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And it's now officially Cowboys Game Week. We are five days away, five days in an hour and a half from the 325 kickoff. Sunday's pregame gonna be at noon as they visit the Browns. And I was surprised to see Cleveland as a two and a half point favorite, guys. How you feeling about the game here to start the week? - I couldn't agree more, man. I am very disrespectful to the Browns offense. I got no love for Deshawn Watson. It's just the player that he is right now. Not a good football player. So I am feeling good about a Cowboy victory. I think it'll be super low scoring. I mean, the over-unders at like 40 points or something. But I have much more confidence in the Cowboys offense than I do the Browns. - I think this was a game we took the Cowboys to lose. - We did. - When we did our win loss. - We did. I'm with you on Deshawn Watson. He has not been good and he hasn't played at all since he got hurt last year. - November. So there definitely could be a little bit of a factor there where he just doesn't play well. And if you can stop the run at all. - But that's the fear, right? - And if you can just not completely turn the ball over a bunch of times offensively, you win this game. And you're not gonna feel great about it when you leave 'cause you won 17 to 13. - Yeah, it's like, gosh dangly win. But their defense is one that should be respected and feared. I mean, their defense is really, really good. They're front sevens outstanding. They've got two really good corners. And look, you're starting two rookies on the offensive line in Guyton and Beebe. And I think they're both gonna be really good players, but it is quite the task. Here's Miles Garrett and one of the best defensive lines in the NFL week one. So it very well could be first one to 20. If you can get there, you win the football game. - I'll tell you what, I was impressed. I was watching this morning. They run the ball with some creative ways. You know, it's not, you've figured that their offensive line just comes off and mashes you, you know, when they got wills and botonio and post sick and those guys, it is one of those things when you look at like, damn, how do they do it? You're just thinking, how are they so successful? But the way the scheme is, the ways, the pins, the pulls, the traps, the tight end traps, they create a lot of problems for you. And I went back and kind of watched some of the games where they didn't have Watson play. And I'm like, how do they move the ball? Without, you know, if the quarterback is not there, how are they gonna move the ball? And you know, they were times when, you know, they had to go to Joe Flacco to kind of get it done to get to the playoffs. - And he played well. - He did, but man, it is, it'll be fascinating to me to see the Cowboys, how do you stop a team that's gonna be creative running the football? - Does it matter that they don't have running game Moses anymore, is the online game? - I tell you, running game Moses, that's the first thing it came into my mind when I was thinking about watching this tape, I'm like, is with no running game Moses, are they gonna be able to do the things that they're doing right now? Because he is a difference maker. But if you look at all the matchups across the board and all that, they'll say that Cleveland's, you know, receivers, when you talk, talking about Cooper and Judy, you know, they've-- - And Jocoo had a heck of a season last year at Tann. - They did, four, four catches the ball well. I mean, they've, they've got some offensive guys. Now you guys are right about the quarterback situation, but man, that, that, Kevin Stafansky, it was, it was pretty interesting to see how he gets, he generates offense. - It's an underrated coach. - He's solid, yeah. - Yeah, I mean, Stafansky is a good coach. And yes, Nick Chubb, we're getting asked, Chubb's not gonna play. - No. - Chubb's still heard, he's coming back from that mass of knee injury, but Jerome Ford was very, very good in his absence for the last year. - Yeah, he was very good. And the, I can say, and just on the injury front, he's talking about, I heard that overshown is good to go for you this weekend. - Awesome, right on. - So we were talking about that hit point, I know Brad Cham and all of us were worried about that, you know, after the last preseason game, but it looks like everything is good to go on that front. - Great first test here for the Mike Zimmer defense, you know, and last year, really for the last decade, you know, creative run games have given the Cowboys defense big problems. So this is exciting, but, you know, I think that this is a Vegas line to punish the suckers who think the Cowboys are the team that got destroyed by Green Bay. There's just good value here. Maybe the Cowboys don't win, but I just don't think the public, the betting public, you know, really is given the Cowboys the credit they deserve for still being a damn good football team. And we're back at the regular season. We have the Cowboys beat average football teams quite consistently. We're two nights away from the Chiefs hosting the Ravens. The idea out there right now is the Chiefs are going to be even better and go for that elusive three-peat. That we're about to see, guys, a historic and elusive three-peat in the NFL. - I would love to see it because history's fun to see, but I'm betting against it. I am going with the Bengals in Joe Barrow this year. I think Barrow is that guy that is next in line to finally get the championship. This might be their best chance to do it 'cause I don't think T. Higgins is coming back next year. So I think that the Bengals dethrone the Chiefs. They're the one team that I think can do it. If they're able to stay healthy, that's a big if, but I wouldn't be opposed to seeing it. I mean, I think the Chiefs run's been a lot of fun and we all love Patrick Mahomes. - I'll be totally down to see it. And yeah, I do think it's very much so out there and on the table for them. I don't think anybody super, super scares you in the AFC. Certainly the Texans were good, but they have a very difficult schedule. You'll see about the health of Joe Barrow. I mean, the Chiefs for sure, far and away, have the least amount of questions. - Yeah, yeah, they do. And even when they have questions, they have ways of overcoming it. - Yeah, they have answers. - It'll be interesting to see if their defense can be as good as it was last year. And if their offense in the regular season can be significantly better than they were last year 'cause that was a train wreck. But I think their offense should be better. And if their defense is just a little worse, it should still be plenty good to get the job done. - Yeah, they'll have a couple of rookies starting. You know, Sumathea, the BYU office. - Oh, yes. - Office of tackle, we started left tackle for them. And then you got worthy as well. That might be an upgrade on the outside with worthy speed, but yeah, keep an eye on, again, a rookie, here's another team making a rookie left tackle start. You know, the Cowboys being one of the other ones as well. So, you know, Kansas City, they lost the opening day last year, right, to Detroit. - They did. - In Kansas City, that's first time we've seen that home team Thursday defending champ Super Bowl team lose, I believe. - And that was no, I don't think they had Chris Jones. And did Kelsey play? He was dealing with that ankle. I can't remember if Kelsey did give it a go on that day or not. - I think he did. - I think they did. - But Kansas City was not good in the regular season last year. - They weren't. - They just, they did just enough to scrape by and then they turned it on in the postseason, but they're much more explosive now offensively. - The Chiefs are a three-point favorite Thursday night. This is, you know, I love it. Friday night, you have the Eagles and Packers as well. Philadelphia is favored by three in this game, guys. I think that's another Vegas mistake. - Yes, I believe what we saw last year in January was Green Bay becoming more of a contender than Philadelphia. Agree or disagree? - I mean, they're saying if this game was in Philadelphia, what would they have? They'd have Eagles by seven, six. I mean, something, something, at least four or five. I mean, and that just doesn't feel completely right to me. So I'm with you and I love the way the NFL did this. You have a banger on Thursday night and Friday night. Sunday night, you got Detroit and the Rams. It's Matt Stafford back in Detroit once again. And then it's Aaron Rodgers in San Francisco on Monday night. Like the first four prime time games are like, - Wow. - NFL doing it right, man. Yeah, and the Saturday culture of ball slate is gonna be awesome. Like this entire weekend at football is incredible, but I'm with you. I'm very high on the Packers this year. I'm believing in Jordan Love. I think that's a very vulnerable game for Green Bay. - Yeah, let's see what happens with Philadelphia, though. Cam Jurgens now start at center. - Yeah. - That offensive line shelf. - That they're having to kind of shuffle some guys again. - That's that new Kellen Moore offense look and how's the new Dick Fangio defense? - Expect him playing the right guard too. So they're shuffled at a couple of different spots there. - Okay, the Niners have a deal with Trent Williams. I will have more details on that coming up in the NFL news the day at three o'clock, but no surprise there. College football weekend. We do have a college football super segment coming up at about 240, but LSU kind of the talk of the... - Brian Kelly with Brian Kelly complaining so much. Brian, they fall to USC 2720. Rip your heart out. - Yeah, a little bit. - Me and I, this is the fifth straight year that LSU has gone and we try and schedule these games where you get the test right off the jump and they have not been very successful last couple years, especially losing the Florida state. And now to USC, the defense played better. I think both teams defense has played pretty well. Both teams on defense last year were awful. And you had quarterbacks that the first and second picks of the draft where those two quarterbacks having her be replaced. I think both teams to be happy about their quarterback play, happy about their defense play, but the same story for LSU at the end. They just can't find a way to get off the field on the final drive. They had a chance with seven minutes to go in the game to gain a yard and to run more clock off the ball. And LSU is supposed to be one of the best offensive lines in the country. If you can't get a yard, that's hard to say that you're one of the best offensive lines. So yeah, disappointing for the Tigers from that aspect. - Sounds like you wouldn't mind a matchup with Idaho or Colorado State. - Well Colorado, I mean, excuse me, Idaho played Oregon very well at the start. But yeah, we saw a lot of blowouts. We saw a lot of blowouts. And yeah, I think, but the schedule favors out for LSU. I think they got a good draw out of it for the teams they have to play. The Alabama game will be a difficult one and the Ole Miss game will be difficult. But yeah, we're off and running with football. Michigan and Texas this weekend should be a lot of fun. - Dude, what did you do? What did you wager with Jared? - I just bet him breakfast. Just a breakfast, no singing or anything like that. I just went baby. - No humiliation, just here's 20 bucks or get you something to eat, grab a bite. - It's hard to get humility. I can't say the word. Humiliated. When your team knows it's going to probably do that for you anyway. You know, what is singing someone's fight song when you know that I usually go into these opening season games, always expecting the worst. And what have I been five different times? - You've been hated what you expected. - Why go into it knowing that I have to sing or wear Ben Franklin costume or something like that? Might as well just bet him breakfast and move on. - Take some French toast. Here's some biscuits and gravy. - That's cool. - Give me one of them sausage patties. - He'll load up. - Rangers are back in action tonight after watching Jack Lider struggle yesterday. It's clear he's got to make big progress. And maybe another season in the minors next year. But I mean, he's going to be 25 next year. And I loved Jared Sandler for defending Jack and saying, hey, this has been a great year. You struggled in double A last year and this year, you know, you had a good year in triple A. That's great, you know, but if it's not so amazing next year that it propels him into the big leagues where he pitches with confidence, it's going to be time for a little bullpen experiment. - I think, you know, I think that's hard to me. These are games that you put him in that situation where the Yankees walk a lot and they're very selective and they're all-- - They smash righties. - And they just seem to like, yeah, you do. They seem to just smash, you mentioned the righties, but, you know, they're going to get hits. It's one of the better lineups in baseball. I went into this one thinking that was going to be a tall task. I was thinking that he is not there. He's not going to have success in this particular game. I would, you know, if I was, if I was him, I'd throw him out there against the White Sox if you ever can bring that one back or somebody that, you know, somebody terrible, but it seems like that he-- - Well, that's what they've done for him. You know, I mean, they've given him some of those. This is the one where it's like, hello. Yeah, this is a big, big, big-- - Well, he, the last one I remember he pitched was Detroit. - Yeah, he's played the White Sox, the Tigers, the Guardians, and the A's. So, I mean, outside of the Guardians. - The Guardians, Yankees, I mean, I mean, he struck out, judge, I mean, these first-- - He started well. - He started well. The third time through the order, things got wonky on him. - Well, what, you know, you try to make a little bit of progress. - No, you're right, he needs to get better. I mean, 'cause, you know, you want him to be part of the rotation. And, you know, you feel like, I feel better now about Kumo Rocker than I do Jack Lighter. And the problem is, Jack Lighter's been pitching. I've seen him pitching in the major leagues, and now I don't feel as good about him pitching. So, with Kumo Rocker, it's one of those things like, yeah, if you don't pitch, I feel great about you. You know, maybe Kumo Rocker gets out there and he's a bag of ass, you know. So, who knows? - Well, four Rangers are in the baseball America, top on 100 list, newest, highest ranker is rocker at 30. - There you go. - Sebastian Wolcott is 55. Alejandro Rosario, a pitcher who destroyed a ball is on his way to Frisco soon, I believe. He's 86th, and then Emiliano Teodo, who is also a pitcher, right-handers. - We should have a confidence. - 97th. - Yeah, I took four years of Spanish. - There you go. - You know, I can, I can kind of read it. - Except for the burrito tosser. - Oh, yeah, you know those tacos. - Yeah, the tacos, tacos give us a little trouble, right? - One of the annoying Edmonton Oilers, the stars ran into Leon Dreyseidel, has signed a blockbuster eight-year extension for the Oilers, gives the star center the highest average annual contract value in the salary cap era. - 14 million? - Yeah, the 20, yeah, just 14 million here. It seems light, doesn't it? - Yeah. - Yeah, total of 112, he's entering the final season of an original eight-year contract signed in 2017 that carries an eight and a half million dollar cap hit. - Those hockey dudes, them and bull riders get no respect doing this, I don't think. - Yeah. - Hockey dudes, they just go out there and yeah, I played with three broken ribs, you know, don't worry about it, we're good, but here are getting them. Like Scotty Scheffler, this weekend won $25 million playing golf. - Yeah, he did. - Four days of golf. - What a year. - And he just doubled basically with a guy. He just got for a hockey season. - For a hockey season. - Or a hockey for one season. - For one season. - One season in hockey, yeah. - Yeah, the hockey guys got left behind. Once ESPN and the NHL parted ways before they came back together, it just, you know, had a hard time driving value and driving new advertisers that keeps the salary cap moving up. 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Donate today at CarsForKids.org. We're about seven and a half minutes from your G-bag of the day. Here's we'll check. - Thank you very much. Let's do a little bit of NFL, true or far just we were just two days away from the 2024 NFL season kicking off. We got CBS Sports putting out some bold predictions for each division. So I'm gonna ask my guys, do you agree, true or do you disagree? Fart, thank you very much to Robert Flores for bringing us this game. - All right, we've moved to the red zone as far as the running back conversation goes here on this Sports Center fantasy draft special, true or far false? Marshall Lynch matches last year's production. - All right, true or far false? We start in the AFC East. A division you know very well, Mr. Chiafalo. AFC East bold prediction, true or far? Eric, the Buffalo Bills and nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills. - They're gonna miss the playoffs this year. - Oh, missed the playoffs I think is an overstatement. I do think they're gonna be a little bit more down. There's been a lot of talent that has left that building in Milano at linebackers once again, injured and out. And I think that's huge for their defense. Sean McDermott still solid. Josh Allen still a top three quarterback or whatever. So no, they're still gonna be, they're still gonna be in the wildcard. They will be a playoff team, but they will not be hosting. Sorry Bill's mafia. Oh, we got Jared. - Yeah, he got Jared. - Oh, he wants to get spicy. - Let me get some spicy. - Yeah. - Oh, this is perfect. - Yeah. - Wait, so this is true or far true, Jared's here. (crowd cheering) I think Buffalo might be the sixth or seventh wildcard team as Jared Sandler joins us now to protect his guy, Jack Leiter, who I have been corrected, was good yesterday, giving up one run per inning pitch. Jared, good afternoon. How you doing? - No, no, I just, I was listening to the love you guys. And Dawson, I heard you the other day when you were very passive aggressive with Broadus. I know how you can be. I heard the drive by shot there. That's cool. I was just trying to help you via text, not sound like a total. - Okay, so you say you're trying to help me via text, Jared. This is not how you address somebody via text in the middle of a segment. Be honest. Did you watch the game? Suggesting that I was dishonest. That's where you got sideways with me, Jared, just so you know. - But did you watch the game? - No, I didn't. - Okay, so I saw his numbers. I saw his numbers. - Yeah, I understand that. - Okay. - But I was just trying to help you out because if you watch the game, then it would be a different approach. But if you didn't watch the game, I was just trying to explain, hey, man, he got out two runs through five innings. First one of the best lineups in baseball, pitching on four days rest for the first time in his career. They brought him out for the sixth. You can debate whether they should have or not. As they pulled him after five, then it would look a lot different. He left the game with three runs on the board. Chase Anderson came in, allowed two more. It's one of those games in which the box score does not really reflect how he pitched. In his previous outings, especially against the Rockies and against the A's, did he pitch well in Cleveland? No, he didn't. I'm not gonna sit here and defend him. Now I have said, and you addressed it in the first segment, that his jump from last year to this year and the minor leagues was a big step in the right direction. And I have said a number of times, if your expectation is for Jack Lider to be an ace, then you probably are on the wrong path. But yesterday was definitely a step in the right direction. He was efficient. He threw 16 pitches per inning, as opposed to the 22 pitches per inning over his first, was it five outings as a big leaguer? Yes, he gave up five runs and five innings. At the end of the day, do you want to give up five runs and five innings? No, but he also gave up two runs through his five completed innings. And had he not come back out for the six, and I think there was an argument to be made that he shouldn't have, then his afternoon or his evening looks totally different. All I was trying to explain was that the line and the reality didn't really match up. I wasn't trying to sit here and tell you to give Jack Lider a sigh young because of his performance yesterday. But if you watch the game, there were a number of things that were impressive that looked way better than what they looked or how they looked over his first start. That's all. Yeah, but none of that is bigger than the fact that it's a failed second overall draft pick. Like he might be salvaging this into somehow progressing to be a number three at his absolute peak right now, but it's a massive disappointment. And like taking baby steps, taking baby steps, do you feel like that's a fail? I don't care what he would say. He wouldn't answer that correctly, he wouldn't answer that honestly. Kevin, can I ask you a question? Well, what would, why is this failed? Is it failed because he hasn't come up yet and established himself? Well, it's failed. It's failed because he was a number two overall pick multiple years ago and he's struggling mightily every time he gets a sniff at the major leagues. He's gonna be 25 years old the first month of next baseball season. So he had a lot of a significant amount of time where it doesn't look like he's gonna be able to consistently get guys out to the point that we have, you even admitted he's not gonna be an ace. End of story. We agree on this chair. It was never gonna be when he was drafted, Gavin, he wasn't said to be an ace. We talked about this. I know, I don't know if you've listened or not, but I've told you this when he was drafted second overall, no one said Jack White or future ace. Now, you don't want to put a ceiling on a kid who's 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. Obviously, guys who were drafted in the 10th round aren't ever thought to be all-starred, but some become all-starred. But if you go back and read a lot of the prognostications, a lot of people said, hey, we think Jack Lider can be a really good middle of the rotation guy, maybe a number two. No one thought Jack Lider was gonna be Paul Schemes. The prognosis for Paul Schemes when he was drafted way different than Jack Lider, right? It just, it was a weird time 'cause of COVID in the pandemic, but he's 24 years old. He was a draft eligible sophomore. He lost one year because of COVID. I mean, Jesus, this guy, he's 24, he's not 34. If he becomes a regular in your rotation to where you can slot him in as a three spot, is he a Hall of Fame bound pitcher? No, but that's not a failure. I just, I think we're closing. It's like we're riding his final chapter way too soon here. I mean, is even one of the top Rangers prospects anymore as the number two overall pick? I guess that's my bad for having expectations too high on a guy. Oh, yeah, you're spinning this because you don't know how else to combat me other than by playing the, oh, I guess it's my bad. You're not listening to anything I'm saying, though. Okay, that's the second insult you've given me in the last 30 minutes. Screw you, Jared, goodbye. See ya. Bye. There it is. It's time now for the G bag of the day. Into the Pimp Cup, we go. Here's Lucius. That's the kind of lead-in I'm talking about right there. That's the kind of lead-in I need. What's the respect on G bag of the day? You get the lead-ins like that. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That smoke. Y'all should I miss you guys? That's that smoke right there. Well, I'll tell you what. If coming to talk to you like a man was a person, it'd be Jared Sandler. Yeah. He'll come tap you on the shoulder. Hey, so what that thing you said the other day? It was back in March, really, but I've been thinking about it all the time. Jared, come call you out, bro. Let me tap it on the small U-back. Oh, it's for you. What is that? Oh, that's you, Jared. All right, looks like King James. LeBron James is still our winner of G bag of the day. How many days? I'm thinking three at this point. We've lost a lot of days here, fam. But yeah, King James talked about his son, Bronny, joining him at work and we'll be able to call him Dad in the office. What's your working relationship? Is he going to call you Dad at practice in the locker room? No, we already laid that. No, we already laid down. We already laid that down. You cannot call me Dad in the workplace. Once we leave, out of the private facility and the gates close, I could be Dad again in the car. If we ride together at home, I could be Dad. No, he got to call me like two, three, or a pry. Okay. Or, you know, go if you want to. It's up to him, I mean, it's up to him. But it's easy for me, it's easy for me, because I've been calling him Bronny for so long. It's not like I've been calling his son, his son. So it's easy for me, it's going to be the adjustment for him. But we cannot be running down the court. And he'd be like, Dad, I'm screaming pops. I'm a slap boy. He's never playing with this one before. You know what I mean? This is new to him. This is new to him. I might get a few turnovers before I realize, you know, whatever. Hey, by any means necessary. Do you got to do what you got to do? Yeah. Yeah. So if you turn it over by accident, all right, let's see what we have. So we got for you boys. Keep it in a basketball. Let's go to New York, Nick's guard, Deuce McBride, who's on Pat Maxwell. Oh, he helps some kid get some free college tuition situations. Check this out. The guy here at Logan, I was here at 6 AM wearing a white hat right there. Yeah. Logan. The guy here at Logan, I was here at 6 AM wearing a white hat right there. Yeah. He's a junior. He's on a couple scholarships, but not all of them. If you make your one of your first three shots, I will pay the rest of that guy's tuition. Let's go. Let's go, baby. Come on, dude. We're not doing it for him. You tell me, is the stage too tight here for you to shoot from here? Do you want to go down on the phone? I might have to go down here. Okay. You absolutely can do it. Come on, dude. If you had to give a guesstimation, how far of a shot is this, about half court, you think? Yeah, about half court, a little bit on, beyond. Here's a little bit of wind. Deuce McBride for some kid's tuition. Looks good. What a moment. Pat McBride, they had a kid finally make a field goal. That A&M kid. Yeah. He'd given money away for field goal attempts, and like with Herb Street holding, they finally gave one away, like 50 grand. They let him go twice. Yeah. They let him go twice in time. Yeah. I don't know about that one. I think it was Herb Street's dog that was holding it by the way. There you go. That's all about you. That's all about you. That's all about you. That's all about you. That's all about you. That's all about you. I saw that too. I saw that too. It's like I knew Eric shouldn't be so many tweets, bro. That was his tweet. That's all about you. Why is he so upset with the dog? I don't understand. Why does it bother him so much? That's all about him. That's all about him. A dog barking out analysis during a game. Hey, shout out to Pat Max crew, man, whoever had that eye that has seen that shot fall in before it fell in. Listen to it. Doo's McBride for some kid's tuition. Looks good. He's seen it. Looks good. Looks good. I like that. Let's see what else we got for you boys. Oh, it is what it is podcast. Cam and Mace are back for a new season. Yeah. Playmaker. Michael Irvin has joined him as an NFL correspondent this season. Replacing OJ. Replacing. The late great OJ here. Hey, yo. Hey, Twitter world. Sure. Truly. Yeah. The playmaker joins. It is what it is podcast. And the story after his first appearance is wild. Like what a transition this is. We have a lot of weeks to see the progress happen, man. But thanks Mike. We appreciate you on the first day, baby. Yeah. All my brothers, man, I appreciate you, baby. Okay. So before we end the show, we just got a couple more topics to discuss. So Michael Jordan's son, Marcus Jordan, was caught sniffing a white substance in some photos that went viral earlier in the month next to his new girlfriend. Of course, a lot of memes were thrown around. But what was you guys's initial reaction to seeing those pictures? Yeah, I went for Mike to get all talk about that. Okay. One trigger. We didn't want to trigger. Trigger Hum. Not him. We didn't want to trigger Hum. I'll see what we got. Nick Saban, y'all seeing Nick Saban cussing the fussing on television? Yes. I feel like the producers are, whoever it is, tap them on the shoulder and say, "Go ahead, Nick. I want to make a splash." Let it fly a little bit, Nick. Yeah. Yeah, I know we all want to see the quarterback's going to be. Yeah. But to do what they did and want to continue to do, you're going to have to have two running backs. Yeah. I just want to say you guys keep talking about a $20 million roster. Yeah. If you don't play the right guys, you'll be **** out of luck. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. You're just mad brown. You just broke the internet. He did. He did. Yeah, it's a fact. Jack, it's a money game now out here. It's up. It's been a money game, but now everybody's getting sawed. I would have given $10 million for a better defense at LSU. Man, how about that? I would have just said, "Here's the check for $10 million. Please give me a better defense." How that feel tonight? Be like, "Come on down here, bro." Yeah. All right. That's it for me, Dustin. Is it LeBron on Bronnie? Three looking for four here, we established? You're such a professional there, Mr. Dawson. Tell you what? Is it the New York Knicks guard, Deuce McBride? Is it Cameron Mace with Michael Urban? Is it Nick Saban cussing it up on ESPN? Or is it Jack Leiter with his best start as a professional here? Yes, today. We'll have to pull some audio for that at a later date. Do you see what I'm saying? They're talking about it. They're talking about it. It's a baseball right now. Should they have pulled him? Come on. Guys, this is progress. Manager, now practice, he's down to one run for inning. Okay? His ERA is approaching single digits now as a result of yesterday's start. Oh, man. 11-7-8 now. That's progress, man. You don't have to watch the game to see that. Okay. I'll go with Cameron Mace with Michael Urban. Me too. Me too. Loose. Oh! God, Nick guard helps him kick that tuition. What a hell of a shot. It was real far. I love those. Yeah. And it was just a little raggedy gold that would be outside from somebody's house. Like, this is not a real NBA gold and nothing. Oh, wow. They just held up a gold. My man made it. Man, these podcasters are getting bags, bro. Oh, don't ruin LA live, please. Wow. But yes, we're going to definitely go on. Okay. I'm glad you're excited about their conversation. Good. Well, it sounds good. Yeah. Yeah. They out here giving it up. Oh, you gotta give it up. Yeah, they're like, hey, who wants 100 grand? Yeah. You've got 100 grand. That's a new basis out. Yeah, we'll check. I'll go for the champ. Okay. We're two to one to one, Brian. Go with Nick Saban. Buy a score two to one to one to one. And now your new G bag of the day champion, it's Michael Irvin with Cam and Mace. Sorry. I'm not very popular broadcast podcast. Sorry, Mike. Okay. What do we got coming up next? Gentlemen. We'll call this football super segment. Oh, are we super segmenting right now? Now we can bring him back to before we call him Jared. Jackie, come back on week one overreactions to the college football season. And we got some bad news for Texas A&M that's next in the nation. All right. Welcome back. It is the G bag nation here on 105 through the fan jack lighters coming up at 320 here. We'll, we'll talk to the, I guess we call them a Rangers rookie. Now, don't we? No, he's pitching a number of games. Rangers rookie. Okay. A segment here is a Zach Wolfchuk's college football super segment. We're serious. Zachary. It was so great to have college football back. I mean, I was watching Friday night. Yeah, we'll get to you. I'm just tired. You're just tired. No, it is nice to have college football. But we weren't going to know what to team or 10th ranked team in the country is already O and two. Let's start there with Florida state. Oh my goodness. So they lose, of course, be an Ireland last week to Georgia Tech. And then last night they play Boston college, a little butch and making his debut as the Boston college head man. They beat Florida state 28 to 13, Florida state beat them up. Now, I mean, it was brutal. I mean, at home, they're thinking, all right, this is going to be a get right game for Florida state. Didn't happen. Oh, and two in the conference. Now, yeah. And they've now surprised surprise. They've fallen out of the AP top 25. I don't think that was a shocker. No, but they have now joined a pretty ugly company as I think they're just the third team in college football history to be ranked in the top 10 and lose their first two games when they were favored by double digits. So not a good start to the season. And then we talked about the FSU fan. This coach has done this before though. He's finished Norbell. Norbell has been 0 and 2 a couple of different times, I think 2020 and 2021. They were 0 and 2 to start a season at seat is spicier. It's hard. I'll tell you what though. He signed a big time extension last year after what he did. He went through. You don't feel bad for these coaches. No, you never do. Jimmy Sexton. Jimmy Sexton. Remember what he did? He did. Norville flirted with Alabama's job and then like Jimmy got the Washington coach, the job at Alabama. Got his got Sarkan extension and got Norville an extension parlay in that Alabama job opening. That's bad. Yeah. He's going out of the top 25 and I mean, it was just an embarrassing loss, historic loss for them. And DJU is so bad for sport. Somebody said that Denton Day tweeted out the fall off from Jordan Travis to DJU is the biggest fall off in college football since the fall of from Trevor Lawrence to DJU. Yeah. Yeah, Clemson. I mean, right now it's like it's like him and Kade Club Nick are battling to see who can be the crappiest quarterback in the comp and that was one. I mean, I was watching like the Clemson, Georgia game, Georgia just roast Clemson 34 or three. And it's like, is that Clemson offense that incompetent or is it just Georgia's defense is that good? Maybe both are true. I don't know, but Georgia does look like they are far and away in the top team in the country. They are brilliant. Georgia well coached. Very well coached. Very well coached. You know, and they were, they were a, they were really a bad game. I mean, give Alabama who was well coached last year as well, you know, with that SCC championship game cost Georgia an opportunity to win another national championship shirt in because when, you know, that, that, you know, they don't lose a game all year and they lose that one game and then they get knocked out of the playoffs. Yeah. It's just crazy to think how that works. Well, okay. So we'll get to Brian Kelly here in a second. We do have this Georgia fan. Now this is, this has gone viral with the FSU fan. We talked about this with K and C FSP and yeah, literally in Scott van Pelt called them out last night as well on a show. Nobody wants to see anybody eat that stuff. Right. I'll speak for yourself. I don't know. I think there would probably be some Gator fans, some hurricane fan, like people that hate Florida state would probably love to see Gudge at three, two, one, Noel. There's like categories for this man who said if Florida state loses to BC this weekend, I will eat dog poop out of a red solo cup with a spoon and post a video of it book it. He has since deleted his account, but the internet remembers and Scott van Pelt made sure everybody last night remembered as well. Teams down. That's understandable. They're not down as bad as that dude on the internet who said he did dog poop out of solo cup. They, you think you just get to delete your account and the internet ain't going to forget that buddy. You don't get to just keep it moving and get a new name or something. People are going to find him. That's how that works. You got to pay up, bro. We got receipts. Yeah. I will find you. The situation though, that's not, that's not something you're going to follow through on. You don't want to step up and be a man and show that you're a man of your word. No, you're probably googled it there at the last break and what about the idea that you could be cursing your entire program now forever, the curse of the dog. Yes. Yeah. The dog poo curse and we can be talking about this for hundreds of years. It could be one of those. This into some money, financial acquisitions, possibly now you stream this thing, looking for poo eaters all over the people are like, hey, this thing's going to go viral now. I'm the guy that said I need dog poop out of a cup. It can be lethal. You're almost guaranteed a vicious case of worms if you eat any amount of it. Yeah, he's an idiot. He's probably drunk when he put that out there and he's, he's trying to crawl fishy, Brian. He's apparently. He'll be laying those worms. Oh, yeah. Nice and lean, bro. Eat anything you want. Yeah. Oh man. Yeah. It's trash and food. Staying nice for 200. I like it up. Yeah. And so the silver lining here. Yeah. I like this, but he's deleted Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. Oh, yeah. Everything. Oh, somebody found his girlfriends Instagram, the eight one seven said he's apparently recently engaged. Oh no. To be married. So now this girl has to wrap her mind around the fact that she's marrying the potential, you know, the deficit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's not who's not a man of his word. The FSU poo guy, and you lied to everybody and said, book it. I would do this. Now you're not doing this. As a girl, dad, I'm stepping into that situation and calling this thing off. Yeah. Yeah. Honey, your guy's not a man of his word. Well, you can just say I'm not paying. No, you can do better. No, either. I'm not paying for the line. He's lying to you left and right. Honey, why did you delete like your, I can't, I'm trying to tag you in this cute picture of us and I can't find your Instagram anymore. And he's like, well, here's the deal. Hmm. What if she's a Florida state fan too? Yeah. And that she is not a graduate if she might not be either. She's a true fan. I think that then she wants him to be a man of his word and go full fledged into that solo cup because I'm telling you, this could be, this could be bad news forever for FSU. They will be FSPU forever. They're FSPU. Now, top 25 out for the AP, A&M not in the top 25 after they lose to Notre Dame Notre Dame moved up to five, Alabama's at four, Texas is at three ahead of their showdown with Michigan in the big house. Michigan's at 10, Ohio state at two Georgia in at number one, but A&M they lost their center for the season. He's got a lower leg injury was a sophomore suffered the injury in the first quarter against Notre Dame. So that's a big loss. They were through three centers in that game, I believe they were down to the. The final, the final snap was with a freshman center that never had never, never done that. The intercept, they got the interception there, but yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's unfortunate what happens to you with these injuries when the Florida state tie in. So Florida state and LSU had played in the season opener's now we got LSU and USC Brian Kelly after the game, just not happy in, you know, Brian, I've seen him. He's gone viral and he's kind of been made fun of after this reaction post game. And we're sitting here again, we're sitting here again, talking about the same things about not finishing when you have an opponent in a position to put him away. But what we're doing on the sideline is feeling like the game's over and I'm so angry about it that I got to do something about it. I'm not doing a good enough job as a coach and I got a coaching better because it's unacceptable for us not to have found a way to win this football game. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Yeah. They got to finish. They're finishing to finish. You got to finish. No, they've, they've had games. And even when they were bad on defense last year, you know, they had Ole Miss down. They've had several games where they, they were, and then they, but they did. They went out and spent money on a new defensive coordinator. They did a million dollars. A lot of the same problems. I mean, they played better. It wasn't the tackling wasn't horrendous and but yeah, the fact that they just give up, you know, we always talk about DBU, you know, this is DBU. We're so proud about all the defensive backs and stuff that we have, you know, and they'll have some kids come in next year, but if, if maybe if, you know, obviously if you look at it, LSU needs help, they might go somewhere else now, they just haven't, they just don't find ways to finish these games off like they should. They'll late in the game. It's third and one and you do a shotgun handoff for like the game, there's seven minutes left in the game. And you have a chance to. You got the ball. So baby, you run about three, four minutes off this clock and, you know, get in field goal range and kick one and end it. And they also, like I say, they got down, they had the opening drive of the game. They go 78 yards and stopped in the three yard line. Like USC Miller Moss, that final drive was very, very impressive. He's waited his chance behind Caleb Williams now gets the chance to start a smaller player. I mean, six, one, two, oh five. I don't know that he's really six when he looks kind of tiny out there, but he made that throw sideline throw to set him up and get some skill guys. I'd be blaming the coach, but I'm not looking for any sort of great call. I just, your defense still sucks. You're at Louisiana and you're about to have a defense out of the top 100 again. Yeah. It does issue. Yeah, the thing about it is that we've talked about it over the years about how you take advantage of the talent you have. Yeah. And you know, there's, there's guys that they feel like they're playing them out of position. They're having to do this. A lot of the same story. I just knew going in the game there, I was talking with Jared about it, but when we were talking about the bets, I said, I don't, this is going to go either way. But I have a feeling I know how this could end. You know, the people were like, Oh, tough game and all that. I'm like, why are you texting me? I, I had a feeling that, you know, this, this is something I've seen the last, you know, several years teams, inability to stop people, inability to get a, to get a key. We even had in 2019, when LSU won the national championship, yeah, defense offense. I mean, it was, it was, it was, it was going along pretty damn good. It looked like Georgia playing out there, Alabama playing like there. But you know, if you have a bad defense, you'll get exposed really quickly, especially past defense node at the end of the, you know, you'll get pass rose and you give up chunk plays. Yeah. It's like the green bay game to me with the chunk players are going on there. And you don't expect that from LSU. You don't, you know, given their pedigree in history. You're going to get the other team's best play with maximum aggression in the final five minutes. And if your defense is weak, it's about to look hella, I knew, I knew when that thing, when LSU couldn't score to make it, you know, a touchdown game, I knew that them coming that, that USC was going to find a way to win that game. I just because, because they, when it tied, I said LSU can't stop them in the final drive. They're not going to do it. There's your college football. Super sick. Thank you, old Chuck. It is the G back nation here on 105 three, the fan were about 24 minutes from Jack Lighter joining us, the Ranger rookie NFL news of the day coming up next, what's on top. There are a lot of nine or updates today. And Eagle is not happy about this Brazilian game and maybe you should bet on the Lions this year. That's next in the nation. Dear autumn leaves, you won't be covering roads alone this season. Toyota's lineup of cool, colorful vehicles is ready to ride by your side. Take on fall in a trail tackling Tacoma or go for the powerful Tundra. 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And man, if he, if he would not have come out for that, he would have had himself a pretty dang good quality start. Well, Chuck, so we'll talk to Jack Lighter rising star coming up at 320 here in the G back nation home of the champs. Here's we'll Chuck with that NFL news of the day. Thank you very much. News regarding contracts and holdouts. Well, we got a new Trent Williams deal that is about to get finalized. Niners are having him fly to San Fran. He's already there. And he is going to get a new deal that he, I guess deems worthy, brought us has been tracking his flight. Yeah, it's been all over the sanded he flew in this morning, 5.4 million in salary cap space is what I believe San Francisco has created over the last week or so to try and get him done. He was a no brainer. You have to. I mean, he had, he had them by the kahone's there. They have no plan B at the left tackle spot for the Super Bowl aspirations. Yeah. Like what are we doing here? He just wanted to miss training camp. It's probably better for him that he did honestly. Yeah, it's a promo move right there. He's got the best life in the NFL right now. He's made it to a point where he can kick everybody's butt with very little practice. I don't need a training camp. I'm good. All right. Just go ahead and pay me. I'm going to show up. They know they can't win without him. Now you got the Jets, they're still dealing with those son retic stuff. I mean, this is just foolish from the Jets standpoint. I don't know that this is going to change. I don't know if he's going to play it down for them this year, but he's still holding out. He's got to jump in there. I would not trust the Jets to do anything right by me. I need that payday. I know it's not the payday I want. I'm not giving up these checks. Yeah. You got to play. You can't be losing game checks. And then the Jamar Chase stuff is fascinating. I really don't think Jamar Chase was going to miss a game, but he's still not practiced. He's showing up to practice in street clothes. He's doing the whole deal. And as of now, he is still not indicating that he is going to be suiting up and playing for the Bengals week one. Now I did see a report. It's very possible. This was a ball sack. Yeah. But supposedly he wants literally just a penny more than what Justin Jefferson got. And him and Justin Jefferson. Very good friends. Very good friends. Maybe that's true. That was Rapaport, dude. Rapaport's not here to ball sack. Yeah. That was a Rapaport. That was a Rapaport. I just, I never know if it's like the fake Rapaport account. Yeah. That was on the Rapaport. He got a watch dog. He got a watch dog. Players want to scoreboard each other though. And this is, I got a penny more than you do. The biggest way that you do it. And I think unlike Redick with Chase, times on his side, I don't need to get this bag as a 29 year old edge rusher right now, you know, like Levy on Bell, the year that he sat out. Yes. Totally. You know, you have to be aware of your position and how the market's going to look at you. I think if I'm Jamar Chase, the longer I wait, the bigger the payday gets. One of your quarterback is one of your best friends going back to college. Sure. I mean, it's just, I didn't, I don't think he'll actually miss games. So we'll see. Maybe things get that thing figured out. He'll miss games in a way of he'll be an active, but he'll get paid. That's the way he gets around it. Oh, so he's in the gym. He's in the gym. But he's in the gym. But he's in the gym. But he's there. He's just refusing to play. Is his situation, is he active? He's not in the list. Right? He was a champ. Yeah. He's one of their 50s. He's been holding in. Yeah. He would be just one of their inactives every week. Ed Shefter was on the McAfee show today and he says, if Chase is going to play at all this week against New England, that deal has to get figured out in the next 48 hours. Okay. So for, I don't know what the explanation is on why, I don't know, there's no recourse for the bangles though. Like you don't want to play your, you're holding in and we just have to pay you while you chill. I think so. Can they deactivate them? Yeah. That's okay. I don't know. That's what I'm saying. He's right because they're not going to like, they're not going to cut them. No. No, absolutely not. One of the recourse do you have? Can you find, you can't find a player or take money from them when there's just refusing to play because it's like, then you could just cut me, but they don't want to go. Wow. He's holding in, I guess. Checkmate bangles. Yeah. The Holden seems like the play here. Yeah. Sure does. DeMar Chase has made us all look foolish. It's still be around your guys. Yeah. Hold in. Hold it. Unless you're Trent Williams and you don't want to be around your guys. You're like, I'm just going to hold out. I'm just, I know they're going to pay me eventually. Show up and get exactly what I want. See all week one. The first wide receiver Ricky Pearson, this was a crazy deal that we saw over the weekend. He has been placed on the non football injury list. Four weeks there. Yeah. He's going to miss at least four games, but he's already back and he's, he's practicing. He's in the weight room there. I saw reports, he dodged, I mean, he did dodge a bullet, literally this thing he gets shot over the weekend. Apparently, John Lynch says that he was buying travel equipment like luggage or clothes for like when the team goes ahead and travels this year, they have like Louis bags or something like that. And somebody's seen him miss some food. Hey, I'd like one of those. I'd like one of those bags. So he gets shot. Now the bullet didn't even strike a rib according to John Lynch. They're optimistic that he's not only going to resume playing this season, but obviously there's not going to be any long term effects for his career here. So at least four weeks out for Ricky Pearson, but he was also dealing with the shoulder injury. But I mean, thank you. He's had a rough. This wasn't worse. It was a rough time of it to even get on the field. The injuries that he's dealt with. And I talked to Daniel Jeremiah when we were doing the game, the charger game the other day, and Daniel, one of the NFL, you know, he's on the NFL network for the draft coverage. He does a great job. And I get, did you know this kid had a bad shoulder? He goes, no, I did not. That never heard that that that shoulder was that bad. And Daniel's a very plugged in, a reporter and he says, I never ever knew that this kid had a bad shoulder. But what a crazy story. What a miracle story. Did he take the gun from the guy? Yeah. It was like a fight. It was exactly like a fight over the gun. And so they both end up being shot in the process of him like wrestling the gun away from the 17 year old kid. He's trying to get his Rolex off him. Wow. It's unbelievable. And then for that, I mean, to get shot through your chest and through your back and it doesn't hit anything. I mean, that is that's ridiculous and you're walking to the ambulance. You see the video? He's walking. You're like, yes. This is as much of a miracle as anything I've seen in a long time. This is insane. We know what kind of gun I didn't see to kind of gun it was. No, that's a, that's a honestly a great question brought us. And I'm not sure. Yeah. Yeah, I wasn't a 357 man. That's what I'm saying. I don't, I don't think so. Maybe he's got, maybe he's fortunate. Oh, here we go. Nobody's fortunate. Well, he's definitely fortunate. Oh, he is fortunate. He's fortunate. It's got a lot of life. Maybe this guy didn't have a real gun. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? You might be on to something. Like he wasn't very, he wasn't a confident robber. Put it that way. I tell you what, you can have my Rolex and my luggage. You know, I'm, I'm giving everything to you. Yeah, I don't, I don't get the instinct to reach for the gun. A hundred percent. Point it at you. Now, maybe you're as John Wick alpha. Maybe you're a pro athlete and you're like, I could totally get this gun before this guy knows what happens. Yeah. But even the very soft guy shot. Yep. Scary deal, man. Oh, McCaffrey. Yeah. Ultimately, he made the wrong move there. He just had got on his side in the way that we haven't seen in a while. It was incredible. A bullet wound to the chest. Yeah. Wow. And it didn't hit the mist. Throw the chest and threw his back. No vital organs. Nothing. They, they expected him to be back in four weeks. And he's already in the weight room right now at the facility. Crazy. Yeah. It is a crazy story. It was, it was, it was, he's not skipping leg day. Now that Robert would see me running with my stuff, just flying off me. I, I turned the corner, nothing but my boxers. I'd be like Bruce on my day. I just throw my arms back and my clothes would come off my body every single thing. Let's keep my undies, CMC's back at practice for the first time since early training camp. He had that strain calf injury. He's expected to be able to go for week one as they get ready to take on the jets on Monday night football. So that's great news. Absolutely. McCaffrey. Yeah. Really, really good news there. And then did you see Caitlin Carson's new number seat belt getting ready for his week one start? I like this. I like this too. 21. 21. Do something for me. Now that Gillie's not coming back, he signed with the Vikings. They can give up 21 Zeke's going with 15. Don't prime time seat belt Carson lock him up three rookie starters. Week one. There you go. Go get them. He said, I think the quote was, I saw from Joe Hoyt. It was like, he said like that 41 was laying on him. Yeah. It was like, it felt heavy out there a little bit. They look good. There's few corners that can pull off 41. T new did. I actually thought he wore it well, despite the fact that he was clearly leaking confidence in that overall preseason long, you know, and it makes sense why the first like three attempts that went his way in that first game didn't go his way, but then he settled in. He settled in. He sure did. Now we got the Brazil game Friday night and we've talked a lot about this Brazil stuff that's come out like, can you even wear green and the crime? Did you see that they're wearing the black helmets and black pants? Did you see the doors were wearing that? Yes. I'm like, they're going with their dark. But what are the Packers? What are the Packers? They're definitely still having that they'll wear their white teas, but they've still got green numbers. Right. Green numbers. But the Eagles are wearing white teas. I thought they were wearing their dark blacks. No, they were wearing their dark black pants and a dark black helmet, but it's going all green then. They've got to wear the wrong. That's what I'm saying. That's like, I guess green thing really real though. It can't be. I don't think so. They don't have a choice. It was in Barcelona when we were when we were dealing with the world league. Yeah, literally having the Packers wear green. I mean, you're bringing the green team in their name did not do a good job of assessing who we should schedule to play here. If this green Jersey thing is really as big of a deal as they're making it because otherwise you're right. Well, Chuck, you could mitigate it by doing because the Eagles have the black jerseys you're looking. Make them wear that even if it's technically a Packers home game, which I don't even know if it is, but then then the Packers could wear like an all white deal or they'll paint. So it's just like a light green trim and then the green numbers. So I mean, that wouldn't look as bad, but either we dare your slaves. Not happy about this. He has his podcast big play slay and he's not feeling Brazil. We want to look forward to it. I can't wait, but man, I do not want to go to Brazil. You want to know why? I'm going to tell you why. They already told us not to leave the hotel. It told us we can't do too much going on because it's the crime rate. It's crazy. You know what I'm saying? I'm like in the field. Why don't you ever want to send us somewhere with the crime rate this high and like we got the country. So, you know, the first thing people think is like something terrible can possibly happen. I told my family do not come down there because like I'm not going to be nowhere to be found where there would be a hotel chilling out of my business playing mind game after a long nine and a half hour flight. So I don't have no intentions on doing that. I'm going to eat hotel food. I'm doing everything, but they said, yeah, man, it's going to be pretty crazy down there. You know, holy said, they're going to be, you know, try to be the best they could possibly be the top flight security of the world. Craig Dawson, you'd be hitting the ground running here, bro. You'd be door dashing anyway from the place right down the street to the hotel room. Just stay in your room. This is made for you. This is ideal. But if you're a player and you're going to play in another country, I'd like to go and check out the country. So you're like, yeah, I was like, yeah, it's just kind of let's say the NFL's taking a shotgun approach here. Like we're going to try to keep as many people inside as possible because of the partying and we don't want the headlines and everything. But to say like Brazil is so crime infested that we can't go out for dinner and drinks and, you know, whatever else at the bar is kind of crazy. Have you been in Philadelphia? Yeah, right. Like man, the whole country, there's just no place to go. You know, we just want to keep you guys safe. Just stay in your hotel. You take one step off the premises and it's a lawless. Come on, guys. They're terrifying. These players like I'm not bringing my families. This is awful. You're not taking your family to Brazil. They're actually something. He said family stay home. We're not bringing the family. There's like 200 countries or whatever in the world and the NFL is trying to plant their flag everywhere. Like how, how many did they have to get? How many nodes did they get before they're like, all right, I guess we'll have to do it. You're the winner in Brazil. Let's do this thing. I hope the game is great on Friday. But what I can say is that that green thing is not associated with gangs or anything like that. Yeah, it's the color of Paul Maris, the rival of the stadium. So during soccer games, you're not encouraged to wear green at all. If you wear green, you're a supporter of our rival and you could get into like a soccer fight or something. Well, hopefully they can see past this like that's soccer team is not affiliated in this game at all. So we can look past this. Yeah, I, I, I believe you're going to be okay. It's going to be all right. Yeah. You think there's going to be people showing up to that game, like thinking they were supposed to be at a soccer game and they're going to be like, oh, what do you mean that football? What is this? We've been ball tight. That's how you get that. This is football. Angry storm, the field. Yeah. That's what you watch out. That would be true. Now the NFL is about to say, go believe yourself college football again as there are reports that they could soon look to start the season on Labor Day weekend. So they would schedule games. Oh, to get the 18 or whatever. Yeah. They'd schedule games Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday. And right now that's really been the kickoff weekend for college football. I mean, it was glorious. If I had the return and now the NFL is like, if they, if they continue to schedule games where two teams don't matter playing each other, I'm all for the NFL, do whatever they want. Okay. College games. Yeah. Yeah. Mississippi score 79 points on per review or somebody in like the Colorado state text. I'll say you didn't like seeing your guy arch doing his thing. It's been its friend. It's doing his thing. You know, Colorado. Yeah. I'm excited about the fact that they're going to travel to Ann Arbor this weekend. That's that's heaven. Point favorites. Yeah, they are. There you go. In the big house. I'm so sorry, but the, what do we got? Well, go. No, no. Get lay on. Come on. Come on. I was wondering in regards to what were we talking about right before we were. Oh, the college football. You would push it back. If I'm college football, I would, I would push if I'm college football, I'm going, okay, then I'm going to start a week earlier. I'm still going to at least own my first weekend. So if you want to eat Labor Day, so be it, then we'll push everything back a week and football just starts earlier for, you know, mid August or whatever. Yeah. That's not a bad idea. Final thing here, Jared Gough, the numbers are out on him playing inside a dome versus on the road. Terrible McColl, pretty drastic, I mean, it's crazy. His passing percentage goes down. I mean, we're talking almost a full 10% the yards on the road versus playing indoors. I mean, it's like a thousand yard difference. I mean, it's crazy the, the QBR, everything just drops and plummets when he has to play outdoors. But the good thing for the lions, this is why if you're a lion fan out there, even just somebody that likes to bed and is a degenerate, 14 of their first 15 games for Detroit this year played indoors. So you should get prime, and that might be a reason why they get the one seed this year. Even more reason to believe in the, the lions, believe in those lions this year. They could be the, this finally, the radical run as broad as his team last year, he said they were going to win two Super Bowls or something last season and he had to do a bet payoff. Right? When you didn't, they want to play off game. When the playoff, they didn't. That's true. This year, maybe they make it to the Super Bowl football guy, Brian Brodice. I'll come up with something for this year. And if only is it, it sounds like a plan. Thank you. Uh, cross these corners coming up at three 40. We have Jack Lighter Rangers rookie joining you next here in the nation. Welcome back. It is the G back nation here on one Oh five three. The fan segment is brought to you by the Frankles life's unpredictable accidents happen. 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There's just a lot of, a lot of underlying stories that made it, made it extra special out there. Okay. So speaking of dad, what did he have to say about your, uh, performance yesterday? Um, I mean, he's, he's a proud dad most of the time, um, he, uh, even, even the outings that I'm very much not happy about throughout my career. He, he, uh, he understands how hard this game can be and, and, uh, he's definitely a proud dad. Now you mentioned your, your cousin and, uh, and you know, obviously your dad, your uncle. Growing up as a lighter, um, is it assumed that you're going to be a pitcher? If you play baseball, do you consider, uh, other positions, how's that whole thing get sorted out? I mean, my dad wanted me to be a third baseman. I don't know exactly why, but that was kind of his, his dream for me. And, uh, obviously he wanted me to play baseball, but, um, it wasn't forced upon me or anything like that. But just growing up around the game, it's, uh, it's hard not to fall in love with it. And, uh, that's what happened. I fell in love with it. And I always wanted to be a pitcher and, um, the early parts of high school, I wasn't sure if that was going to happen or if I was going to play field or, or, uh, play a position in the field, but, um, it just kind of worked out that I ended up a pitcher. What have been some of the things for you this year that you've really been working on is last year, I mean, we had seen that they had kind of shut you down and you were working on some new things. But this year, it seems like it's been much better for you overall juggling from the minors than now getting opportunities with the big league level. Yeah, um, it's been a, uh, it's been a special year all around, obviously getting my first taste up here in the big leagues and, um, the results, the results haven't been there yet, obviously, um, in terms of what I would like to see in my big league outings. But, um, it's, it's really got to be a processed mindset as, as a pitcher and, um, coming up in the big leagues. Um, a lot of times you control what you can control and that's, that's executing a pitch and, and, uh, strictly from a processed mindset, I've felt like my execution last night was, was the best it's been in all of my big league outings by, by a good, by a good margin. So, um, obviously the results in the final line and, and, uh, the, uh, the fact that we didn't end up with an extra win in the win column, those all, those all were frustrating after the game, but once you take on the processed mindset of, you know, did I execute more times than not and, and, uh, there's a lot of positive takeaways. So, um, it's a good one to build off of. Hey, Jack, I was just wondering, it's, you know, you've, you've mentioned about being down in the minors and then getting some spot starts and stuff like that. Has that been tougher on you, uh, would you have just rather been in one spot, say, like with the big club and just kind of felt your way and learned your way that way instead of kind of going back and forth between the two? Yeah, obviously in the same way you control what you can control, you, you, you pitch where you're at and give it your all. But, uh, yeah, as, as pitchers were, were creatures of habit and I would say me more so than others even and, and, uh, having a routine is important and it's, uh, it's always nice when you can spend time around the guys and, and, uh, get to know the catchers and get to know the coaching staff and more so than just kind of fly in and, and, and show up at the field and pitch that day. Um, but that all comes with earning it and, uh, that's something that, that you have to, you have to show with, with results over time and, and, uh, my confidence in myself, long term and getting those results in my career is, is very high, but obviously some of these outings early on in my big lead career weren't, weren't there statistically speaking. So, um, for a number of reasons. So it's all about the process. Like I said, you just, when those times when I got sent back down, it's all right. What do I need to do to get back up here and have more success the next time? Because, um, that's all you can control. It's Jack Lider here with your Rangers rookie. How much more comfortable are you after, or, you know, going into the start yesterday that was at your fifth start in the major league level compared to your first one? Yeah, I'm much more comfortable. Um, it's, it's about managing adrenaline. Um, and I've hit some big games, hit in the college world series, but, but something about the big leagues, it's, it's something you dream about forever and it's, it's an opportunity that I'll never take for granted, but, um, you want to make the most of it and sometimes wanting it, wanting it too bad can, can lead to, uh, you know, self induced, self, self caused errors, I guess, and mistakes. And, um, I think that's what sort of was happening in my early outings was just wanting it too much and, and, and as a result, my mind is, is thinking too many things and it's just moving too quick and it's about slowing it down for myself and, you know, you're the pitcher. You got the ball on your hand. It's on your time. Yesterday, it was a, it was a conscious effort about, um, making it, making it on my time. Jack, you mentioned you were, uh, outstanding college pitcher. Trust me, I'm an LSU alum and fan and watched you many a day and just was marveled at that. But, and you mentioned pitching in big games and stuff like that as, as the, as the draft status that you have, do you feel pressure carrying that status to the mound with you? I wouldn't say so. I think the pressure I put on myself is more so than any other external factors could put on me and, uh, I think that's, that's kind of what you need to have to be, to be successful in anything is, uh, holding yourself to a high standard, but there is a fine line between holding yourself to that high standard and, and putting, applying too much pressure on yourself. But, um, there's a, you could always say there's been pressure, um, being the son of a majorly baseball player and, and choosing to be a pitcher as well, there's, there's that, um, you know, inherent pressure, I guess. But, um, I guess when you, when you experience it so long for so much of your life, it just, it just doesn't really, it doesn't really affect me. And, uh, I mean, obviously it's there, but, um, no, I would say, I would say it's just, it's just about making pitches. Simple. Jack Lider with us here in the G-Bagnation, he brought up the mental side of things. And I think when it comes to sports that, that's a subject that now has been discussed a lot more and openly, what do you try and do to maybe decompress, uh, before a, a start or when have you kind of had to learn and adjust some things that do work or don't work for you to try and calm down a little bit? Yeah, absolutely. I think, uh, I think the mental side is, is, is huge, especially for a starting pitcher. Um, because you're out there, you're out there on an island, it's, it's, uh, it's your game. And, uh, you know, if you lay an egg, it's, it's, it's on you. There's full accountability there and, um, you just want to do what it takes to help the team win. Like I said, that, that hasn't been there quite yet, but, um, that's, that's part of the accountability and the, and the working process. Um, I hope it just makes it that much sweeter when, when it does start, start coming around results-wise. But, um, yeah, from the mental side, there's, there's so many different ways to, to go about it, but, um, it comes down to how do you get yourself to, to fully focus on this one pitch? It's the most important thing in the world. And then once it's done, it's meaningless. It's, it's not easy, but it's, it's part of it, like this pitch is everything. And then after that, this pitch is everything. And whatever you can do throughout your day, throughout your week, throughout your, um, you know, the hours leading up to your start and throughout the seconds in between pitches to get to that point is, uh, is everything. And I think that's what us as pitchers are always working to accomplish more and more. How superstitious are you? Uh, I would say I'm pretty superstitious just because of the fact that I love my routine and my process, but, um, nothing crazy, like, you know, I gotta eat, I gotta eat this three hours before my start and I gotta put the left sock on first, nothing like that. What's the general pregame meal though? I try to get a lot of carbs in, um, and as the adrenaline starts to flow, I used to just not really eat because you don't really think about hunger, um, leading up to a start, but now I've kind of gained an understanding that that's, that's important for, for brain function and, and physical function. So, um, I kind of make myself eat some, eat some carbs, some type of pasta or rice and then a protein, um, some kind of chicken, um, meat and I love fruit. So fruit dough is in the mix. Yeah, Jack, we're right with you. When, when you're about to pitch, we eat a lot of carbs to getting ready to watch your pitch. Just load up. Just load up. We did a little pizza. Not just any, any, any boom sticks, anything we can eat at the, at the ballpark, we just do that before you finish to help you out there. Who's routine? Do you marvel at that's in that clubhouse right now? Are you like taking notes on some guys? Like, holy smokes, the dedication, the professionalism. Yeah, I mean, everybody, it's a, it's a team full of pros and, uh, you know, uh, being out there talking to some of the bullpen guys, uh, the last couple of days it has been, has been cool for me because it's a whole different perspective. The reliever routine and the starter routine and, and, uh, are both having veteran guys who have been the best in the game for so long. Um, it's, it's really cool to pick their brains on, you know, how they, how they go about their, their, uh, process and their routine. And then, and then guys like you've all these, who's kind of just, uh, you know, a model starting pitchers. If, if any young kid could watch Nathan, you've all these routine, it's, uh, it's pretty, it's pretty special and he's very detail oriented and, um, the great teammate who, who, uh, has a genuine interest in, in making others better. So I would say him along with truly everyone on the team, it's, uh, it's a special group of guys in terms of routine. We're big nasty Nate guys. So we see how they're, he's incredible. We love him so much. Hey, Jack. I was just wondering when, when you sat down and went through the lineup, I mean, for your pre, you know, for the pre pitch, you know, meetings and stuff going out on the hill, did you kind of like just go and then going to the line with judge and so that you're like, yeah, I know, yeah, I know. Is it, is it one of those things where you kind of, you know, what you're getting into just knowing that lineup or looking at that lineup and you're like, yeah, I know, I know that's, that's, I get it. It's got to be different than anybody. Any other lineup you deal with, right? Yeah, it's, uh, it's the same, but obviously it's very different that you know, preparing for Salt Lake City or Sugar Land or some of the outings that I face this year. Yeah, you're talking about arguably two of the top hitters in the world and there's, and they're two in three spot and then everyone else in the lineup, no slouch either. There's really no, really no breaks. I mean, I've always said Anthony Volpe gives me my toughest at bat because I've faced him about 50 to 100 times just growing up around him and going to high school together and inner squad games and, um, seeing him in the eight hole, it's like, all right, this is a, this is a deep lineup right here. You know, you got it. You got an MVP and another MVP and Stanton and an MVP candidate in Soto. I'm sure he'll win, win one or a couple before it's all said and done. It's, uh, it's a, it's a good lineup. But the Aaron judge size, like, did it even take you by surprise a little bit, even knowing how big he is. I just imagine looking at him there, like, oh my gosh. Yeah, it's a big zone. The, uh, the first at bat, he smoked the ball to the left on a fastball up with two strikes and, uh, coming in, I was like, was that the wrong pitch or was it not up enough? It felt like I threw that fastball up and, and sure enough, I looked at it and it was, it was in the zone. So he's got a, he's got a tall zone, for sure. Not to harp on the pasta too much, but are you generally Alfredo or are you going with like a spaghetti and meatball situation? I'm, I'm so not a picky eater. Both of those sound pretty delicious right now. So, um, I don't discriminate when it comes to pasta. What's the fruit that you're mixing in right now? Um, I like berries, strawberries, blueberries. Uh, my mom used to call me Apple Jack when I was really little. She cut me an apple every night. So, um, I've always been a guy who, you know, whatever, whatever type of fruit there is, I'm going to, I'm going to be eating it up. I'm not much of a dessert guy. So that's, that's kind of my, my sweet tooth. I love that dude. Okay, we're going to let you out of here with a little bit of a game. We're going to see how well you know your teammates. This is three seconds of analysis. One of your teammates is being described. If you could guess that teammate force, that would be incredible. Okay. All right. We'll see. You know what he's got working there between the knee and the waist is pretty impressive. Uh, um, are we talking? Are we talking David Robertson? Ooh, that's a damn good guess right there, Jack Leiter. I like the guess. It's very close. Uh, but it is not the actual answer we were looking for, but it was one of the multiple choice answers. It was sitting right there. He was D. Uh, he was. He was. Uh, now we will. If you don't mind, Jack, we'll continue to play this game with you until you get this thing right. How about that one? I know we'll have you back soon. Okay. All right. All right. Sweet. Thank you. kicking ass, man. There he goes. Apple Jack Leiter. Give him hell. We'll be pulling for you, sir. All right. Thank you. There he goes. Jack Leiter brought you by Golden Chick and by Globe Life. Everyone has beneficiaries. Not everyone has life insurance, Globe Life. Who's your beneficiary? And we're also going to give Jack a hundred dollar gift certificate to pluckers. There's eight of those in the DFW location. So, uh, thanks for Jack and the Rangers for being on with us today. Yeah. Yeah. That was good. Uh, so what we got another, uh, four nights, then we're back at it again here with more, uh, more Jack Leiter coming up, probably in the angel series. We're getting Jack Leiter and de Grom this weekend. Question marks a possibility about de Grom. We should, uh, we'll last see why that coming up at four 20. But he gave us more insight. It's time now though for Krusty's corner, Brian. Where are you taking it? Yeah. I've got some more questions for my guys. Are these things observations that we need to pay attention to? We'll do that next. Well, thank you, Lucius. It is the G back nation here on the fan sports hodgepodge coming up at four, then see why. And right now, as we get into Cowboys week, it's time for the corner, brought you by reliant air conditioning, gimmick free AC repair and replacement. Here's the king of the Krusty's brought us. Thank you very much. You know, appreciate that. Eric. I appreciate your quality news that you gave us during the break. Doo doo doo doo. You made me feel better about it. I'm trying to be the good news. There are the, you know, the, the good news break, the good news information. I appreciate you doing that. Uh, by the way, just since we're now in game weeks and stuff, yes, sir, bet payoffs. Yeah, we got bet payoffs on Fridays. Yeah. Somebody just asked that we're still doing that this year and I'm assuming rolling on that. Oh, yeah, we're absolutely. I'm going for band-aid rippers, not long-term suffering though this year. That's my plan going in. That's a smart plan. When I got a payoff, we're going to get this thing done in potentially excruciating pain or embarrassment for five to 10 seconds. Well, Chuck said something about kicking things off with his first payoff being the goodbye brow. Just losing one of those bad boys. I was like, Dan, that's bold. Dude. I like the way you're coming out of here. Like, well, Chuck's not messing around this year. He's like, I'm going to do this thing for real, not half assing it. Skin and hair issues with him. I don't think that's a very terrible idea, but I mean, I've speedoed waxed. I mean, I'll do anything for the show. Those things are going back. Oh, yeah. The bounce back potential. I did see Florida pictures. Yeah. I did see Florida pictures. No speedo though. I didn't see that. Didn't rock a speedo. Lord, I did not. I didn't want to embarrass my family. Wow. It can take up to four months for an eyebrow to grow back. Four months. Slowest growing hair on the body. Test the bully. Okay. I think there's nothing to do with every time I can make it to the football season. I I bet I bet. Well, Chuck would cut those numbers into eight. You're probably right. Yeah. I feel like that every time I go to the barber, the barber is like doing my eyebrows more than he's doing the hair part. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And the ears you were saying. Yeah. The ears big time. You grow hair in places you do. You do. You grow hair. I make sure that they get the ears every time. It's important that you realize that as you get into your mid 40s. If I look, we take care of the nose to care the eyebrows in the ears. I start to look really ridiculous with the nose near. Tell me, don't like let me go with like spinach on my teeth while I'm talking. No, we'll let you know. I'll let you know. Yeah. Let me know that for sure. I'm watching dog in it. I know you are. You're watching dog in that baseball. You're watching dog in that baseball too. Jack, what's it like to really suck at baseball? I love you, Jack. Jack, you went out there and embarrassed yourself. You feel a pressure by being an embarrassing player. No, I thought that was very courteous professional. You were, you were very professional. I thought Jack was great Apple Jack. He was. I mean, as I was telling on the text, I don't have an issue with Jack. I'm not going to go after Jack for not executing pitches. He's trying as hard as he's a kid. Yes, it's not personal. It's not a dental. This is a, this is a disagreement that Jared decided to attack me over in the 2000s. You deserved it, but don't worry about that. Don't let that bother you. You're fine. You did well. You argued well. I'd have to say you argued well. How did I deserve it? You just deserved it, but that's okay. The guy gave up five runs and five innings and we're pretending like it's good. You know what, man? What kind? Two times through the order were good. What, what's another like Trey Lance preseason game progress before? So if you throw 45 pitches and that's what I'm thinking. Madison are coming on here. Every time I said, I don't know. Every time I went Trey Lance and Dawson would look at me like, shut up. What are you doing? Just shut up. I mean, Jack Lighter does have, I think, a significantly better chance than Trey Lance at this point, but we're still in single-digit probabilities. I would have to agree. All right. Trey Lance, my guy. All right. I just, I wanted, I wanted to let every, uh, so on Wednesdays, yeah, Crusty's corner, we're going to break down the opponent's offense. Yeah. And on Thursdays, we'll break down the opponent's defense Friday referee report. That's bringing that back too. Remember, I'm Friday. I love the referee who I remember. Yeah. And the music. Lucid plays is fantastic. Yeah. Lucid plays great. You're like three blind mice. Was that the music plays? That's perfect because you're going to be scouting the opponent's offense every Wednesday. So then we can, we can juxtapose it with Eric Kendrick's new big time linebacker, right? On Thursday. Yeah. Brody says this. Tell me why Brody's just nailed that. Yeah. You're right. Now. Rumor has it. Eric Kendrick's might want to do a little interviewing of us as we had along into the season. I think Eric Kendrick's has aspirations of being a media member. I like it. I want to dip his toes. I like it. All right. Here we go. Got some questions for you guys. This is start a podcast. Maybe you think he's got, he's got an avenue. I used to walk down and talk to the linebacker down the road. Hey, can you put me on air? Bleacher report. I think Mike had his first episode today. Did he? I thought last week was last week was last week. The first one I was checked out last week. Good. Well, check out. He did the thing. Mountain of misinformation over there. Oh, I know we've had an episode today. I thought it was his first one. I know he had a show last week. All right. Here we go. Blogging the boys real quick. Five predictions for the Cowboys, 2024 season. See if you guys agree with this or not. I'm just curious what you think. Agree. Willie. Yeah. Tyler Geiten will contribute more than Tyran Smith. That's a bull prediction. Tyler Geiten will contribute more than Tyler and then Tyran Smith in terms of just availability. I mean, last year was a very healthy season in terms of Tyran, but I think overall, yeah, I think that the hope is that you get a full 17 games from Tyler Geiten until that he's proven otherwise. I'll give him the benefit of the down. I think absolutely. I think the running game could be better with him. Chief. It's like, would you rat like with the Jets rather have Tyler Geiten right now for this season? Yeah. You know, that like, you're kind of thinking that that way games and Tyran Smith or maybe 15, 16 games. Tyler Geiten. I'm so pessimistic on the availability of Tyran Smith and on the the run blocking ability based on what we saw last year. So by default, I guess I will say the upside of Tyler Geiten and thinking he will play every game is more exciting. Yeah. I think you guys make a great case. I'm going to go that Tyran has kind of figured something out and at his age, he can still be very effective in the passing game. Geiten has a lot of learning to do. Chieftain. Yes, sir. Dalvin Cook will be the team's leading rusher. Fart. Be Rico Dattle. Gavin. Yeah. Chief nailed it. Woolley. Yeah, that's a fart. I don't think I don't know that Cook ends the season on the roster. I'd like to see what I told you guys my, you Zeke for three weeks. Use Dalvin Cook for three weeks and just keep this alternate. Hey, play the hot hand. Burn them up. Burn them up. Daniel wants to do in Miami. He's like, I want to play all four of these guys. I'm going to play the hot hand. Just keep going. Just keep going. Gavin. Buddy. Ryan Flournaway will be the team's number three receiver. Oh, that's. What do you call that? Cap. Cap. That's cap. That's cap. Yeah. Is that what brought us calls it? I call it cap. I see the wrong word all the time. Cap. Oh, it's crap. And it's like it's really not what it means. Oh, Jake. Oh, yeah. There we go. Loose is key. That's a far. That's a far. I think it can be a good player, but not this year. He's likely the third receiver this year. He's going to be get right. No, he's not. I like what Tolbert's done. Chief. Did you didn't chance you answer that first? Right? Yes, I sure did. Cold cap on that. Cold cap on that. All right. Here we go. Boys. God. You got man's got biceps bigger than my side. Willie. Yeah. Malik Hooker makes a pro ball. Oh, no, he's not going to make the bro ball. Malik Hooker, I think, is a really good player, smart player, but he's not making a bro ball. No, as a 43rd alternate. I think there's actually a chance he does. Well, I mean, they're going to be playing with the Super Bowl area. Come on. Yeah, but I'm going to put him in. You're putting him in the call. Yeah. Cowboys have a top three defense and many players benefit, including like what you're doing here. The safety that has the best chance to make the pro ball. Mark East Bell. Oh, I like it. I like what you're doing there. Dawson. Yeah. Turpin takes it to the house twice this year. Oh, over. I'm taking the over. You're going over on two over on two over on two. Uh huh. Whoa. How about you? I hate to ruin a fun just touchdown party. Dawson's hosting a touchdown party. And I'm going to show up to it. I'm just going to poop on the lawn on a TV. Of course, of course, I'm not going to do that. Damn, right? He's going to give you the digits this year for the hat. He's going to be the trade on things of interceptions, but kick off returns for touchdown. We're setting records. Move over to Evan Hester. Make a place for Turpin. Thank you very much. Thank you, Brian. Crusty's corner every afternoon. 340 here in the G back nation brought to you by reliant air conditioning, gimmick-free AC repair and replacement. And it's time now for a sports hodgepodge before we get to see why at 420. Chief, what kind of hodge are we doing? A great American has inspired this nation once again, and Tolo's which person or team took the biggest, the biggest L this college football weekend. That's next year in the nation. The seasons may be changing, but the deals at the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? 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Mark Schlareth coming up at 440 will be talking football with him. It's time now for a hodgepodge. Here's the chief. Joey Chestnut have a day, sir. He did something. Joey. Joey. Joey. Joey. Man, the jaws was in full force. He is as dominant. All beef. All beef. All beef. Yeah. The unfinished beef has now been finished by the great American that is Joey Chestnut. He dominates the hot dogs. Once again, they don't stand a chance. 10 minutes, 83 dogs, sets a new personal record. And you have to wonder if he's just still scratching the surface on how great he might be like that Swedish a pole vaulter dude where he could just add one whenever he wants to just a flex like Oh, Kobayashi's out here. I'm going to add one today. Mom, watch this. I do like that move a lot. I like and he was doing this. How about it? He cranked up the difficulty on Hall of Fame mode. He said, no, I'm not even going to dunk him in water this time. What? Yeah. He didn't even go with the donkey. He's like, just watch. Watch me work. Now he was hammering home water while he had the dogs in his mouth, but he was anxious tech. He wasn't doing the dip, which wall check experience when he went toe to toe with with some dogs on July 4th for 10 minutes, like five years ago now, he hit nine and a half. But once he got to about seven or whatever, maybe six, he he went to the dip and he started just his out. It was just dominating with the pace there. So that is definitely something that works. Kobayashi, hell of a hell of a run for him as well, because he also set a personal record. It was like 66. Yeah. I think we would have won this year's hot talking contest. Okay. Now, how many of those do that was sick of food? Right? Yeah. He made a full recovery. Yeah. I like all the seats like, Oh, I can't. If I see, I'm going to go, I'm going to get sick. We had the thing in his brain where it was like activated. Anytime he saw food or smelled it, it was like he became nauseous for a while. So I guess he's clearly been able to overcome that. I'd say eight 66 hot. Now, if he ate 66 hot dogs, how much weight do you think he gained? And if chestnut like in pounds, like chestnut had 83 hot dogs. Let's do it with Joey Jaws. Seven. Okay. Seven products are going to start the bidding at seven pounds. Anybody want to go higher? Eighteen. Yeah. Eighteen pounds. Okay. I'm going to go a little higher. I'll go 21. Nineteen pounds. Oh, geez. He gained it. And he went from 222 right there. To 241. Nice work fellas. That's crazy. You guys know you're weight gain with the best of all. Trust me. It flucks you in pretty steadily for me. Kobayashi went from 158 pounds, and then 66 hot dogs later, he was 180 pounds in the post bout weigh in. I'll tell you what, I figured out we were talking at the break. I figured out something I could eat, I think competitively. Oh, really? Yeah. Brownies. Oh, the brownies. Any brownies are specifically Bobby's wife brownies. Her, those brownies are unbelievably good. She does a great job. Yeah. Okay. But I think I, if you gave me though, like a tray of those, I think I could punish those. Just a tray. Just put the tray out there and let me go. The tray of those brownies, I, I'm with you there. They're so good. What I throw you off with my commentary there, you kind of stopped. I was just reading the, I was reading some of the texts here. And I was also trying to just acknowledge, I was trying to acknowledge that Joey Chestnut made $100,000 for, for winning. And usually for the Nathan's contest, you win $10,000. So this is a huge win for him. It's true. Nathan's we're doing Netflix every year. This is the tournament we all wanted. Anyway, I can't believe these guys are so greedy. You wanted to get paid for, you know, playing a sport, you know, but tends not enough. Yeah. What the hot dogs, the sustenance, we're flying you out here. How many people do we think watch putting you on TV? I think a lot of people watch this thing. I know I did. It's a great question, dude. Yeah. Honestly, I'm not. I'm gonna admit I did not. Hey, big winner of the weekend was Woldchuck flying home from his vacation and giving himself the buffer day before going back to work. Yeah. He didn't fly yesterday, like a rookie. Well, maybe maybe hey, blind school situation. That's fine. Still a dub. No, still a victory. Big dub was baby girl was tremendous on these flights. I didn't know kids could fly in the cargo department. You can you just get an infant lap seat. I don't pay. No, I did this in the cargo bay. You can you can put your child down there? I thought maybe that's what you had done. No, no, not at all. I love my daughter. Get a little bit carrier. I could put the cargo to display, Brian. She was really good. Get her fresh diapers. She was. Yeah. She was fantastic. We panicking the whole flight. I was stressed when we were boarding to go. I was like, I really. Did you take advantage of the early boarding? No, he had some rookie one right there. The reason the reason why is I was saying we need to do this. My wife didn't believe me. That was a thing. No, you got to take advantage that you got to get that fight. Yeah, I'm not pushing anymore. Honey, we'll do whatever you want to do. Okay, but hindsight worked out great and baby girl was fantastic. You pants, you pants. Sometimes you had to pick your battles, Brian. That's why I'm divorced twice because I was me pants. Yeah. Yeah. If I go all in with Connor Wegman having the worst weekend in college football, could you could you top me with that? Because there's a lot of the way you play. Just individuals. I mean, just individuals. I think Dabo had a terrible weekend. I would say Billy Nepear of Florida. I hate this awful weekend. Our guy. Our guy out of Texas tech almost had another Joey Maguire. Oh my god. Straight Raider fans. Abby Christian took them to overtime in that thing. That wasn't a good weekend for me. My mean green might have a shot, going to love it going to win in a couple of weeks with old Chandler Morris. Maybe. Yeah. See, is he still quarterbacking? Yeah. Chandler Morris. Yeah. Let North Texas to an opening day victory. How many years? I mean, dude, we got a guy number four for him. We have a guy in Miami who caught a touchdown in his nine years year. Chandler Morris to me seems like he's been in the league for six years. I think he's a four year guy. Three schools? Yes. Okay. Bounced around a little bit, but it seems like he may have found a home. Yeah. Go home with TCU in her name. Texas. And I begged him to go there from the beginning and he finally listened. Dude, Billy Napier, the head coach for Florida. I mean, this guy is he's having to talk through at the podium, the embarrassment of the L that his team took to the hurricanes where they just didn't show up. And Carter Freeman was there in attendance. And the hurricanes looked like a really, really good football team. They actually have a quarterback and Kim Ward, who's now the Heisman favorite after a weekend one of college football. Yes. They might win that ACC. I mean, it's so darn bad. The bad conference. Yeah. Miami has no excuse not to win it. That's for Dang. Such and steam looked good last night. Maybe Boston college is sneaky. I know Carter picked NC stay and she stayed a little bit of scare as well, but they pulled it out. But Billy Napier, the Florida head coach, I mean, his team's getting crushed. And then he's at the podium after the game having to talk about the embarrassment. And he's fighting through trying to open up a water bottle. And then he just punts on it. It's like 20 plus seconds of him literally voicing how sad and down and embarrassing that loss was. And you can hear him fumbling? No, you can't, you can what you can just see him trying to get this water bottle open at the podium. And he just can't do it. And so finally just sets it down. It was like 25 seconds of work. And I've had one of those bottles before. I think we've all had one of those bottles before. You're like, I, this is the bottle. This is not a top milk. It was a bad look for him. Somebody glued the top of it. It was very, very, it was very much so like symbolism for the day that was for the Florida Gators, just absolutely terrible. You just want to take that thing and wham it against the edge of the table to open it. Yes. Oh, for sure. Brian Kelly, like, yeah. Oh, yeah, he would have. Yeah. Brian Kelly was really upset. That's really evaporated after that loss. There was some, I mean, I enjoyed watching old arch run around out there, but there was some unbelievable individual performances, dude. Like, how about De La Liole? Do you watch that Boise running the Nebraska freshman? Yes. The boys are running back was great. The boys are running quarterback Dylan Riola, and then Nico, and I'm going to try and say his last name at Tennessee. Tennessee, they say he might be the best quarterback in the country. They, those two, they're going to be one, two, and three years from now in the draft. Those guys are unreal. Yeah. Riola. And now it's Colorado Dion going into Lincoln on a Saturday night. I can't wait for this. That's happening this Saturday night. And that venue is amazing there in Lincoln, Nebraska. That is going to be a blast to watch. 100 plus 1000 people Dylan, Riola coming out party collision course. Or is it should her standards? I'll tell you, should her standards just feels like the guy, like in a big moment, you kind of feel like I got caught. Why does this feel like Nebraska? Just go ahead and just, you know, peeing down their leg in this one. Like they have a chance to win. And then they don't. Something happens. That has been the way Nebraska's played. Nebraska will play. I have a great defensive effort, and then all of a sudden Michigan State will score the block point. Things change, though, when you have a quarterback, man, I mean, Miami now is a quarterback and they look like a different, or they look like a different program. And if Riola is absolutely nasty, Fat Mahomes, if he's the real deal, Fat Mahomes, which, I mean, I think that's what that is. That people joke around that he's not my home. So I thought you would just make. I texted Bobby and Brian, uh, as I was, you know, you, you need jerk that one pretty good. Wait, wait, I'm all right. I said, Hey, get this deck. Press got three-year deal done, and then just go ahead and draft Dylan. Riola. Next door back. That's what he said. He's putting the court. Hey, listen, you gotta have a five-year plan. wall chokes got one. That's a guy he's thinking ahead. I'm trying. And then Bobby rolled him. How Bobby troll you? Bobby wanted once a Garrett Nussmeyer, but hey, flat on my mark. Oh, yeah. That's right. He did. He went after Nussmeyer. And hey, Nuss, I don't, I can't tell you how the first half one of that game. No, Nuss played well. I mean, hey, you're, you're playing behind a, I'm pulling for Nussmeyer, man. One player to watch in high school. The Miami quarterback came Ward called out the Florida Gator fan base because they were at the swamp. He said, note to the fans, you have to be loud when we're in the huddle, not just when we break the huddle. And he said the swamp wasn't even close to as loud as USC or Oregon. It's like, wow, just salt, just salt in the wound there. I mean, heck, Miami had a receiver that did like a midfield spin move, like back to the sideline and burned like four players again in extra like 30 yards, but one of those dudes in the process of being spun on literally towards ACL. It was, you're like, Oh my gosh, it was just one of those awful start to finish days for Florida. I did want to shout out another guy. Their schedule doesn't get any easier. Ryan Williams, 17 years old. He's a wide receiver for Alabama. He's the next guy. He has to be because at 17 years old, his first catch was an 84 yard touchdown. He followed it up with a second catch, a 55 yard touchdown. It was two for 139 and two touchdowns before halftime for this kid, 17 years old. That's, I mean, Alabama is still going to be cranking out some dudes like that. But what they do. Another one too. Ohio State has another Jeremiah Smith. Keep an eye on him. He had two touchdowns, six catches, 92 yards. He's also a freshman. One of the other funny things from the weekend, we know Brad Chan will jump on you on Twitter from time to time. Oh yeah. He did that to RJ Ochoa. I'm provoked too. RJ Ochoa tweeted out a greenie on get up right now talking about Clemson not utilizing the transfer portal mentioned to that NFL teams don't just draft players and develop them anymore. They also use free agency. And then Ochoa said, Hey, now the Dallas Cowboys. So he's kind of like calling out the Cowboys like, Hey, they're kind of the Clemson of the NFL. They don't use all the resources for a talent acquisition. And then Brad was like, well, what about Carl Lawson and this defensive tackle? Hey, little Joseph and Joseph Delvin. Cook. Yeah, me Kendrick's sham was not tagged in the original tweet, but he saw it. And so he responded back. Does the public know you're never around the team or organization question? Well, he's a training camp every year. Yes. He is that training camp every single day. Come on, Brad. Brad is just he when he lashes out, man, he'll get you. I mean, so I don't know. I think I think a lot of people went after Brad after that because yeah, we all respect RJ Ochoa. No matter where you are, it's never a good idea to debate with members of the team's broadcast staff because they know minutia. And what they'll do is they'll change the debate from your original premise to some minutia that you can't really discuss with them because you're not around the team every day. You know, what the hell do we know? See, dunked on you. What do you really know? RJ Ochoa, a free agency. You're not even here. That's swimming across four lanes of traffic to hit a fellow member of the media. I'd be pretty hacked if I was RJ right now. Yeah. Well, I think I think is sham, you know, took a bit of a beating there in the comments, but nonetheless, that was quite the interaction from the weekend. It was. And it is time now for Chris Young to join us. And then Mark Schlerith will join us and talk football. So baseball football back to back coming up next. It's the GBAC nation on the fan. Yeah, buddy. Welcome back. It is the GBAC nation on 1053, the fan time now for the Chris Young show segments brought to you by soda that state of the art. 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Well, yeah, I mean, I, you know, we obviously we came into the season with expectations that this was a world championship caliber team and that, you know, we understood how much everything had to go our way and what we saw last year with everything aligning there at the end when we got healthy and everybody performed at a very high level the last week of the season into the playoffs. And so I don't take for granted and I've been part of it as a player as well in Kansas City in 2015. So I don't take for granted how magical those years are. You know, I can't say perfectly that we saw this type of regression coming that we would take such a large step backwards this season and that's been the hard part for us as an organization. But, you know, we've had numerous conversations even through the off season trying to account for how are we going to get back and play October baseball and give ourselves a chance to win the World Series again. And we thought, you know, we put together a very good roster, a very talented roster. We were depending a lot on a lot of the players that we had returning and, you know, for numerous reasons, it just hasn't gone our way this year. There've been a lot of contributing factors and I think they all are important from injuries to underperformance to maybe, you know, some personnel decisions that me and the front office are responsible for and ultimately we're going to take a hard look and figure out what we need to do better this off season to make sure that next year we bounce back and get back to being the team we believe we can be. Do you think you could get back to the same level of confidence that you had in this team, you know, that it can be at that 2023 level when we get to surprise next spring? Yeah, I see why not. I really don't. I think with the talent we have and the core group that we have returning, obviously we have work to do this off season and making the roster better and improving some areas that we didn't perform well this year. But my expectation every year is going to be to show up and to have a team that's capable of competing for a World Series Championship. I just don't believe in this market that we should ever come to spring training without World Series expectations unless we are committed to an absolute rebuild and frankly I think those days are behind us. See why you mentioned that, you know, in every year seems to be different either championship. Are there things that fundamental core values that you hold near and dear to you? Did they get shaken a little bit this year or is it something that it's just something that you believe in it so much that it'll never shake you? Well, the core values aren't based on the performance of this year's team. The core values are based on successful organizations over the history of time. These core values have really passed those tests and all championship teams exhibit those core values. So I think it's up to us to continue to stay true to those values and make sure that we identify players and create an environment that is going to really bring out and highlight those values. And when we see things that are contrary to the values that we correct them or we move on from those types of behaviors. So I really, I don't question the values that we have. I really believe that we do have a great group of guys. I think that, you know, for whatever reason, just a lot of them have had down years and it's been frustrating. I think that, you know, there's an argument to be made that if you put this roster together seven out of 10 years, you'd probably have winning seasons and three of them, you may not. And this was one of the years that we haven't. But we are going to be faced with tough decisions moving forward and who fits, who doesn't and where where we need to improve and how we're going to put together a championship caliber club next year because that's my expectation and that's what our fans deserve. And that's what we're committed to. One of your core players, obviously, Marcus Simeon. And Marcus is a warrior, you know, better than anybody wants to play every single day. But last year, he sets the record for most at bats in a single season. I don't know that the production has quite been there to his standard this year. I wonder your assessment of him as a whole. And is there something maybe going into the future that you're going to have to say you're about to be 34. You'll look into maybe trying to give him more days off. Yeah. And I certainly the workload management is something not specific to Marcus, but with every player we have, making sure that they're getting enough rest and recovery to perform at their highest level and consistently perform at their highest level. And so with Marcus, it's going to be very important with any player getting into their mid to upper 30s. We were going to have to monitor that. That said, Marcus is about as good as they get in terms of the way he prepares, the way he takes care of himself, his routine, his work ethic, knowing himself, knowing when he needs to push it, when he can back off. And he really embodies so many characteristics of great players in terms of his preparation and routine and the care factor. So as Marcus this season attributed in terms of the offensive decline that we've seen in the second half, is that attributed to workload management issue? It could be. And that's something we're evaluating. Or is it that, hey, just like many of the other guys, some of whom have had plenty of rest and haven't performed, is it just a down year? And so I always say, I tell my kids all the time, every game can't be your best game or else you never have a best game. And I sort of feel the same on baseball seasons that every year can't be your best season on your baseball card. And this year, unfortunately, we've had a lot of down years by traditional standards for the norm for a lot of our players. So that said, protecting Marcus, making sure that he ages well into his mid to late thirties and maintains his ability to compete at a very high level. And I don't want to take away from what Marcus has done offensively for us. I mean, he's had a, I mean defensively for us. He's had a great year defensively. I think he may be leading baseball and run saved. And he made a heck of a play last night. And so Marcus is still a leader in the organization. He's a tremendous player. And, you know, we're grateful for all the positives that he brings. He's been recognized that, you know, he's he's every player is going to have down moments in their career. And our expectations, Marcus, just like many others, is going to bounce back. Could we get an update on your pitching injuries? Did we get some bad news on gray and any update on mally? Yeah, John came in today and, you know, had to, we had a hard conversation. Obviously, John has been a big part of our team this year. He struggled here for recent, but you know, there were times throughout the year where he's carried us. And he's been dealing with this neuroma, which is a, I guess, a nerve issue in his toe of his right foot, which is his push off foot. And it's got to the point where it's really impacting him, not just in terms of pitching, but his day to day, his life, being able to sleep, be able to drive, walk, stuff like that. And so it's at a point now where we need to get it fixed. I think there's a surgical, a very easy surgical repair that, you know, really won't impact his offsies and allow him to train and be strong for next year. So John was at a point where we felt like we're better off just getting this fixed now and giving him a full off season to train and prepare versus prolonging this and having him pitch through pain, especially when he may be compromising his mechanics. So it was a tough call to make, but I think the right call nonetheless. And we're grateful for, you know, all John's given us this year and hopeful that he'll bounce back and have a great year next year. Tyler still is in a little bit of a recovery mode, you know, some shoulder irritation. We don't want to push him too hard given that he's coming off Tommy John, but nonetheless saw some really good things from him. And I think we're in a point where we're just not going to not going to accelerate his recovery from this. Jacob pitching again this weekend and, and so we're excited. And then Max is also going to go out on rehab this weekend and, you know, potential for both those guys to rejoin the rotation next week. See why I'm just interested when one day when you hang him up and you're at the lake house with all your buddies hanging out the dock and stuff like that. And they ask you who the greatest baseball player is you ever played with or saw? Where will Aaron judge be on that list for you? He's going to be pretty high. He's just tremendous. And I, you know, I don't know Aaron well, I've gotten home a little bit just here and there running into him that whether the all-star game or special events and just seems like a tremendous person first and foremost. I think every fan should really, you know, appreciate the person that Aaron is. And I think that's to me what stands out. He's a special player, but he's also a very special human being. I think people just gravitate towards him because of his personality and his humility. And, you know, as I look at it from a parent's perspective, he's everything I want my sons to be. And he's, he's near at the top of the list in terms of the greatest players I've ever seen. Chris Young here with you in the nation. Okay, so when it comes to competitive balance tax, do you believe that as a front office, you should be repeat payers on that throughout the duration of contending and accept that the tax is like the cost of doing business essentially to stay competitive? Well, I think you're getting into some philosophical ownership questions to some degree decisions that I don't make by myself. That said, I think, you know, we're in a market and in a size of a market where we can and should be willing to go over the luxury tax, you know, at the right times, the right moments. And I'm very grateful to our ownership last season for allowing us to do so. I think some of those moves that we were able to make at the deadline, which put us over the luxury tax threshold contributed to us winning the World Series. And, likewise, this year, ownership gave us the resources to put together a team that came into the season well over the luxury tax threshold. And unfortunately, it hasn't worked out for us this year. But, nonetheless, I think that they have given us the resources. I think they've shown a willingness to to go over the tax when necessary. I think it's competitive advantage that we have in this market. And my expectation is that when the team is capable of winning a World Series, the resources that we need will be, will be there for us. We give you permission to go over the tax any time you want. Yes, we have whatever you want to do. If you feel like you need to go over the tax and make us a little bit better, we'll trust you. Go ahead and just go over the tax. All right. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love you. You guys can come advocate for me. Thank you. You know, you know, we got your back. We did want to ask you before we let you book you out of here because we got to talk with Jack Leiter earlier. But that lineup with the Yankees, I mean, went through two rounds pretty strong that third time through is when things got a little wonky. But how do you assess Jack Leiter's performance where he's at right now? You know, it's funny. It's it was an interesting game. I actually thought it was the best Jack's pitched here and his his big league starts thus far. I saw some real positive things last night. It was really encouraged for him. Hated that the sixth inning, you know, it kind of started with an infield hit there. I think that if if that's a ground out, it may change the course of that inning. But nonetheless, that's part of being a big leaguer is that you got to go out and face the third time through the order if you want to be a good starting pitcher. And I just love that Boach gave him that opportunity to go out. And for the third time, face the top of the New York Yankee lineup with two of the best hitters in the game and Juan Soto and Aaron Judge. So, you know, I think we saw that maybe not quite a finished product in terms of being able to navigate that third time. But nonetheless, what we saw the first five innings and gave up two runs and pitched very, very well against the tough lineup. I thought it was a huge step in the right direction. I told Jack as much last night that I thought there were so many positives from this game and don't let the negative from the either the final line or that sixth inning detract from all the positives that happens. You know, this is part of pitching development. I certainly experienced as a young pitcher that there are a lot of games where you feel like you're so close to having a good game, but it slips away from you. And the next step in the development is to be able to navigate that lineup for the third time through and and Jack will get there. But there were real positive last night and I'm happy for him and I'm excited to see him build off this. That's going to be the important part moving forward. You're the man. See why. Thank you so much. Chat with you next week. Guys, thank you. I appreciate it. Cheers. There he goes. Chris Young Rangers GM here. Mostly Mondays at four 20 in the nation. Couldn't make it yesterday with a holiday nice enough to reschedule for today. So we're quite appreciative. Mark Schlarath talking football with him next. It's the G back nation on the fan. Thank you very much, Lucius. It is the G back nation here on 105 three. The fan we're joined now by Odyssey NFL insider Mark Schlarath host of the stinking truth podcast insider calls are brought to you by Hellman's real man is mayo game day be delicious in a mark. Good afternoon. How the heck are you? I'm doing great. How are you guys doing? All right. Wonderful. It's great to hear your voice and talk football with you now. Big discussion here. Will the Cowboys sign deck to a new deal five days until the season starts. So how worried would you be about losing deck right now, Mark? Well, I mean, considering the fact that, you know, he was what second in the MVP voting led the league in touchdowns. I mean, the guy was pretty phenomenal last year. And you know, I know we push it toward the playoffs, you know, and it's interesting to me because everybody looks at that. Well, you can't win in the playoffs, you know, like we need to do quarterback or hey, you know, I mean, you know, Mike McCarthy is a great coach. 12 wins the last three years straight, but he can't win in the playoffs. I can't believe he ain't one of the playoffs since the 90s. I mean, like, it's, it's more systemic of the organization. It's, it's more about, you know, pointing the finger at the organization. We keep thinking of changing the quarterback or changing the coach is going to change your playoff future. I just don't know, like, like, I'm a Dak Prescott believer. I think he's a damn good quarterback. I think he's a guy that, you know, if the Cowboys decided, well, we're just not going to pay the guy, you know, and let him walk. Now, obviously there's going to be 20 some odd teams that can't wait to sign him. So he's a guy to me that you sign, you get him done, you figure it out, and, and you move on. And the other thing that I always say is, I mean, look what the San Francisco 49ers have done. They've signed IU. They made, you know, they made Christian McCaffrey a big money contract. IU, because Divo Samuel a couple of years ago, you know, they just signed Trent Williams today. Like, you know, both is signed to a big time deal. Fred Warner signed to a big time deal. The salary cap is fake. It's just a matter of you want to push money into the future or not. You know, just as a matter of you want to manage it well and pay your really good players. Or if you don't, and, and I don't know what else you have to learn about Dak to know that that is a, is a damn good quarterback and gives you a chance to be, at least be in the playoffs every year. Should I live in Denver? I've lived in Denver for, you know, for the last 20 some odd years. And I know what it's been like going through kind of quarterback purgatory the last couple of years. So do I pay them? Hell yeah, I pay them. Stink, you have a clip from last year that we love playing on the show about the Cowboys, where they're going to S in their helmets like they do every year come playoff time. And honestly, it was gold. And it was like you saw the future because it happened again. If your pro Dak is, is it then an organizational failure? You're pointing the finger at the Jones family. Is that the reason for the lack of playoff success for damn near 30 years now? Yeah. I mean, at some point, right? It's Jason Garrett's fault. It's, you know, it's Mike McCarthy's fault. It's that fault. It's Ramos fault. It's a, you know, eventually you have to look at the organization and figure out, okay, what is it that we're not, you know, what is it that we're not addressing? What is it that we're not doing right? You know, and I said this last year, I mean, in all honesty, when your head coach and your quarterback show up to the organization or show up into the locker room and neither are more aware that you just made a trade as a management team, as an owner, as a general manager for Trey Lance, that's an issue. Like that, like that should be something that's addressed with the head coach. Does he fit? Do we want him? Does he work with what we're doing? You know, that would be something that to me, again, and there are little things that become big things when you emasculate your coach, when you don't empower your coach to be the guy that makes the decisions, you know, and you can make decisions on a day to day basis. But if everybody in the building knows, yeah, you're not really in charge. Yeah, that's a, that's a bad situation. We can sit there and say, well, how does that manifest itself into losses in the, you know, in the playoffs? Well, listen, when you get the playoffs, it's pretty freaking good, right? When you get to the playoffs, you're playing the best of the best. And if things are even a little out of whack, I think you're not going to overcome those things against really good teams. You've got to be so dialed in and so sold out from one another and so incredibly connected. You know, when that stuff doesn't, when that stuff happens, I remember the tie it in Schultz who went to Houston last year and said, what a relief it was. You just focus on football and not feel like you're a zoo animal. Like, you know, you're walking through and, and, you know, there's glass and there's people that are sitting there watching practice and watching you walk out to practice. And like, that's the sanctuary. It's funny. When Sean Payton took over the Denver Broncos and I've done a bunch of games there. And, you know, you go in and you have, you eat lunch at the cafeteria, right? They feed you and they've got a meeting room right off the cafeteria where you meet with the coaches, you meet with the players and all that stuff. And every time I was in there calling a Broncos game, you know, people from the sales office would be up there with their clients would be in the players cafeteria and eating lunch with clients. And the, you know, the clients would be like, oh, they're so-and-so. Oh, they're so-and-so. Oh, there's a player, right? Sean Payton came in. It took about three days to put the moratorium on. There's no non-essentials that are allowed in my cafeteria. Hey, like business people, pack a freaking lunch, but you're not bringing clients to where my players are, you know, where my players have a sanctuary. Like, I can tell you, as a player, it used to bother the crap out of me when, you know, I mean, we had a couple of really good seasons, three good seasons, one, we started 13 and oh, and, you know, all the national media started showing up at about week seven. And it got to the point where we're so crowded, you felt violated. Like, I don't have any place to go high. I don't have any place to get away from this. And when that's constant, I just, I think it takes away from you guys being together and you guys doing the things that are required to really have a close knit, you know, tight football team that's going to fight for one another in those, you know, in those games where it's, but frankly, not to be rude, but not cutting time. Hey, Stank, the one of the things that a lot of cowboy fans are concerned about is their running game. And, you know, you have the two rookies, the rookie tackle and the rookie center making starts. And you played with some really good teams that were running the football. What's Dallas going to have to do to be more efficient running the football this year? You got to run it. I mean, like, I'm not trying to be, you know, I'm not trying to be a wise, but, but run the ball, like, I was, I was talking about see you football. And I don't know if you guys watch that opening game with Colorado. Don't run the ball very much. Yeah. No, but listen, you can't run the ball if you don't run the ball. Right. And what I mean by that is you can't throw it 42 times and get a lead of nine points and say, okay, now in the fourth quarter, here we go. Let's grind it out. That is a skill that requires commitment and it requires commitment from everybody, from wide receivers to the running backs to the offensive line to the quarterback. Everybody has to be dialed in the tight end. Everybody. And the coaching staff has to be dialed in. And there is no greater skill than moving a man from point A to point B against his will. That is technique. You just don't like, I heard this all the time from coaches like, Hey, man, I got to stay lower here. Yeah, no crap. We're really got to stay lower. Why? Because I'm getting impaled. Yeah, I get that. I get that. How? Like, how do you stay lower? Well, in technique, right? The technique of creating leverage from your feet through your ankles, through your knees, through your hips, all that ties together with your hips and your hands. And if all that stuff comes off in a, in a kinetic chain, one after the other after the other, and they all strike at the same time, you lift your opponent up through the sky, you know, when striking, not out, but up. And when you do that, you create leverage, and then you take people off the ball. And when you do that consistently across the board, guess what? You start getting those yards that those dirty yards where that two yard run becomes a four yard run. And that's four yard run becomes that eight yard run. That eight or run becomes a 16 yard run. And pretty soon in the fourth quarter, they're waving the white flags over on the other side. They're like, we don't want to do this anymore. But that takes the commitment. So you don't just say, Hey, man, we're going to have this great passing game. And we're going to have this great running game. Got to have a great running game first, right? And you play off that. You tie and you marry, you'll play action off of that stuff. And you tie and you make it look identical. And then then you just absolutely, you know, eviscerate people. But again, that's one of those things that there is such a commitment that has to be made. And your coaches have to understand, and your OCs have to understand that, you know, that probably doesn't excite a lot of owners when the next round of hiring comes up. Marc Slareth here with you in the GBAG nation. We were wondering about your other former stomping ground of course now in Denver. But first half of your career in Washington, how good are the commanders going to be here with the new quarterback rookie year? Yeah. Well, I mean, there's a lot that has to go on with the commanders because it's been a mess. For decades and decades. And listen, I think that hired the right guy in Dan Quinn. Dan Quinn is Quinn is one of those guys that I think players just genuinely respect, genuinely love and genuinely want to play hard for. So I think that's, you know, that's an important aspect of kind of creating and changing and helping to, you know, manipulate that culture, if you will. I am concerned about the offense coordinator. You know, Cliff Kingsbury is a air raid, you know, guy and air raid guys tend to live outside the numbers. And, you know, that's the college game. Like we're going to run it outside the numbers. We're going to throw it outside the numbers. That's what we do. The NFL tends to be inside the numbers. That's how you win in the NFL. And so, you know, questions about him in general, what he's learned from, you know, his time in Arizona and his time in the NFL and we'll see how that kind of happens and the kind of maturation process that that offense goes through. But I do believe Dan Quinn is the right guy. And Jayden Daniels, you know, watching all the film, Jayden was one of my, you know, one of my favorite evaluations. The two guys that I like the most coming out, I didn't really look that much at Caleb Williams because everybody knew Caleb Williams was going to Chicago, right? So, I looked a little bit at him, but I knew he was going to Chicago. I looked at Jayden Daniels because I live in Denver and I looked at all the other quarterbacks. And it really was Beau Nixon's and then Jayden Dallas, one of my two favorite quarterbacks coming out, just watching the timing of the way they played the game, the accuracy, the, you know, just getting the ball out of their hand quickly, accurately. You can't be accurate in the NFL. You cannot be accurate as a quarterback. You're not on time. Being on time lends itself to being accurate. And I thought they did it. Those two were really good in those aspects. Well, thanks for joining us this season, Mark. We really look forward to it. Enjoy the first week. And we'll catch you up with you next Tuesday. All right. Sounds good guys. Take care. There he goes. Odyssey NFL insider, Mark Schlerith host of the stinking truth podcast insider calls, brought you by Hellman's real man. A's mayo game day be delicious. I like the way you said catch up with you next Tuesday to see you next Tuesday. You're so much more respectful than one. Yes, sir. I'll have to keep that one in the back pocket though, you know, just in case things get squirrely. It's a long season. You know what I mean? You never know what could happen. In addition to the finest coming up next though, Eric, where you're taking us. Well, we got more Jaden Dingles conversation that needs to be had. We have Mike Zimmer pulling no punches. And if you think this guy forgot how to play football, think again. Hey NFL fans, you can start the season with a big return on Fandal, America's number one sports book. 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We have the expressway coming up in about 15 minutes LA live at 540. What is the latest with the deck deal? You know, we got a a week or so to go here less than a week, five days. So how close is this thing to maybe actually happening? We'll talk about that coming up at 520. Here's the chief with an addition. The finest. Well, Calvin Watkins is reporting that Eric Kendrick's said that he's an in and out burger guy. He's a California kid. So he's reporting that in the last hour. We'll be we'll be all over Eric Kendrick's at what time on Thursday? What's 520? 520 every Thursday this week, a 30 Thursday expressway with Eric Kendrick. So that's going to be awesome. So now it's in and out is great. It's a good product. It's a solid burger. Yeah, I'm not going to push back to you. We tried that out in a couple years ago and it lived up to that hype. Trent Williams always lives up to the hype in the contract does as well. He just signed it three years, 82.66 million dollars, 48 million at signing, 26 million via a signing bonus. So he gets the big money that he wanted, that he needed, that he deserved. And now San Francisco walks into the season here with their brand and iuk and their Trent Williams. So everything is is all good. Now in Pittsburgh, Cam Hayward, another veteran. He's agreed to a three year, 45 million dollar deal, 29 million new money, 16 million fully guaranteed, according to Jeremy Fowler. So you got a couple of deals going down as we await, whether or not Jamar Chase is going to get the bag. Adam Schefter says it needs to happen in the next 48 hours, or he's not playing on Sunday. So my goodness, dude, full prediction sure to go wrong. Chase and Dak both get done this week. Oh, wow. I really like that. Has anybody willing to jump on that particular wagon that will Chuck just rolled out? I think I would take the same bet right now, right? I mean, Dak's getting the deal and now that CD's done, I think the Cowboys are trying really hard to get this thing done this week. And if they don't, my thought process is it's more so Dax side saying, Hey, let's let's go ahead and we'll wait, we'll wait this thing out and bet on ourselves again. You have a deadline on this one. If it's not done by Saturday, okay. So you're not getting done till till next offseason. So you're saying the whole you're giving it the whole week. Yeah, I'll give it the whole week. I'll give it till I'll give it till Saturday. I mean, I think Friday is probably more realistic, but I'll say Saturday, maybe Dak and Jerry have a couple of cocktails on the flight to Cleveland on Saturday. They just a couple of bros getting deals done. They think they ink the deal in Cleveland. But if it's not done by Sunday, this thing ain't getting well, did you see what a Rucini said? That's what I was saying. I was going to ask that question. You got her report. Go ahead and talk about it. She says the hold up at this point from what I understand is about the years the Dallas Cowboys are willing to commit to now. See if you guys bought, are you buying this? The Dallas Cowboys, what they're willing to commit to years wise, it's assumed that Dak is going to be paid at the top of the market. The Cowboys are aware of that. But the question is, do they want to put themselves in a position contractually that keeps Dak and Dallas longer than two, three, four years. And that's what Dak is looking for. He's looking for a long term commitment from Dallas. The hold up here is really the belief from the Dallas Cowboys. So that, that goes against everything that's been usually the case where you feel like Dak wants the shorter deal, but maybe he's at a place now where he wants this to be like his final contract. I don't know. I see. And this is why I don't believe that the Cowboys really could be out on him because if you were out, you're not trying to get it to be 59 million. You're not trying to get it to be 3% less. If you're out, you're out. This is why I don't believe the Cowboys are out. If you don't think that can take you there, then him at 55 million isn't taking you there. You would have to bring him down to 20 million bucks to give yourself the money to get two other great players to win with their strategy. So I wish I knew it. I think this is negotiation. Both sides are throwing the best haymakers possible. The Cowboys are throwing, yeah, we really don't like you that much as a player to get Dak to come down to two or three percent. That's ultimately the Cowboys goal here. I wonder which one it really is. Yeah, I think you offer some really, you know, some good analysis there. But I wonder if it's really that the Cowboys don't want to go the long term because Dak does have a history of getting back to the table pretty quick. He does. So if he's looking for a longer term deal, that seems very much against what he's done in the past. Okay. So four years ago, he wanted a shorter deal because the TV money was exploding. Right. Now the TV money is trajectory is slowing down. It's kind of plateauing and he's getting older. So now security makes the most sense for him. You know, it's like five or six years at 60 million a year. That sounds great. I don't think I'm going to be in a great position to negotiate three or four years from now. Yeah, you could also look at Kirk Cousins right off in Achilles at 35 years old and be like, that dude got paid. I think I'll be in a good position. But he is thinking differently now that he wasn't those previous negotiations. Things change all of a sudden when you have a child and now your long term future. Maybe I would like to know I'm staying in the same place where I can raise my daughter and I will be secured now for the rest of my career. Does have a daughter? Yeah, that's true. Yeah, you can't. There's no argument with that. Yeah. The NFL security met with the Eagles and the Packers as they're getting set for their Friday night kickoff in Brazil and flat out told them like stay at their hotels outside of the trips. They'll make to the arena where the game is on Friday. Like you shouldn't be leaving as wall truck. You're not going to drag me down here to Brazil and have me sit in a hotel for 72 hours, right? Okay. Yeah, we're going to go see some things. This is from Albert Breer and this is just funny. He says, one of the things on like the do's and don'ts. One was to not walk outside with their phones out of their pockets. It's like while you're outside, basically you can't look at your phone. They'll ride buying a motorcycle and grab them for me. Another was to not those videos are fun, aren't they? They're crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. Just like moped drivebys. Yeah. You got a guy on the back like trying to snag stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And if they get it, they get it. If they don't, they move, they just keep going. Yeah, absolutely. Sometimes you'll see a video where like a guy in a truck sees it happening and they'll like hit the moped. Wow. I didn't get this in the algorithm. It is strong in my algorithm right now. But what do you guys think about this? One of the things the league told all the players and everybody was to not respond to any weird messages on their phones either. Like whatever the heck that means. Like, are they about to, they're about to be sending me Brazil? I go to Brazil and my phone is just going to stop being type of players out there. You're the wilderness out there, man. There's too many emails to go around. Remember in Vegas. Remember in Vegas, we had the coyote bite. Yeah, there's going to be, there's going to be a Brazilian Friday night, Thursday night fiasco, a little booty suffocation. Perhaps. Yeah. I think that's all on the list. Remember the rampage the swimmer went on when the Olympics were in Brazil? Yes. That 2000 Brian, Oh, a lot of you're an Asian 16 or 14 outdoor P and then everybody blamed it. I don't even know what you're doing. Summer games are 16. Yeah. World Cup. I think it was 14. Yes. You're right. This is the NFL being paranoid about their guys getting in trouble. Olympians were down their party and their balls off. We're fine. It's a party town. It's a tourist town. It is. Come on. From what I thought. I mean, I don't know. I just, I don't get why you're going to play a game there if that's going to be the constraints. You're the NFL. You've got power here. They put a five star hotel up where they're going to house professional teams in the slums. Well, you take a step outside that lobby door and all sorts of Brazilian crimes going to come running right up to you. Give me a freaking break. This is what not traveling will do to you. Yeah. Just getting your, getting your brain the only safe places America. Yeah. I got to stay right here. Well, there's a story in the start for you. It's so fine. That's an Inglewood by the way. Yeah, it is. That's an Inglewood. Yeah. What a blood. They're never up to any good. Never up against you. Well, in Minnesota, for whatever reason, they're cranking out Mike Zimmer articles. Oh, did you see the quotes in this? Yeah. He does say that he's having fun again, which is nice. And his daughter, Corey, is the one who's lending voice to that. Like he's now, he's back to doing football. He's here locally. I know he's got family here locally. So he's a happier version of himself. But when he was being fired in Minnesota, that was the, that was the rock bottom for him. He had never been fired before. Yeah. So he just was always just sort of leveling up in position. Did you, did you ever hear what he said about they asked him if he wanted to speak to the team? Yeah, that's the quote, how they started off. He's like, they asked me if I wanted to address the team. This is now like he just finds out he's being fired. So he's angry. They're saying he's sleep deprived. And this is the first time he's being fired. So he's short circuiting to some extent. And they asked him if he wanted to address the team. And he's like, I said, he'll know they got me fired. I don't know. Look at those players in there. They're the ones that believed to me. He says, I didn't know I was supposed to go to HR and sign out or whatever. No one told me I just got all my stuff, got my truck and left. It's like, you fired me. I my, I'm done here. I have no more obligations to anything. Only Jason Garrett would hang around for a week. I'm not believe he wasn't fired. Remember? He wasn't fired. It was super mutual. That's like checking out of a hotel. If you ask me, I'm we're out of here. Yeah, we're done. He says, I could tell you, I've not watched one Minnesota game since, which makes plenty of sense there. But yeah, he also references a time where it's draft time and he's getting fed up with Rick Spielman, the general manager for being a bad drafter. And this is draft day 2021. Zimmer says, I walk in before the draft and Rick is watching quarterback interviews from the Combine. He hadn't told me anything. Normally, he always kept me abreast of everything. And he and I were always good. The first round, Rick tried to trade up for Justin Fields, who hasn't done anything. With four third round picks, Spielman selected in order quarterback Kellen Mon, who's in hated Aggie zone, linebacker Chaz Surat. Let me know if you guys don't even know any of these players. My offensive lineman, Wyatt Davis, defensive and Patrick Jones the second, Zimmer was only there for the first pick. He says, when I picked when he picked Mon, I walked out of the room. I left the building. I didn't even talk to him on the phone. He was out on Monde and all those guys. I mean, think about it. You had four third round picks. And I don't know a single one of those guys other than Kellen Mon, and that's because he was an Aggie quarterback. Like, come on now. So those are, I don't know what it is about Minnesota right now. That's cranking out a Mike Zimmer interview and story, but those quotes were pretty dang interesting right there. And I'm excited for his defense. I'm excited for the way this thing's going to look. And I saw actually, because I know Walt Chuck is picking, I don't know if you've gone on record with this on our show here, but I have it, I haven't, because I mean, things change, maybe my opinion changes. Has your opinion changed on the fact that you went bold with the commanders having a pop up year and winning the NFC East division? Now I'm just going to stick whether or not you're going to stick with that. I'm going to stick with Jayden Daniels and the Washington commanders winning the NFC East. I saw from Josh Norris that Jayden Daniels, time to throw on 15 preseason drawbacks, small sample size, but it was considerably less on the time to throw than last year's quickest in the NFL, which was to almost almost a full half second, faster than even what to was getting the ball out in the 15 dropbacks for Jayden Daniels in this preseason. The air yards were five and a half in the preseason for Jayden Daniels. The NFL, the worst air yards in the league last year was 5.7. So it's just get the ball super quick, I guess. And as Mark Schler just told us, it's all about like getting outside horizontal. Like the Cliff Kingsbury loves to have like three by one. And let's just throw it to a guy as he turns around seven yards. It's a lot of just like turnaround stuff. Yeah, it's not a lot of like hitting guys on the move. I have no faith in Cliff Kingsbury. I have no faith in that offensive line. And I feel for Jayden Daniels being in that situation. There he is. Eric Chia followed with an addition of the finest with some Cowboys copium in there as well. I think. Yeah, dunking all over the Washington coaching staff. I like it. Okay. When we come back, it's time for the express way. We'll go commercial free to the top, give you everything breaking in the world of sports right out of the gates, including agents giving their opinion on the Cowboys and DAC with five days to go until the season starts. That's next in the nation. 860 says, Wolf Chuck has been randomly selected for a drug test by Odyssey. What did you say to get that reaction from the text? I picked Washington to win the East. Oh, there you go. I'm a believer in Jayden Daniels. And look, they do this randomly in the NFC East. I'm hoping the Cowboys can repeat. We haven't had one since 2004. I'm damn sure not picking the Eagles. Nope. I don't hate anybody more than them. And that could be a dumpster fire with the Kellen Moore deal. Jalen hurts and Siriani don't like each other. You get a new head coach and Dan Quinn, who we do like and respect. I think Kingsbury's an offensive coordinator could be better than Eric certainly does. And I'm a Jayden Daniels believer rookie year we saw with RG three, he runs around, takes the NFL by storm. Hopefully they suck the next 10 years. But for one year, Washington has random seasons where they win nine or 10 games and they win this damn division. I'd, you know, it would surprise me. But I guess it shouldn't. We have not had a repeat winner. As you said, it's our trend. I mean, Washington's defense just got so bad last year there. Yeah, that's that was surprising how bad, but they traded away those two edges. And then all of a sudden it was like, whoa, we still got two big boys in the middle. They don't tackle the linebacker and Dan Quinn should help that. Absolutely he should. So we'll see, you know, I am picking the Cowboys. How about you, segments brought you by cars for kids donate today, cars for kids.org and the expressway is presented by the on time experts. So we can take your thoughts on that on the Franklin Franklin injury attorney text line. But the biggest story out there is, you know, that the Cowboys are apparently, according to Josina Anderson, right? That they, no, Tennessee, I'm sorry, we're seeing it. Yeah, they don't, they don't want to go long term on, on this contract, hold up between Cowboys and Dak reportedly the years the team is willing to commit at eight, seven, seven, eight, eight, one, one, oh five, three, you know, I think the Cowboys don't like losing negotiations and they're getting destroyed by Dak and his agent, like they wanted a short term deal. They got it. They wanted a long term deal. They got it. I think agents and quarterbacks know there is a finite amount of these and whatever you ask for, for most teams, eventually you're going to get, especially if you were second in the MVP voting, you've done all this winning for, for your team. And I think the thing that I focus on right here is that Jerry says stuff to dress it up and create pop and sizzle in the media. Whenever Steven has talked about this, it's been very consistent, hasn't it? Yeah. That he wants to back back. Yeah. Yeah, it's been. Which one of the two Joneses are most in control of the vision of this where things are going team building wise? I think it's more Steve than Jerry at this point. We like going to Jerry for the sound bites from the media, but that doesn't mean he's he's most in charge. What do you think about that idea, Brian? I tell you, I, you know, it's, it's funny. I, I just, I don't know, I'm being honest here and this is terrible. Here I am paid to do this and talk about this. Honestly, don't know. I don't know because you hear, you hear the, oh, well, you know, is this really our guy bit from the owner and then you hear what he says and then you hear what Steven says and then you're talking about now I'm confused. Does he want the long term? Does he not want the long term? You know, I mean, there's all these reasons. I, this is, this has been the most that that I just, they don't want him. Yes, they do want him. No, they don't want to do this that, you know, everything I hear is just so confusing on this one. You know, it just, it just, I don't know if they're slow playing it, if they're getting it to the season, if this Dak really want to be here. I'm sorry, folks. I know they, they pay me to do this and talk about this, this situation. Honestly, don't, I worked for an organization for 14 years and I don't know. Yeah. And I talked to somebody and I talked to people at training camp, you know, and I, what about, I don't know, you know, hey, that's, you know, that's, that's a lot of money for that. Or, hey, I don't want to do this. Or I don't want to do, you know, it's just so confusing right now. And you try and, you're trying to tell people what you believe they're like, Hey, what do you think? What's your gut feeling? I'm sorry, folks. I don't have a gut feeling. I really don't know what direction this thing is going to go. I think when you see how little they've spent over the years where like the Eagles this year are spending a hundred million dollars more in cash on their team than you are. And for the last decade, you've been one of the bottom cash spenders. That doesn't feel like a Jerry Jones thing. That feels like a Steven Jones thing. Sure. So to me, that is, that's where the proof is in the pudding. It's like, how are they conducting business? They're doing it super conservatively. Conservative is not a synonym for Jerry Jones. No, Steven, Steven, yes, the Cowboys are spending less money on their roster than the Arizona Cardinals, a team that's notoriously considered a cheap organization. That guy Tyler Dunne who had that whole article in his sub stack or whatever and was talking about McCarthy stuff. He's a he's a Wisconsin Green Bay kind of dude who's now branched off and writing just for his own sub stack or whatever. But he had quotes from like former Cowboys personnel people and stuff like that. But one of the one of the things that he said in his article, this was back in June, he says, Steven's always the one that's trying to hone Jerry in and prevent him from bankrupting the salary cap. And sometimes it's the right thing to do. And sometimes it isn't. He references a time where Steven reportedly, quote, went absolutely ballistic on Jerry for spending too much money on Dion Sanders and for agency back in 1995. We know that story. Right. Yeah. So, but see, I want to say this though, about this writer, if he's talking to Rob Davis, who is Mike McCarthy's was Mike McCarthy's like right hand guy, I don't know how much access that he would really have to, you know, no one what's spending and what's going on. Like the current deal. Yeah. Well, look, the cash spending, it's, I mean, boys broke it down. Like everybody can see this. And for cash spending is actual money that's being paid to players each year. There's no limit on the cash a team can spend each season as long as it's properly accounted for over a five year window. So when they talk about the spreadsheets, they just spit cash on sea lamb, right? They give them a $38 million. Is that what we're talking about when spending cash? No, correct me. If I mean, I'm, does that go to next year's cap? It can depends on how they structure it. So let's what they like to do is like each year, then they'll flip a switch and they'll restructure it. But when it comes to just cash spending, the Cowboys have been at the bottom of the NFL since 2013 of this. Okay. So maybe that's just whoever is handling their cap doesn't like cash spending, but they should probably reevaluate it because the Eagles are doing it. The 49ers is slayer. They just didn't is paying all of their players. They haven't paid pretty yet, but they've paid everybody else. And they're all at the top of the market. So they find ways to maneuver around this. And the frustrating thing is it's not like we want them to spend more of the Jones inheritance. Everybody in the NFL spends the same amount over a sustained period of time. It's how you layer that money in. It's when you spend it. The Cowboys have decided that slow and steady and smooth, spending essentially the same amount year after year is the way to do it. And there's just not any evidence that that's being successful right now. It's teams that are pushing it all into one or two years to try to win the Super Bowl. And then using one of the other years in that five year period to recover, that is by far, unless you have my homes. Well, that's why going back to the exact thing. Business wise and the Jones is a business family. It doesn't make any sense to lose deck. Why? Because the fans out there that have the idea unless they don't believe in him, the fan. But even then you let them walk. That's fine. You think you're going to have money to go spend on players. You're not you owe him $40 million next year if he goes inside somewhere else. That's dead money, right? Right. Exactly. Yeah. But you're going to be flexible with the salary captain. Now, okay, I can build around a Cooper rush. If that's what you want to do or a trail lance, it's a nice idea. I love the idea. It's just not what's going to happen. They believe as we know, they believe they can draft. So they're going to draft a quarterback. They they could very well draft a quarterback. They absolutely could at pick 20 when they're going to have to move up and go get your door. I've just say whatever they want to get. I believe that when we you and I start talking about the draft this year, they will draft a quarterback at some point in time in this draft. And maybe in the first three rounds, see, we don't have the advantage yet of knowing who all the quarterbacks are. Even if Dak is back, they go first three rounds. No, Dak's not back. If Dak's not back. Yeah. I mean, if they don't resign, Dak, then they absolutely have to draft a quarterback. Now, where do they do it? That's a fair question. But you're most likely not going to be in position to have the number one overall pick. Yeah. But the number one overall pick doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to be that good. Look at what was Trubisky, third overall. Yeah, who wasn't good. I'm just saying you find a quarterback just somehow, some way in the draft, Dak Prescott, we talked about this fourth round pick, Tom Brady, a sixth round pick. At some point in time, you can find a quarterback. You can. But the reason we talk about it like that is because you just have to be able to evaluate them. You do. That's the problem. That's the problem a lot of NFL teams. Yeah. They don't know how to evaluate quarterbacks. There's some teams. I thought John Elway, being a Hall of Fame quarterback general, manager, would know what a good quarterback looks like. He couldn't get that right at all. 100% I agree with you. So that means there's some teams that have the ability to evaluate quarterbacks and enter very, you know, and it works out for them. There are teams. John Dorsey, when he was, he convinced Andy Reid to trade up for Pat Mahomes. We all watch Texas Tech play. You think, did, when you watch Texas Tech play, did you think Pat Mahomes was who he was? I mean, what was going to be? No, when you're watching. Absolutely not. Some saying scouts have these abilities sometime. And sometimes it's just damn luck. Sometimes it just happened here. Sometimes it's luck. Yeah. We were going to, we were going to, Hey, if Quincy Carter doesn't fill a drug test, we're cutting Tony Romo. What do you think about that for luck? Yeah. That's luck right there. That, that isn't anything that we know. You know what I mean? I mean, Jill, you wanted to go get past the Lynch. They thought Dak was about as good as jameel showers. Yeah. Tom, I mean, you know, John Snyder, he even said it about Matt Flynn. Hey, that's a great pick that Russell Wilson, you made. Yeah. I'm the dumbass that gave Matt Flynn $10 million. Well, the Cowboys, at least according to Diana Rucini, like Dak, but don't want to do, what would this be? Five years, they probably want to do four because they don't believe that, you know, they're, I wish I knew that, I wish I knew that answer. If I knew, if I knew what, who was wanting what direction, I could tell you if this is going to get done. You don't leave Diana's report that the Cowboys wanted shorter? No, I, I'm not saying that. I just, I would like somebody to tell me. And again, she's locked in. I don't know how locked in on this particular subject. But if somebody were to tell me over there, he's looking for a, he's looking for a five, six year deal. Now I have an understanding, well, then, okay, what are you worth thinking more for? If, if we knew that we, I could tell you if this deal is going to get done. What if it is that? Do the Cowboys go to the fifth year? What if it's four or five? What's, what does the Cowboys history tell you they're going to do? They would cave. There you go. And avoidable years. If necessary, they're going to avoidable years, exactly what I believe is going to happen. If they go, if they, if they, in fact, just want to get this deal done, they're probably going to have to go long. And I know I'm probably going to add text for saying that, but they're probably going to have to go long. They are, they're going to, if he, I'm just, it just seems like to me a different negotiating tactic from Dak to want to go long. And there it is, because you know, the Cowboys, that's what I don't believe. Yeah, because everything else to this point has been short. Now he's old. He's 30, right? But I don't know. To me, that makes sense. These quarterbacks are getting paid at 35 years old. You said the TV money's drying up. It's not, it's not shooting up as much as it was the, the, the velocity at which it was increasing year to year has slowed down. The cap is, the cap has gone up right every year. Yeah. To me, this, I, to me, football's still the best bet when NFL for like the money, what the money is going to be. The sponsorship where it's going to be. I, I, I will say false on what you just said, because I think the money's still going to be there and still going to go up. Yeah, I do too. It might not be for other sports, but it's going to be for the NFL, but you can understand football is going to be the next one. Get ready. College football is going to be the next, especially with the streaming deals, Amazon, Hulu. Now they've got to deal with Netflix. The money's going to grow. I mean, maybe it is something though, you're starting a family, you're thinking different. I think you're overthinking that. You've already had one huge contract. And now you're like, you've already got the wealth. You've already got your making, you're making $20 million a year selling yogurt and sleep number beds, but everything doesn't matter because he wants to be the highest paid quarterback in football. He didn't say that. He, what do you think he's holding out for now? Well, he, he didn't say he wanted to be. He's also said the money doesn't matter, which that obviously does not seem to be true. That does, that's not true at all. Right. The money does matter. So he doesn't need to say, I want to be the highest paid quarterback, but in these negotiations, you bet to me, that's exactly what they're talking about. He wants to be paid 60 million. So he could be the highest paid quarterback for 10 minutes or something. Whatever it is. These guys feel obligated to the players association and stuff. I think we're evaluating the family thing, by the way, he's got more money than he even knows. That's the only thing to me that would be justifiable as to why I'd go long on the deals. Otherwise than I, I sided with them. They could cut him. They could cut him. They could cut him, you know, they could after three years, they could eat all dead money just like everybody else does in the league. So the salary cap has gone up $70 million over the last five years. What is that? Like 15 million a year? So you think it's going to continue to do that? I do. And I think that you got set back because of the pandemic football stuff. I think now you're going to get that reset. I think, I think to me, these companies are jumping in all these streaming companies and stuff. If we were just talking about the other day, how much money do we have to pay to watch an NFL season on direct TV or whatever it is, what? $700. Yeah. There's people like, yeah, count me in. Here's the credit card. Let's go. All you need, you know, think about that. That money, that money, it's only going to get bigger is only going to get bigger. Mike McCarthy reiterating his focus on getting the job done says the Cowboys have a 21 game plan for 2024. I do like how he plans out. No carpe a DM this year. I guess not. We haven't heard about that or carpet carpeomnia, whatever that is. Carpeomnia. Sorry. That's a hotel next to the star, the Omni hotel. Yeah. But he that was an answer to do to a question about his contract situation. Oh, I think it would be easy for him to not worry about contract. I don't think with lifetime earnings. And I don't think he's worried about it one bit to be honest with you. I wouldn't be surprised if he's planning for exit strategy plan B. Well, 21 games, he's definitely not planning on being the NFC champion and having the best record to get that by. He's always planning on playing all the playoff games. Respect him for that. I like, I like he probably knows the NFC. You're not repeat division winner. So can we play as a wall? He's worried about the commanders playing the odds. I like to, I like Wade Phillips strategy about that. You get the number one seed you count that wild card as a playoff win as a win. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Put that in, put that in the win loss. There you go. Who are the best college football teams in the great state of Texas right now? We go to the Dallas morning news. Give me your top five. Well, Chuck, what do you got? Texas is probably 100% to, I mean, A&M. It's they just had a tough loss there to Notre Dame. How do we offense talent wise? Yeah. I don't know. It's SMU. They're two and O SMU. I probably put it too. SMU has had a, had a really, really good win. Three in the morning they came back in the fourth quarter of their number three. Yeah. You know, you know, I think North Texas definitely deserves love there, Brian. North Texas meant to beat up on SFA go beat tech and all of a sudden North Texas might be the third best team here in the great state. They're tied with tech currently for six TCU and Baylor tied it. Number four. Don't we get an S and U Baylor game this week? It's a, it's SMU Baylor week. Is that this week already? SMU just BYU play the legendary. I want to see some SMU Miami ACC championship. I would love that. I would love that. If SMU got into that ACC title, that'd be fun. One and two. Texas was one. Who was two? A&M still. Oh, that defense looked pretty good. The roster's good. Yeah. But gosh, that offense, it did look gross. The rice and Utepp in a battle for the seller right now. Uh, so best look to you guys, just slightly ahead of Sam Houston. It's time now to go into the pimp couple. We're Lucius. Let's go. That's LA life. Yes, I do. And I'll give it to you right after the great Rick James. All right, you squares. Time is home. Fire up the skunk and make it out of tow. Sweet. That's weird. It'll make it dance. There's a ball hit toward right field. Sheets coming in. Drop the ball. The Guardians will score first as Kwan comes home into second base's Owen Miller. And just simply botched it. What was he thinking? But my god, this is LA live for Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024. It was the third of September. That was the day my dad. It is a toxic Tuesday here in LA live, which is sponsored by kissable dental and then no bill guarantee book online at kissabledental.com. Your kissable journey starts today. Producer of the RJ and choppy show, Peyton Russell, come to the front of the congregation. Come to the front of the congregation, sir. Hey, so you guys did a little fantasy football draft yesterday. Did that happen? Yeah, we drafted them up, man. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So this morning, apparently, uh, my man, Peyton Russell just tripped over his feet to do some snitching. Uh oh, some dry snitching. I mean, tripped over his feet. Listen to this. Yeah. Mine was at number two last year. And I finished, uh, like, dead last with three running backs, my first three picks. And I still got my homes. How about that? Still got my homes. Who were you running backs? It was, um, Bijon Robinson, Alvin Kamara, and one other. Don't know that. I don't even know whose team was who. That's why I was sitting there. All I know is whoever Joe Buck yourself is screwed me out of two places. Huh? Alex Metra. That's worse. Does he know? He knows Alex team. My God, it was quick, bro. Buck your soul. It's a great one. Whoever Joe Buck yourself is screwed me out of two places. Huh? Alex Metra. That's his arch nemesis, dude. I actually give him a little bit of a break here. Keeps. Oh, I mean, break. Those guys are always squaring off. Yeah. Well, I don't give you a break. You're just in your bag. Yeah. What'd you do? I see you. You played. Uh, it's your turn, Alec. Take another shot back up here. Take the high road on them. And high road. That's metrics. That might be the way right now. Yeah. I wrote them. Clearly they dominate the little road. Yeah. Clearly. And, uh, let's see. G back of the day. We do it every weekday on a fan at two 30. If you see the thing floating out there, they'll be afraid to hit me up at Lucky Lucius P on social media. Lucius Alexander on Facebook. And you can follow us all if you find G back nation on Twitter. Our winner today. We go to the, it is what it is podcast with Cameron and mace. They're back for a new season. Uh, and they have Michael Irvin, our very own Michael Irvin, the playmaker. Love it. As an NFL correspondent all season. So I can't wait to watch this. Now this is his first hit with the boys and listen to the story following his dismount. We have a lot of weeks to see the progress happen, man. But thanks Mike. We appreciate you on the first day, baby. Yeah. All my brothers, man. I appreciate you, man. Thanks. Okay. So before we end the show, we just got a couple more topics to discuss. So Michael Jordan's son, Marcus Jordan was caught sniffing a white substance in some photos that went viral earlier in the month next to his new girlfriend. Of course, a lot of memes were thrown around. But what was you guys's initial reaction to seeing those pictures? Yeah, I went for Mike to get on talking about that. Okay. Okay. One trigger. You want to trick them. I do love listening to them speak. It's not like this. Come on, Cam. Yeah. All right. Let's see what it got for you, boys. L.A. live 105 through the fan on a toxic Tuesday. It was the third of September. NFL owners could have Tom Brady restrictions. Yes. Some broadcast restrictions on Tom Brady is what I meant to say NFL owners could have broadcast restrictions on Tom Brady. You heard about this here, broadest, right? Yes, sir. I do. And there are quite a few of them. And it is quite a few of them. I don't know how he's going to do his job. Holy smokes. If Tom Brady is approved as a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, it'll be subject to unique and severe restrictions in his role as a Fox broadcaster. The restrictions could prevent Brady from attending production meetings. Got to have that. Got to have that. You got to have that. You got to know these people. Coaches told me the other day that, you know, you got that. That's a crutch. Watching team practices and even being present in other team facilities. Yes. Can't go. There you go. No flies on for Tom Brady if he becomes a minority owner here. Especially with his reputation. Let me see those balls such a work with time pretty also would be barred from publicly criticizing referees or opposing team. Oh, I'll be tempted. He won't be able to help himself. It's going to be hard to do your job there, Tom. I mean, he's got, you know, how much muscle memory he has in just ripping referees. Yes. Yeah. This team will take like 10 years to get that out of his system. Yeah, there's no way. I think he's got to choose one by the sound of this. Really? Yeah. Seems undoable. Yeah, you can't do both. Can't criticize the other team. They're trying to cripple you. They're trying to force you to do one thing here. How much is, how much is he getting paid to broadcast? It was a fatty fatty. Is there over 300 million? Yeah, I think it was. It wasn't a 300 million or 375 or something. For a decade. Yeah, it was 10 years for. Yeah, I don't even was it 10 years? I don't remember, dude. It was, I guess we can look all this up. It was a couple of 10 year contracts were 375 million dollars. Got 375 sports commentary ever. Look up, look up what some of these investors, these players that invested in other teams, other sports and stuff, and what they made off their initial investment and how much it's 300 and what 375 million that that ownership stake that he has in the Raiders is going to be worth far more than his broadcasting career. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, but he's such a competitor, you know, hell, I just do a horrible job and collect that 37 and a half a year and own the team. Oh, don't say that out like Tom Brady. I'm handsome. I'm playing quarterback. I'm sound ready on your TV for the next three hours. You'll appreciate my generic statements. Yeah, you just say that you just compliment everything that you see is great. Why did you say it like Billy D Williams? I don't know. I was just trying to be as cool as possible. Hi, I'm Tom Brady. Yeah. You like Slick's fault liquor. So did my wife. Yeah, so did my wife. He was partying with the yoga guy. Hey, podcasters out here are signing big deals, big deals coming from the podcasters. Travis Kelsey and his brother 100 million dollar deal with Amazon's podcasting studio, Wondery. Wow. We got actor Dak Shepherd. You know, you guys familiar with this cat? Yeah. Funny guy. Yes. $80 million from Wondery. They gave them 80. Hey, yeah. A serious XM linked that 100 million dollar deal to acquire the distribution rights for the smart list podcast hosted by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman. I love Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes. It's 100 million dollar deal smart list. Yeah. I like that. Yeah, 100 million dollar deal from serious XM that they don't give away 100 million dollar deals. Last time they did something like that, it was how it was turned. Yeah, it was 500 million. Yeah, pay attention here in stocks and everything like that. Spotify signed a multi year deal with Joe Rogan to, you know, just the re-up. 250 mil. No big. Oh, really? Gosh. You got the re-up. Two Rick, man. Which should color daddy just yet? Alex Cooper from color daddy, $125 million with serious XM. So XM is giving away some money right now. Yeah. These guys are making so much dough. I mean, go like juniors living on a beach house in Malibu. Kind of like a $10 million home. Draft Kings money. Draft Kings fan duel. That podcast money is huge. Yeah. Now, it looks like they're doing, because when they first started doing these podcast deals, they would go get like a big name, not really even a podcaster, just a big name, throw them some money, put them behind a paywall and hope people would pay for it to get to the podcast. But it didn't work. No, it's not. It's not working. So now they're taking popular podcasts and throwing money at that. And these popular podcasts are all across these streaming platforms. Yeah. So they're signing distribution deals and advertising deals. That means all these podcast platforms, whoever signs who's getting money from those, you're not getting the money. You took that on a meal. Yeah. What's fine with me? Yeah, it works great. I mean, if your podcast has gone viral and it's popular, you're popular in the whole world. Yes. You know, not just in a country or in a city like local radio or sports center, it's it's gone global. And as a creator, you really need that distribution expertise that the network is giving you. Like, so not only are they giving you a, a nine figure bag, but they're blowing up your name worldwide. Cause then they got a market to hell out of you. It really works for both entities better. It surely does. Podcast deals, man. Shout out to you, podcasts. Let's keep pushing the man crush. It's gonna retire Travis Kelsey this year. 100% he's done ski his brother was probably done ski just to probably focus on this. Cause we've done great in football. We get more money doing this. If you have a nice, nice mid podcast, you're not Travis Kelsey or anything like that, and they're getting 100 million. You should get some money out here, right? Yeah. You can build up the content and the, in the, in the people to watch you get a name out here somehow. Yeah, you don't need millions. You need like 50,000 subs, loyal subs. Yeah. Look at that. Look at that. Yeah. Look at that. Uh, let's see here. L.A. Live 105 through the van. Let me find out. All he left this was alone. That's a fire line right there. When he died, all he left us was alone. Whoo. The double entendres crazy. Anthony Edwards set NBA world ablaze last week. He said the only player back in the day will, it has some skills with Michael Jordan. Yeah. And he also sprinkled in Kobe Bryant's name in there. Yeah. Yeah. Not sure if this guy was trolling, uh, Magic Johnson swatted him down. I think Isaiah Thomas posted some stuff on his social media. Isaiah showed like all his basketball dribbling tricks that Isaiah was posted. He's kind of crazy. Yeah. 100% bro. 100%. I mean, we couldn't carry it back then. How about that? The double, the little side jump step to this. Yeah. Yeah. You had to cross somebody over without putting your hand about that. How about that? Well, Kevin Garnett, big Kevin Garnett. Did y'all see this? No. Just see Kevin Garnett set this situation straight. Minnesota man himself. Oh, he said it. Yes. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, man. He said Australia. He was talking about Anthony Edwards to Anthony Edwards and about the situation that listened to this, bro. Honest, bro. I don't think anybody in this generation could have played like 20 years ago. If I'm being 100 and this is the aunt, this is to everybody in our lead. Tade them. All y'all. Let me tell y'all something, bro. 20 years ago, bro, you couldn't get to a triple step back. No. You hear what I'm saying to you? You couldn't get to a triple step back. And then if you shot that, it had to go in. You know what? Because we had, we had efficiency back in the day, my dude. And it was so hard. It was too physical. And guess what? The lead had to come off of it for the floor movement to be able to have scoring go up, which is why we like to see here and watch kind of the rat race of the high pace game, right? But, bro, let's not talk about the game and ship and that's not talk about the physicality of the game back then. Real shit, because I only think half these kids in the lead could have been on an NBA team 20 years ago. Straight up. The locker room was too, it was too grown. It was two of them. It was too much of a fraternity. You understand? Like, yeah, man. It was the handshake. How bro? It was a different, it was a different, it was a different, um, vibration. The vibes were different. Yeah, the vibes, bro. Vibes were different. Yeah. I think, I think KG might have a point here, but I don't know about half the league. I think mostly there's a bunch of talented kids now who would adapt to whatever the game was, right? Yeah. And the kids these days have grown up with better coaching, you know, like there's all these skills programs and year round basketball. Like most of the dudes playing in the 80s played like a basketball season, then track and field in a football season, baseball season. These kids that love basketball are practicing at six days a week now, you know, and they have one thing individually dribbling. Yes. Yeah. I would say the old generation would struggle a lot more in this game than this generation would struggle going back. Wow. That's what the heart take again. Yeah. I mean, you had to be, you have to be a floor spacer now. You can't say, well, I'm a power forward. I don't shoot outside of 10 feet. Say, okay, well, in this game, you're done. You're your time to retire. Get a jump shot. Yeah. Let's hear more on KG. Okay. KG, excuse me, damn. David Stern did a great job of taking all of the physicality out of the game. You understand, freedom of movement means freedom of movement. Man, back in the day when you had to get by Paul, because Paul was squared up with you and ready to slide and then he could body you, he could poke, he could use his hands, but I can use my hands. I can fight through a screen. Bro, the shit that we saw in the, in the, in the, in the, um, in the Olympics was similar style play when the guard could ride you damn near over the pink. Yeah. And if you don't know how to get out of that, and, and like, uh, uh, holiday, when he come out and he get over, he there. So if you're going across him, bro, you don't even, that's what I'm saying, bro. Man, the, the levels in which you had to be not only strong enough, but skilled enough to get by this funny. You understand it then? They ain't never seen a six, seven Rodman guard you. Bro, I see, I see, you know, you're in a scout report. We know you go left. We know you can finish right, but you go left to pull up. Bro, everybody knows, bro, watching the games back then. Isaiah Thomas is in the Dumas, man. Dumas shut Jordan down. Bro, that was coming to the lane. Bro, you might get your nose broke trying to dump. You understand, Dwayne Wade broke Co's nose in the all-star game. Man, bro, it's just different. It was, it was very different back then, bro. Real. He lost me when he brought up Wade. All of a sudden, everything you said, just now. Yeah, falls on deaf ears. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The accountability, the physicality, the toughness, the in-your-face factor. I definitely, what do you get what he's saying? Yeah, I could, but you can't be like, there's no toughness in today's game at all. There's no physicality. Yeah. Definitely ramps up in the postseason for sure. I hear you, man. But there is finesse game. I think he's got a great point. David Stern, you know, a lot of changes the game. And now we're at 110 points per game. It's not because the shooters became a lot better. Yeah. It's because the rules encourage it, you know. And there were one-handed dudes all over the place in the 80s. I think the biggest is the load management. You weren't having a load management in KG. Oh, yeah. That's a great point. These guys were playing through injuries. Now, oh, I got a sore ankle. I'm going to sit out a week here. Yeah. Great pushback by KG. I appreciate you, KG. Yeah. Keeping the conversation going out there, and these young bucks that don't do any Googles or watch any old videos. Keep them in check. So, all right, yo, my name is Lucius Alexander, Lord willing in the creek, don't rise. I'll be back here tomorrow. That is my time. Salute. There he goes. L.A. Live Lucius, every night, 540 here in the nation. It's time now to go around the bases. We have Rangers pregame coming up at 630. 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