WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Better or Worse? 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.719 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:18.520 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the player's 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:23.840 label broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:29.520 Now your hosts Bury Church, Danny McCray, and NEWI Scrugs. 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.720 Welcome to Monday. The Dallas Cowboys take a twenty three 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.680 to nine loss on Sunday Night football to the Philadelphia Eagles. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.080 With a chance to go into first place, the Cowboys 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.120 lose their third straight football game. I'm doing Scrugs, longtime 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.480 Cowboys reporter, joined by former Dallas Cowboys safety's Barry Church 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:54.680 and Danny McCray. All right, McCray, you you're right. I mean, 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.000 you know your pick was pretty much the closest of 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.200 the picks that we had on Friday. You would dick 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.320 today thirty to fourteen Philly when I went thirty two 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:07.200 to ten Philly and Church with twenty four to seventeen Cowboys. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.360 So but pray you you were the closest to mark 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.880 on it. Listen, absolutely, you know I'm not gonna try 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.440 to steal the Nostra Dumin's name, but uh, I think 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.920 I'm doing a little better than than than that guy. 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:25.520 And you got one game. You one game. Listen, knew it, 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.880 knew it if you really think about it. My pick 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.399 and your pick got him to flip his pick over 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:32.960 because it sounded like he was going with the Eagles, 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.800 I mean with the Cowboys beating the Eagles before we 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.800 got to Friday's pick. So I'm just saying, you know, uh, 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.520 you know, one game, one game, one game is cool, 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.480 and that one game that I picked, you still lost 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.560 the spread in that one. So I mean, it's just 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.760 it's just not good for you. Bro. What was your 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.680 score this game? What game? What did you for? Dick? 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:56.760 I picked thirty to ten. That was the final score. 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:03.920 You went, You went thirty to uh, thirty to fourteen, fourteen, 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.080 thirty to fourteen. Oh yeah, I said. I said that 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.519 we would score on special teams, or we would score 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.160 defensive touch down, some some type of spark play, which 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.120 we got. We got a very very close hold on 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:17.120 hold on it was my score again. You went twenty 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.840 four to seventeen, Philly. I mean Dallas Dallas winning Dallas Dallas. 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:24.920 How is how is the mass picked closer than mine? 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:31.400 You picked the Cowboys to win? No? I didn't, No, no, no, no, 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.800 he changed. He changes the Philly at the end, he 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:35.800 changed the Philly. Wait wait wait, let me let me check, 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.960 let me check, let me check, let me check. Grab 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:43.639 that handy bad, grab all that don't want go in 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.600 my name. No s jomis around. Like he said. He 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.400 said the cowboys, he said, the cowboys with cover. The 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.760 heck is wrong with what you were doing. Yeah, he 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.560 said the Cowboys would cover. They did not. The Cowboys 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:02.920 did not not. They did not cover. So basically, Church, 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.400 you went one. We went one on one on this bet, 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.160 we went two, and because we got, we got the 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.560 winner and we got the spread curred. Now, if we 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.400 were betting in Vegas where they just sit around here 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:14.760 and they just say you gotta way about the spread, 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.760 you definitely would have lost your money. But this is true. 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.880 I would have lost my fifty cent on that one. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.800 Here's what's crazy. We all thought the Cowboys would score 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.600 a touchdown. Danny, you thought they'd scored two. Church, you 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.000 thought they scored two. They have not scored a touchdown 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.240 the last two weeks, gentleman, And that is because we're 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.400 talking about things that haven't happened since the franchise started 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.000 in nineteen sixty. We're talking about that type of utility 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:43.200 here where the offense cannot score any points. And while 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.640 Dak Prescott is not playing, Dak Prescott is making himself 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.240 a lot of money by not playing, just by the 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:53.160 simple fact that this team cannot generate anything at all. 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.360 I said, I was excited to see Ben d Nucci 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.720 on Friday, and I was excited for the first possession, 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:04.400 and the excitement stopped. It stopped, man, and you just 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:08.440 realized that knew it, knew he Come on, man, you 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.040 was you was not excited to see he was not 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:16.960 excited to see the Nucci. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.440 Listen and listen and listen. If you if you're being 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:22.839 real with yourself, you're excitement on the first drive was 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:28.160 double reverse reverse wildcat. It was. It wasn't even excitement 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.200 for something that Ben de Nucci was doing. It was 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.520 it was the play calling that he was pulling out 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.160 of there for Boys State. So no, I don't I 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.400 don't want to hear nothing about being excited for the Nucci. 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:38.560 Church thought he was gonna be the guy yes or 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.640 swag and all that sort of stuff. He was swag 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.719 lists out there and bumbling the ball, you know, overthrowing people. 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.640 If it wasn't for Gallup catching those those extended running 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.000 players that that I talked about they needed to do that, 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.520 it would have been way way worse than it was. Yeah, 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.839 it was. It was kind of. It was tough, man. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.560 It was a tough outing for my boy de Nucci 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.760 out there. You know, I thought coming into this game 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.760 he might have had a spark, he might have showed something. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.480 We heard all about this twenty one mile an hour speed. 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.760 And I'll be honest with you, man, he couldn't turn 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.920 the corner on anybody out there, and he just looked 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:14.799 kind of I mean, I understand it was his first start, 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.720 he didn't have any ltas, he didn't have any preseason games, 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.240 but he did kind of look, you know, kind of 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:21.800 timid out there. I don't know if the moment was 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.440 too big. He just kind of looked kind of scared 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.400 out there to me. But overall, there goes my camera 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:31.000 messing up there. At least they're not showing you right now. 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.960 They showing the screen. They showing the screen. Let me 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:35.560 tell you this. Let me tell you this because I 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.000 went on Twitter last night and I posted, do we 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.960 have a one hundred million dollars receiver? And man, I'll 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.560 tell you what, some of the people they've miss understood 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.479 what I was saying, and they went back and forth 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.719 for all this time. I'm sitting here watching Gallup catch passes. 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.320 I'm watching CD LAMB catcher pass, I'm watching shots cats, 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.560 I'm watching everybody catcher pass except the guy that's making 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.560 one hundred million dollars. And it's supposed to be our 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.080 best playmaker. If that's our best playmaker, you should design 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.640 someplace to get the ball in his hands, be it 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.120 run or past handoff catch, any of that. The only 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:09.880 player that I've seen and they had designed was I 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.360 think one of the receivers was running the double reverse. 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.320 He was supposed to throw it to Coop and he 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.080 ended up getting stopped before that by I think by 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:21.800 Fletcher cops. But so, yeah, yeah, it does. It doesn't 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.640 make no sense to me how you don't plan to 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.159 have this guy get the ball in his hands because 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.080 he's one of the most dynamic players that we have 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.479 on the roster. I don't understand that. So, Danny, what 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.440 you're saying is Kellen Moore did not call a good 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.239 game in your eyes. No no, no, no, no, no 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.960 no no. I'm saying that the same thing I've been 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.560 saying since the beginning of the season. The offense should 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.520 go around twenty one. At that time, it was four 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.800 and nineteen. We've seen what nineteen can do when he 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:53.480 gets the ball in his hands and you give him 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.680 some time to make a guy miss any of that. 0:06:56.120 --> 0:07:00.400 We haven't seen the offensive offensive plan be that. And 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.200 it was it was that for Gallup last last night. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.320 It was that for the tight end that last night, 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.400 and it was that for Ceedee Lamb last night, and 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.119 it wasn't that for nineteen. And it doesn't make any 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.200 sense to me. I'm not saying he called a bad game. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.040 I thought he started off with some creative stuff. He 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:15.680 tried to go to the well too many times on 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:17.720 the reverse and then you know, it just kind of 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.880 fell apart. But you have to get nineteen involved one 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.440 because he's making a hundred million dollars too, because we've 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.360 seen what he can do with a little bit of 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:32.480 space if you give him an opportunity. Amari Cooper got 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.040 his first catch in the fourth quarter. He ended up 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:39.000 with five targets and one catch in this football game. 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:44.560 Had your fantasy against a depleted secondary, yeah, out of 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.480 the game. Yeah, so he wasn't able to do nothing 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.800 against those boys. I mean that that's a bad sign, man, 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.840 that is a bad sign. Yeah. My fantasy team has 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.320 Zeke and Coop on it. So luckily, I'm playing a 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.600 guy that scored to score very low. So I'll be 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:00.680 all right because I got Tampa's deef us tonight, so 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.720 and I got Lena Fournette, so I'll make up some points. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.120 But you know, besides that, I'm just tired of seeing 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.120 us have a hundred million dollar guy and we're not 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.640 acting like he's a hundred million dollar guy. And it's 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.240 and at some point it's not even his fault. It's like, Bro, 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.360 you're the offensive coordinator. You're looking at this guy and 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.080 you're not gonna give him a chance to make some 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.160 of those big players that you're giving other people chances 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.600 to make it. And so it is perplexing to me. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.320 So are you not putting are you not putting anything 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.600 on him? Are you saying, like, you know, basically as 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.040 the play call and that's got him out of his 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.679 rhythm or he just can't get open against anybody out 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.560 there are you? How are you putting that last last night? 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.640 I'm putting it on the play call because you didn't 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.560 have been the Lucie back there. So you can't expect 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.640 him to be throwing seeing routs the coop and and 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.040 a whole bunch of out routes and you know something creative. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:47.640 But you can find a way to get the ball 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.240 in his hands if you watch, let's say this compared 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.400 to the Rams and Robert Woods. Robert Woods doesn't only 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.959 catch passes down the field, he gets jet sweeps. He 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.120 it's creative ways to give him the ball. You see 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.720 him with a rust TD, you see what receiving TV. 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.880 Sometimes you might even see him with a PASTD. These 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.160 guys are are are there, big time players and they're 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.360 finding ways to get the ball in these guys hands. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.720 And we haven't done that specifically with a Mark Cooper. 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.280 And now is going to Zeke. You know, besides a 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.960 couple of wildcat plays, you know him and Paulard are 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.040 getting almost the same amount of snaps, like meaningful snaps. 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.200 I don't understand, do you think, but do you think 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:27.200 the Zeke deserves more snaps? Absolutely? That's what the rock 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.760 in his hands yes, yes, let me tell you why. 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.880 Let me tell you why, because if you discredit and 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.480 Zeke based off just this the beginning of this season 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.880 and you forget what he's done for us to get 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.920 him paid, then you're you're making a mistake. This guy 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.319 still has the ability to make those big plays you 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.640 have to get give him an opportunity to get some 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.760 runs fall forward. And then I've seen people like saying, yeah, 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.880 well he ran the wrong way on one play. Listen, 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.719 he's done that before and he's running for twenty or 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.120 thirty yards. So you can't just tell those running backs 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.720 to follow follow a certain way. These guys are playmakers 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:01.920 because they see stuff that we can't see and sometimes 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:03.599 they work and sometimes it doesn't. But that's not a 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.600 way a reason to discredit him and say, look, get 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.200 polity in because he hit the gap faster than Zeke did. 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.800 That's dumb. But Danny, I'll back you up on this. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.960 And here's how I'm backing you up. In this game, 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.320 is Zekla had nineteen carries. Do you realize Boston Scott 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.599 had just four less carries than him? And Ben d 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.079 Nucci throw the ball forty times. Okay, I got a 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.160 problem with that forty times for a rookie quarterback. We 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.719 know what Dak Prescott's throwing the ball forty times and 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.000 Tony Romos throwing the ball forty times, Detroitman, when you 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.280 just look at Cowboy history, when these guys are throwing 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.280 the ball forty times plus some more in the game, 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.640 they're losing. There's no way in the world that kid 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.680 needs to be throwing the ball forty times. And Zeke 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.199 only had nineteen carries. You gave him ninety million dollars. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.800 Can you please use the guy? How did the Cowboys 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.280 get good? How did Jason Garrett win Coach of the Year. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.680 How did they get a number one seed twenty sixteen? 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.520 It was because they went with the run game. When 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.440 you look at the first three years of his career, 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.920 this thing was built around Ezeko Elliot and they won 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.040 football games. I go back to DeMarco Murray's last year 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.000 and what I considered the best year of football for 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.079 Tony Romo. They were running the football and using the 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.280 play action pass. I'm sorry, Mike mccarthur, this is the 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.959 one thing I asked him about in his press conference, 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:24.400 and I feared that twenty one would not get used properly. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.880 They should run this dude until his tongue falls off. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.360 Man should be hanging out after games. Man, he should 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:34.240 be sore walking after games. Man. Nineteen carries against this 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.760 team in which you one time of possession and they 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:38.719 were trying to give you the win. Man, that's just 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.480 not good. Little and I agree with both of you 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.920 guys are saying. I think Zeke needs to get more 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.439 carries and they need to get him more involved. But 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.040 when we go back to those other teams that the 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.839 Marco Murray teams or success Jason Garrett had even with 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.720 Zeke early in his season, they all had one thing 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.760 in common. They had that solidified offensive line there. They 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:59.839 had somebody to lean on and can get Zeke when 0:11:59.920 --> 0:12:02.160 he get touched until he was five yards down the line. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.160 So for me, I do think he needs to get 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:05.440 the ball more. I do need to think they need 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.640 to incorporate him more. And for me, I'm putting this 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.920 more on killing more than anybody because the straw to 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.079 me that broke the camel's back man just had me 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.079 frustrated and almost turned the TV off. Was I think 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:17.640 we were I think it was either the second half 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.120 of the first half, we're driving. The ball was strictly runs. 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.679 I mean it was like Zeke here, left, Zeke right, 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.280 paul It here, paul It here, and out of nowhere, 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.120 I mean it was like, I don't even know how 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:29.920 to explain it, but out of nowhere we pull out 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.319 some double reverse out of I don't even know where 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.160 it came from, lost ten yards. Flexer Cox came in 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:36.679 there blew the whole play up. I think it was 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.719 gonna be a double reverse pass by Cedric Wilson, and 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.800 that just blew all our momentum. I mean it was 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.280 just to me, I just couldn't understand the play call, 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.440 and it was kind of frustrating like that all night long. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.679 So for me, I gotta put this one on k 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.760 moore man and go here with killing more too. This is, 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.720 this is, this is And this also made me upset 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.320 because I'm watching the game and I'm listening to us. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.599 You know how we talk about you should predicate the 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.959 game off the run game, and then you know, after that, dude, 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.480 play action. I think we ran like two running plays, 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.839 one of them was out of Wildcat, and then we 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.200 came and ran play action on first down the next 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.599 drive and I was like, we haven't sold them on 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.760 the run, and they blew it up. Bro, nobody fell forward. 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.679 I think I think he got hitting them off. And 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.079 I'm sitting there like, nobody believe was the she was 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.719 about to run that ball, bro, because they've seen what 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.520 you've done in the past, and we're on the second 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.959 drive of the game. You haven't even done anything to 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.240 make them believe that Zeke is a problem. And you 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.199 go out here and you're running on first on first down, 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.280 and I was like, yeah, this is they created a 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.880 play calling is out of there. It's gone. Now it's gone. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.040 And look, kids a little and I'm sorry to go 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.440 ahead and keep pounding on my guy, the Nucci here. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.600 But little kids that are watching the show and all 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.760 that stuff. Look, there's only one Patrick Mahomes, all right, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.040 this is the one guy that can throw the throw 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.720 it behind his backthrow it black. There's only one of those, 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.920 all right. My guy came out here yesterday last night 0:13:58.080 --> 0:13:59.960 and he threw about three or four of those little 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.240 side like he was trying to manipulate the ball around 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.040 defenders should have had more than one intercepted. A look, 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.480 just just to throw the ball regular. There's only one. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.520 Pat Mahomes, don't try that side on the stuff. It 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.480 ain't gonna work. Man. Let me let me get one 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.400 more on the Nuccie because knew you on Twitter, just 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.280 like I am Church. I'm not sure how often you 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.920 on there, but the internet is still undefeated. All right. 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.280 Somebody goes back and they find a tweet from the 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.360 Nucci back in twenty fourteen talking about how horrible Tony 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.840 Romo is and we go out there and we see 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.240 you talk. You talk about full circle, all right, and 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:38.080 not knowing what you also for this kids, be be careful, 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.080 right if you have aspirations to play in the National 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.480 Football League, be careful of how you critique some of 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.040 these players, because they don't find it. They come back 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.080 and get you. How do you feel about that tweet? 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:52.520 Now the Nucci come on man, twenty fourteen. They carry 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.720 your receipts from twenty fourteen. Oh man, ain't nobody say it? 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.360 Ain't nobody. They're gonna find it. Man, if you go 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.000 out there still come to join it like you did, 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.400 you know, and that's what happens. You know, Hey, listen, 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.920 thank God for Gallup. I'm telling you, because without Gallup 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.120 and them throwing those little sharp passes. It would have 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:15.960 just been atrocious fellas for me. And we're getting on 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:19.320 Calla Moore about the lack of play calling when it 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.840 comes to running the football, Philadelphia was worse. I mean, 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.160 here was a team in the first and first half 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.800 for a while, they were averaging seven yards per carry, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.200 and they stopped running the football and didn't let Carson 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.680 Wentz not only throw the football like I was, throwing 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.240 interceptions and just doing dumb stuff. My gosh, direct the 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.560 regression of Carson Wentz sad. I mean, it is sad. 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:46.040 Michael Lombardi, Michael Lombardi called him broken from NFL Jim 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:47.760 He's called him a broken quarterback. I'm like, you know, 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.160 he's probably right, but I couldn't, for the life for 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.640 me understand why, Phillies, folks, Doug Peter's why were you 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.680 all reluctant to run the football against the team that 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.680 was giving up one hundred and seventy two yards a 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.560 game at Boston. Scott was out here looking like young 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.920 Darren Sprawls. I just shook my head watching this, and 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.560 I'm just very frustrated as a football fan as I'm 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.080 just sitting here saying, wait a minute, why are we 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.400 trying to be cute. If you've got something that's working, 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:19.880 if you're running, make them stop the run. It's simple football. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.840 But everyone is so in love with throwing the football, man, 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.000 And for me, it's one of my biggest pet peeves 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.480 when I see these coaches who are either head coach 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.560 through quarterbacks or these offensive coordinators who are former quarterback, 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.120 because it always goes to the very thing of throw, throw, throw, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.080 throw through. Bill Parcels used to have an issue with 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.280 that stuff, and he's like, man, you have to make 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.600 these play callers run the ball because they all want 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.360 to sit up here and throw. They all want to 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.840 tell you how creative they are. And my goodness, gracious 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.640 Philly loses that game against the team with a winning record, 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.480 they will this team's going nowhere fast. We already know it. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:59.880 But just the idiocy to watch Philadelphia put Carson went 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.800 further into a hole that this man was diggy. It 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:04.520 was just that was just that was that was hard 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.760 to watch. Man. I'm sitting there and watching it from 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.040 a cowboy perspective, guys, but I'm like, what are they doing? 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:13.960 This is bad? I knew it. I can tell you. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.600 I can tell you exactly what they were doing, all right. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.720 Peterson was on the sideline saying, look, if Carson Wentz 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.480 throws the ball with any type of accuracy, just any 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.200 type of accuracy, we will have fulgam on twenty seven 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.240 all day long. And that he called it, and he 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:32.960 called it, and he called it. After a while he 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.280 realized Carson Wentz was just throwing Aaron thows that didn't 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.320 make no sense, but it was barbecue checking out there 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.160 for a man twenty seven. I'm glad he got those 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.199 two picks because Carson Wentz, you know, he threw him 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.800 right to him and he made the plays. But this 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.520 dude is gonna have a long season of guys going 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.840 at his neck for speaking for the entire game. Speaking 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.119 of twenty seven, man, you know, I gotta give my 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.800 guy a little bit of kudos. Man. I mean, his 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.960 memory is just it's unbelievil. You say you gotta have 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.159 a short term memory when you're playing defensive back. I 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.040 mean this, he gotta have. He gotta be the best 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.440 at that. I mean he's gotten beat left and right, 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.520 but then all of a sudden he turns around and 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.080 makes a miraculous play. And he's getting up. No, no, 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.280 like it's just I mean, he got the intangibles. Man, 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.080 he just gotta work with his technique a little bit. 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.480 But he's definitely a fighter, and he's somebody you know 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.040 you could go to war with, you know, you know 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:22.800 I could. I could definitely see him as a teammate. 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:24.679 So I got I got a little bit kudos, even 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.159 though he was getting skirt out there a little bit. 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.560 See with that second kind, you can see it with 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.000 that second kind. I don't know about that, you know, 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:36.760 come on, don't the deuce, don't do come on, come on, 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.080 do it right now, right now. He's earned a tender. 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:40.800 Right now, he's earned a tender. He'll he'll get his 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.320 tender after for I don't know about second year day. 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:45.840 He earned the tender. He earned a tender off that game. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.480 The fight alone, the light alone, man, the fight alone. Man. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.159 I'm telling you you can go to war with that. 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.719 You can go to war with desolitely. Okay, all right, 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:03.359 that's what got your look talking about just fight. We 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:08.440 don't care if you give up nine fight game out, 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:12.480 fight still only a game out. As a coach, is 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.800 that former Dallas Cowboys coach once said fight is the 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:19.040 whole much of the program. We must take a break 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.720 here on the Players Lounge brought to you by Hotels 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.480 dot Com. 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So the forty nine season is it's 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:31.520 getting tougher now say this, They'll probably be better off 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:34.520 without Jimmy Garoppolo, who played horrible football yesterday. I think 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:38.320 the backup quarterback over in San Francisco is a better 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:41.480 football player, But no, George Kittle is going to hurt. Now. 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:44.000 The dumbest thing I saw yesterday, gentlemen, I think you 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:46.760 probably will agree with me, is happening in the Bears 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:50.200 and the Saints game in Chicago, when Chicago wide receiver 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:56.320 Javon Wims got suspended two games for fighting. Sitting up 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:59.680 here punching a Saints player in the helmet. In the helmet, 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:02.080 what are we doing? It got himself kicked out of 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:06.000 the game. So you lose two game checks, and so 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:08.320 I dived into the numbers to see, Okay, so what 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:12.480 exactly is young mister WiM's making. He makes two hundred 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:16.320 and fifty thousand dollars this year, seven seven hundred and 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:18.359 fifty thousand dollars this year, so that's what he's making. 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:22.000 So you've just lost two game checks. Man, This is 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:25.400 I mean, this is just and you're you're hitting a helmet, okay, 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:28.040 since you're not even hurt the guy. Um, that's just 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:30.639 the dumbest thing I've ever seen, guys, Yeah, it was. 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:34.200 It was dumb. One yeah, it was dumb one two accounts. One, 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:37.040 First of all, you're losing paychecks, all that good stuff. 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:39.160 And then too, what damage do you think you're gonna 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:41.800 inflict on somebody? What a helmet on? I mean, these 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:44.000 guys are going at each other, hitting helmet to helmet, 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:46.520 going you know, fastest. Heck, do you think your fist 0:23:46.600 --> 0:23:48.439 is gonna go through there and do some damage? I mean, 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:50.960 that was probably one of the dumbest I don't care 0:23:51.040 --> 0:23:54.439 what twenty two did beforehand. He said he disrespected him somehow, 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:56.520 some way. But you're telling me each one of those 0:23:56.560 --> 0:24:00.199 punches you're thrown is worth that losing that paycheck. I mean, 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:02.639 it's just outstanding to me that people do some of 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:05.560 the dumbest stuff. I mean, like I always stop, you know, 0:24:05.680 --> 0:24:07.800 fighting on the football field, not even in practice. It's 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:10.280 just a waste of energy. Man. You're already tired from 0:24:10.320 --> 0:24:12.159 going at each other banging all the time, and now 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:14.160 you want to start fighting and wasting even more energy 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:16.879 and missing paychecks. You're right now, this is probably the 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.560 dumbest thing out of seeing maybe in my whole career. 0:24:20.240 --> 0:24:23.320 It was stupid. It was stupid. It's dumb to me 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:27.840 for two reasons. One, like I said, it looked so unprovoked, 0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:31.280 like like nothing was going on. You weren't have to 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:33.439 do like you tried to make a whole theatrical thing 0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:36.440 out of it. That's dumb. One, he should be released, 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:39.240 in my opinion, if I was GM probably goes there. 0:24:40.080 --> 0:24:42.720 He would be straight up released off the team. One, 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:44.880 you don't have no respect for the game all your teammates, 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:49.120 because if you watch that game, that play changed everything 0:24:49.240 --> 0:24:52.040 for them. They went and lost fifteen yards after that, 0:24:52.400 --> 0:24:54.159 I think they had to punt and then you know, 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:56.080 whatever happened, then the Saints end up coming back and 0:24:56.480 --> 0:24:58.440 coming and winning the game. So in my mind, he 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:01.080 cost him the game. He he don't had no respect 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:03.480 for us teammatesers. They out there fighting and Clawn trying 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:05.880 to come back doing everything they can, and you cost 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:08.000 them that. And then you just don't have no respect 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:10.480 for anybody, bro because you like, that's some stuff you 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:12.480 might see on the street. You don't see that on 0:25:12.520 --> 0:25:15.240 the football field. You know, usually it's like somebody going 0:25:15.320 --> 0:25:17.000 too hard on the play and then they just get 0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:18.920 locked up and do you see some punchers throw It 0:25:19.119 --> 0:25:20.800 was nothing like that. If you if you ever had 0:25:20.840 --> 0:25:22.600 the chance to go watching. You gotta go see it, 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:25.000 because just us saying that somebody threw some punches is 0:25:25.040 --> 0:25:27.280 not telling them the whole story. It was. It was bad, 0:25:28.080 --> 0:25:30.479 It was just so. And then like I don't understand, 0:25:30.520 --> 0:25:32.640 like when he threw the first punch and the dude 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:34.719 didn't react Number twenty two for them Saints. He got 0:25:34.840 --> 0:25:36.640 hit and he didn't react. He kind of just looked around, 0:25:36.680 --> 0:25:38.280 like what is this dude doing? And then he just 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:40.679 had to provoke it even more and throw another one 0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:42.280 and jump on top of the guy. I mean, this 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:45.960 might have been the dumbest thing I've seen since twenty 0:25:46.200 --> 0:25:48.800 eighteen when Fournette ran off the bench to go fight 0:25:48.880 --> 0:25:51.040 the dude from the Buffalo Bills, so that I mean, 0:25:51.200 --> 0:25:53.200 those two these are both similar, and it was just 0:25:53.359 --> 0:25:55.040 some of the dumbest things I've ever seen in my life. 0:25:55.200 --> 0:26:00.480 That was crazy. Now, I know good mathematician, but when 0:26:00.480 --> 0:26:02.440 I broke it down, and I'm just thinking of the 0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:04.240 seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, I'm not sure what 0:26:04.359 --> 0:26:06.440 he has in terms of roster bonuses or anything like that, 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:08.080 but I just went in there and broke down a 0:26:08.080 --> 0:26:11.200 seven hundred fifty thousand dollars and just you know, two 0:26:11.280 --> 0:26:13.359 game checks and he's going to miss that's ninety four 0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:21.840 thousand dollars. Man, that's that's that man, And he's probably 0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:23.760 not gonna see the rest of them because, like mccrai said, 0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:25.800 he you know, he might be released after this. I mean, 0:26:25.800 --> 0:26:28.160 I wouldn't be surprised if he was. Like you're telling 0:26:28.200 --> 0:26:30.000 me that fight, those couple of punches are worth that, 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:33.760 I mean it is. Man, that's a mistake. Let me 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:35.680 let me, let me help your math out. Because they're 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:37.679 up there in Chicago, and I played up there in Chicago, 0:26:37.720 --> 0:26:40.760 and they state taxes they got they got state tax 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:43.000 up there, right, So if you say seven fifty, you 0:26:43.080 --> 0:26:45.000 know you almost cut that in half. I give a 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:48.560 little leeway. You're looking somewhere like three sixty three seventy 0:26:48.600 --> 0:26:51.480 minus ninety to fold taxes. Man, you out there playing 0:26:51.520 --> 0:26:54.439 for freed, especially if you get from agent fees, agent 0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:59.040 feed don't don't forget about the agent fees whatever whatever 0:26:59.080 --> 0:27:01.399 you're paying for cost living out there, because you render 0:27:01.440 --> 0:27:03.240 the place. You ain't stayed at the hotel, you the 0:27:03.280 --> 0:27:04.920 rent of the place. Now you got to move all 0:27:04.960 --> 0:27:07.119 your stuff back to where you came from. This stuff 0:27:07.160 --> 0:27:09.679 added up like that. Them two punches cost that man 0:27:09.720 --> 0:27:11.400 a lot of money, and you might see some guys 0:27:11.440 --> 0:27:13.320 who might not some teams that might not even touch 0:27:13.359 --> 0:27:16.879 this guy just based off what he did. Yep. Yeah, 0:27:17.480 --> 0:27:19.520 once you get that label, it's hard to get back 0:27:19.560 --> 0:27:22.520 from that label. Man, Which goes back to what I 0:27:22.640 --> 0:27:25.360 said to start. This is the dumbest thing I've seen 0:27:25.480 --> 0:27:28.200 when you start to think about that. I thought, your 0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:31.560 great job laying out all the other repercussions that what 0:27:31.760 --> 0:27:35.040 comes with this McRae. And just from the sense of 0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:39.159 why you know why, I mean, you didn't even get 0:27:39.200 --> 0:27:42.560 your money's worth. There's none of it. Really got children 0:27:42.640 --> 0:27:45.160 money he's worth out of this, you know now. And look, 0:27:45.400 --> 0:27:48.120 if this was hey, Andy Dalton, you know last week, 0:27:48.200 --> 0:27:49.600 if you were running up in the end and hit 0:27:49.680 --> 0:27:52.600 go hit John Bostick because Andy Dalk got popped it 0:27:52.680 --> 0:27:55.040 maybe with somebody, because but this this was this was this, 0:27:55.359 --> 0:27:58.840 this was bad and you know it's coach dump. It's 0:27:58.880 --> 0:28:01.560 coach just jumped on him after the game in the media. 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:03.520 So the coach, the coach didn't have any sympathy for 0:28:03.640 --> 0:28:05.080 he went out there. I thought you were what you 0:28:05.160 --> 0:28:08.720 did was foolish and dumb, and as you said, it 0:28:08.880 --> 0:28:12.360 changed moment, changed my minim of the football game here. 0:28:12.920 --> 0:28:15.560 So yeah, nothing about what he did was honorable. Nothing 0:28:15.600 --> 0:28:17.920 he did was smart. It was just all bad, bad, bad. 0:28:18.040 --> 0:28:21.000 And you're right too, Danny, when you start talking about 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:24.480 where you play and the kind of taxes you pay, man, 0:28:24.600 --> 0:28:26.879 you know, that's that's something that I learned the hardway, 0:28:26.880 --> 0:28:28.640 and therese, that's what happen. You learned it the hard way. 0:28:28.840 --> 0:28:30.720 I remember when I lived in Ohio, Man, because I 0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:32.600 came from Texas, all right, So I was working in 0:28:32.720 --> 0:28:35.360 Austin and got to cover the Cowboys and that their 0:28:35.440 --> 0:28:37.240 last Super Bowl team with Jimmy So I got to 0:28:37.320 --> 0:28:39.640 cover the Cowboys, and then I went up to Cleveland. 0:28:40.160 --> 0:28:42.640 So but the first time to get the whole tax thing, 0:28:42.640 --> 0:28:44.920 I found out I had to pay federal tax. I 0:28:45.000 --> 0:28:48.520 had to pay tax to the state of Ohio. I 0:28:48.680 --> 0:28:51.040 had to pay tax to the city of Cleveland because 0:28:51.080 --> 0:28:53.680 I worked at the TV station in the city of Cleveland. 0:28:54.240 --> 0:28:56.120 And then I lived in this town. I lived in 0:28:56.200 --> 0:28:58.320 this town called Westlake, and I had to pay the 0:28:58.400 --> 0:29:01.640 town of Westlake, Texas. I got taxed four weeks I 0:29:01.720 --> 0:29:04.600 was like, what, what, what are you talking about? I thought, man, 0:29:04.720 --> 0:29:07.080 I was I was mad. I couldn't believe it because 0:29:09.200 --> 0:29:11.320 West Lakes a richie area too, so I know you 0:29:11.480 --> 0:29:17.320 was property taxes. Man. Man, I'll tell you what. I'm 0:29:17.320 --> 0:29:19.440 glad I was fortunate enough to play in Dallas and 0:29:19.560 --> 0:29:21.800 in Jacksonville there ain't no state taxes, so I saw 0:29:21.840 --> 0:29:24.160 every piece of that. But I know, my boy, man, 0:29:24.200 --> 0:29:26.720 he's hurting right now. That's a lot of money's dogs. 0:29:27.440 --> 0:29:29.280 But by the way, by the way, side, note, the 0:29:29.360 --> 0:29:32.080 best team in Ohio is not a Cincinnati Bengals. By 0:29:32.120 --> 0:29:34.680 the way. Uh couldn't as great as Joe Burrows lighting 0:29:34.760 --> 0:29:40.880 them up. Aby, whoa, it looks nice. And I'll tell 0:29:40.920 --> 0:29:45.640 you what Joe Burrow has brought to Cincinnati. You know, 0:29:45.960 --> 0:29:48.840 the same confidence and the swagger that they had at LSU. 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:53.160 But Joe is from that area, and the Cincinnati fans 0:29:53.280 --> 0:29:55.880 have a Yeah, they truly have one of their own 0:29:56.080 --> 0:30:00.440 who's leading them. And I just hope the Browns family 0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:03.959 doesn't mess this up. I mean I really do. I mean, 0:30:04.000 --> 0:30:09.640 they've they have essentially the guy they've always wanted. Okay, 0:30:10.000 --> 0:30:12.120 here's here's a hometown guy, and they draft a lot 0:30:12.160 --> 0:30:14.080 of Ohio State products through the years because they like 0:30:14.200 --> 0:30:18.000 drafting those guys. You have a hometown guy right there 0:30:18.440 --> 0:30:22.360 from that area who understands that area. Please don't mess 0:30:22.400 --> 0:30:24.480 this up in the draft. They need to be looking 0:30:24.520 --> 0:30:27.760 at every good offensive lineman they can because they have 0:30:27.960 --> 0:30:31.680 a future here. They have some building blocks, They've got receivers, 0:30:31.880 --> 0:30:35.520 you've got good run game between Mixing and Giovanni Bernard. 0:30:35.800 --> 0:30:38.600 Add some more pieces to your defense. But Cincinnati's on 0:30:38.720 --> 0:30:40.880 its way and to me and yeah, I don't know 0:30:40.920 --> 0:30:43.520 how much you guys watch of the Chargers game yesterday, 0:30:43.560 --> 0:30:46.080 but the Justin Herbert kid that they ended up drafting 0:30:46.160 --> 0:30:50.400 this coming around. Yeah, this kid's coming around. So so 0:30:50.880 --> 0:30:54.120 if you are drafting high and you have the ability 0:30:54.200 --> 0:30:56.040 to get you get ahold of a Trevor Lawrence, and 0:30:56.080 --> 0:30:57.840 you have the ability to get ahold of adjustin fields, 0:30:58.040 --> 0:31:00.440 You're seeing more and more of these guys ready to 0:31:00.520 --> 0:31:02.760 come to the NFL and play. Now. I'm not saying 0:31:03.000 --> 0:31:05.080 either one is going to be as good as Joe Burrow, 0:31:05.680 --> 0:31:08.760 but my goodness, gracious, you see what happens when you 0:31:09.000 --> 0:31:13.840 have a quarterback and I think it's the go ahead 0:31:13.880 --> 0:31:15.560 doing my back ahead. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 0:31:16.200 --> 0:31:18.320 what was it? No, I was just gonna say, I 0:31:18.360 --> 0:31:20.160 think it has a lot to do with the development 0:31:20.200 --> 0:31:21.920 at a younger age now. I mean, you see a 0:31:21.960 --> 0:31:24.360 lot of these kids, especially the kids down south or 0:31:24.400 --> 0:31:26.560 on the West Coast, they have like seven on seven 0:31:26.640 --> 0:31:29.720 camps during spring, they have spring football. I mean, there's 0:31:29.760 --> 0:31:32.120 so many of these elite passing camps that kids are 0:31:32.160 --> 0:31:33.920 going to from when they're ten years old and on. 0:31:34.280 --> 0:31:35.960 You just see a lot more arm talent and a 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:38.400 lot more development in these young kids to where when 0:31:38.440 --> 0:31:40.040 they get to college or when they when they get 0:31:40.040 --> 0:31:42.360 to the pros. I mean, they're just so like leaps 0:31:42.400 --> 0:31:44.560 and bounds of head of head of what it used 0:31:44.600 --> 0:31:46.160 to be back in the day. So I just think 0:31:46.200 --> 0:31:47.880 we're gonna get more and more of these young talented 0:31:47.920 --> 0:31:50.560 quarterbacks coming into the league and setting it on fire. 0:31:51.400 --> 0:31:54.640 And for and for Joe Burrow, it was that. Plus 0:31:55.080 --> 0:31:57.520 you remember Joe Brady got a hold of Joe Burrow 0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:00.200 the year he won the Husman before he loved he 0:32:00.280 --> 0:32:02.960 brought that Saints offense in there, and it just changed 0:32:03.000 --> 0:32:06.440 everything for Joe Burrow because before, before, before he got there, 0:32:06.840 --> 0:32:09.680 nobody expected Joe Burrow to do anything because we were 0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:11.560 running offense, and then you saw him be able to 0:32:11.600 --> 0:32:14.280 pick up the Saints offensive NFL offense and he was 0:32:14.280 --> 0:32:17.040 able to translate that. Now to Cincinnati and those guys, 0:32:17.800 --> 0:32:19.840 they could have a winning record right now because they've 0:32:19.880 --> 0:32:21.680 been competitive in all their games and they go out 0:32:21.680 --> 0:32:24.520 there and they beat uh they beat the Titans, and 0:32:24.600 --> 0:32:28.000 they also have a tie. So you watch off for Cincinnati. 0:32:28.040 --> 0:32:30.560 That's why that's why we say Church, you know, winning 0:32:30.640 --> 0:32:33.080 the East is not gonna be that easy because Cincinnati 0:32:33.160 --> 0:32:35.080 is one of those games that we all counted as 0:32:35.120 --> 0:32:37.800 a win at the beginning of the season. It's funny 0:32:38.520 --> 0:32:42.600 from aj Green though, No, No, I mean I don't 0:32:42.600 --> 0:32:44.840 think they need to move on from AJ Green. I 0:32:44.920 --> 0:32:48.600 mean not right now. I mean right now, Ajan right now. 0:32:48.720 --> 0:32:50.960 But but but after the season, Well, that's why you 0:32:51.080 --> 0:32:53.760 drafted T Higgins and you've got Tyler Boyd show. No, 0:32:53.840 --> 0:32:55.920 they're not gonna I gotta pay for eight for him. 0:32:56.040 --> 0:32:57.360 I mean they could go in and get it, you know, 0:32:57.600 --> 0:33:00.239 get another type of receiver next year. Lord. No, if 0:33:00.240 --> 0:33:02.040 the cap is going down the way everybody says, there's 0:33:02.040 --> 0:33:05.000 gonna be some serious bargains out there, so so you 0:33:05.040 --> 0:33:06.840 can move on from aj Green after the season, But 0:33:07.000 --> 0:33:10.320 right now, I like how he's got three legitimate options 0:33:10.360 --> 0:33:12.040 out there and if they can find a tight end 0:33:12.680 --> 0:33:15.480 that they can also get out here and make some 0:33:15.600 --> 0:33:17.160 moves for them. I mean, I love what they're doing 0:33:17.200 --> 0:33:18.680 with Joe Burrow and Barry. I'll go back to what 0:33:18.800 --> 0:33:21.360 you said, and here's what I really do, truly feel 0:33:21.720 --> 0:33:26.040 that the NFL has decided to be smart enough to 0:33:26.400 --> 0:33:29.520 let's take some of these college concepts of what these 0:33:29.600 --> 0:33:33.840 quarterbacks know and let's incorporate them into the NFL. I 0:33:34.080 --> 0:33:37.640 love how Pep Hamilton has worked with Justin Herbert, the 0:33:37.760 --> 0:33:39.880 quarterback coach out there with the Chargers, and I don't 0:33:39.880 --> 0:33:41.520 know if Anthony Lynde is going to keep his job 0:33:41.600 --> 0:33:44.800 after the season because they keep finding ways to lose wins. 0:33:45.080 --> 0:33:47.640 I mean they're truly wins. They're a double digits. They 0:33:47.680 --> 0:33:49.200 got wins in bag and they just find a way 0:33:49.200 --> 0:33:51.680 to get them away. So Pep Hamilton could be free. 0:33:51.960 --> 0:33:54.280 But I tell you what, whoever is out there, you 0:33:54.400 --> 0:33:57.160 better go snag Pep Pep Hamilton because what he's done 0:33:57.200 --> 0:34:00.360 with Justin Herbert has worked wonders. These coaches who are 0:34:00.360 --> 0:34:03.000 smart are realizing what did these guys do at school? 0:34:03.280 --> 0:34:04.880 How do we incorporate it? How do we work with 0:34:05.000 --> 0:34:07.760 Andy Reid may be the best where they sat Patrick 0:34:08.280 --> 0:34:10.680 Mahomes for a year, understood what he could do with 0:34:10.760 --> 0:34:13.160 Texas Tech. They've implemented some of those things and look 0:34:13.200 --> 0:34:16.080 at where they're gone. Bill O'Brien for a much criticism, 0:34:16.160 --> 0:34:19.320 and rightfully so he's gotten. This guy has put Deshaun 0:34:19.360 --> 0:34:22.160 Watson in some good situations when he was down there 0:34:22.200 --> 0:34:24.480 in Houston before getting fired. But man, you look at 0:34:24.520 --> 0:34:26.239 these dudes, what are you doing in college? Can you 0:34:26.280 --> 0:34:28.120 bring that to them? I love Justin Fiel. I don't 0:34:28.120 --> 0:34:29.960 think people talking about uugh about Justin Fields. I mean, 0:34:30.000 --> 0:34:33.080 Trevor Lawrence is a fantastic player, and I've seen Trevor 0:34:33.160 --> 0:34:35.000 Lawrence play a person. First thing I saw was this 0:34:35.080 --> 0:34:37.439 is a big dude. He's gonna be a good player. 0:34:37.480 --> 0:34:39.960 But Justin Fields, to me, has that ability to come 0:34:40.000 --> 0:34:42.239 in here and play like a Justin Herbert and be 0:34:42.360 --> 0:34:44.360 a contributor that we've seen some of these guys who 0:34:44.400 --> 0:34:47.000 are coming out of college. So the first and second 0:34:47.040 --> 0:34:49.720 pick this year in the draft could be very valuable. 0:34:49.840 --> 0:34:53.920 And very very good for whoever lands them. 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What would you suggest for 0:37:35.760 --> 0:37:40.080 folks to go hit up out out in Frisco. Yeah, 0:37:40.160 --> 0:37:43.279 the Star District right there across from the Star Woh, well, 0:37:43.320 --> 0:37:45.440 you can never go You can never go wrong with 0:37:45.560 --> 0:37:48.440 Del Frisco's out there. That Double Tree steakhouse out there. 0:37:48.560 --> 0:37:51.640 Del Friscos, they got some of the best appetizers. They 0:37:51.680 --> 0:37:55.120 got Filichi steak egg rolls are always on point. You 0:37:55.160 --> 0:37:57.359 could never go wrong with their their steaks. I mean, 0:37:57.400 --> 0:37:59.800 I like my medium, but either way, you everywhere you 0:37:59.880 --> 0:38:01.680 like it. It's it's a great spot to go get 0:38:01.719 --> 0:38:04.320 something to eat. Atmosphere is great. Two stories, get some 0:38:04.440 --> 0:38:06.000 views in there as well, So you can never go 0:38:06.080 --> 0:38:09.560 wrong with the Friscos. All right, Chris Beam, Since you're 0:38:09.640 --> 0:38:12.000 the average man and Barries got these expensive tastes, what 0:38:12.080 --> 0:38:17.440 do you recommend church. Doesn't even. He's not even in 0:38:17.480 --> 0:38:22.400 the Star district. I know, I know he down the street. 0:38:22.600 --> 0:38:27.760 He down the street, I mean not even. He's my gosh, dandy, 0:38:28.080 --> 0:38:29.520 since you put it out there, I was gonna let 0:38:29.560 --> 0:38:32.120 it slide. Well, I was gonna let it slide, daddy. 0:38:32.160 --> 0:38:40.200 But there so like I'm up there, just Waburgers, Walburgers 0:38:40.239 --> 0:38:44.960 out side. It's good. Watburgers is good. No bro, no bro, 0:38:45.160 --> 0:38:46.920 no listen. If you go on the brunch, go to 0:38:47.000 --> 0:38:50.200 common table. If not, go to Tupelo Honey. They got some. 0:38:50.280 --> 0:38:53.319 They got a good fried chicken, dishes of macaroni and cheese. 0:38:53.520 --> 0:38:54.960 Go to them too. And you can't go round with 0:38:55.000 --> 0:39:00.480 trot and people. They got something. They got some up there. Now. 0:39:00.520 --> 0:39:03.480 I've done Tupelo Honey before. That's why I first met 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:05.680 Chris Rochard. I got to meet him over a little 0:39:05.760 --> 0:39:08.839 lunch with another friend of Tupelo Honey. So good little spot. 0:39:08.880 --> 0:39:21.760 But never there's never with Danny's around. But you always 0:39:21.880 --> 0:39:25.839 got to be aware, man, I mean, I mean him 0:39:25.880 --> 0:39:29.040 and produce. Chris ban will throw slugs from anywhere. Man. 0:39:29.160 --> 0:39:36.120 I'm telling you, the last supper was the last supper 0:39:36.280 --> 0:39:40.640 I've done. I was no, man, it was the first supper. Okay, 0:39:40.719 --> 0:39:44.280 it was the first four the season starting everything. Man first, 0:39:44.920 --> 0:39:47.120 when when the height was real, Man, it was when 0:39:47.160 --> 0:39:52.879 the hype was real. Wow. Wow, uh NFL News here 0:39:53.360 --> 0:39:56.239 to hit you with. Um. The forty nine ers have 0:39:56.440 --> 0:39:59.800 traded linebacker Kawan Alexanders to the Saints in exchange for 0:40:00.440 --> 0:40:03.680 Keiko Alonzo and a conditional fifth round pick. So the 0:40:03.800 --> 0:40:06.040 Saints are truly trying to go for it because their 0:40:06.160 --> 0:40:08.960 cap next season, they're gonna have to shut almost one 0:40:09.000 --> 0:40:11.200 hundred million dollars off this team next year. So they're 0:40:11.239 --> 0:40:14.320 trying to push in all the chits right now to 0:40:14.520 --> 0:40:19.279 win this thing. And and I'm imagining this is the 0:40:19.360 --> 0:40:22.040 last ride for Drew Brees too, So I guess that's 0:40:22.080 --> 0:40:24.239 why John Payton is trying to go go ahead and 0:40:24.280 --> 0:40:26.719 put it all in there. That brings me to this 0:40:26.880 --> 0:40:30.000 question for y'all, For both of y'all, you know, seeing 0:40:30.000 --> 0:40:32.040 as a trade dead last coming up tomorrow, I believe 0:40:32.080 --> 0:40:34.240 at like four or whatever it is, is there anyone 0:40:34.400 --> 0:40:37.640 out there that you would want to see the Cowboys 0:40:37.719 --> 0:40:41.160 trade for that you could see the Cowboys trade for? No, 0:40:42.760 --> 0:40:46.160 not at all? Okay, what about you. Mccraig, absolutely not. 0:40:46.920 --> 0:40:52.399 Why why the question? Don't waste nothing on nobody that's 0:40:52.400 --> 0:40:54.839 out there. All right, we are what we are. We've 0:40:54.880 --> 0:40:56.920 been seeing it in all season, and I know that. 0:40:57.120 --> 0:40:59.400 The Stevens said, you know, we're still we're still in it. 0:40:59.760 --> 0:41:01.799 But even if you do, when the NFC you're getting, 0:41:01.920 --> 0:41:03.960 you're getting thrashed in the first round of the playoffs 0:41:04.000 --> 0:41:05.680 in his own all right, So I mean, I wouldn't 0:41:05.680 --> 0:41:08.440 even waste to waste any picks any while, waste your 0:41:08.520 --> 0:41:13.000 time with the season. Just pack it in. No, no, no, 0:41:13.320 --> 0:41:15.840 you like, like Louis said, find out what you have 0:41:15.960 --> 0:41:18.200 on the roster. You're gonna get your young guys out there, 0:41:18.239 --> 0:41:19.680 see what they got, See who you're gonna be able 0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:21.320 to keep on the team next year, and see what 0:41:21.360 --> 0:41:23.120 they can do, and then and then move on to 0:41:23.200 --> 0:41:25.040 the next season. And if you make the playoffs, then 0:41:25.040 --> 0:41:27.919 you make the playoffs. But you know, I mean why, 0:41:28.239 --> 0:41:30.480 I'm not sure you know, once you get a guys 0:41:30.600 --> 0:41:35.520 New Year's Eve off. Stephen Jones did say on one 0:41:35.640 --> 0:41:37.440 or five three of the Fan today he believes that 0:41:37.520 --> 0:41:41.360 the Cowboys are in it, and he's not anticipating trading 0:41:41.400 --> 0:41:45.920 away any any assets, uh to try and uh to 0:41:46.320 --> 0:41:48.359 you know, to go ahead and start a fire, shim. 0:41:48.680 --> 0:41:51.320 So let's get back into this before the break, mccraig, 0:41:51.360 --> 0:41:55.000 you tried to make reference to the Cowboys possibly getting 0:41:55.560 --> 0:41:58.000 the number one or number two pick in the NFL, 0:41:58.480 --> 0:42:01.359 with Trevor Lawrence, the quarterback from Clempson being the guy 0:42:01.440 --> 0:42:05.399 everyone's talking about it. Justin fields um got most likely 0:42:05.560 --> 0:42:08.440 number two or definitely rising up in that top that 0:42:08.560 --> 0:42:11.480 top top three status, top four status in my opinion here, 0:42:11.520 --> 0:42:13.080 so I take the floor, man, you go ahead and 0:42:13.160 --> 0:42:15.480 go with that. Hold on, hold on, see see knew 0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:17.080 we tried to send me and put words in my mouth. 0:42:17.239 --> 0:42:20.080 I didn't say anything about the Cowboys trying to get 0:42:20.160 --> 0:42:22.160 one of those picks. They won't try to get it, 0:42:22.320 --> 0:42:24.200 all right, They're gonna try to win games, just like 0:42:24.280 --> 0:42:26.360 they tried to win the game last night, and it 0:42:26.480 --> 0:42:29.480 just may not happen. So they may they may accidentally 0:42:29.719 --> 0:42:32.479 end up with one of those picks. You know, maybe Jets. 0:42:32.520 --> 0:42:34.560 You think they're gonna get one of those picks? Do 0:42:34.640 --> 0:42:37.759 you think get one of those picks? So who is 0:42:37.800 --> 0:42:41.440 it right now? Is the Jets? Is the Jets? The 0:42:41.640 --> 0:42:43.560 Jets are o na, No, No, you got a lot 0:42:43.640 --> 0:42:47.160 of ground to cover here, many people in front the Jets. 0:42:47.520 --> 0:42:50.520 Jets are o NA. Houston has one in six, Jacksonville 0:42:50.600 --> 0:42:53.239 is one in six. The Giants are one in six. 0:42:54.000 --> 0:42:57.480 So you got folks with already. And then and then 0:42:57.520 --> 0:43:02.600 Atlanta's two and six and you beat Atlanta, so Atlanta's 0:43:02.600 --> 0:43:06.040 got you. Um the Chargers could have been three and 0:43:06.360 --> 0:43:09.040 three and three and four, but they ended up losing, 0:43:09.080 --> 0:43:11.759 so they're not two and five. So uh look there's 0:43:11.840 --> 0:43:15.319 there's um the shoot, the Patriots are two and five, 0:43:15.560 --> 0:43:17.320 So you've got people in front of you. Is what 0:43:17.400 --> 0:43:19.160 I'm saying. It's it's it's going to be a challenge 0:43:19.239 --> 0:43:22.240 to get to number two. Look at look at the schedule. 0:43:22.960 --> 0:43:24.719 Look at the schedule. Pick a game that you that 0:43:24.840 --> 0:43:27.200 you say we gonna win and think we will be 0:43:27.360 --> 0:43:29.080 stuck at two games for the rest of the season. 0:43:31.800 --> 0:43:33.759 As I said, as I said last week, guys, the 0:43:34.080 --> 0:43:38.040 only time the Cowboys will be favored again is the 0:43:38.320 --> 0:43:40.600 end of the year against the Giants. And by the 0:43:40.719 --> 0:43:43.280 time that final game comes up there at MetLife Stadium 0:43:43.280 --> 0:43:46.240 in New Jersey, we'll have to see if either team 0:43:46.440 --> 0:43:48.759 is going to put out anyone who can help them 0:43:48.840 --> 0:43:51.000 get a w that day, because every would be pretty 0:43:51.040 --> 0:43:54.800 clear on terms of what what a win could cost 0:43:55.200 --> 0:43:59.560 someone drafts and draft pick wise. So this may be 0:43:59.640 --> 0:44:03.440 the Nuci Show and everybody else. You know, they may 0:44:03.480 --> 0:44:06.200 be bring back down Terry Pop for one game only, 0:44:06.280 --> 0:44:12.279 you know, you know, bring back Waring, bring back a 0:44:12.320 --> 0:44:16.080 whole slew of people for one game only. Speaking speaking 0:44:16.360 --> 0:44:18.640 speaking to Polman, Listen, I hate that the show is 0:44:18.680 --> 0:44:21.399 so short because we haven't gotten we haven't gotten enough 0:44:21.480 --> 0:44:23.920 time to give the defense, to shout offs, to even 0:44:24.080 --> 0:44:26.960 touched on the defense. Yeah, you know, and I don't 0:44:27.000 --> 0:44:28.600 want people to think that we are not going to 0:44:28.760 --> 0:44:31.120 give them, you know what, little praise that they can 0:44:31.200 --> 0:44:33.960 deserve for this season and hopefully moving forward they get 0:44:34.000 --> 0:44:35.920 a little bit more. So I'm sure we'll get on 0:44:36.000 --> 0:44:37.600 it tomorrow, but I just wanted to, you know, make 0:44:37.640 --> 0:44:39.560 sure that we got in it today and saying they 0:44:39.680 --> 0:44:44.280 played hard yesterday. They played hard, they made some plays, 0:44:44.600 --> 0:44:47.960 they got some turnovers, they blissed a little bit, put 0:44:48.040 --> 0:44:50.560 some pressure on wins. They did some good things that 0:44:50.640 --> 0:44:52.360 we'll be able to dive in more tomorrow. But I 0:44:52.480 --> 0:44:54.800 just had to make sure on Monday, definitely that we 0:44:54.880 --> 0:44:58.000 put it out there. It definitely helped that. You know, 0:44:58.120 --> 0:45:00.560 Wins is a walking turnover out there. I mean he, 0:45:00.840 --> 0:45:02.680 my boy was holding the ball like a loaf of 0:45:02.719 --> 0:45:05.680 bread in the pocket. I mean, his his quarterback into 0:45:05.800 --> 0:45:08.560 me is it's not good at all. People had the 0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:10.520 nerve to say that he was up there with Dak Prescott, 0:45:10.800 --> 0:45:13.279 but that's beside the point for me. I definitely got 0:45:13.360 --> 0:45:15.040 to give a little shout out to our defense man. 0:45:15.080 --> 0:45:16.480 I mean, there's still a couple of cats that are 0:45:16.600 --> 0:45:18.040 that are missing right now that they're still on that 0:45:18.120 --> 0:45:22.120 milk carton number ninety eight. But but besides that, I 0:45:22.239 --> 0:45:24.920 feel like, you know, d law, I feel like he 0:45:24.960 --> 0:45:30.879 showed up a little bit. Randy, Oh yeah, he's all yeah, 0:45:31.000 --> 0:45:33.080 he definitely digressed a little bit. I don't know what 0:45:33.200 --> 0:45:35.120 happen when you put that blonde hair. Maybe that kind 0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:37.520 of threw his superpowers off or whatever. But I don't 0:45:37.560 --> 0:45:40.360 know what happened. But Randy Gregory, he showed up a 0:45:40.400 --> 0:45:42.200 little bit out there. He showed a little poppy, showed 0:45:42.200 --> 0:45:44.160 a little speed off the air. So I gotta give 0:45:44.320 --> 0:45:46.480 props to my defense we'll get we'll get into them tomorrow. 0:45:46.560 --> 0:45:48.319 But they definitely played a little bit better than they 0:45:48.360 --> 0:45:53.320 did in season games previous. The Hot Boys returned on 0:45:53.440 --> 0:45:57.880 Sunday Night football, So hey knew, he knew, he think 0:45:57.880 --> 0:45:59.799 about think about what you just said. Set the hot 0:46:00.200 --> 0:46:02.879 was a bat, the forty nine a shift. They hot 0:46:02.960 --> 0:46:06.680 boys off New Orleans. What the real hot boys is. 0:46:06.800 --> 0:46:08.879 So we're gonna see the battle and see what's really 0:46:08.920 --> 0:46:11.120 going on. Who the battle of the hot Boys for 0:46:11.200 --> 0:46:12.919 the rest of the season. That's that's what I'm ready 0:46:12.960 --> 0:46:15.439 to see. Hey, if this the lion start talking about 0:46:15.480 --> 0:46:17.960 hot boys is man, they don't need to talk about anything. 0:46:18.040 --> 0:46:20.359 How they need to get some sacks and some quarterback pressures. Man, 0:46:20.680 --> 0:46:22.799 I've been here. None of these dudes talking about hot boys. 0:46:22.880 --> 0:46:27.080 Don't get this merchandise out. I've been not hear none. Well, 0:46:27.480 --> 0:46:30.799 they will have to face the team from western Pennsylvania 0:46:30.960 --> 0:46:34.080 on Sunday, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and their quarterback is a 0:46:34.200 --> 0:46:37.000 little bit better than the one they faced this past week. 0:46:37.080 --> 0:46:41.000 So we'll also dive into the Steelers along the way. 0:46:41.120 --> 0:46:42.800 And one of my biggest fears is there'll be a 0:46:42.880 --> 0:46:45.439 whole lot of folks with terrible towels at Jerry World 0:46:45.800 --> 0:46:47.520 on Sunday. 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