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3rd hour of the G-Bag Nation: Saints Insider Luke Johnson covers the Saints joins the Nation to talk Saints at Cowboys; Woolly Bully's Top 10: Worst Foods; CNote: What is Mike Zimmer changing on defense
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As we roll on here, pre-game Sunday, 9 o'clock with the kickoff at noon, New Orleans Saints in town to take on your cowboys. And joining us now for more perspective on the Saints is New Orleans times Pick-A-Yoon writer, Luke Johnson covered the Saints down there in a good afternoon, sir, how the heck are you? - I'm doing great, guys. Thanks for having me on. - So how much of the Saints getting it figured out here in the post, Peyton and Breeze era? - Well, I mean, it looked really good last week. Another big question is how much of that was a panther, and how much of that was a Saints, you know? I mean, I think a lot of us were really excited to see what this new offense would look like with Klink Kubeat column plays. They brought over a lot of the same concepts that they used with great success over there in San Francisco. And you've seen that branches of that tree have a lot of success across the league. So yeah, then they go out and they score in their first nine possessions and everything looks great against Carolina. But I think you're talking about a whole different animal here with the Dallas Cowboys. I think a lot of us are intrigued to see what it looks like against them. - How's the personnel gone about learning that new Kubeat style? - Well, you know, it's interesting. I mean, obviously they went through all their big installs this offseason. And then everybody talked about how, you know, it was pretty player friendly, pretty easy to pick up. You know, the verbiage was a lot less chaotic than the stuff they use under Sean Peyton where he had these, you know, 25 word salad play calls that don't make any sense to anybody who's not inside the building. So it's kind of stripped down. And I think the thing that is most interesting is that it's taking a lot of stuff off their car's plate. You know, you look at some of these offenses and what they've done across the league. And, you know, you see it, obviously in San Francisco with what Shanahan's doing with Brock Purdy and he's, you know, he's the guy, right? And then you look at, you know, Mike McDaniel's gotten a lot out of it to a tag of Aloha and Bobby Sloak had CJ Stroud playing like one of the best NFL quarterback rookies in NFL history. So, yeah, I think one of the things they do is they, they say like, look, this is all going to work within the scheme of the offense and we don't want you to be doing, you know, a bunch of stuff up at the line scrimmage and making checks and calls and having all this stuff on your plate. A lot of it is going to be taken care of for you. And, you know, we're going to be doing this, like kind of pure progression system where it's like one, two, three ball out. And, you know, I think for a guy like Derek Carr who for the majority of his career has had a lot of control at the line scrimmage. This has actually allowed him to kind of free things up and just kind of play within the system and it looked really good in week one. Now, again, they ran for 180 yards and they didn't, you know, they think they only allowed five pressure at the entire game. I think you could probably, you'd probably knock both of those numbers way down or way up depending on what your perspective is. It's Dallas Cowboys and they're fun. - Hey, Luke, you know, sat down and watched the defense and I really don't know which way they're going to attack in this game because I don't know if it was about Carolina and that quarterback or is this a coordinator in Dennis Allen that's trying to create pressure because he doesn't think he could get home with four. Is, do you have any ideas which way this thing might go? - I mean, I think it would be, I think it was more kind of who they were playing. You know, he's a young quarterback. They feel like they can kind of throw some stuff at him that he's not going to expect and I think they know they're not going to get that with Dak. So look, any Dennis Allen defense, you know, going back to any of his teams here with the Saints, like they all want to win with four. - Right. - And they don't, they don't want to blitz if they can help it. And I think that's going to be the case this week. It would be really surprising me if they just send a bunch of pressure packages at Dak. You know, they want to, they want to see what Chase Young can do. You know, against, you know, whether it's Tyler Geiden or Dak. - Or Steel. - Yeah, yeah. Sorry, thank you. Yeah, they want to see what he can do and they want to see what what Carl Granerson can do. And, you know, I think they have a, they have an interesting, you know, third down package where they've got four pass-rushers on the field. They'll slide Cam Jordan on, you know, into the inside. You know, guys probably going to be a Hall of Fame player. Not definitely not the same player he was five years ago, but they'll slide him inside and they've got Brian Przyuser first round pick last year, really nice interior pass-rusher. So I think they can win with four. I don't know if they can do it against this Cowboys offensive line though. You know, I think they're a really solid unit. I think Geiden and BV were both really strong additions to that group. And, you know, they've obviously had a ton of success. They know how to coach those guys up, but I do think that that's how they're going to want to approach this one. - Chad with Luke Johnson here, Saints writer in the G-Bagnation 105 through the fan. You brought up, you know, offensive line there. Fuwaga questionable hasn't practiced last two days and then March on Latimore as well also questionable hasn't practiced last two days. Those would be two huge losses for the Saints any update on their status possibly for Sunday. - Well, we talked to Denzel on after practice today and he seems like he feels like he's in a pretty good spot with Fuwaga. You know, this is something he dealt with in training camp as well. And he missed a preseason game when they were doing that. But I don't know if it was just because it's a preseason. I don't want to throw him out there for that. You know, it might be a situation where they feel kind of comfortable with him going out there. And for a rookie, he's a guy who they actually feel pretty okay with if he misses some practice time. Which is kind of a big departure from the way the Saints have traditionally done business. Like if you didn't practice, you don't play. I don't think that's the case with them anymore. So he could be out there and they, I mean, they desperately need him. You know, for a guy who's only playing in his second NFL game, you might be their second best offensive lineman. They're really, really thin there, really talent deficient. It could be a problem for him if he doesn't play. Latimore, I'm a lot less optimistic about it. I mean, from a Saints perspective, he said he was feeling okay after the game on Sunday. But, you know, he didn't practice all week. And yeah, I think a hamstring is a thing where you don't want to aggravate that and have it be a lingering issue. So they said he's going to be kind of like a game day decision. But yeah, I'd be kind of probably leaning toward him, not playing. And they can weather the storm a little bit better at corner than they could at offensive tackle. You know, they've got Kool-Aid and the Kinstri, their second round draft pick. They really like they can fill him in for Latimore. You know, and still feel pretty good. I mean, Latimore missed, I think, 10 games last year and they still finish so that, you know, top 10 passing defense. So, you know, that one's a little bit easier to manage. But one of the things that they do with Latimore is they have them, they have them tail the opposing teams number one. And obviously, that's a big deal in this game. So you're talking about, you know, potentially a Lante Taylor, their slot corner, having to go up against one of the NFL's best wideouts. That's a mismatch. You know, that's something they've got to consider. But I just, I'm just kind of leaning toward him, not being available. Alvin Kamara had a bit of a turn back the clock game on Sunday. What do you think about the way they're using him in this new offense? Man, it's so exciting. It's been really frustrating watching him have to play in this offense the last couple of years. It's like they didn't really know how to use them. And they're trying to use them as kind of the traditional bell cow back. And you wondered whether he still had it. You know, I wonder whether he still had his fastball because look, it's been two years since he had a 20-plus yard run. And, you know, seeing them get him in the open field, it was awesome. You get to see what the guy could still do. And he's still clearly a very good player. I think it's something that we were all kind of anticipating because he looked really good in training camp. But you just never really know until you see him go up against another team. He didn't really do much in the preseason. I just feel like this run game is always going to be-- you're talking about like a Kubiak offense, even going back to what his dad did with the Broncos and the Houston Texans and Terrell Davis and Harry and Foster. And, you know, these running backs have huge years in the system. And you can see why. Yeah, they were-- for all the talk, their offensive line has gotten in. It's been a lot, especially locally. You know, they've been kind of trashed all off season. They were paving some big holes. And they were getting out in Camara in space. And lo and behold, he looks great. So can they do it again this week? I don't know. But like, I think in terms of like the overall season, we're going to see something a lot closer to like the 2020 Alvin Camara than we have in a long time. And I think that's really exciting for Saints fans. So Luke, in NFL cities where the team isn't running something like a McVey or Shanahan or now Clint Kubiak, style offense, you know, there's people there who are following the trends and looking at the metrics of what kind of an advantage you get with this motion at the snap and these kind of concepts. How powerful and exciting is it to see it, you know, taking root inside the organization that you cover? And what's been sort of the reaction from the fans as this thing is coming to fruition? Well, I'll tell you just from my perspective, it makes it a lot more entertaining to watch the game. It feels like it's a lot harder to predict what they're going to do. Yeah, they were running the same offense from 2006 to 2023. There are variations of it. And you can do that when you've got Drew Brees pulling the trigger and, you know, he's like a human supercomputer back there and he makes everything go. But when you take a whole famed quarterback out of that and ask somebody to go do what Drew Brees is doing, it just looks boring and flat. So, yeah, it's been great. I mean, they were, I think number two or number one in the NFL and pre-snap motion usage this week. They were dead last in the NFL last year. They were top five in play action usage. They were dead last in the NFL last year. It's just refreshing to see some new ideas. I can tell you confidently that the Saints fan base is all about it because, yeah, they've just been, I mean, it was so apathetic here this offseason. Like nobody cared just because they've been kind of the same boring version of the mediocre NFL team for the last couple of years and it's just injected some life into the fan base. Do those fans have any love for Dak? You know, I don't know. I think there's a lot of people around here who just like with anywhere, just like kind of the rationally hate to cowboys. So, so even though he's a Louisiana product, you know, they're like, well, he didn't go to LSU. So any place for the cowboys. So like, you know, no love lost here. But I'm sure, you know, if Dak didn't sign that mega contract and he was a free agent next year, everybody would have been like, let's please go get Dak. He's a really good player, man. - Now you mentioned the fan apathy. How critical is this season for Dennis Allen and Derek Carr? - I mean, it's huge. You know, if you would have told me before the year that they would have gone like, you know, 10 and seven and you know, won a mediocre NFC South and gotten into the playoffs, I think people would have been pissed off. You know, because they don't like, they had so much dislike format or at least we, you know, we'll call it, let's call it the vocal minority, right? The people you see on Twitter or, you know, whatever, talking about the team, they just couldn't stand either of those guys. So, you know, they've got a lot of work to do, both Dennis Allen and Derek Carr to just kind of like reset what the fan base thinks of them here. But, you know, a really, really good first step. Yeah, people can say all they want about how much they don't care what the team does. They want those guys out of here, but like, if they go out in their top five NFL and scoring and they're fun every week and they're, you know, competitive and pushing for real, legitimate playoff spots and positioning, I think people change their minds, but it's up to them to do it. And this is really where they're going to start to be tested. I mean, the first like five, six weeks of the season are pretty brutal and they open up a Carolina, great, but they go to Dallas and then Philadelphia, then they got to go on the road to Atlanta and then they got Kansas City. Then Tampa Bay right after that, that's tough. They can get through that stretch looking okay and you know, not looking like they're heading for another losing or mediocre season. I think people feel pretty good around here. Luke Johnson, New Orleans times. Pick a you and thank you so much for your insights at Terrific Reports, sir. My pleasure guys, talk to you soon. So Luke, he's out of here. That's a good one right there. Yeah, that's good. You know, good information there on this football team trying to emerge here. Obviously, you get excited about beating Carolina. They finished last year strong, but they haven't beaten anybody good, you know. So they're looking at this as a huge opportunity, but they're a touchdown dog coming into AT&T Sunday kickoff at noon pregame at nine. Top 10s next. We'll check what we got. Shannon with Eric about potential ID and we're going to do a top 10 most disgusting foods in the world. What's the most disgusting thing you've ever put in your mouth? Eight, seven, seven, eight, eight, one, one, one, five, three, we got some big CMC news and Drew Breech talking about that Mike Zimmer defense that's next in the nation. Post season baseball is here and it is the absolute best time of the year. 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Contact the Frankles for your free consultation two, one, four, or eight, one, seven, three, three, three, three, three, three, three, three, three. Go to franklefirm.com. And here he is, Zach with an H. You will be bold. All right, we'll get to the most disgusting foods here in the world, eight, seven, seven, eight, eight, one, one, five, three. What's the grossest thing you've ever eaten? But we did get news that CMC, Chris McCaffrey, officially is out against the Vikings and head coach Kyle Shanahan said, quote, putting him on IR. Something we're considering now. Yesterday was his worst day. It's on and off, but with yesterday having the most pain, it's something we're going to have to discuss in the next 24 hours. So possibility of an IR stint there for Christian McCaffrey. Big news, of course, for the 49ers. And luckily, Jordan Mason looked pretty darn good last week. So they should be able to stay afloat, of course, without McCaffrey, but big loss. I mean, certainly arguably the best player right there. Yeah, but Jordan Mason filled in like a Super B. So if I'm the Niners, it's a no-brainer deal. Like you're going big picture here. No doubt. I throw them on IR and go ahead and rest that thing up, man. We'll see you. We'll see you around Thanksgiving time. All right, Drew Brees has been chatting about the defense of Mike Zimmer. As we get ready for the Cowboys to take on his former team in the New Orleans Saints. And this is what he had to say about the stress he went through preparing for Zim. You went up against Mike Zimmer, the defense coordinator, when he was with the Vikings and with the Bengals. I mean, these guys, he's a heck of a coach. They put those two linebackers right up in there and those A-gaps between the center and a guard. And they bluff them, they bring them, they bring four over there, four over there, multiple coverages. And they got this guy, Mike of Parsons. Nobody can block them. And the crowd noise works in their favor. They're loud and it's hard to communicate. You got some young tackles out there in New Orleans. Maybe protection plan. But what do you see about that match up there, Drew? - I'll say this, we played against Zim a bunch. And there's never a week that I expended more mental energy in getting prepared for a defense than going up against the Mike Zimmer defense. Because just like you said, the minute they walk up those two linebackers in the A-gaps, even if they're just bluffing them, right? It gets you thinking so much about, man, where can I get the ball out? And what coverage are they potentially rolling to when they do bring some sort of a combination, whether it's both of these guys, or they overload the right, they overload the left, they spin as they spin into this quarters or the palms we used to call it. Or is it more three by one? They're gonna spin to single high. Like where are my answers, right? How am I getting this thing protected? Down and distance, right? Like what do we need to do to combat this? So it was, man, it took so much mental energy. And we had to have such a precise plan for all of it. So yeah, bottom line is if you don't have a plan, he will make you look stupid. - Hmm, it's amazing. I mean, Drew Brees, certainly one of the better quarterbacks of his era, and put in a ton of attention to detail. And just, I mean, the stress that he certainly felt there going up against him. I mean, it's exciting for a Cowboys fan to have him as your defensive coordinator. And that was on John Gruden's YouTube channel. We had some people like, "Is that John Gruden?" - Yeah. - Sure was, Jon. Good old John Druden there, chatting football. - Yeah, you know, it's incredible to listen to the folks that have played under Zim or have gone against him. You know, I would have made a much more concerted effort to bring this guy in a long time ago. Like what were we doing in the Garrett years when he became available? - Yeah, I mean, certainly one of the best defensive minds over the last couple of decades here in the National Football League. Let's slide into the top 10, top 10 most disgusting foods around the world. As I just consumed some pickles, big feet, which some do consider a delicacy and think is delicious. - I believe it's the durian fruit that R. Deb three Roy White ate a number of years ago. I was actually upstairs on 12 in the old studio when he ate the World Cup. I think this is World Cup. - Oh yeah, yeah. - That's what we ate eats the world. - And there were some nasty things. Every damn day he was eating, like he'd failed a bet payoff. It's disgusting. - Yeah. - The most horrible, you know, choices from around the world. Whoever was playing that day, Roy had to eat the most disgusting thing from one of those countries. - Putting himself at risk. - Oh, and that also was the World Cup two when he got hit with the baguette. That's where we get the give it a whack for the ladies. - Yep. - Now the durian fruit looks pretty interesting. There's spikes all over it or whatever. - Oh my gosh, can I crack that thing open? And it smells like a funky meat. It does not smell fruitish. - Was that the worst thing you've ever eaten? Are you willing to go on record now with the pig feet right there? Is that the worst thing? - I'd still go with the tripe that I had in South Africa. - Oh, you've eaten tripe before? - Yeah, I didn't really realize what it was, but I was just, you know, sampling. - That's awful. - I think it's probably like liver, you know, eating beef liver. - Yeah. - It's probably the most disgusting thing. - Liver's got a very unique flavor to it. - And then I hate black olives. - Oh, what are you doing, bro? - I just, I'm sorry. - I know. - I'd send for no black olives. - I know it's like, how do you have a muffalata without the, I don't know, I don't have it. - I've got the muff. - No muff. - I think a muff. - That's a lot of, just a lot of it. - If it hold the muff, please. - There's a lot of black olives on every one of those muffal olives. - I love it. - Awful. - You know, I don't think I've ever eaten a black olive 'cause I just assume that I would hate it, you know? But for me, it's mushrooms. That's the one thing like I can't eat, period. - Texture? - Yeah, I think it's a combination of the texture and the flavor. - Wow, okay, we got a lot of good techs, like rotten duck egg being in here. - Why would you eat a rotten duck egg? - It's a delicacy for some. Liver is definitely being texted in, Rocky Mountain Oysters, of course. We got a bunch of techs for this balloon egg. I don't know if I'm saying that right, but it's a duck egg with the embryo inside. I believe that's actually-- - Oh yeah, like that half. - All this lists have developed bird. - That's crazy. - It looks absolutely disgusting. - Yeah. - And yeah, like I know tribes in Manuto and I've had Manuto, but this, I don't know, this was definitely a different type of cooked variety that I had there and it was pretty darn awful. - Lucius, worst most disgusting thing. - Yeah, went over somebody's house and they served fish and the fish still had his face and his eyes and everything. So you got to look back at the deal. - Yeah. - I mean, I can't eat this. - I love that. - I'm just damn hit off. - I go for it with a fry to upper. - No, it looked kind of grill. So it looked like a fish, bro. It's a fish on a plate with some veggies. - Yeah. - Oh, okay. - Yeah. - And they had those little dehydrated fish too. It looked like bait. - Sardines? - Oh, no. - I don't know what they were, but I didn't need them. - Yeah. - Those dehydrated fish look like bait. And I was like, wow, what? - Sardines or something is just crazy. Somebody's talking. - Sardines. - Yeah. - Really? - Yeah. - Hoghead cheese got texted in. - Hoghead cheese. - Not bad. - I don't even know. I've never even heard of that. - I don't like that mistake. - It's like a sausage. Limburger cheese smells like vomit. Tastes like vomit. - This is it? - I can see that. - Oh my gosh. Hoghead cheese looks that looks like the most disgusting thing in the world. - All right. - Is it a hog or is it cheese? - What? - Is it a hog or is it cheese? - Head cheese or bran, cold cut, terrain or meat jelly that originated in Europe. - Yeah. - Oh, wow. - It looks horrifying. - It looks, it looks, it truly looks like vomit. - That's awful. - Yeah. - I remember the words head cheese from like elementary school cafeteria. 'Cause our bus would go out and pick some kids up from the country before it swung back into the area where the school was. And some of these guys would bring the head cheese and the beef tongue. - Oh. - Yeah. - Wow. - Yeah, Twolo Andy is a big fan of this balloon. He said it's delicious. He's sitting down three or four in one sitting. I think pictures pretty messed up. The loot egg. - Yeah. - I think anything that's kind of jellied, you know, when you start eating anything like you say-- - Like a filter fish. - Yeah, like, yeah, exactly eel, like congealed. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Anything that's kind of like at that, kind of that rubbery, jelly kind of clear look, not like jelly like you would put on bread, but anything jellied always makes me feel kind of eel. - So this is actually meat parts that come from the head of the hog congealed together. - Yeah. - That's crazy. - Dude, this ballot egg is crazy. - It's off-putting. - I am-- - Is that the thing that's made with blood? With animal blood? - I know. - We'll get to some of this stuff. - This cannot be real. People cannot be eating this. - Yeah. - We've got a bunch of techs in about it. - You're eating an uncooked baby bird. - Yeah, basically. It's pretty great. Okay. Honorable mentions we got over a whole sheep's head. - Yeah. - Uh-huh. - People eat brains. Like, you know, and then you got mad cow's disease. - Why are we eating brains? - Yeah. - What are we doing? - Yeah, mad cow's disease like stopped all that. - I can't eat anything that's looking back at me. - It's looking back at me. I can't eat it. I'm gonna hit it off. - I don't know. I do something. - Yeah. - This is like-- - I don't want to see your death face. - Oh. - And I got to hit you. - Like a whole hog. - When they're roasted, it's pretty cool. It's a little thing in their mouth, but you got to decorate it. You know what I mean? You got to put something in his mouth. Good, and some veggies in his eyes as well. - You got to have the bells and whistles, yeah. - Number 10 is Lie Steeped Fish, which is Norwegian dish consisting of cod that has been stepped for many days in lye, which is a powerful chemical that is normally used as a food ingredient. - Wow. - Apparently the lye gives the cod a thrilling caustic taste. - Mm-hmm. - It sounds disgusting. Nine is fermented fish, which is a staple in Sweden. - Probably super healthy. - Eight is century eggs. Chinese dish preserving duck, chicken, or quail eggs in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, lime, and rice straw for several weeks, for several months. - Wow. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Clay and ash. Never want that a part of my ingredients list. - And this looks like a green, it looks just gross as hell. Seven is fermented shark. People are eating that. - I don't eat that. - I don't eat that. - I try a shark steak, you know? - It sounds kind of nice, put it on the green egg. - Well, this fermented shark, I mean, Anthony Bourdain. - Yeah. - He would eat everything he even was like, he was gagging. - Yeah, he was Icelandic. - Yeah. - Did he eat ash? - I don't think he, I don't think he had the century eggs. - Okay. - But he did have the fermented shark. Six is tuna eyeballs. This is what you're talking about, Lucius. It's like literally just the tuna eyeball. - Yeah, that's it. - With the eye and all. - That's it, and you have a Jones meal. - It's a messed up. - Ooh, shiba, ooh, shiba, ooh, shiba. (laughing) - Top five, number five, here you go, Brian Blood Soup. - Blood Soup. - Vietnamese dish. - Yeah. - It's raw duck and geese blood. - Blood pudding is another one. - And it's usually served right as the bird is slaughtered. - Yeah. - Or ensure maximum freshness. - Oh my lord. - Four is human placenta. - For what? - What? - Yeah. - You capsule that thing. - Yeah. - Very nutrient dense. - Yeah. - Very bioavailable. - Very often. - Somebody's really eating it with a knife and a fork and seasoning it like liver. - Some people, yeah, they'll freeze it. - Did you see the placenta? Oh wait, yeah, never mind, I know. - No, I didn't get to see the placenta. It was a FaceTiming in the airport. - It's like what you imagine like venom shoots out from his wrist or like his mouth or whatever. Just like a black gunky thing. - Okay, the balloon ends up coming in at number three, the fertilized duck egg. - It's a baby egg. - I don't know, baby bird. - You didn't even read the description. - You didn't even read the description. - She was so sad. Two is baby mice wine. This is a traditional Chinese and Korean wine. It's considered a health tonic. You can see the baby mice at the bottom of the line. - It always has to be the babies. - So you take mice and you put it in a bottle of wine and it'll sit there? - And they make wine and, yeah, it looks absolutely bizarre. But number one, most disgusting food in the world is maggot filled cheese. - That's it, France. - No, yeah, no. It's a type of cheese that has to be left to the sun. - Actually Italy, I think. - Until it becomes rotten and full of maggots. - And then you consume and you eat it. - My buddy, he brought a bottle of booze back from the Philippines and had baby cobras in it. - That's fine. - Yeah. - What the hell? - Baby cobra booze. - Yeah, this is Italian. - Oh, here we go. - That maggot filled me like, to be the first guy to make it, you had to convince other people to eat it. No, I promise you, it's fantastic, bro. - The top of the sheep's cheese. - That must have been after like a three year famine. - Here we go. - Don't try it, dude, 300 year. - The top of the sheep's cheese block was removed like a lid so that flies could lay their eggs inside. The lava of the cheese flies would burrow around and digest the fat. This process would be so advanced that the cheese would develop a soft liquid texture close to complete breaking apart. It remains uncertain if the pungent smell was what would cause people to weep or it was fear of the live maggots jumping off into the eater's tongue. - Oh, bro. - You gotta be kidding me. - Live maggots? - Oh, dude. - For what? - That must have started as a survival, right? Like you couldn't store the cheese properly so it happened. And you're like, "Well, could we still eat it?" This isn't about 100. - That's crazy. - I guess it can grow up and you're just eating this stuff and your culture and it's not a big deal. - You're starving, you're starving. There's something going on. - Oh, and 100%, if you're starving, you're gonna eat anything. All of this sounds disgusting right now. If you're starving, I'm eating that egg. - I'm talking about, for them to come up with this, they had to be starving. - Oh, oh, fair. Yeah, yeah, these are very interesting. - Yeah, very much so. - Leaving the cheese out here to just go ahead and ferment some maggots to build. - No, that's still good. - Yeah, it's good. - Oh, no, go ahead, man, you're good, you're good. - I mean, there is a coffee for Monkey Poop as well. That was honorable mention, 214. - Monkey Poop Coffee? - Yeah, there's some Monkey Poop coffee. - What are we doing? - Cowboys, what is Mike Zembert doing to change the defense full report on that? Football's finest coming up at five o'clock and before too long and under an hour now, Brian's bet pay off in an addition of what you're drinking and what you're thinking here. It's the GBAC Nation on 1053 The Fan. - Go see him today and visit classicchevalet.com. This is Texas. This is Classic Chevrolet. Together let's drive relaxing and enjoy the difference based on new Chevrolet registrations, 2023. - Thank you, Lucius. GBAC Nation 1053 The Fan. We are coming up on what you're drinking, what you're thinking inside the Expressway at 520. And at the same time, that starts. Brian Broadus's bet payoff of the little nitro gummy bear will become initiated. Thanks for making us part of your day. Jacob DeGrom on the hill tonight. First pitch, 910 here on your home of the Rangers as he makes his debut after 14 months off following Tommy John surgery. He started just six games last year. He was outstanding, but then the injury happened. Rangers win the World Series without him. And now he's back on a significantly different team in a team in which Kumar Rocker was amazing last night and his a big league debut. So a lot of great things going on. And speaking of great sports things going on, this Mike Zimmer story is hot. To what extent is he changing the Cowboys defense? And what does it mean for their chances of realizing some goals? Morning news caught up with Demarcus Ware here who played his first two seasons under Zim when he was drafted in 2005. And then the following year in 2006. And he's focusing just on Micah Parsons guys who had a great quote a couple of days ago saying he's excited because Zim gave him the keys to the defense. And Ware kind of speaking in the same vein here, he says, Mike had needed someone to come in to move him around a little bit to help him be a lot more disruptive. I got to see him play on the defensive line, a little bit of linebacker. That's where Micah needs to be. The offenses do not need to be able to point Micah out and say he's always on the left side. So I wanted to ask you Brian, you know, what Micah means when he talks about having the keys to the defense and what we're going to notice defensively watching the games from that perspective. Yeah, I think that Micah, you know, you could say the keys to the defense, maybe look at it a couple of different ways. I mean, maybe you need to ask Micah about this one once I heard it, but keys to the defense could be a couple of different things. Micah could understand what Zimmer's trying to do, keys being like, okay, what do I have to do in order to have some success in this defense? Or you could think of keys in the defense of that he's allowing Micah to have the freedom and the latitude to do things that he needs to do to feel like that he can make plays. That was the context of the answer more. Yeah, I was just kind of, you know, I was thinking, well, what way would it take about? I do believe it is more about that, more about that him allowing Micah to do what he needs to do. If Micah feels like that he could win a certain matchup or he can work with somebody to win a matchup as a combination, a twist, you know, we saw him and Tank playing together on the same side. Maybe it's one of those things where they're kind of like thinking, okay, if we work together, they're going to have to single block both of us. They can't double us here. So is that calls that he's making like play in play out or does he go to the sideline and request some? I think that Zim and those guys do a really good job. Zim being down on the field, they probably sit there on the sidelines and think, okay, this is what they're giving us. This is how they're trying to block us. This next series, let's go with this. And Micah's like, yeah, or that or he could come off, I remember many a time sitting on the sidelines or standing on the sidelines in Green Bay and stuff and Wayne Simmons and one of our linebackers would come off of Fritz Schurmer and go, Fritz, you can't call that because this is what they're doing to us. And then Fritz would say, okay, let's think about this. You're going to take it through this gap. And then, sure enough, they would do it the next series and it would come back and it would work. That was the adjustment that the players on the field could tell you, I mean, yeah, they have the pads and all that stuff now to be able to run it back and kind of see, but players on the field, Micah knows what they're trying to do to him. And he can convey that to Mike and the coaches and then they can adjust as they need to go. - Where on the overall defensive changes they, he says they blitzed a lot. I know that from a cornerback standpoint, a linebacker standpoint, a lot more movement on the D line and bringing guys off the edge. I know that playing with Zimmer, how his defense is, it was a lot more aggressive. It wasn't about, okay, you sit here, you play the B gap, hopefully things work. I need these athletic guys moving around to create havoc in the backfield. What do you think, Wolchuck? Is Zimmer going to significantly disrupt what has become cowboy cynicism as far as what they're capable of? That's, that's really what we're hoping to see at. The offense is good enough to win a Super Bowl, even without a great running game. I mean, the amount of points they're scoring. And I think you look at, you know, what Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes had and so many of these championships that we've seen in the last two decades is actually an elite defense that allows us to play, you know, without having to score 30 points in order to win playoff games. - I think absolutely this is, this has the makings of something that could be very special. Now you're going to get tested on Sunday. I think they're going to answer that test, but everything you're hearing and what Brian just said about Micah is super exciting. And what I also love is, and I think that this is the difference that is going to play out when it comes to playing these motion offenses. Dan Quinn style was more of like, all right, we're going to sit back and let's let, we're going to play with the offense does. We're a Zimmer to where's point attack, right? I'm going to dictate, I don't care what you're doing. I don't care where you're lining up. I don't care where you're motioning. We've got our plan. We are going to dictate our game to you. We're not sitting back and playing to whatever it is you're doing and trying to answer to that. Mike Zimmer is going to set the tone with his defense and they've got players that can do that. So to me, what they're doing up front, I loved what we saw a week ago. You definitely exploited a bad offensive line. You might be able to do it again this week, depending on how banged up this Saints offensive line is again. Saints Sunday at noon, then Ravens, next week at AT&T at 325. Didn't get the Giants and the Steelers, but then it's Lions Niners. By the time we get to Halloween, that Niners game is October 27th. We'll have finality on this, you know? And I don't know what the chances are. What are the chances that this defense is going to live up to the hype or the hopes, you know, to be good enough to take you to an NFC championship game and hopefully beyond. The personnel is there. You have the right coach. Why not chief? Why not? - Yeah, I know. I'm totally with you. I think the defense, I mean, there were times, even when Dan Quinn, who has struggled versus the Shannon offenses, there were times where it wasn't your defense that really let you down in some of these playoff games, it was your offense. I think that's still where the questions remain. Will they rise to the occasion? I have much more faith in this defense, even though it's a one game sample in this new era. I got much more confidence in the D than I do the offense. All righty, that's three down, two to go here in the nation. 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