Stars Open Their Season Against The Jets; Dak & The Cowboys Prepare For Panthers | Fan Cam 10/9/25

Stars Open Their Season Against The Jets; Dak & The Cowboys Prepare For Panthers | Fan Cam 10/9/25

[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] is Sean and RJ on 1053. The fan the one two swing and a miss strike three. Scream and flex from Hoffman. The Blue Jays are back in the ALCS for the first time since 2016. They down the Yankees in their own yard and they’re the first team in baseball’s Final Four. Good morning, Metroplex. That’s the way we start the Thursday edition of Sean and R.J. From Blue Jays Radio, I’m Sean Trife alongside Cowboys Insider Bobby Belt. We got Payton and Aiden in the back and RJ Choppy probably ready at some point in time here very soon to start the 12-hour road trip to Tennessee to watch his falls. I think when he comes back, he is going to say that he’s never going to take another road trip again. Chubby here. Why? He just doesn’t strike me as the conven. I know, but it doesn’t strike me as being confined in a space for 12 hours and just up to the like potential back and forth of the kids and things like that just doesn’t strike me as like his piece and I don’t think he’s going to enjoy it. Okay. I think it’s going to be the uh the combustibility amongst the parties involved there and all the way back. Yeah. So, we shall see. But R.J. would have wanted to go ahead and start off with Major League Baseball as the New York Yankees are eliminated by Toronto. That series is done and over with. Uh Chicago uh staying alive by beating Milwaukee 4-3. The Detroit Tigers force a game five with the Mariners. Tigers win 93. So that’s where things stand in Major League Baseball. And Clayton Kershaw blown up last night. I was actually surprised that he went out for another inning after barely escaping the previous one. The Phillies stay alive to force game four, trailing 2-1 to the Dodgers. Yeah, which is now that you got the Yankees eliminated, I’m sure Major League Baseball would like this to go as long as it could. Phillies and Dodgers, but I I got to It’s been a boring divisional series, a bad divisional series. Yeah, I I mean, the only thing that’s been sort of enjoyable about it to me was just some of the stuff with the Blue Jays and Yankees to this point. fight. And I want to know how much everyone is paying attention to the baseball playoffs. Like some, none, a lot, a little. 8778811053. Franklin Le Franco injury attorney text line. I’m more of a basketball guy. Choppy’s more of a baseball guy. So when the Mavericks aren’t in it, you can still get me into the NBA playoffs. I was interested last year. I thought it was a bunch of thrilling series and a bunch of thrilling rounds. I’m not so much there with baseball. I was in the opening round when everything was even more do or die and you had more drama. But I’d like to know for the Metroplex because baseball has come in with better ratings over basketball. Rangers over Mavericks. But I am curious when we talk about this to open the show. Is anyone else following along? How many more are following along? Yeah, I mean I think you’ve got you’ve definitely got your your choppies of the world who grew up of like this is America’s pastime and just grew up loving baseball that’ll still take it in like it. It’s hard for me to I I enjoy the baseball playoffs. It’s hard for me to get involved in something that’s not a prime time game though. So, like if it’s not one of these games that starts at 7 o’clock or later, if it’s just something that you’re trying to get me to turn on at 5 when life is going on and I’m like we’re finishing up our emails and I’m trying to get the kids situated for dinner or whatever else is Mr. Mom, you know, I got to I got to basically, you know, walk around there in an apron and, you know, uh sweep things up on the kitchen floor. It’s uh that that’s hard for me to get really like plugged in of like, well, let me like cancel the day to go sit down and watch this game at 5:00. That’s not very easy for me to do if the Rangers aren’t in it. Toronto beats the Yankees and you’re like, oh yeah, small market, lesser known over the big dogs in the high payroll. And you think about payroll and what it means to spend today, Major League Baseball, especially with the feeling that the Texas Rangers are not going to go out and spend in this off season. The Yankees, the Phillies, and the Blue Jays had the third, the fourth, and the fifth highest payrolls in baseball. So, Toronto spent top five payroll. Add in the Cubs and the Padres’s, seven of the 10 highest payroll teams, Bobby, made the postseason this year. Yeah. I mean, and it’s it’s an instance of the year Texas won the World Series, they spent they spent a lot of money and they went out and they spent at the deadline. And that’s that’s generally the teams that are going to be competitive. There’s I think there’s more in baseball than just about any other sport that’s out there. There’s a direct correlation to what did you spend in the offseason before and where do you end up? Um Sandler and I were talking about this once that the the spending seems to have a greater correlation to attendance success like all like even when you’re not having success, it usually has a direct correlation more so other than in other sports to your guys that you’re like your fans actually showing up and and wanting to support the team. And so um it’s it’s definitely an area that’s I think frustrating for Rangers fans right now to look at because a you see the success of which teams are ending up there. you remember how the Rangers got to their first World Series title anyway. And then the other aspect of it is is just you’ve been told, “We just got to get through this section here. When we get through this section, we’ll spend money again.” And now you’re being told, well, okay, we got to get through this section. It’s like, okay, this is starting to feel a little bit like the cowboys telling you like, well, we just got to balance our books a little bit here. And then you get to that point and then it’s, well, we got to balance our books again. It’s like, okay, well then then when are you going to spend spend again? PayPe, what are the totals saying about watching these baseball playoffs right now, Sean? I mean, the totals, it’s probably 8515 towards not paying attention towards it. And now, now you do have the tollos that you know have said the Rangers are out of it. I’m not interested unless my team’s in it. 816 says none at all. 817 says all in on baseball. 469 has haven’t watched a single game. And 214 and 817 both say zero minutes spent towards baseball. And they also have one tool saying they were more interested in opening night hockey. 682 said that. Yeah, cuz and then we got opening night stars tonight. So that that there’s something to actually plug into. I will say I have a complaint about these baseball players or something I saw on the TV screen last night. Will Vest the closer for Jake Rema’s beloved Tigers and that like celebration like when we heard the Blue Jays calls it’s like you know they’re celebrating on the mound and go that’s what Will Vest was doing last night tying it up at 22. was a little bit like you were on the brink of of losing and getting kicked out this season. I don’t think you should be celebrating like Brian Wilson striking out Nelson Cruz to win the World Series 15 years ago. Homeboy was just a little too amped up on the mountain. Are you talking about the strikeout to end it? Yes. When they were up 93, you know you’re winning that game. You know you’re pushing it to a two two tie. It’s not like you’re winning the series. And he celebrated like they just won the whole damn World Series. And I it just put me out. I didn’t like it. Jake Griema will be in studio at 7:20 to preview your Dallas Stars. He will be living at the AAAC throughout the season. So 7:20 Stars preview. David Newton, the Todd Archer of Carolina, will join us at 8 to preview the Panthers. We have Tommy Yish as well, Neighborhood Watch in a 9-in nails ticket giveaway during the commercial free expressway. So, the story that I’m the most interested in, and it really started developing yesterday, late afternoon, early evening, the walls are closing in, it would appear, on Bill Bich and North Carolina. And I got to say, you know, I’m a nerd for journalism. These local North Carolina reporters and journalists, they’re damn good. It’s their life, dude. That UNCC program is their life. But football, I’m like, oh my gosh. You think that they’d be silenced even more so with Bellich check there. They’re coming out with amazing reports and there were two stories yesterday uh two stories where they’re talking buyout. They are talking buyout already with Bill Bich. No days off. There were some days off for you when you went to Nantucket with your uh with your sweetheart and apparently assistant coaches could not get a hold of Bellich when he went away. You have people within the program saying, “What we did to these kids is so effed up.” The rats are starting to jump ship as people are looking at future CFP playoff teams to go and get a job with amongst Bellich’s staff. Now, Bellich and the university released a joint statement, which many people would say that only means it’s definitely over where they said, “Oh, we’re committed to each other. We’re committed moving forward.” You even had one of these reporters suggesting Bellichic doesn’t make it to the cow game, which they are about to play, but that Bill has been open to negotiating a buyout if he can find another football job or a media job. And I don’t think either of those things are going to happen. It’s he’d have a much easier time finding a media job than a football job at this point. I think this has gotten so bad, Bobby. And I have such a distaste for him at this point in time. I wouldn’t even hire him to do media right now because that’s like hiring I think Urban Meyer immediately after his recent scandal. Now Fox eventually hired him. But you bring in Bellich and everyone’s looking at you as an absolute joke. At least coming from college. Yeah, this would that problem there is that you can’t be you can’t muzzle the media. You can’t be try you can’t try to do all these different things in control and then come out and be like here’s the quirky side of me like nobody wants to take that. Nobody nobody will have respect for it. I was trying to think yesterday. Was he that much of a media hit? No. Before the Carolina job. No. Like I mean he was he had some funny moments here and there and he would he loved taking shots. He got old and tired on Monday Night Football. Uh it was kind of cool in the beginning with McAfee. Then he went and did all his podcasts with Michael Lombardi and Matt Patricia. Those were the definition of boring. I don’t think he’s a must-have media higher unless the ratings say different. No, I I don’t think anybody’s I think early on people may tune in just to see like what’s he going to say about what happened at UNCC or what’s he going to say about Jordan Hudson. Then they find out really quick he’s still not going to talk about Jordan Hudson. Yeah. And he would probably just come off petty about UNCC. Like he comes off petty about everything. And they had another assistant in trouble for improper benefits and recruiting and giving out tickets and basically the idea that they’re going to be hit with some sanctions and that they are going to be in trouble from a recruiting and violation standpoint. Yeah. And North Carolina players were apparently getting their wrist slapped from the extra tickets they get for games. They were trying to sell those off. And it’s just it’s an ugly ugly thing. It’s what five games into the Bellich era. you can see and it’s it’s awful. It’s it’s gotten to disastrous levels. I was trying to think if there’s ever been a hire in any sport, professional or college, that has gone this poorly this quickly and I couldn’t. Bobby Petrino with the Falcons maybe where he lasted 10 weeks then left notes on everybody’s locker like peace I’m going to Arkansas sorry like that’s the only one I can think of that was as just like this has crumbled so fast and so rapidly and it’s like we mentioned the other day. This to me is d not destroying, it’s really damaging his legacy. It’s it’s starting to damage what he did with the Patriots because it’s also showing you, man, before the Patriots thing turned around, he was considered kind of a rat for what he did with the Jets and and the way he bailed on them. And so you’ve got kind of these bookends between 25 years of him just looking like a total psycho. A reporter adds that Bellich has reportedly been weird and distant with his staff and that some coaches not able to get a hold of him. From one UNCC defensive assistant, quote, “What we’ve done to these kids is effed up. You could not make up how bad it has been. They’re two and three. Their defense is awful. They just got smoked by Clemson. Uh but they are two and three. They’re not Clemson’s not smoking anybody lately. Yeah, it’s just it’s even at two and three, it’s the way it’s all happened and it’s the constant barrage of bad PR and it it feels saying there’s no such thing as bad PR has always been a dumb saying. It feels very Mavericksike at this point. Like I I feel like on their level of just like how can you every single day have something new cuz it reached that point with the M Yeah. It reached the point with the Mavs over the summer and then into the spring that after the Luca trade every day there was something they were messing up where it’s like can you guys just get out of your own way. Every day Bill is messing something up. Every day UNCC is messing something up and there’s no getting out of their own way. There’s no just hey let’s take a time out. Let’s let’s not do anything for a couple days. Let’s not make any news for a couple days. and the university apparently the way it works in college when you have potential rule violations they then use that to lower your buyout. Uh the fan text is wants us to point out just for disclosure brought us text Michael Lombardi yesterday. Michael Lombardi says this is all lies. So but Michael Lombardi would say this is all lies. I would think that’s not that I’m glad Brian reached out and I’m glad Brian has that resource. I would say that I’m not believing Lombardi in that instance. Will Bellich check finish the year? No, not at the I thought yesterday there was zero chance he wouldn’t finish the year. Now I don’t think there’s any chance he finishes the year the way this is going. The the fact that you have to release a split image where the statement is the most factual like unemotional bi I’m fully committed to UNCC football and the program we’re building here. And then UNCC coach Bichc has the full support of the department of athletics and university. No, that sounds like that is it’s like I joked yesterday. It’s like Dolly Parton and UNCC. They just want you guys to think everything’s fine. Look, there’s nothing wrong. It’s all good over here. Tom Brady has to be just sitting back with his guacamole smoothie and just loving life. Every I would imagine there’s about half the Patriots roster that feels Robert Craft has to love all this. Mike Vrabel, they all must be just in heaven right now celebrating this. 8778811053. 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Tyler Gayton’s back as a limited participant. It wasn’t a whole bunch of bad news with like DNPs. So, that was a positive aspect of it, but it just shows you have a team that is very banged up. And and a lot of the additions on there are still not ones you want to see. Like, you don’t want to see, oh, okay, James Houston is popping up on the injury report now, and Java Clown is popping up on the injury report. So, they’re definitely banged up and and they’re having to weather a lot of these, you know, little bumps and bruises. Kaylin Carson and Mingo, remember him? The former Panther full participants in their second week of practice, but both remain on injured reserve. Here’s Brian Shottimer on all the damage. There’s guys moving around better. Um, I think as the week goes, there’s a few guys that we might be able to get back. Um, but it’s hit and miss. you know, today’s a day that you’ll probably see more guys on the grass, but being on the grass doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re cleared to play. So, there’s a process, you know, that they go through, Clarence, where, you know, it’s with, you know, the trainers and then they do some more on the grass and then they move into mocks and then they move into practice. But, uh, we are getting healthier. Um, but, uh, to the extent of it, I’m not going to share that at this point. And then Cavante Turpin just outright telling reporters he doesn’t think he’s going to be able to go. Yeah, this this happens from time to time where you’ll you’ll talk to, you know, Shanheimer will put something out there or in the past Mike McCarthy or Jason Garrett would put something out there and then he would always be able to walk in there and, you know, say something like, “Hey, Amari Cooper, are you playing this week? Uh, you know, Mike McCarthy told us it was 50/50.” And he goes, “No, I’m absolutely not playing this week.” And it’s like, “Oh, okay, cool. Thanks, Amari Cooper. We appreciate the honesty.” That was Cavante Turpin yesterday who, you know, Jerry told us, “Oh, we got we hope he’s got a shot to come back.” But then yesterday in the locker room, Cavante said, “No.” Uh, probably not going to play this week. Uh, hopefully the week after. I’m not on a great betting run right now. I know there was someone on Reddit posting about me apparently a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, they were saying John Shere it’s insider trading. He’s got insider info. He shouldn’t be allowed to bet. Uh, you have not seen my recent results including the Jets game. So, I’ll just continue to uh be terrible in terms of predictions, but my gut feeling is this spread is three and a half. I would just bet the Cowboys outright on underdog to go ahead and win this game by three and a half points. Is that is that off? No, I don’t think so. I mean, I I without having dove in yet on on the Panthers, which I’ll do a little bit more of today, um I I think that Dallas is is a better team right now. This is a team that they should beat, I would think, in theory. Um, so no, I I don’t think it’s too crazy. They’ve shown, you know, even last year when they were kind of spiraling that they went in there and had an ability to handle them without Dak being in the lineup or anything else. So, no, I think it’s a a decent bet that they’re going to go in there and beat Carolina. Yesterday, Brian Shottenheimimer went into some detail. It was really jumping out to me online reading it. Bobby has the audio as Shotti with the number one offense in the National Football League was explaining some of the details of his play calling philosophies. I don’t really call plays, you know, to try to get a ball um to a spot on the field. I call plays to get balls to people. Um you know, like the big third down, the first third down game that Florenoi, you know, caught, that was designed to get him the ball. You know, that was the design. It was the first progression. Um, now I was I wasn’t predicting he was going to catch it and pull away and pull out of the first tackle and go down there and do that. That that caught me by surprise in a good way. Um, another touch for Flo, cuz I’m assume that’s who you’re talking about was, you know, we were in two-minute, we’re going fast and we got him to jump and so free play response means everybody goes deep and you take your shot. And so, I mean, incredible catch. You know, Dak put in a spot where he could get it. he had the power to step inside of the corner and um but um you’re always going to feature your quote unquote elite players. We’ve got a lot of elite players, but um again, I’m going to say this about Dak. What Dak’s doing an incredible job of right now is he’s just reading progressions and the first open guy is going to get the ball. And I think that’s what we’re seeing. It’s something where it sounds simple the idea of I’m going to, you know, just we’re I I call plays to get the ball to certain players and and try to get the ball in certain players hands. But it’s not that simple at all. I remember it was but on the play sheet I was going to assume that it was kind of more 5 yard gain, 10 yard gain, 15 yard gain. Right? It’s third and 10. I’m not trying to get the ball just to you’re you’re getting them the ball, I guess, you know, on a post route, not not not a curl. Yeah. So, he typically you’re going to have plays and he kind of referenced it last week when we were talking about the call on third down from the four where it was like he will you you have play calls for certain downs and distances in certain parts of the field. And so in that sense, you’re you’re calling plays where you’re at on the field, but it’s designed, according to Shotty, that he’s going to call stuff based on, all right, I really trust Pickkins here. Let’s go with this, which is a, you know, going to naturally have Pickkins as the the number one progression. Like, like I want to get the ball to him. I trust him to make a play here. So, it’s Urban Meyer gave a a talk years ago when he was at Utah still, I think. Um, where he had said that they lost a game and when he was at Notre Dame and he was the receivers’s coach and he said that he went up to David Given, the old Patriots receiver who was with Notre Dame at the time. He’s like, Given was one of our best players and said he walked over to him in his locker and he was like crying and he’s like, “David, what’s wrong?” He’s like, “Coach, I didn’t I didn’t see a target the rest of the second half. Like I I I felt like I could have helped us today and like it’s just it’s frustrating and blah blah.” And Urban said he that taught him something where he realized I can’t ever be the reason that the ball doesn’t get in the hands of our best playmakers. So, if I got to put Percy Harvin in the backfield, I’m putting Percy Harvin in the back field at Florida. If I got to put Percy Harvin in the slot, if I got to put him wild, whatever I got to do, I got to get him the ball. And it sounds like Shanhammer, who has been willing to do some Wildcat stuff and willing to put, you know, receivers in the backfield, been willing to put running backs in the receiving routes and different things like that, that that’s a an important thing to him is making sure that I got to prioritize getting the ball in the hands of the people who can most affect the game. The name Clayton Adams is becoming a hot one around here as the offensive coordinator. Here’s Shottenheimimer on his relationship and trust with Clayton Adams in that Cowboy run game. Again, you got to remember now we sat here in the spring from 7:00 a.m. till 11:00 at night building this thing. And there was really hard conversations and there were things I was like, “Yep, I like that. It makes perfect sense.” And there’s things I’m like, “Nope, I would never call that.” And um he was he’s very humble in a good way. I think you have to be as a coordinator for a offensiveminded head coach. Um, but man, Garrett, we’ve had so many, you know, real conversations and, you know, I know about him as a husband and a father with his beautiful girls and their soccer careers and things like that. We don’t just talk about football. If all you do as a coach is talk about football, then you’re fooling yourself because you’re not going to get people to buy into what you’re doing. And then when you have to jump people’s asses, which I do probably at times, my wife says too much, then uh they’re going to push back and and and that’s never a good thing. But uh yeah, I mean, he and I have had a lot of great football conversations, a lot of great conversations about life and that’s why I trusted him. Yeah. And I mean, he has made a a real difference and I know we talked about a little bit yesterday with the run game stuff, but he’s the design looks completely different. And you referenced the stat earlier this week that you know Dallas and Arizona have essentially flipped spots in terms of run game efficiency. And a lot of that has to do with Clayton Adams and I my my favorite part there Sean is where he says that you build a foundation of trust and you can have the hard conversations. It’s like how he and I have connected so strongly and then I was able to ask him about the fourth downplay without it feeling awkward is because we built that foundation of trust. That’s right. I don’t even know how he’s going to go through the interview tomorrow without Choppy here. He also gave a great answer on marrying the run in the past. I told you Greg Olsen went into some detail. Uh we don’t have that cut though, right? I don’t think so. All right. Uh Greg Olsen was just talking about marrying the run in the past. And I’ll just quickly try to summarize it and he said it means there’s just no scouting giveaways. There are no tells. Basically, everyone in the league, right, part of their job is to find your tells. And he told a great story about taking on Carolina and the great Luke Keequley and Russell Wilson was coming back to the bench and saying Keley’s calling every play. He’s literally calling every play and Shotti’s like what do you mean? He’s calling out every play. Trap here, three-step there. I think the guys that overdo the studing, you can use it as an advantage cuz otherwise you’re playing into their hands and we have people on our staff self-couting us looking for those tails. kind of like Shottenheimimer, his early job here was to tell Dan Quinn what he’s seeing in Dan Quinn’s defense. So, just trying to make everything look very deceptive and the same. Yeah. And that multiple that you you hear that and a that’s probably reason why the play action’s been so successful for them this year, too. You don’t have to run the ball effectively to be able to sell play action, but you have to be able to make it look like it’s a run. Like, it has to look similar. Um, and that does give you an advantage that causes defenders to pause if you can make those two things look the same. But we were doing Cowboys cross talk last night and George Teague was the guest and George Teague obviously played a lot of free safety in his career and safety is a lot of times the first guy that the quarterback looks at at the snap to like determine what the coverage is and do different things like that. and he was talking about just how demoralizing it is when you’re on the other side and you feel like there’s a coordinator and a coach who are so in command that they know they’re just basically playing with you and and that that how demoralizing it is of just like man we feel like we can do everything right and yet they are still adjusting things at the last second snapping the ball knowing exactly where to put it because we’re in the wrong spot and and and we could play everything perfectly but they know where we are and they know what we’re going to do and and how to pick that apart. And I think that the reverse of that obviously stream you’re hearing about the Keley thing and so being able to deceive that and and level that playing field is going to be a big thing for them. 8778811011053. The way to hit us up on the Franklin injury attorney text line. The way to call to win the 9-in nail ticket giveaway. Jake Reed in studio at 7:20 to preview the Stars opener tonight and the season ahead. Panthers insider David Newton at 8:00. But you ever sit there and watch your TV and it’s inconsistent with the sound? You’re like, “Why is this so loud? I gotta turn it down. I gotta turn it up. I got to turn it down. I got to turn it up.” No more loud commercials. Payton Russell has it as part of the Thursday Payload next on Shawn and RJ 1053, The Fan. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh, is that your name? No, I mean like your name. No, I’m Jen. My name’s Jen. But I just like this is your haircut. But that’s the hair on your head. I’m not saying this is your hair. 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The Morning Show is letting Payton Russell have his own segment. I just don’t get it. We’ve known Payton for years. He’s horrible on the mic. I mean, gathering the foreigners, this is going to be a train wreck. Daddy does work work and Payton just does board hopping. That is right. Thursday, 6:40. It’s time for a little payload action here every single Thursday at this time. 6:40 on a Thursday. And man, what a what a bad day for R.J. to be out because we go to California. California finally did something right. Maybe it’s a good day R.J.’s out. Maybe he’ll have to argue this, but he’s going to have to agree with this one because California is cracking down on loud streaming ads with a new law that could impact the rest of the United States. They are keeping TV streaming advertisers from cranking up the volume when your show goes to commercial breaks. So, have you ever been watching TV and Sean teased it well and wondered why the hell is this commercial so much louder than than what I had the volume at? If I had the volume at 4 because it’s night time, kids are sleeping, why is the volume at 12 all of a sudden here with the streaming ad? Stop it. Stop it, guys. So you’re telling me that’s being like manually turned up I or the commercials being put in with a much higher sound? So it’s like imagine if we were um imagine if we were recording an interview and then it it was this is different obviously cuz it’s a commercial break, but like let’s say uh Choppy started like doing his Choppy voice and he’s booming out louder than the rest of us. It would be like if Payton did nothing to even out the levels after. And so then you’re cranking it up to hear the guest talk and then Choppy goes Choppy here and you’re like, “Dear God.” Like it’s basically just commercials are all standardized across one thing and they don’t mess with the dialogue as much from the production. What is this enough to like make a law on? It’s pretty irritating for me. Like the thing they got to fix more than that to me for me it’s within movies even the same movie different scen I can b no like at home I’ll be sitting there trying to watch something Amanda’s asleep and then she’s like why do you have it so loud and then I’m like lowering it and then the next scene you can’t hear the next scene and then I’m turning the amount of times you go up and down up and down within a movie. Movie and TV soundtracks are worse for this to me than commercials. commercials are bad, but like Kristen and I, she’ll say, “Can you turn it down?” And it’s like, “All right, I’m turning it down.” And then we’re watching it and then because it’s like music. Well, then you can’t hear them. So then like say you turn it up and then they do a jump cut where they’re doing some heavy guitar thing and it’s blaring and the kids wake up and it’s like gosh, can we even this out a little? So this all started when Tom Umbberg, a Democratic senator in California, had his newborn daughter waken up from her sleep because of a blaring streaming ad while he was watching TV. It’s all about the kids nowadays, of course. Uh it was recently the kids sleeping. It was recently signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsome. Uh that these commercials will need to be the same volume as the content they’re watching beginning in July of 2026. So, we got to wait a little bit, but you know, sooner or later, California will have it. Hopefully, Texas will take over from that and uh you know, we’ll have something uh all going throughout the United States here because it’s a law that that I can get behind. This is this is the second good law that California’s passed. I guess they get one a year that that they do something, right? What was the first one? Uh the first one is last year they they they just want to tackle like I guess cable companies and things like that is what they’re looking at because last year they made it so that cable companies, internet companies, different things like that. You had to provide an option for somebody to cancel their account on the internet page without getting on the phone with one of those representatives. I love that. Yeah, that needs to be a universal law because that’s how they try and just they hope you get frustrated and go, I guess I’m just hanging up the phone without canceling. You should copy that forward telegram. Nick Harris in studio tomorrow from 8:00 to 10 a.m. Random question for you. You probably have no idea. Mhm. What number volume do you usually find you like on the TV in your house? At least when mine goes up and down, it’ll be, you know, 21, 22, 23, down to 18. Do you remember what the number volume is that you usually like? So, it’s weird because it’s different on my living room TV and my bedroom TV. I have no idea why cuz my bedroom TV can only be at like 12 and like it’s fine, you know? I I don’t know if it’s cuz I’m closer to it, but living room I have it up to probably 29:30, I think. I think it’s also probably unconsciously at night everything’s just quieter when you’re in your bedroom and so you naturally are are feeling a little more stillness. Uh, movies are going to be up to like 80 cuz for some reason movies to me are way Movies are low. Do all you guys watch it louder than your significant other? My wife swears I have a hearing problem. I think she’s a low talker. Uh, she’s like, “You’re always blaring and blasting the TV.” And she can watch it on a level to where I really am asking myself like, “Do I have a I can’t hear this? Do I have a hearing problem?” So then I have to choose between asking her, “Huh? What?” And I know she gets exhausted repeating it or just like not responding to it and then making her think I’m not listening. And I’ve been doing a lot more of that lately. Just like Yeah. Giving the given the fake response. Yeah. I’ I’ve got a I’ve got a good good gaslighting for you. You need to just maybe once a day just go hello. And she goes, “What?” Be like, “I’ve called you like four times.” And then just like you start making her think she’s got the hearing problem. I haven’t had to do that recently. I I she might need to take a pregnancy test cuz she’s got pregnant brain. Congratulations. It would not be a congratulations. But her her her brain has been just fried over the past couple of days. Yeah. I think McKenzie, she would like it uh louder than I would like it, but we also have two remotes in the living room. Well, yeah, because it’s it’s weird. One is like, you know, the the TV TV and then the other one, you know, once you get to like the HDMI one or something, you can control it there, the the Direct TV stream, the YouTube, all that. But both can control the volume. So I’ll have one remote show of the other and I kind of like have to while she’s not looking kind of turn the volume down a little bit one by one. My father-in-law weighing in movies 20 to 30 range YouTube 12 to 15. I’m probably double what Kristen is on the volume like what like whatever her volume is. I’ve usually went up twice as loud. Do you think you have a hearing issue because of radio and all that? That’s possible. I’ve had like Beats headphones that I used to crank up and I remember there was a sound engineer who told me he’s like that bass volume he’s like that’s going to lay down the short hairs in your ear and that’s how you listen the older you get. And I was like, “Oh, great. Awesome.” So, shout out California for this, uh, finally doing something right in the world here. But, uh, all right. It is the payload every Thursday at this time. We go out to New York where Boomer Asias, you hear him sometimes on the CBS Sports Minutes. Uh, he’s in some hot water. Look, we’ve made it, we’ve all made the jokes on air that we kind of, you know, we say it and we kind of think, hm, should I have said that? I know Bobb’s made plenty. He gets called into the office all the time. I’ve made some, I know that, you know, I’ve got in trouble before. Uh, you know, need need to stay humble there. But um Boomer said something that maybe he shouldn’t have. So Dave Sims is the radio playbyplay for the New York Yankees and he recently was doing an ad for dude wipes and R.J. has plenty of dude wipes. He’s always talking about having dude wipes when he goes to the restroom. Uh and the guys on WFAN in New York on the morning show, Gio and Boomer, they were discussing it and Boomer decided to bring up Susan Waldman who was also part of the Yankees broadcast. And uh this is what uh Boomer had to say. So I mean I wonder if she looks at that. It looks like there’s a little friction between the two right now. Seems like it at least in the broadcast, you know, when she sees the dude wipes ad that he does on X, is she saying that’s ridiculous? Why would he do that? Or is or is she saying like, “Can I get something like this? How come I’m not a part of this whole thing?” You know, dude wipes probably wouldn’t be her. No, she could use like uh Vagisil daily fresh wipes. Damn. Damn. I couldn’t even say that with a straight face. I could I could I mean there’s all sorts of feminine wipes. Yeah, there are there. Yes. Now, remind me if I’m incorrect, but Vagisol wipes, that’s not just to make it smell better down there. This is for like if there’s uh an itching or dryness problem. Correct. Uh it’s it’s for yeast. Vaginal itching relief. dryness relief and odor protection. I don’t know the relationship between Boomer and Susan, but and that’s important. There’s there there’s two things here. Number one, I get what he’s trying to do. He’s trying to give a ballpark comparison. Oh, just let me think of something comparable to what the male playbyplay guy has. And here you go for women. But then I do think it’s really important to figure out if Boomer is cool with Susan Waldman. Oh my goodness gracious. Roger Clemens Lucious yesterday cuz they played this for G back in the day. Lucious yesterday was like is is he also telling on himself a little here? What does he know personally know about Susan? Susan’s what 78 79? I mean I I don’t I don’t know. Now have you ever noticed with the dude wipes? Have you ever seen the logo for dude wipes right here? Yeah. People have pointed out before that they think this is a subliminal message of cuz when you turn dude on its side it spells you c you looks like another letter that would seem to indicate it’s for cleaning up something else. Yeah. So I’m sure sometime today Michael K might say something or Don Lrea might go on another rant, you know, New York radio um there. But you know we we’ll we’ll see in the near future if uh she’s cool with this or not. Maybe we have another response here. We love playing responses when there’s drama. We love playing the other side of things. So hopefully she uh she says something. But with the Yankees on the playoffs, maybe she’s not on air as much. Bam. There you go. All right, last story. Here it is. The Payload every Thursday at this time. Now we go out to Baltimore, the home of Sean Sheree, where we have 90 minutes away from Bowling. Don’t associate even though it gave me street cred. Yesterday I’m getting a a haircut. Shout out Barber’s Edge. Uh I don’t get it for free, so that’s not a plug. Trust me. And he said, “You’re from Baltimore.” Like I had to be like, “No, Maryland.” I mean, you had to show them that Vice documentary of like, “I’m actually from the hardest area in in the world.” But it gave me this like very quick 5-second street credit of, “Oh, you’re from Baltimore.” So, we have uh some more losers causing problems, not just at the airport, but in the actual plane. So, uh the plane lands here. I’ll tell some story. We’ll have the video up on the fan cam Twitch on YouTube and also have some audio of the interaction with the women and the other passengers. But so the plane lands, everyone stands up and then one by one people exit the plane like it should. I think maybe it’s called a zipper formation. You know, one aisle goes, the other aisle goes. But you know, you always have that guy who’s in like seat 33 C who, you know, is standing up as soon as the the ding goes off and he’s running up. He’s like, I got my carryon. Let me get out of this plane. He wants to be first class when he’s really, you know, group eight or nine there. Um, so the plane, you know, everyone’s trying to exit the plane until this woman holds up the line about, it’s about halfway through the row 17, 18 on the plane. Halfway through, she’s refusing to let people down the aisle until her daughter, who is sitting several several rows back in the plane, is allowed to leave the plane with her. Here’s the interaction with the passengers. And you can also see it up on the fan cam Twitch and YouTube. So, I mean, I wonder if she looks at that. It looks like there’s a little friction between the two right now. Seems that Boomer, come on. Susan Wman waiting for her daughter. What is wrong with you? I would hate to be on you. No wonder she’s back. Can I marry you, please, please? You know what? You will tell me cuz I haven’t said anything to you. I haven’t said anything to you all. They won’t let my daughter and I need and she I’m not getting so she can get up here. That’s why they can’t let her come play. They’re trying to come from the back of the plane and get out first. Why did you come from the back of the plane? That’s what row she was in. One way. It’s going to be hard. But why they can’t why they can’t let her pay? You haven’t been on this plane long enough, lady. Mind your mother business, mind your mother. I’m sorry, but you got the problem. This is my business. I want to get a problem. You are not the problem. You are the problem. You’re the problem. No, you are the problem. Thanks for the early headache in the morning, Payton. How is the daughter? Number one. Oh, and that’s not number one. Number one is the plane attendant is trying to do the right thing. She’s just saying, “Step into these empty seats and wait. Step to the side of the empty seats, let everybody go and then your daughter will catch up with you.” But the woman is standing right in the middle of the aisle. You can’t arrest her, I don’t think, for this. But something seriously needs to be done for her future flying privileges. Well, and this is when passengers like, “Look, there’s one of her now.” And why don’t they all everyone just just step to the side of their aisles, too, at at one point. If it’s going on for four or five minutes, step inside the seats. You’re in the right. She’s in the wrong. And let the girl Let the girl get through. That mom’s not stopping me. I’m I’m not stop I’m not being stopped. Did you see her? Yeah, I saw her. I saw her. I saw the honey bee. Yeah. I’m not I’m not being stopped standing. You I’m moving. I’m getting by. No, you’re not. Yes, I am. That that that’s a mind your business. It’s my business. This literally involves me now. This is part of my business. Bobby would be the petty one that’s like, I’m not moving until you’re moving. I mean, he he would he would get every he would have everyone staying on the plane. I don’t know why she just didn’t step into all the rows above her were empty. Just step to the side cuz she doesn’t want to wait to get off the plane. But now she’s making everybody else wait. She wants to get off the plane first. And you know what? Pay for a better upgrade so your daughter sits with you. It’s the Payload Thursday edition. Well done from Payton Philip Russell here on DFW Sports Station. A 9-in nails ticket giveaway at 7:20 when Jake Reed is in studio to preview the star season that begins tonight. But are we going to get more filthy fighting? Brian Dayball is trying to make it happen this evening for Thursday Night Football. We’ll tell you how around the NFL and why won’t the Browns name Shadore the backup. All that is next. Dire. 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That stands for turn it on, leave it on. We want to hook you up with a 9-in nails ticket giveaway. 720 commercial free expressway trying to get you to your weekend as quickly as possible. I’m Sean Sharief alongside Cowboys insider Bobby Belt. Choppy is out today and tomorrow on the road trip to go to his alma ma. So, they are starting Joe Flacco Cincinnati and Zack uh Zack Brown, Zack Taylor. He’s like, “Yeah, we’re starting Joe.” A lot of terminology, a lot of verbiage is even more the same than I thought. And Joe Flaco will take over for Jake Browning for the Bengals. Now, what does that mean for the Browns? And that backup spot, Kevin Stfansky, for some reason yesterday refused to name the backup to Dylan Gabriel. And that has everybody up in arms with Stfansky saying, “I’m I need to do what I have to do to protect our players, protect the development of our players.” Is that telling us he doesn’t think Shador is ready? Well, I don’t think he thinks Shador is ready, but they’re the Browns and so no one on that football team looks ready. So, I would say that cuz you know, a lot of people are like I even think Choppy to a degree is like something’s going on here personally between Stfan. Remember that was a preseason. Yeah, there’s there’s nothing going on there. He’s the number two. He’s not going to publicly just say, “Oh, it’s Shadors. I’m giving it to Shidor.” They’re very clearly Who’s the number two? Shadore. He’s going to be the number two. Yeah, 100%. Then why didn’t he name it? Because why are you going to tell Shadore he just naturally gets anything without having to work? That’s what they’re trying to break with him. They’re trying to break entitlement with him. And so they don’t want him to They’re not going to hand him anything. They’re not going to say, “Oh, he just gets it.” He is the number two. There’s zero chance it’s Bailey Zappy. It’s going weekend. Shador will be the backup. Yeah, 100%. He’s just He’s not going to He’s not going to just hand that over to him publicly. To me, that’s a that’s a factor of no, we’re going to make him naming your death charge. I know. Make him earn it. We’re We’re not going to just naturally assume anything. He’s got to earn it. Like they they’ve had more than we’ve already they’ve already had the issue of him going like, “I should be one of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL where they’re just like, reel it in a little like like some humility, please.” And and that’s something where I think they’re just it’s it’s about in humility training more than anything else. He’s there’s zero chance Bailey Zappy’s ahead of him. Are you surprised Flaco is already starting? And what does this say? The other day I already erased the importance of training camp and now I’m like all this preparation and playbook study. This about to be erased when Joe Flaco comes out here and possibly plays well for the Bengals. Well, it’s it’s a slam dunk according to Chase Brown. Chase Brown, the running back for the Bengals, yesterday he was talking to the media and he was apparently saying that Zack Taylor first day we were in the meeting room. He’s like listing off all these super long plays, read these long plays and then Joe would just pause and then he’d spit it right back out the whole play perfectly. He’s like, so he’s he’s got a good memory. His his his memor is pretty good. So he’s uh Joe’s like an elephant. Just really strong memory. Super old. Unfortunately for them, it’s going to be at Green Bay. 325 game on CBS, but I bet Flaco has a good first quarter. He’s one and0 against Green Bay this year. So Oh, that’s right. Will they score 10 points? Still one and0. Yeah, I think it was 13-10 or whatever it was. Tonight, some interest. I have a lot of interest in an NFC East matchup. It is the Giants against Filthy. And normally I’m rolling my eyes at Brian Day. The game is in the Medallands. It’s a 7 and 12 point spread. Obviously the Eagles are favored, but uh you and I both think this was intentional from Day yesterday when he was asked about some of the Eagles drama. Yeah, you watch all the games um and you watch him when he’s out there get open big, strong, fast, has good hands, can run any route you want them to run, and sure they can throw the ball as many times they want. That means Saquon doesn’t get it or give it to Saquon and AJ doesn’t get it. There’s one ball. They’re all really good players. Smitty, I mean, I’ve been around Smitty. I think he’s an exceptional receiver, too. So, I think what I’m sure whatever they want to do or think they need to do, that’s what they’ll do. Um, you have to watch the tape. AJ’s open a lot. Normally, I’m so anti-DL. This is hilarious. And I mentioned this last night to Nate Newton and George T when we’re doing Cowboys cross talk and I was like this is this is 100% on purpose, right? And they’re just like cackling. They’re like, “Yeah.” They’re like, “Dude, this like you don’t say something like that twice. You you give credit to Barkley’s really good. Devonte’s really good.” Boy, AJ’s open though. He is open a lot when you turn on the film there. And AJ will not be able to help himself. AJ could know this is bait. AJ could know this is a clear setup and like, oh, he’s just he’s he’s trying to stir it up and he’ll still go, “Damn it.” Okay. It’s like when I get drawn off sides to be a troll. It’s like I I can recognize the attempt and it’s like, “It doesn’t matter. I’m I’m jumping into the fight. All right, we’re going to argue over this.” And so that’s where AJ is one of these guys who no matter how much he knows it’s a troll attempt, he’s going to be thinking to himself, he is right, though. I am open a lot. I’m I’m I’m open pretty often. I feel like the Giants could give them a little bit of a struggle this evening. I’m only saying that cuz it’s in New York. Everybody gives the Eagles a struggle so far this season. They play they win games, but they have not like they haven’t beat anybody down like they had a tendency to do at times last year. You know, uh I was not anticipating ending up on Philadelphia message boards because of what I said the other day that I had heard Jaylen Herz was a pain in the butt to deal with, but really the other name, and I hate to do this, especially with you in here. I wish you were out for this and Choppy was in Kell Moore’s absence. This is what we really need to be focusing on. An offensive coordinator who won a Super Bowl there. Ellen Moore. And who is their offensive coordinator? Ellen Moore. Who is their offensive coordinator now? And how much did Kellen hold this together? Yeah, who’s their their new coordinator is? It’s a first time coordinator. Um but yeah, this is I mean you’re probably getting I would imagine a lot more. That’s Kevin Patulo is his name. Yeah. Um but no, look, I’ve I’ve said before I think Kellen gets got way too much hate here. Like I thought he was a good coordinator. If you looked at when they were paired together, when Dak was there, when Dak was playing in the games where Dak would play, Dak and Kellen together were the number one scoring and number one yards offense together when they were together. Like that was that was all it took. And then last year he obviously the Chargers role. He they were fine on offense. They weren’t great. But then he gets to Philadelphia and adjusted pretty quick realizing what they had and and created best running game. He did it, Mike. He ran the damn ball and and he ran it all the way to a Super Bowl title. But I mean that’s that’s why I would have been totally fine with Kell Moore being the higher here. Shanheimer’s good, too. So I’m I’m fine with how it ended up. But yeah, this is I think the the Kell Moore aspect has absolutely impacted them. some of the Eagle odds I got from Vegas for tonight moving forward from Bet Online. Will the Eagles change offensive play callers during the season? Uh, they their head coach is an offensive guy. When does he say give me this back? I’m going to say no. The odds are no at minus 300. Kevin Patulo has never called plays before this year, by the way. So that’s minus 300 1-3. Squan rushing yards in week six over under. Actually, I’ll start with the other one. Will Saquin get 100 plus rushing yards tonight? No. No. Is minus 180. His season high is 88. He’s averaging 53 yards per game. But what? He got 176 yards in his lone game against the Giants last season, but no is the slight favorite that he’s does not get 100 plus. Payton, what did you think of the whole fantasy running back conundrum of Gibbs, Bejan, Seaquan? Because right now, drafting Seaquan third is even looking too high. Yeah. See, when it comes to like drafting running backs, I always look at, okay, is the team good overall? Is the offense good? I I would have gone Gibbs over uh Bejon and Saquon there just because the offense itself with Detroit. Now, yes, you have David Montgomery there who takes some of the carries and Jake Reimma will attest to this as well. Um, but I think overall the offense I I would go Gibbs overall. Then Bejon though, I mean, he’s so damn good. And then Seaquin, it’s like, okay, what he did last year, he he would have to repeat that to to to, you know, to do the hype again uh this year. So I I would probably go in those order now. I mean, the season’s already started, but yeah, Gibbs bejan Squan as well. And then Squan’s overunder for tonight is 83 and a half if you want to play that on underdog promo code tollo. Well, and Saquon was stirring things up this week talking about, you know, I would have uh I would have signed back with the Giants for less than I signed with the Eagles. I would have signed there for like 11 million. I I would have gotten it done. So, he’s just spoken. But right now, it’s he just does not look he looks like a guy who ran the ball 345 times during the regular season last year and is is still kind of fatigued from it. Speaking of New York, what is this Jets story? This had my head in a pretzel. This is so weird. So, the Jets are such a stupid organization and and such an inept organization. I know that Brian Costello didn’t want to answer it last week, but I would there’s not an owner, Jerry or otherwise, that I would not take over Woody Johnson and everything that’s gone down there. But what’s your point? News has broken that Elaine Chen, a former executive in the Jets finance department, sued the franchise last week. And it’s like, okay, why? Well, she says she was unlawful unlawfully fired. The reason she was unlawfully fired was because her husband, Larry Fitzpatrick, had told team investigators that the team president, Haimey Elhai, had sexually harassed female employees. So, they went, “Okay, let’s investigate this a little bit.” They went and investigated it and they found that Chen Fitzpatrick and one other member of the Jets front office department had made up all of these claims and exchanged work emails about it and text messages about it. Basically saying how they were going to come up with these fake accusations so that they could get this guy fired. Wow. And like I said, this is so bad that they said at one point it was like one of the So they conspired to set the guy up like make up lies of harassment. Yeah. with BS harassment accusations cuz they wanted him out. And at one point, somebody had emailed it to their Jets email and sent a text message of, “Whoops, accidentally sent it to your team email. Delete that.” And they got the text messages, too, because these were team phones that they were using as well. So, bunch of people who are just idiots and don’t know how to cover their tracks. But basically, there was this conspiracy to to remove a gentleman from the front office, get rid of their team president because they were just sick of him for whatever whatever reason. Now, I I can understand with the Jets dysfunction, it’s very possible that this guy’s just really bad at his job and they felt desperate, but this was clearly stupid. 8778811053 in order to hit us up. Woody Johnson just looks like he looks like a he looks like a kid who’s an adult. He does. That’s what he is. He wants to wear a stupid necklace and his hat everywhere. It just looks like something that’s been given to him. I saw uh when we were at the Jets game, I saw them golf carting out of the building. Woody and and old Brick, Rick Johnson, the one who uh likes to give out away the game balls and steal Aaron Rogers moment. And uh boy, he does look just like Brick does look like the like ultimate frisbee bully douchebag on on campus from like a college movie or something. He just looks like a total douche. gave you the phone number in order to text and the phone number in order to win the 9-in nails ticket giveaway. We go commercial free in the expressway. The most local segment in radio is the neighborhood watch at 7:40. David Newton, Panthers insider will join us at 8:00. How is Bryce Young doing? Uh Rico Dow talking big and that Cowboy draft pick Tetto McMillan, is he thriving in year one? And we’ll preview the Panthers at 8:00, but right now it’s all about the Dallas Stars. Dallas Stars. They open up tonight against Winnipeg. Let’s preview the game and the season with Stars insider Jake Rema in studio on the Fan Cam, Twitch, and YouTube. Commercial free in the Expressway is next. 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Stars Insider are going to be living at theAC throughout the entire year. He is dressed in all green. That is not for the football jets. That is for your stars. He is Jake Rema, also co-host of Fan University Saturday mornings. Good morning. You ready to go? Yeah. Good morning. Happy hockey season, Stars. All right. All right. I I’m I’m amped up. The espresso’s flowing. But I know just Hey, it’s game one tonight. We We got 82 of these things. Soon to be 84. The NHL season’s going to be a little bit longer coming up. How much have you missed playing with the kids? Oh, I am excited for the big all kinds of block party and the whole I got the email there with the kids. Yep. Everything. That’s everything that’s going on for the home opener Tuesday night. But let’s let’s temper our excitement. We got two big road games before the home opener. Word in the building here is that you can’t say the word Saturday. Yeah. What’s Don’t go into detail. Great detail. Yeah. I I posted this yesterday cuz I’ve never received such an email, but we do the Texas State Network sports reports. They go out to a number of different stations and we love our TSN reports. And I got a some feedback I’d never heard before, but apparently I don’t pronounce the T in Saturday. Okay. So, how would you regularly say it? I have no idea. That’s the thing. It’s So, just give me the days of the week starting with Thursday. Yeah. Hey, there’s a big game coming up Saturday. So, maybe you’re saying it like a D like Saturday. Great center for the Colts. Jeff Saturday. I I think you’re I think you’re trying to say No, I know exactly in the moment. But like I think what happened maybe cuz I’m like how could you ever how else could you say that? Say that Saturday. Saturday you could do that. What’s the What’s the thing that Cory hates the way Greg Olsen says it? H there’s like there’s something where he says he doesn’t say a T in the middle of a word or something like that. Or it’s like maybe it’s a subtlety like what people say with your name which I still don’t understand the difference between where apparently your name is said different than Sean. Okay. So that’s your name or that’s the name and what’s the other way to say it? Sean. That’s That’s the same thing. It’s like a U and a W. Sean, you drunk it out a little more. Sean. Sean. So, Saturday, I don’t know. I listen, the very first time I was on air with you, you said I said some word funny, and now I’m just I’m very up uh very uh nervous that I’m I’m going to say something wrong. All right, Jake. Why should we believe? Do you believe that the Stars are better, just as good as last year, or step back? I think they’re better because of the breath of fresh air that Glenn Gooson can provide. And I’m choosing to be optimistic because the other side of the coin is yeah, you know, you fire a coach that’s been to the Western Conference Finals back-to-back years. That’s pretty good. You’re among the four best teams in the NHL. And there’s certainly something to be said about that. However, however, any sport you look at, sometimes complacency is a component of it. and a shot in the arm, something to shake things up, and it starts at the top. Glenn Goldson is a fiery guy. I remember being on with you guys when he was first hired. That you can go on YouTube and find clips when he was the head coach for the Calgary Flames of just going crazy on guys. And listen, I know we accuse some of these Stars players for being a little bit soft when Pete Dour did this. However, I do think it’s a breath of fresh air. It’s a new voice and what he’s made his mark on is being a power play genius. That’s how he made his mark with the Edmonton Oilers. And they had one of the best power plays in the NHL, the best power play in the NHL. And it helps when you have the best players, but at the same time, the breath of fresh air, shot in the arm, a different voice with the same core. It’s exciting. It’s exciting. So, how do you reasonably justify breath of fresh air for a guy that Jim Nell fired 10 years ago? Great question. Totally different situation in 2011. I think you could look uh in every single layer of this of that Dallas Stars team where they were coming back, the the uncertainty with the league. There were a lot of different factors at play there. And I think too uh in the past, as long as that is, you look at what Gooson has done since then. I mentioned his time with the with the Flames. He didn’t get over the hump there, but he has some head coaching experience. And then, oh, by the way, he goes and and is really successful as an assistant coach. I think if you believe in second chances, and that was a long time ago, hey, here’s now a time with a really established organization like the Dallas Stars, who have been to the Western Conference Finals, uh, three consecutive years, and give him this opportunity to get him over the hump. Jake Rema in studio to preview the Star season. So, with Brian Shottenheimer, we we were looking for early indicators that were different from McCarthy, like more motion. And Bobb’s been talking about condensed formations. Uh Bris and Zach Wilche are fighting about concepts in the run game, but give us some like tangible things to look for with Glenn Gulletson differences. The first thing that comes to mind to me is is physicality. Can this team be more physical with the a lot of the same roster? You mentioned the power play. Obviously, we’re going to be judging that early. Yeah, the power play is an easy one where you literally have statistics for it. Okay. how is the team on the power play? But I was listening to his postgame press conference after practice yesterday and any coach would tell you this, but it’s going to take some time. You know, we’re not going to watch the game tonight and say, “Oh my goodness, it’s a different Dallas Stars team.” But he talked about how every single player on this Dallas Star team plays with a cerebral approach. They’re smart players, you know, and we know how gifted they are physically and and how talented they are. Guys like Mo Ranton, some of the best in the game. and defensively he could not stop singing the praise of how deep this team is defensively. And I think you’ll see that as uh you know part of this kind of new age stars team where all of a sudden you know every guy in that blue line as playing an impactful brand of hockey. That’s part of what he brings. And then he talked about just the acclamation process as well where it’s going to take a couple of games. We’re going to we’re going to continue to make adjustments. He’s big on in-game adjustments and that sort of thing. and what we did today isn’t necessarily what we’re going to need to do tomorrow. Um, but at the same time, the biggest adjustment is going to be with the centers and their ability to play two-way hockey. And and that goes without saying, any coach will tell you the importance of that. But at the same time, there is a a shot in the arm. I keep going back to that, you know, where there’s going to be a new look to this Dallas Stars team because of the influence from Glenn Gooson. Give me an X’s and O’s example if you can of difference on the power play. What what is Glen Gullson is going to draw up? How does that work on on a power play of what could be different? Yeah. Well, the easy answer is just, you know, get McDavid dry side there. Um, but, you know, I I think spacing is a big part of it as well. Um, zone entry is huge on a power play and, you know, different uh if there was a perfect cookie cutter approach, everybody would do it. But zone entry, you can always tell on a power play how successful or at least the chances that you’re going to generate on that zone entry and the angles and the way that they can approach that. You know, whether it’s a it’s a dump and chase or it’s the the strategic angles of of a certain pass where you’re going to break into that offensive scoring zone entry because every good power play starts with that puck possession in a zone entry. And so those are all big things to preach, but now going out and executing it is where I’ll look to see how this Dallas Stars power play is different. Before we totally leave coaching, Neil Graham was a loud name around here as a replacement, as a promotion. You think he could have a significant impact this year? Oh yeah, you saw my cheat sheet, Sean. You saw it. You saw it. We preview things on this show. That’s right. No, I think in all seriousness, I think this is a perfect um runway for for Neil Graham where you could look at his resume and say, “Man, he deserved an opportunity.” Or you could look at the other side of the coin and say all of a sudden he’s going to get the opportunity to learn at the at the NHL level. We know the success he had in the minors, but now take the next step in that development process as a coach. He’s only 40 years old, and I truly believe he is the coach in waiting. Not to say Golden’s a a bridge coach by any means cuz again, you got a team that went to the Western Conference Finals the last three years. You’re not hiring a bridge coach, but at the same time, a guy like Neil Graham who has so much continuity with all of these young stars, why Johnson, Jake, the list goes on. And that’s how the stars have become as prominent. Yes, honors better. That and how they’ve become so good and that developmental relationship from a coach to player. And again, that is where not to just throw at Pete Dbor because that that is in the rearview mirror, but that was some of the shortcomings with Dbor. Now you got Golden at the at the helm, but Neil Graham to kind of be that players coach in his role and then take the next step at the NHL level. So when you uh get hired by an NFL team, you’re essentially expected usually early on to pay homage to the starting quarterback and to walk in there and make sure all right, let me make sure I got a good relationship here with the quarterback. Is that priority one walking through the door is all right, Pete Dbor in large part is out of here because of a bad relationship with Jay Cottoner. Let’s let’s start off right away by by making sure that’s off to a good start. No, I think there’s certainly some truth to that and I I have in my notes here where we also have to put a some of the onus on Otter. I mean, Otter has been so good and he’s earned that reputation and earned kind of that uh that voice in the locker room to be able to say, “Hey, you know, I’m not necessarily getting along with this guy.” But at the same time, he has an opportunity to establish himself as a a premier goalie in the NHL and make a case for VZN a trophy. That’s the best goalie in the NHL. So for go from good to great. And oh by the way guys, this is the first time since 2014 where NHL players are playing in the Olympics. And I think that’s huge for us hockey players. So you got Jakeer who’s going to make a bid to be on that Olympic team. I mean obviously Otter is better than Connor Hlebuk, but at the same time he’s the face of Americanb born hockey players of Americanb born goalies. Connor Hlebuk is and so this is an opportunity for Otter to take that next step from good to great. So it’s a shot in the arm with Glenn Gooson. It’s a breath of fresh air. What are they missing with Pete D’Vor gone? I think uh experience is a big part of it. Um the the guy that’s been there, done that at the highest level. um he hasn’t gotten over the hump, but at the same time, yes, at the same time, he was consistently in the Western Conference Finals, not just with the Dallas Stars, but year in and year out. So, that’s a huge loss. But, Bobby, we can’t look in the rearview mirror. We got a game tonight. Let’s look forward. You got to know what you’re missing, though. You You got to know what you’re missing and what what bases you got to cover. Nope. This is This is like the ex-girlfriend. You block her on every single social media account. You don’t respond. Peter did nothing good. Peter did nothing. Words in my mouth. You’re putting you’re putting words in my mouth. I’m not putting anything in your mouth. Pete Debor did nothing good that I’m just saying like like what there there had to be something that it was it was a decision they had to weigh. It was not an easy just quick fire. What what are they going to where what are they losing by going gullets into divorce? Yeah, they’re they’re missing an established coach that got them to among the best four teams in the NHL. So if you think about it in college basketball terms, it’s a coach that got you to the final four in two consecutive years. Did you sign up for that? If he doesn’t throw Otter under the bus in the press conferences, is he still a coach? Oh, that’s a good one. If does this feel a little McCarthy-esque, Bobby, to where that was the thing they were looking for or needed to pretext basically to go do what you wanted to do? Maybe. Uh, but I mean like it’s it’s such a bad history as we found out like like when we started really researching. He’s got a really bad history with goalies like like Peter Bour just seems to have some sort of it’s like choppy what he always talks about like Draymond Green just hates European players or or like how some people are like does Nico just not like the European players? What’s going on here? It’s there’s clearly it feels like there’s something Dbor does not like about goalies. Well, we talked about this when it all first transpired. I remember sitting in that press conference when it was happening uh after they lost to the Oilers. I know. I know. And I was just like, “Wait a second. Is he is he doing this?” And I felt like that was the the straw that broke the camel’s back. Is that Is that the saying? I’m terrible with saying Yeah. The straw that broke the camel’s back. It gave them the reason. Yes. Saturday. Saturday. The straw that broke the camel’s back. Oh, yeah. The straw. Uh, it’s Jake Reema in studio previewing the star season right here on 1053. The fan. What do you think a full season of Mo look? Well, you play fantasy hockey. I do. Yes. But long story. Uh, I know it’s the expressway. I don’t want to be long-winded here, but somebody in our league, it’s our it’s our league among Dallas Stars media people. And Mac Engel gave you the invite. Yeah. Somebody created two teams by mistake. So when I went to log in, I was exed out of the league cuz I was the last one to sign up for the league and so they drafted the team. And it it’s like I’m a GM inheriting. I didn’t draft this team, but I’m going to make the most. No, no, no. It this is the first league we’re doing it. And so where would um give me give me the top three stars that would be drafted for fantasy and about the range where they would go or top two. Yeah. Yeah. So one is you might think it’s it’s Conor McDavid. It’s actually not. He’s three. So give me Leon Dryidle ahead of McDavid as two. Okay. And and then Mar for Colorado. It pains me to say, but and then the top stars. Yeah. Dallas stars. Not like hockey stars. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. By the way, 972 says, “I know nothing about hockey, but Jake’s energy makes me want to run out and buy season tickets.” Let’s do it. Yeah, I texted that. Yeah, I’ll see you at the PNC Plaza playing hockey with the kids. Uh, so the Dallas Stars in fantasy, how would they go? Like, is Mo definitely won? Mo’s the the top one because of the numbers he’s going to put up. What range would he go? Like he was like a seventh seven through 10 in that kind of round. Seventh through 10 overall. Overall. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and then Miro Hastinan is going to be your top defensive guy cuz he’s another one that can stuff the stat sheet is which is big. Um, and then guys, it’s interesting because you want to get guys that are going to, again, fantasy here. I’m not talking real hockey. Um, but like uh just like in fantasy football, guys that score touchdowns aren’t always like the best players, but guys that stuff the stat sheet on the power play, and we’ve talked a lot about that where we don’t know exactly what that’s going to look like. Um, but Wyatt Johnston is another one that I would I would take a flyer on. So I I everybody in the league are stars uh you know people that cover the stars. So they all everybody wanted to take the stars. So I think they were at a a premium in this league. So Mo, I mean just expect another stud year. Yeah. No, I have in my notes um if he could just put up 17 points in a six game span like he did in the playoffs, we should be good. No. And I was listening to one I think you could legitimately get 200 points out of Miko Ranton and Jason Jason Robinson Robo. We hadn’t talked about him a lot, but he’s on a contract year. He’s healthy. He’s ready to break out and he’s ready to make that money. Why was there talk about trading him this off season? Great question. Because his value was super high. You think he could yield a huge return? And there was conversations. I didn’t buy into this, but kind of the odd man out just given the way uh he had some shortcomings in the postseason where you’ve got a Dallas Stars team that is absolutely loaded up front. you could get a huge return for him, but he was kind of the odd man out. I I and again I and and I think Woolchuk and I debated this a little bit, you know, kind of really shake it up, but I I don’t believe that that was the move. I’m so glad that they held on to Robo because I I see a breakout year coming for him on a contract year, healthy and ready to make a huge impact. What did they add or lose in the offseason? Yeah, a big addition actually here is Radic Foxa, who’s a name that you’re going to hear and and it should sound familiar because he’s had a tenure with the Dallas Stars. It’s an investment into some depth. So, he’s a fourthline center guy and it’s kind of odd to see a three-year deal for a four that guy that’s, you know, hey, you’re playing on the fourth line, but at the same time, it shows the commitment to the depth and I think that will be a a welcome addition for this Dallas Stars team. Jake Reema in studio previewing the season right here on 1053 the fan. Give us some other uh so ceiling. We we we did this the other day. Oh, I love this. The odds of making it back to another Western Conference final. Would you put your money right now that they make it back to another West Final or come up short? I would put my money there. And I was actually checking the odds again this morning just to make sure I wasn’t missing anything because I feel like the national conversation is oh, you know, the Stars are going to take a big step backwards, but the odds are actually they’re right among the elite in the Western Conference still. Edmonton is above everybody. They’re the favorite and I think the the new Conor McDavid deal is is more proof in the pudding that hey, now is the time for Edmonton. Everybody’s high on Vegas because they signed Mitch Marner, which was a huge deal. Now, the combination of Mitch Mner and Jack Eel um in Vegas there, which by the way, I watched them last night. They have the worst uniforms in sports. I I’m a big uniform guy. The the ugliest uniform of all time, the Vegas Golden Knights. It it is like what might come out of your nose if you’re not feeling you if you’re feeling under the weather a little bit. Um but it is a just a disgusting sweater. Um and then a lot of people are really high on the Carolina Hurricanes, which if you remember, that was the trade that the Stars made for Mo. and they’ve got Logan Stanovven who is a really bright young player. But yes, the odds for the Stars I saw were right at plus 900 and a team like Colorado plus 800. That’s another team that a lot of people are on. So maybe you know and this is to win the Stanley Cup. So if you’re talking about teams that have a legitimate chance to be in the Western Conference Finals, the Stars are absolutely in that conversation. Jake Brema, also the co-host of Fan University. Saturdays starting at 9:00 a.m. right here on the station. Have had a monster guest list so far. Anyone coming up this Saturday? Ah, you know, sometimes there’s some es and flows in the business. And uh, you know, we we that’s a great time to say thank you to Joey Maguire. And how about Eric Morris who was on the show a couple weeks ago. His North Texas mean green have a huge game on Friday against uh Yes. Yes. Uh uh against the Bulls of USF. And then uh we also had Rhett Lashley on a couple weeks ago. Are you doing Carter every week? Oh yeah. Yeah. Are you doing the show from the uh from the pool party? Is that where the show’s from? No. No. I will be at the pool party though. I’ve been doing nothing but abs all week trying to get ready for this pool party. I’ve had nothing but water and quinoa for two weeks. This is going to be got a lot of carbs, doesn’t it? It’s a complex carb, Bobby. It clears you out. It’s going to be the WA watch party on the roof of the Highland Hotel this Saturday from 2 to 6. It’s a Flagtober stop as well. Pay, are you going to come on out or No, I will be there. I think I’m going to arrive around 4:00, a little 4, but I will be there up until 6:00. All right. I’m going to be right there at 2, I think, before it kicks off. Yes. And Texas OU be sitting there on the television. That’s why Pton’s getting there late. He doesn’t actually care to watch the whole game because he’s not a real Texas fan. Remma, fantastic stuff, man. We appreciate it and we’ll be relying on you throughout the season. Can’t wait. I like the I like that warm-up jacket and the hat. That’s right. It’s not just hockey. We got basketball. I don’t like it. It’s a Mavericks. We’re still not over that. Jake Reapma in studio right here. Give him a follow on social media throughout your entire hockey season. Jake_reapma. R I E P M A. Saturdays on 1053 the fan. Let’s hook you up for turning it on, leaving it on. have it all. All right, toos. That’s right. Right now, caller number 10 at 8778811053 wins a pair of tickets. See 9 in nails at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026. That’s caller number 10 at 877881 1053. David Newton, the Todd Archer of Carolina from ESPN. We’ll preview the Panthers at 8:00 this morning. Choppy out today and tomorrow with the road trip to watch his Tennessee Valls. No, I didn’t have anything. Oh, I was I didn’t Did I Did I seem like I had something? No, I thought you were gonna say something. I didn’t normally read that by now. Hopefully, you have something to say in the watch. We need to take people out of their bubbles in their safe place and make them think about the world we live in. You are fake news. So, what do you guys hear? What’s the scuttlebutt? Comedians just aren’t very funny, according to one comedian. More on that in just a second. Uh, this is the neighborhood watch. Every Thursday, we bring you local news uh mainly from around the DFW area, but sometimes just uh from the state of Texas. First, an item, an agenda item, something you can do this weekend. One of our uh more famous tools, maybe perhaps our our most famous regular tool, country singer Casey Donahghue. I’m I’m very upset by this. Uh not not by Casey, but uh Casey is performing this weekend. Uh on Saturday, he will be at Billy Bobs at 10 o’clock. So, he has a concert for anybody who’d like to see Casey Donahue this weekend. He will be at Billy Bob’s at 10 p.m. on Saturday night. Doesn’t your wife have a crush on him? She does. The doubleAC. I remember that. She was She was very ticked that you’re not in town. She Well, she would still go. She doesn’t care. How many times has she gone out with you and Amanda when I’m not there, so she doesn’t mind. Um the the issue here is that she is because I was going out of town. She was like, “Oh, it’s a weekend where Bobb’s going out of town.” She is going to that llama ranch that her uh aunt has. And so she’s going out of town and she didn’t realize she didn’t realize when she had scheduled it. And so now she’s very upset that she is going to be in Central Texas instead of at Billy Bobs on Saturday night cuz she wanted to see Casey Donahue. So you probably could have gotten the backstage treatment all of it. I Yeah, probably. And I did something that was very very upsetting to her and I don’t even know why. You know how sometimes I do things and you’re just like why do you do those things? Yeah. All the time. We just talked about one in the hallway regularly. So, just for I don’t know about 30 minutes, I told her like, “By the way, I don’t want to miss the Casey Donghue concert. So, I’m not going to Carolina this weekend.” She’s like, “The whole reason I was going to Central Texas was because you weren’t going to be in town. So, now you’re going to be in town this weekend and you’re going to the Casey Donahghue concert.” I was like, “It’s a good opportunity. I don’t want to miss it.” And I just want to keep that big going for a little bit. And then she was getting genuinely upset. And so, I was like, “I’m just kidding. I’ll stop. I’ll stop that now.” But Casey Donahue in town. There he is. Casey Donahue is in town this weekend. If you’d like to go check him out at Billy Bobs. Okay. the city of Austin. Seems like a cool dude. Yeah. No, he was very cool and a big time sports fan. He was uh we saw him. It was at the Stars game. He was hanging out. He had a Star sweater and he was wanting to talk Mavs and I know he was very opinionated about the Micah trade. So, he’s like a legit DFW sports fan. So, go out and support uh one of DFW’s biggest stars there in Casey Donahghue. So, Austin has become a comedy mecca in large part thank you to Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan decided that he was tired of California policy and mainly when he signed his deal with Spotify, he’d gotten this huge contract and I think he saw what taxes were going to look like in the state of California and he decided, “Oh, I don’t want to lose that much money. Where can I go that might be a little bit of a a safe haven for taxes and and let me keep some of this money?” And he looked at Texas and he very specifically had kind of narrowed things down. He had made this big deal of when I move, I’m going to move and create and I’m going to make that city into the new comedy hub because so many people use his podcast to launch their careers now at this point and get attention. It’s the way in the ‘9s going on Letterman or doing something like that started like launching the careers of comedians, being able to be exposed to an audience. When Rogan has you on his podcast now and you’re a comedian, that blows you up. That’s a very big deal. Um, so a lot of comedians when they heard he’s moving to Texas were like, “Do I need to start being around Texas more so that I can I can get in front of him and I can get on his podcast?” So, he had said that he was going to either move to Dallas or Austin was where he had decided. He ended up picking Austin. Dallas lost out somehow. Uh, and he ended up going to Austin and he’s been there now for 5 years, I think, five, six years. It was right around co when he had left. Um, but a number of comedians followed him out there. Tom Sigura moved down there. Uh, I believe Brendan Shaw moved. Imagine people moving for you because being influence, man. Yeah. It’s like uh Joe Rogan’s comedy tree. That is that is the the legit power behind Rogan in the comedy community. Well, one individual who who used to kind of be the guy who would blow you up in the podcast world. The original has an issue with Austin, Texas, and the an issue with the state of Texas in general. Do you know who Mark Marin is? No. If you saw Mark Marin, you would know who he is. comedian, mustache. He hosts the WTF podcast, the What the F podcast. And it’s been a it was one of the bigger podcasts and and I mean still is, but it was a a big one for a lot of comedians to go on and actors and different things like that. Marin is very politically left, which the city of Austin historically has been as well, but Marin is very politically left and in the era of divided politics has become much more political in his podcast. So, he has not been the same launching ground for comedians as it is. Now, Rogan does a lot of political stuff, too, but Rogan still hosts a lot of comedians and and that’s still a big focus for him. He has the comedy Mothership down in Austin, which is where those Kill Tony broadcasts go down, where they have the comedians come up and do a minute of standup and try and launch the careers. Uh, but he had done an interview recently on the Bad Friends podcast with Bobby Lee, former guest here of the show, who I was stripped down naked in front of Slater. Yep. Uh, and Andrew Santino, and they were interviewing Mark Maron, and they just asked him about, “Hey, is there uh is there any sort of shelf life with the Austin comedy scene?” because it’s just so dependent on Rogan being down there and and him being plugged in. And he went off on Austin and the state of Texas. And he said whatever they represented in terms of policy, they won. Trans people are frightened. They have no ability to get healthcare in Texas anymore. They’re afraid of being alive and have no freedom left. That’s done. When do you stop with the jokes? Immigrants, they’re being ripped away from their homes and they’re all terrified. It’s one thing to pick on the vulnerable and the marginalized, but I mean they’re down. Why do you got to keep hitting them unless you’re a hack? Now there’s a question. And they immediately kind of went Santino and Bobby Lee who are friends of Joe Rogan and have been on that podcast. They went, “Well, you came out swinging there, buddy.” And and they opened themselves up a little bit to to a big- time swing. that this is now becoming comedy which has historically been I feel like the most safe and apolitical because they generally beat up on both sides. Yeah. You’re now starting to see Marin draw a line. Chappelle draw a line. Dave Chappelle got a lot of a lot of heat recently for performing in Saudi Arabia and saying, “Boy, in the US they muzzle you and and then they’re going after you.” Mark Merin, who’s been friends with Dave Chappelle in the past, not so much anymore, has talked about essentially without naming him, has said that he believes Chappelle’s reached hack status now because he just complains about, “Oh, freedom of speech and I can’t make all my offensive jokes.” I’m not saying offensive, but that’s what Mark Marin would say. Yeah. So, it’s become a a hotly contested issue where now this has led to Bobby Lee has started speaking out a little bit and said I do think I’ve gotten around the Austin comedy scene a little bit more comfortable in that area just throwing around slurs in their jokes and I don’t think I like it very much. And so now it’s becoming this hotly contested area of people going Austin’s not the Austin it used to be and now it’s becoming a political hotbed where all this standup comedy is feeling less like standup comedy and people are now trying to turn it into a politicized issue. I when I first grabbed the story, it was very much because I forgot Choppy was not going to be here on Thursday. And I know Choppy is Mr. Comedy is comedy. Yeah, you you can’t look at that. I tend to agree that comedy is usually Look, whatever you’re joking about, as long as you’re even-handed and you’re you’re literally just going, I’m making fun of anything I can find. I’m making a joke about whatever I can find, then that’s cool with me. But now it’s becoming a a pretty tense political disagreement. Well, it’s like the the Kimmel thing. Mhm. A lot of people are like, “All right, Cobear, Kimmel, Fallon, I’m tuning in.” It’s like what people say to us. Like, I’m not I’m I’m tuning in for sports. And it feels like it’s kind of like a political show sometimes with Kimmel and Coar. And it’s not totally just 100% jokes. It’s a little bit more of a message that’s being delivered. And that’s not what, you know, I want or think of when I’m tuning in. just for comedy. When when I sit down like Dave Chappelle when he hosts SNL, he’s going to joke, but he’s also going to have 30% serious statements to make about the state of things. I have always loved Bill Burr. like Bill Burr when I sit down and I’m watching his comedy specials or you know when I go see somebody who comes through town when I go see Nate Baretti or I go see uh you know like when Dallas area comedian like when Akash Singh comes back to town and then performs here I go in there sitting expecting I am going to hear really pointed directed jokes about Trump and about Joe Biden and I’m probably going to hear a reference to something that really hurts the Democrat’s feelings that I’m going to hear something that hurts a Republican’s feelings cuz that’s the and different races and you’re finding the funny in it and you’re just trying to go all right where can I and a lot of times what I found is comedians to me are some of the most evenhanded as as much as they get a reputation for oh they’re hateful and they’re hateful jokes a lot of times I find that they’re when they just sit down and they talk about something seriously they’re the least hateful of the bunch they’re just they are trying to find a way to kind of like feel yeah I I associate I don’t know 100%. You can correct me. I assume that Theo Vaughn is very right, but I don’t kind of get that when I’m listening and watching I’ve been trying to watch more of Theo Vaughn. It started with like a Hulk Hogan sit down after Hogan died and I was like, “All right, let me see Theo Van’s style.” And he’s also a Vandy fan, you know, Godson, all that connection. And I’m like, I want to see I want to see the why why Theo Vaughn blew up so much. But I don’t really get in what I’ve seen very limited a lot of political opinions and Theo Vaughn spoke out against I think the White House used him or someone used him, a government official in some video and he’s like, “No, no, no, no, no, no. Don’t use me in that. Take that down immediately.” So, he didn’t seem to be like really really serious about his stance in his in his work in his show. like Kimmel and Fallon and Coar. Yeah. And it’s just it’s frustrating to me that I felt like we we’ve reached a point where this was an area that was kind of safe and covered from getting too you could joke about things without anybody feeling like you were taken aside because it was like ah no it’s pretty South Park has developed that reputation. South Park will make fun of everybody. Yeah. And so South Park doesn’t generally get the targeted politization of it. And now it looks like comedy starting to get that as Mark Maron is just teeing off on on Joe Rogan and feels like you are the reason that we’re driving everybody out of town. Uh Topgolf, which we have all been to before and hung out at. Have you heard of the the new baseball Top Golf that is opening around DFW? Yes. I saw something yesterday, I think, in Addison. I loved it. I love it’s it’s Batbox. And I think uh I think I just said it to him during the segment, so I don’t know if he got it yet, but Aiden, if you got the the photo, you can put it up here. But a highly anticipated experience that brings top golf approach to America’s pastime, sees it. There it is on the fan cam. Good job. And uh has set its US debut date in Dallas Fort Worth. Batbox, which is a sleek take on a virtual batting cage with a bar, will open its first US location October 15th. So coming up here shortly in Addison’s Village on the Parkway, a retail and dining destination. According to announcement, the 13,000 ft venue will feature 10 baseball simulators in a sports bar-like environment. the latest entertainment, as they say, concept to make its way to North Texas, and I am all in on this. You give me a virtual batting cage and drinks and bar food. I I’m down on this one for sure. One through four on the show, batting cage performance. Actually, let’s include Aiden. One through five. Choppy won. He did win the Cowboy home run derby. Media home run derby. Byron from Charleton State told me that like when they play softball, he said he’s a slap hitter. He’s like Icherro out there. So, I don’t hit bombs. I’m gonna I’m gonna say choppy four because he’s not here. Five because he’s not here to defend himself. Okay. I last played competitive uh I played softball in college because it was inter mural softball and I I I went six for six one game with nine RBI. So now that’s different. But how what type of athlete you think Aiden is? I think probably good. What’s your best sport? Yell it. What do you think? He says baseball. Baseball. Baseball one. All right. I’ll go Choppy one. Payton two. Aiden three, me four, Bobby five in the batting cage. We should go. I think this will be fun. Probably because they say that golfers generally you can kind of screw up your baseball swing if you’re too good at golf. And I mean that’s probably what does me in. It’s the neighborhood watch every Thursday at this time. Commercial free expressway. Let’s preview the Panthers with a Carolina insider. David Newton joins us on the home of the Cowboys next. Heat. 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It’s going down on Sunday with a noon kickoff with Brad Sham and Babe Laughenberg. And we have an ESPN insider. David Newton has been covering Carolina for the four-letter for a long time. He is now joining us on the home of the Cowboys via the DNM leasing hotline. Good morning, David. How are you? Good morning. I feel like I ought to start this off with buckle up, Rico. That’s right. And Shenheimer responded and said, “Don’t worry, we’re buckled.” Uh but behind the scenes, Shottenheimimer really loves uh Rico Dattle and he was Bobby, you were there in the press conference, right? Yeah. Right after he walked out of his press conference, Clarence Hill was showing him highlights like hey, you know, Rico went for over 200 and he like I mean he lit up. He was clearly very very thrilled for him. But you know, it’s funny with that thing being at top this week. I’m curious, David, right out of the gate. Everybody’s been framed as like, “Oh, this trash talk from Rico D.” I didn’t feel like he was like really trash. I thought he was just like saying, “Hey, I’m going back to see my guys.” It was more just kind of like a wink to like his former family in essence. Yeah. I didn’t look at it as trash talk at all. I just thought that was Rico being Rico just saying, “Hey, you know, I got some game and you got to be ready for it and and we got some game.” I don’t think he was just meaning him. He just thinks it’s going to be a physical game and you know the Cowboys got to be ready for that. And I I think that was what Shot’s uh response was. You know, we’re we’re expecting that. I think I have forgotten because I’m putting him in my fantasy lineup, but I think we have forgotten that Chuba is still the still the one there, right? How are they splitting up the carries? Well, that’ll be the interesting part because right now Chuba is still uh you don’t know if he’s going to play or not. He he did come out and work on the side yesterday and we’ll wait to see if he does anymore today. Uh you know, I don’t think they feel like they have to rush him back. Originally, like last Friday, Dave Canalis said that Chubo will not play, but he’s listed more as day-to-day. They don’t feel it’s a serious thing. Um the feel that I got last Friday was that, hey, he probably could play this week. Um but what Rico did, maybe they’ll take a different look at it and not try to rush him back. Um either either way, I think you’ll see Chuba start or maybe they may start off the game with both backs in there. They’ve done they’ve played both backs in there at the same time before. How they’ll do the reps, nobody seems nobody has a clue right now. I mean, I do know that that the canals love the the physical nature, the way that Rico finished up some of his runs, and I don’t know if it’s because of the calf injury that Chuba hasn’t been able to do that. I mean, Rico is a little faster, has gotten more burst, probably can get on the outside a little better. Chuba is better, probably right up the middle. So, I I think Dave Canal’s kind of summed it up best. He said, “Right now, I can look at my call list when he’s calling the plays, and it doesn’t matter what I call, both backs can do it.” So David, at the end of last year, I remember it Carolina felt like a team on the rise that it was starting to click for Bryce a little bit. Bobby especially very high on on um on Bryce and what he was doing. Where does that stand now? Does it still feel like they’re on the rise? Have they kind of tapered off or taken a step back with that momentum from the end of last season? Good question. And I thought after they, you know, in week three when they beat Atlanta with 30 to nothing, I was like, well, this team is starting to arrive and then they just get waxed the next week. Um, and then they come back and fall down 17 nothing to to Miami. And really Miami, there’s no way they should have lost that game. They could have thrown the ball to the, you know, Waddle or their tight end all day and probably, you know, Tua could have had probably 400 yards fast and easy, but they tried to run the ball and kind of back down and put take took the pedal off the metal, I guess, a little bit and, you know, allowed Carolina to get back in the game and Carolina took advantage of it. I think that was a big step for them because I don’t, you know, you haven’t really seen Bryce Young um lead a team from behind and and make that type of a statement. So, I think that was key for them and whether that carries for it. I just don’t know because again, they followed up the Atlanta win with with a laid an egg. So, we’ll just have to wait and see right now. The good news for the Panthers probably is Dallas’s defense what 32nd in the league. Yeah. Um and so, you know, Panthers have been there. They were last worst defense in the league last year and they are improving and they’re getting some players back and and starting to play better. But again, I I thought that would be the case against Miami, which I wasn’t I didn’t think Miami really was a great offensive team and for the first, you know, quarter and a half, they looked like they couldn’t be stopped. So, we’ll we’ll just have to wait and see on this one. Panthers insider David Newton from ESPN joining us here on 105 Through the Fan. David, it it feels like I see some of the sentiment on social media, for instance. It feels like there is this sense of just like all right Bryce it’s time like like you’ve got to start playing up up to your your draft position. He was a guy it felt like when he was coming out was like all right that’s the safe plugandplay pro ready starter if you’re ever going to get one that’s Bryce Young. But it feels like it’s been a a real struggle for him. Where do things stand right now in terms of the level of confidence for Carolina fans or the organization itself in terms of Bryce Young becoming what they thought he could be? I think it’s still kind of a, you know, the team in general believes in Bryce. The team believes that Bryce his confidence has never wavered through all the the struggles he’s had. Um, but again, his overall record is is not very good. And until yes, you know, this past Sunday, he was like what, one and 17 in games where they’ve been behind by seven that many points and he’s committed a turnover. So, he’s he’s still in that process of he’s got to get it all together. He can’t make mistakes. I mean, he had I I actually thought maybe that Canalis was going to be looking toward benching him after he was down, you know, 17 nothing with two turnovers cuz when he’s had a couple of turnovers three times this year he’s had in the first half, um it hasn’t gone well for them. So, he’s got to cut back on the turnovers and continue to play within himself. Um but having that running game with Chuba and Rico and that to lean on and that was really key last year for him to lean on um Chuba last year. So that that really helped, you know, help helped take the pressure off him and so he could just do his thing. So he’s got some more talent at receiver, too. If you get, you know, T-Mac is is playing well, not great, but well, but for a rookie sometimes that’s good enough because rookie receivers often struggle. If he can get Xavier Legette to to play up to the level they think he can, that’s really going to make this a I won’t say two-headed monster, but it’ll it’ll it’ll really give him a lot more balance, a lot more options. and he started to show some signs of that last week. So, when it comes to the Cowboys, a lot of people have felt like against this secondary, as long as a quarterback has time back there and knows what they’re looking at, you can pick them apart. That’s generally been the thought process. That’s why Russell Wilson had so much success. Is Bryce a guy who when he struggles, it’s because the Panthers aren’t able to protect him and when pressure starts getting in his face, he starts panicking. Or is this man, sometimes he’s standing back there and he’s just looking at the wrong thing and throws it into somewhere he’s not supposed to. Yeah, when the pressure can can play a factor with him. If you look at last week’s game, you know, he if you saw the fumble in the the first quarter, I mean, he he saw the defender bear it down on him and looked like he just freaked out and dropped the ball. Uh, and then when he threw the interception, that was pressure coming right up the middle on him. So, I think that got him out of his comfort zone. I actually asked Canales about that a little bit and and he admitted. He said, “Yeah, Bryce has got to stay under control and not get shaken by those moments.” So, I really feel like that it’s going to be, you know, in large part depend on what this offensive line can do to give him the time. And I think again that goes back to the running game. If they can start off running and get a little rhythm there, then that’s going to keep, you know, keep the Cowboys from putting the rush on. But if they can get pressure on him, that that’s been the one thing that’s that’s kind of made him make mistakes over the last uh I guess three years. David, give us the Panthers strength and their weakness. Wow. Because the strengths coming into the season to me was offensive line and wide receiver. Um, but the injuries have really taken their toll there. I think the line starting to settle down some last week, but they’re still a little concerned about up the middle because they are playing with the backup center. They are playing with their third, you know, right guard. Um, so that that has had an impact. Then again the receiver situation they traded away you know probably the second or third probably the second best actually possession receiver and Adam Theland um T-Max played well again but Legett’s really really struggled and you know he missed a couple of games too with the hamstring injuries I think I think those still can be a strength the the if you go to the weaknesses I think it’s the pass rush they finally got some this past week and um they need to get more of that cuz they had they had only two sacks coming into the game and I think you got three or so in that game or four maybe in that game. So that getting that back would be a strength. So um maybe you just got to say the the running game right now because when they get that going like they did last week they’re they’re pretty dangerous team. David, when you look at uh your your first round draft this year, Tetro McMillan who was by all accounts that was the guy Dallas wanted um that they had targeted and and they knew he likely wasn’t going to fall to them and when he didn’t then they pivoted to Tyler Booker. But what kind of an impact already is is Testo Millan making and and what kind of a player does he present in terms of right now as a rookie? What kind of threat does he pose to the Cowboys secondary? He is a guy that um you know he can he gets open. He runs great routes. Um good great hands. Um you know he’s kind of known for those one-handed catches in college and he hasn’t really done that here. He’s been really close on a couple but um I think that’s one of the the strengths too. And I just think he’s just a reliable dependable guy. He doesn’t create a great amount of separation, but he doesn’t have to because he’s got such good hands and he’ll go over the middle and and make the tough catch. So, um, he and Bryce were a little off the last few weeks before this past game. They got on back on target a little bit this past week, but I don’t think you’ve seen the full chemistry that we’ve seen in practice in the game yet. And I think a part of that is because they’ve struggled with injuries on the offensive line and because of Gat struggled and allowed teams to move their coverage over to to to take, you know, take T-Mac out of the game. So, but he to me, he’s a guy that’s going to be a star in this league. I mean, he’s got all the tools to to be great. I mean, he’s you guys have seen some great ones. You got a few right now on your roster, although one’s banged up. And, you know, I’m not I’m not going to say he’s going to be a Hall of Fame or anything, but I think he’s got the tools to be really good. David Newton, Panthers Insider, joining us from ESPN on the DNM leasing hotline here on Sean and R.J., what do you think we should expect from Clowny this year since you had him last year? Oh, wow. Um, he’s a guy I think still can pressure the quarterback. Um, and last year is probably not a fair year to judge him on because I mean he I grew up watching him play in in high school even. Actually, I saw him in junior high. He actually ended my my son’s football career, broke three bones in his back when he uh hit him from behind in the the ninth grade playing JV. He shouldn’t have been playing JV, but that was their first year of school. And they they have to have a year of JV, so he should have been on the varsity, but they didn’t have a varsity that year. No, he he literally was a he was a man among boys there. And um so he he’s still got some juice. I think it’s just a matter of how they use him. I think he’s probably best suited as a third down pass rush situational type player. I don’t think he’s an every down player anymore. Um but again, I think you’ve put him in the right situation and and get the right matchups. He’s a guy that can still strike fear in you. David, do you feel like this is going to be a close game? Cowboy blowout. Carolina getting the W. What’s your feel on this? I I have not really had a good feel for this Carolina team all season again because they’re just so many unknowns and you really never got to see them in training camp play much in a preseason game because they didn’t play their starters. Um and then in the first five games it’s just been such a roller coaster, you know, where um they played great against Atlanta. They played like dogs the first two games and then the game after that. I mean, they were one and one and three and I it looked like they were headed for one and four last week and got things turned around. So, I I still think it’s a work in progress. They’re still still trying to find their identity and what they want to be. I think last week with the comeback was was a little more what they wanted to be with the power running game and Bryce not having to carry him. Um, but again, Miami’s run defense was hard. I mean, if you think that the Dallas defense is bad, um Miami’s run defense is is it was just it reminded me of watching the Panthers run defense last year and even early this season. Um they couldn’t stop anybody. I mean, Rico was like even went in there to start the second half and asked for a certain play to be called and and they called it and they ran it for 53 yards. So, um I I don’t want to read too much into what what that offense is based on that game because again Miami I just think um it was so bad they were allowing 158 yards a game coming into the game. So I mean the fact that Rico got 206 doesn’t seem like a big deal in a lot of ways because they couldn’t stop anybody before they came in here. So again Dallas is a little better against the run. I think they’re right like what 21 23 34 somewhere in that area and stopping the run. That’s not great. But, uh, you know, I I think that that if they can shut down the run and put all the pressure on Bryce, I think that’ll be a real key for for what they want to do and and their success they want to have. Great stuff, David. Thank you so much. Enjoy the game and the rest of the season. Appreciate it. Thanks, guys. David Newton here on the home of the Cowboys 105 through the fan. Find out where you can listen and eat lunch with the KNC Masterpiece today and an answer to your kids cell phone problems next. Hey, thanks for starting. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] This is true. We get something else to [Music] remember. We used to be what’s it sisters baseline. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. 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Well, he got asked during cross talk yesterday and that’s the reason he didn’t know is because he didn’t give us a time. He went uh leaving tomorrow morning uh very early like uh when the show starts cuz I think what what we would have found is he could have worked today and he he didn’t want to say what the time was so he just kind of panicked was like uh sometime when the show’s on of course that’s when I’ll be gone. Yeah. So I I don’t think he was actually I think he’s still at home right now. I do too. So, I think he’s probably leaving closer to like noon, a time he definitely could have gotten back there for. But then 12 hours, how would that I mean, I would be if I was him, I would take off, too. If if I if it was the same day I was going to like book it, I would probably just take off as well. I would just tell you guys, “Yeah, we’re leaving at noon, but I’m just I’m not going to show up to work and then drive for 12 hours.” Yeah. Paul Walchuck. Yeah, exactly. And Brris would guilt you for taking off when you could have worked and then gotten in the car. AI brought real bratus would call me a fat ass at that point. Not just AI brought us, which is the twotime Gag of the day champ. Oh, it won. Yep. It won yesterday. Very nice. You can go enjoy lunch in the KC Masterpiece today at Tolbert Garage Door in Mosquite near my my hood. That’s going to be 3916 Frontage Road on I30 Flagtober Flags while they last plus free lunch from Cece’s Pizza. So, the KNC masterpiece today at Tolbert Garage Door and Cory Major’s laughing at our interview with David Newton from Carolina. Yeah. I don’t normally expect that when you’re going to ask like, “Hey, tell us about this football player that most reporters are going to say, well, he uh destroyed my child’s back and ended their career.” He was hesitating and pausing and I’m like, I know you were there covering Clowny. He was just trying to figure out how he was trying. He wanted to explain that Jade Clowny should not have been on JV. Yeah. Can you imagine Javon Clowny playing JB football against your kid? No. No. That right there. That would snap an F. You know, you mentioned CC’s Pizza there, uh, which you can have with the KC Masterpiece later today. Kristen was telling me that, uh, because Laura’s got her gluten issues. They used to go to CC’s all the time. Now they don’t. And so she said Addison came up to her yesterday and told her how depressed she was that she doesn’t get to eat Cece’s pizza regularly anymore. And Chris was like, “Okay, well, Jacob will take you. You guys can have like a brother sister date.” And Addison like started gagging basically. I was like, “Why would you call it a date?” And she’s like, “It’s like the daddy daughter date.” And she goes, “That’s different. You can’t refer to brother and sister dates. That’s weird.” And so she was now she doesn’t want to go to CC’s with her brother. So maybe she should just go to Tolbert today. Do you feel like we need to provide a Dolly Parton PSA, a a pardon service announcement? Oh, yeah. About the uh about her? Yeah, because I mean, look, North Carolina clarified their fine yesterday with Bill Bich. So, I think we need to clarify the Dolly Partnership. This was actually something that Payton seemed very upset about over the weekend, I believe. Were you the one who texted you texted out over the weekend, right? The Dolly Parton news. Uh I might have sent a link. Maybe R.J. He definitely No, you definitely sent it and you were like, “Oh my goodness.” Or, “Whoa.” Or something like that. He was because there was reports out there that Dolly Parton was basically on her deathbed. Um that they were it was her sister and that said she’s not doing good. She she’s very very sick. And yesterday Dolly Parton came out and said, “Guys, everything is a-ok.” Okay. I know lately uh everybody thinks that I am sicker than I am. Do I look sick to you? I’m working hard here. Anyway, I wanted to put everybody’s mind at ease. Those of you that seem to be real concerned, which I appreciate and I appreciate your prayers cuz I’m a person of faith, I can always use the prayers for anything and everything. But I want you to know that I’m okay. I’ve got some problems as I mentioned back when my husband Carl was very sick. That was for a long time. And then when he passed, I didn’t take care of myself. So I let a lot of things go that I should have been taking care of. So anyway, when I got around to it, the doctor said, “We need to take care of this. We need to take care of that.” Nothing major, but I did have to cancel some things so I could be closer to home, closer to Vanderbilt, you know, where I’m kind of having a few treatments here and there. But I wanted you to know that I’m not dying. Who’s the queen of Texas? Um cuz George Strait’s the king. Um because when when I first initially when I hear Dolly Parton, I’m like, “Oh, like you know, cowboy performance Texas and then you got to remind yourself Nashville.” But she feels like a southern queen for maybe all Yeah, she’s kind of uh she lords over the southern territories. Um lords over I would say Beyonce being Houston is generally pretty strongly associated with with that area. She became kind of national, so that changed it. Um, but no, I’d say yeah, Dolly is representative, I think, of the South in general. Um, but here’s the thing, and maybe this is too conspiracy- minded. Here we go. I’m I feel like I’m believing Dolly as much as I’m believing UNCC. Like, it just it’s Well, her sister came out and said it. I know. Her sister already said it and it’s like, “Do I look sick?” And she’s saying stuff like, “It sounds like y’all think I’m sicker than I am.” And she’s like, “Well, I do have some stuff that we’re getting treatments for.” It’s like, man, that sounds like you are like maybe you’re not like on your deathbed, but it sounds like you’re you’re sick. A solution to your kid’s cell phone issues. Yeah. Now, I had a a friend of mine when the kids were growing up who his biggest piece of advice to me was he said, “Delay the cell phone as long as you can. The as long as you can get by with them not having a cell phone, do it because once they have it, it’s just it’s there’s no turning back on it essentially.” Uh, and now in Maine, they figured out their solution. Olli is even playing with his grandmother’s cell phone some games on there and he he like he goes into the room and sits in the bed and I get worried of me and a man get very worked up over that or he goes and plays some video games a little Minecraft doom scrolling news and and hitting you know apps and all this stuff and fortunately I think he’s listening on the way in here right now uh fortunately he he gives it up pretty quick. Yeah. So this is uh right now the the dearly departed, may he rest in peace, Ruben Portio uh had pointed out he didn’t die. No, but he he he died to our company. Uh so Reuben had said last year when we were in Oxnard, we were talking about another thing and he’s like, “Is that just Gen Z’s thing and like the Gen Alpha thing? Do they just take stuff that everybody’s known about for forever, they rename it and then that’s what they do?” Well, they’re not renaming this one, but apparently they think they found something brand new or the parents of these Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids. Main parents, and this is according to Maine Public Radio, Main Parents say getting an old school landline for kids is revolutionary. And it talks to all these different children. Shows these kids talking on the their corded telephones there on their landlines. And it, you know, they the kids talk about how it’s great. I get to press these buttons and I get to talk to my friends and they get all that healthy interaction. And the parents are like, “Hey, they get the phone call interaction. It’s great. It helps their their social skills and it doesn’t have any of the screen time with it.” Which is great. That’s true. I believe it. But what’s funny is like there’s so many of these kids that have it. Like you got to get like a whole group of parents on board with paying for a landline again. Yeah. And what would your kids do if you’re like, “Hey, come here. I got something for you. You got Yeah. Look at this. What are They’re going to look at you like you have three heads.” Payton. Now, I would guess Aiden definitely, but Payton, you probably grew up primarily cell phone house, right? Um, like like when I first got one or cuz I mean I had the home and everything like that. Okay. So, you did have like a regular landline. Yes. Until like like when did that stop being common place in your house as like the primary mode of talking? Like were you young? Uh, it was before middle school. So, it was probably like 2008, 2009. My parents had one. My dad still has one. Like my dad has one. And in fact, there are two separate numbers that you can call cuz one rings one time, one rings two times, that indicates who what kind of person is on the other end of the line there because it’s like, all right, the number you would give out, like back in the day, the number you would give out to county office or somebody where it’s like, yeah, that’s not somebody I would prioritize. You’d give out the last four digits. this one, the family number, which instead of going, it would go bring when it do when it would do the double ring, my dad knew that was somebody he gave a different number to that he prioritized. Oh, I had no idea about that. My my my dad still has one as well, cuz my mom’s like, it helps us find the cell phone. Helps us find our helps us find our cell phones. Yes. It’s like a life alert for their house and their home phone. But I would imagine that kids are not they’re not going to be happy with this number one technology-wise, but scrolling apps versus talking on the phone. Kids aren’t talking on the phone with the cell phone. I remember the first time my younger brother not going to care about a landline. The first time my younger brother talked on the phone with a friend of his and we’re all just like he just he doesn’t know what to he just wants to talk on the phone with his little friend. Then he got on the phone and he’s just pays around. He goes, “Hey, Jason.” And he just didn’t know what to say. So he’s like, “I don’t think we should be friends anymore.” And then we were like, “What are you do?” And like we took the phone from like, “What are you doing?” He’s like, “I didn’t know what to say.” But it just he thought you were supposed to talk on the phone. It’s just It’s funny that we’ve gone from the landline, which when we were growing up, it was like the bane of a parent’s existence of like get the kid off the phone, the teenager’s on the phone all the time, like go do something. And now it’s like look at this salvation from technology. You can talk on a landline and you would call Aiden back when we were youngans and you just pray like the parent doesn’t pick up. The parent doesn’t pick up. Dude, I used to, no joke, because we didn’t have cable. So, because we didn’t have cable, I used to call the I don’t remember what the what the specific line was, but there was a specific sports line you would call to get the NFL scores. So, when I was like 7, 8 years old and I would want to know what the scores. Oh, we run ads for that right now. This is probably pick up 86 get a third day football. Not like that. I remember calling information when I was Ted and asking for Dirk Nitzky’s phone number and back then it was different. They didn’t take it out of it and so it actually like called and got to his voicemail and it was definitely him or they it was somebody doing a fantastic impression of Dirk. Another warning for the kids. Bikes are getting stolen. At least in the UK you need to to worry about your bike getting stolen. So this is something where bike theft is a major problem at their train stations out there in the UK where people park them for the day, they’ll chain them up and then they go off. Uh, but the I got to this is the the classic joke. Uh, what did the British hooligans get for Christmas? Your bike. Because UK law enforcement is no longer going to actually enforce bike thefts. The British Transport Police says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than 2 hours. So, if you leave it there for less than 2 hours, they’ll look into it. But, if it’s been more than two, they will not. It means most bike thefts will not be investigated and CCTV footage will not be looked at outside of a 2-hour time frame. Commuters leave thousands of cycles on racks outside stations every day, including in specifically built bike parks with CCTV. Critics say the BTP policy means that those facilities are not secure and theft has effectively been decriminalized. According to the BBC, the BTP said, “The more time our officers spend reviewing CCTV, the less time they have available for patrolling railway stations and trains, investigating crimes which cause the most harm.” So, this is like the equivalent of don’t chase the shoplifter. Have your kids been robbed of bikes their entire life because of your apartment living? No, they’ve never had one stolen. I did have Yeah, cuz they never had one cuz you can’t put it anywhere. They got No, they’re on their iPads and their cell phones. They don’t they don’t look anything. I had my bike stolen one year that cuz I left it out of here. There was this really cool Batman bike and I had it stolen and my dad went looking for it and found it sitting in somebody’s backyard and went into the backyard and took it back. Do your girls know how to ride a bike? Yeah, both of them. They they like scooters more than the bikes. They both got scooters, but they’re more on the scooters than that. But no, this is the uh this is essentially the don’t chase a shoplifter. Don’t waste time on crimes like that. So, if you want to steal a bike, go to the UK to do it. Are the Cowboys letting golden opportunities pass them by? That’s next in below the bell right here on Sean and R.J. 1053. the fan. [Music] Heat. [Music] You know, they say something. Okay. This is a little shen. No, I mean like your name. No, I’m Jen. My name’s Jen. Right. I just mean like this is your haircut. But that’s hair on your hair. I’m not saying this is your hair. Okay. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Hey, heat. Hey, heat. Oh, [Music] oh, oh. 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Pick up the damn telephone, Jerry, and make some phone calls. Stop waiting around for your phone to ring. Let’s talk about it here in Below the Belt, which is sponsored by DNM Leasing and Window Nation. Before we get into the potential opportunities that the Cowboys are letting slip by, uh, let’s talk about some of what Brian Shottenheimr had to say yesterday, specifically in regards to this offense, which this will be cut a Payton. Rex Ryan the other day said looks worthy of a Super Bowl. Dak Prescott, make no mistake, he is on fire and Brian Shanheimimer is doing an amazing job with that offense. Their defense still stinks. So, I think it’s still it’s going to come bite them at the end. But this offense is Super Bowl caliber and that’s like you say that’s without CD Layman. Four starters in the offensive line. Super Bowl caliber offense. Now, how much do you think Rex is thinking? Oh, I’m going to keep all the praise on my young proteg’s offense and how that’s worthy of a Super Bowl while also reminding him. That defensive coordinator you got there, Brian, ain’t cutting it. Yeah, you want a real guy there. How much do you think if if Ebra flu were one and done? Yeah. Which is possible. Do you think Rex’s name gets tied to that job? I don’t think so because of kind of what you say. Um Choppy would be in here saying why not? Uh Choppy, you know, was a Jets guy. He loved Rex and loved those Jets teams. So I’ll ask you why not? How could it be worse than Zimmer, Eberloose, Nolan? Um, so Zimmer I don’t think was terrible down the stretch. Um, I’d love to get I’d like to get Zimmer in here like once a month. We should get him to just do some straight breakdowns if he’d be willing to do it. Yeah, we should. Uh, we I mean, look, we Is he Is he still living? I think he’s still living around here. So, couldn’t hurt cuz I think he’s I think X’s and O’s wise he’s brilliant and and a lot of people say when you face a Mike Zimmer defense, you see that now and 10 15 years ago. I understood. Yeah, cuz a lot of people were just like, “Oh, is he a dinosaur? You’re bringing Mike Zimmer.” It’s like, “No, you guys don’t understand. That’s not Zimmer.” Zimmer is I’ve always had a lot of always on the forward edge of what defenses are doing. Always. And it’s just, yeah, he’s an older coach, but he was always somebody who, I mean, you want to talk about, you know, creepers and sim pressures, which are are basically like ways of rushing four guys without it being the normal four down lineman. So, it’d be something more along the lines of like you’re showing eight guys at the line of scrimmage and four are coming, but you have no idea which ones. So, that sort of thing. And it’s it’s something where he was really on the forefront of doing a lot of that and and had become big with a lot of the A gap pressure that’s become something that a lot of different teams focus on now. And so Zimmer was always kind of forward thinking. The I understood why they had trouble with the defense adjusting to Zimmer. It’s it is a complicated defense. So why not Rex? So Rex is to me a if you want to just talk about from the perspective of I don’t know that I want to inject that personality in here is one thing. But B, if you’re just talking about schematically, wouldn’t people love some type of fire backbone? They had a two-year run, two, three year run defensively where they were nails. They were really, really good. And a lot of those guys were there pre-Rex and then the Jets and then Rex came in there and definitely leveled them up and brought in Bart Scott and and brought a bigger edge to them. And that’s that’s all great, but what you looked at was as soon as that personnel started cracking and going, it wasn’t like he just sustained the defense. And when he went to Buffalo, they weren’t very good. It like this is something where I know Choppy tried to argue last year, oh, it should be Rex instead of Zimmer. And it’s like, if you look at it personnel-wise, I don’t think I think Rex had the benefit of better personnel a lot of the time than Zimmer did. Zimmer’s defense is more frequently finished in the top five and 10 than Rex’s did. And so to me it was it was never really much of a question. So if you had a problem with Zimmer last year, you definitely would have a problem, I would think, with Rex Ryan being here. And again, it’s a guy who’s been out of football for a decade. All he’s been doing is sitting up there telling you why everybody else is stupid every week on on ESPN like I do. I mean, that’s all he does. Um, but Rex, I would not No, I wouldn’t give much of a look to But I do think that there’s some fondness from Brian Shottenheimer for him. I I don’t know that it’s it may be sort of like a It doesn’t feel serious. Yeah, it feels like haha Rex over there. Yeah, it’s it’s a little bit like I think there’s an appreciation but also like a man. Yeah, I do like him. I don’t know that I’d work with him again, but I like him. Like it’s one of those sort of things. Um, all right. So, this Cowboys offense, which Rex just heaped a lot of praise on there, one of the reasons, if we played the clip earlier, Clayton Adams and Brian Shottenheim are working together, and I really like the clip we played earlier where he says when we were working on this run game, he presented some stuff to me, and I went, “Well, I like that a lot. Totally get it.” And then how he said there were some things where I said, “Nope, I’d never in my life call that. Nope, throw that out.” And so, yeah, dismissed it. They really like worked together collaboratively and it was something where it’s it sounds more like Clayton Adams said here’s what it looks like to me. Shotty looked at and said, “Can I see myself calling this? Yes, this. No, that. No that.” And then he went, “All right, back to the drawing board. I’ll bring back some other stuff for you now.” And through that, they kind of crafted what they have now. So, how did they even get a relationship like this? How is it that Clayton Adams came to be here? They didn’t share any time on a coaching staff together. Where in the world did Clayton Adams come from? Brian Shottenheimr yesterday talked about how Clayton Adams got on his radar. No, it goes back to Indianapolis. Uh when he was a tight end coach in Indianapolis, I knew some guys on that staff that just, you know, when you’re making your phone calls over the summer, which is what I do cuz I don’t have other than hang with my family. Much much better to do than check in and see who some of the coaches are that maybe you don’t know. And yeah, his name came up and they just said, you know, turn on the film. Uh, I coached a guy by the name of Jack Doyle when I was in Indianapolis and uh, Jack raved about Clayton and um, so he kind of came on my radar and then when I got a chance to spend some time with him, we played the Colts what I think the year I was a consultant. We played them and so I met him before the game and we just kind of, you know, tried to do that. I’m I’m not a big pregame talker, but, you know, he was a guy I actually looked for. I wanted to go say hello and introduce myself and um, we just kind of stayed in touch after that. I think that’s fascinating one that Brian Shottimer as a consultant is sitting there thinking who do I need to know around the league? Who who do I need to identify now? Like he he clearly I think it was Liam Cohen, one of the coaches first year was talking about their biggest struggle and they’re like it was putting together the staff. That was it’s college recruiting. Mhm. It’s player recruitment with all these coaches and and and assembling your staff and the competition for it. And he’s he’s found somebody and connected with somebody who is really well thought of around the league. Um and that’s I mean that’s how he came to know about it. But it’s asking the question. It’s having the foresight and going, “Hey, I still would like to be an NFL head coach one day. There’s still these ways that I would like to cut at it.” But also I will say this a quick a quick dovetail. Does an instance of that Sean at all present again the issue of a Tom Brady access question where Tom Brady can also just I can casually walk up to this Clayton Adams guy and I can have this discussion and I’m laying the foundation for you’re eventually going to come over to the Raiders and that’s what I’ve got you for. It does. And so I I think that I love that Brian Shanimer is thinking that far ahead even as somebody who wasn’t in a coordinator position at that point. He was still just a consultant, but just going like I want to know I want to be on top of who’s talented. I think I think you feel that way. I think I feel that way about media sometimes like like people around Dallas and people like we want to know like who’s good, who’s coming up, who’s somebody that we would want to have on the show. Your phone’s been blowing up for the past month from uh recruiters. I know. So we could be like it’s I think it’s good to back off I think it’s good to just have those discussions and and figure out like all right who is it that’s we like throwing on people all the time like is he any good I don’t know let’s throw him on Nick is somebody who’s going to be here with us tomorrow he’ll be in here tomorrow 8 to 10 spittle uh John in here yeah and so I I love that that’s where his head at and that’s the way he’s thinking now let’s talk about the way Jerry Jones is thinking and and where his head is at because Jerry Jones has consistently said essentially when you pick up the phone you’re the loser in a trade call is is the way he made it sound. Um and he said that for a long time still he specifically said in regards to the draft. I know but like I think always usually yeah I think that I think that applies in general to all trade calls. In the past when he said it it’s usually centered around picking up and moving up or down that he said yeah you pick up the phone you lose already which I think is a a bad way to view it. I agree. um that it’s bad because I also think it puts you in a position when you answer that phone, you’re thinking you’ve already lost and you think you’re in a position of power on that negotiating call that maybe you’re not. Well, I always wonder it’s like when a fantasy trade gets made in your league. I’m like, did I know this person was on the block? If I know they’re on the block and I didn’t make the best deal or get it done. I can live with that. But how much does it eat away at you, right, Pay? uh especially when facing me twotime league champ or you know fant you down when you didn’t know about it. So I just want to know that the Cowboys are aware of every big trade that goes down versus no I’m not going to pick up and call because it makes me look weaker on the other end. Okay. Did you know it was happening so that you were at least given an opportunity to be in on it? So, here’s where it burns you because you’re not picking up the phone. The Baltimore Ravens made a trade uh this week. It was the same day that the Joe Flacco trade was made. The Baltimore Ravens made a trade with the Los Angeles Chargers where they got safety Alo Alohi Gilman and then a pick swap, a late round pick swap and they traded away Odaf Ooway who was at Penn State with Micah Parsons and came out in the same draft and is a freak athlete. Um he was considered a little raw when he was coming out, but he had last year kind of put things together and had finished as a double- digit sack guy. He had 10 sacks for the Ravens last year. He had none this year. He was playing very little in recent weeks. He had fallen out of favor. They had gotten kind of sideways. But that’s a guy right there who’s 26 years old, is a freak athlete coming off a double- digit sack season who didn’t go for a ton. I understand there was a player that they ended up getting in there. Okay, they’re addressing their safety position, too. But if it’s a safety and a pick swap late in the round, then I think you could have found draft capital that would have made sense for you and the Ravens. And I feel like that’s what you risk by not picking up the phone. They had 10 sacks last year. Yeah. You risk that by last 31st pick round one in 2021. If you Yeah. And if you don’t pick up the phone and call and find out, you don’t know maybe that Adaf is available and it’s for something that you may want. So I understand the position and it was great when we asked him this week. Jerry sounded like he was open for business, but it didn’t sound like he was open to still picking up the phone. He just wants to let people know. I’ll answer the call. That’s great, but sometimes they’re not going to call you. So, you’ve got to find out what’s out there. And I think this is another example of it. Below the belt every day at this time on the home of the Cowboys, it’s 1053. The fan choppy out today and tomorrow. Sean Tree alongside Roberto. What do the real experts think about the Dallas Stars opening their season tonight and if they can make it back to the Final Four again? We’ll tell you what the real experts think and how much is Rico going to hurt the Cowboys. Final hour Thursday edition with Tommy Arsh at 9:20 right here on 1053. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat up here. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Hey, heat. Hey, heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] You know they say in order to remember something you have to forget something. Okay, now that is very cute. That’s like a little shield. Oh, is that your name? No. Why your name? Right. hair on your hair. I’m not saying here [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] ing studios. This is Sean and RJ on 1053 the fan. [Applause] Final hour fist pump time with the beginning of the Dallas Star season tonight. Aiden’s getting it. Payton’s getting it. Bobby Roberto Belt. I’m Sean getting it. You are getting it. I’m Sean Shar. R.J. Choppy out today and tomorrow with the road trip to go see his Tennessee Volunteers and it’ll be the Stars at the Winnipeg Jets this evening. Good morning, Metroplex. Uh we’ll cross talk with Tommy Yar, Dallas Cowboys.com. We’ll talk with Tommy at 9:20. We’ll cross talk with the KNC Masterpiece at Tobbert Garage Door for you to stop out, pick up some Gbag flags today. They’re doing their show there from 10 to 2 in Mosquite. Boy, this is going to be tough for the Stars because this is not a playoff game. So, Hella Buck might actually play. Okay. So, that’s something that they got to concern themselves with for Hella Buck. So, why? Because it’s not a playoff game. If it’s a big moment, then he’ll give up eight goals. It’s hella suck. I see what you said there. Pee, what is your expectation for them this year? You’re a big hockey guy. Yeah. I mean, I feel like with Glenn Gooson, the new Stars head coach, it’s worth the fresh air. Really? Yeah. It’s going to it’s just going to be a voice for the Stars. We talked about last year when Debor left. Um we talked about it and it’s it’s going to be more of a voice than anything. We’re not going to go through the season be like, “Okay, we upgrade a head coach.” The Stars talent is already there. So, my expectations are obviously win the division, win the Central. You know what? Colorado is going to be a threat to you. They were threatened a little bit in the postseason. Uh I believe the Jets will still be good. Uh maybe the Blackhawks with Connor Bdard, you know, they’ll finally figure things out. But um you know, I expect the Stars to win the division and then at least make it a couple rounds in the postseason. I mean, if it’s if it’s anything less than the conference finals, it’ll be an epic failure. You don’t want my joke that I was going to make. So, we can move on. It was just the way he said Chicago’s team name. That was all. All right. Bet online with the odds to win it all. You feel comfortable enough after following the Stars in the playoffs last year, Bobby, to guess or should I just go to PayPal? I always feel comfortable enough to guess. I don’t feel comfortable enough to guess correctly, but All right. Florida. No. Damn it. I will go with uh Colorado. No. Edmonton? No. The Dallas Stars? No. The New York Rangers? Uh-uh. Uh, the Atlanta Thrashers. The Carolina Hurricanes. That was my next guess. are the favorite to win the Stanley Cup plus 750 followed by Edmonton resigning McDavid 12 and a half per year for two seasons. They’re 8 to1. The Stars are tied with the Panthers at plus 850. So Vegas thinking very highly of the Stars as the second best team in the West. Vegas then 9 to1. Colorado Payton 19-2. If you think the Stars will finally get over that hump, make it to the Stanley Cup final, and you don’t even have to have them win, they’re plus 425 to win the West. Edmonton the favorite of 4 to1 and then the Stars at plus 425. Interesting. So, out of all of our guesses, Payton’s very first guess was the furthest away in the Vegas odds, which means I am more of a hockey authority than him. Well, you already took my team that I was going to name, so that’s Stars the favorite to win the Central at 7 to four. So that is what Vegas is thinking. Edmonton was the favorite. They’re now second. Carolina is the new favorite going from third to first. Rangers 33 to1 to 25 to1. Buffalo 100 to1 to 55 to1. Uh Boston 80 to1 to 200 to1. So that is the stars odds for the season kicking off tonight. 901 says uh they should have moved on from Jamie Ben this offseason. Jamie Ben’s not even playing right now after he had that collapsed lung. Insane. Yeah, collapsed lung, which that’s got to that has to suck if you’re just like really sitting there. I mean, the collapsed lung obviously, but I mean just in general where you’re you’re really contemplating like your future and like, all right, do I want to go back or not? Do I really want to go through this again? You go, yeah, I think I do. And then it’s like you’re out there on the ice, it’s like immediately collapsed long. It’s like that that just feels like really awful luck. I have some other odds on the Cowboys and the Panthers. Rico with a lot of the back and forth of buckling up. These will not count if Chuba Hubard plays. Okay, so keep that in mind. Rico rushing yards this Sunday on the fan over under is 71 a half over. It’ll be over that if Hubard does not play. Will he score a touchdown this week? Uh no. Noah is the slight favorite at minus 150. Uh, will Bryce Young be the starting Panthers quarterback for game one next season? Yes. No. Is the slight favorite at minus 180. 64% chance that Bryce Young uh is is uh not the starting quarterback next year. So, they’re putting out the odds for Rico and for Bryce. Where are you at on him? on Bryce. Yeah, I still I think that first year was so unfair in terms of how to fairly grade him or expect him to do anything with that football team. He got sacked 70 times almost that first year. Uh and I think last year you saw enough good evidence of they were able to kind of repair things with him and and show some of the promise. And now that you’ve got T McMill in there and they obviously missed on some of his targets. Mingo was not the guy they thought it could be. Legette hasn’t been the guy they thought it could be yet. If they finally hit on Ted, then I feel better about it. But Bryce still does some things on the football field occasionally where you’re like, that’s that’s a legit quarterback. And so to me, I would keep keep it up with him. Will John Harbaugh be Ravens coach game one next year? Yes. Yes. Is the pretty heavy favorite at minus 500. This is his 18th consecutive year with the Ravens. It ties Bud Grant for the eighth most overall. Tomlin’s the active leader at 19. So 1 to5. Yes. Harbaugh will be the head coach next season. Will any first year head coaches get fired before next year? Ooh. Um, let me think here. The list includes Vrabel, Aaron Glenn, Liam Cohen, Pete Carol, Shotty, Ben Johnson, Kell Moore. recent examples of this happening. Mayo, Antonio Pierce, Urban Hackit. Remember Nathaniel Hackit? Couldn’t hack it. Freddy Kitchens, Chip Kelly, and Steve Wilks. So, it has happened a good amount. Yeah, the one there that’s the risk is Carol. I’ll say Carol. Yeah, Carol would be the the risk to me. Why? Because things have just gone so sideways for them so far in terms of expectation of what he was going to come in there and do. And it’s the Raiders who are itchy. Tom Brady. Yeah, butility. He’s barely involved. He He’s got his hands off and things like that. So, no. I will uh I’ll still say no is the favorite, but I think Carol would be the biggest. Who would you think would be the likeliest? Glenn. Glenn. Just because of Woody Johnson. Yeah. I I Yeah, maybe if they go like 0 and 17, but I just don’t think that’s going to happen. All right. We uh talked to you about the Eagles changing play callers. What was the What was the betting favorite? Yes or no? Oh, I’m sorry. Uh no. Okay. No is minus I said no. Payton. No is minus 200. Uh and I think that is it in terms of the Vegas odds and what they’re anticipating. Uh my family has walked into the room. I got most of it. Yes. Uh little Oliver Sharief. First time he’s been up here. I got nostalgia except for the microphone. Uh here for a second, dear. Yes. you. Um, my dad would always sit us in his office. I’d remember whenever we take the grandkids back home to Maryland, we put we we put them in the office chair, sit at my dad’s, uh, big big wooden desk, and I was like, before we move out of this building, which much of Odyssey already has. I had to have him come up here and look at the really cool view it. Yeah. See, we don’t even have the blinds open right now. We’ve only got the one blind open, but this is that’s the So, I went up and saw the studios the other day. They look really nice. I think we’re all going to be happy with them. This is just going to be the biggest thing we’re going to miss. This view is is killer. So, my wife is on the fan cam, Twitch, and YouTube now. And, uh, Bobby and Oliver is waving. Hello. Uh, and, uh, Bobby has prepared a little pop quiz for you. Yeah, I got several questions. You got you got to step right up on the mic. We’re going to have the uh, the mics that can pick up off mic at the the new studio, but not on the new one. So, yeah, I just I have I have three general questions that I’m curious for your take on. And we got engaged right here. Yeah, you did with the mariachi band coming in right after that. Okay. Uh, number one, this is the thing that I insisted on the air for months was that when a baby girl came around, Shawn was going to eventually soften. He was going to soften a little bit. Has he he softened at all as a girl dad? I think he has. Yes, I would say yes. How so? Uh, I guess in dealing with the kids. Yeah, he’s he’s not soften in general overall, but with the children, yes, he has. It’s a process. She thinks I’m nicer to to Ava, you know, than than Olly. You you can see in your social media posts that you’re soft with the girl, for sure. Yeah, but in dealing with you guys, I don’t I don’t think there’s been much of a difference. That’s not true. I I don’t think I don’t think you’d feed scraps to Rema as often if it wasn’t for for having a big We love Reb. Uh, all right. Uh, second one here. Why do you think RJ Choppy’s funnier than me? This is bugged. This bugged Bobby forever. This ruined my weekend two different times. It’s probably going to ruin my weekend here when she gives me the answer. I don’t know. I I I just think he’s funny. He’s funny. But you like that Choppy’s like meatthead type humor or you just don’t think Bobby’s that funny? I feel like I feel like at your pool parties or things like that, I feel like I make you laugh more than Choppy does in your house. Bobby, you’re like smart funny. I’ll take that. Fine. And RJ is like dumb funny. Like fart funny. He’s three students joke funny. It’s slapstick. It’s different things like that. Okay, last one here. And I think this is the this is the the best question. Okay, you you know my wife Kristen, you guys hang out. Y’all are buddies. Mhm. If Kristen came to you, we were not married, we were dating, and she came to you and she was like, “Amanda, should I be with this guy?” Oh, God. What What would your advice be for uh No comment. You got to answer. You got You got to Alli’s cover. You You got to answer. You got to tell like how what kind of sage advice would you give her? Just like look, here’s my perspective. You here’s why you shouldn’t be with him. No, I wouldn’t say you shouldn’t be with him. It’s like he’s a nice guy. She’s like, but he kind of sucks, right? No, you just annoying, but you know, he’s not just You can put up with annoying as as long as everything else checks the box, right? How much do I love Bobby? You love Bobby. Hell yeah. What do I say about him? Or what’s an example? How do I talk about him? Or what do I think Bobby adds? He talks harder about me on the air than he does off the air, right? You’re you’re his bestie. Oh, I don’t say that. Listen, that I do not say that. I swear to God, I don’t say that. That’s so good. I really swear I don’t say that. I just I talk I talk about all the extra things that you add. What a hard worker you are. This is Have you seen my uh I’m always defending Bobby. I’m not We’re not going to say who else, too. I’m sorry. I’m getting a little too loud for my son’s. I want one of those pictures with Sean to be able to feel like we’re besties. I want him to take a picture with a rose in his mouth with me like next time we go out. But aren’t I always defending Bobby to everyone? Yes. Yes, you are. Well, I know he defends me to to people often times above him. So, yes, that’s right. Uh, so there it is. Uh, my wife stepping in studio with little man. How are you today, Ally? You good? Put the microphone in front of him real quick. He was very upset about the traffic. Oh, was was traffic just really bad today? Uh, yeah. Do Do you think it’s rude to point at people in traffic? Like if you see a car and you pointed at it, would that be rude? Does daddy always point to other cars? Yes. Where are we right Where are we right now? Where are you? Um, at work with my dad. And why does dad have to come to work? Um, why does dad have to work so much to make money? Yeah, there you go. Y for all the toys. This came up yesterday during cross talk. I agree with you. I was like, I don’t think it’s rude to point. We were driving home last night from Cowboys Cross Talk. Kristen pointed at a car. Okay. And I immediately went and put her hand out. I was like, “Oh my gosh, I just realized I agree with Amanda. It’s rude to point. I don’t know why. I just have a stink. So, grab the microphone, dear. So, yesterday in cross talk, we brought this up. I talked about how you get on me for pointing when I would say the other car is probably like to the end of that wall over there. Probably like 15 or 20 ft. And I’m pointing basically for him. Look at that purple sports car. Look at that, you know, uh, dump truck. Something cool that you play with. And you always get on me about it. Ivan, also Hispanic, our boy, he texts me. And he goes, “No, it’s rude in our culture.” I said, “You’re telling me what’s rude. Some of the things that you say.” And I’m like, “First off, the person over there can’t see me pointing.” Number one, you always think they can’t see you, but they can. From here on that wall, it’s not even you’re pointing at the car. You’re point like, “Oh, look at that person.” Or whatever. Like, see, so when she did it last night, it felt very direct. I was like, it feels aggressive. And so I was like, I also It was the car right in front of us. And I also feel like I was kind of uh stereotyping the car because it was like a beat up older camera and I was like that seems like somebody who would get offended by you pointing at them just by the car they’re driving. But like when she I I think I just prefer the general gesture like if like use don’t point a single finger just kind of like hey look at that then that’s and it’s it’s it’s the it’s very like Yeah. I would assume I would assume you might be because I started thinking about it. I was like if I saw somebody pointing like that I might think they’re pointing at me like look at this POS which he just cut me off or something. It’s like my dad always tells my mom. He said, “I brought you from Cherry Street to the Garden of Eden and Oh gosh. I brought you from Oak Cliff.” Don’t say that. Don’t say that. So, don’t be talking to me about Cuth and manners and etiquette. I brought you from Oak Cliff to the uh police escort at the uh the first house. I I brought her our first house to a worse neighborhood than All right. Uh let’s head on over to Tommy Dallascowboys.com. Why are the Cowboys still this banged up? Is he worried about Carolina at all? And we’ll cross talk with K&C. 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Um, but it really is more, you know, there are less DNS this week or for Wednesday at least, which is a good thing.” Uh, you know, those guys that didn’t participate, guys you would expect, Tyler Booker, CD Lamb, Jack Sanborn is in concussion protocol. Cavonte Turpin was kind of up in the air. He said in the locker room yesterday that he’s looking at the Washington game here in two weeks as his as his return day. And then Donovan Wilson was an interesting one. You know, the the elbow and the knee injury that’s bugging him. But really after that, uh, a lot of guys just limited. You know, Don Blanch, DaVon Clowney, Trayvon Diggs, Tyler Gayton. Good to see him back on at least limited after dealing with the concussion. That’s a good thing for the offensive line. Same with Tyler Smith who was limited. Uh, so it doesn’t look the part from from the distance if you’re judging the book by its cover. But, uh, if these guys can kind of ramp up to some full participation, then the Cowboys, I think, are are on track to be getting healthier. So, out of the offensive line right now, obviously, it’s early in the week, and Thursday practice is usually a big one for them, but who do you look at and you just say, “All right, we’re we’re feeling a little better about these guys being back on the offensive line. Would it just be Gayton at the moment?” And kind of we’ll see on everybody else. Yeah, I think Gayton and Smith are probably your leaders in the clubhouse. I think I’d put Gayton a little bit ahead of Smith. uh just cuz you know the knee stuff has been something that’s been dating back to camp that’s been you know he’s been something that he’s dealing with and then Gton you know concussions are always tricky but it seems like you know he’s he’s getting towards the end if he hasn’t already cleared protocol to go back out on the field so I would expect at least one of those two to play on Sunday you know Cavonte Turpin went ahead and I guess uh spilled the beans that he’s not going to be playing this week it didn’t sound like after the everybody else tried to keep it a little more vague than that uh Turpin ended up saying that he wasn’t going to be he wasn’t likely to play this weekend. As you look at the Cowboys passing game and and what they have right now, it’ll probably be a lot of Jaylen Tolbert, a lot of Ryan Fenoy. How do you see that position group kind of settling in once everybody starts to get healthy? Well, I think it’s, you know, it’s going to revert back to what we saw the first couple of weeks, which is a lot of CD Lamb and George Pickins like you would expect. And then after that, you know, I think these next couple of weeks are going to be really important while CD Lamb is not playing. you know, what does the rest of the rotation look like? Does Ryan Fenoy come out and have another huge game? Uh, can Jaylen Tolbert have his kind of, you know, remember me moment? And I think he’s had Jaylen’s had some clutch plays for the Cowboys that have maybe flown a little bit under the radar, but I thought, you know, he he’s showed up when he’s needed to. Uh, sure, he’s had some drops here and there, but, you know, for the most part, when they when they’ve gone his way, he he’s come down with some big catches for him. And then, you know, Jonathan Mingo is an interesting one, too. He was full participant in practice yesterday. He’s still in that 21-day practice window. So, when they bring him back off of IR, he’s going to have to take a roster spot. So, what does that look like? And what kind of shape is he in? What what do they think he can do immediately? So, you know, these this next game or two or however long you’re at without CD Lamb, which I don’t think will be much longer, I think is going to be really telling for for what they want to do behind uh behind Lamb and and Pickings. Tommy Ars from Dallas Cowboys.com joining us here on Sean and RJ on 1053 fan. Tommy, everybody’s talked about the implications of the uh, you know, starting rotation and the receiver rotation with Floyen playing the way he is. Is the Fenoy breakout potentially though, just changing like like does it present difficult roster questions for them? Cuz I mean, you’re talking about carrying six receivers once Mingo’s healthy because at this point, Fenoy breaking out the way, you’re not getting him through waivers. You’re not getting him to a practice squad at this point. So, does this sort of present an immediate challenge to the roster decisions that they maybe didn’t anticipate having to make this quick? I would I wouldn’t say immediate. I think that, you know, you want to see consistency, right? You you don’t want it to just be a a oneame wonder or anything like that. And you want to see him do it multiple weeks in a row and not necessarily 100 plus yards and, you know, touchdown or whatever it was that he had, but you know, just continuing to do his job and fill his role and and make the grabs that he needs to get. And so I think it’s it’s going to be it’s a it’s a good problem to have, right? When when you have guys on the on the roster that you feel like can help you in the receiving game, then you ultimately have to decide, okay, which ones are the ones that give us the best chance of the bunch when they can all do it. I don’t think that’s a terrible place to be in, you know, especially when you’ve got the number one offense in the NFL and Dak Prescott’s playing the way that he’s playing. But yeah, I think that’s why these next couple of weeks are important is to kind of see what what everything shakes out like and and after they, you know, come to a decision on what that looks like and after, you know, we we get a little bit more of a sample size of what they’ve got right now, I think it it can be time to start having those conversations. But right now, I think, you know, it’s a little bit early and and there’s still a lot of unknowns and things to be determined. Tommy, what’s your confident feel on this game compared to last week in the Jets? Uh last week I did I didn’t feel great at all just because you know down four starters on the offensive line and I think it was seven total starters. You know I and then seeing Justin Fields do what he did against Miami the week before where he’s running all over the place and it’s 43 yards and you think back to Jaylen Herz in week one, you know, Justin Fields is kind of a souped-up Jaylen Herz in terms of what he can do with his legs. So I wasn’t feeling great about it but then you know they they proved me wrong pretty quickly. I mean, I’m always up for owning up to when I’m incorrect, and I was very incorrect with the way they played. It certainly wasn’t perfect. You know, I think they they kind of, you know, not let the game go away a little bit in the second half defensively. Uh, but nonetheless, still were able to get the job done. So, you know, I look back to this this this Carolina game. The last two years, they’ve combined for 13 sacks in those last two games on Bryce Young. And you know, if they’re able to do that against the Jets, I don’t see why they won’t be able to have similar success in the pass rush against the Panthers. Given how they’ve uh continued to play well, I think their tackles can be vulnerable spots for them. Interior, I think they’re they’re much better than they have been in the years past, but the tackles, I think, are an area where this Cowboys defense can exploit them. So, I think Dallas picks up their second win in a row here on Sunday. Tommy Y, Dallas Cowboys.com on the D&M leasing hotline. Uh, Bobby and I really liked Shottenheimimer’s insight into calling plays yesterday. What did you take from it, if anything? Yeah, I think it’s, you know, I I I think it’s a good thing to hear, right? And and I think it’s, you know, not necessarily, he’s not the first coach to say, “Hey, I’m I’m drawing up plays for players, not areas of the field.” U, you know, I think that’s where a lot of football is. And and and it’s kind of the smart thing to do, right? When you’ve got weapons like Cydney Lamb and George Pickkins, of course you want to get them the ball and of course you’re going to draw up plays to to get them the ball. But you know what I’ve always appreciated about Brian Shanheimer, even going back to last year when he was the offensive coordinator, is he he does such a good job of explaining the game of football and explaining his thought process behind things and really going deep and indepth into his mind of okay, this is how we’re going to do this without essentially giving away the game plan, but just the depth that he goes in with his answers for like yesterday for example with play calling or you know he he can go about blocking or he can go about the run game, he can go about quarterback play. I I usually try to ask him about, you know, the opposing quarterback each week because he’s a quarterback Civant and, you know, he he he’s worked with that position group his entire life for the most part and I always appreciate what he sees in other quarterbacks around the league aside from from Dak Prescott and of course what he says about Dak, too. But, you know, he goes into so much depth and I think what what you heard yesterday was another example of it. So, u he’s great with those kinds of answers. You know, Tommy, uh, Sean was mocking me yesterday a little bit because and and it turned out fine. He he he saw my genius in the end of the segment, but to me, I was I was saying that for Brian Shenheimer to come out and name directly Javvante Williams as as the bellcow as the primary guy just seems a little counter to what Shanheimer normally does. Shanheimer normally does want to keep up even the illusion of competition everywhere and and that’s a big driver for him. Does it say something to you that Shanheimer coming out and just going like, “No, that’s Javante and he’s completely earned it.” Does that speak to just how much of an impact and impression that Javvante Williams has has made on Shanheimer and the staff and and shows how wrong Shawn was? Well, absolutely. Anytime I get a chance to prove Shawn wrong, I’ll tell you. Um, what is with you and Brian Shottenheimimer? It’s crazy. It’s crazy. Well, hey, you know, uh, like mines. Um, they’re great. Talk to Mickey down the hall. Yeah. Well, I I’ll I’ll go bring him down here for you. Um but uh no, you know, I I think you have a good point there. And look, the way that Javvante Williams is playing, I don’t know if it’s necessarily a secret that he’s not the bellcow, right? I I mean, even when Miles Sanders was was in the game, it it you know, it it he got a majority of the carries and he’s been playing really well and I think they’ve been singing his praises since back at training camp. I think your first sign of okay, okay, hey, we think we got something here is the fact that he doesn’t play in the preseason. You know, this is a guy that’s been banged up the last couple of years. He had a major knee injury a couple of years ago and for them to not give him those preseason routs. I think that might have been the first time he ever didn’t play in the preseason at all. To be that confident with a new regime and a new coaching staff, you had to have seen something that made you say, “Okay, I think we’re good here. I think we we need to keep him as fresh as possible.” And look at what he’s done now. you know, five touchdowns over the course of five games, I think, is is the number. So, he’s already a touchdown away from Dallas’s entire rushing total from a year ago. So, it’s been extremely impressive to to watch him play, and it’s been a cool resurgence. And you got to credit, you know, Brian Shnimer, Clayton Adams, uh, and and getting the offensive offensive line going and scheming it up right to to allow Javvante Williams to succeed. And that’s not to say that, you know, my Sanders, Jaden Blue, those guys can’t get things done for you. But in terms of who the guy in the running back room is, I think it’s it’s clearly Jamonte Williams. Tommy Yars, Dallas Cowboys.com right here on the fan. Uh Bobby is given the impression that it’s getting better and better for Donovan Ezrau. Still doesn’t have his first career sack. What did he have to say about that? Yeah, I got to talk to him one-on-one yesterday. It was pretty cool just to kind of see. All right. Uh just you I just had your back, too, Bobby. And now you’re you’re doing All right, I’m back on your side, Sean. Um, so no, I think it it was interesting to kind of dive into his mind on, you know, is is it frustrating at all to to not have it yet. No, he know it’s not that frustrating because he knows it’s coming and he knows that it’ll, you know, that once he gets the first one, they’ll come in waves after that, right? That that they’ll start to pile up and and he’ll get, you know, to run up the scoreboard a little bit, stat sheet a little bit, I should say. And then, you know, he knows he’s getting back there getting hits on the quarterback, but it feels like the ball’s coming out a second late for him. and and he said, “You know, look, that that just means I got to be quicker and I’ve got to get back there faster.” The really interesting part, though, was, you know, talking about how when you watch his tape at Boston College, it was really the the deep bag of pass rush moves that he had that made you say, “Wow, you know, it’s easy to see why this guy led the nation in sacks last year, won ACC defensive player of the year.” But now, it seems like they want him to make more use of his power and use more power moves versus the the hand fighting that he can do at the point of the attack. And you know, he’s telling me it could be a good thing, could be a bad thing. It’s definitely a good thing to set up some of my other moves, but I also can’t forget what got me here in the first place in in terms of, you know, being able to use his hands on the pass rush moves so well. So, I asked him, you know, how do how do you balance that then? How do you balance, you know, using the power that they want you to use and mix it in with your pass rush moves? And he said, just practice, you know, trying things in practice. And that’s what is going to help him get the balance to figure out how to do all that in the game. So, I think as this kid gets more playing time and more reps in a game setting, he’s going to slowly start to figure things out. I think he’s doing a good job against the run, and I don’t think the pass rush is too far behind. Tommy, uh, it’s been a rough run for our Texas Longhorns. You were you were very optimistic about Arch uh, after he seemed to bounce back and then of course we had the disaster in the swamp last week, Oklahoma this weekend. What’s what’s the outlook and and how can we salvage this season? Uh, well, I don’t think Arch was the issue last week. You know, I thought he fought really hard and I thought he made some good throws. Um, you know, the offensive line is really a concern, I think, and certainly an area where Kyle Flood has been pretty nails there the last couple of years, but, you know, you start to wonder, okay, did we maybe not do a good enough job of getting these guys ready. Always hard when you got to replace four starters at that position and you’ve got a young quarterback in there who’s going to be starting for the first time in the SEC, no less. So, I’m still confident though. I I’ll always rock with my horns and uh who knows if if John Matier is playing or not. I mean, I’ve seen, you know, Oklahoma reporters hiding in bushes outside of the stadium. Shout out Eddie Reassovich. He’s uh one of the one of the funniest reporters I’ve ever seen over at OU. I really enjoy his content and he I saw him like hiding in the bushes trying to see if he could get a look at John Matir the other day. Um but it it’s going to be a really good game. Oklahoma’s been very good this year. They’re very impressive and I’ve always kind of like Brent Venibals. you know, I think he’s a good coach and uh I especially appreciate him letting, you know, Texas hang 49 on him a couple of years ago and then uh blow him out again last year, but no, I think it’s going to be a really good game and there’s no setting like that in college football, but always give me the horns in that game. Thank you, Tommy. Appreciate it. All right, guys. I appreciate y’all. Have a good one. Tommy Yars, Dallas Cowboys.com. Brought to you by the Winstar World Casino and Resort. 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They’re starting to talk buyout. Another report said his assistants could not get in touch with him during the by-week when he went to Nantucket uh with Jordan Hudson. uh some assistant coaches quote are rats leaving the ship that they’re already looking at other jobs on other staffs and Bellich uh is going to be guilty of a lot of different recruiting violations. One of their assistants got busted yesterday and that he would be looking for another media job or coaching job before he executed the buyout. Amazing local reporting and it doesn’t sound like Bellich can survive the season even though they put out the joint statement yesterday. Bill committed to them, the school committed to him, this thing’s over. It reminded me of some of the Jimmy and Jerry statements we saw them making in the final like month they were together in the Netflix documentary where they kept going like, “If it was so bad, I wouldn’t be sitting here next. If I found him so offensive, I couldn’t we wouldn’t be here.” And then it’s like a month later like, “Yeah, we’re splitting up. This is This isn’t going to work. You said this would be a disaster though, right? Or no? Yeah. I didn’t think this would work out. I didn’t think it’d be this bad. I had no idea he was going to be this bad, but I thought it would be like Walsh at Stamford or worse. It was just I didn’t think he was going to be very effective. But I mean, this is just he’s the biggest character, personality change, whatever we’ve seen since, you know, you know what it is? When Dion found God in the late 90s, you remember how like his entire persona flipped overnight where Dion was me me and like I mean Dion’s still very showy, but like when Dion found religion in like 1998 or whatever year that was, his his entire personality changed in front of the camera. Like he was he just had flipped it around and was all of a sudden a lot more otherfocused when he would talk. Yeah. Um, Phil Jackson got some backlash in New York. I think it may have been like culture or even race related from Carmelo and other people. LeBron, I think, had some thoughts about Phil Jackson there when he when he tried to save them. That did not work. Yeah. And it’s just it is the I I’ve never seen anything like it in terms of just what we perceive him to be, what we’ve always thought he was, who we thought he was, and then how it developed. I mean, he Nick Sabin trashed the Patriots the other day for M. Jones. No. Which M. Jones was a guy who was at Bama got drafted by Bellich staff went to went to the Patriots and with the success he’s having with San Francisco had said basically like yeah I think this is just goes to show like you know the staff in New England didn’t do their job blah blah it’s like man that’s a you’re talking about your buddy there yeah you’re talking about your buddy that’s that’s a New England shot and cuz I mean that was not I mean yes last year was the first year with Gerard Mayo that was the first year M Jones was gone that was all Bill Bich’s staff that handled him so when Sabin is now Even even if he’s talking about Josh McDaniels, it doesn’t matter. Like you don’t normally see Sabin taking shots like that. So it feels very much like Bill has just flipped his personality and alienated a ton of people that were previously on his side. Vrabel was a loyalist to him for a long time and now is not. And so I mean it’s just it’s wild. All right. What’s going on in the world of tennis? All right. Uh this is your sport right here. Uh tennis is I I I’ve started to change. Maybe everybody who was yesterday going we’re so soft going after Jonathan Ganon, maybe they’re right that the society is soft. Tennis announced yesterday the the whatever uh governing body there is that looks over tennis that says people being investigated now for doping allegations or fixing matches. The International Tennis Integrity Agency announced Wednesday that those players are now available for no cost sessions of therapy with a mental health professional up to six times due to the emotional and mental toll that the accusations take on them. So they get therapy for fixing. They also Yeah. So it’s like, hey, you you felt a lot being exposed for doping or you felt a lot for being exposed for fixing a match. We just want to give you six free sessions to work through the emotions of that. I get that there there are other aspects of it. They’re going to give them up to $5,000 for like $5,000 worth of coverage for um testing substances that they take or anything else to like verify if they may be tainted. Cool. Understand that. Uh they’re going to give them free legal representation for the allegations. Okay. Even that kind like I mean I I at least can kind of like work around in my head going okay. They’re still saying, “Hey, innocent till proven guilty. if they need the the assistance legally, give it to them so that they can have a fair defense fine. But then to say, “Hey, the next 6 weeks, if if you’re really upset that people are calling you a cheater, just go to this uh therapist and they’ll make everything better.” That seems a little odd. Your kid got busted, you know, uh for for cheating in school, little Luca Choppy, you know, but we we have the therapist right down the hall right there for how bad he feels about breaking the rules. I mean that that’s just I can’t imagine like imagine if they would have done that in baseball like like when all the steroid allegations were coming out if they would have if Major League Baseball would have announced what we’re doing to to help some of this is not actually address any of this. What we’re going to do is we’re going to make sure that somebody who tested positive for it will have six free mental health sessions. What about the announcement yesterday? The NCAA allowing division one athletes and athletic department staff to bet on pro sports. That’s surprising to me because I’ve always been under the impression that the reason why they weren’t allowed to is because of a lot of times their connection to the professionals in those sports that they’re they went to the same university as somebody or um you know for instance you could have somebody who plays at uh take a school like you could have somebody who plays at Ohio State right now that was teammates with CJ Strad and CJ Strad can tell that person hey this guy’s out this week. It’s just the access to information has always been a major risk. And so that’s why it’s been not just focused on college sports, but betting on professional sports has been blocked. It’s just because of the flow of information that usually can get to them. Do you think they should be allowed? No, because I that very thing. I mean, I I would think that it’ be What about reporters? I can’t like I mean that’s why I mean I can’t as somebody and the NFL like I don’t think they can govern a news agency. The Dallas Morning News. The NFL can’t tell the Dallas Morning News what to do. But like somebody who is employed by the NFL, like for instance, when I I still can’t do any gambling right now, even though I’m not with the NFL, it’s I do stuff with the Cowboys sometimes where Cowboys cross talk and things that I am technically a contract employee at times for the Cowboys. And because of that, they view me as somebody who has access that would be deemed potentially tainted. Airplane news that is making Roberto very, very happy. KNC still trying to get hooked up in Mosquite at Tobber Garage Door. Thinking about you today, Ruben. Uh yeah, this is great news. I texted. He’s like, “Hey, man. Heard what you said. Thank you. Thank you.” I said, “Let a brother know what’s happening next time.” He never text me back. I’m glad I’m glad he’s gone. Glad he’s gone now. Well, cuz it’s not your remote today. Yeah, that’s right. Um so this is this is good news and this is news that I think you’ve recently come around on. Although I I don’t totally love that this is still an option. WestJet, the uh British carrier, is now creating a new class on their 737 Boeing jets. You will now have to pay for the privilege of reclining your seats on the new 737 flights. This is actually the Canadian Airlines WestJet, and they introduced updated cabin interiors on select bone aircraft, adding three distinct seat classes, and charging extra for seats that can recline. The changes were announced recently, and the first aircraft with the new reconfiguration is expected to enter service later this month. The modern cabin experience will offer a bright airy atmosphere with an upgraded design that features new seats, adjustable headrests, and enhanced cushion and back support with a fixed recline design and economy that pres that helps preserve personal space. So, if you want the premium seats, you got to pay extra to be able to recline your seat. Otherwise, the other’s not going to, which I’m fine with, but I in general would rather none of the seats recline. I don’t think they should. And if they do that, like the fixed position on a on a aircraft seat always feels like it leans forward a little to me. Like it feels like they’re kind of jotting you out a little bit. Just give it a slight lean back and just lock all of them in place. That’s what it should be. And not and not be faced with it. Don’t put the social pressure on me to determine if I’m being moral or not. Yeah. I’ve always been fine with the lean back cuz you’re allowed to lean back. But after my daughter and what she did on See, she did soften them on that awful awful flight. Well, she’s not allowed to leave the state, so she didn’t soften me that much after traveling. When when that seat in front of me leaned back just a little bit and I was having to hold her and try to rock her to sleep, I changed my mind about this. How bad was Ava on the airplane? Was she good or bad? So bad. What did she do? Um her her was trying to just get out of the airplane. Was she was she crying a lot? Uh yeah. And who had to deal with it? You. Yeah. Yeah. While you were sitting back there with your grandparents eating your candy and all your soda were sitting there trying to get this girl to chill. Dude, we were we were I remember one of the first flights we were on for the charter for the Cowboys or one of the first flights I was on. I was sitting next to somebody who was a lot of people who are there will gather audio and then when they’re on the plane especially if it’s a late game they’ll do audio editing on the plane like just try to knock it out so that they you know it’s going to be late whatever else and they had the little tray table out this person that I was sitting next to and they had their their lap laptop out and the person in front of them just was being a little fidgety I guess kept adjusting from leaning back to sitting forward every few minutes and was like knocking over their laptop while they were trying And that was I thought we were going to have a fight there on the charter like the second time I was ever. So the rule is the seats just won’t go back. No, on this you can pay for a chair. You can pay for one that will allow it to lean back. Other seats will not go back. But I think all of them in general should not be able to go back. It just seems to me it’s it’s a selfish thought in general. I think the the leaner back are are generally And how do you feel about the car seat with the person behind you? How far back you can go uh in a car? Yeah. Um, I generally I I would just make sure that the things adjusted like when we get in the car of like, all right, it’s it’s fixed so that everybody’s got this room. We got a loaded show for you tomorrow. It’s going to be Babe Lenberg previewing the game. Brian Shottenheimimer live at 8:20. Nick Harris in studio for the final two hours of the show. We’ll have the junk drawer and our final 9in nails ticket giveaway of the week. The KN&C masterpiece coming up from Tober Garage Door in Mosquite. Ali tell him we’ll talk to you tomorrow. We’ll talk to you tomorrow right here on the fan. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] remember that. 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Kev, I’m told there will be pizza here at 10:30. Okay. Uh, so Cece’s Pizza is going to be rolling by and having some pizza. So you not only do you have the uh you got the the koozies, the cups, the pins, the G-ag flags, chances to win other things as well. I believe there are some Billy Bob’s tickets to see uh Josh Malay and Blanco Brown and some state fair tickets as well. We have a lot of things going on today, plus food. So we will feed you. So my question for you then, Alec, is do you think by the time that the food is here that Colby Tolbert will be hopped up on CBD drinks? What are you doing right now? What are you doing right now? I don’t know if anybody knows that. Oh, hey. The last time Gag was here, a drink was drank and maybe it was chugged and he didn’t exactly know what it was. And we all learned a valuable lesson that morning. That is what it’s all about, too. All right. lessons. Okay, let’s kick off the show with Well, I’m going to give you an option. How about that? Okay, I dare you. All right, I’m going to ask you who the Cowboys breakout player is so far this season. Okay, or you can do a combination of the quarterback power rankings and ranking the NFL divisions. Those are your options this morning, gentlemen. Will you please decide? I I want to run with the first option, okay, if possible, cuz I like I really do like that conversation. Okay, I’m ready. Um, all right. Who is the I mean, you probably should have known what the question was going to be. Who is the Dallas Cowboys breakout player thus far this season? And if I’m being really honest, one of the reasons we brought this conversation to air is cuz you, me, Alec, Carter, we were all having this conversation and we did not all have the same answer. And so I was intrigued by that. So Franklin and Frankle injury attorney text line 8778811053. Who do you think is the singular? Like if you had to boil it down to one, I know there are plenty of options. You have to boil it down to one. Who do you think has been the breakout player for the Cowboys thus far this season? Uh can I ask you a question cuz I want to answer the question. I have a I have an answer to it, but I want to ask something because I feel like there are going to be some people that are like, “How can there be a breakout player when they’re 22 two and one and they’re just like, oh, this team’s so bad.” Like, I feel like that’s the case. You can still have some really good highlights right now on what on what this team is. Dak Prescott is playing at an exceptional level. Yeah. The a lot of people are very high on what Dak’s doing and still people will not give him credit for what he is. So, so that’s where the the discussion is really uh I I really like this conversation, Kevin. The very first first vote I saw was for Dak. Okay, good. That’s actually interesting to see that, too. I I think I think it’s Pickkins. Obviously, there’s a there’s a specific running back that I’m very fond of right now because he’s he’s helping my fantasy team so much. But Pickkins, there was there were lots of questions about his uh his poise, his uh his attitude. So far, we’ve had one moment of him being kind of upset, right? Like he threw his helmet down. That was an upsetting game. And I still I I look, man, I’m not trying to be just a George Pegasus defender. I think that was upset about the flow of the game. And I actually don’t have a particular issue with that. And and I I actually like I’m I I agree with you. Uh, I wanted him to just kind of keep that bottled up, but he’s he’s competitive. And that’s the been the only time. And it’s been about something that was happening on the field, not something else that was like a, oh, you know, I’m selfish and this, this, this. It was something else. But the other thing, too, Kevin, is we need CDL went down and we needed somebody to step up and he was like, that’s why I’m here, guys. You know, like I was brought in for this purpose specifically. So, and or to be the, you know, the the complement to what CD Lamb does. Kevin, he uh he’s provided that spark. He’s provided uh uh fear in other defenses, too, because they know that Fenoi is not having the game that Fenoy had if Pickkins isn’t on the other side. I agree. And so, and then you add in the balance that they’re able to have with Javvante Williams and the deep ball threat. I think I think Pickkins is the one that I’ll say has been my breakout player cuz a lot of people had zero expectations for him. Okay, Alec, I want to go to you next and then I want to get some of the fan texts and then I’ll I’ll pitch mine out. And Alec, the reason why I want to go to you is I have two distinct like options that I think are 1A and 1B. So, I want to see where you go with this. I’m going to go with somebody who had themselves a game this past Sunday against the Jets, and that is Nate Thomas because nobody nobody expected that offensive line to look that good with four missing starters. And now and even before he played, we were starting to have the conversations within, you know, the local media of could this Nate Thomas guy take somebody’s job because he’s looked that good. And it translated on Sunday and I think that conversation is valid and I think that he is a starting caliber player in the NFL right now. That could change if things happen throughout the next couple weeks if he gets more playing time. But I do think that he’s earned himself the conversation at bare minimum to be a starting player on this team. See, and that is y’all just really hit on one of the reasons that I love this conversation cuz we talked about Dak. I think that that that’s the most interesting answer of the bunch because that feels different than some of these other answers. But your answer of Pickkins, I think, is very viable. Alec, I think your answer of Nate Thomas makes all of the sense in the world. And I have kind of a 1A and 1B scenario. So, of course, I’m going to go with the person that we championed all throughout training camp. I’m going to say that the breakout player is James Houston. Okay. And James Houston, like he’s never going to be Micah Parsons, although he does have more sacks this season. Uh, but then again, you think he’ll finish the season with more sacks? No. But if he did, well, what a fun time that’s going to be. But then again, Jamar Chase has more solo tackles than Micah. So, that’s a weird thing. To me, it’s James Houston or Javvante Williams are the two that I thought of. And I see a lot of votes right now for Javvante Williams. That makes all the sense in the world to me. But I’m going to go with James Houston just because, and you can make the same argument for Javvante. It was going to be we are screwed without Micah Parsons. And it’s true, for the first four weeks, our pass rush has looked very pedestrian. But when you have seen a little something going, I feel like usually James Houston has been around. Um I I want to talk a little more about this real quick. Okay. Uh I don’t How many people were really mad at the Cowboys front office for the Micah move? Do you think it was a half or do you think it was less than half? No, I think it was I think it was half. Okay. I think it might have actually been a little bit more than a half. Not a lot more than a half. We weren’t. This show was not This show This show is has been very consistent on saying, “Hey, you know, when these moves are available to you and you’re able to add and and also save and salary cap, like I understand you’re also very upset that they can still do these things and pay and all these things, but this gives you a lot more flexibility than it than it did before. Um, but the if James Houston finishes the season with more sacks than Micah, would the those would that other half have to go, well, I just have to eat my words on this one because they did something right. I think you would also have to have cuz I think we have a good vibe for how fandom goes and like let’s face it, people hate to they’ll move the goal post and then say, “Well, what about pressures?” And see, or actually, you know what I think is going to happen? I think you would also need the Cowboys to make the playoffs while the Packers miss the playoffs. And that is not a scenario that I believe that scenario is going to play out like that. But I’m saying I think you would need that as well for people to go, “Huh, yeah. Okay. I I’m I’m I’m willing to concede that.” Uh Kevin, I I think Javvante Williams, you know how I feel about him. Like he’s he’s giving you so much more than you expected. His B I talked about this yesterday with Mickey. It was less of a question, more of a statement. And I think we did that a couple times with Nikki yesterday. Um, and it was his his balance is the thing that’s that’s so amazing to me. He gets hit and he doesn’t get knocked offkilter and then he’s he’s back and rolling the next direction and then he’s moving up field and he’s a downfield guy and he’s running with that kind of tenacity that it takes to be the running back for a team that’s doing that. And so that’s that dude right there. Yes. Uh, breakout player for sure. I’ve seen some people throw Shotti’s name in there. Can you pause for just one second? I can read you a couple of these texts because I think Javante is leading the way from the 817. It’s got to be Dacker. Javante from the 214. It’s Javvante. Take a load off Kevin from the 903. Williams is the breakout from the 682. Javante is the only correct answer. And then these two I’m fine if that’s the only correct. I’m I’m perfectly okay with that. And then these two fun comments. What was the question like Cory yesterday? I wasn’t ready. And then from the 432 OS guys, I’m getting married today. What? First of all, congratulations to you for all the money you’re saving by getting married on a Thursday. Uh-huh. Secondly, look, I support that. How did you forget you were getting married uh today? I don’t think they forgot. I think just you know how like sometimes you know something and then the gravity of the situation like hits you all at once. Dude, I will admit when I woke up the day of my marriage, I had forgotten that I was getting married. But I had drank a lot the night before, so it makes a lot of sense. Oh, look. And by the way, and Alec, so look, Alec, whenever you get married, if you’re worried about how it goes on that day, Cory has been married for almost 20 years, and he almost forgot. I almost forgot. So, however you feel that day, it’s going to be okay. Here’s what I would like, though, Alec. If it continues to be James Houston, if we can make really liberal use of that drop of me saying, “Who needs Micah Parsons?” We have James. You know what, dude? We at first we were like we’re going to need this because it’s stupidly hilarious now and it might be brilliantly hilarious. Uh I’ve seen a couple names dropped on Ferguson and and and uh to Jeff told me earlier he was like it can’t be George and Dak because they are already established players. I said I replied back and said George had never played for the Cowboys. The question was who is the breakout player for the Cowboys and so he’s a Cowboys breakout player. That’s my way around this. But Ferguson again, established player, but last year was bad. Last year was not a good player. He he had he had the injury. He had lots of moments where you were like, “What are you doing, dude? He didn’t look focused last year.” And that was frustrating for me to see him uh you somebody used the word consistent. Being consistent this year is definitely uh some something that that I agree with on on on Jake Ferguson because he’s he’s a main target for Dak. He’s a security blanket for Dak also and he’s providing uh uh p pass run blocking also that’s that’s effective. But I I really do I really do like Alex um uh Nate Thomas bit because I agree. I think he should be a starter at some point and I’m hoping that’s the case. Okay. So then can I ask a question to go along with that? Alec I like I said I think your answer makes a whole lot of sense. Do you not think that the potential for Brock Hoffman and TJ Bass to get in that conversation as well? I mean, TJ Bass is somebody that it kind of feels like we’re like, “Oh, yeah, no, he’s on the team. That’s good.” And then Brock Hoffman, he lost the competition, you know, like going back to uh last year and we’re like, “Oh, yeah, well, I guess it just wasn’t in the cards.” And now they’re both back there playing alongside of each other. And I know they’re very different in style, but it seems like that has clicked. And then I’m hopeful for Maris Leafoul. I’ll wait on him. Yeah, I get that. But I’m hopeful that if we did this conversation again in, you know, five or 6 weeks that he would be right there. But I think it’s really neat that you might have multiple options on the offensive line. But it does really feel like Nate Thomas could be an honest to goodness real life starter. So here’s the thing. You just threw out We threw out what 10 names in that in that world. Um what was the thing that I told you was going to frustrate me so much this year? and it was we’re going to be told if this team’s not doing well, guys, we’re developing. You know, we’re we’re working on this is going to grow into something. And right now, this is the first time that I feel like if they told me that, I’ I’d be like, I think you’re right. Rather than I think you’re BSing me and because this team does look like it has players that do need to grow and develop and become better. Uh that is usually a look, give us time because we need to buy time. But I don’t think they need to buy time. They need to they need to hopefully hope that the the process speeds up, but I don’t think they need to buy time because I think that’s a reality. Some of these guys are growing into better players as a team. And part of your part of your reaction, part of your expectation in this segment is probably based on kind of what you were just talking about. To me, Cory, the Cowboys already made the key move that they needed to this season, and that was dealing off Micah Parsons because I saw this team not going anywhere this season. I still don’t see this team as being like a real deal, make some noise in the playoffs kind of team. So, I like the idea of stockpiling uh assets for maybe potentially 2026, maybe potentially 2027 and building it up. But I understand there are plenty of people like, “No, I’m I’m tired of it. It’s been 30 years. I need to win right now. Damn it.” And then like that torpedo their hopes. I understand if you’re mad about that, but to me that was like never going to be the fate of this team. With Micah, without Micah, that was never going to be the direction that this team was going. Somebody also threw Clayton Adams in there. Uh, and I know this was breakout player, but I do appreciate what this coaching staff, this offensive coaching group’s doing right now. Yeah. Yeah. No, I uh I I I get that. And you talked about wanting plenty of people mentioned Shotty. It’s going to matter if they win or lose. Like if we’re five and two and one in three weeks, then I think everyone’s going to continue to love Shotty. If all of a sudden you lose three games against mediocre to subpar opponents and you’re two and five, I’m not going to say that. But then but then I think his like a shucks kind of, you know, we we got to go out there and do it is going to wear on people. I I I completely agree with you, man. We’re the K&C masterpiece right here on 105 through the fan. We’re live at Tolbert Garage Door in Mosquite. Coming up next, we will talk with Dallas Stars broadcaster, Emmy award winner. It’s Brian Ray. Next on the fan, [Music] I think it’s true, but you got to forget something else to remember that Uber Eats has roast. No, that’s absurd. Hey, remember when you used to be a what was it? Peppa Lady Pepper Lady wasn’t sisters. Basic squad. Not make me. I just said that. Was it spice girls? Doesn’t sound right. Was it safer? [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Byebye. [Music] Roger that, Sally. [Music] Roger that. [Music] Roger that. [Music] to Disneyland. Roger that. [Music] Roger that. Sally [Music] Roger that. Valley. 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You know what that it is the most sports fan thing to judge the first game of the season as an indicate I I love the what is it overreaction Monday in the NFL week one. Yes. So we have overreaction Thursday and the Stars haven’t even played a game yet. Well, okay. That’s how that’s how invested I am. Yeah, I’ll take it a step further. Conor McDavid has clearly got his foot out the door. Steuart Skinner is terrible. Edmonton is no threat this year. Let’s go ahead. The Panthers aren’t winning at all. Yeah, it’s Stars and Panthers in the Stanley Cup final. Do you want to go ahead and book that now or do you want to play a game first? I You know what? I Do you even need me for this segment? I It’s something you guys got to figure out. Like, I’ll take the rest of the morning off. So, one thing I I really do. We might need a reality check for for from you. I’m feeling good about the defense and the pairings they have, especially compared to the last couple of years. Is that foolish to have that level of confidence or do you think it’s justified? I I think it’s both, believe it or not. I’ll go right down the middle and not give you an opinion one way or the other. Um, I I think you should take it with a grain of salt because I I have often felt ever since the Stars lost Chris Tanv a couple of years ago, there’s just been a little something missing from this decor to get them over the hump when they get into playoff hockey. Not regular season hockey, playoff hockey. Now, we’re here on day one. Jim Mill is going to let this thing simmer for quite a bit and let this team figure out what exactly it is this year and then he will look at how can he improve the team to try and make another Stanley Cup push. So these are things that have to play out over you know the next call it 4 months before we see any type of understanding or or resolution to what the blue line looks like. But I would feel good at the place the blue line is in. First of all, I love that Alex Petravic made the NHL opening night roster. I mean, when you have the quote unquote minor league journeyman who has found a way to to solidify himself, I love those stories. But when I was watching the Stars in training camp under Peter Dbor, when Dallas would get the puck in their own zone, it was one pass and go attack off the rush. build as much speed as you can through through the neutral zone between the blue lines and and get after it. The Stars have been a little bit more methodical is the word I’m using in their own end. So Glenn Gulletson has kind of preached more, listen, we’ll concede shots from the outside. We want to protect the most dangerous part of the ice, which is essentially the faceoff dots and into the middle. And I I think when you do something like that, yeah, you might give up a few more shots, there might be some segments where it looks like you’re pinned in your own zone a little bit longer, but I actually think that type of mentality is going to benefit somebody like Jakeer who may not have to deal with as much high danger or gradea chances from an opposing side. And so I think that collective philosophy actually puts the defense in a little bit more of um I’m going to say safer place. I don’t know if that’s the best word to use. Um and in Dallas when they do get the puck, they’ve actually been a little more patient exiting their own zone before trying to attack on offense. So I think there’s just been a little bit more of a patient uh protective approach to this defensive unit throughout training camp. And I think that puts them in a good place at least fundamentally to start the season. So I feel good about what they’ve been doing and where they’re at, but also be patient and let’s see what this team looks like over the next four months and if something needs to be addressed or leaned in on. Okay. You just hit on something that I think is really fascinating and I will admit I did not compile the high danger chances going into this question. So I hope it stands up to hockey logic. But a lot of times people treat all shots on goal and scoring chances as if they were equal when breaking down the flow of the game. But it did feel like especially in the playoffs, the Stars had an inordinate amount of high danger opportunities against them probably. You know, I I would I I will admit I kind of turned off last year’s playoffs and I’ve been looking at Winnipeg tonight, so I have not done the Yeah. Yeah. Kevin, why are you bringing up old stuff? Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. You know what? There’s there’s a great there’s a great point here because I think you’re kind of leaning into a bigger picture. Um I bet if you looked at the data you would be I’m not going to say 100% but I’m like 98% in with you because look at who Dallas is facing. Round one was Colorado McKinnon and Mar. Round two was Winnipeg which were probably the best built team overall in in the regular season. Round three you’re dealing with Edmonton McDavid and Dry Cidle. I mean, you basically have a Porsche, a Ferrari, and a monster truck that you’re dealing with through the first round of the playoffs. It’s not possible to not give up high danger chances to uh to those teams. And this is also life in the Central division. Semi and I were doing some stuff yesterday, you know, preparing for our show tonight. The stars are in the bloodbath division. That is essentially what I have labeled the Central because Colorado got better. Dallas thinks they got better. I think Winnipeg may take a half step back, but St. Louis thinks they got better. Minnesota just signed Capresog. Chicago thinks they’re going to be better. Nashville thinks they’re going to be better. I think Utah is a sneaky team to watch this year in the Central. So, yeah, I would not be surprised one bit if Dallas had some high danger issues in the playoffs. And it’s something that they’re going to have to have they’re going to have to try and and reduce as much as they can this year. Yeah. I was as you were kind of lining up all those teams and and I know this is way down the road. It’s 82 games away at least. The that that uh that group that you just mentioned with Winnipeg and Edmonton and Colorado. Do you see that being a similar group that they’re going to have to go against if they make it to to the playoffs again this year? I do. Isn’t it hilarious? Like these are the expectations the Stars have set for themselves. We we’re we’re already looking down the line towards the playoff chase. We we haven’t even played a game yet. But but that is that’s that’s kind of what comes when you when you do these things as a team making deep playoff runs. But and when you fire your head coach for not getting to the Stanley Cup final, the Stars are responsible for this for sure, too. Yes. Yes. For for getting to the semi-finals three times in a row and it wasn’t good enough. the head coach gets gets removed. Yeah. Um I’ll I’ll give you guys I’ll give you guys a little sneak peek on uh on on tonight’s broadcast. So, okay, my Central division predictions. I’ve got Colorado 1, Dallas 2, Winnipeg 3. So, I I do think it will be that same trio at the top. I have St. Louis four and Utah five. Oh, so the middle of that I I think St. Louis, Utah, and Minnesota are in this neck andneck, you know, potato sack race and and and I think Minnesota I I just I I don’t know. They’re It’s really hard to look at those three teams, but I think the middle of the division is where things are going to change a little bit and Dallas is going to have to deal with those teams. And in order for those teams to maybe make a move towards the middle of the division, they’re going to have to take points away from somebody. I I actually think Dallas is going to finish second, but I wouldn’t be surprised that they had fewer points than last season cuz I think there might be a little bit more of a distribution of the points around the division. Uh Brian Ray joining us here on the KC Masterpiece on 105 through the fan. Check them out tonight on the Victory Plus, the uh pre and postgame show. the um the the use of Mo Rantin. Uh I know last year we kind of discussed like he’s used to lots of minutes and Pete Dbor was like that’s great. We have four really good lines and then he was like well hold on let me change something as we they were in the playoffs a little bit. Are we going to see more minutes for him? Are we going to see more usage out of him or is Gulatin going to stick to you know we got some we got good lines here? Yeah I in terms of the actual minutes I’m not sure how that’s going to break down. You know, we’ll we’ll have to see kind of how it develops. I do think you will see sort of mixed usage of Mo Rantonin. You know, Glenn Gulletin has said he is not afraid to shorten his bench when he needs to shorten it and put certain guys out there for extra shifts if they’re feeling it that night. And there were times during training camp that the stars would be on the power play. Mo Rantin would jump out there with the first power play unit and then halfway through the power play, the second unit would come on and Rantinid would stay. So, I I I don’t know if we’ll quite see the Conor McDavid, you play for all two minutes of every single power play we get this season, but I don’t be surprised if at times in games Miko Rantin stays on the ice for an extra 30 seconds of a power play, 45 seconds of a power play, uh, and takes time with the second unit as well. Just judging from purely preseason, Glenn Gullson looks like he is not opposed to doing that. So I I think that’s where you might see more Rantin, you know, utilizing him as much as you can on the power play and then try to balance the five on five minutes as much as you can. Now I I definitely think we all agree and respect that Jason Robertson is a heck of a professional. I got kind of a twofold question. What are your expectations for him on the ice? And do you get the sense at all while so many players are getting paid, including one of his teammates, Miko Ranton, and nothing has gotten done for his contract just quite yet, there could be any tension on the business front? I don’t know about tension on the business front. Um, you know, Robertson was asked about this actually before training camp at a golf outing and I thought he had a very fair answer where he said, “Listen, we’ve got time to discuss this and he’s an RFA at the end of this season. He is not an unrestricted free agent. So, Dallas has control of his rights and and and they do have a little bit of a of a few cards to play in a situation like this. My expectations for Here’s the Jason Robertson situation to me. You Let’s open up the can. Let’s do it. No, it it’s because you’re the the market for wingers who score goals is changing right in front of us, especially with Capri off in Minnesota signing that $17 million just mammoth of a contract. This is is probably the most important season of Jason Robertson’s career up to this point and it affects the Dallas Stars. We’ve seen Jason Robertson in three of the last four years be an 80point player. We’ve seen him in one of those four years score 46 goals and 109 points. Yep. Now we’re in the contract year. Which version of Jason Robertson pops up this year? Is it 40 and 100? Is it 30 and 80? Those are two drastically different things at the negotiating table when it comes to contract average annual value based on player production. And so that is why I think this year really hinges on a lot and depending which way this year goes ituction aspect and this all affects the Dallas Stars salary cap. The stars do retain a little bit of control over the players rights, but the player retains the control over the on ice production and can say, “Listen, I’ve done this over the last four years and I am right in line with what, call it a Miko Rantin or Kyle Connor, who we’ll see tonight in Winnipeg, just signed for 12 million. Mitch Martyr, a winger leaving Toronto signed in Vegas for$12 million.” That seems to be the most common number is this $12 million number for a lot of players on that same production level and Capri off seems to be the outlier at the moment. We’ll see how things shift around as the season goes on. But that’s sort those are all the numbers I’m watching this year with Jason Robertson, the market situation and the Stars salary cap and where it all falls out. Is it 40 and 100 for Robertson? Is it 30 and 80? Because those are two different worlds when we get to the end of this season. So, I have a controversial negotiating tactic I think the Stars should take up. Conor McDavid took 12.5 million a year and he’s clearly the best player in the league. So, I’m going to scale everyone down from that. How do you think that’s going to go over with the players? You know what? It’s not the players. I’m sure every agent in a rising salary environment will have no problem with what you’re putting out there. Hey, uh, Brian, last thing. You think you’re you think you’re negotiating with Jerry Maguire after he had Is that what you think you’re doing? Uh, last thing before we let you go, Brian. Uh, we were just doing a segment on breakout players. Uh, do you think that this is the year for Justin Hitzkovian to have his breakout season? He is not the guy I would look at for breakouts. Uh, okay. I now I he’s he’s he’s a fascinating young player to watch because I’m I I do like that he’s on this roster and he really seemed to pop in in training camp, but also part of it is opportunity and you know, how much opportunity would he get in a power play situation or a top six situation that’s really tough to crack in this roster. I’ll give you two breakout players for the Dallas Stars. Um, Maverick Bourc is the one who is going to get the elevated offensive opportunities and there is a lot of offensive pedigree there. Um, so that is the player I think you have to watch. Can he increase his offensive tick, especially with Mason Marchment gone from this roster now? That’s the main one. I’m going to put Wyatt Johnston’s name back on your radar. And it’s not like this is a surprise pick, but I’m just saying he’s I believe he’s 22 now, but he he physically looks different. On on the first day of training camp, Wyatt Johnston went from the babyfaced assassin that we’ve seen for the last couple of years. He had a full five o’clock shadow. He told me he added about five or six pounds. He physically looks thick. Like he’s a man. He Okay. The boy has turned into a man this year. And I’m very curious when you add in in any facet of life. You guys know this. When you get that man strength in your 20s, yes, everything’s a little bit different, you know, even just doing stuff around the house. So, I’m curious, what does Wyatt Johnston do this season with possibly an elevated role and and a little bit of man strength finally kicking in to to his body physically? Bourc and Johnston are the two guys that I think have the breakout label to watch. Thank you very much for the time, sir. We always love talking with you. We’ll have you on again soon. Appreciate it, guys. There you go. Brian Ray right here on 1053 the fan. Coming up next, we will continue our show live from Tolberg Garage Door in Mosquite 3916 I30 Frontage Road. It’s time for baseball nuggets where you know what we got a foreplay of playoff baseball next on the fan coming up. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Remember [Music] products? You got to remember that. Well, you know, they say in order to remember something, you have to forget something else. Okay, now I’ve never seen your name. No one [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] You think it’s true that you got to forget something else to remember that Uber Eats has groceries. No, that’s absurd. Hey, remember when you used to be a what was it? Um, pepper lady. Pepper lady. What is the sisters? That fast one. Nutmeg. [Music] I just said that. Was it spice girls? Doesn’t sound right. Was it something? 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Uh, but I do want to say one of our tools here just nicknamed uh the whenever you flip somebody off and then immediately try to change your finger to something else. We’ll call it the Jerry Jones. Yeah, we’ll call it the Jerry from now on. I think that’s a good idea. Shoot. After the last 24 hours, I do not have any fine money to be given around. So, yeah. So, I cannot uh I cannot afford that right now. Brought to you by Reliant Air Conditioning. and gimmick-free AC repair and replacement. It is time for the aforementioned baseball nuggets. And let’s start with Cory. You got to be stoked. The Toronto Blue Jays, they got the job done. They eliminated the New York Yankees and advanced to the ALCS for the first time in since 2016. Don’t worry about how they got there that year. So, the Toronto Blue Jays are in the ALCS, but want to talk about Aaron Judge. Okay, so in this sevengame playoff run, Aaron Judge hit 500 with a 1.273 OPS. Seems pretty good. It does. And it really feels like the Yankees this year wasted Aaron Judge. Now, I know in years past, unfortunately, Aaron Judge has heavily contributed to the playoff struggles of the Yankees, but not this year. He did his part. In seven games, he had multiple hits in six of them. Yeah, I would I would say Bellinger wasted it last night going 0 for five. Uh Stanton wasted it as well. Jazz Chisum is probably the most hated right now. That defensive miss that gave up extra runs. Like everybody’s got to be hating him at the moment. And that’s a balancing act, right? Especially Schlitler. Yes. Who who was probably probably could have finished that inning out had that and been out for the next inning. I think you’re right. had that uh had that error not happened. And then maybe you’re only looking at 2 to one. Yeah. You know, instead of eventually you get to 4:1. You do you do have to give the Blue Jays bullpen their pitching last night. Their bullpen was incredible. It was amazing. Like they were they were fun to watch. Uh and like they were intense. They stepped out into the big moment too. Like that was impressive last night from them. So yeah, man. This was a I’m glad the Yankees are done and now I can root against the Blue Jays. There you go. That’s finally back. So, interestingly enough, we talked about how yesterday could have been an elimination game for all four of them. That was the only elimination. The Cubs stayed off the B saved off the Brewers. They won that game and now they move on to game four. The Tigers and the Mariners. what has been I still think the most entertaining series of the playoffs thus far that’s going to go the distance and go to game five you think that game got buried at 2:00 yesterday like that that was a that was it’s a fun series that game shouldn’t have been at two I agree you can see how that is not the sexiest of matchups with the Yankees and Dodgers existing yes but I want to take you to cut five and the most fascinating thing that happened in that game yesterday. Hey, how do you feel about sign stealing? You see the arm motions. Garver waves and misses. Nothing at two. I mean, what in the world? You got to I think right here you got to bring in your second baseman and bluff him. You got to be pay you got to make him pay attention to you instead of stealing signs like that. Mhm. It was shockingly blatant. At one point he looked like an umpire and threw out the giant safe sign. He wasn’t even trying to hide it. That was a hilarious subplot to all of this. But I’ll tell you, stealing signs. I mean, we have the we have the earpiece, but you can still see from the catcher point of view how they’re setting up and which way they’re shifting and moving and everything. Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. All right. Placement. Gotcha. Now, here’s the other thing. the Mariners, they’re in trouble because this goes to game five. And what that means for the Tigers is Terrick Scooel. He is good to start in game five. And just like I feel like in most cases, you’ll take your your you’ll take your chances with Scooble against just about anybody else. I thought the Mariners had this thing locked up, man. I really did. I thought they were they were going to cruise through this and now you got ter That’s the thing you want. And you got to imagine the Tigers are going to be the favorite in that game, right? That’s the thing you wanted least. I want to go to somebody who you have talked about a whole lot throughout the season and the man who helped me finish out a four selection play on underdog yesterday. Give me cut number one and Kyle Schwarber. Major story. Uh-oh. Schwarber going to send one way out of here. How far will it fly? My goodness. Kyle Schwarber with a tape measure shot up on top of the pavilion and right. Kyle Schwarber hit not one but two home runs in that game. Bryce Harper got his first extra base hit of the series. Philly runs over the Dodgers, not in small part to Clayton Kershaw just getting worked out there. It’s his first uh relief appearance, I believe, in about 10 years. But Philadelphia stays alive in that series as well. Good things happen when Schwarber hits the ball, and he hasn’t hit the ball a lot in this playoff so far. Actually, I don’t think at all in this playoff so far. So, when he’s hitting, uh things are going to happen well for them. And you know what? I got to give Bryce Harper some credit, too. You said uh first extra base hit that uh that legging out to get to third base and then forcing the run was huge because what he did he he put pressure by just running. He put pressure on the play to happen and then an error happens and that’s that’s what baseball can be man. Yeah. Not not much not much time to celebrate though. Phillies and Dodgers today at five. Brewers and Cubs at 8. So, while the Cubs and the Phillies both won, they are once again facing elimination tonight as they hope to try to push these series to five games. And I believe those would wrap up on Saturday. By the way, one more note, since we had kind of talked about it, the autograph baseball from Pope Leo I 14th went for a surprisingly reasonable $5,300. Sweet. And that all goes to the church. I don’t think so. It should I actually think it it goes to a person should go to the church who had got it autographed. I think they should probably uh donate that Kevin. I mean for the Lord. Yeah. I’m going to go double check. Maybe I’m missing that now. I think it is a person though cuz he kept sending letters to the Vatican and he’s like hey will you autograph this baseball? And again I want to know who checks the mail at the Vatican. Me too. Yeah. Is it the mail guy? uh from the 737. Driving by Temple on my way to Waco when I see red and blue lights behind me escorting Bivo to Dallas. Oh, so Bivo is on the way to the Cotton Bowl. Okay. Do you think he’s on the way to being sad? He’s going to be very sad. Oh, campus connection coming up at about 12:40. Coming up next, we will continue the show live from Tolbert Garage Door where I do believe now we have Gbag flags to give away and there’s some pizza here. Coming up next, we will talk with our Dallas Cowboys insider Mickey Spagnola right here on 105 through the fan. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. 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We also have pizza courtesy of CeCe’s. And I’m going to try to take it even step further. If you go to CeCe’s in Rock Wall or Rowlet anytime today, mention that you’re a tollo, you get a free drink with your meal. Kevin, you’re welcome. Yeah. No, that’s really awesome, too. Here’s what’s awesome for me is this is my neck of the woods. This is where I grew up. My stomping grounds. I literally grew up right across the highway. And so people are coming in and they’re like, “Hey, you went to BA, right?” and my I went to BA or my wife went to BA to right here just my his wife grew up in my neighborhood. Oh, she graduated two years behind me. So, it’s this is for me. This is like very reflective. I’m having a great time today, man. And then from the 214, shout out to Tobber Garage Door. They just left my house and my garage door is running good. That’s the same thing they did for me three weeks ago. Right now, let’s turn it over courtesy of Ford and your North Texas Ford dealers. Ford is the best in Texas. To our Dallas Cowboys insider, Mickey Spagnola. Good morning, sir. Boy, you guys are really popular. That’s all I got to say. I’m saying Mickey, you don’t get to number one in this uh in this Metroplex without a lot of networking. So, there you go. I feel like we’re going to start our conversation almost the exact same way we did last Thursday. I am alarmed when I look at the practice and injury report. I realize it was just Wednesday, but you understand why I might be alarmed, right? Just because there was five guys that didn’t practice and 10 were limited. Yes. Yes. I think from the limited group, there’s a couple guys that might be more limited than others, which would be you have a Tyler Gayton was in concussion protocol and he was actually out there dressed for practice, so that’s kind of a a good sign from the limited group, right? Uh it just depends on how much uh he was able to do. Uh Marshon Neland also um who ended up you know being inactive last week when an ankle uh he was out there but again I just wondering he how much he and Miles Sanders did and then I think the big question marks would be uh Tyler Smith and Wany Thomas uh especially since Tyler didn’t play last week. Okay. So, walk me through this I if you will because I know he dressed out and was ready in case of like an emergency last week. Tyler Smith that is I guess I made the incorrect assumption then that he would be good to go for this game. Yeah, I I I don’t know. I mean, the reason he was dressed out is because they needed eight offensive linemen dressed so they can elevate two guys off the practice squad, right? Uh, so, um, kind of reminded me of my old days in inter murals when we had a scrappy soccer team and we had just enough guys to play and then we had two guys get hurt in the game and so since we to continue playing, we had one guy just go and kneel down in the corner of the field. Oh my gosh. So, we would have enough on the field. See, I’m disappointed. I thought you were about to tell a story of when you were an offensive lineman and I was getting really stoked to hear that story. Well, we’ll save that for another day. Okay. And the guy with the guy that was the assistant head of inter murals came and saw what we were doing. He goes, “Mickey, no, you can’t do this. This game’s over with.” A I thought I had a good idea, right? Sit in the corner. You don’t have to do anything. Yeah. What’s that? does not seem against the rules, but you know what? Well, we had enough on the field. We can’t retroact and go back and fix that now, though. So, anyway, I I think that’s what happened with Tyler Booker. And we’ll uh I mean, um not Booker Tyler Tyler, get my Tylers right. Uh the good news on Booker, who you know was out, but uh he was at least doing resistance cord work. So, that was a step in the right direction. and he and uh Sidi Lamb uh Turpin who was out said he’s you know out of the boot and he thinks maybe next week uh he would be ready to go and then we’ll have to see on Donovan Wilson what happens there. Yeah, cuz Donovan Wilson felt like the uh I don’t know on a list that long it’s might be difficult to say this. He felt like I guess a little bit of the surprise to pop up on the list and I know I know to your point Turpin had said yeah probably not this weekend against the Panthers but maybe next uh next weekend. Yeah and I think maybe the same for uh CD see how he gets through this week and see if he can practice uh next week. So, you know, I I I just think at some point and and you know, this is kind of a sweeping generalization, but when you play uh two overtime games to the end, like 10 extra minutes in two games, I think it takes a toll on on guys uh leaving them more uh susceptible to not only injuries, but not recovering from smaller things as fast as uh you would like after playing maybe 70 minutes in two games. Yeah. Mickey, how close is Donovan Ezaraku to getting this sack? Yeah, I think he’s real close that. Yes. Uh because uh I see him his snaps increasing each week. Uh which means more opportunities and he seems to be pretty darn active uh out there. And for a rookie to you notice when 41’s out there, uh, I think is a good step in the right direction. And, uh, I think he’s adding something at an early age in the NFL to, uh, that Cowboy pass rush that we’ll see if it indeed is building. Um, you know, okay, nice one game. Now, can you do it again? And I think that’ll be key for Sunday against Carolina. Yeah, because I’ve been telling Kevin each week like it seems like since we saw him in camp in the preseason games, he’s just he’s added a little more and it seems like he’s getting closer and closer and closer and it so that makes me feel like the consistency will be there once he gets to that point. Yeah. And I think the other thing he’s doing uh and a lot of times you don’t expect this for a guy that you know as Harold did coming out of college with 16 and a half sacks uh he’s playing the run well. I think he’s doing a better job of setting the edge and not getting caved in uh inside. Uh and which happened a lot early. Yeah. Yes, it did. And and so that’s one thing I think young guys have to realize. This isn’t all about sacks. So you got to be able to play the run and they certainly will need to play the run uh this week against Carolina. Now, are you saying that because Rico Dattle Yeah. did so well last week or because you’ve seen Bryce Young play football in the NFL uh and saw what uh the Jets did last week, right? Yeah. It’s a copycat league and they’re going to look and say, “Oh, that’s why they ran so well.” So, yeah, they’re going to have to do a much better job against the run uh than they did last week uh leaking too many big run plays. uh you know, if it’s just kind of consistent and they get to 100, okay, fine. But can’t have those long 10, 15, 20 yard runs that they got hit for. Uh that’s just too much. So, I would imagine Carolina having success in the running game uh with Rico last week with 206 yards, they’re going to say, “Okay, let’s see if they figured out what uh you know what they were susceptible uh against the Jets to see if they figured it out.” Okay. And in line with that, this this is kind of about the Cowboys. It might be like your general philosophy on the NFL. the Cowboys 2.32 seconds to generate pressure last week. That was their fastest this season. Do you think there is an inherent tradeoff in run defense if you’re getting to the quarterback that uh you know that quickly or time and time again? Or do you just think no, you can get to the quarterback and still play good run defense? The Cowboys just did not do that last weekend. Yeah. And I think that that it’s a it’s like an overarching stat. So, did did those pass rushes come in basically predictable pass rush downs, which you’re hoping, right? Sure. But if they’re also, you know, trying to get to the quarterback when they’re running the ball, then that’s a different thing. So, I wonder how they judge that. Like, you can get to the quarterback after he hands off and get faked out. You better not be counting those as pressures. Right. Right. So, I think that uh yeah, that would depend on when they got there that fast. It, you know, was it a predictable pass play? Third and nine, third and eight, third and seven, uh or uh you know, were they doing that when there was run possibilities and then then got gashed? You made reference to the buckle up comment from Rico D. I get why he said that. He had a phenomenal game last week. Whereas, as you were just mentioning, the Cowboys run defense far from phenomenal last weekend. Do you go into this game and look at Rico Dowel and say, “Man, I see a real deal threat in this game.” Oh, I I would think, you know, regardless of where he played uh previously, when you put up a number like that, that’s a threat. Now, uh I see where Chuber Huard uh did not play did not practice. Did I see that again? Let me double check to make sure. Yeah. Uh Hubard uh DNPd. So, uh be interesting to see what he does today cuz I would think if he doesn’t practice today, uh you’re going to get Rico Dado making his second start of the season, which is, you know, okay, you know, you got your first start and and and you did well. And I think, you know, towards the end of the season, I think the Cowboys saw how valuable he was. Uh but again, I went back and looked at the dates. So, he agreed to terms uh with Carolina 2 days before the start of free agency. So, you know, when they had that what is that period you can the tampering tampering period or whatever you want to call it. Uh he had already agreed. Uh, and so, you know, they might have been trying to resign him and didn’t give him the guarantees that um that Carolina did and then at the first day of free agency, the Cowboys go, “Okay, well, we’re signing Javvante Williams for a little less guarantee.” And, you know, and both of them on a one-year deal. So, that that that that kind of gives you some context of how it went down. Mickey, didn’t uh Shotimer’s explanation of how he uh found Clayton Adams kind of feel like the old school way of dating before Tinder? You know, he he heard about him from another friend and then went to go pursue him on the field whenever he saw him and then they built a relationship that way. Well, I think they were together uh when they were in Indianapolis, if I don’t reme if I remember correctly. Yeah. He said he he mentioned that he it was Jack Doyle that had played under him and so he had talked to Jack Doyle and Jack Doyle was like this is a guy you want to know. Yeah. And and and then you just kind of as you know you move on you keep track of where guys were that made an impression of you. Y and I think yeah he knew where he was as an offensive line coach last at uh Arizona. uh and you know they were able to u get him as a you know kind of quote unquote offensive coordinator for a title to get him as an offensive line coach. So they really doubled down on the offensive line with Clayton Adams and Connor Riley u which was a good pairing. And then I think the other thing that maybe goes unnoticed is Luna Wells was a former offensive lineman and offensive line coach that became a tight end’s coach. And I think those guys did a much better job uh run blocking going so much to tight end offense uh than they had previously. So, you know, kind of credit to him to get those guys uh going. If you’re going to play two tight ends, um you know, the object is okay, I got extra blockers out there. So, that was a good thing. And talking about the offensive line, you know, I was reading something about it. I didn’t know quite as much about the personality of TJ Bass as I did Brock Hoffman, but it talked about their friendship, but more maybe more importantly for Cowboys fans, it seems like those two playing alongside one another have really gelled. Yes. No, you’re exactly right. And you know, look look back no further than training camp cuz they were on the second line together at that time. So they were used to playing with each other the previous year. Uh at times they they played alongside uh each other. Uh so yeah uh I think it it helps when you have some familiarity uh with so much newness uh on that uh offensive line because really those guys there playing together next to each other uh probably were more familiar than the other two guys that had to start uh and and just have that many guys starting at once. You know, when you have backups, you go, “Okay, that guy’s the swing tackle, and if this guy goes in, well, if we need a center or guard, he can go in.” But when you need all four at the same time, I I just think that’s unprecedented, especially here with the Cowboys, to have that happen with that much success running for 180 yards. Yeah, I I will be very intrigued to see that part of the offensive line or I guess whatever combination we put out there going forward. Put all the linemen out there. Look, that’s kind of what he said with the tight ends. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you very much for the time, good sir. We will catch up with you again tomorrow. All right. Good day for Friday. Hey, it I’ll find out if it’s a good day when I see that injury report later today. Okay. See see if it’s it like slims down just a little bit and that’ll help his prediction. Well, weren’t you glad to see three guys full though? I Okay, I was. But can I tell you a trap I fall into the injury report? I don’t know if you ever do this. That’s why I guess you’re out at practice and everything is I just open it up and if I see it’s a long list, I don’t always take the time at first to look at the designations. I’m just like, “Oh my god, there’s still 18 people on here.” And then I calm down and look at the designations and go about my day. Yeah, the limited sometimes you’re just covering yourself uh because the guy didn’t take all the snaps or, you know, and how much he actually uh practiced. So, you kind of got to list those guys. So, it goes on in the league. Everybody doesn’t want to try and get fined if for hiding things. So, you if you at least you’re uh limited, you’re in limbo there on being active on Sunday. True. Thank you very much. We’ll catch you tomorrow. Sure thing. There you go. Mickey Spagnola right here on 1053 through the fan. Alec, quick question for you. Did you hear that captivating question that Corey asked Mickey about Donovan as a rocket? Everybody heard it. 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We are live from Tolbert Garage in Mosquite where what I want you to do is have a conversation with Colobby Tolbert and I want you to see how many times he can use a curse word in the span of 60 seconds. I’m to put the overunder at I’ve never heard him cuss. Oh man, you’ve never had a conversation with him then. I’m going to put the overunder at 5 and a half. I would like you guys to come out here test that. That could be Yeah. Okay. Well, we’re still on the air. You might have to dump that, you stupid jerk. All right, so we’re out here and you should come out here nonetheless. We got pizza. We got flags. It is an extravaganza. As is this segment right here. What does this button do? Please, please do not push the button. You have no idea what it Alec, you be quiet. Alec, that was awful. Uh, one for Alec, zero for Peyton. Don’t you dare touch that dial. Don’t you dare do it. It is time for A.M. on the FM. My name is Alec Medford, the man that they call the pride of Mansfield, Texas. 8778811053. Yeah, that’s the Franco and Frankle injury attorneys text line to answer today’s question of the day. Plus the tie-in to the question of the day. One of the most unique auctions that you’re going to see probably ever. We’ll get to that here in just a little bit. Actually, that’s a good point. It’s a very good point. next to the Pope Bowl. This is actually more than a thousand items that we’re going to talk about here in just a little bit. And it’s based here in Dallas, Texas. So, we’ll get to that in a few moments. But before we get to any of that, gentlemen, I do want to remind you about this Saturday, 2 to 6:00 p.m. Oklahoma, Texas watch party, rooftop pool at the Highland Hotel in Dallas. We’re going to have Gbag flags available for you, a barbecue buffet, Tito’s drink specials, all kinds of fun going on. Fan talent, including myself, will be there this Saturday, 2 to 6:00 p.m. at the Highland Hotel here in Dallas. Come out. You don’t want to miss it. But Alec, did you just hear the people in here yell boomer? Mhm. Iron Corey. We have Well, there’s another person standing right over here. Yep. It is going to happen. So, we got Oklahoma fans here. I don’t really know. Matier’s going to play and not ever throw the ball. It’s going to be amazing. Okay. He’s going to be like the belldozer. Mhm. He’s going to be like that guy on Mickey’s uh inner mural team that just goes and sits in the corner field. Yeah, that actually would be amazing. I can’t wait to see him hand the ball off and run the ball a million times and still find a way to beat Texas. That’s going to be incredible. U So, gentlemen, we are going to start today’s question of the day. I mentioned it’s going to uh tie in a little bit to the story that we’re going to talk about. If you could go into the warehouse into the vault of any of your favorite TV shows or movies and just start taking home props, what would you want to take from 8778811053? All right, Alec, I hope this answer is acceptable. I think it fits the spirit of your question. Okay. Years and years ago, the Fox and the Simpsons auctioned off an actual house that was livable, that was a replica of the Simpsons house. And the person who won it, I think they sold it like straight away. And that is a damn shame. I I would pick that. I like that. And the fact that it’s something so massive, too. Yes. Like it’s not just like a, you know, they made a prop of like Homer’s pink donut or something. No. No. Yeah. It was It was It was the real deal. And it was like actually constructed. It wasn’t just like a facade or whatever. It was the actual house. Would they put it on like the back of a truck and bring it to you? How you have to move to the place? I think you’d have to move to the place. It was like the foundation was laid. It was set. It wasn’t going. Would you ever have to get the roof repaired for that one? Well, if I did, looks like I would be using Greystone Roofing. Um, Kevin, you know, I’m a my my favorite show is Sports Night. Yes, they had a Alec, have you ever seen that show? I have not. I I know you get backed up with stuff that people want you to watch. Sports Night’s only two seasons. It’s like It was a sitcom on ABC, so it’s like 22 23 minutes an episode. It is It is really good. And it’s set in the world of like a kind of a faux sports center. Yeah. Well, it was Aaron Sorcin basically had worked at Sports Center for a while and he just basically wrote the show about what he observed kind of like he did with Westwing and uh and then he he it was I think if you were watch like the first the opening segment. I think you’ll like it a lot. That’s where you go, oh, he’s not wearing pants while also do delivering the sports news. Uh and and it was just it was it was perfect. It made you think that’s exactly what these guys do. I would want their desk, their sports desk. It’s like their sports center desk, uh, but it says CSC on it. And I would want that one and I would put it in the living room and Adrian would have fun with it, right? It would be instead of having like our little entertainment center, our TV would sit above that. You know, Cory and I both made bold choices for somebody who’s married. I am moving our entire family. And Corey is like, “This living room now looks the way I want it to look.” So, we made some choices. She’s like, “Go get yourself another house for your own living room.” I’m like, “Well, crap. I guess I got to go to Kevin’s.” Hey, and the least shocking development of this whole thing, Cory trying to add another table to his house. That is a very valid point. But I did take a table away. Oh, I’m actually just probably moving that to another room. Exactly. See, you can’t avoid the allegations of being the table man himself. Uh 8778811053. a show or movie that you could just go raid the warehouse full of props and take home some stuff. Um, I see Darth Vader’s lightsaber from Return of the Jedi for Oh, man. I’m going to change my answer. I want that one. Is that allowed? Sure, why not? Okay. No, you already said it. Well, well, it’s your segment, Alec. I’ll That feels a lot more logical than a whole house. See, here’s the problem, though. Alec, never mind. I’m going back to the house and I’m going to tell I I’m going to tell you why. Cuz I was just thinking about this. You know what’s going to happen and so do I. I’m not going to put that lightsaber up in a case to display. I’m clearly going to get in a fight with somebody about and and I’m probably going to break it and so I I’m going to go back to the house. That’s a great answer, but I think I would be irresponsible with that lightsaber. That’s That’s fair. And I like the self-reflection there. That’s that’s very positive. Kevin from the 214. the motorcycle Mavericks had in Top Gun. That’s a really good one. Oh, that’s a good answer. Dude, what about the airplane from Top Gun? I mean, if we’re taking whole houses, may as well take a plane, too. Or the ship, the cruise ship. You know what? As long as we’re giving you things to watch. Have you ever seen the documentary Dude where’s My Jet on Netflix? Oh, yes. Yes. With the Pepsi thing. Yeah, Alec, that’s another thing. If you haven’t seen it, it was about redeeming Pepsi points for like an F16 or something along those lines. It is really entertaining. Huh. And it’s a true story. I’m going to have to write that one down then because that does sound intriguing. From the 601, they say Michael Keaton’s Batman and they would take the Batmobile, which that’s another great answer. Man, you guys are doing great this morning. That is a good answer. Let’s see. I did see from Black and Gold B out of the 214 uh Game of Thrones or something from uh Downtown Abbey for my wife. I’ve never seen Downtown Abbey. I’ve not either. I uh I Adrian watched the whole thing. And uh and there were times when I’d roll through and sit down and be like, “Dude, this is super classy.” And then the rest of the times I’d be like, “This is the most boring I’ve ever like most boring.” Okay. And like what is happening? and they’re they’re living life in a castle. And I was like, they’re not but they’re not even arguing or anything. They’re just living and talking about stuff. And I was like, that does not sound like the most exciting. It was very Britain, you know. I gotcha. Okay. From the 469, they are going very Kevin here and saying the entire Yellowstone Ranch. Oh, see I like some of these choices are made for monetary gain. I I I get that. Hey, real estate is money, man. Yeah. See from the 940. I’m sorry. Did I probably could have added more to that, but you’re right, Alec. Uh, from the 940, I really like this one because, uh, this probably could be my reason just to make bad decisions and I could have something to blame it on. The Green Goblin mask from the Sam Ramy Spider-Man. Oh, okay. Interesting. Yeah, because does that person consider themselves a villain? I wonder. Oh, or maybe they’re just a hero and they’re misunderstood. I don’t know. Oh, okay. Depends. It depends on how they describe it. I’m going to go with their definition of it. Follow back 940. Do you consider yourself a villain or just somebody who’s misunderstood? Appreciate the interaction there. Um, and the reason I bring this up and I want you all to please keep coming uh with those answers for stuff that you would want to take from a movie or a TV show that you love. 8778811053. Uh, Kevin, you’re very familiar with this group of people. Heritage Auctions here in Dallas. My buddy Jeremy, they have teamed up with AMC Network and they unveiled what I think is going to be one of the coolest, most unique auctions ever. They have unveiled the Walking Dead Universe auction and it features more than 1,000 in show props, costumes, set pieces, and even actual walkers from the show. Oh, what? So, this is going to be spanning You mean biters? Yes, biters. I think there’s like nine different phrases they have for there is. There’s two, but Walkers is the only one anybody knows. Alec, can I can I co-opt your question of the day right here and right now then? Sure. I am actually talking with Heritage Auctions at this exact moment to get an item like you’re talking with a for Peaceon. Do you guys have suggestions for a Walking Dead item to see if maybe I can get that? Um, Carl’s hat. Hey Carl. Hey, Coral. Coral. Coral. Does anybody listening remember when Cory would do all the dad jokes as Rick and he’d be like, “Hey, Coral. Coral.” Coral. I am so sad that that segment went away cuz maybe one day we’ll bring it back. Bring it back. Because I used to do that in high school with my buddies. We would talk as Rick Grimes all the time. So that Yeah, please bring that back. Be like, “Hey Carl, hey Carl, how come a chicken coupe doesn’t have four doors? Dad, don’t because then it’d be a chicken sedan.” So, like it was it was like stuff like that all the time and it was as stupid as it sounds, but it made at least one person hear. Well, this is as cool as it sounds because this is going to be running all the way from now until November 1st. Uh, it is live right now on the Heritage Auctions website. And just some things that people that are fans of the show would recognize that are up there because it’s not just random stuff. There is some like random smaller props that were like in the background of a scene that maybe my dad’s a huge fan of this. So maybe I’ll try to sneak away with something for Christmas, you know, one of the cheaper items if I can. That would be very cool. Uh but some major stuff from the show is up here. Like Daryl Dixon’s crossbow from season 1. Uh Negan’s Lucille baseball bat. A lot of people texting in saying that would be their thing and I totally forgot about that. I Heritage Auctions is very nice. I don’t know if they will give us that. I know that feels like a long shot, but I’ll try. And Rick Grimes’s sheriff hat. Oh, that’s a good one. Like real stuff that get from Shane. Yeah, there’s He gave that to Carl. He gave it to Carl. There’s some stuff that like you actually will recognize and that is almost like just iconic to some of these characters. There’s vehicles being auctioned too from the show. So I whether it’s a $500 item or something that could go north of $100,000, there’s going to be all kinds of stuff going for crazy amounts of money. Again, it’s over a,000 items from The Walking Dead, the AMC Smash Hit U show that lots of people have, you know, I I know that I was one of those people when Negan got introduced. I stopped watching because I was so mad. Yeah. Infuriating. I did not I did not keep up. I did not keep up. I did not finish the show, but there’s a lot of people who are dieh hard fans that are going to walk away with some iconic pieces of memorabilia. I want to see if I can get a zombie. And that’s how we’re Yeah, that’s how we’re going to end a event today. Are you going to keep it chained up in the basement? No. I just got done watching Wednesday. It doesn’t work out. It’ll be a pretend zombie to auction off for Peaceon. Okay. We’re the K&C masterpiece right here on You too can get your zombie. Yeah, that’s a unique auction item. Last year, hey, look, last year we auctioned off Wills, so maybe that zombie bought one of them. Coming up next, shut up. It’s time for Grid Iron Gravy. 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Well, I did try to pick up Tyrone Tracy uh to add to my roster. No luck. Uh, no luck. But I did I was able to drop Darius Sllayton. Okay. I also do have Saquon Barkley going tonight. So, uh, I am interested in the outcome. I hope he scores lots of touchdowns for you. I would very much appreciate it if he ran for lower than 85 and a half yards. What if he received for 250 yards and scored one touchdown? No problem. Okay. As long as it’s cheaper than 85.5 right now. 15 catches for 200 yards and one touchdown and I am I don’t even need him to rush for a yard. Kevin, I would also like it if they lost that game. I’m perfectly okay with that, too. But I I’m definitely locked in more than just for the purposes of this, but sure the the the outcome of it can be very telling too of what the Eagles are. Do they bounce back from that game or they that meeting that they had, is it a is that a problem that’s going to fester for them for a little bit? So, there’s a lot going on there. Now, for my primary question right here and right now, who do you guys think has been the most positive surprise NFL team thus far? Like, if you if you had to focus in on one, once again, I know there are options. I feel like I’m going to go with the Colts. I think the Colts are going to lead the way on this, but I wanted to pick y’all’s brain as well because I came up with five teams that I thought that could be in the mix here. Um, I think I think the Colts are definitely the the surprise team. Like there I don’t think there’s another surprise because Kevin, we thought they’d be worse in the division with Anthony Richardson. And the fact that they were even having a Daniel Jones Anthony Richardson debate was a was laughable. Is their divisional mate up in the mix as well then? Uh, Jacksonville. I don’t think people had high hopes for Jacksonville. Yeah. No, I think that that’s a that’s a really good one, too. I think it’s because the points the the the efficiency offensively that the Colts have had, plus their their defense is playing as well as you expected it to a couple years ago, right? And it’s back to what it what it was. Did somebody blow out a birthday candle? It does kind of smell like the uh or just any candle. Yeah, the um that was DJ, but it was uh but yeah, I I think the Jaguars would be a close second for me, but it’s the Colts right now with the how efficient their offense has been. I expect Trevor Lawrence to be better. Okay. I did not I expected nothing zero out of the quarterback position in uh in Indianapolis. All right, Alec, for you, do you do you stick in the AFC South or is there another surprise team from the positive perspective that you think leads the way in the NFL? I think the Colts is the easy answer and the number one seed, but one that I think I was a little bit lower on than more people was Seattle. I think Seattle’s looking a lot better than I anticipated. Okay, Alec, my list of five, because I also had the Colts at the top, but the ones that popped into mind to me were the Colts, the Jags, the Bucks, the 49ers, and the Seahawks. I I’m with you on that. And part of that goes back to the conversation we had yesterday about Sam Darnold. I I know after last year’s regular season, what Darnold does in the playoffs, assuming they make it, is going to define him, but man, they’re they’re off to a heck of a start. I’m really intrigued by that offense because I thought they were going to be hurting without that, you know, one-two combo of JSN and DK Metaf. I know DK Metaf is not as good as people want him to be. But when he’s paired up with a guy like JSN who is a little bit more versatile in his skill set, he is really, really good and he can be really, really good. But that offense does have more levels to it than I expected with a defensive-minded head coach, too. So yeah, they’ve been a lot better than I anticipated. Now for the negative surprises. We’ll do that tomorrow. Tomorrow for the negative surprises. You know why? Cuz another day, another Dan Campbell quote. Let’s go to Dan Campbell talking about the team’s blitz strategy against Patrick Mahomes. Once again, I need to stress to you this is a real quote that I swear I’m not making up any from a real man. Quote, you got to do a number of things with him. First of all, he can smell a rat from a mile away. If you’re going to disguise, boy, it better be worthy of a Grammy. That’s confusing. But don’t worry about that part right now. You’re saying the acting the acting the Grammy is not acting award. No, don’t worry about it. Okay. The guy sees it all and he smells it immediately. He can alter protections. He can get to different things in the passing game. So, what an amazing quote from Dan Campbell yet again. He’s This is why Kevin, I get it. I know you’re like, “Oh, he doesn’t deserve coach of the year.” I And I will stand by that. I’m not saying he’s not a good coach. He clearly is. What did he not do to win to to be a good coach this year? He’s not doing anything not to be a good coach. I just don’t think he’s the best coach. He is the best coach. Okay. But you could be the best coach and your team was awesome last year versus if your team was trash last year and you’re good now. Don’t you think that person gets the award? I think I think managing a good team also says something about what you’ve accomplished. But you love the Detroit Lions. I do have a little bit of love for Campbell and St. Brown. He’s my leading receiver. I need him to do Is he okay? By the way, I saw him pop up on that injury report. Okay, this is live coverage of Cory trying to figure out his fantasy team. All right. What do you guys think is a fair overunder for Rico Dowel rushing yards this weekend? Um Dowel um 95. Okay, I know everybody’s going to like pop this 200 yards, but I mean 95 is a pretty fair area. The answer for Vegas is 71 and a half. Okay, man. That feels that’s actually that’s actually pretty fair, too. Okay, look, the the big huge 200yard number. I think a lot of people are going, that’s an anomaly. Yeah, and and the Cowboys obviously now will be on high alert because of it. And then I think that they’re probably looking at that too going, “Well, the Cowboys didn’t look great against Bree Hall, so that means they’re going to try and fix things.” And Bryce Young probably isn’t the greatest like threat except for him and Ted, like that combination, right? They’re probably thinking they’re going to try to run, but the Cowboys are going to hone in on that and use that to to to try and stop that and say, “We dare you to go down field on us. We feel more comfortable there.” And the betting odds are a a slight favorite that he will not have a touchdown, minus 150. But if he will get a touchdown, only plus 110. I don’t really love the balance of those odds right there. But in case you were curious for doubt this weekend against the Cowboys. Now let’s talk about Puka. Puka has 52 catches through five games this season. If he catches seven passes this weekend, he will set the record for most catches through a six-game span. previously held by Adam Thielen who had 58 catches in the first six games of the 2018 season. I know he didn’t like just arrive, but watching the continued monster numbers that Puka Nakua puts up is really it’s it’s a treat and I still remain like a little surprised. I suggest the numbers are fun and I know you love numbers like you’re like, “Oh my gosh, numbers.” um watch him play for sure. Like that when you watch him. Yes. You know, Kevin, we got to cover a lot of really good uh high school athletes and every once in a while you’d see a guy that just went out there and pulled the ball out of the sky or fought it away from a defender and then took a big hit and got back up and just did his thing. And that’s that’s what I watch in Puka. Now, I know he’s had some injuries. Sure. But that’s what I see in in in that dude. That’s why he’s fun to watch. I I know this pace is not sustainable, but right now he’s on pace for 177 catches and 1999 yards. Both of which the receptions especially would be record by mile. That would still be a record, but you’re right. That would not reach 2000. Oh, so Cory is not Cory is not impressed by your so-called achievement. We’re the KC masterpiece right here. What does that mean? I don’t know. You said it. What does it mean? Okay, coming up next, it’s time for your bold predictions for the Dallas Stars season. The season for the Stars starts tonight. We’re about 7 hours away. So, give us your bold predictions. 8778811053 for the Star season. We’ll do it next live from Tolbert Garage Door in Mosquite on the fan. The more time you [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. 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And I will just tell you personally about 3 weeks ago on my birthday our garage door quit working and Colobby Tolbert and his guys immediately they created an appointment for me that would not normally exist and were able to fix it I think in 12 hours. That is impressive. 12 hours. It’s crazy. You know the only reason it was 12 hours is cuz he said do you want me to come by tonight? And I was like we’re supposed to be doing like a dinner and everything. Otherwise it would have been way quicker you know. And I’m glad that you used the service of Colobby Tolbert. I just texted him one day and said, “Hey, I have a problem.” Yeah. Is this the solution? And he said, “Yes, I can bring you a battery to take care of it right now.” And I was like, “That’s my dude right there. That’s what I’m talking about.” And guess what? The battery fixed everything. So, if I hadn’t known him, what would I be doing with my life? Stuck in the garage still. That’s what I’d be doing. Right. Right. Right. And I’m glad that you’re here to do I wouldn’t have been able to get out of the garage. I’m so glad that you What was I gonna do? I would I don’t know how to lift that garage door, Kevin. Sure. And you know, without my lift. Well, by the way, and depending on what’s wrong with the garage door opener, it will go it will go it will go from you could maybe lift it to it is going to be impossible for you to lift. Shut down. Yeah, absolutely. All right, the Stars begin play tonight and I am already regretting this segment because I already see the text coming in for the 972. My bold prediction is the Stars are going to go 82 and0 from the 903. There’s only one answer for this, Kevin, and that’s 82 and0. But I assume you’re going to have a problem with that or say it’s not possible. I guarantee that is not possible. And the stars will not go 82 and 0. That’s not being a hater. That’s living in this reality. That is absolute hate, Kevin. Uh you can call it reality if you want, but why don’t you dream of 82 and0? You know, like that’s the thing that I don’t understand. Everybody wants that opportunity. How amazing would it be to be the one team in history that went 82 and0 and then set the mark for everybody else out there. You’re like, “Nope, I can’t even see that.” That is a nightmare scenario for the Stars. They would go into the NHL playoffs with more pressure on them than any team in the history of organized athletics. You know what? If they win a series 4 to one, people like, “What happened? Why did you win four?” You know what though? That actually did happen. Remember when we co we covered the Plato West baseball team and guess what? They carried the burden of being undefeated into the playoffs and when they won a series two to one every like they they lost they lost the first game of that series and the coach went I’m glad we lost now we can move on from it. So that’s that would actually only help them get to the Stanley Cup Kevin cuz they ended up winning the state championship that game. That actually is true. Well great 82 and0 uh is definitely the one that I’m going to go for Kevin. No. Well, fine then. I’ll just say this to what you always say. I bet you can’t. That’s That’s what I’ll say. I can’t. The stars can. Okay. Now, I’m going to go to Lisa Simicopolis to start this. She had a couple of bold predictions. Want to see they get bolder as we go along. How you feel about these predictions. Okay. Okay. Start number one. The Stars will finish with a top three power play in the NHL. I think this is achievable. Top three. because you think about where Golatin came from and just that destructive force of nature that was their power play. Yeah. And and they were effective last year, too. Um and now the way that they might use Mo interests me a lot and then he might double dip a little bit. Uh that they they might feel a little stronger in certain I I I really like this idea. And it also gets Mo on the ice more, which he likes. Yes. And also gives us, you know, more opportunities to see Superman moments like he had in the playoffs against Colorado. Um, yeah, dude. I think that they can definitely be a top three power play unit out there for the 972. Come on, y’all. Man, time flies. It seems like just yesterday Kevin was swearing up and down the stars were terrible and couldn’t go 82 and0. Not that first part, but yes, from a you can’t 903, they won’t go 82 and0. 81 and one maybe. So, I appreciate that y’all. I appreciate that. And they said with the first tie in the history of the NHL. They used to have ties. That’s not the first tie in the history of the NHL. You don’t know that. All right. I do know that. So, this one is interesting. And we talked about it with Brian Ray earlier in the day. Jason Robertson breaks 100 points again. Now, this would be huge for Okay, so this would be huge for the team. This would be huge for Robertson himself and obviously have major implications on what that contract look like. You just said you don’t know how. So, he’s lining up on the on the Johnston Bourke uh line. It looks like Wyatt Johnson gets back to where Yeah. Brian Ray told us Wyatt Johnson looks like a man uh now rather than the boy that he has always been. Cuz he had a beard. Uh yeah, but he also said he was thicker. He’s got he put on some body. He put on some bulk. the I don’t I don’t know what to expect from Bourke because he’s like the we s we’ve seen him a couple times now get out there on the ice and looks fun, right? He was he took advantage of a couple of opportun he was opportunistic in the playoffs. Um I just don’t know. It feels like Robertson’s game is slower than playoff hockey. And whenever we get to playoffs, we see that, right? we see that just like all right dude you got to really move a little bit quicker although he still gives you these weird like fiveame bursts where you’re like man maybe this is our best player and then it goes back to never mind yeah and maybe it’s my my own mind thinking that hence rant in line’s going to get all the goals and everybody else is just going to kind of be around but I guess because he’s lining up next to Johnston and Bourke like that gives him really good opportunities to set those guy set the table for him too cuz he’s a really he’s really good at at assists. He’s really good at setting the table and and so I I I I I just don’t see it. I I just don’t see it. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t believe he can be an 80 point guy. Okay. And and that’s and if and but that’s the history of this team, right? Cuz you have a bunch of guys that are really here, but you never had anything that was exceptional and now you feel like you have Rantin, but you’re like, will he just fall back into the fold? There’s a lot of questions I have about this team and I just really want to see Gulletson grow grow this thing fast. I want to set expectations for this. Just kind of pick your brain. What’s your what’s your percentage breakdown for the value of Robertson based on this season? Is it like 50/50 regular season playoffs? Is it 3070 with the advantage? What do you mean value? Like your value for his contract going forward? I know he’s a restricted free agent, but okay. 7030 playoffs. Playoffs. Okay. Like he can do all the good things in the regular season. And you know what? Nil’s probably smarter. Neil’s definitely smarter than me. Uh, and he’s probably gonna go, “Hey, we got to get to the playoffs somehow, Corey. Uh, but the the you’ve said it, we’ve said it, we’ve talked about it a lot. Very similar to the Cowboys. Championship game is what we need to get past to pass. And so, how if if you’re something that can get us there, that’s great. But getting us past that, that’s the next phase of that. And I don’t know that I’ve guaranteed that he is the factor yet for me.” Okay. All right. Now, somebody threw out there for the 903 top five power play, top five penalty kill. First of all, that combination means you’re going to be smoking people in the regular season. I would love that. And Otter wins the Vzna. I This is something that we’ve talked about for a while. That is one of the Simopoulos’s predictions. This Jakeer is a Vzna Trophy finalist. Now, I And they only take three for that. I wanted to tie that into this real quick. the tiers of goalenders. So, The Athletic took an anonymous panel of NHL coaches to rate all of the starters. Okay. And Tier One has four people in it. Aer is not one of them, but wow. Ager is the top person in tier 2, which means they have him ranked as the fifth best goalie in the league, which that’s a great place to be. But consider this, he was split right down the middle or just about six people put him in tier one, five people put him in tier two, and everybody described him as a workhorse cuz they also talked to retired goalies. And so workhorse came up a lot, but I think you’ll appreciate this, Cory. The reason why he was not put in tier one is the people who put him in tier 2 say they want him to take over more in the playoffs. And I feel like that is a concern we have heard from Stars fans through the years for sure. The I’ve said this for I feel like the last three years about the playoffs. We had Dobby had a great run, right? Uh he he had that run that we were like, “Wow, he is standing on his head.” But we were we were spoiled by the 99 season and watching Ed Belffor in those playoffs and his sterling uh uh service out there. By the way, really random in a few weeks, the I think it’s the first weekend of of November or I guess the one after the Halloween weekend. So many players from that 99 Cup team are all going to be signing at the Dallas Card Show. Yeah. So, if you’re awesome, if you’re so inclined, go ahead. We we got spoiled by how he how good he was and and the goalies he beat along the way to Patrick Wah Dominique Hosik like that he was defeating the best goalie and and that’s the the mindset that I I always have is you have to be the best goalie on the ice that night and there are nights when I’m like I know he’s the best. There are plays when I’m like, that’s why he’s the best. And then there are outcomes that I’m like, dude, why wasn’t why wasn’t he the best? And and and I want and you want that 10 15 game run where you’re just like nobody could beat him. And that’s what we’re missing. And and once he does that, he’ll go into this like legendary status right now. He’s still got he’s still young, dude. Goalies last for like 58 years, I feel like. So he’s still got the the time to do it. It’s just you’d like to see him do it with this bunch. Yeah. And you know what? I think the narrative has pushed too far in him the other way. I also agree at times I’d like to see him take over more in the playoffs, but there seems to be this bizarre narrative that he’s just not good in the playoffs. That’s not true. Yeah, it’s not. No. And I don’t I didn’t mean to. No. No. I’m not saying you I’m saying other folks. Yeah. No, it’s it’s not true. It’s just there’s this you want to see this stretch where it’s just like unbelievable, you know? And that’s that’s where that’s where you get that. It’s and and again it could be maybe McDavid is your guy that does you know maybe it’s Ranthin that has that stretching you don’t need Otter to do it just whoever it is to go take over from the 903 ties were before the merger not true and from the 972 Razer said a team’s never won a cup with a firstear coach I can guarantee that’s inaccurate what about the first year of the NHL in your face now after that maybe they’re right but the first year of the NHL That’s your Razor Yes. Somebody had to be in their first year as the coach. By the way, I do love Razor Oak. Absolutely. And that actually is a good Kevin from the 254 update. Bivo is in Red Oak now. So, keeping track of what’s going on. All right. Thank you very much. What do you think about the idea that Nils Longfist Longfist, I like saying it like that. No, I like saying it my way. Is solidified as a top four role with the team with 20 minutes of ice time a night. Man, talking to Tiffen yesterday uh about that was really, you know, and even Brian Ray kind of talking about it a little bit, that’s I would love for him to be uh the the one that that we always thought that he would be. Uh so I would love for that to happen. Now, you’ve liked plenty of these predictions. Oh crap. And I want to make sure I point out that goes Kevin 0 and 82. Basically Kevin saying that Lisa Simopoulos is a great reporter. She’s great on the stars beat. This is her final prediction. The Stars get eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. I want to make sure that it’s not attached to my name, Kevin. Don’t blame this on me. I have a big fear of this. Do you? I do. Oh, first year head coach, you know, and like we love him because we love Glen Gulletin. We we got to know him a lot whenever we were working Saturdays and Sundays. Uh thanks to our boy Waddle for hooking up those uh those interviews. Um, but my fear is like Dbor had this thing as a running as a machine. Like everybody understood their responsibilities. I feel like you’re going to get a little bit of a dip somewhere. I know the talent’s there. They have expectations, but when things go wrong, Gulletson’s going to have to figure out how to lean on those guys to keep things right and get them back collected quickly quickly. And I’ve never seen him in a playoff series, so I don’t know his chess pieces. is I don’t know how he works that. So, I do have a very big fear of this happening and because now like Choppy said the other day, I love this line from Choppy. He was like, “Dude, the Stars get their mail in the semi-finals.” Like, that’s where it’s delivered. Yeah. Uh but that just the the idea of being entitled to be there is completely different than earning your way into that spot and then earning your way to the next one. And that’s the thing that I’m kind of concerned about is those guys going, “Yeah, no, we belong there. We’ll be there.” instead of all those little things that they did to get there in the first place. Yeah. And I think like that’s a great place to be, but that also makes me nervous for the season, you know, because like I know Brian Ray was just joking around with us, but he was like, “Hey, let’s play the first game first.” And he’s right about that, but you can’t help but have those thoughts of I said it last year, I’ll say it again this year. It is Stanley Cup or bust. I like I firmly believe if you went across the Stars fan base, even with a new head coach because of what they’ve been doing, if they don’t make it to the Stanley Cup final and maybe win it, it’s going to be a disappointing season. That’s true. We’re the KC Masterpiece right here on 1053 the fan. We’re live at Tolberg Garage Door in Mosquite. Coming up next, it’s time for some NFL overreaction or reality. Plus, we will fire up the campus connection. Could Texas U actually take a back seat to the mean green? 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Okay. This is technically Glenn Gulletton’s third year as a head coach. Oh, that is a great point. So, like, does that matter at all? Yes. Stanley Cup, here we come. In your face hockey. There you go. Take that. You know what they say, in your face hockey. Hockey. All right. So, let’s do some NFL overreaction or reality. And let’s start it out spicy. Overreaction or reality? Healthy Javante Williams is a top five running back in the entire NFL. Yes. Wow. Reality. I mean, the I don’t know what stats you need. He’s sometimes people’s perceptions are hard to break. He’s one of the top five rushers as far as yards is concerned, as far as attempts is concerned. Uh I think he’s in the top 10 in touchdowns and and he’s proven to be per Yeah, he’s proven to be not just a uh a good running back, but a good receiver out of the back. He’s a good uh secondary blanket after Jake Ferguson uh for Dak. And uh yeah, man. I at the moment and give a lot of credit to the Cowboys offensive line, but give him the credit for that extra yardage that he picks up. So yeah, man. I don’t I don’t think that that one’s too spicy, Kevin. My apologies. Oh, okay. We’ll have to spice it up. Alec, NFL overreaction reality. Jamonte Williams at his healthiness is a top five running back in the league. That’s a reality, Kevin. There’s not many people in the league doing it as efficiently as he is right now. And to Cory’s credit, he’s doing everything that they’re asking him to do as well. It’s not just, you know, like halfback dive right up the middle and he’s getting a lot of good blocks and everything. He’s doing stuff out of the back field. He’s pass protecting a little bit here and there and he’s doing the zone run concepts as well to the outside to the tackles. So I I think he’s doing it better than most running backs in the NFL right now. He’s getting the benefit of Saquon Barkley not getting the usage that I expected. He’s getting the benefit of Derrick Henry fumbling every game as well. Um so I think a lot of people are just kind of soured out on some of the better running backs in the league right now. Maybe unfairly in some cases, but yeah, he’s definitely top five right now. All right. NFL overreaction or reality. The Patriots are a true threat to the Bills now. I know they just beat the Bills, but I’m going to go with for the season. They are a true threat to the Bills right now. Um I don’t you know, Vel’s actually doing a pretty good job. Sure. They’ve just beat the Bills as you just said. You just mentioned that, Kevin. Thank you for bringing that up. Um and I for some reason I didn’t realize they were three and two. Yeah. And maybe it’s because like we just kind of went oh at the beginning of the season oh okay all right they’ll they’ll be around and here they are just kind of rolling along Vel saying we’re going to be a tough team. They dude they played Josh Allen tough the other night. Absolutely. They made it very difficult on How many times did you see Josh Allen have to get out of the pocket run to the sideline stand there and go crap I don’t have anywhere to go with this. And that’s why one of the throws went into the stands and that guy ran away and unfortunately that guy had to give the ball back. He did. We’ll get to that in the C block, Kevin. Oh no. Um yeah, the uh this is really I Kevin, I think this is a reality. They are I think they are a legitimate threat to them right now. Okay, Alec, what say you? It’s a reality and I think it’s because one team is stronger defensively right now just in their personnel groupings and that’s the Patriots wi-i which is surprising to say. Uh but here in 2025 I think they have the benefit of the young rookie quarterback that they can build with if they decide they’re good enough. I know their GM has said on the record that he is open to trading. It was when uh the Micah situation was going on. He was like, “I’m not averse to trading picks away to make our team better right now because we can afford to do that and I think they’re only going to improve from here.” And that offense, again, outside of Drake May and, you know, it feels like they have a bazillion running backs that are really good, too. Outside of those groupings, you can’t name many people on that team. Stefon Diggs is having a good year, but, you know, outside of him, a lot of people couldn’t name their other receivers, but they’re getting the job done. They’re a really fun team. Now, bonus question to that. NFL overreaction or reality. Drake May is a franchise quarterback. He has uh plenary authority on right now, Kevin, uh for that team and that franchise. They can he can do whatever he wants. They love him there. Okay. Well, just as long as nobody from North Carolina tweets about him, then you’re good, dude. They won’t. I know. Except for maybe at the end of this week, they will. Oh, man. We’ll get to that in the C block, baby. Or actually, we’ll probably talk about that in the Thursday tailgate. I’m not going to go with that. Maybe we will. All right, Alec. Bonus overreaction reality. Drake May, he’s a franchise quarterback. Oh, it’s so tough to say so early on, but right now I’m going to say reality. I think he’s got the poise. I think he’s got the composure. And he sounds so sad about having to say this. I just don’t like putting franchise quarterback tags on people so early in their career. It’s just unfair to me. But for for the the sake of the question, I’m going to say yes because he has the intangibles and I think that they care enough like as a group and as an organization right now to build around him. So I think that he will be and he is. I I I want to add to this Alec and I and there’s part of me that agrees with you. Last year it seemed like they were like the Patriots like go run around and make a play and he did and then you were like wow that was special and then they didn’t have any structure to go along with it. Right now, it looks like he has the structure, but he also has that ability to run out around and make some plays. That’s one of that’s the feature I think that they’re all looking for in young quarterbacks right now. All right. You said you wanted spicier. See if this fits the bill. NFL overreaction or reality. The Eagles are ready for a complete collapse. I think that’s an overreaction. Um, of course you do. I Stop it. Come on, man. Uh, I think I want it to happen. I I don’t want it happening for Saquon Barkley’s sake because I need stats in my fantasy team. But I can always You could have a complete him. Um but I just I’ve Kevin 22 20 out 20 and two and two 20 and two 21 and two. It was an amazing number of games that they had won in that stretch while they were also still weirdly having problems. Right. So I I and then they had a meeting of the minds where they did not let Devonte Smith in the meeting which is weird because he’s one of your leading receivers too. So you know AJ Brown were gonna let that happen. He was he shut the door in his face. Um so I do wonder if there is a problem or if they resolved it but I’m not ready to say it yet. After tonight Kevin ask me this question again tomorrow. Oh okay. Alec what say you? I say it’s a reality, but I’m going to whisper it because uh Philly fans will attack me on Twitter like they did Sean for just speaking facts. Do they really? Yeah, it it was actually amazing. He he mentioned that, you know, some people around the NFL might be saying, uh there’s some people that kind of don’t like Jaylen Herz in that building. And I think that’s very true as well. And Philly fans started cursing them out like there’s no tomorrow. Uh because that’s all their vocabulary is. But um I say reality because I do think that the Jaylen Herz bit is growing a little bit tired in the locker room too, him being so stoic and not really caring. And I do think the offense is not where it needs to be to the point where I could see one of those receivers, if not both, getting traded. So I do think they’re due for the collapse. And if if it’s not going to be because of emotions and all of that, it’s going to be because the salary cap is going to catch up to them. We’ve been talking about that for a while now. They might have to make the the decision like the Cowboys did with Mic where they’re like, “Hey, we could just not do this. We We could go ahead and move on and just not have to worry about it.” So, I could see that happening. All right. You might feel like you have to think on this one, but Cory said he needed spicier questions. So, here we go. David Montgomery and Jir Gibbs will go down as the best running back tandem in NFL history. Now, I have stats. for you. Sunday was the 14th game in which Montgomery and Gibbs both scored touchdowns. That tied an NFL record for running back fullback teammates, which is also held by Moose and EMTT Smith. Your face. It took them 10 years to do that. This is Montgomery and Gibbs third season together. Okay. Um, and it doesn’t look like their offensive coordinators changed his mind about how Ben Johnson did things either. And it looks like that has worked. There are plenty of times when I’m like, “Okay, Jared Goff’s about to throw.” And they’re like, “No, we’re running for 15 yards.” And you’re like, “Dang, you you literally were first and you know, you you have an opportunity to throw a touchdown and you just ran for a touchdown instead.” Um, so yeah, I think it’s the mo it’s the it’s the desire to continue saying we’re going to run the ball even in tough situations to believe in it to have the faith up front in their offensive line. Those guys believe they’re going to crack open holes for the for the player for the the running backs. It’s a I think it’s a blast to watch because David McGomery, who is known as the bruiser, right? Right. Still has the ability to take off on you. And Jamir Gibbs, who’s known as the fast guy, still has the ability to truck you. And so it’s a it’s a lot of fun to watch. But the question is, is there gonna be that the best ever? Yeah. Oh, Alec, will David Montgomery and Jir Gibbs go down as the best tandem of running backs in NFL history? That’s a reality. I I thought about it for a little bit, but I told myself that I was just second guessing myself because I don’t know the last time I’ve seen such a perfect marriage of the two different styles of running. But to Cory’s point, they can do whatever is asked of them. They don’t have to be like they don’t have to have just one layer of skill set. they can do whatever because we’ve seen David Montgomery go out in a game or two and Jir Gibbs does pick up the responsibility in between the tackles and at the goal line as a pure power runner. You can see David McGomery take a zone run and go 60 plus yards. Like they both are so dynamic in their own ways, but they can be similar at the same time. I don’t remember the last time I’ve seen that. Now, I know your answer might be it’s too late. So, I acknowledge that could be the answer here. Overreaction reality. You must pick up Rico Dattle for your fantasy football team. Too late. Oh, did you try the the Hassan Haskins is probably the one you’re trying to pick up right now for the Chargers or Vidal? One of those. They don’t play the Cowboys. Yeah, I know. D probably got picked up last week by Hubard owners. That was clearly a good decision. Yeah, it here’s what happened. He got picked up last week by Hubard owners and didn’t play because they just put him on the bench and were like, “We’ll see about next week.” And now they’re all like, “Oh my gosh, can I trade him?” So, here’s the deal. It’s too late. But, do you trade for him? Okay. Overreaction reaction. My question to you. I would trade for the questions. I would say no. I think this is going to stand out as not only an anomaly, but a huge differential from what he does the rest of the season. He had good run. He had a good a good run with the Cowboys last year. What 1300 yards. He’s capable. Uh I’m very interested to see how they’re going to spread the ball around between when when Hubard’s back. Alec, I’m not trading for him. I I know the 200 yard game is an anomaly. He is a very good player and a very underrated player, but got to remember, for some weird reason, the Panthers have like 14 like starting quality running backs on their roster, and I don’t know why. It doesn’t make any sense to me. He’s not going to get that volume every single game. He’s not worth trading for. All right, now we got Carter Freeman ready to roll as part of the campus connection. And Carter, I’m going to include you on this final NFL overreaction or reality question. Overreaction or reality? You no longer feel safe with a 14-point lead. So the Jags, they overcame a 14-point deficit. The same weekend, the Titans overcame an 18-point deficit. Panthers were 17, Broncos were 14, Saints 11, Commanders 10. Like you’re seeing it everywhere. So overreaction reality, you no longer feel safe with a 14point NFL lead. I’m sorry. Were you asking Carter that anybody can get in on this? Okay. All right. Sorry, I thought you were going to him first. Um, yes. That’s reality for me. Any It’s like uh it’s like the Golden State Warriors now. You have a 30-point lead and you’re like, “No, I can’t trust that cuz they’re going to hit 10 three-pointers and we’re going to be it’s going to look ridiculous.” the the the way the uh the game is is set up for being able to push the ball downfield, picking up penalties, uh being able to it’s it’s so much more involved with the passing game. And now Kevin, too, you’re seeing so many more breakaway runs because of that. That is true. That it seems like you can get past midfield so quickly, dude. You can And then Aubrey can kick what, seven field goals for you in a matter of seconds. So, I feel like I I think you’re right, man. don’t feel safe with a 14-point lead anymore. Alec, what say you? I’m going to say reality solely based off the fact that the Mike McDaniel led Miami Dolphins have taught me that no lead in the NFL is ever safe. Wow. That reason and that reason only. I don’t even need to think about it. I’m just going to go based off of last week. No lead is safe in the NFL. Carter, is this going to be a sweep? Yes, it is. Um, I’m just I’m just thinking about how a lot of college offenses have come into the NFL and I like what Cory said about how there’s so many more breakaway like runs and plays. Like I just feel like there’s more there’s more room for chunk plays that can happen in those late game situations. So yeah, uh the 14-point lead in the NFL is now the two-goal lead in hockey, right? The unsafest lead. Okay. Okay. I like that. I like that. So many people Kevin are upset with our David Montgomery thing. They What about Robert New House and Tony Dorset? Marcus Allen and Bo Jackson, uh, who you’ve always hated. Um, Priest Holmes and Jamar Charles, Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams. Okay. Ron, stop it. I will listen to some of those other ones. Larry Zanka and Mercury Morris. Okay. How many years, I guess, is going to be the question then. Did you feel like they operated as a peak together? Because I’m not saying they will, but this is what, three years now. Can you easily see it be six? Yeah. Yeah. No, absolutely. It could be six depending on, you know, what was it that Jimmy Jones Jimmy Johnson said about the the second year after the Super Bowl? He’s like, “Now everybody wants to get paid. Everybody wants this, everybody wants that. They want more.” And it depends whenever those two go, “Hold on. Do I deserve more or or is it okay?” All right. Done and Mike Allott. Yep. That’s a good one right there. Yeah. I You know what? If we’re gonna throw in like the pseudo fullback, obviously I’m gonna go EMTT and Moose if that is the direction that we’re going. All right, Alec, if you could go ahead and give me cut number 10, it is time for the Campus Connection. Screen set up for Caleb Hawkins. Has room to run. There goes Hawkins across the 50. Two men to beat. Hawkins up field bashing his way to the end zone. 69 yd touchdown. Mean green. Nice. Nice. Now for these purposes, we bring in Carter Freeman. And I know normally this would sound like an insane question. Maybe you still think it’s an insane question. Is it possible that the Mean Green have the focus of the Metroplex this weekend in addition to Texas OU? Well, I would hope so because for the first time ever in Daku Stadium history, they’ve sold the venue out. So, this is the biggest first time ever. Ever. So, they’ve had crowds of over 30,000. Their capacity is right around 30,000, but they had more seating back then. So, they weren’t official sellouts. This Friday, tomorrow, will be the first ever sellout at that stadium. And it’s going to it’ll it’ll be packed. It’s a blackout. It’s on national TV. It’ll be on ESPN 2 tomorrow at 6:30. I mean, this is this is about as close, I think, as will ever get to stealing some of the thunder from an OU Texas game, right? Because Texas, you know, they’re they’re not ranked. They lose last weekend. Like, that does take a little bit of the luster off of it. But at the end of the day, that’s still one of the greatest rivalries in college sports and at the most unique venue, too. So, it can’t totally take away from it. But is doing their damnedest. Uh, also, I I will say third party tickets are still available uh through like the fan-to ticket. It’s SeatGeek is what they said to go through and is official. Do you have to get third party tickets? Cuz you didn’t buy your tickets yet, Cory. Um I we look man I’m an alum. Uh so I might What does that mean? I might be able to uh swing something something good here. I don’t know. Maybe maybe I know a guy that knows a guy that thinks he’s mean Joe Green and Steve Austin all rolled into one. I don’t know that I can. But you know what? I will buy the tickets that way if I have to. So okay, but if I can get them in another way, maybe I can. Now, I want to put realistic, okay, catch somebody in the streets. You know what I mean? Okay. No to that. Realistic expectations. He’s gonna rob somebody. Now, realistic expectations on this game. The winner of this game is absolutely in line to get a playoff spot. Not to say that they will. They’re going to have to continue to win, but the winner of this game is in line for a playoff spot. Oh, 1 million%. And the American Conference, people talked about it at the Group of Five level as they’ve lost some of the teams that have been really good in years past. They’ve moved up to power four conferences, right? Well, this is still a very good and very deep conference. There are five teams in the American that could potentially make the playoff, including and only plays Navy of those teams. So, it’s Navy, South Florida, Memphis, and Twolane. There’s a bunch to run through, but depending on who plays each other, like it’ll dep that’ll go into who ends up playing for the American Conference title, but it will most likely be a team from this conference. And should knock off South Florida already, that’s a huge leg up. And then, like I said, they only play Navy, who’s undefeated right now, and that’s in that’s in Denton. That’s at home. So, they have a very favorable schedule if they’re able to get past the Bulls tomorrow. Yeah, dude. Uh UTSA would be next. And then Charlotte, I don’t know if you know the acronym for Charlotte’s airport. I do. It’s Yeah. When they fly in, that’ll be there. Navy, as he said, UAB, Rice, and then Temple, it it’s it’s a reasonable schedule for them down the stretch, and it uh the way Eric Morris has this team playing right now, dude, they are playing confident. They’re playing strong. I love it. They’re running the ball very well now. And chucking it all over the place, too. Yeah. Obvious obviously plenty of love is always going to be thrown out to the cotton bowl, but something I just didn’t understand. I know a lot of this hinged on the health of Johnny Matir, but when you look at the struggles that the Texas offensive line has had this year and you look at how good that Oklahoma defensive line has been, quarterback or no, I did not understand the early point spread that had Texas as the favorite in this. How much right now? But well, now it’s shifted to Oklahoma by 1 and a half, but early early it was three and a half for Texas. And I didn’t get that at all. Let me ask, do you think if uh if Matir is healthy and can throw that that thing shifts very late? I think if Matier is healthy can throw, they might curb stomp Texas. Yeah. No, I I Arch hasn’t looked good and their offensive line stinks. And the way that UU’s defensive front, you know, Carter’s about to lay it all out for you, but the way that their defensive front gets after you, it’s not going to be any easier for Arch to to get comfortable behively. Like that that big factor just puts everything in the favor of Oklahoma’s defense for this game. It’s just whether or not their offense can can get rolling against Texas defense. Yeah. And that’s something that just as far as like Yes. U leads the country in sacks per game. I think it’s four and a half is what they’re averaging through five games. It’s it’s been phenomenal ever since Brent Venibals has taken over the defensive play calling duties. All the players that he’s had in the system for years and years have shined and the defense has been phenomenal. So on paper, absolutely that is something that OU’s defense should eat up is the Texas offense cuz it’s struggled all season long like you guys said. But I mean, it’s so hard for me to say blowout because if you look at OU’s two wins against power competition, which was Michigan in week 2 and Auburn in week four, they only scored around 20 points in both of them. So, it’s not like the offense has been something that’s just been, you know, wide away this awesome like easy to just say, “Yeah, they’re just going to go out there and drop 50 on them.” They haven’t been that because U’s offensive line has had their own struggles, too. And they can’t run the ball. That’s something that’s frustrating as a fan is they cannot run up the middle and they barely get around the edge on their best runs. So, I know where Texas is down right now, but I still think that could end up as a top 10 defense by the time the season comes to an end. This is still a very good defensive line and there are still many veterans within the secondary and on the on the line of scrimmage, too. So, to say blowout, I mean, look, I would love to see that because I’m a fan of OU, but Matier coming back and this is his first game in a couple weeks, too. Like I think saying U is going to blow him out, that’s a bit much for me. I and I respect that. I just this feels like a stylistically problematic match matchup for Texas, but I I totally hear you about the Oklahoma offense. All right. Now, a couple of like bigger picture college football things. And Carter, we can go in either direction that you want. the transfer portal window, yes, locked in January 2nd through the 16th with the addendum for coaching changes, but also the NCAA is going to allow college athletes to bet on professional sports. Now, I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t see any way this could eventually go wrong. Yeah. None. That’s never happened before in the history of sports with uh you know, giving uh giving the the players or the people involved the ability to gamble. I I just I think it’s wrong. I I I’m not a fan of how sports gambling has infected so much of just the the leagues. You see DraftKings and you know what what may have you FanDuel like every every place you go is just ever present. And I mean even earlier this year something that we totally forgotten about was John Matir allegedly gambled on college sports 3 years ago. Right. And I know it’s different college sports versus pro sports. They’re technically separate, but they’re so close together, the NFL and college football, that yeah, something’s going to go wrong and it’s going to look really stupid, but the genie’s out of the bottle, there’s no way he can put it back in. You know, if that uh tortilla presser at Chipotle was the one that was giving away the information on John Matir gambling, then he was right. You know, as if we’re seeing Matier, I want more gambling, Kevin. I want the coaches gambling with each other. uh the players gambling across the lines, you know, like they they gamble on a play at that moment, you know, like they’re hell, hey, I bet we stop you right now and it’s f they just throw the money down on the on the center of the field and they go at it. I want more gambling. That’s called addiction. Do you have an addiction? No. If it’s not an addiction, if it’s always being done, everybody doing it all the time. Cory, we need to tell you something. Carter’s not actually here to talk about college football and neither am I. And neither are all these here people here for my intervention. Everyone’s here. Yeah, we love you and we love you to get better. We love you, Jesus. By the way, come on down to garage door where I told him this past Saturday when Brris was here for the flag tober stop. I told him I legitimately thought you were going to end that commercial with we love you Jesus. He would. Yeah. Yeah. And he’s going to change that for the next one. And he does love Jesus. So that’s nice. All right. Now, we didn’t get we didn’t really get a chance to talk about this a lot on Tuesday, Carter, and I feel bad because this was a big game. Miami defeating Florida State in a game that was nowhere near as close as the score would indicate, and you see multiple metrics out there that have Miami as the best team in college football. How what are your feelings about Miami off of that win? Cuz I know we’ve talked about them this year. We talked about Carson Beck, but that felt like an important win for them. Totally. And uh it’s my biggest uh the biggest amount of crow I have to eat for my preseason thoughts was about Miami cuz I thought they could finish the season unranked. Now I do think they’re the best team in the country. I think because they’re so good on the lines of scrimmage, both offense and defense. Carson Beck’s not playing hero ball. And like you said, the final score of their game against Florida State was it was like a six-point margin. Yes, that was a what a 21 point margin going most of the day most of the even going into the fourth quarter that was Florida State and that was a weird game too where the final 15 minutes felt like it lasted about 2 hours I don’t know what it was maybe because it was such a blowout I wasn’t paying as much attention to it but Miami dominated that game from start to finish and there was a really interesting sequence in the middle where Florida State tries to run a trick play gets a interception the very next play Miami runs a flea flicker for like a 60-yard touchdown. I just think that showed you the just the difference in that game versus how well the teams are playing. And just how Miami so far has been able to everything on paper that we thought they could be, they are that and more. But did you guys know they haven’t left the state of Florida yet? They’ve played all their games at home. Is that right? Or but their only road game was in Tallahassee, which is still in Florida. So they don’t have to leave the state of Florida all that much. It’s just wild that they don’t leave until October. I know they’re off this week, but yeah, just I did not realize that. I think their first I’m going to look this up real quick. I think their first true road game might be at SMU at the beginning of November. Okay. Wow. I No, I I seriously did not know that. I guess that is kind of an opt opportunity for a lot of teams in the state of Texas, too, to never leave the state, but you know, it’s 12 hours to get across the state. That was just about what we almost had with the old Southwest Conference. like, hey, you can run your entire conference just about through the state. All right. So, I realize for local and somewhat national reasons why we talk about Texas, Oklahoma. Same thing with South Florida and North Texas. I’m of course invested in the Florida, Texas A&M game. But outside of all of that, do you think the primary national focus this weekend is on Indiana and Oregon? Because that feels like a humongous game as well. I wonder what it would have to take for Indiana to be the focus of a weekend because I don’t think or Indiana Oregon is the main focus. I think U Texas is on at the same time and because that’s a game that you’ve seen every year and in a lot of these conferences, you’ve lost so many rivalries that this is one you can always go back to. This is one you keep. And I read an article this week that OU tried to relaunch talks with Oklahoma State to get Bedum back in a couple years and OSU wasn’t interested. So, just the fact that OU Texas is a a big game. It does feature a top 10 team and a team that was expected to be good. And this is always an entertaining game. Quarterback health, you know, just so long as the U quarterback is healthy, right? But, but Oregon and Indiana, I hear you. I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m saying that feels weird to me. Oregon and Indiana are a combined 10-0 and they’re both top seven. Yes, they are. And if you look at ESPN’s SP Plus, they’re one and three. Oregon’s one and Indiana’s three. Like that’s how good of a game this will be. And it’ll 100% be an amazing game. But I think just because people are still kind of weirded out by the old Pack 12 teams being in the Big 10 and seeing Indiana go out to the West Coast for a conference game, there’s still some kind of just hesitation, I think, with accepting that. We are only in the second year of it. So, it’ll absolutely have a big focus, but and it it it’s just tough that it’s on at the same time as U Texas. What’s what’s your vibe? what you’re feeling in terms of does Oregon take that game? I know they’re about a touchdown favorite. Man, I really want to buy into Indiana. I love Kurt Signetti. I think all he does is win. Google him, right? Like he he backs it up at pretty much every chance he gets. So, I’m still going to go with Oregon because it is at home and I think Oregon top tobottom is a phenomenal team. They have one of the best wins in the country against Penn State. Even if Penn State falls off, I still think that win on the road is huge. So given that they’re back at home, I’ll go with Oregon in this one. But don’t expect Indiana to fold. This should be a very close, fun game well into the fourth quarter. And is North Texas going to win? You’re going to see a bowl eligible North Texas. They’re going to be 6 and0, my friends. And I will be there. I will be there to cover this game for Fan University. So I’m super excited to see that environment. They are going to be so hyped for that that stadium. That stadium is going to lift that team, man. You you know what I’m excited too is it’s going to help people learn about presidents because right now we learn that this is the best they’ve been since Eisenhower. Let’s see how far back we can go and learn about more of the presidents cuz I feel like maybe the one thing that Carter loves more than us in college football is presidents. I I do love presidential history. I don’t love Abraham Lincoln as much as you do, Kevin, but I do like a lot of presidents. You know what this is not going to be good for, though? Is all of the Oklahoma fans driving down 35 at around 6:00. You know what’s going to be going on at the same time? Going to South Florida. There’s already so much traffic in here. It’s gonna be insane. This is going to be a busy busy fun. Just wait till Saturday. Just wait till Saturday to drive down Sooner Nation. Well, Carter, as always, we appreciate having you on. We’ll catch up with you again on Tuesday. And when can people listen to Fan University? This Saturday, 9 to noon. We’ll talk U Texas, Indiana, Oregon, Alabama, Missouri is a game, a ranked match up that we didn’t even get to today. Like there’s still so many fun games. So, yeah, 9 to noon this Saturday. Tune in. And the results of the game. Oh, I got I have a presidential uh trivia question that was just handed to me. Are you prepared? Always. Which president was a P? Man, we we just put you on the spot there. We did. Chris Arnold Chris Arnold popped in. I thought he was going to give me the answer. So, isn’t is he on a bill? Oh. Corey, do you know the answer? It is Andrew Jackson, I believe. Oh, all right. I am now the knower of presidential things. And Carter, I have been to one presidential campus. You have been that was with Carter and now I know the most. Okay. Well, I I bequeath you with all my knowledge. I don’t know what that means and it concerns me. Yeah. I thought only ladies could do that. Google. All right. Coming up next. That was probably too far. Coming up next, it’s time for the Cablock starring Cory Majors. Whatever Kevin said and then more. Hey, it’s Cory Majors here and man, we’re having a rock. [Music] Heat. Heat. 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I just spit Wendy’s all over my windshield. And then one person goes, what would your mom think about what you just said? And that is a good point. She would not be pleased with me. But right now, segment that pleases everybody all the time. It’s the Seblock starring Cory Major. We aim to please here on the Cablock, Kevin. That is true. Um, I wanted to start with this. I just give you chills when I said that. Yeah. And also I’m I’m redoing my overunder about Colby Tolbert’s swear words in a 60-second uh gap because man that five and a half too low. 7 and 12. Um I just saw a headline that says every episode of Stranger Things season 5 will be 90 to 120 minutes long and the budget was 50 to60 million dollar with each episode. Yeah. Is it going to be worth it? Thumbs down. The answer is no. Well, and that’s it’s What do you mean? Because it took too damn long. So, you’re out no matter what. I mean, obviously, I’m going to watch it, but when I I’m not going to I don’t think I’m going to look at this and be like, “Wow, this is really worth four years.” And plus, the way they do it, they’re like, “Here, you can have some of the episodes at Thanksgiving, then some of them on Christmas, and then guess what, deholes? You got to wait another week to get the last one.” And I’m like, “It took you 8,000 years to put out this season.” Kevin, uh, there was a a bit of audio that I wanted to play. Uh, and this is, uh, this is David Newton was on with Shawn and R.J., uh, and Bobby and Payton’s show this morning, minus R.J., uh, because he’s on his trip to Knoxville today. Uh, ESPN NFL Nation reporter David Newton. Okay. And I believe Alec did this correctly. He got the question and answer. Sean asks about Java Clowney and his thoughts. What do you think we should expect from Clowney this year since you had him last year? Oh wow. Um, he’s a guy I think still can pressure the quarterback. Um, and last year is probably not a fair year to judge him on him because I mean he I grew up watching him play in in high school even. Actually, I saw him in junior high. He actually ended my my son’s football career. Broke three bones in his back when he uh hit him from behind in the the ninth grade playing JV. He shouldn’t have been playing JV, but that was their first year of school. And they they have to have a year of JV, so he should have been on the varsity. They didn’t have a varsity that year. No, he he literally was a he was a man among boys there. And um Kevin, holy crap. We have interviewed many many people uh in our time. We have had many awkward moments in interviews in our time. How would you because Seawn did the I think Sean did the right thing there by being like, you know, with both of his sound effects that he made there. And I’m not making fun of Shawn, although I think Yeah, exactly. Sound effects are hilarious to me, obviously. How did Shawn handle that? And how would you have asked would you have followed up with another question about that or done what they did and just move on? No, I would have been like, “Holy crap, are you serious? Tell me more about that. Yeah, I’m sorry. Look, man, he told you that story cuz he needed you to know. He wanted a follow-up question. If he didn’t want you to tell, he could have been like, “I’ve seen him as far back as high school and he was a beast then and then that’s it.” But when you say, “I saw him in high school. He broke my son’s back.” And then he made sure to say also he shouldn’t have been on varsity. And then he also said what? He hit him in the back. This feels like a very Baneesque situation where he wanted you to like engage him on this. Yeah, I uh I I I did I’m sorry I did not dig further into David Newton’s son’s story. Okay. I did not do that. So, I don’t know anything beyond that. It’s just as far as we’re concerned how whenever we questions or weird answers pop up, you always have the should we ask another question about this? And I think Kevin, more often than not, the answer is yes, you should ask follow-up questions because it could lead into such a different direction of intrigue. I agree. But I will say this. Two and a half years ago at training camp, we had some a player on that gave an answer that most definitely deserved a follow-up question. He said he had just had a child. Yes. And then he said that he had another child. Oh, I asked. I said, “But you have two kids, right?” And I said, “How old is your other one?” And he said, “Two weeks old.” Knocking them out back to back. I was not ready for that answer. I was so stunned by that answer that I wasn’t ready with a follow-up question. I feel like we’re really good at follow-up questions after that. I was so thrown off that I couldn’t I was like, “Wait, what?” their their PR people said thank you for not asking a follow-up question and then did the face pal as they were like yes yeah because the PR person I told him the story and he goes don’t mention that on air and I go no the player brought it up and he goes Jesus f and walked off and it was amazing the fan text took off and I was like did he just say he had another kid two weeks ago and I was still in shock at that moment so maybe that’s what happened you don’t expect the beat reporter that you have on asking about a player to be like oh yeah he broke my son’s is back like that’s unexpected. Yeah. So there you go. Wanted to just kind of look I get in the car and Sean and R.J and Bobby and Peyton show minus R.J. Today. Uh they sometimes with Aiden. Yeah. They’re and sometimes with Aiden they’re they’re in my ears and so I wanted to bring some light to their show that we love so much. Pretty shocking. By the way, Gbag Nation coming up here at 2:00. We’ll have them on for Cross Talk at 1:40. Yes. Also, don’t forget tomorrow we’re at Taco Bueno 7940 North Central. Saturday I’m at the Derby shower in Fris for FC Dallas watch party. And then Sunday I’m in Leavonne for the Cowboys for the watch party at uh the Bearded Monkey. So we are very busy. Tomorrow is 8:00 p.m. to 11 or I’m sorry, Saturday is 8:00 p.m. to 11:00. Uh and then uh Sunday is going to be uh 11 to 2. So be ready for that. Kevin Timothy Shalomé has been secretly bringing ping pong tables around the world for seven years to prepare for his Marty Supreme uh role that he’s playing. Have you seen anything about this? Because people are saying this is a a a careerdefining uh moment for Kennedy Shallow who’s already had multiple of those. His career definfining moment is in Dune when he’s running sideways showing that he’s an athlete in those deserts. I love this. Is that the Bob Dylan movie? Yeah. Well, unfortunately, I haven’t seen the Bob Dylan movie. It’s pretty good, but I love the Dune movie, so I’m sure this ping pong movie will be great. He’s a really good actor, but Dune is where it’s at, man. New Star Wars. Also, Kevin, uh, it has been it has been confirmed the Bills fan who caught the the football in the stands, put it underneath his shirt, and then took off up the stairs and escaped was found. All right, before you explain more to me about this, would this have worked if he was a lady? Now, you could feel I mean, you probably shouldn’t, but I can see how a security guard would be like, “Let me check your belly.” But like, you can’t do that with a lady. That’s a good point. Because maybe it’s a kid, maybe it’s not, but that is you don’t want to know. Exactly. You don’t want to know. Okay. PJ Washington. PJ does have a point. I am curious if a woman could have gotten away with this because she would have been like, “How dare you, sir? I’m 4 months pregnant with my first baby or whatever. Well, here is what she had to say. But, as a matter of fact, the woman that was with him, they came to me and they said, “We know who you guys are.” Oh, you sit in these seats often. Can you please have him return the ball? We will get you another one. Uh, Josh Allen throw that football, too. And she said, I explained, “Well, we were promised that in the past and we didn’t get the ball, so that’s kind of why he took off with it.” All right. He said and then said I did wind up going back to the seat and happily returned the ball. He said they did give me another ball in exchange. So this ball unfortunately is not the actual ball Allen threw that I caught. However, all is right in the world. No theft occurred. There was no stolen property. I will also argue I strongly disagree that it would be considered theft. Hey, that came to me. All right. Like he gave it to me. I didn’t go onto the field. Yeah. He made an errant throw and I got it. But I do see how if you were like a season ticket holder in the second row and people probably know who you are. Yeah. Can you imagine though if baseball did that all the time? They were like, “Hey, look, we got to get that foul ball right now.” They’d have to have like an army of people just patrolling. This is the only ball we play with. Okay. By the way, speaking of baseball, can I ask you a quick baseball question and put you and Alec to the test? Sure. How many pitches do you think were thrown in baseball games yesterday? There were four baseball games. How many pitches do you think got thrown total? Um, uh, four baseball games. Uh, 1165 pitches. Okay, Alec, what do you think? I like the specificity of that. 1,257. Oo, Alec is closer. The answer was 1395. Man, that’s amazing. 1395 uh from the 469. I just spoke to Colobby Tolbert. I heard zero cuss words. Very respect. Very respect. No, you didn’t. That man lies. That’s what they said. They It’s not me that text. Where is that person? Don’t worry about it. I refuse to believe that. Obviously, they just left. That means he doesn’t like you. Um I’m just kidding. I’m just I’m just kidding. No, he’s very respectful. Not all curse words are used inappropriately. You can have all kinds of positive curse words. There’s I have so much respect for when one of my kids when they were younger and they would accidentally throw it out there, but they used it correctly. Like they would be doing something and go, “Damn it.” And I’d be like, “Well, that at least they used it right.” You know, or if Lucy dropped the fbomb and I’m dropping her off to the teacher and I’m just like, “Well, she’s using it right. She’s your problem today. She’s still my problem.” All right. My my wife has warned me that no is my problem because I sometimes say things and once in a while encourage him to say things that are probably not you do. I was in the car whenever you encourage your kid to say some things appropriate and sometimes he repeats them and Jess looks at me and she’s like you’re going to go to that meeting. Ha tricks on you. She teaches at the same school he goes to so they’re going to they’re going to go to you. They’re just going to come down the hallway. Uh Kevin, we have not had the opportunity to talk about it yet much today, so I did want to go ahead and bring this up. Can you imagine deciding that you’re going to go to UNC and you’re going to play under Bill Bich to get five games into the season and the coach is like, I want out of here so bad because he is a chump and he can’t get it together. Like he is a chump. That’s it’s it’s I don’t know what the problem is there that he can’t get it put together the way he had it at at New England. And I’m also kind of curious at what destination he wants to go to, whether it cuz it did say something along the lines of a soft landing at a as a coach somewhere or on TV. I wonder if Miami would be a place where he’s like, I’m going to go to Miami and I’m going to take over when Mike McDaniels is fired and I’m going to take over the rest of the season and we’ll rock from there. But what why couldn’t he get this? He was just talking, literally just talking about on with Pat McAfee on the field right before their game about how their recruiting class had not done what it needed to do in its first year. And so that’s that’s where he’s like, I have to do that first. But now he’s gonna bail on it that quick. And that just for me, yeah, this is gonna this tarnishes his legacy for me if he just runs away from this thing that I mean, especially since it seems like they’ve gotten so he’s gotten so many concessions from them. Like, you know, my granddaughter girlfriend can be on the sidelines at all times when she doesn’t seem to have an official role in the program. Nobody can tweet about the Patriots. I’m going to cancel this show that I already agreed to. It feels like there’s been so many concessions made for him and he’s just being a baby about Yeah. And and that’s just it’s really I would hate to and this is one of the things I do like I do not like about college football is and you’ve always said this commit to the program not the coach. Agreed. But I’ve always hated how a coach is the one selling you the program. And then and then that coach is as soon as he decides you know what I’m about to get caught or I’m about to uh I’m not getting what I want. He says, “See you later.” I understand that’s the part of the business. Uh but again, for for Bill Bich, for me, this is going to kill some of the legacy of I thought that that dude could fix and he just doesn’t seem to have the the coonus to go ahead and continue fixing. So, do you leave the path open for he changes his mind, he sticks through it, and he works his way up? If he did that, if he did, if he did that, if he was able to do that, I’d be I’d be impressed beyond means. But the fact that now you’ve seen, you know, you saw him leave the Jets high and dry so that he could go take on something else and that just now you’re starting to look like a dude that really he he just can’t handle it when it’s tough. Oh, this a good question for the 806. Do you think he wants to step down so he can go to his girlfriend’s high school graduation? I I never brought her Never brought her up at all. Well, he’s a weirdo. Go mean green. All right, we’re the KNC masterpiece right here on 1053. be the fan. Coming up next, who do you fear on the Panthers? 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Uh, as we lead into Texas OU weekend or if you want to discuss this a little bit right now, but I think this is a fascinating question. Uh we had we had Carter on earlier and we were discussing that game and I I was thinking about this actually on my drive in this morning. Let’s say Arch Manning doesn’t have a good start to the game. Do you think Sarkeesian would at all risk benching him and risk the the backlash that might come from it? I honestly at this point like backlash from the family maybe I don’t think mostly the family I I don’t think you get it really from the fan base although I have heard a lot of people kind of compare this to the Chris Sims situation I get that there was a lot of family pressure that if you even consider benching him for what at the time felt like a superior quarterback that he’s out of here now they don’t have that option right or do they have that option in house I mean right now with the way Arch is playing maybe they do okay I I would say the game would have to be probably within 10 to 13 points for them to consider that because if he’s playing bad but you’re getting worked, what’s the point? Yeah. I just I I’m I’m very interested to see how the how much influence that family has. Yeah. Uh and and you know what Sarkeesian’s faith in that he can that his system works with this quarterback. Sure. That’s I mean and that is the primary question. But that’s a fascinating scenario. I would be interested what happened if that played out right now. Who do you fear on the Panthers and where do the Cowboys hold an edge? Oh man, the uh the Panthers I will say I do I do fear Ted. Uh Ted McMillan he’s now he hasn’t scored yet. Um which is a huge dent in my fantasy football group right now. But he’s getting the targets and he’s getting the yards and he’s getting the catches that give him about 10 13 14 points a game in fantasy. So the production is there. But Kevin, this this secondary we’ve seen get torched too many times. He is not a burner like that. Ted is going to be a a move the move the chains kind of guy. He’ll get you some some pretty good plays. He’s got a great size, great target, but he’s not a burner. But the fact that if Bryce Young starts feeling comfortable that he can go to him at any point, that would really concern me because that what that would then do is open up the field for Rico Dow. Uh and and Rico D wants he wants to punish this team. He want not that he’s like I hate them. He’s just like I want to show them that they should have made me a star back. I was there for a reason for a long time. So that that’s the concern is if uh if Ted gets going, does this defense say we got to go sacrifice that for this? Now, we can focus in on some of their late round rookies in just a second, but I am concerned that a switch made by the Panthers might really click for them in the linebacking core. So, Christian Roseboom led the Packer, excuse me, the Panthers in tackles last week with nine and Kevin Wallace had four. So, one of the things that they did going into the game is that Roseboom had been calling the plays, but against the Dolphins, they switched it to Wallace calling the plays. And Dave Canales, their head coach, said, “Man, we felt like that switch really freed Christian up.” And so I’m concerned that sometimes a simple switch like that can continue Wallace playing well, but then Rose Boom maybe kind of hits his stride or if he really did just feel freed up that that gives him the opportunity to wreak a little bit more havoc maybe especially in the middle of the field. And you mentioned Tech Tet, but you look at that last game, it was the later round picks that made the difference in that final drive. So Mitchell Evans, fifth round pick, tight end. He made the game-winning catch. Jimmy Horn, dude, Mason Taylor just had a good game against the Cowboys, too, at the tight end position for the Jets. And so you have to keep an eye out on that. Jimmy Horn, he made the fourth down catch to keep them in business. And even Trevor Etienne was able to sub in. He can run the ball. He can run the ball. And so I realize a lot of the focus was in on Dao, but their late round picks in at rook their late round pick rookies. There we go. They really made an impact in that game as well. And so I certainly understand some of the names we brought up, but I wanted to focus in on those guys and the linebackers as well. So you’re saying that that receiving crew might be too legit to quit? This is a was an awkward moment for me where I made one of your stupid jokes and now I have to pay the quiet price in front of people. Yeah. Uh which is a little more awkward than whenever we’re just want to remind everyone here at Tolbert Garage if you want to head back to where there’s pizza and pool. You can try Kevin. I I I will also add uh your your your guys Derrick Brown and Ashan Robinson are loads to deal with. Like those are some big boys that uh that are not fun uh to to go battle. So this offensive line has a fun test. Now they did a good job with Quinnon Williams and crew and and crew last week and and that’s that’s a that’s a positive thing. Can they replicate that and do the same thing on this side of it? That that Carolina defense, they’ve had to carry a lot for the lack of offense and they’ve done their job for the most part. So that that that group up front. Um this this is going to be that fun test uh to see can the Cowboys with some injuries do it again. So let’s look at some of the positive potential matchups for the Cowboys. The Panthers are 26th in passing yards per game and they’re 24th in points scored. So even with last week’s uh offensive output, they are still close if not in the bottom third for those offensive categories. Then for the Cowboys, George Pickkins can already set a single season careerhigh in receiving touchdowns if he gets into the end zone against Carolina. Guess what? So can Javvante Williams, but on the rushing end of it. So you already have two players in week six that are on the cusp of career highs. Then there’s Dak Prescott, but there can only be one, right? Is that what you’re saying? Well, this is this is different than a normal Highlander situation. There can be two. I have Javvante Williams in fantasy and somebody else has Pickkins. So, there can only be one. No, disagree. How about this? Pickins scores his touchdown and then Javvante scores three. That How will that not work for you? I’m not playing against the guy that has Pickkins. So, I’m okay with that. Oh my god. I’ll take I’ll accept that as long as there’s only one that has three and it’s my guy. Okay. And I hope the best for Pickkins, though. Now, you know what? I hope the worst for you. So the Cowboy for the Cowboys, Dak leads the NFL in interception or excuse me, in completions. He really he Yes, he’s leading in completions. He’s second in yards and he’s tied for third in touchdown passes. But this is probably the number you should care the most about. A big play pass in the NFL, 25 plus yards. Okay, so hold on. This is interesting because an explosive there’s explosive splash big like this is because there’s 10 yards 15 yards now 25 I like this and I know for some people they will define splash and explosive similarly and go 16 to 18 yards on the passing play but for big play 25 plus yards. Now I know you would assume that all of the quarterbacks the Cowboys have played lead the league in this cate. It is actually Dak Prescott who leads the NFL. He has 14 pass plays of 25 plus yards this year. Yes. And that averages out to almost three per game. Three per game. That is improvement. Yeah. No, thank you. Yeah. Of 25 plus yards. And that that’s a remarkable reason that you’ve started off this hot offensively. Yeah. And and I say because thanks to Pickkins, it’s not just him, but but he’s a key factor in this. Tobert made an insane and and Feno. Yeah. Though that insane catch from Tolbert still is stuck in my mind. Um the it Pickins is a is a great example of it though because Dak trusts it and uh and Shottenheimimer is I’ve said this consistently. I think I’m just going to keep saying it over and over. He’s giving Dak the permission to trust the aggressive nature of their play calling. Hey, I like I like the I like I called the play for a purpose. Yeah. And I know I’m going to give you the uh the authority, if you will, to go out there and and change it if you need to, but I called the play with a purpose. You know, because we worked so hard together this week on the plan, what we can do if that isn’t set up right. You know what you’re supposed to do, but also trust the plays going to work because we called it for a reason. Kevin, I do want to add uh Tommy Y, Dick Harris reporting. Joe Milton, Miles Sanders, Fowler, Sanborn, and Turpin were not seen on the practice field during the media portion today. Donovan Wilson Yeah, Donovan Wilson was back out at practice after missing Wednesday. Okay. So, see, and like I I I know you pay a lot of attention to the injury reports and I don’t mean this to sound callous, but like Joe Milton, Miles Sanders, you’re like, “Okay, that I I want them to be good to go.” Yes. But I feel like you can weather that more than maybe Donovan Wilson. Although, I know some people have issues with Donovan Wilson as well. All right, let’s power rank the starting quarterbacks. Now, you know how we like to start this out. Who is the worst starting quarterback in all of the NFL? Jake Browning. Well, I guess Joe Flacco. He got he got benched. Um, by the way, Joe Flacco is 30, which that feels right. Um, is Bryce Young still the one? Bryce Young is 29. Okay. So, you got two of the worst four, but not the worst two. Spencer Rattler. Spencer Rattler. He was victorious. So, he is rocketed up to 31. Okay. So, he is only the second worst quarterback. Now, who’s starting this week that hasn’t played yet? Alec, I’m going to give you a chance to steal and I’m going to cheat. Lamar Jackson looks very unlikely for this weekend. Now, with with that in mind, Alec, would you like an opportunity to steal as Cory has gotten three of the worst four? But let’s see if he can get the worst if you can get the worst quarterback. I see what you’re doing. You want me to dunk on my fellow ginger brethren? It’s Cooper Rush. It is Cooper Rush, isn’t it? It is Cooper Rush. Dude, he was bad, man. Three picks. Yes. Jake Browning is the only other one that threw three picks. Yeah, I would have put Jake Browning below Cooper Rush, probably. Right. Probably. All right. Where would you put Actually, you know, let’s go to the top of the list. Who Who’s your top quarterback in the NFL? Um, top quarterback in the NFL. It’s not Momes. Dude, I’ll throw Baker in the mix right now. Oh, Baker, the touchdown maker. Is he even top 10? He’s top He’s six. Okay. Which I will I will admit at this moment I think feels a little low. Yeah, he’s he’s playing really high level, I guess. Is it just still Josh Allen? Josh Allen is number one on the list. Where’s golf right now? Jared Goff is second on the list. It this this goes to he has the benefit of having a fantastic run game. Guess what? So does Josh Allen. James Cook is playing phenomenally right now. So um the but that run game sets it up. I mean just like with we’re talking about with Dak, he has he has a a great running game which allows him to be aggressive downfield, too. Okay. Well, let’s set those parameters for right now then. if you know one is Allen, two is Goff, six is Mayfield, how do you feel about three, four and five and where does Dak fit into this conversation? Um, and I don’t and for people do this every single week. Don’t bring me the baggage of what happened this time and that time and the other time right now. Yeah. Um, I think I think Dak’s still a top 10. I think Dak’s still top 10. Okay. But not three, four, five. I would I think he’s top five. Okay. I I do I would put him in the top five right now at this moment the way that he’s playing. Uh I would put him in in that place. Um is Stafford? Matthew Stafford is number four. Okay. On the list. Could Dak be three or five? Alec, what say you? I’d like to think he’s at five. I do. I I think he should be top five in today’s NFL. I know the record. We talked about this last week whenever we did the same exercise that the record is going to, you know, draw some people away from the idea, but again, wins do not always equate to the quarterback play. So, I think he’s five. So, Jordan Love is third and he magically went up three spots this week, which is weird. Patrick Mahomes is number five. And then this, I think, is what’s really going to infuriate you. Jordan loves completion percentage. Oh, I guess it’s 69. He’s got 1,000 yards. Yeah, cuz he got to play against the Cowboys defense. Uh, this is what’s going to make you mad, though. Dak is eight, seven, Jaylen Herz. Do you think Jay who’s not throwing the ball? I guess the position is more than just throwing the ball now. Do you think Jaylen Herz at this moment? I know Super Bowl. I’m not saying that that doesn’t matter for his legacy, but right now, do you think Jaylen Herz is playing better quarterback than Dak Prescott? He hasn’t thrown an interception yet. Is that right? How many touchdown pass? Seven. Really? Okay. I’m actually surprised about that. In my face. But then maybe that he’s he’s we talked is he a little too riskaverse. Well, not throwing interceptions is a good thing for you right now. But he only has 800 yards. Uh 889 and he’s got a completion percentage of 67. Just below QBR is 13th. Yeah. So I I I don’t think he should be but um because he’s not but he is doing he is running the ball very effectively and and that is part of the position whether people want to be like oh he’s a good running back that’s fine but he he is listed as a quarterback part of the position now is to do both of those things. So the top 10 goes like this. Josh Allen, Jared Goff, Jordan Love, Stafford, and Mahomes at five. And then Mayfield, Herz, Dak, Jaden Daniels, Sam Darnold at 10 for the person that was asking, Daniel Jones. This feels unfair as number 14 with a K&C masterpiece right here on 1053 The Fan. We’re live at Tolbert Garage Door in Mosquite. Coming up next, let’s chitchat with the fellas from the Gag Nation right here on 1053 The Fan. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. [Music] Hey, Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. 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Well, you know, uh I I think it’s still a very good team and I’m exciting about uh excited about a full season with Ranton and I’m excited about maybe young players. This team’s done a really nice job developing. Uh, but I I do think it’s a it’s a half tick off from what it was last year where it already felt like uh, you know, they weren’t real strong championship caliber. So, I don’t want to bring anybody down, Hegy, but you asked a question. I’m here to speak my truth. I appreciate you speaking your truth. What about the rest of you fellas? You So, he’s basically saying they can’t go 82 and 02. Is that Yeah. So, call him a hater. Great. Yeah. Great. Well, you can’t go 82 and 0 unless winning night, Cory. So, that’s where it starts. Important game. This is where it starts. Absolutely. One and0. You got to win tonight. It’s a must-win against Winnipeg for the No, it’s not. Must win. Mhm. Backs are against the wall. It’s basically the playoff game. Desperate team theory. Yeah. Hope desperate team theory right off the jump. Damn right. Yeah, I think you’re probably got rid of our coach. Got rid of like half the players. Yeah, we’re in desperate team theory right now. Thank you, Bruce. That’s a scout right there, man. If they win like five to zero, I’m going to have to eat so much ass on this and y’all like I told you desperate team theory. That’s what it’s going to be. Tyler Sean’s going to have a hattie tonight and stars are going to absolutely I mean it might be tough cuz hella suck is actually good in the regular season unlike the postseason. So he could pretty well I hear over there. Yeah, that hella suck guy you know. Screw him boys. Screw him. Uh I do think second probably in the central this year. I am picking Colorado to represent the West. Uh, and I think the Stars Well, that’s cuz they beat the Kings the other night. I see what you’re doing. Colorado. Uh, what have you done for me lately? That’s what I Colorado’s pretty loaded. Uh, they’re pretty darn loaded, boys. But if you can dodge uh the ABS, you know, I think we we got ourselves a good chance to go out there and uh maybe finally punch through and uh beat the crap out of the Canes in the Stanley Cup final. Oh, man. So good. Do you think if the Stars can win the Stanley Cup, they’ll keep their coach? Cuz I know they really have high stand. No, you fire the coach after you win the cup there. Okay. That’s what you do. Dude, that’s how hockey works. Come on, boys. You know that. Have you ever thought about taking this on the road to Canada? Cuz I would really like to see that. I’d probably get my ass kicked, boys. And you know that. There’s no chance somebody in Canada would kick ass. Yeah, they don’t fight, dude. Nice. They’re super nice people. I get some poutine thrown at me, huh? I mean, probably. You’re lucky. Sorry, my uh my mistake on this. Hey, you got me excited earlier, you know. Man, I’ve said some regrettable things on this show today. Eric, how today? Yeah. How we feeling about the Stars this season? I’m I’m excited. It is obviously filled with a little bit more questions when you bring the new coach in. How’s everything going to vibe here? Uh, but I am pretty optimistic with with the way that the the roster is is built. I mean, Thomas Harley and what he did last year and his ascension, I think, is is something that we can get real excited about. I can’t wait to just see kind of how Wyatt Johnston recovers from the disgust of his postseason run. Like now you got a little adversity going here. I want to see that. And obviously the questions will pop back up no matter how dominant he is come regular season. But once you get to the postseason, those questions will remain. But uh just out of the gates here, I’m looking forward to seeing hopefully that is all behind him. Yeah, I I was I was going to ask if you thought we might see the rebirth of Wyatt Johnston because you’re right, man. That was a brutal brutal playoff run. They better see it or else this is going to be really bad this year. They need him in a big way and that contract’s really going to hurt. Now, we talked a good bit about Texas OU today. It took a while, but the point spread finally swung back over into OU’s favor. What’s y’all’s breakdown of this game coming up the Cotton Bowl? Man, I’m excited. I’m excited. I’ll tell you that. I I do think that I mean I’m I’m looking at hitting the under here. Uh I I don’t imagine that both these offense offenses get going in a huge way. Uh and O U O U O U O U O U O U O U O U O U O U’s defense is so good uh and that and that front four the way they get pressure. So I’m interested to see kind of what the what the plan is offensively for Texas and how they approach that because Arch likes to hold on to the ball forever and and that’s going to get him in trouble in this game. Yeah, I kind of hope that uh that OU’s defense gets stuck in that tiny passageway in front of the Cotton Bowl when you can’t get into the stadium. You hate that. I hate that. I’ve been there. Have they widened that thing? Well, then Texas is in trouble because Yeah, if we’ve widened that that gap there, then yeah, Texas is in trouble cuz I don’t think you get rid of like all of a sudden your pass blocking woes all of a sudden just get better in in four or five days time. So yeah, young Bennett Bris who’s firing the cannon every time that Texas scores might not get to do it once this uh this game. I hope I’m wrong about that. Defensive matchup. Both good defenses. I think U’s better. And if Matier plays and plays well, they’ll they’ll win handily. If he doesn’t play, it’s kind of a coin flip situation. Now, this is a weird combination of stories, but Matt Mattie Seagrist from the Wings got the chance to meet the Pope and then also a Pope autograph baseball sold for $5,000 and some change. Now that you know that, if you ever got to meet the Pope, would you ask him to sign a baseball? He’s a baseball fan, right? Yes. Yes, he is. Baseball fan. Likes football. Chicago guy. Yeah, sure. Why not? Worth a shot, though. Yeah. I think I think the pope would sign a ball for you, right? He’s pretty cool about that, right? He seems pretty. He loves signing balls. Very understanding. Very understanding pope. He preaches that every Sunday, right? John Hancock on my ball. And don’t think I didn’t hear that combat. W. But also, if you were wearing a white socks hat, that would probably help grease the wheels, right? I would go in with a Cubs hat and just see if he gets testy. Yeah. The rivalry. I like that he used that word, too. What are you What are you doing over there, Satan? Tempting the pope. Uhhuh. What? What do you pine fellas got coming up on the program today? Behind me, Satan. Tempting the pope. Tempting the pope. Hey, Pope. And you’ll I’m disappointed you guys hockey talk today and didn’t talk about how terrible Utah’s nickname is. The mammoth. You don’t like that? I like the Of course you would like that. Heggy. So does Cory. people on your show like it too. I don’t know about that. I mean, they’re extinct, aren’t they? It’s like they’re trying to bring them back. Should have been the popes. Nobody even Nobody’s ever been able to touch a star, you know. So, we got uh we got a moon. We got stardust all around us. But we got Jake Ferguson coming up at 520. Moon’s not a moon. Star’s not a shape. Hey, first question. If you can ask Jake Ferguson, what does he think? You had a chance on the show. Don’t worry. Okay. All right. We’ll ask. You will ask me tomorrow. Move on. What do you think about the Utah mammoths? All right. Thank you very much, fellas. 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Master control here at 75 and Fitz Hugh. Uh, he’ll try to keep the Gators down best he can. He will go five flawless though. Woolchuck and she a follow or here and Carter Freeman’s coordinating your video. You can watch us every day at 105ththean.com, Twitch, and YouTube. We’re just about 48 hours now from Texas OU down there at the fair and that’s exciting. Next chance to get your 2025 Gag Nation flag is tomorrow. Of course, KNC going to be out there with Taco Bueno. We’ll be at Cold Beers and Cheeseburgers. And uh then Saturday I’m going to be at Herertado Mansfield from 10:00 to 10:30. Then Herertado Fort Worth 11:30 to 12. So uh mark that on your calendar. uh southern tools, western tollos, we want to see you Saturday. Great opportunity to pick up some barbecue, you know, for your watch party. Whether it’s Texas OU or whether it’s or, you know, whatever football team you’re going to watch. Of course, the Herado barbecue would go perfectly with it. How the heck you guys doing, man? Doing awesome. Really doing awesome. Phenomenal. Uh North Texas big game tomorrow night. They’ve sold it out. I’m so happy that uh the Ming Green Nation is coming out in full force there to Denton. Of course, they canceled the classes. Looking forward to that. We got Stars hockey returning tonight. Big- time Thursday night football game. Hopefully the Eagles get upset. It’s a sports paradise right now. It really is. It is. And uh the Cowboys are getting ready for Carolina. Matt Eberlu says, quote, “We took a step. We took a step in the right direction. We got to take another step.” The coordinators talked today. They did lead the league in pressures in week five. Is the worst of the defense behind them or do we need to brace for more chaos? What do you say, boys? First question for you. I’d say it’s the worst is behind them. I mean, it was pretty ugly when you’re allowing Russell Wilson to throw for 450 yards. I would like to think we’ve seen the worst versions of Diggs and Bland post injury, unless there’s another injury. So, I would hope now you’ve added Clowney, and I didn’t think Clowney was great last week. We’ll see how he does this week. He should be motivated against a former team. Uh, and you’re going to get some health back. I mean, again, I don’t know what to expect from Overshon and some of these other guys, but I would say with just how bad it was against Chicago, against New York, like we saw horrific defensive, all-time bad performances, I think that there’s only room to improve. So, I I I hope there’s not a regression here. I mean, their run defense numbers are starting to eek back to what they were last year. Are they dead balls last in success rate right now? and run defense success rate. I know it’s not good. Um, you know, so I, you know, those are things that might be worse now with with Sanborn in concussion protocol. Eberlu’s also saying Murray’s going to move inside as he has on passing downs, but now he will also be there on rundowns and rookie Shamar James is also going to be a piece of the rotation. They’re excited about him. You know, there’s this uh account on social media, AOY Media or something like that, and he he does a really good job. He breaks it down well. He’s pumping the Kenneth Murray optimism train. So, yes, last night I’m like, okay, you know, I just want to be right on this. I want to learn. I don’t know if this Aquoaya media guy is on it or not, but I watched a lot more Kenneth Murray last night, and I still don’t see it. No, I see occasionally I guess he’s in position in zone passing defense, but everything else is just a dumpster fire. So, I want to be fair to the player and that’s why, you know, I admit I’m not a scout. I’m not a coach. We have brought us here. Tell us what you’re seeing with Kenneth Murray. Like, is is this where the bleep really hits the fan or do you think he’s going to get better? No. That and to answer your question, by the way, the worst is still ahead of you. And if you if you continue to play poor run defense because you’re about to deal with three teams in the top 10 rushing the football. The Commanders, you’re dealing with the Broncos, and then with Carolina. Now, Carolina’s a lot of it came from this last game. I mean, up until that, they really kind of struggled. So, you can maybe kick them out, but the Commanders are number one in the league. The Broncos are number four. If you don’t not if you do not figure out if all of a sudden Carolina has success, their way of winning this football game Sunday is going to be running the football. They if they go out and do what they did against the the the Dolphins, you might be in some trouble in this one. And and and you know, and Kenneth Murray has something to do with that. You know, uh James has something to do with that. The defensive tackles have something to do with that. You know, the thing with I think the thing with Murray is that he’s the one guy that I feel like the understands where he needs to fit and where he needs to be. He doesn’t always have success getting there. And then you’ve got the other guys, the young guys like James and Leafoul who are very athletic, very quick to trigger, but they run around blocks and get themselves in trouble that way. So to me, I think as a whole, one of the reasons why we keep talking about linebackers and potential trades is you’d like to replace would you like to replace a couple of those guys? How much faith do you have that it can get better with them throughout the year? I would I would think as like a six or sevenyear veteran, you’re not going to learn so much of the scheme that it’s going to drastically transform who you are. It’s not to me the it’s not so much the scheme, it’s the it’s your ability. Kenny Clark the other day got blocked, you know, and he’s got great technique. He just he got blocked in that game and so did Osa and so did Solomon Thomas and so did and and so did uh Samborn. Everybody that that that played run defense in that game the other day uh had a had a poor day. I mean, you just look just look at the look with the numbers with guys on and off the field. Eight yards, seven yards, six yards. I mean, that that’s that’s that’s bad. That’s bad run defense right there. But a lot of it has to do with like if you’re supposed to be in this gap and you’re not, that’s a problem. And they and they’ve had it they’ve had it at all levels. But the defensive line, I think, physically got it taken to him the other day against the Jets in that in that game. It it did. And and the linebackers couldn’t do much to to help him or or bail him out with missed tackles and whatnot. I feel like the Cowboys weekend starts earlier this time around because tonight you get an intra division matchup with your Giants and Eagles in New York. Comes down to the Giants front to me. I I don’t think I don’t think New York’s going to be able to score enough that if this game gets into the 20s, the Giants have a a chance. But considering how bad the Eagles have played this year, on paper, this is actually an even matchup. NFL Network put up a graphic like 90 minutes ago and it was amazing. They did like eight different stats with the different efficiencies and the total offense, the total defense, the run, the pass, and all that. And the the average scores define these teams is about similar. That’s just how bad Philadelphia has been on not only on offense, but uh on defense as well. You know, the Eagles, they they lost uh what, three different pass rushers. Was it Williams, Sweat, and Graham? Graham retired. Yeah. Yeah. They have seven sacks this year, guys. Yeah. They cannot rush the passer and they traded away Huff to this to the 49ers. So, I you know, I don’t want to rule out that the Eagles Super Bowl celebration effectively ends tonight and you have chaos in the streets of Philadelphia and on their sports radio. We might be spying on Eagles Sports Radio tomorrow to to soak up th those Eagles uh tears. But yeah, Giants beat the Chargers a couple weeks ago. Jackson Dart’s debut. should have beat the Saints. So, you know, this this could be a a Giants team that that won two in a row. They got close to beating the Cowboys. Yeah. So, and and yes, the Eagles absolutely suck at running and uh and tonight they are going to try to prove that they can get Saquon Barkley in a bounceback game. Last year, his one game against the Giants, he had 176 yards, but he’s producing like 80 yards less per game this year than last. I think if I’m Brian Dball and and this coaching staff of the Giants, I kind of make this maybe this is a game where you turn it into like Jackson Dart, how he played at Old Miss. Maybe you make this a game. Let’s let’s test your run defense a little bit with some RPO stuff. Let’s, you know, let’s try and kind of get the ball out quick. The really the biggest difference between these two teams and is if you look at turnover differential. Yeah, the turnovers are one’s one’s like minus five and the other’s plus four. That’s what caused him the game against the Saints at the one yard line. They fumble. So, yeah. I Yeah, I listen I I I I think that Jackson Dart playing in this game, even being a rookie, I would try and do some things that he he’s capable of getting the ball down the field. the Giants offensive line if if the Eagles don’t get any type of pass rush, you know, we saw we saw the the Cowboys struggle to get pressure against a really a a banged up and that that wasn’t with their best offensive tackle playing who hasn’t given up any pressures this year, I don’t think. So, yeah, it this it it Giants have a chance absolutely at home. Do they score enough points? Do you turn this into a college college offensive attack? make the the the the Eagles have to kind of defend a new quarterback on a short week. Those are the things I would try and take advantage of. But the Giants pass rush could be good enough in this game. Their their guys getting after Philadelphia. They could break Philadelphia down with some of their pass rush and you know and and maybe that could be, you know, with if Jaylen Herz is going to sit there and hold the ball, hold the ball, hold the ball, maybe get some guys home. But you know what? If they can control Barkley, I I like I like their chances because they’ve been bad in run defense. I think they’re giving up like over 5.3 yards a carry. And to your point, last year Barkley just absolutely crushed them. But he is their running attack has not been the same this year. So maybe that does bode well for the Giants to possibly pull off an upset. Get right with that run defense. Contain Herz from crushing you cuz you know if all hell breaks loose, he can do that. Um but yeah, I won’t be surprised tonight if if the Giants play this thing close. I think it’s a seven and a half point spread. I might have to get on my my online online sports book. Okay. Uh Rangers pitcher Nathan Evaldi had surgery for a sports hernia. Yes, he did. Yeah, I saw Jeff Wilson put out this story. General manager Ross Fencemaker said last week that Evo was going to go back to Arizona. He had a consultation after experiencing the discomfort late last season. He was shut down because of the strained rotator cuff, but today he uh or yesterday he underwent surgery in Phoenix for that sports hernia. So hopefully uh he’ll be okay. a full recovery and he’ll be on track for spring training. I mean, he is breaking down right and left. Let me ask you this. If CY came out and said, “Look, this is the perfect time to blow up the team.” You know, we just had Deg Grom have a 29 start season. We got a Valdi breaking down right and left. Our offense is far away. You know, we’re it’s it’s time to to blow this thing up. I would I would get it. I would be I would be more excited about them spending, you know, just shy of the luxury tax threshold and trying their best to remake the offense. But isn’t that just too risky next year? You’re depending on Avaldi and Deg Grom. A Valdi’s averaging like two and a half injuries per year over the last four years. Guy can’t stay healthy. Yeah, we had a great World Series run. Let’s make the most out of the future now by doing the right thing and blowing this team up. I think there’s so much that Evo brings uh off the diamond that is important here uh to your development with some of the younger guys that we’ve seen take some strides. I mean like Evo still had at least 22 starts each of the last five years. So I think you do need to be prepped that he’s going to miss some time to your point. I mean he had 29 games in 2024 the year they won the World Series 25. So if you can get 25 starts from EVO I’d feel really good about it. But yeah, I do think you need to blow everything up in terms of the lineup. I just don’t know. The pitching I think can still I mean you got a guy that was competing for a a Sai Young award. He was, you know, so it’s like it’s really that’s what I like. It’s really tough. But it Yes. I I I think that just expectations like I do think you’re going to have probably two stints on the IIL for Aldi and you’re going to have to look at maybe much like we talked about with the Grom like do you have to skip starts here and there? Those are two guys that are older and you’re gonna have to monitor them throughout the season. Well, it hurts my Rangers heart to to have to say this, but uh Chia follow brought us. Can a recruit either you get a team blow it up? You know, I don’t like I don’t like trusting injured guys. No, for sure. For sure. And I’m and I’m with you on that. And I think there could be I I I wonder if if waiting till the trade deadline, you know, could uh could give you a clear picture on exactly what this team is. I still I still want to see what they can try and maneuver here in the off season and go in with some excitement and then if things are looking bleak then then you can start to punt on maybe some of those veterans. I like it. I kind of feel like though as long as you have the middle of your infield those veteran guys I think you have to continue to try and give it a go. I think I’m going to need one more. I I Jack Lighter at 10 and 10 gave me encouragement. is can you get Mi or can you get Kelly done? You know, I I I’m gonna need the pitchers and Bradford to finally stay healthy. Yeah, this guy has done a really good job of kind of putting together bullpin pieces. I’m going to give it one more run at it. I’m going to give it one more run. I’m I’m thinking that maybe maybe that maybe we’ve talked so much about and I’m going to try and make a little comparison here. We’ve talked so much about with Shotti being on staff and kind of seeing all the fups that maybe that that uh that Skip Shoeer. Yeah. Well, I’m talking about I’m talking about McCarthy made that he’s like, “Okay, we can’t do this. We can’t do this.” I mean, maybe the same thing could be said with Skip that some of the things that he saw from afar taking notes is like, “Okay, I wouldn’t do this. I wouldn’t do this.” Maybe he has a a plan of how he wants to attack the hitting the the some of the the managerial decisions, maybe some of the uses of the pitchers, maybe some development with young players. I’m willing to give him I want him to get off to a good start, much like I want Shotti to get off to a good start so they could kind of build things in the future. I think if you blew it up right now, you’re probably doing your manager a disservice. I like what you did there, Brian. Everything Chief did, too. CY is the pitching side of things, you know, like CY’s put together the best pitching that the Rangers have ever had. I think the one thing that he deserves criticism for is how he’s putting together this lineup. And when you look at some of the free agent moves that he’s made with Jock Peterson, Burger, like those guys didn’t live up to expectations. So, I really trust what CY is doing with the pitching and if he believes in Evo and Deg Grom and these guys and I also think the leadership side of things like the pitching has it and why it’s because of those two. the lineup doesn’t. And that was very noticeable in the clubhouse. So, uh, maybe he needs to evaluate. Maybe Skip can do a good job with this. Like, how do they reconstruct the lineup? But the pitching for the first time in Rangers history, like I’m feeling pretty darn confident in it. All right. Uh, stay tuned. Of course, the hot stove will be warming up here in about a month or so. 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The go-to car and truck wreck attorneys in Dallas. That’s Franklin into the pimp cup. Here’s Lucious. Oh yeah. I think this is like day three for this champion audio I believe. Day three. Yep. AI brought us. All right. Watching the Cowboys game when AI brought us. Take it away. Left to right at the Dallas 42. Fields is in the gun. Gives it to Hall and he’s got a seam at right guard. He breaks away from a tackle running 30 25 21 yd line. This team’s never going to stop anybody. I told these to keep Zimber. Pressure blowing right up the middle. Sam Williams with his speed with his first sack of the year in the Cowboys fourth of the day. Didn’t Bobby say they wouldn’t be able to rush the passer? This is why I fired his fat ass from Love of the Star. Here’s a deep pass down the right side. Paul Foy at the 25. A great move inside the defender and down to the 15. Let me text the gang of seven about this Floroi guy. You like this guy, right, Zack? Yeah. That’s why you’re my draft show protege and we had to gatekeep Chia follow. All right, here’s Fields throwing deep. Oh, into the right side. Wilson clouded at the 48. Is Bade Mute over there? Is this a preseason game? Do I need to step in and do color for him? Going deep. There’s a shot for Pickkins. He got pushed. He caught the ball. Zack, do you remember which of my 72 podcasts I talked about taking a shot to Pickkins this week? Payton, I’m going to run downstairs real quick and see if the homeless guy outside the McDonald’s wants some G-bag gear. throws it deep to the middle of Lenoid on a deep crosser. 45 broke a tackle right sideline 20 yd line. He told me I had to be higher than Mark Sanchez in the cab of an oil disposal truck to think he’d be seen in that. [Music] Brilliance from Bobby Belt. He is brilliant. Incredible. AI brought us. How are you doing so far this season? And not not letting him get under your skin. Oh, no. I called him up and thanked him for that. That was awesome. That was that was cool. No, the Cowboys get under his skin. No, not yet. Uh no, I I made that proclamation like week one and No. And then they and then they turn around, they played really really well against Philadelphia, a chance to win. Yeah. And then the Green Bay game made me even more mad, you know, like another team, you know. Yeah. So it hasn’t worked out very well for me. Thanks. No, I appreciate it, man. It’s it’s great stuff as a content gold mine. And it’s time now for Wool Chuck’s top 10 of 220. All righty. Top 10 Girl Scout cookies. 877881 1053. Big weekend ahead. Uh, and I do love Girl Scout cookies. But I do want to remind everybody Saturday, come on out. Brian Bratis, you got a chance at some Marty Rob Bryan here. Maybe maybe you can convince him as it’s our Texas OU watch party. Lucious is going to be out there. I’ll be out there. Brian, uh, the fighting Jake Reapmma’s big game for the fighting Reapmas, the Detroit Tigers in the Seattle Mariners as, uh, man, that that was tough for them. That was, uh, that was tough for the Tigers. We got Phillies Dodgers later on today. Uh Brewers Cubs will be tonight. The Yankees, bye-bye. They’re going home. Always fun when the Yankees lose. But Saturday 2 to 6, we’re going to be at the Highland Hotel just off 75 here, just up the road from our studios where we are right now. The Highland Hotel from 2 to 6. Fantastic pool party. Big time flagtober spot. We should have flags as well tomorrow. Cold beers and cheeseburgers. And you got a flag uh flag giveaway deal on Saturday, too. You’re going to be at Herertado. Yeah, we’re going to be all over the place here. Uh, Herertado Mansfield 10 to 10:30 and then Herertado Fort Worth 11:30 to noon. Sweet on Saturday. So, come get your barbecue. And then, of course, the Highland Hotel 2 to 6. So, yesterday, uh, they’re going to let us smoke cigars in that pool party thing. Oh, they will. Yeah, definitely. Think so? Absolutely. It’s an outdoor event. I think you’ll be good. All right. Yeah. Bring some stogies. Lucious. I’ll bring the sticks. Yeah. I’m scared, man. Every time I pull out a cigar, somebody taps me on the shoulder. That’s Yeah. So, I was kind of wondering the same thing. Yeah, I was thinking we’re at a championship fight, a prize fight. You can’t smoke cigars. Can’t do it. You got You’re channeling your inner Bert Sugarman, right? And you were like just chomping on a cigar during a fight, right? Absolutely. Yeah. What’s the guy used to smoke cigars after his team won? The Boston dude. Come on, fam. Well, I mean, that amazing picture of Joe Burrow after they win the natty. Hell yeah. I mean, that’s legendary. Like in the locker room, they fire up some stogies. The less amazing M. Jones recreation with his body that was worse than Tom Brady’s for combine. He’s just such a goofy goober. That Mac Jones, but he’s going to get another He put a shirt on, bro. Keeps winning. Put away those pepperonis. All right. Nobody wants to see those. Those are salamis, dog. Didn’t get an update on the Pro Bowl today. This was Pro. So, what they’re doing is Yeah, we’re not going to have a special weekend for the Pro Bowl anymore. They’re they’re going to just kind of shove it into the rest of the buildup for the Super Bowl. So they’re planning to move the annual Pro Bowl game to the Super Bowl market each year where the Allstar exhibition would become part of the everexpanding Super Bowl week festivities. So they’ll just have like a flag football deal or maybe they’re, you know, the the games where they’re all racing each other and doing, you know, course obstacle courses and crap from each conference. How many punts can you catch? And they’ll just have that on like a Wednesday or Thursday. Do we ever try tugof-war and stuff like that with a Super Bowl thing? Do we ever do that? I think I think at the beach events back in the day when what’s his name to his ACL in that game? Oh, that was Robert. There was a tugof-war that day. Maybe they got rid of it because of that. That would make some sense. Maybe maybe more active players on radio row. Yeah, that would be good. Novel concept. We get some Pro Bowl players walking around. I’m sure Jake Ferguson, he’ll be playing in the game. Less wheelchair dudes. It’s a CTE parade. Oh my god. It is. People you don’t know, people you haven’t heard of. Yeah, that is sad. It is sad, but you’re not wrong. You’re not wrong about that. That’s sad. That’s very sad. Sad. Very sad. Sad, man. I’m so sorry. Uh, shout out to the Stars. Big game tonight. All right, let’s get to our top 10 top. Wait a minute. Now, wait a minute. We’ll be out there in California and someone will roll up and the first thing I’m going to think of is Dawson saying that on this day. Yeah. Yeah. Put them on the back of a pickup truck. Throw some candy to you. Old yeller. Huh? It’s unfortunate. 214. Uh, Eric and Woolchuck. It’s Coach Spiffy Riffy. Love you, coach. Best in top one is the tag alongs. The tag alongs. Okay. I was going to vote for the 28% indica dominant hybrid. Ah, 6040. 6040. 6040. Absolutely. What the hell are those? Only Girl Scout cookies I know. Wow. I think that’s another thing you can usually only get in California or Colorado. Vegas, too. Oh, I see what we’re doing. Rare cookie that you want to burn. Definitely get it in Vegas. Uh 3.5 for like 25 bucks. Those are delicious. Those will have you feeling nicy, won’t they? There. Yeah, very nicy. Oh, it says euphoric on the bottom. It says euphoric. Uh 214. They’re out on the coconuts, which I believe is the Samoas. 956 is the fudge one. Uh the hole in the middle. I’m out on the coconuts, too. It’s the It’s the grainy texture of the coconut. not into it. Okay. I don’t mind I don’t mind a coconut. Mr. I don’t need a rubbery egg. It’s the same thing. You can mix coconut in. Well, you don’t like your eggs. I’m out on the coconut taste. Okay. I’ll add coconut mix into into a cookie. Yeah, I know. It’s just a little bit if it’s got the if it’s just like the coconut flavor. Go after them. Or like coconut uh like coconut milk like in a curry or something. I’m fine with the taste of coconut. It’s just it’s the like an Almond Joy. I’m not going to have it. I’m with you on that. The gritty grainy coconut shavings. Better than an egg on a hamburger. Gooey delicious. Yeah, I got to get Yeah, you got to do that. Yeah, let’s go. Let’s just put the damn egg in the meat and make meatloaf. How about that? That’ be better. Juicy Lucy egg style. Oh god, that’d be awful. Would it be for yourself? Would it be? You bite into there and tell me cheese. It’s like a runny yolk. I went to HB. Got these special wieners. Let’s go. Hey, I did not. He got special wieners. He did. He said he got special wieners. I go, “Hey, are those the wieners you got earlier?” He goes, “No, no, these are other wieners.” So my man just goes around looking for wieners at the HB. Whicher shops are you going to HB? He did. He He like was giving me this scouting report. I like I I pulled a he went, “Oh, okay.” kind of walked away. The H section and it is absolutely fantastic. I I I I stumbled upon the chef’s blend right on the opposite side, but now they have I I I was missing just a whole arrangement by himself. incredible sausage opportunities. Yeah. He told us he’s got to starve himself for a day cuz it saves $80 on the family budget. You’re consuming $80 worth of food every day. That’s No, no, no, no. Not per day. Just over the course of a month if you don’t eat 20 basically. Yeah. Like 20 bucks a day. That’s fair. It is just ridiculous. Times are tough, man. The cost of just get I mean you go to a breakfast now, the breakfast the breakfast the breakfast for two people it’s like $50. What the hell has happened to us? You should never You should never like be mad about paying for good food. You should never mad at it. If you’re if you’re paying 50 bucks and it’s bad food, be mad. Don’t be mad for good food. No, I enjoy the place we go to, but it doesn’t matter how much it costs. I mean, like 20 years ago, breakfast was $6. Like, you’d go there, you Oh, bacon, eggs at the Waffle House, man. You could you you like you walk out of there, you tip the lady a hundred bucks. Makes you feel bad. Let’s see what the Waffle House menu is. Big spender over here. It’s eight bucks. 15 bucks a person. Yeah. You literally like you feel bad because you’ve eaten so much food. It’s like and then like, “Oh, wait. I had more, ma’am. I had all this extra.” And it’s like, “No, that’s your bill.” I’m like, “Okay.” There’s an extra 30 bucks because, you know, I felt like I got more for my And they have the smoking section. There is the smoking. It’s just a one-stop shop for us to smoking. We’ve seen a lot of We’ve seen a lot of champions walk into that thing. Totally. We’ve seen champions car races. Yeah. We’ve seen champions walk in the water a lot. Number 10 is the TFOs on the alltime best Girl Scout cookies list. That’s one of the OG Girl Scout cookies. TFOs. The Tfoils. Is that truffle oil? It’s spelled T R E F O I Ls. I think these are I think these are they’re like shortbread cookies. Oh yeah, those are pretty good. Just traditional. Yeah, those are just that’s you know it’s not as good as the Lorna Dune, but as far as shortbread goes, it’s pretty good. See, that’s where you want like one of the snack well kind of vibes where you get the Yeah, you get the icing in there. Yeah. The I think snack Wells are snack well still getting it done cuz those those used to be completely undefeated, dude. Those the vanilla sugar-free cookies. Is that what they were? They were kind of like I guess that makes sense cuz my mom always had them and she thought she was like still getting my cookies. Okay, that makes sense. But man, I fooled me. Snackwell was dominant and they had some really good ones. chocolate soft kind of. I think it’s really over there. That’s it. I think you get fooled a lot. Well, I mean the text is saying this Waffle House is not cheap anymore. 20 bucks by myself. Like the cheapest for a person is like 15 bucks. I I went there the other day. Like I was in South Carolina. I had like a hamburger, the the hash browns, the hamburger. Yeah. Cheeseburger. The Waffle House. Cheeseburger. Cheeseburger. Not the Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not Like Not like the breakfast sandwich. No hamburger. No. Yeah. Get the head, man. They cook that burger with all the other grease stuff on the flat. They do on that flat. They do. You get a lot of flavor. The workers eat the burgers. There you go. Delicious. Now you know what you’re talking about. 469 digging the star sweater and the East Dallas diesel hat. And then Sean McVey over here, aka Eric. That new haircut taking 10 years off your life. It looks like that’s what somebody’s saying. That’s 69. I appreciate it. Shout out to all the 12os and the YouTubers. Drove over in a convertible. Appreciate you guys. All right, I want you that East Dallas Diesel. Thank you, Lucious. I appreciate that. Hey, by the way, vanilla cream sandwich cookies snacks. Vanilla cream sandwich cookies. Okay. 40% less fat. Hello. H free from high fructose corn syrup. Partially those look good. Hy hydrated oil. Fructose corn syrup. All right. Peanut free as well. What are you doing? What are you doing? Number nine. I’m just talking about gold. I guess they got discontinued. Sorry. Back to the mold chuck on the Girl Scout cookie list lemonades. It’s their lemon cookies. I don’t even know if I’ve had those, but I love lemon trees. They apparently got two different kinds of lemon sugar is number eight. I didn’t even know about the sugar. Number eight is their lemonups. Never seen them up. Put those together. I do think we have Seven Up cookies. No. Yeah, it tastes like Seven Up. That could be good. You guys ever had Seven Up? That’s an old school drink. Heads up. It’s like a Sprite. It’s like a Sprite drink. Yeah. With Serum 7, too. Oh, it’s awesome. Seven and seven, baby. Isn’t Isn’t Dr. Pepper Seven Up? Like they’re the same company. Oo, I’ll have to take your word for that. I think so. I think we are. I think I think you’re on. Heads up. Seven Up, though, as a as like a classroom game. Loved it. Greatest. Yeah. Was so much fun. Just trying to slightly slightly touch that. Who was it? Who was think Jerry played with his middle finger up? Oh, yeah. Of course he did. Gets him confused. Let me find this [ __ ] Toffeeastics number seven. That sounds disgusting. Toffee is excellent. Is it? Okay. Well, I’m not going to knock it till I try it. Six is the uh caramel chocolate chips. I haven’t tried those. They do look amazing. They look good. Yeah. Five is adventureful, which I’ve not tried, but they also look really good. Hint of sea salt helps elevate the caramel cream in the middle. It’s a brownie inspired cookie. So, it’s like a brownie cookie with inside and some sea salt. That sounds good. I got to pay better attention. And I I I go up to these tables and for the longest time I didn’t want anything but the Thin Mints. Yeah. Which, you know, tried and true. Yeah. So, I’m like, “How many boxes of Thin Mints do you have? I’ll take them.” You know, I need to I need to I think I need to be on the lookout for the the Adventure Foss and the caramel chocolate chip here. What if you ask them for like all these things we’re talking about and they don’t have them? Then we’re flying out. You just kind of I’m not that interested in in their other offerings. Do you do I throw them at $10? Do you ever turn down the Girl Scout girl like at the Kroger whatever? You never That’s That’s a guarantee for you. See you on the way out. If she’s in the uniform there and making the effort. Yes. It’s when you bring around the list and say, “Hey, my daughters are selling cookies. I ain’t buying a damn box from you.” Peak show to me. I see on my way out and I walk out the other entrance. Yes. I had to do the same thing. I had the flip side. I was like, I got to avoid this or else I cave. Sir. Sir. No. You start running. Get away from me, kid. Pick up the phone like you’re on a a phone call. like anything to just avoid this conversation right now. Uh Dosey Doe’s at number four. Dosey Do Thinman’s at three. That’s This should be fun. Criminal number one. Thinman’s at three. The Samoa is at two, which is the coconuts. And then that There you go. America has spoken for those. And I like them because there’s always a big box for me if somebody buys some Girl Scout cookies. No, cuz nobody eats the Simoans. Okay. See, so you can eat as many as you want. Nobody cares. Do you guys Do you guys use these cookies with like ice cream and stuff? Like put them together like put them in ice cream as like extra little treats. Oh, will you like like kind of mash it into it? Yeah. Like make like make you can make uh like ice cream sandwiches out of the cookies. Smart deal. I always just go I just milk that thing, you know? Thank you, Lucious. That’s beautiful. Yeah. I mean, I always just pair it with milk, but I think the ice cream bit’s a better one. Just to get a bowl of ice cream and put some of these cookies in with it. Crunch them up. Man, it changes your life. You can milk anything with nipples, Greg. Number one though is the tag alongs. That’s your peanut butter patties. Like chocolate filled with the peanut butter with the peanut butter in the middle. That is delicious. I mean that is America loves peanut butter. We sure do. Uh number one for me, the Thin Vince patty wings, but there is your top 10 list with uh a little bit of a winding road of other conversations and topics. Yeah, Zach and Frisco is alleging that 7Up is a Pepsi brand. Uh Dr. Pepper is its own company. SevenUp is kale. Okay. All righty. Thank you, Walchuck. Top 10 at 220 is in the books. We got Danny Canel coming up at 3:00. We’ll be talking college football, Chief. Yeah. 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Happy Thursday to you. I do want to just circle back. Obviously, we had the Oreo McFlurry funneling situation with the Gamecock fan. We remember that from last night, right? Sure. We all thought a lot about that when we were driving home last night. Might have tried it out. Just wondering what a brain freeze situation would do there in the chunks. Yeah, the Oreo chunks, bro. Mhm. Yeah, the those You’re going to rip something. That’s a great point. That’s going to hurt, man. Ripping in the tearing esophagus in the tearing. Yeah, that that could be painful. But would you still get a brain freeze if you’re pouring a bunch of freezing cold stuff through the exit or would that go spinal on you? I think go straight to the balls. Yeah, I think the brain freeze is directly because on the roof of your mouth, it’s like a portal to your your brain, you know, it’s too close. So, so it’s actual cold. So, that’s probably the plus side of of doing the butt funnel of the Oreo McFlurry is that you don’t get the brain freeze, but I do think it could go spinal on you. I really get a colon freeze. Okay. Oh, no. Uh, college football big weekend. Shout out to selling out Daku for the first time in a long time in ever time. But, uh, this is probably the first of many, right? Well, Chuck, tomorrow night’s going to be electric and hopefully continues to rise and rise and rise to number one. Number one. Now, we This isn’t NIT basketball. Uh, this guy. No, this is this is college football. You know, Cheerios today, bro. Yeah, man. Gosh. Negative Nancy. Actually, that was me. I crapped in his Cheerios. I’m sorry about that. That’s not nice. So we have it’s just a prank like Shaq. Everybody laugh. I mean, come on, dude. Crabing your French Cheerios from trying to hell. Some good team building. Just bonding. Just camaraderie. That’s all that is. Uh, Texas football coach Steve Sarkeesian said it it has not been business as usual at practice this week. You want to know why? He said you could feel the intensity in practice. Those guys are ready to get their asses kicked. Can you Can you not? Uh, good news though for Texas. Malik Muhammad missed last weekend’s game versus Florida. A little banged up. Trending towards being available versus OU this weekend. So, I just uh I am curious how this thing is all going to shake out. The OU defense is the real deal. I mean, they are. And especially with the way they’ve they’ve kept teams just out of the end zone. I mean, they’ve allowed three touchdowns all season. Yeah, they played. Okay, I get it. But they’ve still I mean, I get what Auburn, you just zero respect. No, Michigan has gotten much better since they played them. I think Michigan’s going to tear up USC as well with some volleyball. I hope they do. Physicality. Uh, but even in the red zone, opponents two for seven finding the end zone against the OU defense. their defensive line has been extraordinary and it’s probably going to be uh the difference in the game on Saturday. So, uh the the gigum the Aggies message boards have been pretty on point over the years. I know Carter could rattle off a handful of just like nailing a couple of rumors. And one of them right now is that this could be a tough off season for the Horns, especially with allegedly the Manning family looking for a new spot for Arch. All right, the Mannings are allegedly not happy with the play calling or protection for Arch. And the Mannings want Arch playing for Lane Keifin or Josh Hypel, but Arch really likes living in Austin. That’s what the message boards are reading right now. All right. Now, I would love to see Lane Keifin and Arch Manning just pair up in the swamp together. That’s part of that rumor I was talking about two days ago that 40 was writing about with Lane Keifin going to UT and Sarkc leaving. Come on now. Manny’s are that influential, aren’t they? Oh, very much so. Yeah. But they I mean, Sark’s the reason they’re at Texas. They’ve been big SARC fans. So that would be a massive pivot if all of a sudden they decided we’re going to It just doesn’t seem like them to be making about anything other than trusting the process and being patient and playing hard and being accountable. Yeah, I can check with my Texas peeps. Do we have a potential look ahead situation for the Red Raiders this weekend or are we just totally crotch verse confident they’re going to cover? I’m pretty confident in the Red Raiders this weekend. I mean, look, you you never know when it comes to conference football, but I I and I know Fred’s very excited about Kansas and their opportunities. It is a 14 and a half point spread currently. Could maybe KU cover that and lose by 10 instead of 14 plus? Sure. But I am confident the Red Raiders get the job done. Yeah, I am as well. But they do have that ASU game around the corner, right? Yeah. But they’re at home. I mean, that place should be rocking. It should be absolutely rocking. And and Texas Tech, I just I I love watching them play night game. It’s going to get it’s going to get lit. Tell you, Alabama, upset alert. Yeah. Missou, that quarterback’s the real deal there. Pribula, right? Dual threat. Like Penn State for Aller. Yes. Uh but yeah, he is. I mean, he’s starting to get a lot of NFL buzz around him. Like possibly first round player. Bama favored by like three and a half. I don’t know. I think I would take Missou to cover that. They might end up winning the football game. Now, Missou hasn’t really played anybody, but they’ve put together some nice performances and they’re they have maybe the best pass rush duo in the SEC with Damon Wilson and Zion Young. Those guys are savages. And Alabama at this point feels pretty one-dimensional with the way they throw the football. So, uh, that’s going to be another really fun game. You have Indiana and Oregon as well. Indiana having to go to Oregon. That’s at the same time as Texas. Yeah. Both at 2:30. That’s on CBS. Seven versus three. I I mean, seven and a half points is what Oregon’s favored by. I expect the Ducks to win. But this is the biggest test for Mendoza in Indiana without a doubt. This is going to be a blast of a game. And then I mentioned this guy the other day, but Miami has a freshman receiver named Malachi Tony. He’s kind of undersized, but he’s electric. He’s been absolutely awesome for the Miami Hurricanes offense. And Mario Crystalall was asked about him, Miami’s head coach, apparently. So, he was a three-star recruit coming out because he ended up having to fill in at quarterback his senior year just last year. His team was sitting 4-2. Like, maybe they make the playoffs, maybe they don’t, but he takes over at quarterback and they go undefeated the rest of the way and they win the state championship game. And he was a perfect like 15 for 15 in the game, ran all over the place, and now he’s playing receiver. His nickname in high school was Baby Jesus. And through uh just a few games of his short career right now, he’s looking the part, man. kind of walking on water, huh? You’re a small guy, right? That’s what they say you better do. He’s incredible at her. So, watch this guy, Malachi Tony, for the Miami Hurricanes. Next time they play, which I think is maybe next to Louisville. Uh, no, no, this dude is actually like apparently a total pro. Right on. Thank you, Chief. Little dardy in the books there for you. Danny Canel joins us next. We’ll continue our college football discussion and preview of the weekend with Danny from Bet Online coming up next here. 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Check out betonline.ag for updated college football playoff Heisman and college football week seven lines. And a good afternoon, Danny. How the heck are you? I am fantastic. Hope you guys are doing great out there in Dallas. Ready for a big showdown out there. Nice rivalry game. But the first uh five, six weeks of college football have been awesome, man. They’ve been a ton of fun. I think we’re in for some uh fireworks on the back end of the season, too. Yeah, it is. It’s it’s been it’s been an amazing buildup, an amazing season already. It’s it’s fun to watch this line move from the Longhorns favored by three to now a one-point underdog guy. Is this the John Matier availability swinging it or or how do you see this matchup? Boy, if it is, I think it’s a lot of speculation, like reckless speculation, which is not unusual, right? when you have an injury to a quarterback that is that important to the team and when they’re, you know, interviewing Chipotle pressers and they’re trying to get the inside scoop on whether Matier is going to play, it sort of speaks to this theory around this coverage. But I do think it that’s that to me would almost indicate that Mat is going to play, even though that’s what not what I think. I mean, I I think if he does play, I’m very curious to see how his grip is on the football, that throwing hand where he’s had this thumb surgery. How does it affect ball security? I will still be surprised if he does play, but I also think it’s probably a little bit of people selling on Texas from what we saw at the swamp and them getting beat by a Florida Gator team that’s very average and a defense which was supposed to be really good didn’t look as good uh there at Gainesville. So, it’s probably all of this is sort of the perfect storm for a lot of people to come back the Sooners. Yeah, Danny, uh I mean Texas, their line of scrimmage just got bullied against Florida. How surprised were you? I mean, obviously we talk about Arch and as a former quarterback, I’d love to hear your thoughts where Arch is and his development right now, but maybe we overrated Texas and the team around him. Yeah, I think so, too. I think there’s I mean I think we overrate everything, right? I mean, it kind of happens in our society and we get out ahead of ourselves, but I did think the defense, which had been really good and was really good against Ohio State. I mean, Ohio State has still that offense has been humming. They’ve been, you know, got a quarterback who’s completing 80% of his passes at Ohio State and Texas looked, their defense looked great against them. I think it was one of those games where they just sort of had a let down game, got caught a little bit, you know, by surprise. And I think Florida’s offensive line was probably the thing was most surprising. The able that the way they were able to get some movement up front, but I do think Florida was one of those disappointing teams where if they were coming off a buy, they were kind of, you know, had some excitement, some motivation. It was at the swamp, the home team. They just feel like they had the game of their year so far and Texas had a letown game. It’s sort of that perfect storm. And I do think Arts, I will say this about Arts because I I’ve been one that was not all into the hype. I think he’s still going to be good. I thought it was just going to be a roller roller coaster ride this season. I think there were going to be pretty massive ups and pretty massive lows and I think you’ve seen that so far. But I do think he’s getting more comfortable in the system. I do think Sarkc is scheming up guys where you’re seeing have more opportunities and I would actually expect Arts to play pretty good in this game. He’s now that he’s played multiple times in environments like at the horseshoe in Columbus, at the swamp, he’s getting more comfortable. He’s just got to kind of settle down and I think his process is kind of on par with what I thought it would be where it’ll take some time for him. He’s going to have to make mistakes on the field because that’s the only way you can learn is by going out there and making those mistakes and then correcting them. He’s making pretty good decision with the football. I know there’s interceptions in there, but that’s sort of normal. That’s par for the course. So, I think he’s gonna be fine. I actually think this might be a week where Arch could step up and really start to silence some of the critics that are way too over the top, calling him a bust or a flop. I get it. He hasn’t reached the expectations, but those expectations were impossible for almost anybody to meet. Danny Canel, CBS College Football with us here on the fan. uh Missou and Alabama this weekend. How do you see this one shaking out? Could Alabama get really tested here? I see. Here’s the thing. I’m I’m a little bit shell shocked from last year with Missouri because last year Missou started the season off 4-0 and everybody was raving about them and I thought they were a little bit overrated. Now they then they went on the road to Texas A&M last year and they got smoked 41 to7. Now there is a massive difference this year. They are playing at home in this game. It is in Como, but I’m a believer in Bama. I think Bama is a really good football team. I think they’re the best team in the SEC. Since that loss to Florida State, it’s almost galvanized that locker room where they’re all coming together and their defense. They’ve gotten guys back like Tim Keenan on the defensive side of the ball. Jam Miller’s been healthy. They’ve been running the football a little bit better. Uh, and I Tai Simpson is playing probably as good as anybody in the country and he’s stretching the field vertically. So, I think Alabama’s going to score on Missouri. Missouri’s defense. The one question mark I have is Ahmad Hardy, the running back for Missouri, is the best running back in the in the country, arguably. He’s leading the SEC. He’s up there. That’s the one thing I do concerns me a little bit. If Missouri can score on Alabama, this could be a little bit of a higher scoring game. But still, I would trust Tai Simpson more than I trust Bo Priva, the transfer quarterback, who has a lot of people from Penn State wishing he hadn’t left. But I do like Bama in that one. I like I like Bama laying the three points there. Okay, so you got Bama best in the SEC. Where do you have the Aggies at, Danny? I’d have them right below them. You know, their win against Notre Dame was really impressive. I know it was a high-scoring game and they won by one point, but I think they’re just a tier below. And it’s probably just from a lot of it’s probably, you know, a little bit of brand bias. Alabama’s been better historically. We’ve seen collapses before for&m, but I tell you, finding those receiver, you know, transfer uh portal receivers uh in Craver and Conception on the outside, getting depth now in the back field now that you know, Le’Veon Moss, we knew what he could do, then have Owens all of a sudden come up, show what he can showcase, and Marcel Reed finally really getting settled in Colin Klein system. I would put Texas A&M right there, just below them. They absolutely are in the conversation, but I think this is one of those big tests for them where they’re supposed to win a game against Florida. I’d like to see them put the hammer down. And by the way, I didn’t even mention the job that Mike Elco has done with the defense that now that he’s taken over play calling much more um you know, discipline, which they’ve kind of struggled with some of the penalties, but I do think this Aggie team is right there in the conversation for one of the best in the SEC. Danny, why do I feel like that Indiana is going to go to uh Oregon and get slapped around? I think it’s because of what you saw last year, right? They were at, you know, top team last year, top 25 team. They were sort of the surprise and then when they played in Columbus against Ohio State, they got outclassed. When they went to Southbend in Indiana, they got outclassed uh in the playoffs. So, I think that’s because it’s it’s human nature. But I think even Kirketti, I just talked to him about an hour ago. He was telling me he thinks this team is better. He said, than they had last year. I think they definitely got an upgraded quarterback. and Fernando Mendoza. But the big question mark is how do they handle the physicality up front of Oregon’s offensive and defensive lines? That’s usually the last step you have to take because skilled positions, you can find them. Those big 300lb bodies aren’t they’re not sitting on every street corner and out, you know, a lot of the top programs in the country, Ohio State, Oregon, Miami, they scoop all of them up. So that’s really the big question mark for me. But Indiana’s QB is special. Fernando Mendoza. I know a lot of people have him as a top pick in the NFL draft potentially. He does have the type of arm talent and the escapability that could really make this thing interesting. But I’m with you. I actually think Oregon is in the conversation for best team in the country. I kind of do feel that Oregon kind of puts the hammer down on them. It’s in Eugene. Austin’s going to be rocking. But I would not be shocked. Like I would be surprised. I wouldn’t be shocked though if Indiana is sitting there at the end and they could have this game in the fourth quarter and then kind of anything can happen. Danny Canel, college football with us here on 1053 the fan. What do you think of my alma mater, the North Texas mean green? I didn’t think I’d ever be asking you about their playoff chances. Danny, but we got the biggest game in school history tomorrow night. South Florida coming to Denton. What do you think about us? Oh, I I tell you, your QB, Drew Mesa Maker, he has been outstanding. A freshman there, I worry a little bit about you guys being able to keep him because usually when you have a group of five quarterback playing as well as he is, all of a sudden those bigger schools come calling with, you know, some pretty hefty offers. So, it’s kind of a a good and a bad, right? He’s been outstanding. So, here’s I feel a little bit similarly to some of the other teams I’ve talked about. It doesn’t mean I don’t think they can get it done, but South Florida is a little bit more battle tested, right? South Florida. They beat Boise State pretty handily in their opener this season. They did go into the swamp, so they used and they got a win against the Florida Gator. They played at Miami where they got outclassed. But I think much like the point spread dictates, I think this is going to be a fun game that comes down to the wire. And I think very clearly the team that wins this one is going to be in the group uh in the driver’s seat for the Group of Five playoff team. Boise State is done with two losses. They’re out of it. I do think the American champion is probably going to be the team that goes there, but it is an outstanding job they’ve done there in Dent with North Texas. I mean, they look really, really good. Like a good football team. This will be a really fun matchup. It’s Danny Canel with you. Brought to you by Bet Online Tech, the clear favorite to win the Big 12 from this point forward. How established are they? Do you do you think they’re the favorite in the conference for the foreseeable future with everything they got going on out there with the NIL money and and uh you know where do you see them in the in the big national picture? So they’re clearly I think they’re the best team in the Big 12. What they did against Utah a few weeks ago was so impressive where they dominated from start to finish and they’ve really handled almost every opponent that they faced so far. And even when their quarterback goes down like you did at Utah, Baron Morton’s out, doesn’t matter. next man up. Their offense doesn’t meet a beat, miss a beat. But we already know Baron Morton and the offense could put up points. The biggest difference is on the defensive side of the ball and that’s where a lot of the money was spent when they go in and get a guy like David Bailey from Stanford on the defensive line. A Romelo Height from Georgia Tech on the defensive line. That’s been the biggest upgrade. And kind of like I was talking about before with some of the bigger bodies that are out there from the top tier teams in the country. That’s where Texas Tech has spent and spent the money well. So, they’ve got some of the bigger guys in the Big 12. I think they will be the team from the Big 12 that ends up the last team on top. I do wonder how they’ll do against the very best, but I absolutely think they can win a playoff game or two and shake some things up because Joey Maguire has done a phenomenal job getting all those transfer portal piece pieces coming together on one page and playing outstanding football. They are absolutely the real deal. And I had my doubts because it’s hard to just buy a roster, but they have absolutely delivered on what they purchased. What do what do you know about this Bellich check fiasco, Danny? I mean, you think this could be could this be over in a matter of weeks? I I it is it has been I can’t even I can’t even recall a bigger disaster hire that we’ve seen. I mean, NFL, I think when Urban Meyer went to Jacksonville to take on the Jags job, I thought that was a disaster unlike anything we’d seen. the college level. I think this is kind of similar and I do think it’s for a reason on both of those because I think coaching college kids and coaching NFL players is an entirely different ballgame and I think that’s why Urban struggled in the in the NFL and I think that’s why Bellich is struggling with college kids. I mean, he’s got more of a transactional relationship treating kids like pro. He’s not really a motivator, not really a team a team builder. He’s a great teacher and he’s a great X and O guys, but in college you really do need to motivate your players. I mean, go look at the best coaches in our game. Guys like Dan Lanning and Kirby Smart, um Steve Sharesian, you name them. All all the coaches that we talk about, they’re great motivators and they they always talk about getting the team to come together. And I just think Bichc thought he could come and his genius mind would work because, you know, he’s a great mind and he would be able to expose exploit some of those weaknesses. It hasn’t because the team doesn’t look like they they’re playing for him. And it doesn’t look like he’s even trying to appeal to that aspect of the game. It has been even a bigger disaster than I thought. I thought it could be boom or bust, but it has been beyond bust where I think it is. And I would have laughed. You would have said the beginning of the season, do you think he’s not going to survive? Said, no way. Of course, he’s going to survive, but I think it’s very real. A lot of the rumors where there’s smoke, there’s fire, the more information that comes out, it feels like people are turning on Bellich, even some people that were his biggest backers. I would not be shock I would not be surprised if November, they play Stanford at home, November 8th. Stanford’s not a very good team. If they lose that game, I think that might be a date to circle. Then they have Duke at home, and Duke’s a really good football team. I think Duke could blow them out. I I don’t know if there’s a firing though. I think it might just be one of those ones where even Bill Bich looks around, surveys the landscape, says, “You know what? I don’t want to tarnish my legacy any more than I already have. Let me just let me just take as much as as much as possible a graceful ex exit as I can and just rip the band-aid and go look somewhere else.” I think that’s probably the direction we’re headed. Danny, are the kids at Penn State trying to get James Franklin fired? They might be. I I’m preaching patience to Penn State fans. I know it’s harsh and I know that losing to UCLA who was one of the worst teams at the power four level feels like the worst loss in history as a 24 and a half point favorite losing on the road there was embarrassing but it sort of was the perfect storm right they had just had a heartbreaking overtime loss into a game they had circled against the Oregon Ducks then they have to travel across the country to a team that just fired their coach and they were sort of rallying around a new coaching staff and a young offensive coordinator who kind has a fresh set of eyes and a fresh mindset in there and then all of a sudden the game started snowballing against them and you know Penn State all of a sudden they look up the scoreboard and it’s 14- nothing and you know UCLA gets an onside kick. It was sort of the perfect storm. I still think Penn State could rebound. Now I have my doubts about just how good they could be like at the end of the season. I thought coming in they would be a national championship contender. Clearly, you have to re-evaluate from that perspective, but I still think they could be a 9 and3 team, which how many programs across the country, there’s a lot of them, would love to have that problem of, man, we’re a 10, 11, 10- win team, nine- win team, and that’s not good enough for us. And I would just caution Penn State to be very careful because we’ve seen other programs, Nebraska comes to mind. They got sick of going nine and 10 wins with Bo Pini. They fired him. Try thought they were going to get an upgrade. And they’ve been searching for the next head coach for 15 or 20 years. You got to make sure if you do depart from James Franklin that you have very clear-cut upgrade. And I until I see that, I’m very skeptical. But I would tell Penn State fans, let the season play out. You still could win at Ohio State. I know it seems crazy. You still have Indiana at home. There’s a couple signature wins that could be on the table for them. And I remind them, you did take Oregon to overtime. you were one play away from potentially winning that game and totally changes in complexion. So, they clearly have room to improve, but I still think they should preach patience for Penn State fans. Speaking of coaching searches, Arkansas, maybe they just elevate Bobby Patrina, but there’s been a lot of buzz locally that maybe they’ll try and get Rhett Lashley away from SMU. Do you think that Arkansas is a better job than SMU right now? Not currently. Um, and I think this is going to be a really tough decision for Rhett Lashley, who would be my first call as well at several schools. Uh, and that’s what I think becomes more intriguing, too, because if you see Auburn come open, which looks like it might be more likely happening than not, if you see Florida opening, uh, which looks like it could be happening more likely than not, those become really attractive options as well. But since you asked just about Arkansas and SMU, Arkansas’s athletic director was out on record saying we won’t we don’t think we can compete for national championships. Like we just don’t have the resources, which is kind of mindboggling thinking they, you know, thinking about the Tyson Foods family and the Walmart family that they have behind there, how they cannot be in a position better financially. I get it though. Hey, maybe that’s a plea for him to try to get those money to come in there. and they just had Calipari come in there for, you know, from Kentucky basketball to Arkansas, you know, to take over their basketball program. But if I was Rhett Lashley or any coach thinking about taking the Arkansas job, I want to I would want to have some sort of financial game plan to show me that I can compete on a fair level playing field with the likes of Alabama, Georgia, Texas, you know, the list goes on. Texas A&M, all those schools who have more resources. And if that wasn’t a very emphatic here’s the evidence and where the money’s coming from so that we are on on par with those programs, I would not leave SMU because I think Rhett Lashley is a perfect fit for SMU. I think he can wait. He can be patient, see if a better job opens. SMU has, you know, deep enough pockets to be able to compete on an annual basis in the ACC and then in the playoffs as well. So I think it’s going to be an interesting decision for for Rhett Lashley, but I think if it’s just those two, I think it’s pretty clear-cut to stay at SMU. One other thing before we let you go, Danny Canel, what do you think of the way Dak’s playing quarterback right now? I think he’s been great. I’ve always been a Dak fan, I tell you. I mean, that offense looks like it’s clicking on all cylinders. He just has to make that next step in the playoffs. You know, I’ve always felt like he was a quarterback you can win a Super Bowl with. It might not be because you can win a Super Bowl of and we’ve seen that in other years when maybe he’s fallen short of expectations and you know or the injuries have been derailed a couple seasons too. But I think Dak is elevating himself into that. I’ve always felt he was a top 10 quarterback, but I do think he’s starting to knock on the door of potentially being a top five quarterback and the experience and leadership that he brings to the table is pretty invaluable. So I’m a big fan of Dak and I I’m I’m rooting for him to kind of break through one of these days and take that big next step forward. Danny Canel brought to you by Betonline. Thank you, sir. Enjoy the weekend. We’ll catch up with you soon. Awesome. Appreciate you guys. Have a great weekend. Cheers. Betonline.ag updated college football playoff Heisman and college football week seven lines. Okay, we got the C note. You got a Cowboys player missing from practice. And another Cowboy giving the thumbs up greenlighting his new nickname. That and more coming up next here in the nation. [Applause] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Hey, Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Uber Eats has a little bit of V- products. They got to remember that. Well, you know, they say in order to remember something, you have to forget something else. Okay, now that is a very cute picture. That’s like a little seen before. Well, I mean, of course. It’s the Rachel. Oh, is that your name? 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Cold beers and cheeseburgers. Join us there in Ulis. Luciuses is going to be along with us. Saturday, uh, Mansfield Herertado 10 to 10:30 in the morning. Fort Worth Herertado 11:30 to noon. And then, of course, the Highland Hotel party 2 to 6. And that’ll be a good time there watching the game and and having a time. It’s a it’s a pool party Red River style on Saturday 2 to 6 at the Highland Hotel. And of course, your chance to get a Gback Nation flag there as well. Maris Leaf’s given his thumbs up to the Hawaiian Punch nickname. So, we got the peanut punch for Tilman. You got the Hawaiian punch now. He’s he’s green lit it. Hell yeah. That was originated by Kyle Yman’s and I believe Patrick Walker uh reported or relayed the all clear today. You know, you just never know if someone’s going to resonate with a nickname or not. You know that, Chief. 100%, man. Shout out to uh shout out to Kyle Yman’s. Kyle, good for him, man. That’s some of his best work. So, yeah, it’s rare that he does something well. Oh, wow. Shots fired. No, he’s a very talented individual, but that right there, I mean, kudos. That should be like that should be at the top of the resume. It’s a hell of a nickname. Donovan Wilson back at practice today, so that’s a good QB. Joe Milton was missing personal reasons. Uh, so hopefully, you know, you’re not going to have to depend on on Joe Milton, but hopefully everything’s right in his live. Pass Roger. Dante Fowler not present at the portion of the session open to the media. I think such a big part of feeling better about this defense is is what Houston and Fowler were able to do with the pass rush. You got to be able to generate something like that. I mean, they led the NFL in pressure rate or pressures I think maybe in uh in in week five. So, I don’t necessarily need that replicated, but it’s got to at least be average. It can’t be as horrible as as what it was early in those games. So, and we need we need Fowler to be that guy. and uh and James Houston and the other guys pitching in stuff is the way I’m looking at it. Thursday Night Football, Giants and Eagles. More Philly content here for you. It’s interesting. Jackson Dart says he patterns his game after Jaylen Herz and Daniel Jeremiah actually made a comp last year in the draft. Feeling like Dart plays like Herz, although he’s not as athletic, not as strong, not as fast. It’s a comparable style, but uh but anyway, highest rate of three and outs through five games. We know the Eagles have that record for this year. It’s also the fifth highest rate since 2000. Oh yes. Yeah. You’re looking at some of the most atrocious defenses in the history of the league for their comparisons. 2001 Washington, 2009 49ers. That might have been like a Blaine Gabbert year or something. 2013 Jags might have been another Blaine Gabbert year. Uh and then the 20 Blaine Gabbert’s a bad quarterback. It’s the I never would have guessed that. Gift of Gabbert, man. Not something you want, man. It was definitely something good to see if you were on the other side. Okay. Uh Jeff Cobb gives us an update on the man verse zone zone debate that was uh so good last week. After Sunday’s win, Diggs complimented the pass rush, saying, “Uh, we say when we when we get back there fast, it’s called instant grits.” Diggs has been vocal about his comfort playing man coverage, not zone. Eberlu was asked about it today if playing more man versus the Jets made players like Diggs feel more validated. He said, “We’re going to make decisions based on what we feel is best, based on the matchups, based on what we have, and I don’t like grits either. I don’t think Flu is in a good place. I don’t think he I don’t think he likes Diggs talking about this. I really don’t. I I think that he’s he’s he’s sick of the discussions about and and I haven’t trust me, I haven’t talked to Matt. I I used to be able to text Matt and he doesn’t answer me back anymore. So, he heard you rip him. Well, I you know, I I think there’s been some times where, you know, you can get a little stubborn with things and, you know, I I was the same way, but I I he he hasn’t answered me back. By the way, uh Fowler was sick today. That’s why it’s practice. Okay, not bad. That’s good news. So, uh not that he’s sick, but just something more serious than that. I think that Matt honestly is tired of tired tired of the discussions. He’s like, “This is what I play.” Even though he came from a system where he was with Rob Ryan that played heavy man coverage and then maybe made his career switch and said, “You know what, playing zone and cover two and all that, that’s the way I’m going to do But he probably feels like though he’s hearing all this praise for your offensive line coaches and all that and he’s he’s getting he’s the he’s the piñata right now. Yeah. And that’s not a fun place to be. No. You know, you’re giving up a lot of points. But I I just hope it’s that he’s he’s stubborn and patient with his guys and not stubborn and toxic with the outside world because I think he might need a little bit of help right now. Sure. and and he did play a little bit more man last week about 17%. And it didn’t go well. He’s Yeah, it’s been a struggle. So, I mean, I I probably He’s thinking like, “Okay, if you switch to man and I’m doing what you guys want me to do, at least go out there and show me results, guys.” But they gave up I think it was two touchdowns. Yeah, they did. On man coverage. Absolutely they did. And there was probably more meat left on that bone. If you go back and watch that all 22, I mentioned how Garrett Wilson was was beating Bland. Dustin Fields just didn’t throw the football. So again, like I do think there is flu being stubborn, but I also the personnel on the field has to help out their coach. George Pickkins talking today about knowing the motive of other teams. I guess this was last night. When it comes to trying to get him over the edge, quote, “With me, I’ve kind of figured out I’m so good. That’s the only way you can try to take me out of the game.” Picking five touchdowns in in five games so far. the light bulb has come on for him a little bit. That sounds like, you know, good coaching, good culture. Yeah. I don’t think we get this George Pickkins kind of effect with um with Mike McCarthy being around here. I think this is a direct result of the energy that that Shotti and Dak have created with their leadership, with their whole attitude thing, their positivity thing. And there’s quite a gravity to it. You know, people want to be involved in it. Yeah. and and it’s actually you’re you’re playing in a fun offense and and you’re actually, you know, you have a good quarterback throwing you the football. You you’ve done some level of winning at this point. Like everything is kind of going in the right direction. I do wonder how many Steelers fans are just hate watching Cowboys games waiting for him to crash out so they can feel good about Oh, go on the message boards and you can see that. Yeah, there there’s people now stepping up and saying, “Hey, did did we get fleeced on this one?” Steelers fans are like, “Come on, please have a tempered tantrum.” And they’re and they’re they’re they’re waiting for the they’re waiting for the crash is what they are. Yeah. Yeah. But I I think this, you know, just goes to the brilliance of the message coming from Shotti. It’s like it’s not like, “Hey, you’re broken. You need to fix yourself.” It’s like, “Dude, you’re so good. You’re you’re just such the man that the only way teams are going to be able to beat you is if they take you out of your game mentally. So just you check that box off. You’re unbeatable.” And now George is out there like, “That’s right. I’m unbeatable.” Yeah, dude. That’s brilliant. Y but Steeler fans are also saying their argument is that the Steelers weren’t going to sign him anyway. Yeah, that’s their that’s their true good job of getting a third round pick. We weren’t going to sign the guy. You know, that’s that’s their that’s their mechanism. There’s a lot to the intolerance in Pittsburgh of personality. You know that like George Pickkins is just one. Devin Bush is another. Same stuff with Devin Bush. Like everybody was mad at him. He’s got to go. He goes now. He’s in in Cleveland. He’s having a season and a half playing his best football since he was he was young. And when he was there it was like come on Devin Bush you got to figure it out and you got to get your lunch pal and you got to understand that the Steelers brand is different and you you know you got to be this and you got to be that and you know I think shotty comes from Pete Carol where it’s like you come here you be yourself. Okay, we’re going to have fun and put the team first. However your personality is is fine. you know, we’re we’re here to play football and kick butt and and support each other. And, you know, I think certainly Pittsburgh benefits from that. Yeah. You know, Pittsburgh gets a lot of guys that, you know, might be bluecollar dudes and they just want to get down there and the secrets in the dirt and they’re, you know, they’re going to resonate with a guy a lot of guys like that, but some other dudes slip through the cracks and it’s just got to be the perfect fit. Like I I think a lot of people are talking about how the Buccaneers are the perfect fit now for Baker Mayfield. Sure. You know, you gota you got to line up the organization and the and the personality sometimes. And hey, maybe the Cowboys are going to be the the benefit of the Deon Bush thing as well. If uh they were listed in yesterday, I think Brian was was watching the film. Yeah. And and I take Deon Bush. Absolutely. Thumbs up to the idea. Okay. There’s early odds out for next Sunday’s game between the Cowboys and Commanders on on FanDuel. This is the earliest edition of Guess the Spread. What would you think it is? Oh man. For for next week with the It’s a home game with the Commanders. Is that is that AT&T Cowboys by one? Uh I I think I would go I think I’d go commanders Commanders by two. It’s Commanders by three. You guys are all over it. It’s Commanders by two and a half next week at AT&T. I think we got to I think we got to pump the brakes. I mean, you got good vibes coming off the the Jets game and and everything and the offense against Green Bay, but the the numbers, which is what Vegas bases a lot of things off still, you know, are kind of shading your team. They don’t believe your offensive line is good, even though it’s performing well, and they they think your defense is an aggregate of of every bit of bad football that it’s put on tape uh so far. So, you got to reverse that narrative one way or another. Todd Archer saying CD Lamb continues to make progress from his left ankle sprain. Don’t rule him out for that. Washington game is uh what Tad is saying. I think he could play right now. I think he didn’t have to miss any games in just that that one game. I’m I’m a sprained ankle specialist. Sprained a lot of them. I can eyeball it, tell you how many games you should be out. I think they’re just being extra careful with Lamb. Okay, we got Crusty’s Corner coming up next, buddy. Where you taking us? Yeah, let’s talk about this Panthers defense. We’ll do that next. Okay, I’m going to chat D&M leasing with you, though. Uh because Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat up here. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Applause] Heat. 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Thank you very much, guys. Appreciate you. Thank you very much to Reliant for being a part of this one. Um, does anything make you nervous about Carolina’s defense, anything you’ve read or heard about? Yeah, Derek Brown, Trayvon Mo, and Nick Scorton. So, the the rookie, and we didn’t love him coming out of&M. Nope. But they’re using him to his strengths. &M would have him and it was tough to decide like is he a three-tech, is he a five-tech, like where exactly should he line up watching them specifically against Miami, I like they had him as a standup outside edge rusher and they did some of the loops with him that we were talking about the Cowboys had success with and he actually played really well and he is a guy that can get after the quarterback. Yeah, they but you know it’s funny. They’ve had trouble getting after the quarterback if you watch overall but I know exactly what you’re talking about watching the Miami game. The Miami game just seemed like Miami was like the great deodorant for this team. It might just stink. Yeah. No, that’s what I’m saying. That one of these things that Miami even though Miami was up 17 nothing and just completely falling apart there. But I think defensively I think that defensively there’s some there’s absolutely and I think the guys that you mention you you need to you need to be concerned about I think you absolutely need to be concerned about Derek Brown. I think you need to be concerned about Aan Robinson too playing as that that like almost like a he could play like a that one technique tackle inside or he could play a zero technique nose and then they could cover both guards. Yeah. you know, with with the way that they’re uh with the way that they play their front. But I I would be because I I worry about with Robinson and maybe with Dallas, their ability to run the football or try to run the football and how does that match up with Hoffman always take place, but you’re probably going to get a lot more double team stuff inside and trying they, you know, Dallas. The one thing that I think that the scheme has done really well is the fact that it’s it’s it’s not asking these Cowboys offensive linemen to come off the ball and win one-on-one all the time. Like when they when they’re trying to move somebody, I mean, back, you know, Booker when he was in there, Booker can move somebody one-on-one. Smith can move somebody one-on-one, but the scheme’s not asking him to do that. The tackles are help. you know, with that they’re they’re using the angles. We we talked about the pulling, you know, Zack, you mentioned all the the pulling and the trapping and stuff like that that they’ve done, but that they they’re playing to the strengths, but you got some guys, like I say, that pretty good point of attack players, and I mentioned a guy like Robinson, so I worry about how much is Hoffman going to be matched up against him one-on-one. Something to keep an eye on this in this game for sure. I I don’t I said ear I don’t think they can rush the passer particularly well as a group. I think you’re going to they’re going to try and do things with it’s like they they as they come off the ball. It’s almost like what Dallas was doing earlier in the year or some of these early games was just rushing up the field and trying to get off blocks. Nobody’s winning with any regularity. It used to be a time where Carolina had guys that could win. Burns. Yeah. They had guys off that, you know, clowny uh back in the day. Who was our guy from that was it Green Bay that knocked the ball loose from our uh Oh, Jeff Heath. No, that knocked the ball loose from uh Murray. I’m thinking Oh, Julius Peppers. Julius Peppers. Got Julius Peppers name. But yeah, that’s that’s they’ve had guys like that before. They just don’t have that guy right now. Pat Jones had seven sacks last year, but he’s just an occasional flash. He looks like a good athlete. He he looks like a really really good athlete, but if you when you watch when you watch him play like he is plays really really tall. The guy that the guy that that at Wanom is DJ Wanom Yeah. is like the guy to me number 98 he looks like the guy to me that has the most pass rush ability when they they they have these guys that are real they’re real tall. They’re linear guys and they they they play that way. They get they they let you get their their you get their hands on you. And so I I think it’s uh it’s one of those things that that you know Dallas finds a way. I think Dallas can run the ball on these guys though. I I say that as far as maybe with the stuff with Robinson to keep an eye on him, but I kind of feel like that if it if you could play edges with these guys, and I mean edges in a way, if they’re going to play these fronts where they have three inside your tackles, the down blocks, the combo blocks, the pulling, the things like that, they’ve struggled. Stink was right, by the way, about about uh your cornerback JC Horn. He plays in the boundary the whole way. He That’s what he does. He’s a b He is a boundary corner. And when I mean a boundary corner is he plays to the short side of the field. So if the ball’s on the right hash, the boundary would be to the defense’s left, offense’s right. Why does the team do that? Why would a guy make you a boundary corner? Maybe the thing now this is this is this is where I this is where I’m trying to explain this because you’ve seen guys like he was taking one spot after Patrick Certain. Yeah. I think Certain is a better player of routes than this guy. This team plays zone about 90% of the time. They play zone more more than the Cowboys do. I’m glad you said that. It’s a third in the league in terms of uh cover three. Yeah, they’re they’re going to play a lot because they’re going to try and get your safety Morg down. They’re going to try and get him down because that’s where at the Raiders, that’s where he was. Mer former TC guy. Mer I said Morg Mer. He’s going to Yeah, he is good at that. And they don’t have a lot of guys to your point that are good at zone. Like Mike Jackson, former Miami corner, the Cowboys drafted him. He’s he went to Seattle, played a lot of zone coverage there. Yeah. So that I mean they’re trying and JC Horn’s always kind of been a gambler type. He has. And that’s the thing about it is when you talk to the Cowboys scouts about him as a player coming out, it was he was a gambler where Certan was more of a buttoned up guy more. You could rely on him more. He wasn’t going to he wasn’t going to put you in harm’s way. But you watch him play, they’re playing seven yards off and they’re giving up plays. You know, they’re giving up inside routes and stuff. So to your question, Dawson, is boundary corners sometimes they don’t you don’t have to cover as many routes and they’re and they’re so they’re they’re maybe trying to keep him from having to cover so many routes. They might be worried about his health though too a little bit him being banged up. But he’s a guy that’s not really super interested in in playing. And I know Stink was talking about run the ball his direction. that that is an absolute possibility there when you watch the way that they play. So, I’m here for it, man. Javvante Williams will make you earn it. But the the the stuff with he does not have to as that boundary corner have to cover a lot of routes, especially anything breaking to the outside. Everything he’s he can kind of keep everything inside to him and then and then adjust and run with the coverage. But most of these boundary corners will use the the boundary as an extra defender. Just they’ll force their guy. They’ll force that guy into the boundary and then they won’t let you run any routes from that. So they they they run almost 50% cover three. Yeah. And Dak against cover three this year, third in the league in passer rating, completing a league high 83% of his passes versus cover three and a league high five touchdowns. They might want to change that tendency cuz Dak will probably pick that apart. I don’t know if it’ll change it for the better though. That I I love this matchup for the Cowboys offense. I do too. I I feel like though that if to me it’s like we’ll see what happens at the guard spot. We’ll see what happens if if Smith is back in there. I think that will help them inside uh with with with some of the things that they’re trying to do. And I also feel like that maybe at left tackle too, they can match up with with Gayton being back in that as well. The protection, the play action stuff, I think is going to be good. I don’t think these linebackers are particularly good for this football team. But I I will say this though that that the the corners, you know, if I mean, it’s not one of these things you say, “Oh, go find the scrub.” Cuz I think the corners I think these corners are good. I don’t think they’re great. I think they’re good. Whereas last week, you were able to kind of find, oh, go attack this guy or go attack that guy. I don’t think that’s really necessarily the case. But I think in this zone coverage, if these guys are going to give you seven yards cushion, give Pickings and and uh Fenoi and those guys the ability to run routes in your nickel getting about five yards cushion the way with the way these guys are playing. I think you’re you free access in these routes, by all means, take advantage of that. Rose Boom had a good game against Miami, but you think that was just cuz it was Miami? I think I think Miami I I I just Miami is so bad, dude. Yeah, I just think that that there were some things him and Wallace, they were they were talking about that maybe that that uh that uh he was Rose Boom was he was calling the defenses and they took that away from him, you know, and they gave it they gave it to Wallace and so that let uh him play a little bit more free. I I don’t know. Like I say, I don’t I don’t particularly like these I don’t particularly like either one of these linebackers at all. And I don’t really particularly worry about their pass rush all that much, but if they’re going to play a lot of zone coverage, you know, good luck with that in free access in these routes. I think the Cowboys can make some plays and I think they can run the ball on the edge on these guys because they’ll just they’ll find a way to they’ll find a way to trap these guys. You can watch some of the early season uh the the early games like watch Jacksonville against these guys. Jacksonville did a really good job with some of their pulling schemes and trapping schemes. They got guys go up the field and then they would just trap them and then the ball would be inside. So that was the Dolphins had no explosive plays against these guys. The Dolphins offense was awful against these guys running the football. Everybody else has been pretty decent with that. So I think that the Cowboys will be just fine here going against this defense. Well, thank you Brian. Thank you. Crusty’s Corner every afternoon at 3:40 here in the GBA nation. Trade deadlines coming up uh November 3rd, November 4th. It’s within a month and I’ll have some trade deadline updates here coming up for you at 4:40 on the fan. But uh up next, Walchuck, I need my fix, man. Don’t tick off the playmaker trades and headbutts. That’s next to the nation. [Music] Heat. Heat. 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You’re rolling with the Gag Nation on 1053 the fan. Shoot. Yeah. Here we go. It’s hour three of the nation. We got 3 hours to go and then the fan after dark coming up from 7 to 11 with Fred and Blake. It’s time now for Walchuck’s daily football fix. Here’s Zachary. All righty. Well, Jackson Dart and the Giants looking to pull off that upset in filthy. really good article out from Jordan Renan, who covers the Giants for ESPN. And he detailed the first time that Jackson Dart and Cam Scatterabo went ahead and met each other. Scatteraboo. Scataboo. Scatteraboo. Scatteraboo. Right. The first time we met, we said three words to each other and just headbutted each other. That was kind of like the start of our friendship. When we first got here to the Giants facility and met each other for the first time, we were able to spend more time on the plane. We had that rookie premiere and they put us right next to each other. Obviously, we’re still getting to know each other. I fell asleep on the plane and I woke up to this dude wet willying me and trying to put food on my face while I’m asleep. This is the kind of accurate representation of who he is 100% of the time. This is like Ferguson and and uh and Henderson or Henderson shot. Yeah. When they uh when they got they like hated each other and then became best friends. I would just slow play it. I would just slow play it if right now if I’m Jackson Dart, I might want to pump the brakes a little But I mean, there’s a lot of embarrassing content that his veteran self is going to get humiliated for every training camp. Let’s put on a on a video of Jackson Dart’s best Tik Tok dances from his rookie year. Jeez, take it away. Yeah, he’s I mean, he’s just feels like a prankster. I’m sure other pe probably other players in the locker room are like, screw this guy. He’s annoying. Yeah, but he’s pretty damn fun. Cocky rookie. Absolutely. He’s I mean he’s walking by. Dave Ballal is doing his pressure and he’s just screaming things and Daveall just laughs, shakes his head like that’s that’s gotta. It’s like he’s got Tourette’s. He’ll just randomly scream out like physicality in meetings like Gus Johnson just walking through. Yeah. He’s got a little might have some mild Tourette’s. You know that happens sometimes. And he does move the head a lot. I read a story he he would put on his brother’s shoulder pads when he was a kid. Put on his brother’s older brother’s shoulder pads and just run into telephone poles. Wow. What a baller. The dude is just a savage. Just sick and twisted mentally, but you got to be I mean the play with the reckless abandon that he plays with it. It’s incredible to watch. I hope he has an awesome game tonight cuz screw the Eagles. I do think the wet willie is a bit of a line crosser. Really? I just I don’t that is stunning to hear. The wet willy wet will some dude spit fingers. Is that PTSD? Did you get a lot of those from your brothers as a kid? Yeah, I mean we went through a wet willy run. I get it. And I even even being on the offense with the wet willie and putting your finger in another dude’s ear just is weird. Some wax. It’s probably not hygienic. No. Yeah. I mean, there’s bodily fluids and orififices involved, guys. Let’s just maybe back off this one. But I think I I don’t know. Like I’m trying to think of all the the other things that get done. I don’t know, like pants a kid than like make them trip over their own pants. Yeah, like that. Like I think I’d rather get pants and have my pants stepped on and pushed to the ground. Maybe they accidentally pant you all the way. You got your little tiny fans hanging out there. It’s not ideal. Everyone’s pointing and laughing. Not ideal. Some boxers calling you out for having small balls, you know. Yeah. You don’t have these big Georgent balls. Uh speaking of balls, let’s go to Michael Irvin here. the playmaker Facts Over Feelings podcast uh had a clip that caught the playmakaker’s attention on his own show and they had some he was hot. They had some questions about Deion Sanders and how he would perform in this era compared to the era that he played and when he’s going up against Jerry Rice and Michael Irvin. Well, here was Irv and you’ll hear a little bit of a clip from the facts of her feelings and Irv’s response. These guys that he played against weren’t that fast, bro. Like I don’t know the they were stronger but they weren’t that fast. These guys now they they big they fast. They can jump. Are you me? I’m like are you me? Oh wait wait wait wait. Let me listen. We are the two most accomplished receivers in the history of this game when you’re talking about the most important things, championships, and your stupid ass talking about running fast like people weren’t running fast back then. Are youing me yet? Why are you Why do you talk on a microphone? Why do you have a microphone? What the hell are you talking about? I don’t even know your name and I certainly don’t know your game because you don’t I I don’t see you every year with a gold jacket in that Hall of Fame room. I don’t see you anywhere great players are. So, who the are you to talk about what oh oh Deion Sanders couldn’t cover these guys today? Amazing. I I love Angry Irv clapping back at this podcast. That’s gonna defeat me and the uh the day and the Oh, Gag of the Day. Gag of the day. Man, that is that’s the winner right there. That is phenomenal. Yeah. I I I can’t even Can you imagine waking up one morning and your podcast is being No. Absolutely just railed against by the playmaker. That’s a hang it up day. Any publicity, good publicity, right? That’s Jerry’s thing. But gosh, I would I would feel like I’m going to crawl on a ball and hide like Michael Irvin just put me in a body bag. Bro, that is quite the take though. Why do you even have a microphone? It’s not like Deion Sanders was not a speed demon himself, right? Like even for this day and age, you’d be like the fastest league. But the legend is he ran under a 42. You know, the rules, man. The rules about the way you used to be able to play bump and run. I mean, yeah, you might not be fast, but man, they let you get up and they get that you get to chuck guys the whole way up the field. Incredible. Yeah. I think today’s game would be better for Dion actually because it’s less physical. I agree. No question. Exactly. Exactly. I mean, I to me I I don’t think that the speed I mean Yeah. It It’s just It’s two different eras, but Dion’s one of those alltime greats. You put him in any era. Daryl Green could really really run smaller guy. Played bump and run. Didn’t give you any space. Yeah. It was It was Yeah, maybe the receivers didn’t run very fast. Crazy. But the I mean you did have like James Jet who was an Olympian. You had Willie Golt and Tim Brown and I mean Alvin Harper ran in the 43s. John Taylor was a 4-3 guy. Uh there was there was a lot of speedy players back then. You know it’s until they got over that middle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Then those alligator arms came out like Michael did. Jack Tatum and those guys standing in the middle of the field. Uh Herman Moore, Henry Ellard. Yeah. The the thing is, boy, you could have named two guys that were when you start to talk about how tall and short one. Yeah, it was polar opposites. It was polar opposites. I mean, that was good. That was a good one. The you know, it’s it’s really it’s kind of amazing now with the the way, like I say, that these guys that they do play, but if you look at today’s wide receivers, you look at the top five of them in the league, the the catches, all of them are route runners. We’re going to get to a point where we’re going to start drafting route runners, the Puka Noulas, the guys like Yeah. Ibuka. We’re going to start drafting. It’s not going to be about It’s going to be about guys that know how to get open JSN against against all kinds of defenses. It’s not going to be about speed and stuff anymore. It’s going to be about how good of a route runner and how do you separate Yeah. these 100%. And the problem is a lot of these guys will like we’ve talked in the draft they’ll kind of get put in the box of like well are you a slot only player? Yeah. And I think some of the like that was my argument with JSN like well yeah he did line up in the slot a lot but if you watch him when he’s getting bumped at the line like he doesn’t show to me that he he’s somebody that if you got to line him up outside that he’s just going to get thrown around like a ragd doll. Yeah. We’re just we we’ve talked about oh the guy can’t run the guy can’t do this can’t do that. But if you’re if you’re a damn good route runner in the n in college football translates you’re probably going to be a pretty good NFL wide receiver. You’re right with your route running. Had another trade and I don’t know uh these trades are starting to now happen. We’ve had a couple already this week. You might not want to wait around. You know if you want to you might need to be aggressive. Get on the phone and do something if there’s somebody out there to be had. Jags are sending Greg Newsome uh and to Tyson Campbell to the Browns. Browns are sending the Jacksonville Jags back. Greg Newsome. They’re swapping corners. This is a trade made by both teams. Of course, on draft day when they traded and Jacksonville moved up to go and get Travis Hunter, we thought Cleveland would take him. They end up moving back. So, the Jags send Campbell and a 2026 seventh round pick they previously acquired from the Eagles to the Browns for Greg Newsome, who I think is a really good corner. So, they’re sending Newsome back to the Browns. Uh to the Jags. Oh, to the Jags. The Browns get uh Newsome and a 2026 sixth round selection that they had acquired from the Jets. Uh so basically six and seven rounders and corners swapped. I thought Newsome was originally with the two two former two former Yeah. Now he’s with the Jags. Oh, okay. The Browns are sending him to the Jags. Jags are sending the Browns. I see. Okay. Yeah, I was okay. Sorry about that. So two former first rounders. So like Tyson Campbell or Ty Camp might have been a second rounder. Didn’t work out at Georgia with Jacksonville. Greg Newsome though I think is really good. former firstrounder out of Northwestern that but for a sixth like yeah like these are the type of deals man if you’re going to be able to get some of these players for a very and he’s only 25 years old 26 pick in 2021 he’s got that fifthear option paying him 13.38 mil I’d have been uh you know if you needed a corner certainly I think that’s a good move for both teams where would you have the NFC East right now in your rankings of the divisions preseason it was pretty damn But now Eagles sitting at 4- one, Cowboys at 22 and one, Commanders at 3-2, Giants have made a quarterback change. They moving up for you? Uh, I mean, yeah, you’d you’d have the NFC North, NFC West, AFC West. Uh, and then I think you could start making arguments for the NFC East. Is that Yeah, I think that that’s probably the case. Now, they’ll have some of the top three in different orders. I do think the North is still the best. You’ve got the Lions, the Packers, the Vikings, and the Bears. All of Nobody’s had a losing record in that division, right? Uh I think the AFC South has also become a little bit better than we initially thought. You got the Colts and the Jags both sitting there at 4- one. The Texans, do they start to win some games and get back in the hunt? Obviously, the Titans are going to drag them down, but they’ve got courtesy of ESPN, the Cowboys in the NFC West at four right now. Patriots are coming on strong and they could be 4- one if they hadn’t turned it over five times against the Steelers. Um, so I would say the AFC East is a candidate, but I mean other than the NFC North, I don’t think there’s a division that’s clearly head and shoulders above what the NFC East has cooking right now. Yeah, I mean the West is good. Uh, to your point, you know, the Cardinals, I think, are going to end up stinking, but right now you got the 49ers are playing pretty good ball at 4- one. The Rams are sitting there at 3-2. Seattle also at three and two. Do they end up fading? Yeah, Seattle might be the same. If you look at just the overall though, like if you look at how they’re they’re slotted right now, San Francisco’s at two, Seattle’s at six, and the Rams are at nine. Yeah. The way they’re the way they’re they’re seated right now in the uh because of schedules and stuff like that. Point the differentials and things that you Seattle’s good and and Darnold. I mean, last week that was a heck of a game with Tampa Bay. They came out on the wrong end of it, but Darnold played really, really well. It looks like Lamar Jackson’s probably going to miss this game against the Rams. Uh, so I mean, Baltimore, you’re looking at possibly a one in5 start yet. Still favored to win that division, right? It’s pretty nuts. Well, thank you. Well, Chuck, thank you. All righty. Uh, we got your football fix every afternoon at 4:00 here on 1053. 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So go find them for a flag. And how about this? Saturday tour day barbecue flagtober style Mansfield Herertado 10 to 10:30. And then Fort Worth 11:30 to 12. And of course the Highland Hotel downtown Dallas there 2 to 6 for the Red River Watch party. Time now for a a Woolchuck mixed bag. Oh, sorry. Uh, it’s brought to you by the Frankles. If you’ve been injured in a car truck wreck, call the Frankles first. 2148173333. There’s never an out-of- pocket cost. They only get paid when you win. The Franco are the go-to car and truck wreck attorneys in Dallas. What is it that I will never know, Walt Chuck? How damn good this Stars team’s going to be? I mean, I can’t wait for tonight. They’re getting it going. 7:00 pucks are going to drop there in Winnipeg. But I do think there’s a lot of questions about the Stars team this year. And I think the the player that could really tilt things for him is Maverick Bourc. We got to see a little bit of Maverick Borick last year in the playoffs. Super super young. And the Stars have hit on guys like Wyatt Johnson obviously has been awesome. Jason Robertson will be a restricted free agent this year. But when you lose a bunch of goal scorers and they did with the Donov leaving and Marchman still, I mean that’s a 20 plus goal scorer guy. Obviously he was frustrating in the postseason. Now Jamie Ben’s down. I don’t know when you’re going to get him back. Some fans, they didn’t even want Jimmy Ben coming back to begin with, but you do have to replace some scoring and they need Maverick Bourke to be that guy that really steps up in a big way among those forwards. And then Niels Lungquist, who missed last year with an injury. He’s going to be a defenseman. I have been pretty off the Nils Longquist bandwagon. They traded a first round pick uh with New York with him a few years ago, but he’s a guy that needs to emerge as one of their top four defenseman. They’ll probably be sticking with uh you know Harley in Petravic. Those guys are all going to be back. You saw them log major minutes of the postseason, but Nils Longquist is a guy that needs to step up. Certainly can be good when it comes to running the blue line on the power play, but what is he able to do? You know, he’s a smaller guy. I don’t think he’s really going to be a big enforcer, but just kind of keeping pucks in, chipping them down low, helping out with the forch check a little bit. You need Mills, Longquist, and Maverick Bour. There’s going to be two X factor players this year if the Stars are going to be able to keep home ice come playoff time. Younger players. Younger guys. Yeah, absolutely. Now, the Athletic still picking the Stars to win the Stanley Cup this year. They got 28.6% of their votes among 35 athletic NHL staff survey members. The Vegas Golden Knights were number two, followed by Edmonton. Uh, so those were your top three teams. Then Tampa Bay, Colorado, and Carolina received the other votes. I probably would be picking Colorado in the West right now. I think Colorado is going to end up edging out the stars in the central division. But hey, we’ll we’ll see what happens with Gully this year. Uh c I certainly expect to see the power play be even better offensively. That’s his bread and butter. He had that humming for the enders this year. Yep. Even better. He’s And also, you know, one thing the hockey hawk Spitzy sent us over some information like one thing about Pete Dory was all about the shorter shifts, right? Gully, I don’t know. Does he end up making transitions there? And do you see Mir Miro Heskin, but also uh Rantin end up just getting more ice time. I mean, the he is without question their best player. You’re going to need Rantin to really put this team on his back. It’s points this year. I believe in each of the last two springs. Uh and then they faced Edmonton and I I just feel like that’s maybe the biggest key is not having to play them in the playoffs. Yeah, no doubt. You can dodge them. I’m excited to see just a the pesky team there, you know, different brand of physicality. you know, it seems like like that that is something that they absolutely need winning the puck battles and things like that. They got a little bit bigger with some of their offseason uh additions, but yes, you’re right. I mean, like they got to get meaner. They do grittier, you know, being able the the the wall battles, you know, that’s really where they they lost wall battles against Edmonton on a consistent basis, even against Colorado when they were losing games. But yeah, they need to get gritty, tough, nasty. Do the little things right, boys. That’s what we need to see here. I was thinking of the movie Slapshot when you said that. Oh yeah. And they took Remember the bus is parked out there and they’re taking an axe to it and they’re like they go, “What are you doing?” He goes, “I’m making it look meaner.” I was thinking when you were saying that about that the whole That’s a great scene. I was thinking more of Papovic. I need more nasty. I need more. Remember that. Was that Was that 12? Maybe 13. Yeah. I need Otter looking to go 4-0 in opening uh game starts. I hope it happens. First time in uh it would be first time in star northstar history if we get that done. We’re going back to the Minnesota days. How about that boys? Caesar Mont with a chance to go 4-0 here on openers. Huh? Let’s make this happen. Let’s go. You can’t go 82 and0 unless you win the first one. That’s what Cory Major stopped me. I’d settle for 810 and one, you know, not want to be greedy. Yeah, you’re right. You’re right. you are we to be a little bit grainy this time of year, you know. All right, let’s go to uh Norman, Oklahoma. We got a big Red River showdown just up the road, and I encourage you to come out to that Highland Hotel. I’m kind of glad we’re now. Wait a minute. Okay. Okay. We’re not I was thinking that we were going to have to be at the Pickler Place, which is right there off 35. I was thinking all I think next Friday. I know. That’s what I’m saying. With all that traffic, you guys are Ulis. I don’t I think you’re going to be able to dodge some of that stuff. That’s what I’m saying though. I was think I was worried about like I was thinking thank god we’re not at the Pickler place which is a great place to be but it is yeah it’s going to be busy tomorrow all that traffic on 35 trying to get over there. Yeah. It’s my personal health being stuck on one of those overpasses in traffic. That would be Yeah. You’re like moving at a snail’s pace bumper to bumper. Next thing you know you’re up there for minutes. You’re lucky. You might just get out and abandon the car. Just start walking like f this man. I got stuck downtown Austin one time for like 20 minutes on that bridge and I was bitten out by the time I got back on solid ground. That can be a nightmare cuz the traffic in Austin is downtown in that area. It is absolutely no joke. You take one go all the way around. It’s expensive. Oh, you got to pay. Okay. Do you want to be trapped on the overpass or go on the high overpasses? Welcome to my world, Brian. I always take the one. I need a personal driver. I I my man my man’s sitting there like he he door dashes bottle of water from hotel. You think he cares about one time little you think he cares about a little toll. It was such a flex. That was I thought it was awesome. I thought it was hilarious that you’re like I just can’t make it down to the line. Screw it. I don’t want to go out there. I’m in my I was in a poker tournament. Didn’t want to miss a hand. Might be my rocket. So want to turn it around. All right. Let’s go to uh Norman. They’re they’re doing some excellent journalism and they have tracked down the tortilla presser himself at the Chipotle to give us the update on what the hell is going on with John Matier. One being Cooper Whitaker, the viral tortilla presser who did his own reporting when he found himself face tof face with Matier while working at Chipotle. Kind of try to keep it composed, but then I was like immediately like, “So, how’s the thumb?” Uh, you know, and then I was like, “Are you playing for a Texas?” And he was like, “Yeah, definitely.” Uh, and then I was like super geeked, you know, like the whole conversation after that. Uh, he showed me his thumb. It was only stitches, no cast. Uh, he said that Dr. Shin put three nails in there. Uh, so he’s he’s all good. While Venible says one thing, Whitaker says this. Uh, BV has been very careful with his words recently. He’s been like, we assume he’s not playing. Um, we say these things. He’s like, oh, you know, he’s like trying hard. Uh, but what Matier told me is that he he definitely wants to play. The tortilla pressors reporting might not be credible, but this take is. I don’t hate a lot of things being a Christian and all. Um, but Texas is is from Satan. Wow. Oh my might be questionable, but so could John Matar when the injury report comes out later tonight at 7:00. Reporting from campus, Michael Thompson Oly. Thank you, Michael. I appreciate that. Wow. Uh, that is some hardcore core journalism right there. Just going and making sure we’re tracking down the Chipotle worker. But I mean, Matir showed him the thumb and the thumb looked good to go according to that tortilla presser. So, we’ll see. And why don’t you throw in some extra guacamole? I can I get some fries? I’m going to show you the thumb. I need some extra guacamole, please. But then this burnout burrito maker, he circles back and says he definitely wants to play. You know which which one is it? He is going to play or he wants to play? Burnout. I think he wants to play, but I don’t think he’s going to play. Do you If you’re OU, do you want him to play right now? Yes. I don’t think you do. If you’re OU, I think you want to beat Texas as badly as you possibly can. They’ve had some embarrassing losses to their quarterback. That sounds like turnover central. How are you going to have ball security? Yeah. Well, look, Michael Hawkins Jr. is capable of that, too. I mean, he was rough when he had to play last year. Frisco Emerson product, but he looked good last week in place of John Matier. I will say I know as as much as we’re fading Texas and they did not look good on their defensive line, they’ve still got a lot of really good players on that defense. I mean, Michael Taff at safety, Anthony Hill Jr., if they get Malik Muhammad South Cliff back at corner, like Texas defense is still really good, but they did get bullied by that offensive line for Texas. So, if OU is able to run the football, I think the Sooners are going to probably be in a good spot. I I expect an ugly lowscoring game. Yeah, maybe even 13-10 or something. Give me the horns 20 to 16. Put them up. Oh wow. Yeah, just when you fade in Texas, Texas will find a win. I’m sure Carter will tell me this here, but uh win a game they shouldn’t. No, this Oklahoma schedule afterwards, maybe you got to think big picture at South Carolina, Old Miss, at Tennessee, at Alabama, Missouri at home, LSU. Dang, that’s a gauntlet. Can you can you figure out do you need your quarterback is completely healthy? Do you feel like you can get by Texas one more week and then play for the rest of the season to play Texas team that showed up against? But you can you can lose one game. You can two games get in the playoffs. It seems like Yeah, they they could you could lose one for sure if you’re Oklahoma. But I mean, man, I I know that Sooner fan base, you just heard it right there. They want nothing more than to just kick Texas while they’re down. At what price? Just beat the cra I don’t think they care. I think te Oklahoma fans care more about beating Texas than they do probably about the SEC title game. Man, I tell you what, I would I’d be I’d be real cautious because they look like they got a really good team, but if you sacrifice, you play your quarterback and now it something else happens and you got that schedule, I don’t know. That would seem I don’t think he’s playing. I don’t think he’s ready yet. Uh so I don’t think they’re going to have to worry about that. But you got to wonder I I mean it might end up being a conversation of can you beat Texas without him? Yeah, that’s that’s where I would that’s that’s where I would evaluate a week ago. I didn’t think they could. I didn’t think Oklahoma would be that defense, but after Florida game is good enough to to get after Texas and cause problems with the way Texas offensive they’re not they’re not going to fix their offensive line problems in five days. It’s just not going to happen. A lot of DFW players in this one. Jacob Jordan, wide receiver, South Lake Carol, uh, playing for Oklahoma. Jaden Hardy, defensive back. Lewisville, also at Oklahoma. Texas Denton Ryan’s own Anthony Hill Jr. Duncanville’s own Colin Simmons who’s an absolute savage Parker Livingston uh from Lovejoy who’s kind of become the number one receiver there for Arch Melissa’s Trevor Guzby who needs to step up and play great. I already told you about Malik Muhammad the sock player. Kik Lockett saxy wide receiver at Texas. So a ton of local players getting to come back home play at the Cotton Bowl. Texas Oklahoma there’s really nothing better. But shout out to the mean green. It’s a big moment. Tomorrow night, Dad Coup sold out for the first time ever hosting South Florida. Beat the Bulls, baby. Let’s go Mean Green in front of the entire country. Show them what you got. Drew Meshmaker for Heisman Kab. I love you, North. Seems like they’re a year. Congrats to you boys. I hope so. Thank you to to all the Mean Green fans out there. Looking forward to having a great and safe Friday night to kick off your football weekend. Okay, we’re coming back with some Cowboys trade deadline updates as we’re within a month here. What’s the latest scuttlebutt happening that could potentially benefit the Cowboys? We’ll do that. Jake Ferguson show coming up in 1 hour. Jake’s going to call the program at 5:35 tonight. So, we’re going to have to be fluid and flexible there, but we’ll be rocking the expressway before too long here in the nation. I want to chat men’s tea clinic with you. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Fire. [Music] Fire. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. 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Uh you know, at 32 years old, he used to talk about how he probably wouldn’t play into his 40s like Tom Brady, but as he’s getting older, 32, going to be 33 in the offseason, says, “Yeah, it’s definitely changed. I can see it more realistically now.” And I think as much as anything, just the fun and and the peace that this game still gives me 10 years in, it’s going to be hard. You can’t supplement it. So, as long as I can do this at a level that I’m proud and happy with, I will keep trying. And uh I’m excited about that. I don’t know, you know, I don’t know how you would h handicap the the odds of him being able to play to 40 considering the injuries he’s already had, but you know, sometimes players figure out what it takes to stay healthier or they get better luck and they end up staying healthy. Like I always think of Gran Hill in basketball. And there’s no doubt about it. Looking at these some of these pictures, it’s incredible how lean Dak is. I mean, from where he was as a rookie to now, it’s got to be 20 or 30 lbs lighter. Mhm. Like, he he is he is a a a smaller guy, and I don’t think he’s lost any strength. He’s probably stronger and smaller, you know, lighter on his feet, capable of moving, maybe capable of avoiding contact a little bit better. Body fat percentage, eight, gosh, I’m thinking I mean, yeah, somewhere in the neighborhood of 10. And that used to be probably somewhere in the neighborhood of closer to 20. Oh yeah, absolutely. I think it was over 20 his rookie year. Uh and remember that picture for the summer how shredded he was. He looked like an Olympic swimmer or something or like an an Olympic boxer. And then I got one more uh Dak Dak one here for you. He’s he’s been asked about passing records in franchise history. He’s coming up on a bunch of benchmarks and he was asked about passing Romo for for third place for wins in team history and his response was never celebrated third place. Uh so he’s got he’s got bigger goals than that. All right, the Jets are willing to trade Bree Hall is the story. The Chargers, the Chiefs, the Texans expected to show interest there in Bree Hall who we got an up close personal look at there with the Jets. Really good runner. I think he’s going to be a free agent at the end of this year. Mhm. I guess that’d be fun if he if he goes to the Chiefs. Obviously, the Chargers really need him after losing their rookie and Naji Harris. Uh they’re they’re down and out and and yeah, maybe the Texans are a Bree Hall away from getting that offense back on track. The tough news yesterday, I thought, in the trade market, Greg Newsome uh last night dealt from Cleveland to Jacksonville. He could have been had for not much. They gave up a worse uh younger corner and uh I think a sixth or seventh round pick for Greg Newsome. Considered to be a good read and react corner who thrives in zone. I’m not going to act like I’ve been watching Cleveland a lot, but everything I’ve read about Greg Newsome today. That should be the corner the Cowboys are hot after, shouldn’t it, Will Chuck? I was a big fan of his coming out of Northwestern. I think he can play inside and outside, but I I just I don’t know. Like I just don’t know how active I mean I I I believe in Will Mcclelay and his staff that they’re probably well versed on who is available and who’s not. So if they wanted to just go in there and say, “Hey, who’s somebody we should call?” I just don’t know how aggressive the Cowboys are when it comes to picking up the phone in these these times. Yeah. And I don’t think they are. I think they’re waiting for a great trade to arrive on their doorstep that they’re willing to accept like, “Wow, you’re willing to give us pickings for a three? Okay, it’s done.” You know, I don’t I don’t know if the Joneses specifically want to be working those phones constantly trying to make incremental upgrades because I I believe they feel like if they’re out there on the hunt, they’re going to have to pay a premium. When you’re close, pay the damn premium. You nailed it though. It’s like cuz even the picking stuff, I had been told that it was done, you know, and then after the draft, I think the Steelers lowered their asking price. So certain times like the Cowboys are only going to do these deals if they get it on their term. But if you believe in Dak and what this offense is doing, I I’m with you. When you look at the NFC, maybe it’s time to say, you know what, we’re going to finally go for it and go ahead and overpay. What was the second trade? Was it Was it Brown? Was it Quinn and Williams? Was it Micah? When he said before the draft, there’s two trades. Did you ever hear what that that second one was going to be? No, I know the Jets couldn’t do it financially. They had just paid Wilson and Saw, so it would not work capwise. The Panthers had said that they just didn’t want to give up Derek Brown, so that’s why they didn’t want to do it. But I don’t know exactly for sure who what that second team was that ended up getting close with Green Bay. It might have been the Eagles. There’s talk out of Miami that maybe Achan is available. That could get interesting as well. I don’t think the Cowboys are in any sort of a market for a running back at this point, are they? They shouldn’t be. It’s all defense. It’s all defense and it could be basically any position defense. What about Bradley Chub from Miami? I saw his name floated around as a trade candidate. Yeah, I would I need to uh I need to freshen up on how he’s been. He’s been so banged up. He’s off another injury this year. And he had a good play against Carolina. I noticed when Bryce Young had to fumble, he got the pressure on him. Like he still looks I mean not what he was in Denver, but he still looks like a he’d be an upgrade. His contract is pretty fat. Yeah. Yeah, from what I remember, like Miami handed them the fatty fatty boom ba. Oh, recently. Yeah, like maybe a season ago. Maybe we’d have to get them to eat some of that. But Miami is the team. Cleveland, Tennessee, I think those are maybe the three teams that appear to be the most definitive sellers. Well, and the Jets apparently like anybody’s pretty much available with the Jets. I don’t know. I mean, we just studied them. Do they have anybody defensively like linebacker or safety or anything? I I don’t know that the Jets have anybody that you’re Yeah, they they’re trying to kind of get rid of all those Joe Douglas guys. So, everybody that Joe Douglas and that previous regime brought in, they’re kind of moving on from those guys. So, yeah, I I guess Bree Hall would make absolute sense if you wanted to. I mean, that would be the one that would it just if you’re just saying interest, I mean, if not I mean, don’t look at the Cowboy thing, but if if they were trading a guy, that’s the guy teams will be interested. That’s why I would I that’s the guy I would absolutely look at. Differencem player. I think Bleacher Report did a story about Jaylen Phillips as we stay in Miami and and he was moving around Mottown for Carolina like he was stuck in quicksand a couple of times. Um the value they say a conditional fourth round pick in the 2026 draft. I think the problem there is you get him and I I don’t know if you’d want to do the second contract unless it was incentive laden cuz he really has not been healthy uh full season since 2022. Knox also listing the Cowboys and 49ers as a destination for Trey Hendrickson and the reminder Diana Rousini reported in August the Bengals were asking for a fourthrounder and a young player but the belief would be they wouldn’t get that. So maybe a maybe a five and a young player. Do the Cowboys have any young players you think that would be of interest if one of these teams is asking for one back? Three offensive linemen that are all being backups right now. Would you like to give them Bass, Thomas, Hoffman, somebody like that? A receiver. Yeah, I think that’s a hell of an opportunity, especially with these guys being free agents at the end of the year. Go ahead and risk that you’ll be healthy for the rest of the season. I mean, honestly, when you start thinking about the Bengals and a Trey Hendrickson situation, I mean, don’t they need offensive linemen? bad. Yeah. Wouldn’t they wouldn’t they especially an aspire expiring guy like a TJ Basque. It’s like, hey, you might have a you could have a starting guy. You trade for him, you get it. Did I just say that? Well, just specifically with Cincinnati. That’s what I said. We were talking about Cincinnati, right? I was just talking in general there. I think it was Did I Did I not No, I’m just curious. Did I knew you went I didn’t hear you mention We were on the Bengals. We were on Rini’s report. Yeah. I said I said, “Would you give up one of these offensive linemen?” And I named three guys. Yeah, absolutely. That’s what I did. I’m sorry. No, it’s fine. I didn’t I didn’t think about the the Bengals tie in there. I was just thinking about for Trey Hendrickson like Absolutely. You asked about a wide receiver and I was trying to give him an offensive lineman because I know they’re having problems. Yeah, I was just throwing out receiver in general, just not specific team. Okay. Cuz I mean Cincinnati is not a team that would need a receiver, but the offensive lineman to your point 100%. Okay. I’m sorry, Chief. I I was I TJ Bass would be a starter for somebody. I did I did a dive on linebackers yesterday. Today I went looking for corners that could be available. You have players having a down year. Riley Moss of the Denver Broncos. Legerious Sneeed of the Tennessee Titans. Super Bowl champ I think not playing that well. Tariq Woolen Seattle Seahawks out of favor might be available. I don’t think Seattle’s going to be looking to part with talent, especially starting quality defensive backs. Um and then you have Pro Bowlers on bad team. S Gardner’s just a non-starter. JC Horn probably a non-starter. You you watching him on film though, Brian, you like JC Horn. Could he help the Cowboys? Well, yeah, you play zone coverage. That’s kind of what he’s been doing. But I I I always kind of thought JC Horn was more of a man cover guy, but he’s really not, you know. So, and the fact that all he does is play on the boundary side, that’s a little concerning to me as well. And they’re probably going to overvalue him way too much. I think Reek Will the same. just really wonder just trying to put my mind like where their heads are at. Would they really be interested in a corner? Like I know we’re looking at their cornerbacks and being like they need help, but they just paid Bland. They just drafted Revel. They’ve paid Diggs and maybe Diggs doesn’t have a future here. Maybe they look to get off it. But just in their building, I don’t know that they’re looking at corner and saying like we need to make a move here. I think they’re thinking we’ve got that position solidified for years to come. Yeah, I think that’s probably fair unless they get destroyed over the next three weeks or there is an injury or somebody actually convinces them that, hey, Dak probably won’t make it to 40. He’s playing like an MVP right now. We have this opportunity and we have good depth that we could trade from. Uh Marlon Humphrey of the Ravens and and then Denzel Ward, the Cleveland Browns other corner is listed. But I I think that Cleveland defense is so good that they’re just a quarterback away from being a really interesting team. I don’t know if I’d be wanting to part with any of my foundational pieces. And I think Walchuk makes a good point about the the Cowboys appetite right now. I think they’re in some pretty good denial about how much Diggs has slipped and how Bland just really never made that final uh bridge. Or maybe he’s maybe he’s being held back from injury, but uh you know, he’s pretty average, too. Okay. Uh, we got three down and two to go here on the Fan Jake Ferguson show’s coming up in about 40 minutes there at 5:35 today. Chief, where we going next? Football’s finest coach Prime calls ball sack on an NFL head coach and Overshon gets some love. That’s next year in the nation. [Music] It’s true. Forget something else to remember. No, that’s a huge fear. What was it? [Music] still doesn’t [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. 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All right, so Thursday night football, Giants and Eagles, uh, Jackson Dart over 30 and a half passing attempts is the most bet prop for tonight’s game. 99% of the money is on the over at Bet MGM right now. He had 40 passing attempts in week five. Uh so assuming that the the Giants are going to be trailing in the football game, they’re uh they’re imagining he’s going to have to drop back and spin it. Uh Saquon Barkley, the most bet player to score a touchdown tonight on Thursday Night Football. He scored a touchdown in four of the five games this season. And uh yeah, I’m just it would be incredible if the Giants can find a way. Can you imagine the meltdowns tomorrow in filthy? I would love it. Absolutely love it. The Yankees meltdowns that are going on right now. I mean, I believe in parody, but it’s crazy. They they haven’t they shouldn’t be this bad. The Giants or the Eagles? Oh, yeah. Offensively in particular. Yeah. And and pass rush. I mean, they got three dudes still. They got seven sacks. They can’t run the ball. They can’t They can’t rush the passer. Um I I but I I think at this point, five weeks in, if if you’re this bad, it’s kind of like the Rangers offense. What do we say? If you’re this bad and we’re in midMay, the best you’re going to get is to average. There’s no going from here back to paving football fields with the other teams for the rest of the season like they were last year. Yeah, it’s it’s evident like what they had last year. It’s hard to duplicate that level of dominance and and now you have Barkley a little bit banged up. Their offensive line clearly isn’t as good. They’re having questions. I mean, you can get odds right now on whether or not their play caller will last the season actually calling plays. Yeah. So, it’s just uh it’s it’s weird, but their schedule lightens up a little bit, but it’s still relatively tough and they might need to change OC’s. Do you think they’re worried? Do you think that Herz not scrambling more has hurt this football team? Absolutely. Is it down? It’s down. Yeah. I mean, 17% scramble rate this season. So like he was at he was at in 20 through 21 through 24 he was right at 22.3 but the offense not being the same because of him not run I mean he ran against the Cowboys don’t get me wrong but everybody else it seems like but his his scramble rate is is the lowest it’s been in you know in five years. I mean and maybe they’re taking the page that that you talk about you know out of your book all the time Dawson where it’s like hey if you know you’re going to be a playoff team let’s not push it. it won’t be as pretty in the in the regular season because we’re trying to keep our quarterback out of harm’s way and then once you get into must-win territory, all of a sudden you unleash the beast there. Uh, and I could see that being the case, but there’s no doubt that if if you’re an offense that’s that’s dependent on a quarterback running the football quite a bit and then you just lose that element to the offense, it’s it’s going to hurt you, especially when you’re not doing everything else on the same level. You’re not throwing the ball that well. you’re not running it near as well as you did last year. So I I I would say absolutely that’s a factor. Yeah. I mean the biggest factor I think is their scheme and just lack of running game. You know so Barkley dependent. How about this on the defensive side of the ball? They’ve had 10 they’ve had three straight games where they’ve had 10 plus missed tackles. Wow. Defensively. That could be an issue too, right? Yeah. And the offensive line not winning as much as they’re accustomed to. 43% pressure from new guys off the edge that weren’t on the Super Bowl roster. That’s that’s down a little bit. I mean, Milton Williams was a really good player and he’s he’s doing good things for New England right now. Uh, obviously Graham was good and sweat was probably their most consistent edge rusher. Yes. Yes, he he was Joel Cory today did players who were worth it in free agency in the trade market and he had Josh Sweat up there who’s balling for Arizona. We’ll see him in a few weeks. um you know, Slay and and Gardenner Johnson, I think there’s a price to pay for that with just a general lack of experience more now in the secondary, but the Cowboys have probably lost more and the Cowboys analytically are playing better even though they don’t have the better record right now. Eagles defense has allowed just five deep completions this season. Four of the five have resulted in a touchdown. That’s the second most in the NFL. So, they’ve allowed Jackson can push the ball down the field. Five five completions downfield, but four of them end up in touchdowns. I don’t know why people aren’t attacking them more if that’s the case. I mean, I don’t think the Giants are going to have much success in the pass game tonight. They lost another wide receiver. This has got to be is Tracy healthy. This has got to be a big run game for the running back and the quarterback and a lowscoring win if it’s going to happen. Yeah, when you don’t have Malite neighbors. I mean, you know, you’re they they they’re going to have to run the football and maybe Dart’s going to have to get something with his legs going, but it it’s going to be tough for for the Giants with really a lack of explosiveness at receiver. Juan Delale Robinson, maybe he can have just a wild game tonight if you’re like we are. I mean, obviously rooting for the Giants, but I mean, it’s the Eagles spe like they’re just finding ways in in special teams like just in the margins to find wins. So, if you’re the Giants, maybe you can find a way to rattle Jaylen Herz. Can Kavon Tibido get a four sack fumble, return iter for a touchdown? Can he get a defensive score? You need all those things to go right on Thursday night. So, Bjan Robinson was on the This Is Football podcast with Kevin Clark and he was asked uh the biggest badass that he’s ever played with. His college teammate at Texas, Dearvian Overshon, was the name that that Bejian Robinson dropped. Apparently, their physical practices were the stuff of legend. and his quote was he was he was killing with the Cowboys before the injuries. Definitely the guy I would say made me a much better player. Okay. So, can you imagine some Oklahoma drills? John Robinson, the Marvian Overshon getting after it in college. Gosh, that would have been fun. I mean, the way things have gone, I can’t imagine Overshan being healthy on the other side of those to be honest with you. I need some Overshan health. Yeah, that’s a good point. How about what the the the Browns have going on right now? Their cap hits at at the quarterback position. Oh, it’s insane. This is hilarious. They’re still playing like great players, right? Yeah. I mean, they have Deshawn Watson’s counting basically 36 million against their their cap right now. Jameus Winston is still counting over 2 million in dead money. Dylan Gabriel over a million. Joe Flaca right about a million now in dead money. Shador Sanders just about a million. Bailey Zappy on the practice squad getting paid almost half a million. You have uh did I see Zappy’s the backup this week? Yeah, Zappy’s the backup. So, they’re giving Okay. Hey, I was wondering about that. Yeah, they’re not giving Shidor the number two job. He’s still third. Somebody there does not like him. Yeah, maybe it is. I I I think there was a lot of time owner the owner pushed them to make that pick and nobody else in the building. GM the GM the Well, the coaching staff clearly doesn’t like him. Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. Barry pushed for this is what I’m hearing. Barry pushed for this and and then the the coaching staff wanted nothing to do with it. Wow. They’re going to get to a point where they have no choice but to start to shar Sanders and then they’re going to be like, “Nah, we’ll just go Wildcat all game with Quinn Sean Judens.” Why not just trade the poor kid, man? Send him somewhere else where he’s got a shot. That’s pretty wild. I didn’t realize that. But they’re also paying DTR and Kenny Picket money right now on their on their cap. Four guys are on the roster. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight quarterbacks have some cap value right now on uh on the Browns salary cap, which is just hilarious. All they had to do was stop with Baker Mayfield. They’ve been okay. Yeah, they sure did. The the the Bengals sent two vehicles to pick up Joe Flacco and his wife. Three and a half hour drive. Study the playbook. Quick turnaround. He’s going to be making the start this week. And the second vehicle was just simply for all their luggage and belongings. That’s how uh the Bengals went ahead and got that done. They’re like, “Hey, it’s close enough. We don’t have to send a plane. We don’t have to do anything like that. We’ll just go ahead and send two vehicles.” Uh and Deion Sanders, I don’t know if you guys caught this, but during the Manning cast on Monday night, you had the Jags playing versus the Chiefs. And Eli Manning made a statement about Travis Hunter. And apparently he had gotten this information from Jags head coach Liam Cohen that uh that while at Colorado, Travis Hunter never practiced on the offensive side of the ball. We know he’s a two-way player. He was a great receiver for Colorado, great corner as well. But Liam Cohen apparently told Eli Manning that in college Travis Hunter never practiced the offense. He was just kind of out there freelancing during games. So Eli Manning like ran with that on the Manning cast. And then Coach Prime is calling ball sack. He says, quote, “That was a ball sack.” He said that. I’m just kidding. That would have been great though. You guys got ball sacked on that report. He says that was a lie. Travis Hunter played offense and defense. We started out with the ones on offense going for the first four or five reps. then he would go over and and play defense the next four or five reps and he did that the entire practice all season. Uh so I I don’t know what the the miscommunication was there, but Coach Prime is is is not here for it. Did you see the videos of him? He’s going through his surgery. He’s got Kruchi Tran like helping him out like they’re still together and she’s going to be So he’s going in for blood clots and he’s going to coach this weekend. I guess he’s still planning on 17th procedure. They took his bladder out is what they did. They took his bladder out and then they they they made a brand new bladder for him. They they cut they cut in bladder factories. Yeah. They cut they cut intestines and sewed some things together and things. So yeah, it’s amazing. It’s uh it’s it’s it’s pretty pretty He coached the game the other day with like his left shoe off. It’s just crazy because I mean such an athlete and he’s lived alcohol free and drug free, right? I mean, he’s taking care of his body. He’s stayed in shape. And even to him, it’s happening. Yeah. Age sucks. I know we talk about Kim Scataboo being a big psycho, but I think there is a Bengals fan that’s a bigger psycho. This guy is is all over the internet right now. Okay. He He’s a diehard Bengals fan. All right. And this is a team that is borderline on the Bengals. No, no, no. Yeah, he’s just a Bengals fan. Uh, and he has decided to, and he’s documenting this on the internet. Oh, yeah. This is great. He’s living in his car for the entire season and he’s door dashing to make money and he’s doing it so that he can afford to attend every Bengals home game this year. Yeah, it’s genius right here. You know, I think it’s going to test him when it gets to those December and maybe January, maybe one game in January. You seen those people live in the Arctic kind of thing in vans and stuff? There’s there’s some Tik Tok videos of those folks how they survive. I mean, you’ll freeze to death, bro. This is ridiculous. I mean, what do they do? They start fires in the car or something. They make a little fireplace in the car. It’s crazy the the the the lengths that they go to stay warm in these cars. Like, homeless ingenuity is at an all-time high right now. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, this guy to do it for the Bengals, to do it for any team is asinine. Yeah. But especially to do this for the Bengals, bro. Like once bro goes down, you got to punt on this plan. Yes, exactly. You pull the plug on it and say maybe we’ll we’ll rally and and uh you know, look at doing this next year. But uh have you ever seen like back in the day, Dustin? You’ll probably remember this. I bet you Lucius would remember this too. Oh yeah, I do. When uh remember when people used to like stay up on signs like they like a billboard? They would live on the billboard up there and they wouldn’t come down until something happened. Uh-huh. Like a strike. Yeah. Well, they like don’t cut down the redwoods or something. Well, no, no, it was more like I’m not going to leave until the I’m not going to leave until the Cowboys make the playoffs. Oh, yeah. So, they stay up there the whole time and they it’s like Yeah, I remember those. It was It It was always It was like a radio station. Evening news would check in on Yeah. They’d always check on and somebody sitting like, “How’s it going up there? Oh, yeah. We’re doing great.” You know, and really they’re not doing great. They’re so happy they got to come down. But it was like back in the day the radio stations would have people stay up on live up on a billboard. No. and you get some fame and I I think this content creator guy might get some fame. I get some free tickets out of this. Somebody’s probably gonna hook him up with some shelter. Like, is this happening? The Joe Hoy Door Dash deal. You know, I haven’t I haven’t seen any movement on that, but yeah, it’s a good point. They’ll start a GoFundMe for the kid, get him an apartment, you know, make sure he’s toasty, maybe get some free food out of the deal. Yeah, it could pay off big picture. That’s sad that you you got to be homeless to afford to go to NFL games. That’s the other side of it. how expensive it is, especially the Bengals games, man. Shout out to the 775, but it is eight games at what, maybe 300 bucks a ticket. Yeah, that’s kind of where you sit. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder how specific he is on where he wants to be sitting in there. Maybe he wants to to get an up close and personal view at that disgusting offensive line. The living out of the car deal though, I think it’s going to become more and more prevalent. I think we’re going to see more of that. 775. I live in a regular SUV. No, no modification. I drive Uber. Just text it in right now. You go. At least it’s SUV. This guy’s living in like a See, there’s people there’s people that live in these cars and then they pull over like at the uh the LA Fitness and stuff and use the showers and things like that. They That’s what this guy does. Smart. You get a storage unit. Planet Fitness. Yeah. Storage unit. I’ve seen I’ve seen that before. I’ve seen people live in the storage unit. I’ve seen that before. They’re living in their vans right now. That’s like the real popular thing. Living in your vans on the content creator on TikTok and whatnot. Yeah. That’s I I think that’s like the uh that’s like the detaching. I’m unplugging and going out there and and showing the world, you know, a different sort of adventure lifestyle. Yeah. Watch my behind at state parks and whatnot. Yeah, dude. These people are nuts. On the Great American road trip we did a couple of years ago, we’d stay at state parks at like camping grounds and you would see the you would see quite a bit of that, you know, like people would be driving up in their old Honda Civics and just getting out and washing. You know, they need a they need a home base. in an HQ and it’s like 12 bucks a night. Yeah. I mean, hey, you got to do what you got to do. I I do respect that. But these like these sprinter vans are where it’s at. Like the the big money high high rollers are tearing it up in those things. Yeah. You have to like you have to have a job and put away and then like break out and go do that. But you know, you need like a nest egg or something to pull that off. I think Slater’s sister did it. Yeah, you’re right. You’re right about that. You’re right. Remember Gardner Menchi was doing that? I wonder. He was living out of a Wnebago. There was a Blue Jays pitcher. Uh I remember Bassik did a story about him. This is probably 10 years ago in baseball nuggets. Did the same thing. Yeah. He had a he had a little grill out there and he just he liked to do this little solo mission thing. Harbon did a little bit of that. Wow, dude. Brought us Winnebago 254J says, “I’m a nurse who takes care of people right after their surgery. Brought us is right.” Holy S. Brought us is right. Thank you. They use part of the intestines to create a sack to hold the urine that comes from the kidneys. Then the urine is directed outside of his body into what’s called a urosttomy bag. Mhm. That’s how he’s living right now. Okay. Well, he’s doing it with a hell of an attitude. I mean, oh, absolutely. You cannot keep this guy down. Ask that nurse person. I I’m seeing like conversations online where the blood clots can be bad in Colorado. Like it makes it worse. Really? Yeah. That’s That’s a That’s That’s very good. I’d be getting out of Colorado real quick. Yeah. I need a medical buyout ASAP. Stat. Get back. Get back to the great state. So nice up there, though. Okay. Yes. Get back inside. It is. It is very nice. And the view from his office. If you’re going to die, I mean, probably place to die. Yeah. I guess I’d prefer to do it without blood clots. No, that’s what I’m saying. I mean, probably avoid that. Okay. Uh Gbag Nation, we’re coming back. will get you caught up on everything else that happened at today’s practice. We’ll get to the Jake Ferguson show, the Gag of the Day, and LA Live is all next. Commercial free, uninterrupted, all the way to the top when we’re back here on the fan. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. 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Fred and Blake are in there in the bullpen throwing heat already. Fan after darks coming up from 7-1. Dodgers and Phillies, they’re underway. They are scoreless in the first. Dodgers lead that series two games to one. Brian needs to find his remote uh so he can get his day baseball on. Brewers and Cubs coming up at 8:00. Milwaukee leads that series two games to one. So just the NL tonight down to two games here. But Mariners and Tigers game five tomorrow. That that should be uh quite a bit of fun. Nathan Evaldi Sports hernia. He’s uh he’s hoping for a big healthy season in 2026. He is due. But yeah, I guess he had surgery for a sports hernia to go along with his other collection of injuries. And uh yeah, you know, we just we just need these uh these two aces to be healthy next year. Everybody else going to fall into place three, four, five. Should dominate with the pitching once again. And uh you know, I and see why I trust he’s going to get this offense figured out. You ain’t going three years in a row like this underperforming. See stand for it. Yeah, he’s going to be grinding, man. He is. And I just I know we were talking about maybe moving on from some of these guys like an Aldi, but gosh, I just love him so much. He’s like, he might be my favorite Ranger of all time. You know, if if if Cy decided we need to blow this thing up, I’d be like, “Okay, I get it, Cy. I trust your vision.” Right. But right now, the the better risk is just to bring those two guys back and see if you can recapture that glory of of the pitching staff and the defense and and just uh you know, get some replacement level offense. Should be good enough to to go on another run. John Rom still struggling to find peace in the game of golf. You tracking this story, Brian? He’s a meditator, so I’m always watching. You can you can see him sometimes. He was good in the Ryder Cup, though. He was really He said it was the most mentally exhausting week of his life. Yeah. And maybe uh you know this the stress is still there, but he barked at a Marshall today that tried to cheer him up during the Spanish Open. Yeah, his drive found the left rough on the par48. Rom saw his lie and started cussing and complaining. What a day what he did he said followed by an expletive. The marshall who had marked his ball said it’s okay. And Rahm immediately looked at him and said, “Don’t tell me it’s okay. Thank you.” The marshall then apologized as he walked away while Rahm continued complaining that it’s not okay. Yeah, it’s surprising this dude is is is this good at golf. Most golfers are like are like field goal kickers, you know? They’re just like they got they got a a very calm pulse. Spaniards usually very Spaniards are fiery fiery people especially on golf. Look at with guys like Ballister back in the day. I mean, look at the problems that uh Sergio Garcia has had in the past, you know, with his little emotional out there. Yeah, a little emotional out there. But the Spanish are very fiery golfers. A lot of passion. A lot of passion. Yeah. Ram Ram, I’m sorry, is trying to win his record fourth Spanish Open title, which would surpass Sevie. Yeah. The tournament’s most successful golfer since the creation of the European tour in 1972. Okay. Hey, uh we’ll get to the G bag of the day here early so we can get to Jake Ferguson uh coming up here at about 5:35. Did have a couple of Clayton Adams notes for you. He he left Arizona for Dallas. The Cowboys are now number one in rush success rate. We’ve been tracking Arizona. They’re now 32nd in rushing win rate. Have to imagine it’s going to be tough to keep Clayton Adams. That that is unbelievable. They were top 10 last year. Did you have that stat earlier? Well, Chuck, no. Okay. Uh, we’re all two days ago. Two days ago, you know what’s I think too, losing Connor has been has hurt their running game, too. I watched them play against uh against Carolina and you know, he was involved, but man, that it’s that’s a big difference with him. But the scheme is not the same running the ball. Maybe if De Marcado like holds on to the ball, they’d be helped a little bit. The success rate looks a little bit better at 30. Clayton talked to reporters today though on his tandem with Connor Riley. The O line coach says even their disagreements are productive, functional, they love it. He says it’s been awesome. I couldn’t ask for someone who understands what I want at a higher level and who also has a lower ego. That’s Adams on Riley. I’m excited about Riley as well. Riley, we got a chance to interview him before the uh the third day of the draft. What a easygoing guy. But man, like very very much like when you start talking about how you do things and they they they’re on the same page. Like they were not going to ask these guys to do something that they couldn’t do. They were going to come in, they were going to learn them, and then they’ve kind of figured out that these guys, the pullers are your tackles. you know, some of your guards. Yeah, maybe maybe maybe you want to pull uh maybe you want to pull Smith a little bit more than Booker, but they’ve kind of figured out which one of their guys can do certain tasks and I think that’s what’s made him very successful right now. Adams was asked if the Cowboys rushing attack is achieving his create violence run and hit edict uh that he said when he was hired. He he said uh they’re doing it, but they’re inconsistent and he expects more and better. All right, it’s time now to go to the pimp cup where Lucius Alexander has your G of the day. All right. All right. All right. All right. Gag of the day. We do it every weekday on the Fan 530. It’s about 5:28 right now. Just a little early. My name is LA Lucius Alexander. You can hit me up if there’s anything you think I should be playing what you guys have been doing and I appreciate that. Uh this is day three for this champion audio right here. Watching the game, the Cowboys game with AI brought us. left to right at the Dallas 42. Fields is in the gun. Gives it to Hall and he’s got a seam at right guard. He breaks away from a tackle running 30. 25 21 yd line. This team’s never going to stop anybody. I told these to keep Zimmer pressure blowing right up the middle. Sam Williams with his speed with his first sack of the year in the Cowboys fourth of the day. Didn’t Bobby say they wouldn’t be able to rush the passer? This is why I fired his fat ass from Love of the Star. Here’s a deep pass down the right side. Paul Foy at the 25. A great move inside the defender and down to the 15. Let me text the gang of seven about this floor guy. You like this guy, right, Zack? Yeah, that’s why you’re my draft show protege and we had to gatekeep Chia a follow. All right, here’s Fields throwing deep. Oh, into the right side. Wilson caught it at the 48. Is Bade mute over there? Is this a preseason game? Do I need to step in and do color for him? Going deep. There’s a shot for Pickkins. He got pushed. He caught the ball. Zack, do you remember which of my 72 podcasts I talked about taking a shot to Pickkins this week? Payton, I’m going to run downstairs real quick and see if the homeless guy outside the McDonald’s wants some G-ag gear. Throws it deep to the middle of Lenoid on a deep crosser. 45 broke a tackle right sideline 20 yd line. He told me I had to be higher than Mark Sanchez in the cab of an oil disposal truck to think he’d be seen in that. Brilliant work there from Bobby Belt. Bobby was good. Did that Did you really tell him to keep Zimmer? No. No. No. That Mike told me he wanted to be the head coach. That’s why that’s why he moved on when they when they didn’t offer him the head coaching job. He said, “I’m just going to move on.” It’d be a lot better right now if they had Kev Kev Zimmer, wouldn’t it? As defensive coordinator. Yeah. I I I love Mike. I I do. I I think I think Mike’s I think Mike’s really good. I I felt bad for him. He did not get a sniff as a head coach there, but obviously with Shotty, the Joneses got their guy. All right, let’s go to the second clip right here. Costco crash out. Costco crash out. Dude was on his phone in the middle of the aisle and another guy moved his cart out the way. Okay. Hey, give me some room, man. I’m trying to get by. Yeah. And it became a thing. What happened? You didn’t have any space? No, I didn’t have any space. You didn’t have no space? Well, honestly, sorry. You were blocking the way on your phone. You were kind of blocking the way on your phone, buddy. You should move out the way next time. You didn’t have no space. I didn’t have no space, buddy. You’re blocking the whole way. I couldn’t even get through, buddy. Come on, buddy. Buddy, buddy. What’s going on? You have a buddy? Yeah. Is there something wrong with you? Yes. I’m I have something wrong with me, buddy. I’m not trying to be difficult. You are on the phone. I’m not trying to be difficult. You’re trying to show your muscle. No, buddy. You’re on the phone on like an idiot. I got to get that out of the way, buddy. Learn your language. Why you calling me an idiot? Buddy, were you Why you calling me an idiot? Were you on the phone? I was not on the phone. You were on the phone 3 seconds ago. I was not on the phone. Do you have a father or mother? Learn from your dad, from your parents. Why are you screaming? You call me an idiot. He called me an idiot. Why is he crying? Why is he crying? I like how that guy handled it. I mean, if somebody’s on the phone, they’re distracted. Their cart’s in your way. You got to get to the other side of it. I I think that’s reasonable. You want to show your muscle. Yeah, I love that part. You want to show your muscle. All right, let’s see. Uh, the playmaker, Michael Irvin, he tells the haters over there at Fax Over Feelings podcast to keep his name out of his mouth. Yeah. He say they were slow receivers. Even took a shot at Jerry Rice, Deion, all types of crazy stuff. Unbelievable. These kids don’t know we were fast back now. They’re like, “Well, we just got fast.” They think everything’s brand new just cuz they just got here. Yeah. you got here and now it’s brand new to you. Now, this was a 14-minute rant. It was hard to find something I could fit into this, but here we go. What the hell are you talking about? I don’t even know your name and I certainly don’t know your game because you don’t I I don’t see you every year with a gold jacket in that Hall of Fame room. I don’t see you anywhere great players are. So who the are you to talk about what oh you couldn’t even play when I played the game and some of these you talking about they couldn’t even play when we played the game. So I’m sitting here saying what the hell is he talking about? I don’t mind you being stupid. I don’t mind you’re being dumb. I don’t mind you not knowing what the you talking about. Keep my name out your mouth when you don’t know what you’re talking about. Keep my name in my image. Don’t try to on my work when I won championships on every level. On every level. When [ __ ] can knock out. I call passes in the midst of pain. Y’all don’t do that. Y’all ain’t never had to do that. So shut the hell up. Shut the hell up. On fire. Hold on. Talk amongst yourself. I think Fergie’s here. Hold on. Oh, man. Maybe the single greatest Michael Urban audio I’ve heard. I think that might take the cake right there. Awesome. Not unhinged, still hinged, but cussing. Let it be known. These kids don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. Michael Urban played hurt. Had to go over the middle where you get hit, right? There was none of these rules. Okay, we’ll vote on the other side. It’s time to talk with Jake Ferguson here. The Cowboys player show, the Jake Ferguson show, brought to you by Miller Light, proud sponsor of the Dallas Cowboys. And a good afternoon, Jake. How the heck are you? I’m good. How are you guys doing, man? Yeah, we are doing wonderful. It’s uh it’s it’s you know been been a lot of fun reacting to the Jets game and and getting ready for this Panthers game. And that’s where I want to start. What did you think of Rico saying buckle up? I think that’s I mean benefit of the doubt I also do know or I know Rico and he’s probably fired up which is which is cool and that’s good but you know I’m not much of the bulletin board material guy. You know what I’m saying? I’m more of just like let’s play the let’s play let’s like let’s play the game. You know what I mean? So you’re you’re not like uh like the Jordan thing where you take a little thing and then you blow it up into proportion and you obsess about it going into it. You’re more laidback. Yeah. And I mean my personal like I used to be like that for sure. Like kind of and I’m talking like probably like when I was a lot younger like uh high school maybe. But like I found out quick that a lot of the times the more juiced up like oh I’m gonna I’m gonna go crazy. You know what I mean? the more you tend to lose focus on like the little things. And don’t get me wrong, you can still play physical and stuff like that. But yeah, I just think you you can you can overflow that pot pretty quick. Well, you’re getting it figured out pretty good. I mean, I I do have your stat of the week here for you, Jake. I know you’re not paying too much in attention to it, but tied for the most receptions by a tight end through the first five games in NFL history, my man. Congrats on that. Thank you. I appreciate that. You know what? You know what goes through my head right there when you say that? What’s that? Tied and then couple of those drops early. Oh. Oh, could have been more. Could have been. Could have been. Well, I mean, both your touchdowns were pretty awesome, though. Which was your favorite and why? Are you talking last Jets? Yeah. Yes. I think uh so I think that my favorite one was the second second one. Uh the first one obviously the the setup from the big boys. Mhm. But if you watch the end of that, I’ve caught on a lot of heat from this. If you watch the end of that, I pushed T Steel away. Terrence Steel. He’s trying to celebrate with me and I push him away because I was looking for George because we had planned that stupid dance and I walk in on Monday and they’re like every single O linement I see is like man that’s crazy Jake like that’s crazy taking away TCO. I felt bad and then uh but yeah, the second one better that was my I mean first one back I was I was scrambling for the celebration but yeah second one definitely just because I got to see the big boys. Okay. Well did you I mean you couldn’t miss Nate Thomas celebrating with all the pumping. I mean he gets flagged for it but how amazing was that? Yeah that was crazy. Uh that’s the the Key and Peele skit uh the Hingleman Kringle Cringleberry or whatever, but we’re So he threw the ref threw the flag and we were like, “No.” Like what happened? Like holding we thought it was an illegal man downfield at first and then he walked past us and goes, “Yeah, he triple pumped. Can’t do that.” And he was laughing, “Oh, damn.” Two pump match then. Yeah. Yeah. It’s Yeah. He you can’t see the full thing on film, but I’m pretty sure he Yeah, it might have been five pumps. I mean, I I lost count after a little bit. Are those your favorite jerseys to wear? Those like Arctic whites? No, surprisingly. I’m I’m a Navy fan. Oo, I like the navies. I really like the navies. And then obviously the those aren’t my favorite simply because the pants aren’t comfortable. Yeah. Oh, they’re a little bit different material. Is that what it is? Yeah. If you watch that game back, you’ll see me pulling up my pant like almost anytime Dak makes a check or anything. Anytime there’s a pause on offense, just like a plumbers’s crack situation, you got to be careful. Yeah. No, it’s it’s the fact that they like ride down like they just drop. Maybe I need a belt, but they just drop down and they like cover my they like the whole like the whole knee pad covers my knee, which it sounds like it’s normal, but you like to have it a little higher. So, has there been an emphasis? Have you seen these guys dropping the football before they cross the plane of the end zone? I mean, is there any type of practice emphasis to make sure that we’re not doing that? No. I mean, that’s Yeah, I I don’t understand that one truthfully. Uh, but no, we do have a saying. We’ve had to create a saying based off of just what’s been happening uh through the through the letters and logos basically. So, it’s like three like letters and logos of the end zone. So, like three yards in. You brought up Dak and uh and and checks there, Ferg. I’ve always wondered like pre-nap, you know, because we don’t know like what is Dak checking out of a play here and there. So, what is that like? Can you take us through like pre-nap everything that’s being the audles? I know you’re probably listening for certain things, but like Dak’s development because he seems like in total command and you’ve now played with him for several years. Oh, yeah. I think this is the year. I mean, yeah, this is definitely the most vocal and like like at the line of scrimmage like we’re making checks or just being like just communicating really like at a high level and I think it’s definitely different this year than it has been in previous. But yeah, I mean we get up there and I’m that’s also a testament to this offense, you know what I mean? like how how we’re able to be coached this team, um the receiving core, the O line, making like protection checks, and then also just having Dak at the helm making those checks and also like just communicating it through to us. It completely opens up a whole new whole new game like especially in the past game. Jake Ferguson show here with you on 1053 through the fan. They’re they’re saying you become like the best security blanket for Dak since Whitten and that’s getting a lot of immediate attention. What’s the key to to developing that trust with him and and to being uh you know so reliable for him right now? Yeah, I think you know it like if first thing if you’re talking like checkdowns and stuff like that like like whether I’m chipping off the line or you know it’s just a little short route like that’s a testament to the receivers and our receiving core like like those guys have to drop back into coverage and or else you know we’re taking a shot and you saw that last week with like Florenoi and stuff like that and some of those young guys stepping up but like sometimes they have to drop you know into crazy quarters and like take away the deep shots and then that’s when those checkdowns hit. But at the same time, like the connection with Dak that like we’re we’re trying to establish and keep going. Obviously, um you know, I think that starts like pre like pre-season, pre-otas going, you know, we were going golf and he he took the whole receiving core um out to Georgia and you know, we do throwing sessions as well as workouts as well as just hanging out, getting to know each other. And that kind of that kind of stuff coming from your quarterback is it’s so easy to buy in. And like when you’re thinking of, you know, the quarterback flying lead and we’ll fly wing, like that’s exactly what you want from your quarterback and your lead guy. And and he’s doing exactly that. And then, you know, I mean, we’re both trying to break a 100 on the golf course when it’s off seasonason. So that’s also a pretty big, you know, connection right there. How’s that going for you? Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. terrible. I’ve been I’ I’ve broken it a couple times. I was There was one point I was in the low 90s, but then obviously fall camp hits and you don’t want to go because, you know, your back starts to go and stuff like that. But yeah, it’s just it’s all about connection. And that’s also kind of what Shotti has been preaching is, you know, like something that separates us is is our connection with one another and like how we get to know each other as men. Because then once you get to know a guy, you you’ll be willing to go to war for him like and you like it’s that’s just how it goes, you know what I mean? And it’s it’s it’s all throughout the whole the whole team. Hey Jake, you guys are going to connect on one of those seam passes. It looked like to me that your eyes were back quick. Like you were expecting that ball a little bit earlier than maybe than do you think you were going to get it before he got to the to the end zone? Yeah, you hit that you hit that on the money. I So I could have Yeah, you hit that exactly on the money. I got really excited cuz if you watch that he’s dropping the guy the guys in the seams dropping from the A gap, right? And cuz he’s all he’s mugged up and they’re they’re disguising some stuff or whatever. Sure. And I took three steps. I go, “This is my ball.” Yeah. And I I turned around when I should have just kept running, but Yeah. Yeah. No, that’s uh that’s one I wish I that’s the one there’s two I wish I could have had back from that game and that was three actually. Yeah. I didn’t mean to bring that one up, but I just I just remember watching the game and think I was sitting there thinking like gosh dang, he was expecting the ball almost like a hot like you like sometimes you get that you just the how quickly you got your eyes back to him. I was sitting there thinking, man, he was he was thinking he was going to get that ball right now is what it was. Yeah, I Yeah, I blew my lot on that one. That one was no good. Well, that was very graphic. Uh what what do you think about this Panthers defense because just watching them and and obviously we don’t I don’t have a trained eye. Brian does here, but it seems like you’re going to have some opportunities against this Carolina defense. Yeah, there’s there’s definitely, you know, there’s spots in it and there’s things we could take advantage of. I think um I think it’s going to start with the O line first and foremost and then obviously Tay running the ball. That’s how I think the ball or the game should always go being a Wisconsin guy. But, uh, no, there’s definitely there’s definitely opportunities and and you know, I think, uh, we got a great game plan and we’re still working on it as well. But, uh, no, we’re definitely we’re definitely making good strides. Could you give us the Jake Ferguson food review rating of the Cats Deli Sanders you guys got in the post game? Yeah, I I liked it. I liked it. However, I probably I’m I got it when I was cold cuz I came out late. Yeah, but I don’t know. I’m just not a cold sandwich guy, honestly. No, you need the hot pastrami. Uh, we’re going to have to redo We’re going to have to redo this for you. What was it? I thought they came cold, though. Like, I thought that was Or were they supposed to be hot? Cats, I think usually is pretty hot. They like pull them right out. They’re carving them on the board. And that that’s a hot pastrami sandwich right there. Supposed to be hot for you. Corn beef pastrami. They’re taking that right out of the bin and putting it right on your on the block and and serving that thing up. Okay. Yeah, I probably just got it at the wrong time. You got screwed. What about quick for what it was? Girl Scout cookie. I did a top 10 Girl Scout cookies earlier. What’s your favorite? I’m the peanut butter ones with the tag. That was number one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’m definitely peanut butter ones and then I do like a I can only do one sleeve of mints before I tap out. Like I can’t overdo mints, but they’re good. Yeah. No doubt. Slightly chilled. Slightly chilled. Yes. Lit. Almost every chocolate is for me going in the freezer. Okay, there you go. Like that style. Yeah, 100%. Well, if if you’re hungry tomorrow after practice, we’re going to be at Cold Beers and Cheeseburgers in Ulis. I just want to invite you. We’ll have a hot burger waiting for you. Where’s that at? How far is that from Frisco? I don’t know. What do you think? 20 20 minutes or so? Bit of a haul. Bit of a haul. At least 20 to 30 minutes. 30 minutes. See if Jerry will lend you the helicopter out there on the on the field, practice field. Just jump on and come see us. We’ll have a hell of a time in uh in in Charlotte and and give him hell. We’ll be pulling for you, Jake. Yes, sir. Fellas, appreciate you guys. Salute. There he goes. Jake Ferguson brought to you by Miller Light every Thursday about 5:20 here in the Gag Nation. We’ll go back into the pimp cup. We got a champ. We got two challengers. Lucius, time to vote. Uh let’s see. Do we have two challengers? What did I play? Costco and Playmaker. Okay. Yeah. Playmaker’s going to win today. You know, telling you right now, I my my reign is about over. Boy, you should see it here. The unedited version. Mike was really cing up storm. I don’t blame him. I don’t blame him. It’s disrespectful. Uh yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Hey, hey, hey. Where am I at? Oh, dude. K’s going. Oh, yeah. This isn’t one. This isn’t one. But I have this forest. This old lady, I mean, she’s old, got pulled over for speeding. Ma’am, I stopped you for speeding. You were going 112. 112 back there said 112. That is highway 112, not the speed limit sign. That was good stuff. Highway 112. Yeah. All right. And yesterday was a church day. Pray you got your blessing. Shout out to my Reverend Dr. Pastor. Freddy Hands. Get better, sir. Get better. We’re praying for you. Sunday worship got off to a rough start. I know a name like silence rolling away. All right, church. Good morning. How we doing this morning? We’re going to stop for a moment. Stop. Stop. Stop. Hit the red button. How many how many of us know sometimes plans just don’t according the plans don’t go according to our plans. So, can we just take a moment right now? And there’s many things that I can get you to do, but one thing that I’m going to get you to do right now is just give Jesus a big shot of praise so that we can reset this moment. Reset. Reset. Reset. We got to reset. Cut him off in the middle of him singing, bro. Yeah. Yep. It’s not the worship music we had in mind. Come on, man. I didn’t think he was doing much of a better job. That’s the funniest part to me. Yeah, funny. Which one’s worse? Mark A or B on Scandron. Oh, thank you very much. Is it a AI brought us our champ? Is it the Costco crash out? You’re an idiot. Is it the muscle Michael Irvin? Yeah, I think I want to hear that one again. Or is it your Sunday worship? I’m going to go Costco Crash Out. This is tough. I could go either way on this, Chief. How about you? I’ll go with the playmaker. Lucious Big Mike. Wuk, I’ll go with the Costco Crash Out to make it fun. Oh, right. Playmaker by a score of 3 to2. And your new Gag of the Day champion, it’s Michael Irvin, bringing the heat to these young whippers snappers that have no respect for how they did it in the ’90s. Let them know, Mike. Hey, Luc, just real quick for you just real real quick. Yeah. The story of Texas State Highway 112 maybe here. There’s three 112s, right, from your previous which is which you 112. The highway dwell. Yeah. 112. Highway 112. There’s one in Texas. It used to be Highway 69, but there was so much vandalism to the signs. So much vandalism to the signs, they named it Highway 112. I don’t blame him. This is a pretty cool sign to have. Let’s go back to Lucious in a pimp for LA live. Hey, ladies night. All right. [Music] Fire up this. [Applause] [Music] It’ll make you dance everything [Music] with you. Yeah, I’m a witch you ladies. I want all the ladies to know that we with you. Now, what that means is when we first meet you, we’ll go out with you. We’ll drink with you. We’ll take you to dinner, go to dinner with you, go even over your folks house with you. But the first time you start asking us to cash out your money and I’ve been knowing you three days, we do with you. Yeah, we through. We through, ladies. This is LA Live for Thursday, October 9th, 2025. It is a Thursday, Thursday, ladies night edition. Shout out to all the toll old ladies that listen to this station. You are appreciated. Tupac cares if nobody else cares. How about that? LA Live is sponsored by Greystone Roofing and Construction. That is greystone-roofing.com. Game three of the WNBA finals last night. Did anybody catch any of that? No, sir. I did when I got home. They got to redo their schedule. Yeah. Having it here in October where you have every other sport going, nobody is paying attention to your sport, they they need to do better for these ladies. Okay. I’m not mad at that. I’m not mad at that. Las Vegas aces versus Phoenix Mercury. Mercuries. Yes. Yes. WNBA. I mean, yeah. WNBA MVP and Vegas Ace Asia Wilson hit a clutch game-winning shot with 2.2 left on the clock. Yeah, it was clutch. It was so clutch. She hit the game winner over a married couple. By the way, she is the first athlete in history to hit a game-winning shot over a married couple. Wow. A married couple. Bro, that Instagram live stream stuff. Huh? I don’t know. They have a podcast together. Yeah. I can’t remember the name of it. I might say something vulgar right now, so I’m not going to do it. Stud Bugs. Yes. Yes. That is crazy. That is crazy. That is crazy. Dana Bonner and Alyssa Thomas are married and they play for the Mercury. Wow. Yeah. Shout out to Sabali, too. Defense. She was with us, right? She was she was a second overall pick. She was left in free agency. Yep. Yep. That’s crazy, man. Uh I’ve heard I’m pretty sure this is going to be a weird situation at the house. We both got shot on. Gamewinning shots. Game three, it’s over with. That was our last little thing we had. Your fault then it’s your fault. Yeah, I told you, girl. Get her. Uh, sticking with the same sex vibes, Governor Greg Abbott is threatening to withhold funding for roads if they do not remove rainbow crosswalks. Oh jeez. Colorful, right? Jeez, bro. What are we doing? Yeah. What are we doing? Rainbow crosswalks. It’s the gabhood. It’s the neighborhood. Let them have a rainbow crosswalk. Clearly Greg Abbott has not been to the neighborhood over there in Cedar Springs, but honests old-fashioned hamburgers. Yeah. When And it’s a great hamburger, too. Yeah. Honest. I love it. They call your name. Number 33. You get up there, he’s like, “Here you go, sweetie.” All right. Customer service right there. Here you go, sweet. Ketchup and napkins in that thing for me, please. There you go. Little attab boy on your way out. Some good food over there. Streets Fine Chicken. That taco place that you go to after 2:00 if you’ve been drinking. Uh, I think there’s a bar called Woody’s

The Stars open their NHL season tonight with a playoff rematch against the Jets, who they eliminated in last year’s second round. .Meanwhile, the Cowboys take on the Panthers this weekend in a Week 6 battle of the 2-win teams. Neither team was expected to be a playoff contender this season, but the winner could be in the hunt as the season nears the midpoint. Dak has been playing at an elite level, averaging 271 yards a game and 10 touchdowns, keeping Dallas competitive despite defensive struggles and injuries.

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