Player's Lounge: What's the Defensive Celling?

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You guys were young. It was. I was in college when New Jack, when New Jack City came out, and I remember we got it on we got it on VHS and we used to watch in the dorm room. Allom brought to you at yours. Truly they liked them Ices Ice Cold Bill Ice was actually in Texas last week. He still he's still he's the press. My first I was, did they pay him forty one thousand dollars and were just the stupid ones know that. So Danny is on Survivor, he cannot give us details. We just have to watch

and we'll discuss too. Are exactly who got voted off and what happened. This is the episode I'm waiting for because I mean, they left us on a little cliffhanger. But when we get out there, I can't wait to see this decision because we all of the decision she's gonna make, because if she made the other one about like leaving it us as it is, her butts basically voted off, so she gonna I think she's gonna shake things up. And this is the episode we gotta watch, man.

I think a lot of termoils going down. I want to know, how would you feel or somebody looked at you, looked you in your eyes and lie to you. The main dude too. Yeah, the host don't makes sense. It's confusing. I know what you got to say. I just feel I just feel like I can't even joke about it because you're real serious about it. I'm not happy you're not asking. She's just happy to listen. I don't get angry to get touching here. I just plush you at

you wasn't eating. I mean, you ain't sleeping in a long time. So it's just when you get you with that news, I knew emotions gotta be overflowing. Well, I ain't got hit with no news yet, so I don't. I don't. I don't know, but I'm just saying as I'm watching it and figuring out that the option, I'm reliving the fact that the option is even available. It makes me upset because I'm still at home and I'm thinking I left my daughter, I left my mom and my wife and my family and grandma on whatever. I

left all that for. Huh. Let's talk about something positive here, Danny. How's the social media been in terms of picking up more where folks following likes. Haw's that been for you? Yeah? Man, I think on Instagram maybe like like three three k so far. I would say this, it's always gonna be some haters on social media, but always gonna be some haters. And it's you know, they saw four black four black people work to decide they wanted to work together and

look out for you. Oh yeah, they're racist. They want to just team up and vote out all the white people. I said, you, if you watch that show. You ain't never seen us say nothing like that. Literally, they showed us for like thirty seconds. Said, oh, would be great if we work toge I took it there. Oh they took it there coming off of twenty twenty and all the stuff that happened and whatever. And then I think they also forget that at that time that the show

was being shot, George Floyd case was going on. So if that one you sitting there, you're like, oh, yeah, of course we gonna work together. You know what I'm saying. This is a big moment for us, But you gotta see if it actually happens. Like literally, they showed us for like two seconds, so they have no idea if you're gonna work together or not. We just said that it would be great if we get They had four people from New Zealand, they would all get together. Okay,

we have something in common, let us work together. So um, I'm looking forward to tonight. So seven o'clock catch Danny McCrae on Survivor. Let's dive into the Cowboys here. Michael Parsons NFC Defensive Player of the Week for his linebacker against the minist What did we say you keep him that linebacker. The guy's gonna learn the position. He's gonna be a dog. Ay, we already see. He has all the abilities to play wherever he wants to on the

football field. We all know that. But if you keep him at that linebacker position and he gets the little nuances of the game, pulling guards, spilling, hammering, you become you're gonna become an All Pro type player. And he showed it out there. He like we talked about it on Monday. This is a grown man out there making grown man stops at the line of scrimmage. That's the type of linebacker we needs it. Like first rookie with ten tackles and four tackles for loss of the game.

I mean, he he's been great. He's been great all year. And you talk about a rookie possibly making the Pro Bowl coming up. We got Treyvon Diggs who could be All Pro and make the Pro Bowl. You got Michael Parsons who could be All Pro make the Pro Bowl in his rookie defensive Rookie of the Year, Like, you have a lot of options on this defense, which is why I say it's not out of the realm of possibility for us. To be a top ten defense when you look at the caliber of players that we have

on our roster. I even saw George Lewis make a big time hire and being sick, and he's like down last year up this year, Like if you cross the board. I gotta give you kudos because you called it in the off season. You said, you know, dan Quinn's gonna come up here and he's gonna change everything about this defense, and we all gave you hell about it. Man, Dad, did you remember what dan Quinn did? It? Not land in the head, do nothing? And you called it from

the jump. You even before they hired, hell about it, right up to the twenty eighth to three games before they even hired the man, he was just a possibility, and you were just like, man, we need to go get this guy. We need to get bring him in here and do what he can do. And you've been right now. So I gotta give your kudos on that one. They still ain't gonna be a top ten defense, but

they're gonna be closer than our thought they would. What we know is we were twenty fifth two weeks ago, yeah, and then the next week we were twenty third, and this week we're nineteen. I mean, if you just continue on the same trajectory, top ten is coming. It's in the realm. And look at our rod, to look at our schedule, to look at the schedule. Oksey, gonna put up some yards. It's on two. That's gonna put up something. Well, how many yards they put up against the Giants? They

ain't put up many. Okay, they didn't put up New Orleans. We got New Orleans, we got Washington, we got Philly, we got we got some team. We got Denver this week. Like what's happening? Okay, all right, so we want the mc hammer. Gained him momentum him, We gave him moment like you think about it. Yeah, you go into the game saying, hey man, defense got to put this game on our back because our starting quarterbacks it's gonna be out. Believe me. The team knew before we knew that Dak

wasn't dank win. The got these people hyped up and said, hey man, this this is our game. This isten. We get have to show what we can do, uh to carry this team, and what they do they carried them. I'll give you that. They definitely carried these boys out there against Minnesota. Now it wasn't against Kirk Cousins, mister check down, No, no, no, because the guy was putting together and at that point. But I'm not saying it didn't. It ain't like they went out there and shut down

my homes or nothing like that. I mean it was it was a good win homes. This year, he's been shut down. Okay, he's been shut down a couple of times. But we'll see, we'll see. You were correct. Parsons first NFL rookie in history to record ten tackles in a game, with four of them occurring behind the line of scrimmage. So he joins Trayvon Diggs in Week four, Dak Prescott a week six as players of the week. Zeke turn nixt Zeke, turn nix Zeke, And we didn't mention this

the past two days. Zeke had a heck of football game. He did. And dude, this is where statistics just don't tell the story of the game. What he did in terms of helping block, what he did in terms of just moving the ball forward, and the amount of body blows that he was giving that Minnesota defense. I saw his mom after the game and I said to his mom,

and his grandmother's there and his uncle. I just said, the statistics of this game will not let anyone truly know how good of a football game and the impact he had. And yes, we all saw the third down conversion, but there was so much more than that. And also within the game when the fumble happened for Cooper and Tony Pollard didn't get that block to me, that just went back and solidified him. How many times has Ezekiel

Elliot got in that block. He hadn't thought about it because he made the block and the quarterback, be at Prescott or Cooper Rush was able to throw the ball down the field. And you remember the beginning of the year, people moaning and growing, especially at the game. One about Ezekiel Elliot is ninety million dollars lead. That man's money alone. I would the money. I'd love to see a stat at just how many tackles this guy has meant and made people miss out there. And it's not like he's

just shaking guys up. He's literally just going through cats and bouncing offcats like we know as defenders. When you get to that fourth quarter after hitting a guy repeatedly like that, it was kind of like Marshawn Lynch back in the day when you used to hit him like that. Come to the fourth quarter, you want no parts. You're hitting ankles, shoelaces, you're checking with side shoe he wears because you don't want to hit him up top. And

that's what he provides for this offense. Right now, he's burying opponents and beating them down into submission to where when Paula gets in the game, it's like he's a Creasey's out the gate man. So it's definitely a powerful lump two punch they got going on. And that's what's great because that cannot be quantified, like you cannot pro

football focus the punishment that he's putting somebody. He's putting on somebody in the first, second, and third quarter, and how it affects them in the fourth quarter when he's all of a sudden getting four and five yards you have that's a I think you have to be able to see that. So it's no stat for that, but we all see it. And so you guys have that perspective because you're playing the national football That's also why

we do the players lounge. I would tell people and I keep raving about that Muhammad Ali documentary on PBS when they go back and talk about the fights that he had with Joe Fraser and with Ken Norton, they just show the body blows he took and just that that wears on you. That's what That's the equivalent of a big time back like a Derreck Henry or a guy like Zeke the bruising that gets ship over time and that's and then eventually get knocked out. And that

was what happened that third and twelve. That should have been tackled for what an eight yard games But after those punishment you see both guys going below the knees. Let me go head and wrap his legs up. You got I got him, you got him cursed down. I mean, it just goes to show you how much punishment he was putting on Minnesota down that day. So congratulations to

Micah Parsons. Another um thing that was pointed out today at press conference of Mike McCarthy is Mike is no longer wearing the green dot they gave to Jayron Curse, who, by the way, what a what A There's another guy playing some really good football that we just don't talk about. Him Jayron curse. Guy's not leaving the field. But so

he's got the green dot, he's called the plays. So let me ask you guys this, especially being a rookie, how much does that help Parsons to just not have one more thing to worry about just kind of go do his deal. Because if we look at it, when when he was going to defensive end, yeah he was doing great, but when he went back to the linebacker, he struggled a little bit until he got his flow going underneath him. And that's the same thing right now.

But I don't having to worry about what everybody else is doing. I gotta call plays, make sure the d line here's you, make sure the secondary relays all the messages. All I gotta do is hear what they what they want to do, and I gotta focus on what my task is at hand on the field. And right now, that's that's that's what he needs to be, that's his wheelhouse. Right now, this is what I gotta do. I gotta watch this guy all right, perfect, I gotta blitz this gap,

all right. Perfect. He doesn't have to make checks, he doesn't have to make any of those calls. And it's letting him flourish on the field. But the man, I don't When was the last time you've seen a safety with a green dit that's calling like you. It just goes to show you like this guy either he's an unbelievable leader and he just understands the defense better than anybody. But I've never in my career seeing a safety anybody other than the linebacker have a green dot going out

to the defense. I can't remember we're seeing it, but it's been a while. Also since you've seen, you know, Micael be the head linebacker here or rookie Rickie guy taking it over. Because even Sean Lee at the beginning, it was like he was calling the place. But I think people underestimate how much stuff you have to dissect after you get the call and Michael and Michael going

from DMN to linebacker. He has to get the call, be able to see everything that's going on in front of him, get in position, make whatever check he needs to make with the d lineman or whatever, and then be ready to play. Like that is a lot to put on a rookie, and especially Rickie who you've seen. If you just make it playing and simple for him, give him an assignment, he's going to excel. So I think they're trying their best to make sure that happens.

But shout out to curse man that that that that's a big thing. It's not small in the locker room. That is huge. Who wears that, Albert? Because it's not just okay the play calls coming in one, two, three, break, break and get the play call. There's adjustments. If it's three boy one, you're gonna check into something else. If it's two by two, okay, this is how we're gonna do it to two by two. If you get a motion that changes the strength of the formation, you gotta

make sure the D line switched to nickel. Is he gonna travel or not? Is he gonna stay on his side or we're making it look like man even though we're playing zone, so the nickel gotta travel. There's just so many stuff that you gotta break down after you call a play that it makes a lot of stress for a guy that's in his rookie year going from d end to linebacker to d n back to linebacker. It's just a lot of things that you're moving parts

that you have to deal with. So I think it was a good idea by giving Curse to the Green dot and letting letting the rookie go out there just be raw and play football. Like you said, you know, he ain't coming out the field very much so, and he's a free agent at the end of the year. What an incredible free agent signing for the Cowboys, j Rod Curse. Let's take our first break here. Let's dive into Tyron Smith because this is a legitimate issue about

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out there. It was great. So I would just tell you, Um, you're looking for something to do, and you wanted free bring the family out out there because they do a heck of a twenty minute show out here. Okay. So we were talking about Survivor and Danny, what's been going on there? And you had mentioned Big Brother. So when I worked out in LA in the nineties, the place I worked for was we were up and Affiliate, Okay, so that at the time was it was basically we're

gonna do black programming. That was what it was up and then you had the WB okay, so it was like we're gonna get the black audiences. So yes, Moesia was on our air. I did not appear on Moesha because the day they wanted me to film on moe Ship, I had to work. I did do Clueless, which was on you, Okay, I did. I did work with Stacy dash so who's a very nice person, by the way, so really pretty. She really back then and back then she was a prime back. Is that on YouTube like

we looked? Okay? Oh, I can't wait for some yes, okay't wait for tomorrow. I hope it's clear CBC. Will it be clear for us to be able to show that? Go ahead? I don't care. Well, I don't know. You know some screenshots? Okay, we don't want to get in tron man. How did you do? Was it was? It was a smoothing. Did you get right reviews? Or did you have a did you have a line? Yeah? I did that. I played myself. Okay, I got to play reporter, had hair, had the spinners back? So you said, I

didn't tell anybody. I just did it. I got my check and went on. How much was the check? I got to twenty five hundred dollars for the day. I had my own trailer out there. It was good. Sat around for a line. Ain't I need a pilot? So you makeup and actually check that, just makeup. So the pilot I did was called The Big House, and I did it with comedian Day Hotel, who I didn't know at the time, and he was I just emerging and ended up, you know, having some HBO specials, had a

nice little career. So we did the Big House at this place way out in Malibu for two days. Man, got paid a good, nice truckload of Catholic almost seventy five hundred bucks whatever for two days of work, and we felt, good, man, this show's gonna get picked up here. Man. So if it got picked up, I think I was gonna make a quarter of a million dollars keep onyding this like ninety seven quarternil back in ninety seven. That's this was gonna be more than I was making doing

TV okay and radio together. So I was like yeah, yeah, so we're feeling real good about it. Then up N got bought by Viacom, which on CBS, and so they called my age and said, yeah, um, nice job on the pilot. But CBS has its own version of this, and we're gonna go with that. It was Big Brother m So it was so it wasn't It wasn't as

many black people on that, nah, it was. We did have one, uh as many as we remember one on that because CBS just now did the Bipop initiative, where like fifty percent of all the reality shows have to be people of color. So that just happened in So that was that was that was a crusher due the

years I've left. Was because you know, it was gonna be on UPN and it would have made it on on UPN, but when they were like, nah, noa, we don't want to have anything to compete with it because at that time a lot of these shows, all these shows are copycat shops. Yeah, you come up with the Cosby shows. Then they come up with Family Matter, Family Matter, no flip Wilson didn't want on CBS. And then it was the one with Alan Thick, the one he did with the white one when he had him and Kirk

Cameron and Candice what's your name? So they did another show. But anyway that all that stuff kind of comes out together. Hey we've got this. We got to come back with that. Um. So that was yes, So yes, all them shows you were laughing about, Yeah, it was it was UPN man, So y'all would have got picked up. We would have never knew new yet knew it would have been well listen,

Hollywood Hill or somewhere. So now he's like, you know, Barry Church, Dandy mc craig for former NFL sators for the Cowboys, Emmy Award, oh and TV Star failed Star, TV pilot failed the TV pilot. They said you did a good job though, yeah, yeah, yeah, great, Yeah, they make it a feel good hey man, thanks for coming hit the door. Did they ever call you back for

anything else? No? And the thing that's really it hurt is at that time, the executives over up and knew who I was because we had the news and they liked me, so they would call me for shows. It would just be a matter of are you available, and me, like an idiot, didn't realize I needed to start telling my people I'm sick today, I can't work, I don't feel good, so I can run down then and go

get those checks. Llo. COOLJ had a show, Um, it's in the house might have been what was called at the time, And so they would always tell us, Hey, we've got someone so acting on the show. Come on down. Hey, Lennox Lewis is on the show this week, so come on down. So LLL would be there, and now Fonzo Verbero. They were a great cast of people who work with so while it was this small small, you know network that not a lot of would call it emerging. That

was emerging. I knew what UPN was watching up but but it was. But it was cool because except for me, but we just had access and b in LA affiliate. They were trying to get you know, hey something, can you promote someone? So I was on so when they had sports people on, they would always call me. And you go down there and you're like, hey, Todd, what's up? Man? And I can't say enough things about how nice of a guy ll cool Jay is and please get this

man in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And I'm twenty six, twenty seven years old the time, man, I knew he dude, I was, I had a good life to be mad, a good life man, because were you gonna punch that man? Jamie Fox during the movie Any Giving Something really stolen it? Yeah, he stolen on them. Bill Bellamy told the story. Jamie Fox had the story and is, uh, my favorite. I think I'm giving the security and then I'm sure I did the junket for that when that came out, So they called so, you know,

they do all these movies. Now let's say, hey, come on out, we go meet the star. So yeah, we did the junk in for that. Man had a great one one with Cameron diass What a nice lady. Um. We didn't get to talk to Puccino, but yeah, man for that Juncket I had all kinds of stuff from that movie. Man, that was great stuff. Remember the speech he did with the one itches all around us. If you look next to that guy right over there, you'll see a guy that'll go that inch. They filmed that

in the visitor's locker room at Texas Stadium. They painted it for the nights and it was still that same scheme when they tore it down. That's where they ended up filming it. One of the best halftime speeches ever was the pregame or halftime. I don't know what if. That was one of the best seaches that they come together. Oh we die right here. So what they're gonna be set the ball high now, Pucino, Jack Nicholson, what ain't get some good stuff? Oh? By the way, um, Tyrn Smith, Yeah,

probably not gonna play. Probably not gonna play that. Mike McCarthy, who what's that? He said? He probably not gonna play, not gonna be out there. Okay, So do you want who would you rather have right now? Uh Slater or Michael Parsons. Michael Parsons without a doubt. You mean like today, the fact that today's right. They made the right choice. Man, Get off that. Get on. We're in a good situation. I don't tell you whatever whatever the draft situation was. Yes,

Michael Parsons payed out. You didn't know that. But what we did know was Tyren Smith was gonna miss a game or a few. That's what we knew for a fact, all right, we knew that. And they've developed they have developed the option. There is options still. Okay, there's an option there. They've been not moved there and still the right man, I need to let LC since he's already played left tip when you know he can play it, and he lost his spot due to you know, his behavior,

put him on the left side. This is good. Good, Let's stay right to what would you rather have? Would you rather have had the kid from Northwestern who, by the way, he's playing well and for the charges right now? Okay, good pick, Okay, the good solid pick. Would you rather have him right now and Jayleen Smith as a starting linebacker? Or would you rather have Michael Parsons and now you got Terrence Steal. That's where you left. Which one did

you just call? That's called When the draft was happening, I wanted an offensive tackle because we knew seventy one seventy seven was gonna miss Tim how many games? Seventy one miss all of last season and in now five games? Who's who are talking about missing the game this year? So I mean not wrong. I don't want to not wrong everything I said. Hey man, listen, you better make sure you have somebody because these two dudes are likely to be missing time. That is the correct assessment, and

it happeningbody, they got somebody, They got somebody. Man looking back, now now we know, now we know we got t Still over there. We got I didn't still. He didn't know he had he had not practice or worked out gotten better at that time. Okay, gentleman. So now here's the question. Who do you want it? Left tackle? Tyre Smith can't go against the Broncos, which is a strong possibility. Listening to head coach Byke McCarthy today, who's your left tackle? Already?

Say everyone put over there. I'm putting Steal over there. I'm putting The reason I'm putting Steal over there is the guy he's been. He's earned his by that right tackle, which we know he's been playing well. And now I don't know how easy the transition is from right tackle to left tackle. I mean, it's a whole different kickstep. I can't do all that right now, but I think that you know, t Steell got that momentum going, He

got the momentum going, he's played. You know, this is the first time Collins will have to significant playing time since the first week of the season. So I gotta put that on the blind side. I gotta put my most trusted lineman out there. That's you know minus minus Tyren Smith. You know, Zack Martin's gonna stay at his guard spot. So I gotta put my most trusted offensive linemen out there. Right now, I believe it's t okay.

Let's assume that it's in a totally different technique process whatever that everybody is not able to do right this this listen, just assume that is going to be tough. And you said he got momentum on the right side, all right. He worked out through last year getting bits coming back. Now he's progressing and he's playing a lot better in a rhythm. But let's move him the left side to make him kickstep on the whole difference. We don't know how hard it's gonna be. The I don't

I don't know if he could play left. But what we do know is that left tackle play left left tackle in college. Left tackle college. Now what I don't it was about to be a first round pick. You know what I don't know. And McCarthy didn't want to get into it was where had they been working on combinations? If they they done? They did some of this last week in preparation in case um Smith couldn't go. I just understand this act. I just know this. They can't

go out there with you can't. You know it's spot duty, sure, but for a full game just to come start out the gate. Thank goodness, Von Miller is not there from Broncos. So what you're saying is the discipline is over. He learned his lesson. I got a slap on the wrist and had him a fullback for you. So he didn't look nothing like Zeke Whack's interesting. I got a coach. Yeah, we're good, we're good, We're good. Were good. It's enoughing's like my wife and my daughter. Yeah, it's okay, she learned.

She said she was sorry. Now get him over at that left tack on. So I'll be very interested. I go back to just training camp, and obviously we're a long way away from training camp. But they had Steele doing a lot of backup duty to tire Smith the left tack on tire and missed a lot of I should said miss but they rested him a lot in training camp. So we do know Steele has got some some work over there. And they were leaving leaving the Collins over it right, So it'll be interesting what does

Joe philbin Field is best? But look for whether whether we don't know yet, left or right, but look for those two tackles out there with Tyrann Smith taking the week off with the bone spurs. And this is not gonna be an easy game because the Broncos got a couple of weapons here. But still get this guy healthy for the running. I got trust Phil. You got a trust philman because the way he's been able to get this offensive line going in the right direction. I think

he's I think he's underappreciated as a coach. I mean just the development of Terrence Steel by himself. I mean, he just guy went from being possibly one of the worst offensive lineman we've had. So right now, let's say I would say that, oh, well he was. He was struggling twice. I mean, look, yeah, he was undrafted free agent coming from Texas Tech. He's no to me, nowhere near the tragedy that was Chad Steel, a third round pick out of Chareen Chas Green chest green up or

Chas Green. Um that that was one. And then you guys weren't around. They took a kid named Jacob Rodgers one year. I've never yeah he was a second or third round. I mean I I've seen some bad offensive line and where you had put some real capital into the players and they just couldn't do it to get a guy. I look, man, Texas Tech. The last time we seen Texas Tech trying to run, they they aren't doing any running at all. But this is guy. And then we saw in the off season how he got.

You know, you had to put on a weight, got stronger. I just I just to show you how good of a coach Phil was good, good and it steals and still as well to Yeah, it's a good problem now. Yeah, still still happy for him, but for the sake of us and our team and all chances of making a deep playoff run possibly get into the Super Bowl, please let Tyrn Smith only missed a couple of games and be healthy throughout the end of the season. So that that is what I would love to see. Get him right.

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is his name, David Ferdy? Have you met Ferrety out there your neck of the woods at all? Okay, David ferres in town if you watched the show. Okay, you're golf you're a golf guy. Now, yeah, I would say that like you. He brings on all these different guests, and he used to bring me on. I'm just saying that would Lands, dumb wiping Lands number that talked about. He came over there and told me Lands beat the brakes off. Did I took a two week excuse? Was coming your? No? No, no no, I was. It was a

neutral site. It was a neutral site. And he beat the but then We played two days later and it was a rap. We don't kill it was a rap. So how good are you over your home course? My handicap right now is about a thirteen, So I'm decent. Nothing to write home about yet. But you know, you never play with Romo here, play with Tony Nah. He's way better than me though. Yeah, he's he's on another level like he's so Lance. He could probably be up there with Tony nah lands Land Lance over there like

like your boy mode An. It goes modes right here. Lance is a little bit above him. I'm up here, you know what I'm and then there's done. You can't even reach Tony. Yeah, Tony, way up there, Tony way up there. Right now, speaking way up there, Aaron Rodgers is having one of those seasons. It's way up there is he's rgning MVP and the Packers are doing well. They're number one and a lot of power rankings. But he will not be playing this week against Kansas City

Dammits because Aaron Rodgers as COVID. And now we know Aaron Rodgers is not vaccinated. I'm not having I wasn't laughing because he has COVID. Okay, because Church he's killing did not. But with the COVID situation, if you're not vaccinated, you missed what ten is it? Ten days? Ten days? Week? Might be up for two weeks, man, But it's okay. You better then I had Adams missing the week before, so it's just adding up on it. But it's okay because I got GM skills. I got something to win

last crazy crazy Jordan loves available. Man. Nah, I think I have no trust in Jordan Love go pick him up. Probably like white former Cowboys. Two opponents is Kansas City and Seattle. So it's rust, but will rust be back fighting? Were like he was over like six or seven? Didn't you know get get rolling this week? Yeah, it's Jacksonville. It's the fighting Urban Mayas. He got rolling all I know his wife lock it went off. I had a

guy who had DK metcalf and was getting obliterated. Lock it went off to Aaron Rodgers told the media that he was immunized. That's what he's telling casts and people just bought. I mean it is vaccinated, and Aaron Rodgers credit to him. He fooled the media and everybody. He's

so I'll be interested. He got it, got us beat her see more of the reaction if Kansas City ends up beating Green Bay because you're obviously in that race trying to get home field and this year, with a new playoff format, there's only gonna be one team that gets home field advantage. And what if this ends up costing you a game? Because right now we look at we look at Kansas City, these winnable games Green Bay, right I did my picks, uh two days ago or yesterday?

I picked Green Bay down Like whoa, I need to go back and redo that. So this is going to be interesting. And how are fans going to react if your quarterback decided he didn't want to get jabbed up and it ends up costing you home field advantage? Because it's gonna be right now, we see there's a bunch of teams right there, all capable of getting in an NFC. There's so I mean, you got the Cowboys right there, the Buccaneers right there. Of course, Green Bay Airs owners

right there, and there's only one spot. Listen, that's all I'm saying. Okay, I'm gonna continue saying. When teams go to the Super Bowl win the Super Bowl. If you look back through those seasons, the chips are filling their favor more times than not. Okay, so we're gonna come up here. We're gonna play Denver this week, who just traded Von Miller Chubb Chub. We have the Saints on our schedule this year. Jameis Winston is out, Ryan Fitzpatrick out defense all of a sudden, not playing well for

what like talking about things. We go out there and we beat a Kirk Cousins in prime time. We play them in prime time, his weakest moment, and we go out there and we beat them with a backup quarterback. Kansas City strugglings. When you see that, like it's like it's that type of stuff happens now. It's doing the same thing for like the La Rams. But I think that is going to be our competition. But they have to play airs on them. So that's what's going on

in Green Bay. The Raiders last night, late in the night cut Henry Ruggs, the white receiver, involved in a fatal car accident and his Corvette was going one hundred and fifty six miles an hour when he hit another person. This was a female who also had her dog in the car, and there was a fire that was caused amongst it. So the raiders just decided that Henry Ruggs was going to be be gone. And reports also say

his blood alcohol level twice legal limits. So these are just UH Mark Davis was quicker to fire, quicker to fire Ruggs, and he was john but but gone gone. He had to make that move in a residence where he going one hundred and fifty six miles an hour. Whenever they say when he made impact in his UH airbags deployed, he was going one hundred and twenty six. You know how fad you gotta be going to stop?

Hit the brakes. It's still running to somebody going one hundred and twenty six miles an hour, it's it's just you an excuse hi, I'm you can't even get up to one fifty six on hot pursuit like that fast. Like it's just I'm trying to like really figure out like how fast that is, and like what you have to be doing to get up to month fifty six. You gotta be going for a while, right, So you crossed one hundred, you're crossing one teen, you crossing one

twenty one, thirty one forty. Then you get to almost a one sixty like this is a long process. It ain't like it's just going up like that. Once you get up in there, you've been driving this fast for a while at this point, man, and you and you twice over the limit, so you could barely see going one fifty six. I'm sure when you're sober, ain't trying to handle handle a vehicle. And now you're drinking twice

the limits. So he was sauced. But I get out there, I'm gonna get off the man because I just I'd rather just well, his days in the National Football League are over right now, and it's gonna take something. A whole lot of this process has to take place before anyone decides to go get Henry ruts. I still go back into the draft, and I thought John Gruten, and I know some people want to put on gim Mike Mayock.

But all Mike Mayock is doing he works for John Gruten, is why in the world would you take Henry Ruggs. First off, his teammate Jerry Judy Alabama is a better player, Ceedee Lamb's a better receiver. Jefferson ls she was a better receiver. Man. Just look at this. This is what they did, and this is why John Gruten guy wasn't winning. In my opinion, I mean, you had all this control and this is a guy you didn't want to have a dry Why would you just go get a guy

who's what do you do with? Alabama's great? But he just ran straight, That's all he did when you could have had better players. How ceedee lamb false. The seventeen is criminal, but this is how it happens. Because once again this this is a criminal and I'm thinking myself, you j what are you doing. You're supposed to be office of guru. You don't know football. John Gruten is one of those guys where you want to give him the players, but you don't want him selecting the players

because that's what you get. I just thought that hold that what I mean drafted what Henry Ruggs. He's never been that. I mean his Super Bowl when he inherited those players from Tony Dungee squad. So I mean I don't see him ever being like, Okay, this guy he know he can pick these guys out of a hat. This guy knows what he's doing. He inherited his players when he won, and now he's bringing in guys and you know and performing. Okay, So Mack, I don't want

I mean, I don't want Hick go get me. Henry Rugg couldn't hold on a yeah him, Yeah, made that trade, David, You're gonna be the most electrifying practice. No, he's not. What are you doing that? Were made trade that? Like him yesterday? Odell Beckham Junior still with Cleveland, And I'll be interested to see what GM Andrew Barry does after the season, because I think this is just me. I believe Odell Beckham Junior salvageable. Oh yeah, I don't think

that I would pay the money for Baker May. This is not a quarterback that I'd be paying thirty thirty thirty five million dollars. He's not that guy, I mean, so so to me, and I don't know what will happen, but I'm making the phone call to Aaron Rodgers to see if I can make the trade. If I'm Cleveland, Something's gonna happen with OBJ because he's not even that practice right now. I mean, there's reports coming out that Stefanski told the whole team like he's basically just not

a part of the team right now. Well, but so why do not let him go? The stuff that's going on is that's detrimental to the team and you're undermining the quarterback and that's that's not positive to his dad what his dad is doing just the past aggress But that man had Lebron out there, he had Dwayne boy out there, like he wouldn't called all his friends. It's like, hey man, we need to push ob J team a siphon. He was waiting for Drake to drop a song. Let him go, like, hey now I couldn't get to the

studio fast enough. Bro, my bad. You know that little Wayne come up with a song. Man. But I will say this, I really do hate to see not just O'Dell Jarvis as well, or appeared for Baker Mayfield. And you watched them at Oklahoma, and you thought that you were going to have a certain guy be able to do a certain thing, right, So you say, man, I got O'Dell, I got Jarvis, we got a running game. It's no way that we shouldn't be able to have

our receivers put up some numbers. And you just consistently Jarvis Landry goes and he's like he has the most catches in his first four years out there in Miami. O'Dell is in New York going crazy when Eli and all of a sudden, these two dudes are badly doing anything, both of them. So you're gonna tell me both of

them not that good? Nah? Come on, man, I told somebody on the day, I said, Kirk Cousins is better than Baker Mayfield, absolutely, And I said, all you gotta do is look at the fact that Jefferson and theland Half put up numbers. There's no way in the world that you can have the kind of talent that Baker Mayfield has a receivers and these guys are putting up

the numbers. He's just not the guy. And Andrew Barry's just I hope to goodness sake that the owner Jimmy has them and his wife d come to the realization this is not the guy you pay. And for everybody, well, what are you gonna do? I don't know what you're gonna do, but I know you don't need to go ahead and give this guy some thirty. This is to me, this would be like giving all that money that the Rams did, Jared Golf or Minnesota did to Kirk Cousins.

This is not a guy that's going to put you over the top, and once you pay him that thirty something million dollars, now you've got other guys on the team that you can't have anymore. No, I just I just don't think Cleveland should do it. But I do think that someone can get Odell Beckham Junior and get a football player. Do you think Odell is still a player? He can still, which is which is why I say,

if I'm Cleveland, I'm calling Aaron Rodgers. If Aaron Rodgers can go these these do these things with Alan Lazard and Valdes Scantling, and yeah, what could he do with Jarvis Landry, Odell Beckham Junior and Joe Cooling. Okay, I mean yes, I mean solid defense. To me, that's that is That is the answer. If I'm Cleveland, how did we get Aaron Rodgers? That's what I'd be doing before I sit around, get cleared, making the phone call too. If he gets cleared, that's the guy they passed on twice.

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