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3rd hour of the G-Bag Nation: Texas Rangers OF Travis Jankowski joins the Nation; Woolly Bully's Top 10; NFL Insider Mark Schlereth joins the Nation to talk Cowboys Football, NFL Week 1
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How the heck are you? I'm doing good. How you guys doing? Oh, we're doing wonderful. You know, just soaking up the remaining games of this season and the memories of game five of the World Series last year. Of course, you were in right field and had the two RBI game and in game four participating in game seven of the ALCS. What do you first think of when your mind goes back to last fall? Got just how much fun it was, you know, the the amount of, you know, high level intent situations that we kind of put ourselves in that we managed to get out of. You know, really just the memories you make with the guys, you know, popping champagne in the clubhouse, going to Houston and doing what we did in Houston and then, you know, going being able to, you know, have a huge game one back home in front of, in front of the home fans in Texas and then close things out here in Arizona. It was, there's a ton of memories. It's so hard to pick just one. Are the vibes still in the air as you play in Arizona for the first time since that World Series? Yeah, I think it definitely, definitely brings back some memories, you know, being in the clubhouse, the hotel, realize, you know, last time we were here, we did something special. That being said, you know, I don't think we're too too infatuated with it at this moment. You know, we got 18 games left and, you know, we got a lot of ground to make up and one of those things that we got to go out and we got to play every game like it could be our last and their their must-wing games each and every one of them. So as much as last year was awesome, we're really focused on these last 18 games and trying to make up some ground. Yeah, it has been fun, Janko. I mean, Rangers Twitter hasn't circulated that final out with Sporzi all over today, but you're right. I mean, you guys have been red hot playing some really good baseball. Has there been a little bit of carefree play going on when things were kind of not so good, all of a sudden you're falling down on the standings? It's like, you know, let's just go out and try and see how we can finish this thing off. Yeah, I think you can attribute it to that. You can attribute it to some other things too. You know, offense is clicking. Pitching is doing really well. Pitching has been well all year. It's kind of been the offense that has struggled a little bit. But, you know, the last, you know, five or so games has reminded me of the 2023 offense we had last year, you know, scoring runs early and often lugging again. So if there's any time to make a push, man, I'm glad that we're getting hot at this time. I think you guys just had to get Corey Seager out of the lineup. You know what I'm saying? That's a coincidence. I got to say, you know, I'd go out on the limit. They were better with him in the lineup. Okay. Travis J. Kowski here. Okay. It's great to see you out there though. How about that catch a couple of weeks ago? How do you how do you do that, man? What's the what's the key to a perfect Rob job there? You know, for me, that's all just anticipation. You know, those are the plays that, you know, as a kid, I dreamed of making, you know, and I didn't didn't have a fence in my backyard. So I'd be catching balls over the couch or over the railing of the steps going up to the to the second story of our home. But, you know, that's just a lot of timing, you know, it's everything has to line up right. If that balls, you know, three feet shorter, it's a can of corn. If that balls a foot further, it's a home run and a walk off, you know, everything lined up perfect. Time to jump pretty well. And, you know, for me, that's just one of those things that you can't let that play go to go to waste. You got to make that play because that's a once in a lifetime play. And you don't know if that's going to come again. So I, unfortunately, I have dropped a few once in a lifetime play. So to be able to hold on to that one felt really good. Jacob, is that when you're picking up the ball off the bat that you could tell that you have a chance by looking at where it's coming off the crowd? How do you, how do you, what's the angle that you think? Okay, I got a shot at this one. So that probably struck me about three or four steps in off the bat. I knew that that ball was probably going over the fence. It was just a matter of how far you take three or four steps. You got your eyes on the ball. You're kind of checking the wall to see how close you're getting. And then you kind of see, oh man, this is, this is really coming into play here. This is, this is one of those ones where I'm going to have to make a pretty good effort and give it everything I got if I'm going to try and make this catch. So as you approach the wall, you kind of get your timing. You chop your feet a little bit, try and dig into the wall if you can use anything you can to pull yourself up over that thing. And then just reach. And boy, I'll tell you what, feeling that ball hit the leather. That's, that's a heck of a feeling. The freeze frame of you climbing that wall, that's got to be on a mantle somewhere, portrait style in the, in the Janko household, Travis. That might make it to the man cave, just maybe. Yeah, it's got to make it to the man cave. Now we know you as Janko, we know you as El Blondie, but I also see that you have a nickname and maybe, maybe MLB.com is ball sack in me here, but they have a nickname for Travis Jankowski being Fred. Yes. Could you please explain that one? Yeah, because the Twitter handle is also like at Freddy J. Yes. All right. So it's going to take a minute, but so when I was younger, I'm the youngest of three older brother and sister, and I used to love Mr. Rogers neighborhood. Like that was my favorite show. Oh, there we go. And his first name is Fred, right? So my older brother and sister would come home from school and I would be, you know, on the couch watching Mr. Rogers neighborhood and they could not stand it. You know, it was too elementary for him. It was too boring for him. So they started calling me Fred and I couldn't stand it. You know, they started calling me Fred in hopes that I would stop watching it. So it's picked on me, teased me. I started, you know, crying and, you know, my parents eventually had enough of it and they're like, guys, like, stop calling him that he doesn't like it. Like, he's, you know, obviously upset about it. And, you know, them being smart, you know, I guess they were probably second grade and fourth grade. They said, okay, well, if we can't do it, we'll get our friends to do it. So their friends start calling me Fred, you know, teachers start calling me Fred, coaches start calling me Fred. You know, next thing I know, I'm like, boy, I better embrace this because it's not going to be a good look for, you know, a 21 year old to be crying over a nickname. Yeah, you got to lean into that. That's incredible. Do we have in the wardrobe? Do we have button up sweaters? Maybe my name? Yeah, do we have that look where you can, can you throw it down like at a Halloween party where you got the sweaters and the tie and the the boat shoes and stuff? So I could probably get the boat shoes pretty easily. I've been looking for some sweaters with some patches on the elbows. Yes. A little tribute to them. But it's almost like they went out of fashion or something. They're kind of hard to put a train that goes through the man cave for you with that mural. Yeah. Exactly. Now did, did you see the movie? I have not. No, I watched a documentary on it. Gosh, I feel like the movie in the documentary came out a few years ago. Watch the documentary. I have not seen the movie, but I've heard great things. Yeah, it's a plus, man. I enjoyed that show growing up as well. And I thought I thought the movie was just outstanding. You know, it's more of a grown up movie. I think it's more for us, Janko, than it is our kids. Really? Yeah. Might might rekindle a little Fred Rogers in me then. Let's go Freddy. Okay. How about the timing though of making that catch and then designated for assignment shortly thereafter? Was that like the most awkward thing ever? How'd that whole thing go down? You know what? I've been around this game long enough to know that one baseball doesn't really care what you do, right? It's one of those things that you can be, you know, best player in the world. The next day, you know, something happens. You get BFA, you get traded. All that stuff happens. You get hurt, you know. So I've been around long enough to know that you take every game, you know, with a grain of salt, you're good in your bed. You take with a grain of salt, knowing that stuff can happen in this game. So, you know, credit to see why he was incredibly professional as he has been the entire tenure here the past two years. And he called me in and said, hey, you know, I wanted to do you the professional courtesy of, you know, letting you know before it comes down the media that we're going to put you on waivers. And you know, if there's a contender out there who wants a guy like you on their team, we want you to play in the postseason and, you know, make a run with the team. He said, if not, we'd be glad to have you back. So to me, you know, that's not so much, you know, you can take it as, wow, that's really poor timing. That really sucks. But, you know, maybe I'm naive. To me, it was he was doing me a favor, right? Yeah, I played this game to win every single night. I want to win a World Series for, you know, obviously, the Texas Rangers show them on now. But if another team needs me for that, for that role in the postseason, I would have been happy to do that too. You know, at the end of the day, winning is why I played this game. And I want to go and help the team win. Well, you certainly have done that. I mean, anytime your number is called, it seems like you're coming up with a big time hit or a big time catch. And you're a fan favorite. I know last year, you know, the contract situation went right up towards the end of really the off season. And then you show up at fan fest. How important would it be for you to maybe just stay as a ranger, finish out your career here. If God willing, that's a possibility. So how should I was on a lifelong contract for a pretty good price, you know, it's to me, you know, everything about Texas is right. Growing up in Pennsylvania is a little more country, you know, I'm not a big city boy. So, you know, nothing against playing in Philly or New York or San Diego. But to me, you know, and for my family, my wife, my kids, we just feel at home in Texas, you know, Arlington isn't a huge city. If we want to go and see a big city, we go to Dallas or Fort Worth. So we have, you know, a nice rental property here, pulling the backyard, a little bit of land. It just, it really feels like home, you know. And if you would have asked me, shoot, eight years ago, I probably would have said, I don't know if Texas is right for me, but where I'm at in my life right now with, like I said, wife or kids, it's, it's too perfect, you know. So, you know, it's, it's no secret. I would love to stay here forever. But like I said earlier, I understand that this game and the business side of it has, it's, you know, plans of its own. And you take it with Stride, you know, you take it and you make the most of it. Travis, Jan Kousie, here with you on the Rangers player show. Any special plans tonight? Did you guys have a celebration spot or a haunt last year that you might revisit this evening? No, I don't think so. The locker room doesn't smell like champagne anymore. So I guess we get a good job cleaning that out. But I do miss the smell of it. Maybe, maybe if there's a leftover bottle and if we went tonight, maybe we'll pop one open for a good time's sake. And we can all have like, I don't know, it half of a sip of it. As glorious as it was to get to play in the World Series after, you know, the injury and all that. And you know, the game for performance that you had, you know, you had built a lead in the series and you're going there up. And then before too long, we're in game five. And like, I don't know, the drama kind of got sucked out of it, at least from a fan's perspective as you're watching. And it was like, Oh my goodness, they're going to win the World Series. It wasn't a shock like the Houston series was. What was it like to be on that field in in game seven down there as, you know, you're winning after the dismay of how everybody felt coming out of game five. Yeah, it's, uh, I'll be honest with you, there was some stressful situations there, you know, Evo, Evo didn't make it completely easy on himself, you know, but he found a way to get out of it. So I just remember being in right field and, you know, I'll be honest, I thought I was having a heart attack a few times, you know, like, I know how hard it is, you know, obviously playing for a few years before this, how hard it is to get to the postseason, let alone the World Series. And, you know, unlike the Super Bowl, it's seven game series, right? So you can't get too high after a win or a loss, you know. And I remember that so vividly after winning game one with, you know, adults's walk off, I was like, holy shoot, what a, you know, one of the best brother World Series games ever played. And guys went about it and they were excited, but it was like, okay, let's take care of business tomorrow, you know. So yeah, I just remember game five, being like, all right, let's, let's close this thing out. Let's, you know, put the nail in the coffin. Let's not do anything to take this back to Arlington, as much as we would have, you know, loved to win in front of our own fans there. But boy, once, once we got that last out, once boys and struck them out, I just remember being in right field, glove got launched into oblivion, somewhere high up in the dome. And I came running into celebrate with the guys. And it was complete just stressed on complete euphoria. And no number on hedgy's ass. Still waiting for those traps to come out too. Wild and unique is Wyatt Langford. And some of the things that he's been able to do, I know he wasn't part of the magic that happened last year, but as a young guy that you've been able to kind of watch and develop as a rookie season, what's it out to you about him? You know, what stood out to me, like one of the first things in spring, and this is kind of going to sound weird is that nothing stood out, right? Like you'd expect a guy who was in college six months ago to, you know, stand out and not such a great way, right? Kind of do some stuff, you know, let, you know, anxiety or pressure situations, even in spring training, you know, he knew that he had a good chance to make the team. And it was there for the taking, but he never seemed to put pressure on himself. You know, he, after a couple of offers, he was never in the cage overworking or, you know, changing his swing. He knew that, you know, this is just part of the game. So instantly I was like, okay, there's something special about this guy. And then, you know, kind of helping him out along the way and being around him a good bit. It's been incredible to see just the mental side of the game that he has. It's something that I probably didn't pick up until shoot. I was probably 28 or 29, you know, just the mental fortitude, the just mental toughness that he has, knowing that it's not going to be, you know, butterflies and rainbows in the big leagues. You're going to take your legs and he's handled it perfectly. You know, you know, I know why, like you said, wasn't there to, you know, celebrate on the field with us and enjoy that moment. But, you know, I foresee Wyatt having an opportunity here in the future, just the way he handles himself every single day. And as you guys know, and all the fans now, it's talent speaks for itself. You know, you guys see it all, you know, every single night. But what you guys don't see is the type of person he is in the clubhouse and the work ethic he has. And, you know, I'll tell you that firsthand, it's it's above and beyond what it should be for a 22 year old and should probably, you know, most 30 year olds in this game. New youngster coming in Thursday. I believe he is 24 years old. But I don't know if you got the memo. It's pronounced Kumar, not Kumar, like the movie, just in case you were wondering. Thank you for a series in a row. And Travis, we've had you on twice this year. You're an absolute stud when it comes to interviewing guys. And we hope you are a lifetime ranger, buddy. Thank you so much for joining us here on the fan. Oh, well, thank you guys. You guys have a good day. Cheers. There he goes. Travis Giankowski brought you by Globe life. Everyone has beneficiaries. Not everyone has life insurance, globe life. Who's your beneficiary and golden chick, Brian? Yeah. And for being on again, we're going to give him some more wings, $100 gift certificate to pluckers. They got eight of those in the DFW location. So thank you to Travis and thank you to the Rangers for being on with us today. Yes, sir. Okay. We're coming back with Wolchuck's top 10 at 420 buddy. What do you have in store for us? Yeah, I had some tollos reach out of some top 10 ideas, eight, seven, seven, eight, eight, eight, one, one, five three. If you've got any that you want to throw my way, feel free. This one's from at hand zero to 30. What's the best superpower top 10 superpowers? If you can have one, what would it be that's next? Doors take us to summers away or winter adventures and afternoon getaways. Your dedicated fidelity advisor can help you open those doors by working with you on a comprehensive plan to help you reach your wealth's full potential because doors were meant to be opened. Visit fidelity.com/wealth. Investment minimum supply, fidelity brokerage services, LLC member NYSE SIPC nation. Yeah, buddy. Welcome back. It's time for the top 10 at 420 with Wolchuck. 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Forty nineers get the win over the Jets with the final score of 32 to 19. That was indeed score agami. First time in NFL history. It was the one thousand and eighty fifth unique final score in the history of the sport 32 to 19 kind of a surprise figure. Maybe we'd get that one before but hope it's love some score agami anytime we can get it. Yeah. Yeah. And yesterday we were trying to figure out how can we predict this game. I mean there's no predicting a score. No predicting a score agami and shout out to Jordan Mason who is absolutely brilliant last night led all running backs in a week one in missed tackles forced dude with 13. Yeah. He's he was he was awesome and the the oh look on the TV right there. I'm doing the broadest thing but there's the maze. There's the Taylor Clark corn maze right there. Honestly guys the corn maze is freaking me out. I feel like I'm going to get lost in there. Yeah. I mean I have a I have a good time with those. They have the hay ones like the haystacks mazes as well and some of the local. Those are a little bit easier to find you'll find your way through I think. I had to go climbing through to get my kid out of there last year. So but the corn maze. Yeah. If you were doing like they do the like the haunted houses and they do corn maze like haunted house. They will do some of those. Yes. I do love haunted house. That's like a bet payoff situation for me. Oh you're not in the haunted house. Okay. We can put that on the we can put that on the list for you. It's always got with a chainsaw chasing people in the haunted house. Dude. That's where you really come on glue too. Big fan. You push your girl. Come on. Move. Go. Go. Do you like in that situation? Do you push people down running through that stuff? If they're not moving fast enough man. Yeah. I always felt like that I would. I'm I'm I don't want to be scared any haunted house. I'm never going to do that thing. I love them. But I would push people to get out of the way. Yeah. You got to move and I got to hand shove somebody. Especially the ones that panic. Yeah. You know, and it helped me move. Go go. Matt LaFlore is named Malik Willis is the Packers starting quarterback with Jordan Love out. There were some rumors they might go sign Ryan Tannehill not going to do that. They're going to go with Malik Willis. So I don't know how well this is going to go. They got Sean Clifford as the backup of Trey Lance looks like a good option for him. Maybe for about a third round pick. Yeah. You think anybody's going to give up any thank you. I'm just so disrespected. What a similar type of quarterback. Maybe that's a conditional seventh round pick. Maybe. Puke is going to miss four games. He's been placed on IR and the Rams are exactly is the knee problem. It's a PCL sprain in his knee. So he's going to go on injured reserve and then they've got all kinds of feels like they're always dealing with offensive line issues. Steve Avilla their center from TCU. He suffered an MCL sprain. He possibly could go on the IR as well. Joe Noteboom, Plano zone who signed a three year extension a couple of years ago. He's week to week with an ankle injury. The right guard Kevin Dotson. He's also day to day. So the Rams are really, really banged up much like they started the season last year and the outstanding rookie Roma Dunes. He's week to week. He suffered a sprained MCL as well for the Bears and it looks like Justin Fields in line to start again this week as of now for the Pittsburgh Steelers as they're going to monitor Russell Wilson. You know Russell Wilson would love to go this week for the Steelers. They're playing the Broncos. He probably wants a little revenge there, but right now it looks like it's going to be Justin Fields again. Maybe you just maybe he can go ahead and get himself a TD. All right. Let's slide into the top 10 best superpowers eight, seven, seven, eight, eight, one, one, five, three gentlemen. If you could have any superpower, what superpower would that be? I think the the teleportation is pretty incredible. Dude, number one for me. Yeah. How amazing would that be? Like boom, we're home. Boom. We're here. No more traffic at AT&T Stadium. Boom. I'm in Florida. No more dealing with airlines. Right. You know, so I mean, and just the the ability to be you could do a thousand different things out in one day. Robert and bank. Boom. I'm in a mountain absolute like that movie jumper underrated movie. Well, I guess that's where you'd want to be invisible, right? I would kind of think the invisible thing would be kind of cool. It would be. There's no question about it. Yeah. Um, but you wouldn't be able to, you wouldn't be able to control yourself on that. You got to throw something on you and then you're screwed. You become invisible and you'd put yourself in places that you really shouldn't be and then you maybe see and hear things that you didn't want to hear. Like the mind reading thing. Yeah. Yeah. If you want to read minds, but absolutely not. I know. Thank you. Yeah. People are thinking about me. You know, I've been doing some extensive research on this. I think it comes down to for me superhuman strength, which is just always the coolest on movies. Yeah. You know, the strongest dude who can do all kinds of crazy stuff, but then also invisibility and the ability to move time, you know. Yeah, it's time to get time mover. You're going to be a trillionaire. Yeah. You know, well, somebody every day, it's like, how many times do I want to go back and buy the stock that just pumped 40% right? I mean, it just keep doing that until that would be solved all the world's problems with money or at least my problems. You're going back and forth like the sports all in the back and back to the future. Yeah. And now I know exactly what to bet on. I know who's one of the Super Bowl every year. That would be pretty epic. We've gotten a few textures say. I just want to be rich like that, man. That's my super that isn't super powerful. He's a great martial artist. Yeah, he is. I mean, he's a bad ass. Where are you going, Lucius? The power to read and influence minds. That's me, bro. Mind you. Oh, yeah. I got you, bro. I'll make you do things for me. Now I got to choose one. Yeah. Pause. Can I have all of Superman's suite of powers? It's not it's not an individual superhero. This is because I feel like he kind of cracked the code on this because he's got he's super strong. Plus he can also fly. I feel like for this exercise, you got to kind of pick one. You could be a no. I'll tell you another one. The laser eyes. Yeah, about this one though. Batman, you could be a normal dude and like have the utility built. Like he's got everything in that belt. He does. I mean, that's always have a contingent support. Just like you could be a normal dude, but you have the belt. I guess that's where the wealth comes from. Like he's he's got the he's also super smart. He's the world's greatest detective. So he's got a lot of things going for him. Does Batman get to deal with Robin do a lot. Yeah, that was a choice. That was a wait. Is there another Joker coming out? I see an october? Yeah. Yeah, it's like a musical though. I know I'm a little bit new going on, bro. Lady Gaga's in it. So at least they got someone that can sing like you Jackman type of vibes. Yeah, this is gonna be interesting. They're putting like a lame is twist on a little bit. I mean, the first one was so good. I'm going to give them the benefit of it out here, but I am a little old. Rouge. We don't know what we're doing on Rouge. Grease. Move on, man. Bulletproof is an honorable mention. Super intelligence. We do have mind control. I'm telling you, bro. Mind control is it. I can just see Jerry just look at him in the eyes and he's like, I just want to hand you the keys to this helicopter. I don't know what it is about you. I just want to make you the owner of the damn Dallas Cowboys. You want to own the team? You don't get to get out here. I sure want to write you a check. I don't know. It's something about you, boy. You need a million dollars today. Here's a million dollars. Dad, what are you doing? Yeah. Super strength is on a mention. That's my inheritance, dad. They ain't calling me Jerry. Now, are you healing ability is the final honorable mention. Oh, wow. Pretty nice. Feeling ability. Number 10 is gravity manipulation, being able to manipulate gravity. Yeah, cool. Nine is invincibility. That's super nerdy. What the gravity control gravity? Yeah. Well, I mean, superpowers are kind of nine is invincibility loading. Somebody in car like, yes, I'm talking about gravity. It comes down to shoot. Yeah. Stupid. I got mine red. Honey, listen, hit sailor on the phone. Geez, I ain't awesome. Eight is shape shifting. Shape shift. You can make yourself basically into anything. Oh, yeah. Shape shifters. Yeah. Oh, so like they run our government. I'm the cat. Well, it's also like Raven in X-Men. Like she can basically shape, like, turn into anybody. Like you never know. It's actually, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's like the boys. Yes. Diabolical. Yes. Exactly. That is diabolical. Uh, we've got teleportation coming in here as well. Well, that's a low on your list, huh? Uh, it was number one for me. I know about saying that's low. Yeah. That should be a Mount Rushmore flight. Number five, being able to fly is better than being able to teleport. Scared. So you're teleporting into bank saves, you think? You could. Yeah. Absolutely. I'd probably just teleport to travel and just like avoid driving. So you're just having a normal life. You just don't have to fly. Yeah. That's whack. Yeah. I mean, I'm probably gonna end up getting caught in them. Do so winning, bro. Yeah. Robbing a bank. Listen, I know you don't want to rob, but the banks are FDIC insured. You know what they're going to get? I'm robbing all the damn banks. Sorry, guys. I can teleport. Damn, dogs. They've been robbing us blind with inflation for decades. You're 100% right. You know, we're about fair play. What are you guys doing over here? We're robbing banks, bro. Nonsense, encouraging people to rob banks. Yes. We're doing a legal thing. I've always said, if you have to steal, don't steal from a man steal from the man. The man for super speed. Oh, like flash? Yeah. That's pretty. Is that the only fast dude, flash? Is there any fast? Oh, there's multiple fast guys. The Incredibles. The Incredibles has a fast guy. Dash. Yeah. Dash. Oh, the Incredibles. Who are who is Dash? The kid in the Incredibles? Yeah, he's the little baby. His mom's a last girl. Yeah. And the Incredibles and a train in the boys. I was watching the Buccaneers and Rams play. Dude, I'm surprised you don't have a last girl in your algo, bro. Really? That's why he wants to be invisible. Yeah. She's stretchy. You can say that boy, she's stretchy. Three is invisibility. Yeah, there we go. Then stretchy, but I hear you're right. Two is telekinesis. Oh, she's just got a great build. Like they just they did a hell of a job. Super born. Wonder Woman was that way in the 80s. That little costume goes up during the Halloween. Yeah. Which one? Who? The Incredibles mom. Oh, yeah. You bout that. Like if you've been in that gym doing your right thing, you're going to put the Incredibles joint off. That's where you show off all that work. You go show out. Damn right. At least it's baby. 903 like jumpers exactly why I pause with the robbing of the bank. It's like that movie made me think what happened. Maybe he gets caught and it's just not a good not a good deal for him, but he couldn't teleport out. He tried to multiple different times. It caught him. It worked a few times with Joe. He gets caught. Number one, though, is time manipulation. So there you go. Exactly what you're talking about being able to go back and forth in time. Yeah, I do think I'll be able to harness it. There is beauty there. Absolutely. Top 10 superpowers. Thank you. Well, Chuck. Top 10 every afternoon. 420 here in the GBAG nation with your woolly bully, Mark Schlarath. We're talking NFL football with the NFL champion football analyst next year in the nation. Well, thank you very much, Lucius. It is the GBAG nation here on 105 through the fan. We're going to talk in review of week one. Look forward to week two here with Odyssey NFL insider Mark Schlarath, host of the stink and truth podcast insider calls brought to you by Hellman's real manneys. Mayo game day be delicious and a good afternoon. Mark. How the heck are you? I am doing great. How are you guys? Well, you know, in in DFW, when the Cowboys win, everything is better. And and now we're looking at New Orleans and six and a half point favorite. Will the Cowboys get to two and oh a Sunday afternoon against the Saints? Yeah, that's a great question. I did the same game last week. And now it's against Carolina Panthers to take that with for what it's worth and the Carolina Panthers. When you look at their roster construction, you have to understand that I think they I think they grabbed seven guys or seven or eight guys off the waiver wire. Yes. And I believe five or six of them were starting on Sunday. So, you know, other people's garbage is our gold. So, you know, I mean, you got to understand what their roster is actually constructed like right now. And that's a rebuilding process in Carolina. So, you know, that's just part that's, you know, part and parcel or part of the course, I guess, out there. But the the New Orleans Saints, there are several things that are always true or have been true. You know, going back to Sean Payton, they're going to dominate lines of scrimmage. They're going to be built tough from the inside out, both on the offensive line of scrimmage and the defensive line of scrimmage. And that's going to allow them to do some pretty special things. Coopiac came over there. They're running the heck out of the ball under him under that West Coast offense. The other thing is Derek Carr looked for him to have this resurgence this year because he's back in an offense that he ran for the Raiders, all those years with John Groot and something that he loves. And I think the Saints are a sneaky good team that nobody's really talking about. So this is going to be a big challenge for the Dallas Cowboys without question. I think even more so than what they did last week, obviously with with Cleveland because offensively, Cleveland and Deshawn Watson were just so awful. They're just so bad. So I think this is going to be a much better challenge for the Cowboys. Stink, I didn't know if you had a chance to go back and watch the cowboy game on film. I know a lot of you guys break that stuff down every week for yourself. And but I was just curious though, when you look at, you mentioned the Saints and their the trenches and stuff. How would their defensive line be? It may be having to deal with Dallas and the two rookies that they're that they're starting with right now. Yeah, you know, I mean, I haven't I went back and looked at the at the film of or peruse the film. I went back and looked at all a Dak Prescott, what he did because obviously, you know, Dak Prescott signed that contract right before the game and then went out there and I thought he played really good football. I thought the thing about Dak Prescott, you know, people don't. I think people always are critical. You know, they see, hey, he was only 19 to 32 or whatever it was. And you know, they'll look at that and say, well, he wasn't, you know, that stellar. I mean, he was his completion percentage was not that I think was 59% or whatever it is. And I tend to look at things that I think are more important to me. Like, you know what, he threw a couple balls away where he didn't put his team in harm's way in a game that they were controlling. So he didn't let Cleveland get back into it, even took a couple of sacks. I thought, you know, those are self sex. Those are one of those things where like, ah, you know what, let's fight another day. I'm not going to put us in harm's ways. You know, we're so much better. So some of those things, sometimes, you know, where people will look like, oh, he didn't have a great game because it'll look at statistics. And you know, I always say this, if you spent statistics in my eyes, either you didn't watch the game or you watched it and you don't know what you're looking at. I thought that was really good in that game. You know, and Cleveland is a Cleveland's outstanding defense. Don't get me wrong. They just couldn't do anything offensively. And when you play that style, when you don't play complimentary football, when your offense can't possess the ball and your quarterback throws 14 balls out of bounds. I mean, it was awful. It's hard for a defense to stand up. So this is going to be much more balanced attack and I think it'll be much bigger challenge for the offensive line of the Dallas Cowboys. You mentioned Dak and everybody and how scrutinized he is. You got to see Derek Carr. What are your thoughts on Derek Carr? Well, there's a couple of things. Derek Carr loves this offense. So, so that's really big. The other thing, and I'll tell you guys, just traveling around the league and doing games. And this is endemic of a lot of young coaches. You always hear, oh, we want to get into a premium play. And so what ends up happening is what there's a couple of things. When I say premium play, you're going to call a play or you're going to have multiple plays called and you're going to get to the play that you think is the best matchup. Maybe you're running towards the bubble. You know, if there's a there's an uncovered guard, that's we call that a bubble. So maybe you're running towards that bubble or maybe you're running away from the bubble. I mean, like whatever, maybe there's a safety rotation. So you're running away from the safety rotation or you're running to the safety rotation depending on, you know, what your your particular deal is, right? And a lot of young coaches want the perfect play called, which I think is absolute garbage. I just think it's so it is so, you know, let me tell this 80 year old owner that we're always going to have the perfect play on. So he'll hire me. And I think it's a bunch of garbage. And so one thing I know about Clint Kubiak and Rick Denison, Rick Denison was a coach when I played for the Broncos and had a ton of success in this league. One of the things they did for Derek Carr was they say, listen, we're not going to have you play on the high dive for 65 snaps. We're going to take you off the high dive and we're going to give you a bunch of call and run it or what we call sometimes tank plays where we just line up and we run it regardless because it's good against everything. And for quarterback, all of a sudden you have enough of those plays in there. And then instead of having to operate everything a line of scrimmage with shifts and motions and everything that you do, you just line up and you run it and you let the offensive line come off the ball, you let them be aggressive. And mentally, you don't have to do gymnastics for your quarterback. So ultimately for you, you're like, oh, I've got these 15, 16 plays off where all that I do is turn around and the ball off. And it really, it really takes some pressure off you because there's a bunch of times where you're going to have to really orchestrate the entirety of the offense. And Derek loves the offense and he loves the fact they're doing that for him. And, you know, against that Carolina team now, be it, there was probably four or five guys on the defense side of the ball. They got there in late August, right? They were starting. So, you know, it wasn't exactly the greatest competition. But boy, I tell you what, they were humming on the offense side of the ball. They really look good. And he was super sharp. Stink, I'm glad we're actually talking to you right now because I've been a big fan of yours for a long time. And I know that you will be somebody that can give me good advice in this area. We do survivor picks every Friday. I picked Cincinnati to beat New England. And I've got to do a bet payoff on this coming Friday. One of ours is the Peter pants. And it is you do that, you just go in the pants. And now I got to do the rest of the show like that. What kind of advice or guidance do you think I should go through with this? You have to be your pants. It's an option to show. It's an option. Or or what's the other option? There's tons on the tickle. One take a piece feet. Yeah. The ass hat where you wear a dirty diaper on your on your head for the course of the program. Yeah. It's just like it. Can you just you just pay the money or you've got to actually have a humiliation. It's about the humiliation, the suffering. Yeah. But you were I mean, you were painting your pants like regularly at work. He kind of made it seem. So it was all, you know, I was so sweaty. And there's some, you know, a little bit of urine mixture and that's what it wasn't. So it wasn't like it wasn't like it was uncomfortable. But if you're just sitting in your own urine, you're going to sit throughout the entirety of the show. That's that's not comfortable. I can guarantee you that. But the dirty diaper on your head is certainly not anything that anybody wants to do either. So, you know, if I had a cheat between those two, I would, you know, piss my pants without even thinking about it. It's Mark slerith. You're breaking it down for you. We do it. We have the blue injury tent on the sidelines. Couldn't we get some type of bathroom situation for these players going here? Oh, yeah, they have a bucket in there. Oh, just a little sideline bucket is all. Yeah, there's the sideline bucket they do. But, you know, it's that that would be that would require effort on my part like fun. I wasn't going to give effort. I was already miserable in you. So what's a little urine in your pants? And you would you would you would vomit before games as well. Correct. I have that, right? Yeah. Every game I ever played. Probably all the way back to maybe even high school. Always vomited. We had a trash can in the middle of so the offensive line when I played in Denver, we had a little trash can if we were in the corner. So we went down one side and then on the other side, we're right in the corner, the coaches offices were right there. We had a trash can right in the corner. And then, you know, it's like it's like once one guy starts chain reaction vomit. Yeah. So we had three or four guys that were real pukers, myself, Tommy, Nalim, at Lepsis. So as soon as the first guy started puking, then it was a line at the trash can. We'd all just be taking turns standing around group puke. Because once one guy goes, there's a wall, wall, wall, and then you've got to run to the trash can, and then it's just all over. You just haven't, you know, you have an eight, like I said, it's like a group puke. So yeah, we did that with, yeah, that would have an all well, every game. Did Shanahan wait for the pregame speech before you guys all started puking? Or did he, it was it after? How did, how did that all transfer? We would. So we would come back in from warmups before you got a little like, Hey, guys, we're going to go out there. We're going to do this in months, you know, so we would, the pregame puke was before when we're going out to warm up. Okay, there we go. Yeah. Yeah. So you're going out to warm up and you're just like, you know, you worked yourself up because there's nothing good that can have it for you in your offensive line. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I mean, think about it, you could absolutely dominate the defensive line. You guys can put, you know, 250 yards rushing up, not give up a sack and all that stuff. And ultimately, all you are is a tagline at the end of the game by some star running back. It's just, they got to think the big fells up front, man, what a job they did. You know, and that's it. Right. So you can dominate the game and you're just a big fella upfront. But you know, give up one holding call or give up one sack. Like, you know, I could kick your ass or 65 plays in a row. I'd give up one sack. You go to the pro bowl and I'm a piece of garbage. So like, that's, that's the paranoia playing the position I played. So yeah, every guy on the offensive line, for the most for every guy I ever played with. I don't know if it's, you know, if there's a different philosophical approach to the game now, but every guy I ever played with was completely motivated out of fear and paranoia. Like we were an erotic group, like incredibly rude. You Gary Zimmerman is all decade in two decades. And that dude had to drink a bottle on Nyquil to get two hours of sleep before game. And he'd go out with everybody's ass. Like, just absolutely neurotic. So, um, that's just kind of how this is kind of how that position tends to usually kind of operate. You're the man Mark. Thanks for the insights and the stories. And we look forward to next week. Sounds good guys. Be well. Cheers. There he goes. Mark Schlerith and Sutter calls are brought to you by Hellman's Real Manays. You can purchase Hellman's at your local Walmart Kroger or grocery store to add some extra deliciousness and creamy flavor to your game day dishes this football season. Okay. Coming up next in addition to the finest Eric what's in store for us. We got current and former NFL running backs making some headlines. And we have the good bad and the ugly from the football weekend next year in the nation.