of Philly last night. The Eagles Epic loss was glorious. Eagles tears taste the best. And we're trying to get a good handle on to what extent that coaching staff is in a bad way. We do know the GM moved on from your guy Doug Peterson shortly after they won the Super Bowl. Nick Sirianni appears in the Super Bowl two years ago. Last year was a train wreck. They kept him. And last night a report, and I don't know what you make of this, Brian, but they said no coaches addressed the team afterwards. They just kind of went silent. Jalen Hurd said something, and that was it. In football, do the coaches need to address the team? I think post game, you want to have some comments to the team. I think the head coach, I think I always found in a loss in the locker room that all the coaches went around to their players. And the one thing you do is just make sure they're okay. You know, you physically, you know, after a loss. I mean, the locker rooms are the worst. And we've all been a part of these situations. But I always just remember coaches after a tough loss or a bad loss that, you know, hey, you okay, you know, and then the players nod, you know, they're taking their tape off and their pads off and stuff. But I don't ever remember after a game where the player, and did Jalen Hurd stand up and say something to the team, or did they just not say anything at all? Oh, the players did. Okay, the coaches did. Yeah, I don't, I don't think I've ever been in a locker room. I've been in a locker room before where the coaches left, like pregame. And then a guy like Reggie White or, you know, somebody like that stood up and said things. Yeah. Sometimes it's, but never, never post, never post it. It just was, hey, you know, all right, you kind of get the schedule. And then, you know, we'll, hey, we'll, we'll break things down tomorrow. And everybody, you know, get your treatments and stuff. And that's kind of where it goes from there. The Eagles homers are saying we're a player led locker room. We'll chuck you buying that or is this a major dysfunction? No, it, it, it sheds light on the story that came out before the season, right? With the disconnect between the head coach and the quarterback, with Nick Siriani, I think Siriani comes across as a guy. Look, nobody handles losing well, really. Like that's not a trait that I think anybody who's a competitor has. But as a head coach, especially week two of the season, a loss like that, you need to make sure that doesn't resonate. You better have something to say to make sure your guys realize we got a lot of football left. Okay. We blew an opportunity. We need to get back and lift ourselves up and fight back next week and make sure we get this taste out of our mouth. So to hear that they didn't talk, that makes me think this two and nine record they've got since 10 and one, this head coach is getting fired mid-season. That would be my prediction. Man, they were, they were a 99 percentile to go two and oh last night with just some really unfortunate eakers. Maybe the luck has gone against them finally. Well, now they got to go to New Orleans and then to Tampa. So, I mean, two teams that in the NFC right now are as hot as anybody. Yeah, wait, yeah, not going to get any easier. Yeah, they got their work cut out for him and man, watching Hertz play is exciting. I think, you know, because he brings so much power. But I just think of the knee last year and every time he's doing the stutter step, I mean, those are big violent cuts and he's leading with his head like, how much of that would you want to do if you're a Philadelphia right now? His shoulder is so bad too. His shoulder's been bad. I remember that from two years ago. Yeah, I mean, that's, that's never going to get healthy for him. It's just not. And so, yeah, but they've, they've, you know, that's, I could say the players, you know, they, there's a lot of blame going on around there. And, and I think that's the thing about it is that maybe the player jumped in, maybe Hertz jumped in because of what happened at the end of last year. And he wanted to make sure that, listen, we ain't going through that crap again. The last, you know, the last five, six weeks of the season. Yeah, we're going to, we're going to settle this right now. You know, if anybody's got anything to say, let's say it, you know, that kind of thing. But I can say it's unusual that the head coach doesn't say a few words to the team before they, they, they get the, they, they get their showers and head on. A couple of Micah Parsons cuts here, speaking of talking after a tough loss. Here's Micah on his thoughts on the New Orleans game. My biggest takeaway from that game, one, the effort was not there by all 11. It doesn't matter who plays well, who didn't play well, the effort by all 11 wasn't there. The basic fundamentals of the game of football was not there. And, you know, at then they, you have a standard of who you are during training camp and throughout this process to get you ready for the season. We didn't uphold that standard. That wasn't the Dallas Cowboys that I saw or I knew that showed up last week. It was not the same team this week was, was it the preparation? What was it? I don't know, but I'm determined to get this thing right. As you said, I'm trying to step up this show. I'm trying to be that guy for our team. And we have to be a whole lot better. And it's going to start, it started today. I felt like we made a big jump. Obviously breaking down a film was, it was hard to watch. You know, at then they, you know, coming onto the show, coming out live, you know, it's hard to talk about the losses. It's hard to take it, but then we got to take this loss and learn from the right. It's early in the season. It's kind of reminders to the Broncos a couple of years ago, Arizona last year. But the championship's not one right now. We got a whole lot of time to get this together. We got a whole lot of time to keep getting better. And there's going to be a big week to kind of get better. It's amazing the Jekyll and Hyde, you know, they're, they're, they can't stop the run. They look like one of the worst teams in the NFL at it. They can rush the pastor like one of the best. They will blow the doors off of non playoff teams usually. Just, I mean, averaging 38 points against them. But you put them against a playoff team and like other than Detroit, Detroit last year, who they probably shouldn't have won that game. You know, they're, they, they then go look horrible. You know, I, I don't know how you explained it. It, it does not, you know, add up. But I would disagree with what Mike has said. I don't think this is effort. I think it's your guys are really not good at reading that offense and playing against physical fronts. I think that's what it comes down to. There's no like, oh, we're better than that. No, you're not. I don't want to hear that anymore. You're just not. Yeah. I mean, I think now, I mean, you, you, you, your first taste with a new defensive coordinator and a new defensive scheme. It was a similar result that we saw the last time that happened. Right in the playoff. So that speaks to a player issue. Like that's a personnel issue to me. Dan Quinn, maybe we unfairly gave him a little too much blame with some of that stuff last year. And he didn't have the horses to really go out there and execute. He might have had the answers bringing the one safety up. That might be what he knew he had to do with his defensive line and line backers to have any fighting chance in hell, you know? So those are the kind of things that, that I look at and become convinced that this is going to be a multi-year process to build it into something that can make us proud again. Yes, yes. I mean, this is, we can't be surprised when we continue to lament the way that they team build. And then you find out that you have giant holes in multiple places on your roster. Yeah. Like it's just, it's, and you, and you can blame the, oh, we, we, we were depending on a lot of young guys. Looked like a young team out there. Well, yeah, that's by design. That's how you decided you wanted to go into the season. And when you're paying a bunch of guys, a lot of money. So you're telling us by that you're trying to contend for something. Well, how much contending are you really trying to do if, if you're depending on four rookies to start and you're depending on two mid 30s guys on your interior D line that nobody wanted in August. So you were like, sure, we'll grab you. And then you're going to chalk it up to like just savvy, savvy off season work there. It's not savvy when you get pushed around and, and just get your teeth kicked in. No, it's not. No, that's bottom fishing, you know. Okay. So cut to from Michael, what changed from Cleveland? You know, the fans have a lot of questions. What was the difference between this week and last week? Honestly, to my standard level, I wouldn't say there's a big drop off. But, you know, I don't know if it was just an earlier game or, you know, but, you know, we weren't flying to the bar the same way. We weren't striking blocks the same way. We weren't playing complimentary football. And I keep telling you guys, complimented football are so big in the field. Special teams has to be clicking. Office has to be clicking. Defense has to be clicking. We just weren't clicking defensively. I thought that played a really good game. And we did not help our quarterback. Yeah. It's that whole thing where every time you lose, you're like, that's just not us. You know, well, they got to play complimentary football against good football teams. That, well, then that's the issue. Like you play complimentary football when you're playing in your division, which you kick ass against. That's awesome, which you're not making the playoffs unless you win your division. That's cool. But when you're playing against quality opponents, it's like, all right, the defense gets your ass kicked. The offense can't keep pace, right? Or your offense, just in playing well, like we've seen in the San Francisco losses, your defense keeps you in there. It's like our buddy, Vodshlan Bardi, it's the peanut butter and jelly. They can't ever seem to have it both together. They got the peanut butter one week. Where's the jelly? They got the jelly this week. They didn't bring the peanut butter, right? It's like they keep harping complimentary football. Guys, when you're in a game against a quality opponent, show up. Let's figure out a way to actually play that not just against the bottom feeders in the NFL. Does everybody agree with Mike that Dak played good or played well? No, Dak left plays on the field. He absolutely did, but they were also asking him to have to play at a superhuman level, which is just an unfair task for any quarterback to have to play at. Yeah, you're just not in a situation where there can be three or four throws that could have, you know, created the chunk player, created points that you didn't hit. You know, there's just, there's not many opportunities that they're giving you. Uh, because they don't have to worry about your run game at all. So you're already like up Creek without a paddle, if you're Dak, and then you miss a couple of easier throws, you know, like 21 to 13. Okay. You're, you're back in the game. You hit the big play to CD. Awesome. Defense. Now's your time. Now the momentum starting to swing. Now's when you need to step up. You talk about common. This is the series step up. Get a stop. They didn't right now. It's 28 to 13. Boom. But you blink your eyes and if you're on the offensive side, it's like, well, if I can, can we, can we keep doing this? You're starting to doubt yourself as well. Well, for sure, because they, they're constantly doubting themselves. They know that. I mean, at that point still you're looking at being a two score game in the second quarter. Nobody, nobody, exactly. Yes, as a fan, you're throwing crap and you're totally ticked off. But reality tells you, if you have any type of backbone that you're still in this game, at home, okay, it's a two score game. This isn't out of this world and it's over. And then from there, what did your offense do for you? It gave you six point, gave you two more field goals that your, your offense just disappeared. It's like, Hey guys, let's gather ourselves. Let's get to the locker room and have time come out here. And let's, let's start like doing something here. I mean, you had a chance to make it a two score game with like 14 minutes left in the game. Well, you had the double dip opportunity at half. Yeah. You have the, the interception. Exactly. Saints go right back in score. You had, you gave yourself chances to like, okay, hey, this game doesn't have to be over. But your offense never gave you, I mean, neither side of the ball gave you a chance. The chiefs are bringing back Kareem Hunt to the running back room. The dolphins put two on IR there with the concussion. The Steelers week three plan is just in fields at quarterback. I don't know how it could be any other way. Other cool stuff happening in sport. Tennessee is hiking ticket prices to pay the players a 10% talent fee added a ticket prices starting in 2025 with the money going into revenue sharing. I saw the state of Georgia pass a law as well that they're going to make it possible just for the university to pay the players. I think this could be the first step in just creating contracts. How long do you want to be at this university? I think I think we need more continuity. It's really starting to mess with the fan experience. I would, I would think that would be the one thing that I think that it would help the, actually the, the programs itself knowing how long they're going to have kids there. Yeah. You know, you can either sign a one year contract or a three year contract. Four. Yeah. But I, or yeah, and then, you know, maybe after the third year, if you want to sign the fourth year, you can. And, but I think that if the, if the university's new, how long they were going to have players for. And then once you sign the contract, if it's a year contract, when your year is up, you can move. Yeah. If after three years, you can move after that. But if you break your contract, I think that's where the league needs or the league. NCA maybe needs a step in and say, wait a minute, you had a contract. You submitted, you said you're going to be here for three years. We can't let you be eligible now. Yeah. Unless it's a circumstance where something like a players, a family member passes away or something, or has to be closer to home, he has to go back and play, I think it's a case by case situation. The pendulum was on the university side for decades. It swung back strongly on the player side. I think they got to find some sort of a happy medium in there. CBS is expanding coverage of your master's tournament, Brian. They're going to be bringing golf fans more masters than ever before. There you go. And they're famous for not showing half the day on Thursday and Friday. It's crazy. I wish they'd let me go to it more. They always turn me down when I apply for the tickets. You go for the lottery. I've been twice and I'd go over here if they let me go. We shouldn't have eaten all the damn pimento sandwiches. Let's say what? The beer is really cheap and the pimento cheese sandwiches are excellent. They have ice cream bars that are good too. They got a lot of good stuff going on there. Yeah, they do. And they're tall, cheap peach. The peach ice cream stuff, man. Oh my gosh, that looked fantastic. Georgia peach and the world's top soccer players might be heading for a strike. According to Man City midfielder, Roger, they are close. The top international players play enough play up to 85 games a year. Oh, there we go. They're just like, we're you're running us ragged here with all the different competitions. Now I understand. Okay. Yeah, I was definitely getting enough. I was like with this one. Yeah, I was going boo. And then all of a sudden it's like they play 85 games. I went. Oh, that's a lot. Yeah, that's like a game every four days for the entire calendar. Crazy. You're traveling around the world. 90 minutes on a 120 by 60 pitch. It's time now to go into the pimp cup. We're at Lucius Alexander has LA. Mama told me one day it was going to happen. Well, she would have told me when she said it would happen when I was much older. Wish it would have happened. Oh, man, we'll get into that right. I said, a great, great James, y'all. All right, you square. Time is home. Fire up this talk. It'll make you dance some of everything. [MUSIC PLAYING] It's a toxic Tuesday. Well, police in Massachusetts say a man used to waffle to assault his wife. Officers in Lowell say the couple got into an argument over waffles and the health problems that could come from using too much syrup. While the husband allegedly got so upset, he slapped his wife across the face with a soggy waffle. Police say she had the proof bits of waffle stuck in her hair. He was released from jail, so he could attend his divorce hearing tomorrow. I bet he did it. Yeah, he did it. It was a soggy waffle. You guys get the soggy waffle, bro. She has a waffle, some remnants in her hair. Like, look, it's right here, look. Oh, man, toxic, toxic stuff. This is LA Live for Tuesday, September 17, 2024. It is a toxic Tuesday here in LA Live. Man, it is a hell of a toxic Tuesday, too. A sad and shockingly toxic Tuesday. If you're a gin egg, so a millennial like myself, you were outside for the Puff Daddy run. You were outside from intern to CEO Puff Daddy, from local party promoter to mogul Puff Daddy, of town records to bad boy records, Puff Daddy. He's the Puff Daddy. I can't believe it. I can't believe it. You know, he's got his name Puff Daddy, because he had a little attitude when he was younger. OK. And when he would get mad, he would puff up. You know, breathing like that, so they gave him the name Puffy. I thought it might be at Puff the Magic Dragon thing all these years. Now, now I'm going to uncop me smoking black and mild, so she caught me Puff Daddy for a year. Hey, Puff Daddy, Puff Daddy, Puff Daddy. Smoke them up, Loose, you caught me Puff Daddy. Yeah, oh, sad day. But we'll get into it, Jack. In just a second, G back of the day, we do it every day on the fan at 230. If you see anything floating out there, don't be afraid to hit me up. @luckylooshesP on social media. Lucius Alexander on Facebook. But you can follow us on if you find G Bag Nation on Twitter. Or Twitter right here. Cowboy fans gather around, gather around. This man's name is Two IC Juice Cuz. Two IC Juice Cuz. He has a cowboy freestyle for the Cowboys. Hey, I hope you know Dallas Cowboys Y'all is done. I've been watching y'all. Dallas. Hey, I hope you know Dallas Cowboys Y'all is done. I've been watching y'all since I was young than a bitch and I've just been looking dumb. I hope you know I don't even know why the team is stacked. Cuz New Orleans came in there and straight put the belt to the ass. I hope you know I won't even go and complain. But how y'all have a whole offseason and come out looking exactly the same. I hope you know y'all should be worried. At this point, if it ain't the team of the coaches, what is it? The damn jerseys? I hope you know the defense look like Dookie. Every player on the other team the first have got the ball and start booking. I hope you know I can't even be mad, dawg. I can't go to the realization that losing is just y'all. I hope you know Mike, your playbook is weak. I am so tired of seeing these lame ass get sweeps. I hope you know I can tell y'all why y'all suck. Cuz in the crunch time, don't none of y'all drop nuts. I hope the worst. It's exactly the same team from Green Bay. I hope you know I was looking for Micah to even play. I hope you know I am done. Every season is a repeat. And I hope you know I'm rooting for y'all ugly ass next week, stupid bitch. Yeah, that's good. That's tough love right there. That's tough love. That's a very and he's still stuck around though. He's in a toxic relationship with the Dallas Cowboys. He is LA live 105 through the fan. The feds ran down on Puff Daddy. The feds ran down last night. Sean Diddy Coens was arrested in New York City on Monday night. This happened during the football game during the fourth quarter. I was sitting down in the darn reclining chair. I'm out of my business cracking my toes, you know, just watching the game. Looked at the phone and said the feds or the Puff Daddy is in federal. What is that called custody custody custody custody custody. So was he in his ball right now? Only insecurity got him. Was he missing or was he like, no, no, no, he wasn't hiding out. He was cooperating. He knew that the indictments were coming down on him. So he said he's going to be around New York. And if you check like his, uh, his kids, Instagrams and his Instagram or whatnot, he was having a good time like spending time with his family. There you go. Oh my God, man. That's a 54 year old rap mogul was taken into custody in Manhattan. Maybe we go custody again there. Uh, Combs was forced. Well, it was a focus of a months long sex trafficking investigation conducted by Homeland Security. He got him here. Oh my gosh, man, you have no idea, bro. Uh, I felt like Henry Hill, good fellas in the shower. When I heard this puffed daddy press conference drop. I'm telling you, man, I'm a millennial. I watch this whole run parties all about the Benjamin. You were here at five times in a row and everybody go crazy each time to see him go down like this is really sad, sad ending to the story. Plus most of these charges are against Cassie. And I, I think Cassie is one of them. She's up there with Christina Million and Maya up in my, in my book. She's one of them. Talk to you. And the way he was treating her in that video, kicking her around like a dog and everything. I can't believe it. Oh, come on, come on, bro. Here's what I heard this morning. Today I'm announcing the unsealing of a three count indictment. Charging Sean Combs with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, interstate transportation for prostitution. The indictment alleges that between at least 2008 and the present, Combs abuse, threatened and coerced victims to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his conduct. Miss ladies, it is sad. It is damn sad. Yes, I can be sad about this. Yes, as do he did it to himself, but I can be sad about it. Don't tell me how to feel about something right now. What are you kidding me? You're mourning a legend. Yes, man. I watch his man rise up like that. Okay. And he'll give you some type of motivation sometimes. So yes, it's sad to see he did it to himself. Come on now. As a legend, the indictment to carry out this conduct, Sean Combs led and participated in a racketeering conspiracy that used the business empire he controlled to carry out criminal activity, including sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and the obstruction of drug. Do you hear that arson? Yeah, arson. Wow, this is, let me say a little bit more about the charges. As a legend, Combs used force, threats of force, and coercion to cause victims to engage in extended sexual performances with male commercial sex workers. What? He forced you to do this, man. So you had to travel around with Puff Dad, and he thought she was cute and everything. Hey, I want y'all to do her little freak off of me. Damn. Some of whom he transported or caused to be transported over state lines. Combs allegedly planned and controlled the sex performances, which he called freak offs. And he often electronically recorded them. The freak offs sometimes lasted days at a time, involved multiple commercial sex workers, and often involved a variety of narcotics such as ketamine, ecstasy, and GHB, which Combs distributed to the victim, which all, I mean, you know, what y'all are doing it the right way, consenting adults is pretty fun. Dimms to keep them obedient and compliant. As alleged, when Combs didn't get his way, he was violent, and he subjected victims of physical, emotional, and verbal abuse so that they would participate in the freak offs. And that Combs hit, kicked, through objects at, and dragged victims at times by their hair, in addition to the violence. That's Cassie he's talking about right there, that's Cassie. The indictment alleges that Combs threatened and coerced victims to get them to participate in the freak offs. And that's where he was wrong right there. Like everything else is just, okay, you're a freak. And if you can get consenting adults to do this, that's fine. But the fact you start forcing people and you're beating them up, and you're like, you know, bullying them with money and jobs and career type of situation, that's why I made you a mistake. Filming them without them knowing. Filming them without them cussing. And the thing is, bro, like when you see, like R. Kelly, or who else got caught in these weird situations? When you see these guys get caught in these weird situations, it's like, people will do this for you. You don't have to force them and do weird things. You can find the right cast to do this with you, man. Yeah, there's some deviancy to the forcing and the, you know, that is what they're really doing it for, like the power of it. Is that what it is? Yeah, maybe that is. What is up with guys when they get a whole lot of power and money? They might lose it on you. They might lose it. Yeah. Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Puff Daddy, R. Kelly. Come on, bro. He used the embarrassing and sensitive recordings he made of the freak offs as collateral against the victims. And the fact that they keep calling the freak offs. Yeah, I know. It is kind of funny. He's just spitting the freak off. Oh my god. That is pretty good. Is there anything in here about like the male R&B singers that, you know, we're trying to make a career? We don't know. We don't know. Is that investigation still going on? They're still looking like, if you're connected to Puff Daddy, you need to run. Yeah. You need to run. If you was involved with them freak offs, you need to get out of here, because... The indictment also alleges other acts of violence undertaken by Combs and others, including violence against witnesses to his abuse, kidnapping, and arson. Now Combs did not do this all on his own. As I mentioned, Combs has been charged with reco conspiracy. He used his business and employees of that business and other close associates to get his way. Those individuals allegedly included high ranking supervisors in the business, personal assistants, security staff, and household staff. So that means all you guys are involved with this. If you don't talk about what happened with P&D, we want you to turn on B-State's evidence. If not, we're going to have a press conference with your name in it. Oh my god. Yeah. You're not blowing the whistle. The indictment alleges that those individuals facilitated the freak offs. They booked the hotel rooms and stocked them with the supplies, including drugs, baby oil, personal lubricant, extra linens, and lighting. They arranged for victims and commercial sex workers to travel for the freak offs, and they delivered large quantities of cash to Combs to pay for the commercial sex workers. As part of this investigation, in March of this year, special agents from HSI executed search warrants at Combs' residences in Miami and Los Angeles. They also executed a warrant for Combs' electronic devices. During those searches, agents seized evidence of the crimes charged in this indictment. Oh my god. They seized firearms and ammunition, including three defaced AR-15s and the large capacity drum magazine. They also seized evidence of the freak offs. Electronic devices that contain images and videos of the freak offs with multiple victims. And they seized cases and cases of the kinds of personal lubricant and baby oil that Combs' staff allegedly used to stock hotel rooms for the freak offs. More than 1,000 bottles altogether. This guy definitely had the over. He had a little side bed on how many times he could sneak in. And I freak off. Take a shot of them here, freak offs. That was, I mean, elotion for the freak offs. How much, how much, I mean, that's no wonder we had supply chain issues. It was so cool. Yeah, everybody out here asked you as hell because Puff Daddy got all the lube. Hundreds and hundreds in years worth of baby oil. If you was going to a Puff Daddy's house, your ass was getting shiny. You hear what I was saying? You want some shiny stuff, bro? Let me see you shined up. Turn these lights on, you shined it. Wow, R.P. to freak offs, man. I'm telling you what, I've lived a full life. I've had a lot of fun. I knew what a freak off is because sensing adults though, 100%, I don't do them. Nobody's going to come out of the woods saying luscious made me do this. L.A. made me do that. I'll tell you what, but man, freak offs will never be the same after this Puff Daddy situation. Oh my gosh. Diddy officially pled not guilty to racketeering, conspiracy, and sex trafficking charges. The racketeering holds up to 20 years by itself. Oh my god, sex trafficking, the minimum. If he's charged on this, 15 years minimum. Wow. Wow. So what's the defense that they were all consenting? You got to prove that I was making them. He's got to be, and he's in trouble for that too, because he's been reaching out to people that they've been investigating. He's saying, hey, you don't remember it like that, right? It was different. It was different. We had a good time, right? And they have recordings of Puff doing this. Yeah, they're saying that this might just be the beginning. I think of this human trafficking thing starting to come to light on the floor. Yeah, it's falling apart. Especially if you were involved, if you were at the Puff Daddy party's wearing all white, flossing to everybody on Instagram. Yeah, you better run. You better run. Hey, if you were in the free golfs and you had to dip, where would you go? The places that don't do extradition. What country would you go to? You got to pick a country, bro. What are countries that don't expedite? We got somewhere in South America, I think. Is that what you got to find a place? Venezuela, Columbia, someplace like that. Go to Morocco. Montenegro? I love you, Miss Lady T. Don't take me personal. I'm just doing a little radio thing, Miss Lady T. But yeah, Morocco. I probably dipped in Morocco. Don't try to go and take me back. Well, Chuck loves the Russians, man. You go over to Moscow. Vietnam is beautiful this time of year. How about that? Talk about it too. Is that any other South American? There's no South American. I thought for something like... What's the country that has the problem with us with the oil and natural gas? That Columbia or Venezuela? You got Bolivia. Bolivia. You can go Bolivia if you want. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Where's Russell Simmons? Russell Simmons and Bali? You know, Cuba's close. Cuba, you could catch a jet ski back to Florida if you need to. That's Miami, Miles. Yeah. But they'll send you back though. Cuba will send you back. Yes, they'll send you back. Extra night. They'll send you back. They don't? They were on the list. Oh, they were on the list? Yeah. I thought Cuba would send you back. Maybe things have changed in recent years. Where's Stevie J? Stevie J? You better get out of here. You better call Russell Simmons. Hey, man, you know a good realtor out there? Probably. Is they coming for you, man? I can't believe this is happening. But he did it to himself. This is self-inflicted wounds. Oh, my gosh. I still don't even know how to process it. The ultimate crash out. Bro, this is a big crash out. Big crash out. This is like Elvis going down for, like, messing with Priscilla back in the day. It's like that, you know. But of course, this is like Nastier. Well, I mean, I don't know if it's Nastier, because how old Priscilla was? She, like, 14 or something like that? That was pretty bad. Yeah. That was pretty bad, too. Well, I'll be watching this on the timeline. Yeah. Are we about to be following this, like, like an OJ situation? Man, I really, really do think so. I think they're going to have, like, witnesses sitting on a stand, the Puff Daddy trial. Celebrity witnesses. Celebrity witnesses. And thinking about if you're a sex worker? The whole country's going to see your face on the screen. What's your name? And at the bottom, I was going to say sex worker. Oh, my gosh. I finally made it. As you're telling your story in court. Well, he paid me $1,500, just to open it up a little bit. Oh, geez. Now, was he involved in these freak-offs, or was he just the movie producer? I heard he was, like, producing, watching, playing, you know. It was his playgirl. Yeah. He was the owner, the general manager, and the quarterback. [LAUGHING] That's my squad, president. My president. All right, man. Yucky for eye on this. Yes. General, turn this segment off with this crap. Yeah, I'm turning it off. I'm gone now. Lord, willin' and the creek don't rise. Puff Daddy. That's my time. My name is Lucius Alexander Ihala. Thank you, Lucius. LA live every night. 540 here in the G back nation. When we come back, we'll chuck a little around the bases. 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