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There is a pair of readers. Smart, so starts one thing. The top story in sports is there was a possum on the field and Tech and TCU last night, but we don't have time to get to that. Okay, behind you this morning, I saw the video of that and it was really funny as they have the little loop stick with a loop on it around the possum's neck and they're dragging him and he's got all claws out and he's just going as they kind of drag him off the pitch. It was,
that's a meme. He was like, don't digging his nails in and kind of just screaming forward grabbing their four year old Sonday. Yeah, Yeah, that's funny. Also, it had the same markings on it as the one that was in my backyard in five days, leading me to believe that possums can travel faster than you might think. They're quick. They can be I saw daytime possum yesterday while walking Geraldine. Yeah, and it's like, hmmm, I typically don't see these unless it's dark out, so it made me
wonder if it was maybe rabid. That's the things change what they said environment that they say, Although there are some staunch possum defenders who will weigh in and say that's always been a big misnomer that they're there rabies carriers, they're really not. I don't know what I leave on that because I don't know, but that's possum cross the street and into a yard and down somebody's fence line yesterday at like four point thirty in the afternoon. Why do they name
a lake possum kingdom? That's a regal sounding. I'm sure the weird stuff. I'm sure there's a story on that about having a bunch of possums. That's it. Yeah, so too, Kevin. That's my guess is your deductive reasoning skills are far beyond really incredible. Now do White settlement well that one week? Unfortunately? No? Maybe? Uh, then after that one we can solve the mystery of gun barrel City. That one's a different one. No, that's not about gun barrels, no, no, no,
but it's a rodeo possome kingdom that sounds like a crappy Disney movie. It's a great tody song. Yeah, yeap. What other possum kingdom songs do you know one? Yeah, I'm saying it's not as out there as people may may know that. I'm just saying, go find out and like give me the full Well, what is this sort? Was it just possum? Yeah? No, that's not true. It was just a bunch of possums, And that's why it's called that. I bet it was. I bet
I bet there was a lot of possums. Nothing in life is that easy. And who officially names these things? The mayor? No? And then people just start calling it that, and then they're like, screw it, write it down, all right. I don't know, Kevin, just get on with whatever you're doing. I feel pretty good about the fact that it wasn't just a bunch of possums living there like meerkat manor why would you feel
good about that? What other logical reason to call it possum Kingdom? Just some country boy out there said, hey, what if we call it Possum Kingdom. I'm just saying, what is the reason? There are several stories. There's several stories about the origin of the name Possum Kingdom. All right, here's one you're ready. Local legend has it the Possum Kingdom got its name from a fur trader out of nearby Mineral Wells who always referred to the
trappers in northwest Palo Pinto County as the boys of Possum Kingdom. The name often associated with a particular bend of the Brazos. Ah. Not just about a bunch of possums who were playing cards and you know, making farms point. They have Hell's Gate at Possum Care. Yeah, you know about Hell's Gate. Isn't that where the red bull divers jump off it? Is But before that, you know what it was where the drunk people would jump off. You go up to the top of Hell's Gate and you just plunge into
the lake. Suicide or is it illegal now to do that? It should be because that definitely multiple deaths for sure over the years. The story here, the comanches found two fur traders, launched a significant amount of arrows thereby piercing their bodies, and killed them both. From that day forward, that point on the Brazos River was called Hell's Gate. When Postham Kingdom Lake began impoundment in nineteen forty one, it created Devil's Island. Yeah, bostop Kingdom's
wild Man. We have Hell's Gate upon Devil's Island within Postham Kingdom Lake. It was like five ten years ago. They had big wildfire problems out of Possum Kingdom too. They have a cool golf course out there, Mikey called the Cliffs. We should go play at some time. Love to you hit over this thing over a cliff? Is that right? Yeah? Kind of cool. So obviously Rangers from the World series were pumped. We'd be talking about the prey. We been talking about a lot of Rangers stuff, Cowboys,
Eagles. Is this the best Cowboys Eagles matchup we've had in a long time, where the quarterbacks are healthy, the teams are good. It seems like there's kind of a lot on the line, and it feels like it's just being overshadowed all week by the Rangers, which are fine they have had it not been at the Rangers not been in the playoffs. This is all that we would have talked about all week long. JJ found some audio and sent it over to me, and I was like, this is good.
We should play this, and this is if you're gonna And the reason I'm doing this is because if I'm going to be the guy who calls out Mike McCarthy for every dumb thing he says, then also I should be fair and when he says something encouraging, we should play it and listen to it and at least think about it for a minute. Here's Mike McCarthy on his quarterback in the offense really just you know, cutting dack loose on me. But
the ball distribution was you know, we hit our average. You know, we had eighty percent of our you know, plays were you know, rushes or completions saw me. So that that part, I think, you know, consistent, you know, and if you look at play calling as when you throw it, it's more aggressive than we were more aggressive yesterday. We need more production from the offense, and I think a big part of that
is just trusting your players and opening things up. So, you know, I just you know, conceptionally, you know, we we got some things we can still haven't got to yet. But to me, the first that first trimester, you show you know what you think you want to be coming out of the off season, and then you start getting into variations of those concepts. So I think we're starting to hit that point. Cut dak loose, open it up? Have it shown you everything? More variations of the
offense. Now we're talking. Now we're finally getting there. Why does it take so long? Does it? Or is he just saying I think he's just saying words. Yeah, he's just saying words, probably, And I was trying really hard not to just say that really nice to him. That is nice. You're trying to be nice to Mike MacArthur. Eighty percent they want every eighty percent of their place to be rushes or completions. To me, that and that follows the formula of time management, game management, controlling
the ball. But I do think that's a bad way to look at it. To go eighty percent of our play should be completions or rushes. You should be looking at the yards of those plays, not the type of play. It does sound like he's just attaching meaning to something purely circumstantial and you applying it and taking credit for it. You need to make it sound good for you. I know people that do that. That's what I was meant
to do that the whole time. That's odd. I guess that would lead to shorter completions too, right, Yeah, because reception rushes or receptions completion complete completions are rushes eighty percent, So four out of five plays we want to be a running play or a completion. And I would just say that's odd. I've never heard that's that that combine with the percentage of signed to it. But I guess what that does is it keeps the clock running,
hmm, which is what you want. I don't know if of the clock running not running, I don't know that I care about that. Points and first downs and staying out of third downs is how you rest the defense. Is this the whole thing of Like in baseball we talk about, well, we got to make him work. Well, making a guy work is not necessarily standing there until everybody. It's like making him work is if one guy gets on base, then he has to pitch to the next guy. That's
the thing gets a hit. Yeah. The clock running, in fact, makes the time go faster. Yeah, you know, if you're looking, if the sole objective is to get your defense actual rest, which means time not on the field, the more clock stoppages you have, the better in an offensive drive. Right, I mean in terms of like I mean, I mean, I guess. I mean what he's saying is avoid three and
outs and things like that. Obviously we know all this stuff though, Like so you know, I don't know, but I like hearing cut dak loose. Yes, I thought the whole effing first half of the season, it's been we're scared Deck's gonna throw a bunch of interceptions. Quarterbacks throw interceptions. It's okay, don't throw a bunch of them. How Manyay, God, don't throw a record level of them. I think he's got five, and
it might be four. I think it's five. If he's fumbled then and then it's four because he's got five turnovers eleven, but Jalen hurts fumbles because he runs a lot. Dak had three against the Niners, yeah, three and two others Cardinals and Rams, and then four clean game two of them I know for a factor, tip balls too, yeah, and garbage time. Trying to get something going right. But I do agree with like, let's get deck close. So Cowboys Eagles. We'll have our Ghost Pepper Pavilion
picks where we predict what's going to happen on Sunday. We'll have that coming up at eight o'clock. Will Danny have anything chicken palm related? No, no, no parm. There is food involved, though there is for you. Sometimes it's called crutch. We've had some dumb ones, but chicken parm out of the Corvin Carroll getting tagged out on the chicken parm he had in his pocket is the dumbest sentence I think I've ever heard. And I love
you a damn love you. There were some people who were trying to revoke his broadcasting license, but there wasn't enough of those people who were trying to do that. When Danny drove up the ramp of the parking lot that day. There were some FCC officials trying to wave him down to take his broadcasting license. Hey you there like a bike cop. Yeah, phrase a whole and he just kind of smirked and drove right past him. Yes, thankfully, I was shielded by the signs of the protesters. There were tons of
DINGUS Morning News protesters all holding up their paper. The mass play tonight here on the freak. It is a late one. I think it's nice. Here do we go? The Nuggies defends the Denver Nuggets the beginning of the NBA N Season Tournament. So is this in Vegas? No? Okay, the tournament's in Vegas. You said this was the being this. Well, what's the beginning of the games that go towards the NBA ND Season Tournament? Okay, I accept your apology. Then six five team groups, big group
stage, all that stuff. All right, he's in our group again, the Nugs. Oh, I'm so sorry, Kevin. I I saw this yesterday. I burned you. I'm not in the business of burning y'all. I love you, damn. I know I don't want to I know I don't want to do You don't even really care that much exactly. I don't even care. We're just talking, but to hear him sigh when the teams in the group and you just see it. And for those of you that you know, maybe you woke up a little earlier than you're used to at
like seven eighteen and you're having a hard time for going back asleep. We're about to talk about the NBA N Season tournament, so maybe that will help Rockets, Nuggets, Clippers, use this. Use this next three minutes. Was your snooze button, Rockets, Nuggets, Clippers, Pelicans. That's all gets, Nuggets, Clippers. That's all I have. And I know you've had on the run sheet, like the rules and rags on this thing a
few things. But what do we get? Just a trophy? Is there any other actual impactful Yes, the winning team gets five The players in the winning team will each get five hundred thousand dollars neat, that's a lot of money for some of these guys. That's interesting. That's a fourth of jaden care about that? No, not really, but I think it's interesting.
I like leagues that are ambitious and try things, and this is modeled after the soccer stuff where they have n season tournaments, every year all year, too many, making it completely confusing. But I like that they're they're trying something to spice up the NBA in the in the NFL season stuff because they have a hard time early in the NBA season. So yes, I don't know, I don't right now. No, I'm not like fired up for
the midseason tournament. But I bet if the MAVs are in the semi finals or the finals of the n Season Tournament, I think we're gonna ten percent care more than we would about a regular regular season game. So you haven't gone to NBA shop dot com and gotten your in season tournament hoodie? Have you seen the courts guaranteed if they win the n season Tournament, I'm buying a shirt. Have y' all seen the court designs? Yeah? Are they going to end racism again? Yeah? We already ended ratios? Yeah?
What else do they want from us? You should see the court design in the break I'm not now, but like, look at the crazy ass court designs for the NBA in season tournament once it happens. But you're right, Mike money interest in this time year and it's it's basically the whole thing of why not, right, it's just a regular season game. And with all athletes, the thing we don't really want to talk about that much is it's only really about money, especially golfers, by the way, which is a
whole different conversation. All they care about is money. But I bet if you're in that final, and you know, it's five hundred grand, and I think if you're in the if you lose the final, you still get some money, so they're already profiting. You will see dudes going to war like you wouldn't on a random ass November day for five hundred grand, knowing we win this game, it's half a million dollars for each of us. Now, for Luca that might not mean all that much, but yes,
you're right, here's what I think it should mean. I think if you win the NBA N season tournament, you get to choose your first round playoff opponent. Okay, that's insane. I like it. If the league was like floundering, then yes, I would support doing something like that. But that is kind of stupid. How bad has coues that be? I want the diston's what you picked on random Eastern Conference? Yeah? In the playoffs at all? Yeah? Do I want Okay, that's not gonna work.
And what if you're that team that sucks, but you got put in the playoffs because you were chosen and then you win, but you're drafted by another team to take them on and then you beat them. What if they evolve it into movies? Movies should be written. No, no, what if they evolve it into if you win the mid season tournament, you make the playoffs. If you're a non playoff team, how about if you win the nd season tournament, the team that you beat has to have a foot for
a cell phone pick. Yeah, and now we're talking my language. Yeah, or they have to play with the chicken parm in their pocket for the second half of the NBA season. Baseball free agency starts next week. Players can be traded at beginning of today. Your your rangers who are free agents, the big names, Jordan Montgomery, Mitch Garver. That's all I have on that. We'll talk more about that in the next week or so. Or we want to day an't I don't want to lock anything in. He
hates commitment. No, I love commitment. Do you tell other things? Why would we need to bring Mitch Garver back when we have Bostin hedges on this roster damn straight, and we will see his bear ass today at the parade. More on that next on ninety seven to one. The frequent I also tell you how the Rangers belled out seven individuals on Wednesday night. Next