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Here we go, our two G-back nation on 1053, the fan. It is a time now for NFL News of the day. Jack Lighters coming up in 20 minutes, the former #2 overall pick, Ranger Rookie, right-handed pitcher. For the Rangers, and he started yesterday. Actually, he had allowed only two runs through five innings, came out in the sixth. And man, if he would not have come out for that, he would have had himself a pretty dang good quality start. 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. Big 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 this game. He landed. 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. That was a no brainer. You have to. I mean, he had, he had them by the Cajonas there. They have no plan B at the left tackle spot. He's so important for them. Super Bowl aspirations. Yeah, he just wanted to miss training camp. It's probably better for him that he did, honestly. Yeah, it's a promo 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 with Adam. And now you got the Jets. They're still dealing with those son Redick 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 down for them this year, but he's still holding out. I think Redick'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 there's more chase stuff is fascinating. I really don't think tomorrow chase was going to miss a game, but he's still not practicing. He's showing up to practice and 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. Maybe that's true. Yeah, that was wrap a port, dude. Wrapport's not here to ball sack. Yeah, it was a wrap for a port. That was a that was a wrap. I just I never know if it's like the fake wrap for the count. Yeah, that was on that. That was on the rap. You got to watch Dogget. You got to watch 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, you know, I don't 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 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 in 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. Well, he'll figure it 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, because he's in the back. But it's just but he's there. If you're just refusing to play is his situation. Is he active? He's not in any list, right? He was in camp. Yeah. He's one of their 50s been holding in. Yeah. He would be just one of their inactives every week if that's the case. Well, you had shifter 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. You're you're holding in and we just have to pay you while you chill. I think so. Can they deactivate them? Yeah. That's fine. I don't know. That's what I'm saying. He's the right big thing because they're not going to like they're not going to cut them. No, absolutely no. So it's like what what are 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 hold him out. He's holding in. I guess the eight bangles. The holding seems like the play here. Yeah, sure does. If our chase has made us all look foolish, it should still be around your guys. Yeah, hold in 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 how week one. Niners 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. He got 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. Yeah, 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 seen him miss some food. And 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 Piersall, but he was also dealing with the shoulder injury. But I mean, thank you, this was worse. He's had 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 type of 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 that got away from the 17 year old kid, was 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 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 what kind of gun it was. No, something that's 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 maybe he's got maybe he's fortunate. Oh, here you know what he's fortunate. Well, he's definitely fortunate. Oh, he is fortunate to have been fortunate that this guy lost his life. Maybe this guy didn't have a real gun. Yeah, you know, you might be on to some of the issue. Yeah. 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 it everything to you. Yeah, I don't I don't get the instinct to reach for the gun. 100 pointed at you. Now, maybe you're a 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 yours got shot. Yep. Scary deal, man. Now 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. That was incredible. Pull it wound to the chest. Wow, dude. It didn't hit the missed the one through his back. No right or nothing. They they expected to be back in four weeks. And he's already in the weight room right now at the facility. It's crazy. Yeah. He was it was. He's not skipping leg day. Robert would see me running with my stuff just flying off me. I turned the corner. Nothing but my boxers. I'd be like Bruce on my head. Just throw my arms back and my clothes would come off my body every single thing. Uh, 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. Wait, absolutely. McCaffrey. Yeah. Really, really good news there. Uh, and then did you see Caitlin Carson's new number seat belt? Get 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 him. I 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's like, it felt heavy out there a little bit. They look good. There's a few corners that can pull off 41. He knew did. I actually thought he wore it well despite the fact that he was clearly leaking confidence in that overall preseason long. Yeah. 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. 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 girls were wearing that? Yes. I'm like, they're going with their dark black. But what are the Packers? Where the Packers are definitely still having that. They'll wear their white tees, but they've still got green numbers, right? Green numbers. So yeah, but the Eagles are wearing white tees. I thought they were wearing their dark blacks. No, they're wearing their dark black pants and a dark black helmet that's going all green then. They've got to wear. That's what I'm saying. That's like, I guess that green thing really real though. It can't be. I don't think so. They don't have the 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. It's 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 their black jerseys. You're right 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 a yellow pale. 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 weren't looking forward to it. I can't wait. But man, I do not want to go to Brazil. You want to know why? I'm here to tell you why. They already told us not to leave the hotel. They 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 NFL. Why don't you ever want to send us somewhere with a crime rate this high? And like we got the country. So you know, the first day people think it's 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 really. There would be a hotel chilling out of my business playing my 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'll be pretty crazy down there. You know, holy said, they're gonna 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. Seems like the NFL was like, that's just kind of let's say the NFL is 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? I feel like the Eagles fail. Right? Yeah, it's worse. 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 are 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 knows did they get before they're like, all right, I guess, dang it. We'll have to do it. Well, you're the winner in Brazil. Let's do this thing. I hope the game's great on Friday. What else says that that green thing is not associated with gangs or anything like that? Yeah, it's the color of Paul Maris, the rival of that stadium. So during soccer games, you're you're not encouraged to wear green at all. If you wear green, you're a supporter of our rival and you can get into like a soccer fight or something. 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 believe you're going to be okay. It's gonna be all right. Yeah. Do you think there's going to be people showing up to that game like thinking they were supposed to be at a soccer game? They're going to be like, oh, what is this? We've been bossing. That's how you get that's football. Angry storm, the field. Yeah, that's 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 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, take it over to 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. I'm I'm not interested in seeing Mississippi score 79 points on per review or somebody like that. Colorado state, Texas, you didn't like seeing your guy arch doing his thing. It's been it's friend arch doing his thing was Colorado. Yeah, I'm excited about the fact that they're going to travel to Ann Arbor this weekend. That's that's seven point favorites. Yeah, they are in the big house. I'm so sorry, but the what do we got? Well, go get lay on 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 and terrible Nicole. 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 primed. And that might be a reason why they get the one seed this year, even more reason to believe in the lions, believe in those lions this year. They could be they finally run as broad as his team last year. He said they were going to win two Super Bowls or something last season. You have to do a bet payoff, right? When they want to play off game when the playoff game, that's true this year. Maybe they make it to the Super Bowl football guy, Brian brought us up with something for this year. And if only it sounds like a plan. Thank you, old Chuck. Across these corners coming up at 340, we have Jack Lider Rangers rookie joining you next here in the day. 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Call the Frankles for your free consultation, 214 or 817-333-3333. Go to frankaffirm.com. It's brought to you by cars for kids. Donate today, carsforkids.org, and the Rangers players show brought you by Golden Chick and Globe Life. Everyone has beneficiaries. Not everyone has life insurance, Globe Life. Who's your beneficiary as Jack Lider, Rangers rookie pitcher, joining us now here on the fan, and a good afternoon sir. How are you? I'm good, how are you? We're doing great. What's it like taking on the Yankees yesterday? It's awesome. That's mostly growing up in the New Jersey area, and my dad playing for the Yankees, that's a dream of mine, then playing against a former teammate, and a really good friend of mine, and Anthony Volpe, and having my cousin in the bullpen for the Yankees. There's just a lot of underlying stories that made it extra special out there. Okay, so speaking of dad, what did he have to say about your performance yesterday? I mean, he's a proud dad most of the time. Even the outings that I'm very much not happy about throughout my career, he understands how hard this game can be, and he's definitely a proud dad. Now you mentioned your cousin, and obviously your dad, your uncle. Growing up as a Lider, is it assumed that you're going to be a pitcher if you play baseball? Do you consider 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 dream for me, and obviously he wanted me to play baseball, but it wasn't forced upon me or anything like that, but just growing up around the game, it's hard not to fall in love with it, and that's what happened. I fell in love with it, and I always wanted to be a pitcher, and the early parts of high school, I wasn't sure if that was going to happen, or if I was going to play a position in the field, but it just kind of worked out that I ended up a pitcher. It would 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 at the big league level. Yeah, it's been a special year all around, obviously getting my first taste up here in the big leagues, and the results haven't been there yet, obviously, in terms of what I would like to see in my big league outings, but it's really got to be a processed mindset as a pitcher, and coming up in the big leagues, and a lot of times you control what you can control, and that's executing a pitch, and strictly from a processed mindset, I've felt like my execution last night was the best it's been, and all of my big league outings by a good margin. So, obviously, the results in the final line, and the fact that we didn't end up with an extra win in the win column, 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 there's a lot of positive takeaways, so it's a good one to build off of. Hey, Jack, I was just wondering, it's, you know, 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? Would you have just rather have 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 pitch where you're at, and give it your all. But yeah, as pitchers where work reaches have it, and I would say me more so than others even, and having a routine is important, and it's always nice when you can spend time around the guys and get to know the catchers, and get to know the coaching staff, and more so than just kind of fly in and show up at the field and pitch that day. But that all comes with earning it, and that's something that you have to show with results over time, and my confidence in myself long-term in getting those results in my career is very high. But obviously, some of these outings early on in my big lead career weren't there, statistically speaking, so 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 that's all you can control. It's Jack Lider here with your Rangers rookie. How much more comfortable are you after going into the start yesterday? Was that your fifth start in the major league level compared to your first one? Yeah, much more comfortable. It's about managing adrenaline, and I've hit some big games, hitting the College World Series, but something about the big leagues. It's something you dream about forever, and it's an opportunity that I'll never take for granted, but you want to make the most of it, and sometimes wanting it too bad can lead to self-caused errors, I guess, and mistakes. And I think that's what sort of was happening in my early outings was just wanting it too much. And as a result, my mind is thinking too many things, and it's just moving too quick. And it's about slowing it down for myself. And you're the pitcher. You got the ball on your hand. It's on your time. So yesterday it was a conscious effort about making it on my time. Jack, you mentioned you were an 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 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 I think that's kind of what you need to have to be successful in anything, is holding yourself to a high standard. But there is a fine line between holding yourself to that high standard and applying too much pressure on yourself. But you could always say there's been pressure. Being the son of a major league baseball player and choosing to be a pitcher as well, there's that inherent pressure, I guess. But I guess when you experience it so long for so much of your life, it just doesn't really, it doesn't really affect me. And I mean, obviously it's there. But no, I would say, I would say it's just about making pitches. Simple. Jack Lider with us here in the GBagnation, 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 before a start? Or 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 the mental side is huge, especially for a starting pitcher, because you're out there on an island. It's your game. And if you lay an egg, it's on you. There's full accountability there. And you just want to do what it takes to help the team win. Like I said, that hasn't been there quite yet. But that's part of the accountability and the working process. And I hope it just makes it that much sweeter when it does start coming around, results-wise. But yeah, from the mental side, there's so many different ways to go about it. But it comes down to how do you get yourself 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 not easy, but 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 the hours leading up to your start and throughout the seconds and between pitches to get to that point is everything. And I think that's what us as pitchers are always working to accomplish more and more. How superstitious are you? I would say I'm pretty superstitious just because of the fact that I love my routine in my process. But nothing crazy. I got to eat this three hours before my start, and I got to 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. And as the adrenaline starts to flow, I used to just not really eat because you don't really think about hunger leading up to a start. But now I've kind of gained an understanding that that's important for brain function and physical function. So I kind of make myself eat some, eat some carbs, some type of pasta, rice, and then a protein, some kind of chicken, meat, and I love fruit. So fruit goes in the mix. Yeah, Jack, we're right with you. When you're about to pitch, we eat a lot of carbs to getting ready to watch the pitch. Just load up. We just a little pizza, not just boom sticks, anything we can eat at the ballpark, we just do that before you pitch 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 team full of pros and, you know, being out there talking to some of the bullpen guys the last couple of days has been cool for me because it's a whole different perspective. The reliever routine and the starter routine and our bullpen, having veteran guys who have been the best in the game for so long, it's really cool to pick their brains on, you know, how they go about their process and their routine. And then guys like you've all these, who's kind of just a model starting pitcher. If any young kid could watch Nathan, you've all these routine, it's pretty special and he's very detail oriented and he's a great teammate who has a genuine interest in making others better. So I would say him along with truly everyone on the team, it's a special group of guys in terms of routine. We're a 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 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 you're like, yeah, I know. Yeah, I know. 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, it's the same, but obviously very different. Yeah, preparing for Salt Lake City or Sugar Land or some of the outings that I faced this year. Yeah, you're talking about arguably two of the top hitters in the world and they're in their two and 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 seeing him in the eight hole. It's like, all right, 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 a, 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, the first at bat, he smoked the ball left on a fastball up with two strikes and coming in. I was like, was that the wrong pitch or was it not up enough? Because 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 you generally Alfredo, or 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, 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 overnight. 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. It's pretty impressive. Um, are we talking? Are we talking David Robertson? That's a damn good guess right there. Jack Lighter. I like the guess. It's very close. 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. Thank you. There he goes. Apple Jack Lighter. Give him hell. We'll be pulling for you, sir. All right. Thank you. There he goes. Jack Lighter 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 honored 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 Lighter coming up, probably in the angel series. We're getting Jack Lighter 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 twenty, 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. Yes. You're the, you're the, you're the good news breaker, good 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, we're still doing that this year and I'm assuming rolling on that. Oh, yeah, we're absolutely. I'm going for bandaid rippers, not long term suffering though this year. That's my plan going in. That's a smart plan. When I got to pay off, 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 this 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 this year, not half ass 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 this show. Those things are going back. Oh, yeah. The bounce back potential. I did see Florida. The perfect bush level. Yeah, I did see Florida pictures. No speedo though. I didn't see that. Didn't walk 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 or months. Slow as growing hair on the body. Test the bully. Okay. I think that you go 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's 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 didn't grow hair. Make sure that they get the ears every time. It's important that you realize that as you get into your mid 40s, I look, we take care of the nose to care the eyebrows and 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, I'll let you know. I'll let you know. Let me know that for sure. I'm watching dog in it. I know you are. You watch dog in that baseball. You're you're watching dog in that baseball too. Jack, what's it like to really suck at baseball? You love me, Jack. Jack, you went out there and embarrassed yourself. You feel pressured by being an embarrassing player? No, I thought that was very courteous professional. 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 pictures. He's trying as hard as you have to get. It's not a person. Yeah, it's not an attack. This is a disagreement that Jared decided to attack me over in the 20s. Oh, 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. 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, Brian. You know what, man? What types are the order we're good? What's another like Trey Lance pre-season game progress before? So if you throw 45 pitches and it's good. I was sitting there 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 Lider 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's my guy. All right. I just I wanted I wanted to let every 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 to remember on Friday. I love the referee who I remember. Yeah. And the music. Lucious plays is fantastic. Yeah. Lucious 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 line back. There you go. Right. On Thursday, like a broadest says this. Tell me why brought us just nailed that. Yeah. You're right. Here you go. Rumor has it. Eric Kendrick's might want to do a little interviewing of us as we get along. Oh, into the season. I think Eric Kendrick's has the aspirations of being a media member. I like it. I want to dip 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 always walk down and talk to the linebacker down the road. Hey, can you put me on air bleaching 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 checked out. He did the thing. He found a misinformation over there. Well, 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. Yep. Tyler Geiten will contribute more than Tyron Smith. That's a bull prediction. Tyler Geiten will contribute more than Tyler and then Tyron Smith. In terms of just availability. I mean, last year was a very healthy season in terms of Tyron. 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 of Tyron Smith or maybe 15, 16 games of Tyler Geiten. I'm so pessimistic on the availability of Tyron Smith and on 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 Tyron 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 him up. Burn him up. Burn him up. I can't do it 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. Uh, 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. Yeah. Ooh. Is that what brought us calls it? I think I call it cap. I see the wrong word all the time. Cap. It's crap. And it's like, it's really not what it means. Oh, Jake. Oh, yeah. There we go. Yeah. Lusus. Keep it. That's so Brian. That's a fart. 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 a good right now. He's not. I like what Tolbert's done. Chief, did you didn't chance you answer that first? Right? Yes, I sure did. Called cap on that called cap on that. All right. Here we go. Oh, he's got you got man's got bicep bigger than my side. Willie. Yeah. Malik Hooker makes a pro ball. Uh, 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 the Super Bowl area. Come on. David, I'm going to put him in. You're going to put 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. Marquis 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 to over on to 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 get him. I get the digits this year for the hat. He's going to be the trade on the interstate 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. 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