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Speaker 1: Now your hosts Bury Church, Danny McCray, and NEWI Scrugs.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Monday. The Dallas Cowboys take a twenty three
Speaker 1: to nine loss on Sunday Night football to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: With a chance to go into first place, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: lose their third straight football game. I'm doing Scrugs, longtime
Speaker 1: Cowboys reporter, joined by former Dallas Cowboys safety's Barry Church
Speaker 1: and Danny McCray. All right, McCray, you you're right. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know your pick was pretty much the closest of
Speaker 1: the picks that we had on Friday. You would dick
Speaker 1: today thirty to fourteen Philly when I went thirty two
Speaker 1: to ten Philly and Church with twenty four to seventeen Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So but pray you you were the closest to mark
Speaker 1: on it. Listen, absolutely, you know I'm not gonna try
Speaker 1: to steal the Nostra Dumin's name, but uh, I think
Speaker 1: I'm doing a little better than than than that guy.
Speaker 1: And you got one game. You one game. Listen, knew it,
Speaker 1: knew it if you really think about it. My pick
Speaker 1: and your pick got him to flip his pick over
Speaker 1: because it sounded like he was going with the Eagles,
Speaker 1: I mean with the Cowboys beating the Eagles before we
Speaker 1: got to Friday's pick. So I'm just saying, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, one game, one game, one game is cool,
Speaker 1: and that one game that I picked, you still lost
Speaker 1: the spread in that one. So I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: it's just not good for you. Bro. What was your
Speaker 1: score this game? What game? What did you for? Dick?
Speaker 1: I picked thirty to ten. That was the final score.
Speaker 1: You went, You went thirty to uh, thirty to fourteen, fourteen,
Speaker 1: thirty to fourteen. Oh yeah, I said. I said that
Speaker 1: we would score on special teams, or we would score
Speaker 1: defensive touch down, some some type of spark play, which
Speaker 1: we got. We got a very very close hold on
Speaker 1: hold on it was my score again. You went twenty
Speaker 1: four to seventeen, Philly. I mean Dallas Dallas winning Dallas Dallas.
Speaker 1: How is how is the mass picked closer than mine?
Speaker 1: You picked the Cowboys to win? No? I didn't, No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: he changed. He changes the Philly at the end, he
Speaker 1: changed the Philly. Wait wait wait, let me let me check,
Speaker 1: let me check, let me check, let me check. Grab
Speaker 1: that handy bad, grab all that don't want go in
Speaker 1: my name. No s jomis around. Like he said. He
Speaker 1: said the cowboys, he said, the cowboys with cover. The
Speaker 1: heck is wrong with what you were doing. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: said the Cowboys would cover. They did not. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: did not not. They did not cover. So basically, Church,
Speaker 1: you went one. We went one on one on this bet,
Speaker 1: we went two, and because we got, we got the
Speaker 1: winner and we got the spread curred. Now, if we
Speaker 1: were betting in Vegas where they just sit around here
Speaker 1: and they just say you gotta way about the spread,
Speaker 1: you definitely would have lost your money. But this is true.
Speaker 1: I would have lost my fifty cent on that one.
Speaker 1: Here's what's crazy. We all thought the Cowboys would score
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Danny, you thought they'd scored two. Church, you
Speaker 1: thought they scored two. They have not scored a touchdown
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, gentleman, And that is because we're
Speaker 1: talking about things that haven't happened since the franchise started
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty. We're talking about that type of utility
Speaker 1: here where the offense cannot score any points. And while
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott is not playing, Dak Prescott is making himself
Speaker 1: a lot of money by not playing, just by the
Speaker 1: simple fact that this team cannot generate anything at all.
Speaker 1: I said, I was excited to see Ben d Nucci
Speaker 1: on Friday, and I was excited for the first possession,
Speaker 1: and the excitement stopped. It stopped, man, and you just
Speaker 1: realized that knew it, knew he Come on, man, you
Speaker 1: was you was not excited to see he was not
Speaker 1: excited to see the Nucci. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Listen and listen and listen. If you if you're being
Speaker 1: real with yourself, you're excitement on the first drive was
Speaker 1: double reverse reverse wildcat. It was. It wasn't even excitement
Speaker 1: for something that Ben de Nucci was doing. It was
Speaker 1: it was the play calling that he was pulling out
Speaker 1: of there for Boys State. So no, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear nothing about being excited for the Nucci.
Speaker 1: Church thought he was gonna be the guy yes or
Speaker 1: swag and all that sort of stuff. He was swag
Speaker 1: lists out there and bumbling the ball, you know, overthrowing people.
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for Gallup catching those those extended running
Speaker 1: players that that I talked about they needed to do that,
Speaker 1: it would have been way way worse than it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was kind of. It was tough, man.
Speaker 1: It was a tough outing for my boy de Nucci
Speaker 1: out there. You know, I thought coming into this game
Speaker 1: he might have had a spark, he might have showed something.
Speaker 1: We heard all about this twenty one mile an hour speed.
Speaker 1: And I'll be honest with you, man, he couldn't turn
Speaker 1: the corner on anybody out there, and he just looked
Speaker 1: kind of I mean, I understand it was his first start,
Speaker 1: he didn't have any ltas, he didn't have any preseason games,
Speaker 1: but he did kind of look, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: timid out there. I don't know if the moment was
Speaker 1: too big. He just kind of looked kind of scared
Speaker 1: out there to me. But overall, there goes my camera
Speaker 1: messing up there. At least they're not showing you right now.
Speaker 1: They showing the screen. They showing the screen. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you this. Let me tell you this because I
Speaker 1: went on Twitter last night and I posted, do we
Speaker 1: have a one hundred million dollars receiver? And man, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, some of the people they've miss understood
Speaker 1: what I was saying, and they went back and forth
Speaker 1: for all this time. I'm sitting here watching Gallup catch passes.
Speaker 1: I'm watching CD LAMB catcher pass, I'm watching shots cats,
Speaker 1: I'm watching everybody catcher pass except the guy that's making
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars. And it's supposed to be our
Speaker 1: best playmaker. If that's our best playmaker, you should design
Speaker 1: someplace to get the ball in his hands, be it
Speaker 1: run or past handoff catch, any of that. The only
Speaker 1: player that I've seen and they had designed was I
Speaker 1: think one of the receivers was running the double reverse.
Speaker 1: He was supposed to throw it to Coop and he
Speaker 1: ended up getting stopped before that by I think by
Speaker 1: Fletcher cops. But so, yeah, yeah, it does. It doesn't
Speaker 1: make no sense to me how you don't plan to
Speaker 1: have this guy get the ball in his hands because
Speaker 1: he's one of the most dynamic players that we have
Speaker 1: on the roster. I don't understand that. So, Danny, what
Speaker 1: you're saying is Kellen Moore did not call a good
Speaker 1: game in your eyes. No no, no, no, no, no
Speaker 1: no no. I'm saying that the same thing I've been
Speaker 1: saying since the beginning of the season. The offense should
Speaker 1: go around twenty one. At that time, it was four
Speaker 1: and nineteen. We've seen what nineteen can do when he
Speaker 1: gets the ball in his hands and you give him
Speaker 1: some time to make a guy miss any of that.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen the offensive offensive plan be that. And
Speaker 1: it was it was that for Gallup last last night.
Speaker 1: It was that for the tight end that last night,
Speaker 1: and it was that for Ceedee Lamb last night, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't that for nineteen. And it doesn't make any
Speaker 1: sense to me. I'm not saying he called a bad game.
Speaker 1: I thought he started off with some creative stuff. He
Speaker 1: tried to go to the well too many times on
Speaker 1: the reverse and then you know, it just kind of
Speaker 1: fell apart. But you have to get nineteen involved one
Speaker 1: because he's making a hundred million dollars too, because we've
Speaker 1: seen what he can do with a little bit of
Speaker 1: space if you give him an opportunity. Amari Cooper got
Speaker 1: his first catch in the fourth quarter. He ended up
Speaker 1: with five targets and one catch in this football game.
Speaker 1: Had your fantasy against a depleted secondary, yeah, out of
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, so he wasn't able to do nothing
Speaker 1: against those boys. I mean that that's a bad sign, man,
Speaker 1: that is a bad sign. Yeah. My fantasy team has
Speaker 1: Zeke and Coop on it. So luckily, I'm playing a
Speaker 1: guy that scored to score very low. So I'll be
Speaker 1: all right because I got Tampa's deef us tonight, so
Speaker 1: and I got Lena Fournette, so I'll make up some points.
Speaker 1: But you know, besides that, I'm just tired of seeing
Speaker 1: us have a hundred million dollar guy and we're not
Speaker 1: acting like he's a hundred million dollar guy. And it's
Speaker 1: and at some point it's not even his fault. It's like, Bro,
Speaker 1: you're the offensive coordinator. You're looking at this guy and
Speaker 1: you're not gonna give him a chance to make some
Speaker 1: of those big players that you're giving other people chances
Speaker 1: to make it. And so it is perplexing to me.
Speaker 1: So are you not putting are you not putting anything
Speaker 1: on him? Are you saying, like, you know, basically as
Speaker 1: the play call and that's got him out of his
Speaker 1: rhythm or he just can't get open against anybody out
Speaker 1: there are you? How are you putting that last last night?
Speaker 1: I'm putting it on the play call because you didn't
Speaker 1: have been the Lucie back there. So you can't expect
Speaker 1: him to be throwing seeing routs the coop and and
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of out routes and you know something creative.
Speaker 1: But you can find a way to get the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands if you watch, let's say this compared
Speaker 1: to the Rams and Robert Woods. Robert Woods doesn't only
Speaker 1: catch passes down the field, he gets jet sweeps. He
Speaker 1: it's creative ways to give him the ball. You see
Speaker 1: him with a rust TD, you see what receiving TV.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you might even see him with a PASTD. These
Speaker 1: guys are are are there, big time players and they're
Speaker 1: finding ways to get the ball in these guys hands.
Speaker 1: And we haven't done that specifically with a Mark Cooper.
Speaker 1: And now is going to Zeke. You know, besides a
Speaker 1: couple of wildcat plays, you know him and Paulard are
Speaker 1: getting almost the same amount of snaps, like meaningful snaps.
Speaker 1: I don't understand, do you think, but do you think
Speaker 1: the Zeke deserves more snaps? Absolutely? That's what the rock
Speaker 1: in his hands yes, yes, let me tell you why.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you why, because if you discredit and
Speaker 1: Zeke based off just this the beginning of this season
Speaker 1: and you forget what he's done for us to get
Speaker 1: him paid, then you're you're making a mistake. This guy
Speaker 1: still has the ability to make those big plays you
Speaker 1: have to get give him an opportunity to get some
Speaker 1: runs fall forward. And then I've seen people like saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: well he ran the wrong way on one play. Listen,
Speaker 1: he's done that before and he's running for twenty or
Speaker 1: thirty yards. So you can't just tell those running backs
Speaker 1: to follow follow a certain way. These guys are playmakers
Speaker 1: because they see stuff that we can't see and sometimes
Speaker 1: they work and sometimes it doesn't. But that's not a
Speaker 1: way a reason to discredit him and say, look, get
Speaker 1: polity in because he hit the gap faster than Zeke did.
Speaker 1: That's dumb. But Danny, I'll back you up on this.
Speaker 1: And here's how I'm backing you up. In this game,
Speaker 1: is Zekla had nineteen carries. Do you realize Boston Scott
Speaker 1: had just four less carries than him? And Ben d
Speaker 1: Nucci throw the ball forty times. Okay, I got a
Speaker 1: problem with that forty times for a rookie quarterback. We
Speaker 1: know what Dak Prescott's throwing the ball forty times and
Speaker 1: Tony Romos throwing the ball forty times, Detroitman, when you
Speaker 1: just look at Cowboy history, when these guys are throwing
Speaker 1: the ball forty times plus some more in the game,
Speaker 1: they're losing. There's no way in the world that kid
Speaker 1: needs to be throwing the ball forty times. And Zeke
Speaker 1: only had nineteen carries. You gave him ninety million dollars.
Speaker 1: Can you please use the guy? How did the Cowboys
Speaker 1: get good? How did Jason Garrett win Coach of the Year.
Speaker 1: How did they get a number one seed twenty sixteen?
Speaker 1: It was because they went with the run game. When
Speaker 1: you look at the first three years of his career,
Speaker 1: this thing was built around Ezeko Elliot and they won
Speaker 1: football games. I go back to DeMarco Murray's last year
Speaker 1: and what I considered the best year of football for
Speaker 1: Tony Romo. They were running the football and using the
Speaker 1: play action pass. I'm sorry, Mike mccarthur, this is the
Speaker 1: one thing I asked him about in his press conference,
Speaker 1: and I feared that twenty one would not get used properly.
Speaker 1: They should run this dude until his tongue falls off.
Speaker 1: Man should be hanging out after games. Man, he should
Speaker 1: be sore walking after games. Man. Nineteen carries against this
Speaker 1: team in which you one time of possession and they
Speaker 1: were trying to give you the win. Man, that's just
Speaker 1: not good. Little and I agree with both of you
Speaker 1: guys are saying. I think Zeke needs to get more
Speaker 1: carries and they need to get him more involved. But
Speaker 1: when we go back to those other teams that the
Speaker 1: Marco Murray teams or success Jason Garrett had even with
Speaker 1: Zeke early in his season, they all had one thing
Speaker 1: in common. They had that solidified offensive line there. They
Speaker 1: had somebody to lean on and can get Zeke when
Speaker 1: he get touched until he was five yards down the line.
Speaker 1: So for me, I do think he needs to get
Speaker 1: the ball more. I do need to think they need
Speaker 1: to incorporate him more. And for me, I'm putting this
Speaker 1: more on killing more than anybody because the straw to
Speaker 1: me that broke the camel's back man just had me
Speaker 1: frustrated and almost turned the TV off. Was I think
Speaker 1: we were I think it was either the second half
Speaker 1: of the first half, we're driving. The ball was strictly runs.
Speaker 1: I mean it was like Zeke here, left, Zeke right,
Speaker 1: paul It here, paul It here, and out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: I mean it was like, I don't even know how
Speaker 1: to explain it, but out of nowhere we pull out
Speaker 1: some double reverse out of I don't even know where
Speaker 1: it came from, lost ten yards. Flexer Cox came in
Speaker 1: there blew the whole play up. I think it was
Speaker 1: gonna be a double reverse pass by Cedric Wilson, and
Speaker 1: that just blew all our momentum. I mean it was
Speaker 1: just to me, I just couldn't understand the play call,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of frustrating like that all night long.
Speaker 1: So for me, I gotta put this one on k
Speaker 1: moore man and go here with killing more too. This is,
Speaker 1: this is, this is And this also made me upset
Speaker 1: because I'm watching the game and I'm listening to us.
Speaker 1: You know how we talk about you should predicate the
Speaker 1: game off the run game, and then you know, after that, dude,
Speaker 1: play action. I think we ran like two running plays,
Speaker 1: one of them was out of Wildcat, and then we
Speaker 1: came and ran play action on first down the next
Speaker 1: drive and I was like, we haven't sold them on
Speaker 1: the run, and they blew it up. Bro, nobody fell forward.
Speaker 1: I think I think he got hitting them off. And
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there like, nobody believe was the she was
Speaker 1: about to run that ball, bro, because they've seen what
Speaker 1: you've done in the past, and we're on the second
Speaker 1: drive of the game. You haven't even done anything to
Speaker 1: make them believe that Zeke is a problem. And you
Speaker 1: go out here and you're running on first on first down,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, this is they created a
Speaker 1: play calling is out of there. It's gone. Now it's gone.
Speaker 1: And look, kids a little and I'm sorry to go
Speaker 1: ahead and keep pounding on my guy, the Nucci here.
Speaker 1: But little kids that are watching the show and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Look, there's only one Patrick Mahomes, all right,
Speaker 1: this is the one guy that can throw the throw
Speaker 1: it behind his backthrow it black. There's only one of those,
Speaker 1: all right. My guy came out here yesterday last night
Speaker 1: and he threw about three or four of those little
Speaker 1: side like he was trying to manipulate the ball around
Speaker 1: defenders should have had more than one intercepted. A look,
Speaker 1: just just to throw the ball regular. There's only one.
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes, don't try that side on the stuff. It
Speaker 1: ain't gonna work. Man. Let me let me get one
Speaker 1: more on the Nuccie because knew you on Twitter, just
Speaker 1: like I am Church. I'm not sure how often you
Speaker 1: on there, but the internet is still undefeated. All right.
Speaker 1: Somebody goes back and they find a tweet from the
Speaker 1: Nucci back in twenty fourteen talking about how horrible Tony
Speaker 1: Romo is and we go out there and we see
Speaker 1: you talk. You talk about full circle, all right, and
Speaker 1: not knowing what you also for this kids, be be careful,
Speaker 1: right if you have aspirations to play in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, be careful of how you critique some of
Speaker 1: these players, because they don't find it. They come back
Speaker 1: and get you. How do you feel about that tweet?
Speaker 1: Now the Nucci come on man, twenty fourteen. They carry
Speaker 1: your receipts from twenty fourteen. Oh man, ain't nobody say it?
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody. They're gonna find it. Man, if you go
Speaker 1: out there still come to join it like you did,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's what happens. You know, Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: thank God for Gallup. I'm telling you, because without Gallup
Speaker 1: and them throwing those little sharp passes. It would have
Speaker 1: just been atrocious fellas for me. And we're getting on
Speaker 1: Calla Moore about the lack of play calling when it
Speaker 1: comes to running the football, Philadelphia was worse. I mean,
Speaker 1: here was a team in the first and first half
Speaker 1: for a while, they were averaging seven yards per carry,
Speaker 1: and they stopped running the football and didn't let Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz not only throw the football like I was, throwing
Speaker 1: interceptions and just doing dumb stuff. My gosh, direct the
Speaker 1: regression of Carson Wentz sad. I mean, it is sad.
Speaker 1: Michael Lombardi, Michael Lombardi called him broken from NFL Jim
Speaker 1: He's called him a broken quarterback. I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's probably right, but I couldn't, for the life for
Speaker 1: me understand why, Phillies, folks, Doug Peter's why were you
Speaker 1: all reluctant to run the football against the team that
Speaker 1: was giving up one hundred and seventy two yards a
Speaker 1: game at Boston. Scott was out here looking like young
Speaker 1: Darren Sprawls. I just shook my head watching this, and
Speaker 1: I'm just very frustrated as a football fan as I'm
Speaker 1: just sitting here saying, wait a minute, why are we
Speaker 1: trying to be cute. If you've got something that's working,
Speaker 1: if you're running, make them stop the run. It's simple football.
Speaker 1: But everyone is so in love with throwing the football, man,
Speaker 1: And for me, it's one of my biggest pet peeves
Speaker 1: when I see these coaches who are either head coach
Speaker 1: through quarterbacks or these offensive coordinators who are former quarterback,
Speaker 1: because it always goes to the very thing of throw, throw, throw,
Speaker 1: throw through. Bill Parcels used to have an issue with
Speaker 1: that stuff, and he's like, man, you have to make
Speaker 1: these play callers run the ball because they all want
Speaker 1: to sit up here and throw. They all want to
Speaker 1: tell you how creative they are. And my goodness, gracious
Speaker 1: Philly loses that game against the team with a winning record,
Speaker 1: they will this team's going nowhere fast. We already know it.
Speaker 1: But just the idiocy to watch Philadelphia put Carson went
Speaker 1: further into a hole that this man was diggy. It
Speaker 1: was just that was just that was that was hard
Speaker 1: to watch. Man. I'm sitting there and watching it from
Speaker 1: a cowboy perspective, guys, but I'm like, what are they doing?
Speaker 1: This is bad? I knew it. I can tell you.
Speaker 1: I can tell you exactly what they were doing, all right.
Speaker 1: Peterson was on the sideline saying, look, if Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: throws the ball with any type of accuracy, just any
Speaker 1: type of accuracy, we will have fulgam on twenty seven
Speaker 1: all day long. And that he called it, and he
Speaker 1: called it, and he called it. After a while he
Speaker 1: realized Carson Wentz was just throwing Aaron thows that didn't
Speaker 1: make no sense, but it was barbecue checking out there
Speaker 1: for a man twenty seven. I'm glad he got those
Speaker 1: two picks because Carson Wentz, you know, he threw him
Speaker 1: right to him and he made the plays. But this
Speaker 1: dude is gonna have a long season of guys going
Speaker 1: at his neck for speaking for the entire game. Speaking
Speaker 1: of twenty seven, man, you know, I gotta give my
Speaker 1: guy a little bit of kudos. Man. I mean, his
Speaker 1: memory is just it's unbelievil. You say you gotta have
Speaker 1: a short term memory when you're playing defensive back. I
Speaker 1: mean this, he gotta have. He gotta be the best
Speaker 1: at that. I mean he's gotten beat left and right,
Speaker 1: but then all of a sudden he turns around and
Speaker 1: makes a miraculous play. And he's getting up. No, no,
Speaker 1: like it's just I mean, he got the intangibles. Man,
Speaker 1: he just gotta work with his technique a little bit.
Speaker 1: But he's definitely a fighter, and he's somebody you know
Speaker 1: you could go to war with, you know, you know
Speaker 1: I could. I could definitely see him as a teammate.
Speaker 1: So I got I got a little bit kudos, even
Speaker 1: though he was getting skirt out there a little bit.
Speaker 1: See with that second kind, you can see it with
Speaker 1: that second kind. I don't know about that, you know,
Speaker 1: come on, don't the deuce, don't do come on, come on,
Speaker 1: do it right now, right now. He's earned a tender.
Speaker 1: Right now, he's earned a tender. He'll he'll get his
Speaker 1: tender after for I don't know about second year day.
Speaker 1: He earned the tender. He earned a tender off that game.
Speaker 1: The fight alone, the light alone, man, the fight alone. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you you can go to war with that.
Speaker 1: You can go to war with desolitely. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: that's what got your look talking about just fight. We
Speaker 1: don't care if you give up nine fight game out,
Speaker 1: fight still only a game out. As a coach, is
Speaker 1: that former Dallas Cowboys coach once said fight is the
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Speaker 1: few weeks with a high ankle sprain for the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine and forty nine Ers. Tight End George
Speaker 1: Kittle expected to miss eight weeks with a broken bone
Speaker 1: in his foot. So the forty nine season is it's
Speaker 1: getting tougher now say this, They'll probably be better off
Speaker 1: without Jimmy Garoppolo, who played horrible football yesterday. I think
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback over in San Francisco is a better
Speaker 1: football player, But no, George Kittle is going to hurt. Now.
Speaker 1: The dumbest thing I saw yesterday, gentlemen, I think you
Speaker 1: probably will agree with me, is happening in the Bears
Speaker 1: and the Saints game in Chicago, when Chicago wide receiver
Speaker 1: Javon Wims got suspended two games for fighting. Sitting up
Speaker 1: here punching a Saints player in the helmet. In the helmet,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? It got himself kicked out of
Speaker 1: the game. So you lose two game checks, and so
Speaker 1: I dived into the numbers to see, Okay, so what
Speaker 1: exactly is young mister WiM's making. He makes two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars this year, seven seven hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars this year, so that's what he's making.
Speaker 1: So you've just lost two game checks. Man, This is
Speaker 1: I mean, this is just and you're you're hitting a helmet, okay,
Speaker 1: since you're not even hurt the guy. Um, that's just
Speaker 1: the dumbest thing I've ever seen, guys, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was dumb. One yeah, it was dumb one two accounts. One,
Speaker 1: First of all, you're losing paychecks, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: And then too, what damage do you think you're gonna
Speaker 1: inflict on somebody? What a helmet on? I mean, these
Speaker 1: guys are going at each other, hitting helmet to helmet,
Speaker 1: going you know, fastest. Heck, do you think your fist
Speaker 1: is gonna go through there and do some damage? I mean,
Speaker 1: that was probably one of the dumbest I don't care
Speaker 1: what twenty two did beforehand. He said he disrespected him somehow,
Speaker 1: some way. But you're telling me each one of those
Speaker 1: punches you're thrown is worth that losing that paycheck. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just outstanding to me that people do some of
Speaker 1: the dumbest stuff. I mean, like I always stop, you know,
Speaker 1: fighting on the football field, not even in practice. It's
Speaker 1: just a waste of energy. Man. You're already tired from
Speaker 1: going at each other banging all the time, and now
Speaker 1: you want to start fighting and wasting even more energy
Speaker 1: and missing paychecks. You're right now, this is probably the
Speaker 1: dumbest thing out of seeing maybe in my whole career.
Speaker 1: It was stupid. It was stupid. It's dumb to me
Speaker 1: for two reasons. One, like I said, it looked so unprovoked,
Speaker 1: like like nothing was going on. You weren't have to
Speaker 1: do like you tried to make a whole theatrical thing
Speaker 1: out of it. That's dumb. One, he should be released,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, if I was GM probably goes there.
Speaker 1: He would be straight up released off the team. One,
Speaker 1: you don't have no respect for the game all your teammates,
Speaker 1: because if you watch that game, that play changed everything
Speaker 1: for them. They went and lost fifteen yards after that,
Speaker 1: I think they had to punt and then you know,
Speaker 1: whatever happened, then the Saints end up coming back and
Speaker 1: coming and winning the game. So in my mind, he
Speaker 1: cost him the game. He he don't had no respect
Speaker 1: for us teammatesers. They out there fighting and Clawn trying
Speaker 1: to come back doing everything they can, and you cost
Speaker 1: them that. And then you just don't have no respect
Speaker 1: for anybody, bro because you like, that's some stuff you
Speaker 1: might see on the street. You don't see that on
Speaker 1: the football field. You know, usually it's like somebody going
Speaker 1: too hard on the play and then they just get
Speaker 1: locked up and do you see some punchers throw It
Speaker 1: was nothing like that. If you if you ever had
Speaker 1: the chance to go watching. You gotta go see it,
Speaker 1: because just us saying that somebody threw some punches is
Speaker 1: not telling them the whole story. It was. It was bad,
Speaker 1: It was just so. And then like I don't understand,
Speaker 1: like when he threw the first punch and the dude
Speaker 1: didn't react Number twenty two for them Saints. He got
Speaker 1: hit and he didn't react. He kind of just looked around,
Speaker 1: like what is this dude doing? And then he just
Speaker 1: had to provoke it even more and throw another one
Speaker 1: and jump on top of the guy. I mean, this
Speaker 1: might have been the dumbest thing I've seen since twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen when Fournette ran off the bench to go fight
Speaker 1: the dude from the Buffalo Bills, so that I mean,
Speaker 1: those two these are both similar, and it was just
Speaker 1: some of the dumbest things I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: That was crazy. Now, I know good mathematician, but when
Speaker 1: I broke it down, and I'm just thinking of the
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: he has in terms of roster bonuses or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but I just went in there and broke down a
Speaker 1: seven hundred fifty thousand dollars and just you know, two
Speaker 1: game checks and he's going to miss that's ninety four
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Man, that's that's that man, And he's probably
Speaker 1: not gonna see the rest of them because, like mccrai said,
Speaker 1: he you know, he might be released after this. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if he was. Like you're telling
Speaker 1: me that fight, those couple of punches are worth that,
Speaker 1: I mean it is. Man, that's a mistake. Let me
Speaker 1: let me, let me help your math out. Because they're
Speaker 1: up there in Chicago, and I played up there in Chicago,
Speaker 1: and they state taxes they got they got state tax
Speaker 1: up there, right, So if you say seven fifty, you
Speaker 1: know you almost cut that in half. I give a
Speaker 1: little leeway. You're looking somewhere like three sixty three seventy
Speaker 1: minus ninety to fold taxes. Man, you out there playing
Speaker 1: for freed, especially if you get from agent fees, agent
Speaker 1: feed don't don't forget about the agent fees whatever whatever
Speaker 1: you're paying for cost living out there, because you render
Speaker 1: the place. You ain't stayed at the hotel, you the
Speaker 1: rent of the place. Now you got to move all
Speaker 1: your stuff back to where you came from. This stuff
Speaker 1: added up like that. Them two punches cost that man
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and you might see some guys
Speaker 1: who might not some teams that might not even touch
Speaker 1: this guy just based off what he did. Yep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: once you get that label, it's hard to get back
Speaker 1: from that label. Man, Which goes back to what I
Speaker 1: said to start. This is the dumbest thing I've seen
Speaker 1: when you start to think about that. I thought, your
Speaker 1: great job laying out all the other repercussions that what
Speaker 1: comes with this McRae. And just from the sense of
Speaker 1: why you know why, I mean, you didn't even get
Speaker 1: your money's worth. There's none of it. Really got children
Speaker 1: money he's worth out of this, you know now. And look,
Speaker 1: if this was hey, Andy Dalton, you know last week,
Speaker 1: if you were running up in the end and hit
Speaker 1: go hit John Bostick because Andy Dalk got popped it
Speaker 1: maybe with somebody, because but this this was this was this,
Speaker 1: this was bad and you know it's coach dump. It's
Speaker 1: coach just jumped on him after the game in the media.
Speaker 1: So the coach, the coach didn't have any sympathy for
Speaker 1: he went out there. I thought you were what you
Speaker 1: did was foolish and dumb, and as you said, it
Speaker 1: changed moment, changed my minim of the football game here.
Speaker 1: So yeah, nothing about what he did was honorable. Nothing
Speaker 1: he did was smart. It was just all bad, bad, bad.
Speaker 1: And you're right too, Danny, when you start talking about
Speaker 1: where you play and the kind of taxes you pay, man,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's something that I learned the hardway,
Speaker 1: and therese, that's what happen. You learned it the hard way.
Speaker 1: I remember when I lived in Ohio, Man, because I
Speaker 1: came from Texas, all right, So I was working in
Speaker 1: Austin and got to cover the Cowboys and that their
Speaker 1: last Super Bowl team with Jimmy So I got to
Speaker 1: cover the Cowboys, and then I went up to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: So but the first time to get the whole tax thing,
Speaker 1: I found out I had to pay federal tax. I
Speaker 1: had to pay tax to the state of Ohio. I
Speaker 1: had to pay tax to the city of Cleveland because
Speaker 1: I worked at the TV station in the city of Cleveland.
Speaker 1: And then I lived in this town. I lived in
Speaker 1: this town called Westlake, and I had to pay the
Speaker 1: town of Westlake, Texas. I got taxed four weeks I
Speaker 1: was like, what, what, what are you talking about? I thought, man,
Speaker 1: I was I was mad. I couldn't believe it because
Speaker 1: West Lakes a richie area too, so I know you
Speaker 1: was property taxes. Man. Man, I'll tell you what. I'm
Speaker 1: glad I was fortunate enough to play in Dallas and
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville there ain't no state taxes, so I saw
Speaker 1: every piece of that. But I know, my boy, man,
Speaker 1: he's hurting right now. That's a lot of money's dogs.
Speaker 1: But by the way, by the way, side, note, the
Speaker 1: best team in Ohio is not a Cincinnati Bengals. By
Speaker 1: the way. Uh couldn't as great as Joe Burrows lighting
Speaker 1: them up. Aby, whoa, it looks nice. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what Joe Burrow has brought to Cincinnati. You know,
Speaker 1: the same confidence and the swagger that they had at LSU.
Speaker 1: But Joe is from that area, and the Cincinnati fans
Speaker 1: have a Yeah, they truly have one of their own
Speaker 1: who's leading them. And I just hope the Browns family
Speaker 1: doesn't mess this up. I mean I really do. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've they have essentially the guy they've always wanted. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's here's a hometown guy, and they draft a lot
Speaker 1: of Ohio State products through the years because they like
Speaker 1: drafting those guys. You have a hometown guy right there
Speaker 1: from that area who understands that area. Please don't mess
Speaker 1: this up in the draft. They need to be looking
Speaker 1: at every good offensive lineman they can because they have
Speaker 1: a future here. They have some building blocks, They've got receivers,
Speaker 1: you've got good run game between Mixing and Giovanni Bernard.
Speaker 1: Add some more pieces to your defense. But Cincinnati's on
Speaker 1: its way and to me and yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: how much you guys watch of the Chargers game yesterday,
Speaker 1: but the Justin Herbert kid that they ended up drafting
Speaker 1: this coming around. Yeah, this kid's coming around. So so
Speaker 1: if you are drafting high and you have the ability
Speaker 1: to get you get ahold of a Trevor Lawrence, and
Speaker 1: you have the ability to get ahold of adjustin fields,
Speaker 1: You're seeing more and more of these guys ready to
Speaker 1: come to the NFL and play. Now. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: either one is going to be as good as Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: but my goodness, gracious, you see what happens when you
Speaker 1: have a quarterback and I think it's the go ahead
Speaker 1: doing my back ahead. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: what was it? No, I was just gonna say, I
Speaker 1: think it has a lot to do with the development
Speaker 1: at a younger age now. I mean, you see a
Speaker 1: lot of these kids, especially the kids down south or
Speaker 1: on the West Coast, they have like seven on seven
Speaker 1: camps during spring, they have spring football. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: so many of these elite passing camps that kids are
Speaker 1: going to from when they're ten years old and on.
Speaker 1: You just see a lot more arm talent and a
Speaker 1: lot more development in these young kids to where when
Speaker 1: they get to college or when they when they get
Speaker 1: to the pros. I mean, they're just so like leaps
Speaker 1: and bounds of head of head of what it used
Speaker 1: to be back in the day. So I just think
Speaker 1: we're gonna get more and more of these young talented
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coming into the league and setting it on fire.
Speaker 1: And for and for Joe Burrow, it was that. Plus
Speaker 1: you remember Joe Brady got a hold of Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: the year he won the Husman before he loved he
Speaker 1: brought that Saints offense in there, and it just changed
Speaker 1: everything for Joe Burrow because before, before, before he got there,
Speaker 1: nobody expected Joe Burrow to do anything because we were
Speaker 1: running offense, and then you saw him be able to
Speaker 1: pick up the Saints offensive NFL offense and he was
Speaker 1: able to translate that. Now to Cincinnati and those guys,
Speaker 1: they could have a winning record right now because they've
Speaker 1: been competitive in all their games and they go out
Speaker 1: there and they beat uh they beat the Titans, and
Speaker 1: they also have a tie. So you watch off for Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: That's why that's why we say Church, you know, winning
Speaker 1: the East is not gonna be that easy because Cincinnati
Speaker 1: is one of those games that we all counted as
Speaker 1: a win at the beginning of the season. It's funny
Speaker 1: from aj Green though, No, No, I mean I don't
Speaker 1: think they need to move on from AJ Green. I
Speaker 1: mean not right now. I mean right now, Ajan right now.
Speaker 1: But but but after the season, Well, that's why you
Speaker 1: drafted T Higgins and you've got Tyler Boyd show. No,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna I gotta pay for eight for him.
Speaker 1: I mean they could go in and get it, you know,
Speaker 1: get another type of receiver next year. Lord. No, if
Speaker 1: the cap is going down the way everybody says, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some serious bargains out there, so so you
Speaker 1: can move on from aj Green after the season, But
Speaker 1: right now, I like how he's got three legitimate options
Speaker 1: out there and if they can find a tight end
Speaker 1: that they can also get out here and make some
Speaker 1: moves for them. I mean, I love what they're doing
Speaker 1: with Joe Burrow and Barry. I'll go back to what
Speaker 1: you said, and here's what I really do, truly feel
Speaker 1: that the NFL has decided to be smart enough to
Speaker 1: let's take some of these college concepts of what these
Speaker 1: quarterbacks know and let's incorporate them into the NFL. I
Speaker 1: love how Pep Hamilton has worked with Justin Herbert, the
Speaker 1: quarterback coach out there with the Chargers, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if Anthony Lynde is going to keep his job
Speaker 1: after the season because they keep finding ways to lose wins.
Speaker 1: I mean they're truly wins. They're a double digits. They
Speaker 1: got wins in bag and they just find a way
Speaker 1: to get them away. So Pep Hamilton could be free.
Speaker 1: But I tell you what, whoever is out there, you
Speaker 1: better go snag Pep Pep Hamilton because what he's done
Speaker 1: with Justin Herbert has worked wonders. These coaches who are
Speaker 1: smart are realizing what did these guys do at school?
Speaker 1: How do we incorporate it? How do we work with
Speaker 1: Andy Reid may be the best where they sat Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes for a year, understood what he could do with
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. They've implemented some of those things and look
Speaker 1: at where they're gone. Bill O'Brien for a much criticism,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so he's gotten. This guy has put Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson in some good situations when he was down there
Speaker 1: in Houston before getting fired. But man, you look at
Speaker 1: these dudes, what are you doing in college? Can you
Speaker 1: bring that to them? I love Justin Fiel. I don't
Speaker 1: think people talking about uugh about Justin Fields. I mean,
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is a fantastic player, and I've seen Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence play a person. First thing I saw was this
Speaker 1: is a big dude. He's gonna be a good player.
Speaker 1: But Justin Fields, to me, has that ability to come
Speaker 1: in here and play like a Justin Herbert and be
Speaker 1: a contributor that we've seen some of these guys who
Speaker 1: are coming out of college. So the first and second
Speaker 1: pick this year in the draft could be very valuable.
Speaker 1: And very very good for whoever lands them. We've got
Speaker 1: to take a break. You want to get the break,
Speaker 1: I gotta take a break. Let's go Let's let's go
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Speaker 1: the average man and Barries got these expensive tastes, what
Speaker 1: do you recommend church. Doesn't even. He's not even in
Speaker 1: the Star district. I know, I know he down the street.
Speaker 1: He down the street, I mean not even. He's my gosh, dandy,
Speaker 1: since you put it out there, I was gonna let
Speaker 1: it slide. Well, I was gonna let it slide, daddy.
Speaker 1: But there so like I'm up there, just Waburgers, Walburgers
Speaker 1: out side. It's good. Watburgers is good. No bro, no bro,
Speaker 1: no listen. If you go on the brunch, go to
Speaker 1: common table. If not, go to Tupelo Honey. They got some.
Speaker 1: They got a good fried chicken, dishes of macaroni and cheese.
Speaker 1: Go to them too. And you can't go round with
Speaker 1: trot and people. They got something. They got some up there. Now.
Speaker 1: I've done Tupelo Honey before. That's why I first met
Speaker 1: Chris Rochard. I got to meet him over a little
Speaker 1: lunch with another friend of Tupelo Honey. So good little spot.
Speaker 1: But never there's never with Danny's around. But you always
Speaker 1: got to be aware, man, I mean, I mean him
Speaker 1: and produce. Chris ban will throw slugs from anywhere. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, the last supper was the last supper
Speaker 1: I've done. I was no, man, it was the first supper. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was the first four the season starting everything. Man first,
Speaker 1: when when the height was real, Man, it was when
Speaker 1: the hype was real. Wow. Wow, uh NFL News here
Speaker 1: to hit you with. Um. The forty nine ers have
Speaker 1: traded linebacker Kawan Alexanders to the Saints in exchange for
Speaker 1: Keiko Alonzo and a conditional fifth round pick. So the
Speaker 1: Saints are truly trying to go for it because their
Speaker 1: cap next season, they're gonna have to shut almost one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars off this team next year. So they're
Speaker 1: trying to push in all the chits right now to
Speaker 1: win this thing. And and I'm imagining this is the
Speaker 1: last ride for Drew Brees too, So I guess that's
Speaker 1: why John Payton is trying to go go ahead and
Speaker 1: put it all in there. That brings me to this
Speaker 1: question for y'all, For both of y'all, you know, seeing
Speaker 1: as a trade dead last coming up tomorrow, I believe
Speaker 1: at like four or whatever it is, is there anyone
Speaker 1: out there that you would want to see the Cowboys
Speaker 1: trade for that you could see the Cowboys trade for? No,
Speaker 1: not at all? Okay, what about you. Mccraig, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Why why the question? Don't waste nothing on nobody that's
Speaker 1: out there. All right, we are what we are. We've
Speaker 1: been seeing it in all season, and I know that.
Speaker 1: The Stevens said, you know, we're still we're still in it.
Speaker 1: But even if you do, when the NFC you're getting,
Speaker 1: you're getting thrashed in the first round of the playoffs
Speaker 1: in his own all right, So I mean, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: even waste to waste any picks any while, waste your
Speaker 1: time with the season. Just pack it in. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you like, like Louis said, find out what you have
Speaker 1: on the roster. You're gonna get your young guys out there,
Speaker 1: see what they got, See who you're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to keep on the team next year, and see what
Speaker 1: they can do, and then and then move on to
Speaker 1: the next season. And if you make the playoffs, then
Speaker 1: you make the playoffs. But you know, I mean why,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure you know, once you get a guys
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve off. Stephen Jones did say on one
Speaker 1: or five three of the Fan today he believes that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are in it, and he's not anticipating trading
Speaker 1: away any any assets, uh to try and uh to
Speaker 1: you know, to go ahead and start a fire, shim.
Speaker 1: So let's get back into this before the break, mccraig,
Speaker 1: you tried to make reference to the Cowboys possibly getting
Speaker 1: the number one or number two pick in the NFL,
Speaker 1: with Trevor Lawrence, the quarterback from Clempson being the guy
Speaker 1: everyone's talking about it. Justin fields um got most likely
Speaker 1: number two or definitely rising up in that top that
Speaker 1: top top three status, top four status in my opinion here,
Speaker 1: so I take the floor, man, you go ahead and
Speaker 1: go with that. Hold on, hold on, see see knew
Speaker 1: we tried to send me and put words in my mouth.
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything about the Cowboys trying to get
Speaker 1: one of those picks. They won't try to get it,
Speaker 1: all right, They're gonna try to win games, just like
Speaker 1: they tried to win the game last night, and it
Speaker 1: just may not happen. So they may they may accidentally
Speaker 1: end up with one of those picks. You know, maybe Jets.
Speaker 1: You think they're gonna get one of those picks? Do
Speaker 1: you think get one of those picks? So who is
Speaker 1: it right now? Is the Jets? Is the Jets? The
Speaker 1: Jets are o na, No, No, you got a lot
Speaker 1: of ground to cover here, many people in front the Jets.
Speaker 1: Jets are o NA. Houston has one in six, Jacksonville
Speaker 1: is one in six. The Giants are one in six.
Speaker 1: So you got folks with already. And then and then
Speaker 1: Atlanta's two and six and you beat Atlanta, so Atlanta's
Speaker 1: got you. Um the Chargers could have been three and
Speaker 1: three and three and four, but they ended up losing,
Speaker 1: so they're not two and five. So uh look there's
Speaker 1: there's um the shoot, the Patriots are two and five,
Speaker 1: So you've got people in front of you. Is what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's it's it's going to be a challenge
Speaker 1: to get to number two. Look at look at the schedule.
Speaker 1: Look at the schedule. Pick a game that you that
Speaker 1: you say we gonna win and think we will be
Speaker 1: stuck at two games for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: As I said, as I said last week, guys, the
Speaker 1: only time the Cowboys will be favored again is the
Speaker 1: end of the year against the Giants. And by the
Speaker 1: time that final game comes up there at MetLife Stadium
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, we'll have to see if either team
Speaker 1: is going to put out anyone who can help them
Speaker 1: get a w that day, because every would be pretty
Speaker 1: clear on terms of what what a win could cost
Speaker 1: someone drafts and draft pick wise. So this may be
Speaker 1: the Nuci Show and everybody else. You know, they may
Speaker 1: be bring back down Terry Pop for one game only,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, bring back Waring, bring back a
Speaker 1: whole slew of people for one game only. Speaking speaking
Speaker 1: speaking to Polman, Listen, I hate that the show is
Speaker 1: so short because we haven't gotten we haven't gotten enough
Speaker 1: time to give the defense, to shout offs, to even
Speaker 1: touched on the defense. Yeah, you know, and I don't
Speaker 1: want people to think that we are not going to
Speaker 1: give them, you know what, little praise that they can
Speaker 1: deserve for this season and hopefully moving forward they get
Speaker 1: a little bit more. So I'm sure we'll get on
Speaker 1: it tomorrow, but I just wanted to, you know, make
Speaker 1: sure that we got in it today and saying they
Speaker 1: played hard yesterday. They played hard, they made some plays,
Speaker 1: they got some turnovers, they blissed a little bit, put
Speaker 1: some pressure on wins. They did some good things that
Speaker 1: we'll be able to dive in more tomorrow. But I
Speaker 1: just had to make sure on Monday, definitely that we
Speaker 1: put it out there. It definitely helped that. You know,
Speaker 1: Wins is a walking turnover out there. I mean he,
Speaker 1: my boy was holding the ball like a loaf of
Speaker 1: bread in the pocket. I mean, his his quarterback into
Speaker 1: me is it's not good at all. People had the
Speaker 1: nerve to say that he was up there with Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: but that's beside the point for me. I definitely got
Speaker 1: to give a little shout out to our defense man.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's still a couple of cats that are
Speaker 1: that are missing right now that they're still on that
Speaker 1: milk carton number ninety eight. But but besides that, I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, d law, I feel like he
Speaker 1: showed up a little bit. Randy, Oh yeah, he's all yeah,
Speaker 1: he definitely digressed a little bit. I don't know what
Speaker 1: happen when you put that blonde hair. Maybe that kind
Speaker 1: of threw his superpowers off or whatever. But I don't
Speaker 1: know what happened. But Randy Gregory, he showed up a
Speaker 1: little bit out there. He showed a little poppy, showed
Speaker 1: a little speed off the air. So I gotta give
Speaker 1: props to my defense we'll get we'll get into them tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But they definitely played a little bit better than they
Speaker 1: did in season games previous. The Hot Boys returned on
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football, So hey knew, he knew, he think
Speaker 1: about think about what you just said. Set the hot
Speaker 1: was a bat, the forty nine a shift. They hot
Speaker 1: boys off New Orleans. What the real hot boys is.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna see the battle and see what's really
Speaker 1: going on. Who the battle of the hot Boys for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. That's that's what I'm ready
Speaker 1: to see. Hey, if this the lion start talking about
Speaker 1: hot boys is man, they don't need to talk about anything.
Speaker 1: How they need to get some sacks and some quarterback pressures. Man,
Speaker 1: I've been here. None of these dudes talking about hot boys.
Speaker 1: Don't get this merchandise out. I've been not hear none. Well,
Speaker 1: they will have to face the team from western Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: on Sunday, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and their quarterback is a
Speaker 1: little bit better than the one they faced this past week.
Speaker 1: So we'll also dive into the Steelers along the way.
Speaker 1: And one of my biggest fears is there'll be a
Speaker 1: whole lot of folks with terrible towels at Jerry World
Speaker 1: on Sunday. We got a lot to get to the
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