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"Complementary Football" episode 186 · DMV Mess Hall

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  This is Will Montgomery, former Washington Redskins center.
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  Y'all what's good, folks? This is Trey Johnson, the
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  headbanger, y'all, and you're listening to mess hall with
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  rally captain and tailgate Ted, what's going on?
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  Rally You ready for Dallas week, man?
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  Hey, you see, I'm rocking this rally captain hat and it's not
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  game day. So what's that tell you?
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  I'm always ready. And I got to tell you, Ted, you
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  know, being a captain is, is a is a rough ship sometimes.
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  But as a captain, you have a good time when the ship sails
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  right and you go down with the ship when it sails left.
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  Let's get it. Yeah, it's, it's definitely been
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  rough, man. It's I think, I can't remember
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  who it was. I think it was on the post game
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  show. Scott Jackson was talking to
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  Smoot and we got stuck in the parking lot me and misses T for
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  a while. Didn't get home till one O clock
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  in the morning and I know some people didn't get home until way
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  past that. Actually a buddy of mine, Frank,
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  he got home around 1:00 and he lives in Delaware so I don't
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  understand that logic. My guess is he left before the
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  game was over. We obviously stayed till the
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  clock struck 0 but it hasn't felt like Dallas week to me
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  until today. I was getting some groceries and
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  I did a pick up order from a grocery chain.
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  I'm not going to say their name in case they want to sponsor the
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  show and grabbing the order and all of a sudden the person
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  dropping the groceries was talking just mad trash thinking
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  OK, they're a Bears fan, what's going on here?
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  Like Nope, Nope, they're a Cowboys fan.
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  Shocker. They've never been to Dallas and
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  I didn't pull it up on the phone or a map, but I'm willing to bet
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  they have no idea where it was on the map.
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  So you know what? I'm going to do you a good
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  favor. It's like they said they were
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  thirsty and I asked him how the day was.
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  Goes like I'm going to buy you a soda as a thank you for trading
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  Michael Parson so we don't got to deal with his butt this week.
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  So now it actually look like Dallas Week to me.
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  I'm sure they probably have been a debt to Texas, Texas Ave.
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  I mean, I'm sure they have been. Is there a Texas Ave. in DC?
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  Yes, there is a Texas Ave. in DC.
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  Where do I have never seen? Maybe I avoid like the plague.
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  It's in southeast. OK there you go.
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  I had no idea there was a Texas Ave. in DC.
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  OK, with now with you being so. Are you a true Washingtonian,
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  Ted? I mean, I grew up in Northern
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  Virginia. OK, so but you live in
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  Washington now. So so so anyone, well everyone
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  should know that DC has all 50 states street name.
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  Yeah, I, I would think so. I have just never seen Texas,
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  right. It's just like, you know,
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  there's because there's not a is there?
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  Like, you know, if you go to an elevator, there's no 13th floor.
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  Correct. So I'm thinking maybe just out
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  of bad luck they don't want to put Texas anywhere in DC on the
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  map. For the people, by the people,
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  brothers. So everybody's got to be
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  represented. And I don't think there's a
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  Puerto Rican Ave. or Puerto Rico Avenue.
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  I don't think so. Well, according to a lot of
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  people that don't want Bad Bunny to perform this year, Puerto
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  Rico has nothing to do with the states.
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  So. All right, that's, that's,
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  that's a little higher than what I wanted to go today, but all
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  right. I hear you, man.
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  Let let's let's backtrack a little bit.
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  Let's backtrack. Let's let's get to let's start
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  off with some good stuff, man. So I missed the the home rally
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  turn out at Hyde Park, but I saw the interview with Chad Ricardo.
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  I saw a bunch of people's videos.
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  I saw just all the social media reaction, Rob, make me feel like
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  I was there, make our listeners feel like they were there.
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  Tell us how it went down. So I got to say this first and
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  foremost. Technically that wasn't my
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  rally. Yes, I know that my name was on
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  the flyer, but technically that wasn't my rally.
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  That was Santana Moss's people's rally.
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  And I forget the name of the company that sponsored it, but
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  it was their rally and it was a great rally.
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  It was a phenomenal rally or fan get together.
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  How do you want to look at it? So big shout out goes to them
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  first and foremost because they did put the blood, sweat and
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  tears, if you will, into the route.
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  Did the fan meet up? I, I, I don't want to say
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  necessarily it was a rally, but I'm going to say it, the fan
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  meet up. So a big shout out to them and I
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  see you have it up. So if you have it up, give
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  everybody the name of the company that sponsored it.
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  Yeah, so it was presented by DeAngelo Entertainment.
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  DeAngelo Entertainment Trap or die, that's what it is.
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  There it is so, so big. Shout out to you guys for doing
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  the phenomenal job. You know, people had a great
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  time. Alexis Rand White showed up.
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  Chad Ricardo, he came out, did his spot.
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  Everyone just had a great time and I'm hoping that something
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  can be done in the future because everyone had a great
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  time. So how many people were there?
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  Can you estimate? I'd estimate probably 400
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  people. It's not bad, man.
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  Definitely not bad for a a Sunday.
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  A home crowd. Yeah.
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  'Cause it's hard to get you in the DMV to come out sometimes.
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  So yeah. Oh, definitely is.
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  I mean, it's people that aren't from here that don't live around
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  here. The DMV is massive, right?
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  We've got people just all over, they don't know.
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  DMV stands for DC, Maryland, Virginia.
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  Right. It's hard to get someone from
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  Maryland to come in to DC, let alone Virginia, right?
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  And vice versa. I don't know how many times I've
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  gotten to the debates with people, you know.
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  Well, I drive to Maryland to go to the game.
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  Yeah, but you're not coming downtown.
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  That's why I want to make sure that people knew that there was
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  Metro access. Right?
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  Easier ways for people to get to it.
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  So it looked like a blast, man. Santana was there.
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  You guys raffled. B Mitch.
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  B Mitch showed up. Nice.
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  Yeah, he sure did. He had to show up for his boy.
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  They raffled off AI want to say a Santana Moss jersey.
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  So once again, all the proceeds went to Santana Moss's
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  foundation and hey man, it was a good time.
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  No, it's great to hear, man. That's great to hear.
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  I, I was bombed because my Sunday was just getting up and
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  getting stuff ready for the tailgate and having to just
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  repack. This was actually our most
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  expensive tailgate this year today, which I was kind of
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  shocked until I ran the numbers like what we spent how much?
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  It was over $2000. We spent this past week on food
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  and just everything else, but it was still, it was a good time,
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  man. And you know, I was a little
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  bummed that Mother Nature decided to rain on our parade,
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  right? That was that was frustrating.
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  I got out to the lot at 1:00, right?
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  Got out to the stadium at 1:00 and I was packing the car up
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  maybe around 11 that morning and it was already starting to rain.
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  Like, damn, you got to kid me. This is just going to be such a
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  long day. Luckily it was kind of a slow
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  drizzle. Wasn't too, too bad.
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  But what time did you actually get up there?
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  Oh, brother. So the short story of it, but
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  I'm going to give the long version in the minute I got up
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  there. Kickoff is what, 820?
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  820 yeah, right around there. 820 Let's see, I got there at at
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  on the northwest grounds, probably at eight O 5.
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  What, eight O 5? You just get stuck in traffic.
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  No, SO as everyone knows who listens, you know that I that
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  I'm, I'm taking over 200 people to Spain.
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  And so, you know, trying to get 200 itineraries done caused me
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  to be delayed and I still had to do some after I got home from
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  the game because I told everyone that I would have the the
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  itineraries out on the 12th. And so I get all the itineraries
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  done or I'd say 99.9 done because I think I had three left
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  to do beforehand. And brother traffic wasn't bad
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  at all. It was just the fact that I, I,
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  it was either going to be tailgate and let everyone down
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  who I said that I was going to give them their itineraries on
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  the 12th or, you know, not be a man of my word and just for
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  sake, for, for fun. And so, you know, I know this is
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  kind of dry subject, but it, this is a part of being a
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  business owner and a business person.
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  You know, you, you have to keep your word.
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  So I get all the itineraries done, Ted, except for I think,
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  like I said, 3. And now it's Tuesday and people
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  say, Hey, I received my itinerary.
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  I'm, we're greatly appreciative of it, but we can't find our
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  name when you go to log on to the airline's website and I'm
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  saying, what do you mean you can't find your name?
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  I mean, so Long story short, after busting my butt getting
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  all these identifies done, I called the airline and I say,
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  hey, I'm having customers tell me that they can't find their
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  name under their itinerary number, their booking number,
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  their booking code, whatever you want to call it.
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  Oh, we changed those codes. Oh hell no, I said.
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  I said what? Now?
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  If it's your first time, imagine it's your you spent over $4000
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  on on a company that you know about, but you really don't know
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  about it, if you know what I mean.
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  And so and so now all of a sudden you go to log in and you
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  get no response or your name's not found.
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  Can you imagine how you would feel?
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  So naturally you're going to call.
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  And so I filled it. Plenty of.
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  Yeah, my phone's blowing up. And So what I've said is when I
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  get back from Dallas, the airline has sent me the new
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  booking codes, which I don't ask for the life of me, I don't
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  understand it. I will never understand it, and
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  they don't even have a great explanation for it.
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  But on Monday when I get back from Dallas, you will receiving
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  your new itinerary with the new booking code confirmation number
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  or however you whatever you want to call it, I'm going to call it
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  confirmation number so that you'll be able to find your name
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  and your seat and everything like that.
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  I mean, you've been doing trips for how many years now, right?
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  I'm missing. A lot of years, a lot of years,
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  Ted, but this is the first time that this has ever happened.
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  Man, well, that's what I'm saying.
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  Like it's just I understand, OK, This is the first time someone's
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  doing a trip through you. Like it's the first time I'll do
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  a trip through you for Kansas City.
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  And you kept emailing me and telling me I'm going to get you
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  the itinerary. It's like, bro, your family, I
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  know you're going to get it to me, right?
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  Even if you and I weren't doing this podcast, I just know that
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  you're rally captain and that you, this is your business.
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  This is your livelihood, right? It's not like I'm booking
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  something with Joe Schmo, who a you're, you're a public figure.
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  I hate it when people say that about me, but let's be
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  realistic. Everyone knows you are a public
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  figure. You're on the freaking Fox News
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  and all this other stuff talking about the team and everything
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  else. So it's not like you're going to
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  take the money and run. It's not like you're that Kansas
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  Chief fan, Kansas City Chief fan.
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  That was Robin Banks to go to games and stuff, right.
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  So those people wondering I I get the curiosity like, hey, how
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  come I can't find it? But you know what people
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  understand? I'm I'm telling you guys, this
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  is Ralph. I'm telling you guys, Ralph's
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  going to take care of it. Whatever needs to be done, he'll
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  take care of him. Do but so damn man, at least you
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  got there by kick off because I'm actually hanging out at the
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  tailgate and for me Monday was a mess, right.
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  DJ Chris Stiles shows up who was our DJ for the game that week.
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  He does stuff for the caps, He does stuff for different, you
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  know, things around town, University of Maryland games.
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  So I really appreciate him coming out.
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  He didn't have proper weights for his tent, right?
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  The parking lots open an extra hour early, so the Hail BBQ crew
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  did not show what that extra hour early.
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  So I am in there cooking the lots of open, but my crew wasn't
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  there, right? I can't put tents up on my own.
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  We got 30 mile an hour winds. Those that have not been to
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  FedEx or Northwest, it is on a hill so it gets wind gusts even
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  worse than you would expect anywhere around town.
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  So we're getting 30 mile an hour winds.
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  So finally all of my crew shows up, they secure, we put up six
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  tents so people can stay dry, right?
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  The DJ had one and he had his equipment, so we got him some
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  sides for the tent. He actually bungee the tent down
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  to his speakers and some other weights.
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  OK. We're having the tailgate,
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  having a good time and I'm just swapped, knocking all the food
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  out. His tent catches air.
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  Oh. His speakers tumble over like
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  everything. Smashes.
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  The tent frame snapped in half of my.
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  Oh my God. Kidding me, right?
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  I'm just wondering why the why the music stopped, right?
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  What's going on? And then I look over and damn,
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  the entire thing is just flowing away.
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  It was just. Balloon boy, huh?
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  Oh yeah, man, it was it. It kind of should have give me a
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  precursor for how the night was going to.
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  Go exactly. And I don't know what time it
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  was. All I know is the sun was down
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  and the wife is asking where's Rally.
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  He probably got stuck in another tailgate.
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  I don't know where he is. I'm not too sure.
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  So I make it inside the stadium. We finally packed the van up.
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  I want to pack up early because we had the extra hour anyway.
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  So make it inside the stadium. Believe it or not, I rocked a
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  black jersey. So.
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  I ended up rocking it's my, it was a special Sean Taylor one
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  that they made, I want to say two years ago.
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  And if you remember that one that came out, the Sean Taylor
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  Memorial Project that they did. So I rocked the Sean black
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  because the only other one I got is a Chase Young and I was going
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  to get some duct tape and put Ken Law on the back because they
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  were the same number. But I don't want to be that guy.
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  I saw some people that had a it was a Brian Robinson Junior
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  Commander's black jersey and multiple people actually duct
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  tape over and put Mariota because Mariota wears 8 now
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  instead. Thought.
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  That was kind of funny, but I just.
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  I also didn't want to get Clown the tailgate tag.
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  Can't afford a jersey. She was duct taping his old one
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  but rocked a black jersey. Made it in the stadium, ran out
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  of wristbands. The little light up wristbands.
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  Yeah. So I'm walking.
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  To. I didn't get one either.
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  I found a guy that had some so I got a wristband for me and
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  misses T We get to our seats and first thing I do is I look over
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  towards your section to see if you were there.
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  I couldn't see you because you weren't waving your your flag at
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  that point. So it's like, damn, hope he's
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  OK. I kind of wanted to text you
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  just to make sure, but I figured if something was going on, I
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  didn't want to bother you. So figure all right, I don't
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  want to add to any stress he's got.
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  So if he ain't here, he ain't here for a reason.
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  And you know, I'll figure it out later.
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  But I'm assuming you were there for the light show since you
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  said you got in an 8 O 5. Yes, I was there for the if they
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  had a light show. If they had a light show before
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  the game, I missed it. The only light show, the only
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  light show that I saw was at the halftime or or or not halftime,
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  But was it like in between the third and fourth quarter or
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  something like that? The DG light show?
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  Yeah, the Darrell Green one. Yeah, that's what I saw.
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  So I missed something before the kickoff.
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  You did. So for those of the hustlers
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  that weren't there, that missed the light show, that weren't the
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  game, and those who didn't get to their seats on time.
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  I've got a video of it. I took it when I was going down
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  the seats. I mean, it was it was awesome,
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  man. The ownership is definitely
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  spending some money. It wasn't Detroit level light
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  show inside Ford Field in that Dome and everything else they
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  did because, you know, they got the Dome and they can do more
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  stuff. But with those new LED lights, I
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  remember last year when we all thought the power died in the
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  stadium because the lights shut off in the middle of the game.
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  I mean, it was, you know, kind of to that level.
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  And man, the energy inside the stadium after the light show and
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  after the the Navy singer sang the national anthem with that
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  massive flag waving, it just, it felt like a bigger stage, man,
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  It felt like Monday night, right?
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  I'm not trying to rub it in, but just trying to paint a picture
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  for the listeners that couldn't be there, which frustrated me
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  even more knowing that, right, the team ownership was pulling
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  out all the stops, right? It's the Navy's 250th
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  anniversary, right? Just all this stuff going on and
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  then all of a sudden we're down 13 to nothing.
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  Like the blink of an eye, right? Just like all of that.
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  And then all of that momentum and energy just went right
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  downhill. Well, I will say I missed that,
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  but it did go downhill. But because it was a sold out
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  crowd, we came, the fans came back.
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  Even though we were down, we were still loud.
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  And I, I have to say that the group of Bears fans that came,
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  they were allowed to. I know this isn't a Bears
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  podcast, but I believe being a fair fan and giving credit where
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  credit is due and the Bears came out for Monday Night Football.
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  I mean, Bears fans came out from Monday Night Football because
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  there was times I heard them chanting defense and I was like,
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  God Dang it, man. Is this what it's going to
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  amount to? But we poured ourselves out of
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  the hole and it's we wet the bed, no pun intended.
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  We definitely did man. It's just knowing that Jayden
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  threw that interception right? We're driving down the field and
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  that's in your end zone. Did you see the I mean you like
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  sitting there cuz you can see the place develop.
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  That's what we told him before. So did you see that DB just
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  waiting? Oh, it was a shell.
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  Yeah, he was right there. Jayden didn't see it, obviously,
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  but it was a shell and that guy just swooped right underneath it
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  and got it. And I was like, oh man.
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  And then I had a Bears fan that was two seats over for me.
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  He goes, Yep, oh, Jayden Daniels, that that's one that we
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  got for him. And I was like, shut up.
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  That's his first pick of the season, and what the hell is
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  this guy talking about? Yeah, like shut up.
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  I. Mean obviously we we had three
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  turnovers that game let's not even talk about the last one
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  yet, but OK, Jaden throws that interception and I think they
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  only got I'm trying to remember if they got a field goal off of
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  that regardless, they scored thirteen points off of our three
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  turnovers right? It could have been a lot worse
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  right? It could have been 21 off of 3
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  turnovers. So the defense held them to a
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  degree to some field goals instead of them just scoring
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  touchdowns going down that field.
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  It was just for me. The offense felt inept, if that
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  makes sense. Right.
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  We had a lot of 13 personnel. For those that don't know, 13
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  personnel means that you're going a jumbo package, you're
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  going 2 tight ends or three tight ends instead of 1/3 tight
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  end. They brought in Trent Scott,
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  which they've been doing, you know, for a majority of the
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  season. So Trent is the office. 73 is 73
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  is eligible. Yeah, when Trent does this and
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  brushes his jersey with his numbers, it's telling the
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  referee that he is coming in as an eligible receiver.
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  And he actually has scored a touchdown in the past, right?
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  He scored, I think it was Jaden's first touchdown that he
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  ever threw was to Trent, right? So they have gone to him before.
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  But it's to let the referees know that if he does go out in
• 20:10
  the flat, because we did have a play, get called back because of
• 20:13
  an ineligible man downfield, that's when what, a lineman runs
• 20:16
  downfield. And I think that was tonsil.
• 20:19
  At this point, so the play got called back.
• 20:21
  So in case Trent does go down field, it's OK, referee don't
• 20:25
  throw a flag, I'm eligible. But it was just a lot of 13
• 20:30
  personnel. And did you notice the wide
• 20:32
  receiver that was out there for a majority of those?
• 20:36
  No, I didn't. Chris Moore, right?
• 20:40
  And this is no knock on Chris, but you mean to tell me you have
• 20:45
  three tight ends, One is an offensive lineman, one is John
• 20:48
  Bates, one is Zach Ertz So your list of eligibles are Trent
• 20:52
  Scott, John Bates, Zach Ertz, Chris Moore and Bill Merritt,
• 20:58
  right? So who do you think the ball is
• 21:01
  going to go to? What do you think they're going
• 21:02
  to do that play? Odds are they're going to run
• 21:05
  the ball because Chris is not a threat to catch.
• 21:09
  You can put a four string corner on him to cover him.
• 21:14
  So the Bears, we talked about it and you didn't agree with me,
• 21:19
  but I said we got to run the ball.
• 21:21
  The Bears got the worst rushing defense, one of the worst
• 21:23
  rushing defenses in the league, so we tried to run the ball.
• 21:26
  The problem is they didn't respect our passing attack.
• 21:29
  So they had 8-9, ten men in the box.
• 21:32
  It felt like the entire freaking night.
• 21:34
  Yeah, and unfortunately, until you can prove game in and game
• 21:40
  out that you can take the top off of a game, this is going to
• 21:43
  be what we have to do or what teams are going to do.
• 21:47
  So if you know that, then Cliff, come on man.
• 21:54
  Come on, man. You know, no one takes our
• 21:56
  passing game serious right now outside of Debo Samuels.
• 22:00
  They just don't. So if you know that you got to
• 22:03
  Draw Something up to, to get it taken care of because we are not
• 22:09
  a threat in anyone's eyes. And, and a lot of times we have
• 22:12
  an A tendency to tout our own whistle or blow our own whistle.
• 22:18
  Well, ain't nobody blowing this whistle.
• 22:20
  So we've got to do something to change it up so that the run
• 22:24
  game can open up the past or even the past game, open up the
• 22:29
  run game, depending on the flow of the game, Yeah.
• 22:33
  I I feel that the past game is going to have to open up the run
• 22:36
  game at this point because no one's respecting the receivers
• 22:40
  that are out there, right? Debo, I don't want to say was a
• 22:44
  game time decision, but he has had, yeah, he's got a he, he's
• 22:48
  got a heel problem, right? He's got a foot problem.
• 22:50
  He was not 100% by any means. It was obvious something was
• 22:54
  going on with him. So really, you had Luke
• 22:59
  McCaffrey out there who is a touchdown machine, right?
• 23:02
  You had Jalen, right? You had more out there trying to
• 23:06
  think from a receiver perspective.
• 23:07
  You had that was it, right? Chris Moore ended up getting a
• 23:13
  65 grade. He did have a crucial drop.
• 23:17
  That hurt, right? It just it was frustrating
• 23:20
  because the offense never felt explosive other than Jayden
• 23:24
  using his legs and trying to turn, you know, something out of
• 23:28
  nothing. Yeah.
• 23:31
  The fact that we were able to still come back with how bad the
• 23:34
  offense was, was definitely promising because my little
• 23:39
  brother kept asking because, you know, we sit in front of each
• 23:41
  other. It's like, are you worried yet?
• 23:43
  What's going on? Because you know, we were, we
• 23:44
  were down 13. Nothing.
• 23:46
  It's like, no, no, it's OK. We're going to drive the ball
• 23:49
  down here and now it's OK. We're going to get the ball at
• 23:51
  half. It's fine, right?
• 23:53
  We're, we're still close. We're not out of this thing yet.
• 23:56
  I mean, it was what, 6? Then it was 13 to nothing.
• 23:59
  It was 13 to 7 heading in the halftime.
• 24:02
  But we get the ball afterwards and then Bill fumbles that damn
• 24:07
  ball, man. I mean, what were you thinking
• 24:10
  at that point? I was saying, you know what, I'm
• 24:15
  going to ride with the young man when he's high and I'm going to
• 24:18
  ride with him as when he's low and he's a rookie.
• 24:23
  Not to say that rookies shouldn't or kidding or or
• 24:28
  can't, you're not supposed to, but it's a part of football.
• 24:31
  And I, I, I'm still riding with them and obviously they are also
• 24:37
  because they gave the ball back. They can't.
• 24:39
  They took him out for a couple plays, which rightfully so.
• 24:43
  If you, you got it, you're a grown man.
• 24:45
  You got to have a talking to get your mind right, whatever have
• 24:48
  you. I don't know what they did to
• 24:49
  gave him smelling salt. I don't know.
• 24:51
  But he took him out for a couple plays, a couple series, but they
• 24:53
  brought him back in and he did OK.
• 24:57
  So he understands as a, as a fan, you know, you show me
• 25:02
  somebody who's perfect and we'll go from there.
• 25:06
  But until then, you know, it's, it's we don't like it, but it's
• 25:11
  called life. You know, these itineraries.
• 25:15
  I don't like it, but it's called life.
• 25:18
  How well do you adapt and overcome?
• 25:21
  And, and I'm here to tell you that I feel as though this next
• 25:28
  game we're going to see a totally different team.
• 25:34
  How did you feel? I started to worry, right?
• 25:38
  Does Bill have a fumbling problem?
• 25:40
  Right. Because there are times when I
• 25:42
  see him running in holes. And what makes him so great is
• 25:45
  also I think a potential weakness is he can Just Dance
• 25:50
  and jig and move and just contort his body in so many
• 25:53
  different angles. And what really pissed me off
• 25:56
  was Montez sweat punched Jayden in the face, got a 15 yard
• 26:00
  penalty right on one of those drives, extended it for us.
• 26:04
  I think it would have been 4th down, but Montez hit Jayden
• 26:07
  right. So just another dumb penalty
• 26:09
  that just that bears are playing undisciplined.
• 26:11
  But Montez is also the one that knocked that ball out of bells.
• 26:14
  Damn right. So we kind of redeemed himself
• 26:16
  from that perspective. But I'm thinking, OK, Chris
• 26:19
  Rodriguez is hurt right now. He's got a calf problem.
• 26:22
  He dressed, but he's hurt, Bill. Came out too.
• 26:26
  He played one snap right, and Bill played 45 snaps over 65 on
• 26:32
  offense. C Rod played one and then Jeremy
• 26:35
  had the other, thinking past regimes.
• 26:39
  When Antonio Gibson fumble, he sat a decent amount of the game.
• 26:44
  They're giving Bill a chance to make up for it and do something.
• 26:47
  I just feel that we didn't make some adjustments, right?
• 26:53
  Maybe go 4 wide and maybe we didn't go 4 wide because we
• 26:56
  don't have 4 healthy wide receivers, right?
• 26:58
  We've got freaking, you know, Terry's out, Noah Brown's out
• 27:03
  and teaser, he's going to be out for a lot longer.
• 27:06
  We'll talk about that here in a little bit, right?
• 27:08
  You got Luke McCaffrey, you got Jalen Lane.
• 27:10
  So at a certain point, I'm looking at my phone.
• 27:13
  I'm thinking who is number 80? Do you know who #80 is on the
• 27:18
  team? No clue.
• 27:20
  Coulson yank off, right? Another tight end, yeah.
• 27:25
  Colson Yankov, right. Yankov was in on certain plays.
• 27:29
  That's how banged up the offense is from a like a weapons
• 27:32
  perspective right now, right? Jacory Brooks was in there for
• 27:37
  seven snaps, right? Tay Martin was in for seven
• 27:39
  snaps. So Jaden is literally just
• 27:43
  throwing 2 wide receivers who would not make another team's
• 27:46
  roster because, and this is no excuse, right?
• 27:48
  Everybody plays with injuries, but because Terry's out, because
• 27:52
  Debo's banged up, because Noah Brown's Mr. Glass.
• 27:55
  So we've got guys that are out there running plays, and somehow
• 27:59
  the young man kept us in this game.
• 28:02
  So even though technically it was his fault on that last
• 28:06
  turnover, I wasn't upset with him at the end of the game.
• 28:10
  How about you? I'm not going to say I wasn't
• 28:15
  upset. Hell yeah, I was upset.
• 28:18
  I'm not, I'm not. I'm not going to even front and
• 28:20
  say I wasn't upset because we battled back and forth all game
• 28:25
  long and finally had the lead and all we basically needed was
• 28:28
  just a, a yard or two yards just to to solidify this game.
• 28:34
  And I was pissed off. But like anything else, I can be
• 28:39
  pissed off at you today, but we can go have a drink tomorrow,
• 28:43
  you know what I mean? There's a there's a, there's a
• 28:45
  time when you, you, you deal with it at that moment.
• 28:49
  But tomorrow's a new day. And that's why I said I'm still
• 28:53
  riding with JD, regardless of what he did.
• 28:57
  He threw an interception. He had turned over.
• 28:59
  I'm still riding with Bill. They are our team and we don't
• 29:05
  like it. But there are other times.
• 29:07
  On the flip side, we be Dallas. Guess what?
• 29:10
  We'll love it, we'll forget about it.
• 29:12
  It'll make it that much easier. When we lost to Atlanta, oh,
• 29:15
  people were pissed off. I was one of the ones we were
• 29:17
  pissed off. But when we came back and won
• 29:19
  the next week, I was happy. So it's it's the ebb and flow of
• 29:24
  football. No one likes to lose.
• 29:28
  We all want to be winners, but that's why they create the game,
• 29:31
  because somebody is going to lose the game.
• 29:34
  You just hate the fact that you lost it that way after battling
• 29:38
  back to be up by two points, you know?
• 29:42
  I mean, we had three turnovers, right?
• 29:44
  3 turnovers and a missed field goal, right?
• 29:48
  You should not win that game usually if that happens and DQ
• 29:53
  talked about it, right? If you're not playing, you know
• 29:55
  what? Let's hear DQ talk about it
• 29:57
  instead of me. You've heard me talk a lot about
• 30:00
  complimentary football, and a team can win a game without it,
• 30:05
  but it cannot consistently win without all phases rocking
• 30:09
  together. And we've had sometimes where
• 30:11
  we're playing complimentary football and sometimes that's
• 30:14
  led to US winning, but too often it's led to us beating
• 30:18
  ourselves. So all three phases feed off
• 30:20
  each other and it's worked for us and it's worked against us.
• 30:24
  I absolutely love how we fight back.
• 30:27
  I love it. There's nothing, no fight that
• 30:32
  we think we're out of, but we have to enter into these games
• 30:36
  physically, mentally, emotionally, all of it, all the
• 30:39
  time. Then start in the second or or
• 30:42
  third quarter starts, you know, right here in Ashburn, meetings,
• 30:45
  practice. And so that's what I'm looking
• 30:48
  for. If we're going to be a team that
• 30:50
  gets better and does those things, we've got to
• 30:52
  consistently be about it. So.
• 30:56
  I mean, they just didn't play complementary football, right?
• 30:59
  It just, it hasn't happened all season.
• 31:02
  And it's for actually, I'll give my 3 reasons why we lost.
• 31:08
  What are your three reasons why we ended up losing that game
• 31:12
  this past Monday? Well, I'm not very
• 31:17
  superstitious, but when you break the chain of me not being
• 31:23
  able to walk around the lots tailgate, see everyone say my
• 31:29
  toast, that's I feel a big part of it.
• 31:34
  The black cat was over us that night.
• 31:39
  Obviously me not being able to walk do my normal tailgate.
• 31:42
  That's 1/2 what was the I'm going to give two I'm going to
• 31:49
  give me not being able to tailgate and obviously the
• 31:53
  fumble at the end of the game. Those are my 2 reasons why we
• 31:55
  lost the game you. So I'm going to blame the
• 31:59
  defense, right? My my first one goes to the
• 32:02
  defense just making DeAndre Swift like a first ballot for.
• 32:08
  The. Freaking you know, Hall of Fame
• 32:09
  every time we play him and it's every freaking year, right The
• 32:14
  guy's just a freaking first ballot Hall of Famer.
• 32:15
  I, I kind of wanted to look up his stats against us the past
• 32:18
  couple years, but then I also don't want to be depressed the
• 32:21
  rest of the day. So they, you had to just stop
• 32:26
  him, right? All you had to do was just not
• 32:28
  let them get such an easy feel and come around the corner.
• 32:31
  We were shutting them down in the middle, right?
• 32:33
  They just kept busting things outside and we couldn't do a
• 32:36
  damn thing to stop him, right? He had over what?
• 32:40
  Looking at his stats, Swift had 108 yards on the ground and 67
• 32:44
  in the air. It's just like we're sitting
• 32:48
  here, I'm watching. It was actually nice watching
• 32:50
  the Bucks game with Misses T on Sunday since I couldn't make it
• 32:54
  to the rally. We were watching her Bucks
• 32:55
  against the Niners. She's like, why can't they stop
• 32:58
  Christian McCaffrey? They know the ball is going to
• 32:59
  him. He's the only person they got.
• 33:01
  Like sometimes it's easier said than done.
• 33:03
  Then I'm thinking the exact same thing on Monday.
• 33:05
  Like we know what's going to be Andre Swift.
• 33:07
  Why can't we shut him down? Right?
• 33:09
  It's like Joe Wit, you know it's going to go to him.
• 33:11
  Why? Why can't you do something about
• 33:12
  it? And it was just so frustrating.
• 33:14
  And I just, Jaden has won us so many games putting this entire
• 33:19
  team on his back and at the one time when he needs 11 other guys
• 33:24
  that defense to step up, they just couldn't do it.
• 33:27
  So I blame them number one, right #2 me wearing a damn black
• 33:34
  jersey. I, I never should have did it.
• 33:37
  I should have just stuck with my old burgundy tailgate tail
• 33:39
  jersey. That that definitely is part of
• 33:42
  it. And then #3 you not stop at the
• 33:45
  tailgate, man. I'm, I'm thinking us not just
• 33:48
  catching up, taking pictures beforehand.
• 33:51
  Those I'll. Take the I'll, I'll, I'll take
• 33:54
  the weight man. And that's why I'm wearing the
• 33:56
  captain's hat. As I said earlier in in when we
• 34:00
  first started, that's why I'm wearing it to let everybody know
• 34:04
  that I will ride high and I will go down with the ship.
• 34:08
  And this week or last week, if you will, I went down with the
• 34:12
  ship so, but they create more ships.
• 34:17
  And so we've got a new one to sail this week and I'm ready to
• 34:22
  take helm. Take the helm and definitely get
• 34:26
  this thing the ship righted if you will.
• 34:30
  So Speaking of this week we talked about the home rally.
• 34:32
  You did you know that Santana Moss people and you collaborated
• 34:36
  on what about the Dallas Rd. rally?
• 34:39
  I know. So the team is actually flying a
• 34:43
  bunch of sweet holders and Tunnel Club people out for this
• 34:47
  game this week. So I told them because they're
• 34:49
  doing like a bougie dinner on Saturday night.
• 34:52
  I told them rally's doing a rally, forget that bougie dinner
• 34:56
  crap, you got to stop by and hang out.
• 34:58
  So they're asked me when it was going to get announced, let
• 35:01
  people know where it's going to be this weekend.
• 35:04
  This weekend, Ted, it's going to be held at.
• 35:11
  I can't think of the name of it. You put me on the spot.
• 35:13
  Don't put me on the spot like that.
• 35:14
  You tell me. You tell people where it is.
• 35:16
  Bara Libre Sports Bar 2627 Jefferson Blvd.
• 35:21
  Ste. 3 O 7, Dallas, TX 75211 Saturday the 18th from 5 O clock
• 35:27
  to 7 O clock. So when I hear Bara Libre sports
• 35:30
  bar, I'm expecting like Rey Mysterio and, you know, people
• 35:36
  jumping off of top ropes with luchador masks.
• 35:39
  I mean, what kind of place are you setting our friends there
• 35:41
  man? Well, OK, so I'm glad you
• 35:44
  brought this up Ted, so that everybody can understand what
• 35:47
  I've been working with here. So as you guys know, there
• 35:51
  weren't going to be any more rallies, right?
• 35:54
  Everyone listens to the show, they know that they weren't
• 35:56
  going to be more rallies. And every place that I called
• 36:02
  because we got the word that OK, the rallies are back on.
• 36:07
  They're all, they're all booked up.
• 36:10
  They're all booked up with prior engagements.
• 36:12
  When I book a rally, it's normally in the beginning of the
• 36:15
  season and I can get on the calendar now.
• 36:19
  So this is not our normal spot. But they were the ones who could
• 36:24
  accommodate the DJ and, and pretty much all the fans.
• 36:29
  And the bonus, they they weren't charging anything.
• 36:33
  So I said, all right, we're going to go with you guys.
• 36:37
  And here we are. Now there are two places and I'm
• 36:41
  not going to mention their names.
• 36:42
  They said, sure, you we can have you, but you got to pay and you
• 36:49
  got to have our food and beverage.
• 36:51
  And so anytime someone tries to force the two places, try to
• 36:54
  force food and beverage down my throat, I'm saying no, my, my,
• 37:00
  my people are very simple. And I'm not calling you guys
• 37:02
  simple as far as your palate is concerned.
• 37:05
  You want nachos, you want a hamburger and, and you want a
• 37:08
  good beer and a good mixed drink.
• 37:11
  And that's all you. That's for the most part what we
• 37:13
  want. They want to charge a buffet
• 37:16
  style meal. And yeah.
• 37:19
  And and so I'm saying, no, that's not what we everybody's
• 37:24
  going to be on their same. There are different tabs, yeah.
• 37:26
  You're not starting a tab for the entire place having people
• 37:29
  pay you back. I mean, talk about complicated.
• 37:32
  Oh bro. So hey, so you got your high
• 37:36
  list, you go Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope.
• 37:39
  Yes. So here we are, bar Libre, and
• 37:43
  we're going to make it happen. I don't care what anybody says.
• 37:47
  We've we've when we had rallies before under the previous name,
• 37:51
  some of the places were smaller than my living room and we
• 37:55
  packed the place out. We're going to do the exact same
• 37:57
  thing here. And I told the manager to make
• 38:00
  sure you got plenty of cold ones on on ice and get the mixed
• 38:03
  drinks flowing because the Burgundy and Gold is going to
• 38:06
  infiltrate Bar Libre. If you guys have Instagram, you
• 38:10
  got to check out the Bar Libre Sports Bar Instagram.
• 38:13
  It is not in English, but they definitely have.
• 38:17
  Well, that's Texas for you, baby.
• 38:20
  They definitely have some pictures on here that would make
• 38:24
  some of our listeners excited about hanging out there with
• 38:28
  some chicken, $10 all day, chicken quesadillas and Taco
• 38:32
  towers. And yeah, so you guys are going
• 38:36
  to have a good time. I'm excited to hear how it goes,
• 38:40
  right? I mean, we've got a huge
• 38:43
  contingent of the fan base that's going to be out there for
• 38:45
  the game, so. I'm excited yes, I'm, I'm always
• 38:49
  excited about a rally Ted. I, you know, I, I've as, as you
• 38:52
  know, this is my name and ever since the team stopped doing it
• 38:58
  back in the COVID years and they picked it back up.
• 39:00
  You know, I, I've always wanted to do this.
• 39:04
  And so this somebody said this is actually my calling.
• 39:07
  So here it is. I hate that we were late, if you
• 39:12
  will, to have to pick the spot that that, that we're at, but it
• 39:16
  doesn't matter. The burgundy and gold.
• 39:19
  Wait, wait a minute. The burgundy and gold.
• 39:22
  This is bar Libra. Take home.
• 39:28
  Did you? This is Bar Libra man that I'll
• 39:34
  tell you. You guys could have a good time
• 39:37
  on Sunday, man, or Saturday. I think they're going to be that
• 39:42
  way bro. At least I'm hoping they're not
• 39:44
  I. Mean it's.
• 39:47
  That must have been on one particular night, all right.
• 39:50
  This is July, whatever July 26th is.
• 39:53
  Maybe it's a Texas holiday or. Something I don't know.
• 39:56
  I didn't see that until now. I'm like, what are you looking
• 39:59
  at over there? You guys check out their
• 40:03
  Instagram, man you, you can get a laugh.
• 40:04
  I'm not going to, I'm not going to.
• 40:06
  It's, it's sufficient for work. You can look at it on a work
• 40:09
  phone, but I'm not going to put that on her YouTube.
• 40:13
  Oh my God, I'll say to myself, what the heck is he looking at
• 40:19
  anyway? Hey, we're going to have a good
• 40:21
  time at Barley Bray and hey, man, it doesn't matter what,
• 40:26
  what's the saying? Anytime, Any place, anywhere
• 40:33
  burgundy and gold is going to show up and Bar Libre is in for
• 40:38
  a treat for the burgundy and gold.
• 40:41
  No, they definitely are, man. They they don't know what they
• 40:43
  signed up for and I've I've got no doubt that it's going to be a
• 40:47
  blast. Just take some pictures for me
• 40:49
  and let me put some stuff on the Instagram later.
• 40:52
  But what do you think? A short week going into Dallas.
• 40:57
  Heartbreaking loss, the last second of the freaking game,
• 41:01
  right? Von Miller was on with the
• 41:02
  Sports Junkies the next morning at 9:40.
• 41:04
  He didn't even go to sleep. He watched the film that night,
• 41:07
  stayed up the entire time, and that was joining them.
• 41:10
  I think it like 9:20 in the morning.
• 41:12
  What do you think the team's psyche is heading into this game
• 41:15
  versus Dallas right now after that loss?
• 41:18
  Well, their head should be down for for for the first couple
• 41:23
  hours of of Tuesday going into Tuesday.
• 41:27
  But after that, it's on to beat the blue and silver or whatever
• 41:33
  their colors are. So I don't they're grown men who
• 41:37
  get paid for a child's sport. I want them to hold their head
• 41:45
  up high and just understand that we've got your back, but we're
• 41:50
  giving you the side eye. We got your back, but we're
• 41:55
  giving you the side eye. Just know that and you should
• 41:58
  understand that that shouldn't hurt anybody's feelings
• 42:01
  whatsoever. We we're, we are 10 toes down
• 42:04
  for you, but we're looking at you because we know that you
• 42:10
  guys can play better and we know that you will play better.
• 42:15
  They you can't talk about it. You got to go out there and do
• 42:18
  it. And right now Dallas is in the
• 42:22
  same boat, if you will, that we are.
• 42:25
  They've got a lot of injuries. Obviously their number one pass
• 42:29
  rusher got shipped off to Green Bay.
• 42:32
  So who do they look for? Who do they look for?
• 42:36
  What is their identity? I don't care what their identity
• 42:40
  is. It's our it's our way to go in
• 42:42
  there and take what's ours at AT&T Stadium, so.
• 42:48
  For me, right the next day, Tuesday.
• 42:51
  I've been trying to get the new iPhone for a month now and I
• 42:56
  think Apple does this on purpose right?
• 42:58
  You can go to their website, put the phone, everything else you
• 43:02
  want and it tells you if it's available anywhere and it's been
• 43:07
  sold out everywhere. I just kept hitting refresh
• 43:10
  every 5 minutes. All of a sudden one would pop
• 43:12
  up, right? So and then it would disappear.
• 43:15
  So it popped up again Tuesday. Fast forward, I get one Tuesday
• 43:19
  at Pentagon City, so I go there to go pick it up, obviously
• 43:22
  because I want the new phone for when we go to Spain, right?
• 43:24
  I want to have the new camera and all the other stuff and some
• 43:27
  more space on the phone when we go to Spain.
• 43:29
  I'm rocking my Commander's gear. Yes, we just lost less than 12
• 43:33
  hours ago, but I am rocking my commander's gear, walking
• 43:35
  through that mall with my head held high, Representative,
• 43:39
  right? And I have people saying, how
• 43:40
  can you wear that right now? It's like, how can you not if
• 43:43
  you're a fan of this team? Yes, it sucks.
• 43:46
  We took an L We'd lost that game.
• 43:49
  The Bears didn't win that game. We lost.
• 43:51
  That game there. Was a difference, right?
• 43:55
  The Bears should not have that, should not have happened.
• 43:58
  But yes, it's the next day. I'm still going to wear this.
• 44:01
  So people are saying, well, is the team going to be able to
• 44:03
  bounce back on a short week? This is actually DQ talking
• 44:06
  about how happy he is that it is a short week.
• 44:09
  Dan, at the opening you said you're happy it's a short week.
• 44:12
  Can you explain that mentality and that attitude a little bit,
• 44:15
  That mindset? Well, I think when it doesn't go
• 44:18
  your way, and this game was a hard one for us and it's a lot
• 44:21
  of ways we beat ourselves. And those are as hard a loss,
• 44:25
  you know, to deal with when it goes down to the end, Hit your
• 44:30
  marks, they do and it doesn't go your way.
• 44:33
  Those are ones that that's the life of a competitor when you
• 44:35
  beat yourselves, that that one hurts more because you didn't
• 44:41
  finish it or didn't play it in a style or attitude or things that
• 44:45
  you wanted to do. So those are important and we
• 44:49
  want to make sure the lessons that are meant for us are
• 44:51
  learned and also get it corrected.
• 44:55
  That's been uncharacteristic of us in that way, and we certainly
• 44:58
  plan on getting that fixed. DQ said was either on Tuesday or
• 45:05
  Monday after the game that if they could play tomorrow, they
• 45:08
  would, right? Yes, it's a short week, but it
• 45:12
  almost behooves you that it's a short week because after a loss
• 45:15
  like that, it's not like it was a blowout loss, right?
• 45:18
  After a loss like that, you just you want to put the pads back
• 45:22
  on, freaking tie the cleats back up and then hit that field
• 45:26
  again, right? Obviously guys are banged up,
• 45:29
  right? We'll talk about that here in a
• 45:30
  second. But I almost think it's a good
• 45:31
  thing on top of the fact that for some reason we win again, we
• 45:35
  lose the game, we win again, we lose the game.
• 45:36
  So if we keep going on this trend, we should win in Dallas
• 45:39
  because we just lost this past weekend.
• 45:40
  I don't know why we can't win two in a row.
• 45:43
  Straight up. We haven't lost two in a row but
• 45:45
  I don't know why we can't win two in a row.
• 45:47
  Hopefully you know the next two are on the road.
• 45:50
  We get to see some back to backs here, but for me, I, I have
• 45:55
  never actually been excited. The fact because it doesn't give
• 45:59
  them a lot of time because Tuesday is typically the team's
• 46:01
  off day. The guys haven't had time to
• 46:04
  just sit there and wallow and pity because of how we gave that
• 46:08
  thing away, right? They got to prepare.
• 46:11
  They got to make sure we're ready for Dallas.
• 46:13
  Hell no, I ain't no pity party. So the only thing that's
• 46:17
  frustrating with it being a short week is obviously we're
• 46:20
  banged up and a certain wide receiver that we had hoped was
• 46:24
  going to come back for the Bears game is now out for four more
• 46:27
  weeks. This is DQ.
• 46:28
  Last week we worked Noah Brown back into practice and
• 46:31
  unfortunately his groin didn't respond.
• 46:34
  And given that, we'll place him on IR and the aim is to get Noah
• 46:40
  fully right. And he's he's such a tough
• 46:42
  competitor and, but it's the right call right now to get him
• 46:44
  into that spot. And let's get him all the way
• 46:47
  back and, and ready. With Noah, what happened with
• 46:52
  the? Was there a set back or was it?
• 46:53
  Did something happen while I was practicing that and reinjured
• 46:56
  it? Or, and I guess, why not put him
• 46:57
  on iron before this point? Yeah, well, I would say it
• 47:00
  wasn't a set back. It just hasn't responded, you
• 47:02
  know, quite the way that it needs to.
• 47:05
  So I wouldn't call it a set back.
• 47:07
  Hindsight's 2020. And I think the main thing is,
• 47:09
  man, let's, let's we're going to get them right.
• 47:12
  That's the ultimate goal to get there.
• 47:13
  So we know that means four more weeks and like the guys working
• 47:18
  incredibly hard at it and so we want to make sure hit all the
• 47:22
  marks that we came with him. So I think that means we might
• 47:27
  see some more Colson Yankov out there, right?
• 47:30
  Some more other guys. It's just it's a bummer.
• 47:34
  And you just you feel bad for Noah, right?
• 47:37
  It's just been one thing after another.
• 47:39
  Missed the majority of camp and preseason, got to play a game.
• 47:43
  But B Mitch was talking about today.
• 47:45
  It's like, are you really losing something because you never
• 47:47
  really had him? Yeah, can't make sure you never
• 47:50
  had. So we know what he did last
• 47:52
  season, but this is a new season and they were never going to pay
• 47:56
  Diami Brown what he got in Jacksonville, right?
• 48:00
  And I'm happy for OZ. He seems to be some place where
• 48:03
  he's good. And you know, you talk.
• 48:05
  About. Yeah, you talk about body
• 48:07
  language, you know, seeing him after the game walking around
• 48:11
  talking to former just trainers and staff, right?
• 48:14
  I just you know, I, we are commanders fans, but you, you
• 48:19
  feel for these guys that used to be part of this team.
• 48:21
  And OZ had two catches for 24 yards.
• 48:23
  I mean, he he did some stuff through that game.
• 48:26
  And I just hope for no a sake he's going to be OK.
• 48:30
  I just don't know what to expect out of them.
• 48:33
  And I reach out to my crew 10 days before tailgate, right?
• 48:37
  Because our RSVP goes live 10 days ahead of time.
• 48:40
  And this way I can on the back end say, OK, how many people can
• 48:43
  we actually feed this week knowing that I only have X
• 48:47
  amount of people doing the tailgate right?
• 48:49
  And if someone tells me they're a maybe, I have to count them
• 48:52
  out as no until they prove to me that they can be there for me.
• 48:56
  Noah is a no until he is actually got pads on and out
• 49:01
  there on game day, right, because coach said that he'd
• 49:06
  been around for walkthroughs and light stuff, but once it finally
• 49:09
  came to having to run and practice just couldn't do it.
• 49:13
  So what good is he out there if the guy can't even run?
• 49:17
  And that's what worries me about Terry right now because looking
• 49:20
  at the injury report this week, man, I, I need to pull my shoes
• 49:27
  off if I'm using all my digits to count this thing.
• 49:30
  I thought that was your menu. Right now Doris Armstrong,
• 49:36
  hamstring DNP John Bates, DNP rest Zach Ertz rest DNP with a
• 49:43
  shoulder Drake Jackson, knee DNP Ken Law, rest DNP Von Miller,
• 49:49
  rest DNP Duron rest DNP Chris Rodriguez, calf, DNP Debo heel
• 49:55
  DNP tonsil, rest DNP Bobby Wagner, rest DNP Terry Quad
• 50:01
  limited, Cosmi, knee full, Jaden knee full, Jonathan Jones,
• 50:06
  hamstring full. So even though I know the guys
• 50:11
  would strap it on and just get out there to play Dallas now to
• 50:14
  try and get that bad taste of that loss out of their mouth.
• 50:17
  Fact of the matter is the guys are all banged up and Dallas has
• 50:20
  had an extra day to prepare, unlike the Bears who had an
• 50:25
  extra week because they had a bye week coming against us, but
• 50:28
  they had an extra day to prepare.
• 50:30
  They had an extra week and and they still didn't show me
• 50:33
  anything so I'm not worried about that.
• 50:36
  And unfortunately or fortunately, we will be putting
• 50:43
  the team on JD 5's back again to make the right calls.
• 50:47
  And the kid almost has to be perfect when the other players
• 50:52
  around him make mistakes in, in any, including himself, he needs
• 50:57
  to almost play a perfect game. So, and as you said, Chicago
• 51:02
  didn't beat us, we beat ourselves.
• 51:06
  So we can't have another game like that.
• 51:09
  Not to say it won't happen, but we can't have another game like
• 51:12
  that because that is going to demoralize the fan base.
• 51:16
  And not only the fan base, the team.
• 51:19
  It just is. I don't care what anybody says.
• 51:22
  You, you're a human being. Yes, you're an NFL football
• 51:24
  player, but you are a human being 1st and you have feelings.
• 51:28
  You just do. So it's going to hurt you as
• 51:32
  well. Well, I mean, I texted you about
• 51:34
  stuff to talk about for the show, right?
• 51:36
  And I be we talked on the last pod that if we win that game, we
• 51:43
  could go to 1st in the NFC East, right?
• 51:44
  We will be tied with the Eagles right at 4:00 and 2:00 versus 3
• 51:48
  and three. Losing that game changed our
• 51:51
  playoff percentage to 36% and it is way too early to talk about
• 51:55
  that. But the only thing that bothers
• 51:57
  me about losing that game of the way we did, and we can all go
• 52:00
  back and look at seasons where we just gave games away.
• 52:03
  If we win this one game, we're in the playoffs or if we win
• 52:06
  this one game, we get this. This game feels like that
• 52:09
  because of who we play in the next 4 weeks, right?
• 52:12
  We got the Cowboys in Dallas, we got the Chiefs in Kansas City,
• 52:17
  we got the Seahawks back home and then we got the Lions back
• 52:20
  home. All right, so coming out of this
• 52:23
  next 4 game stretch, this is where we either prove that we're
• 52:27
  a playoff team or prove that we still got some more work to do
• 52:31
  all. Right.
• 52:33
  And not to say that if we go three and seven the next 4 weeks
• 52:39
  that the season's over. It's not by any means, right,
• 52:42
  but just being realistic. If we chunk this thing up,
• 52:44
  that's why that game was so important.
• 52:47
  And that's what makes this weekend so important as well.
• 52:50
  Head out to Dallas. Because going to three and four
• 52:54
  versus 4 and 3 is completely different story with just the
• 52:57
  juggernauts that we got to face coming up.
• 52:59
  Because Seattle. Seattle is not the same Seattle
• 53:01
  I thought they were going to be before the season started.
• 53:04
  That team is freaking out Fire. They are.
• 53:07
  The Lions are who we thought they were, right?
• 53:09
  And the Chiefs appeared to have woken up.
• 53:11
  I don't know what happened, but Mahomes found his mojo again.
• 53:16
  And something's going on with that team.
• 53:18
  So that one's going to be a tough one out there.
• 53:20
  And Arrowhead. So this week heading into
• 53:22
  Dallas, good news is the Cowboys just lost to what was it The
• 53:27
  Jets this past. No, they they, they lost.
• 53:29
  No, the Panthers, that's who. It was the.
• 53:31
  Panthers, Rico Dowdle. Panthers beat them 27 to 3 and
• 53:37
  that was also so did you. Get thought it was closer than
• 53:40
  that I thought it. Was 27 to 30.
• 53:41
  Sorry 27 to 30. Did you get to hide so you could
• 53:44
  watch the game earlier? Or I, I got there roughly a
• 53:49
  little earlier so I could watch the game and, and get set up
• 53:52
  with the little things that I that I needed to take care of.
• 53:55
  So it was, it was, it was really good while the rally was going
• 53:58
  on and to see them lose, that just made everybody want to
• 54:02
  drink even more and be merry. I'm sure because I got back to
• 54:07
  the house from tailgate prep right when the game was
• 54:09
  finishing. I'm like you got because misses
• 54:11
  T had it on like, oh, damn, OK, this is good.
• 54:13
  This works out. But the Cowboys are two, three
• 54:18
  and one. They actually tied the Packers.
• 54:22
  They beat the let's see here. Who did they beat?
• 54:25
  They beat the Giants in Week 240 to 37, and they beat The Jets 37
• 54:30
  to 22. They lost to the Eagles, the
• 54:32
  Bears and the Panthers, right? And the team that they beat, OK,
• 54:37
  that's fine, right? The Giants.
• 54:39
  The Giants beat the Eagles and it's a division game.
• 54:42
  So those can kind of go either way.
• 54:43
  The Jets, we all know they're garbage, right?
• 54:46
  They're probably going to get the first pick of the draft.
• 54:47
  They're horrible this year. I just don't know what to expect
• 54:51
  because this Dallas team, they are putting up points man.
• 54:56
  They are putting up a ton of points.
• 54:57
  I think they are 30th. No, they are third in the league
• 55:02
  in scoring offense putting up 29.7 points a game.
• 55:05
  And that is what worries me this week heading down to Dallas
• 55:09
  because Dak has found his stride.
• 55:12
  Think it was Smoot called him Skinny Dak Skinny Dak is able to
• 55:18
  make some throws and move a little bit better than he used
• 55:21
  to and he is the most accurate passer according to PFF right
• 55:24
  now. Instead here Prescott continues
• 55:27
  to perform at a high level despite the Cowboys record.
• 55:29
  He ranks as PFFS third highest graded passer after recording
• 55:32
  his fourth game with an overall grade of 80 or higher.
• 55:36
  His accuracy was a major factor. His accuracy was 74.2% right.
• 55:44
  So he's not missing a ton of throws at all and bad news for
• 55:48
  us. It looks like CD Lamb is coming
• 55:50
  back. C DS been out since week three
• 55:53
  with a high ankle and Lamb was at practice, was a participant
• 55:58
  and looks like we are going to have to worry about him this
• 56:01
  weekend. Well, the one person that I
• 56:05
  haven't heard us talk about on our squad is Terry.
• 56:09
  What's the latest on Terry? So this is actually DQ talking
• 56:12
  about the game plan for Terry this week.
• 56:14
  Then what's the plan for Terry this week?
• 56:17
  He'll practice this week and I'll have a better sense where
• 56:20
  we're going because today is going to be more at a jog
• 56:22
  through pace where we're not, you know, fully, you know, speed
• 56:25
  up and go on. But that'll be more as we get
• 56:27
  into tomorrow. But you know, like I'll have a
• 56:29
  better assessment after we go through like some full speed,
• 56:32
  you know, routes and movements to see where he's at.
• 56:34
  But I'm excited where where he's trending.
• 56:39
  So fingers crossed we get 17 back right?
• 56:42
  We we need Terry out there just being legit, right.
• 56:45
  If we go 13 personnel, Debo is never a stretch.
• 56:48
  The field guy, right? He's a crossing pattern guy.
• 56:51
  He's a short pattern guy, right? We need someone that the defense
• 56:55
  has to respect so they can't stack the box against Bill.
• 56:58
  They can't do what the freaking Bears just did against us.
• 57:01
  And maybe it's Jalen Lane out there instead of Chris Moore,
• 57:06
  but they got to do something because we just can't happen.
• 57:10
  Have what happened this past week?
• 57:12
  Right now we can't. It's a copycat league and I get
• 57:15
  they don't have Michael Parsons right now, but the Bears
• 57:19
  horrible run defense and they stopped us right The Cowboys
• 57:24
  rush defense, they are 29th giving up 142 yards a game.
• 57:29
  None of that matters if they don't respect our passing attack
• 57:33
  and our passing attack without Terry right is what is Zach Ertz
• 57:37
  and one catch from Luke McCaffrey and a catch from Jalen
• 57:41
  Lane. That's pretty much our passing
• 57:43
  attack right now. So best believe Dallas is going
• 57:45
  to be able to shut that down if we don't get a chance to do
• 57:49
  something about it. And unfortunately we need bodies
• 57:52
  to make that happen, right? I don't care what kind of
• 57:55
  players Kingsbury is going to call, if you don't got the
• 57:58
  horses to run it, it ain't going to work out.
• 58:01
  Yeah. So the same way that we're
• 58:06
  looking at this being a possible get right game for us, best
• 58:10
  believe Dallas is looking at this as a get right game for
• 58:15
  them. Plus it's in at their home
• 58:19
  stadium with their home crowd. So they aren't going to be
• 58:24
  pushovers. They're going to come out on all
• 58:27
  cylinders firing whatever they have.
• 58:30
  And I'm hoping that we can match that intensity because it's
• 58:37
  going to be needed. You know, a lot of times AT&T
• 58:41
  Stadium is loud, but you can you can you can survive it.
• 58:48
  I think that this go around, it's probably going to be a lot
• 58:51
  louder because of who they're playing this week, the
• 58:55
  commanders and we have got to shut them down before we move
• 59:03
  on. Ted, give me your thoughts on I
• 59:06
  have my my reasons why I think that people teams defer.
• 59:09
  Why do you think that we defer all the time and and get the
• 59:12
  ball in the second quarter? I mean, if you get a chance to
• 59:16
  double up, to me it, it makes the most sense.
• 59:19
  If you score at the end of the second quarter or don't give a
• 59:23
  team enough time to score after you score, then you get a chance
• 59:28
  to get, you know, either 14 points against them or 10 or
• 59:32
  another three at that. It's just it mathematically,
• 59:35
  analytically, it's the right thing to do.
• 59:39
  But you also have a team that has been starting slow, right?
• 59:43
  And that's where it might hurt you.
• 59:45
  But I know D QS logic, at least I think I do.
• 59:48
  As to why he's doing that, what are your thoughts?
• 59:51
  OK, Well, I always thought that, yes, there is some analytical
• 59:58
  point that they're making, but I always thought that you get the
• 1:00:01
  ball back in the second, second-half because you want the
• 1:00:05
  ball back because a, the stadium isn't as crowded, it's not as
• 1:00:10
  loud. So everyone's outgoing to the
• 1:00:13
  bathroom or getting food or whatever have you.
• 1:00:16
  And it's just when you look at players or teams coming back out
• 1:00:19
  of the second-half, the stadium's almost, I'm not going
• 1:00:21
  to say half empty, but it's it's pretty empty because people have
• 1:00:26
  ran out for the various reasons. So that's why I always thought
• 1:00:29
  that because you can move the ball quicker in enemy territory
• 1:00:32
  possibly and not have to hear as much, you can concentrate
• 1:00:37
  better. I mean, that's that's what I
• 1:00:39
  thought. Yeah, I mean, that's also part
• 1:00:42
  of it, right? It's part of the equation.
• 1:00:44
  According to ChatGPT, it says between 2018 to 2024, teams that
• 1:00:52
  defer after winning the coin toss win roughly 51 to 53% of
• 1:00:56
  the games in the 2023 season. Teams that deferred 152.8% of
• 1:01:03
  the games in the 24 season coaches now defer over 90% of
• 1:01:08
  the time when they win the toss because of the small extra value
• 1:01:11
  that you get from it. And it's the double possession
• 1:01:14
  chance right you off. I used to have wizard season
• 1:01:17
  tickets right. So you would at the end of the
• 1:01:20
  game or the end of 1/2, you try and get a 2 for one right.
• 1:01:25
  It's the same thing in football speed.
• 1:01:27
  Try to get a 2 for one with a shot clock and everything else.
• 1:01:30
  So, but what worries me, right, is we're going down early in
• 1:01:36
  games. 10, nothing in San Diego, right, where there was no home
• 1:01:41
  field advantage, right, 13, nothing at home where we did
• 1:01:44
  have an advantage. But if we go down double digits
• 1:01:48
  in AT&T, that stadium is going to go nuts and it is going to be
• 1:01:54
  tough to bounce back from that. And we can't afford to do that
• 1:01:57
  this week. We cannot afford to start off
• 1:02:00
  slow on the road and it's something that concerns me.
• 1:02:04
  On top of that, we are the highest over under this week at
• 1:02:07
  54 1/2 points. Vegas is expecting a freaking
• 1:02:11
  shoot out and I hope it's an even shoot out.
• 1:02:14
  Not Dallas putting up 30 and us putting up 20.
• 1:02:17
  Getting them there because I hate to say it, but man, our
• 1:02:22
  defense has not shown me that they can stop a healthy team,
• 1:02:26
  right? We, we beat up on the Chargers
• 1:02:28
  because the charges were all banged up, right?
• 1:02:30
  But we haven't been able to beat up on a team that is healthy.
• 1:02:34
  We got our butts kicked by the Packers, who were healthy.
• 1:02:37
  We just lost to the Bears, who all, for the most part, we're a
• 1:02:40
  healthy team, right? Dallas is getting people back,
• 1:02:44
  right? They just got a couple of their
• 1:02:46
  offensive lineman back last week against that game versus the
• 1:02:49
  Panthers, right? They actually their offensive
• 1:02:51
  line did not give up a single sack last week and they only
• 1:02:57
  surrendered 5 pressures on 34 passes.
• 1:03:00
  So their offensive line is starting to kick ass right now.
• 1:03:04
  Their pass block efficiency was 92.6 and on top of DAC being
• 1:03:09
  super accurate, like I have concerns about this defense
• 1:03:13
  being able to slow them down if it comes to a shootout.
• 1:03:17
  I got faith in Jaden, but it's just we talked about having to
• 1:03:21
  put that Cape on again and that's what concerns me.
• 1:03:25
  Yeah. And like I said, it's, it's it's
• 1:03:27
  unfortunate or fortunate, however you want to look at it
• 1:03:31
  to put the game needs to be played.
• 1:03:37
  And I'm hoping, well, I'm not hoping.
• 1:03:39
  I know that they'll have our guys ready to play.
• 1:03:42
  What the outcome will be that I don't know.
• 1:03:45
  Yeah. I mean, you have a lot of the
• 1:03:47
  old vets that are around, a lot of the alumni, right?
• 1:03:49
  Doug Williams is obviously there, B Mitch Santana, right?
• 1:03:53
  I don't feel that Logan Paulson knows or understands how big
• 1:03:57
  Dallas week is. But we got a young team.
• 1:04:00
  We talked about the youth movement.
• 1:04:02
  Do these guys know how important this game is?
• 1:04:04
  I don't know. Yes, it's a division game, but
• 1:04:07
  do they know how important this game is?
• 1:04:08
  Not to the team, but to the city, right?
• 1:04:11
  This game means something. This game carries extra.
• 1:04:14
  There's a reason why this game is on at 425, all right?
• 1:04:18
  They have to put their best foot forward.
• 1:04:21
  Dallas is 22nd in the power rankings, right?
• 1:04:24
  They're 2-3 and one. We should kick their ass.
• 1:04:26
  We just know that it's never that easy when it comes to a
• 1:04:29
  division game or just Dallas in general.
• 1:04:32
  Don't read your press clippings. Don't do it.
• 1:04:35
  And that's that's something else that I said maybe, maybe they
• 1:04:38
  read the press clippings. I don't know.
• 1:04:40
  Where's everybody said you should be able to run the ball
• 1:04:42
  in Chicago. Oh, everybody's coming.
• 1:04:44
  They, they, they like a sieve. You can, I said, don't read
• 1:04:47
  those press clippings because what another team did, our team
• 1:04:51
  may not be able to do, even though the other teams have
• 1:04:53
  success. And so it's just sometimes it's
• 1:04:57
  it's flip flop for us where the teams can do it.
• 1:05:00
  We can't for whatever reason, I don't know, but this definitely
• 1:05:05
  will be a test and I if I'm not mistaken, big shout out goes to
• 1:05:11
  Luke McCaffrey because I, I think he's the leading return
• 1:05:16
  yard guy right now if I'm not mistaken, right?
• 1:05:18
  He was the second during the game, yeah, so he might have
• 1:05:24
  actually moved up to first. Let's see here.
• 1:05:29
  Yeah, I think cuz, cuz he's, I don't know what he's seeing, but
• 1:05:33
  he's getting better with each game.
• 1:05:35
  And so I'm happy with that because he's not a really fast
• 1:05:38
  guy, but he's picking his, picking his holes and picking
• 1:05:42
  his part. So if my hat goes off to him, if
• 1:05:44
  I had a player of the week, it would be Luke McCaffrey.
• 1:05:48
  Yeah, Luke is leading it right now averaging 31 1/2, and Arian
• 1:05:53
  Smith and Lamar and Hampton are averaging 30 and 3131 and 30.
• 1:05:57
  So yeah, Luke is, I mean, I'm just, I was glad to see Luke get
• 1:06:00
  more snaps this past week. And I think part of that comes
• 1:06:03
  down to the fact that we just were short bodies, right?
• 1:06:06
  Luke had 25 snaps on offense this past week.
• 1:06:09
  And the week prior to that when we were still banged up, he had
• 1:06:14
  23. So I mean, it's just he's
• 1:06:16
  getting more involved in the offense and it's just it's nice
• 1:06:19
  to see because we're going to need him this week, right?
• 1:06:22
  If this is going to. If this is going to be a shoot
• 1:06:24
  out, then we need all of our explosive weapons out there.
• 1:06:28
  And this is no knock on Ben Senate and Colson Yankov and
• 1:06:31
  Tame Martin. But they're just, they're not
• 1:06:35
  it. They're not explosive, they're
• 1:06:36
  not game changing. And we need people out there
• 1:06:39
  that can actually scare defenses to a degree.
• 1:06:42
  And I'm not saying Luke is an intimidating force, but if he
• 1:06:45
  just runs that ball back on a kick off and gets 35 yards, hits
• 1:06:49
  that hole hard as hell. Best believe the DBS that are
• 1:06:52
  about to go back out there when we're on offense and they're on
• 1:06:54
  defense are thinking about what Luke just did.
• 1:06:58
  Same thing with Jalen Lane, right?
• 1:07:00
  Jalen's back there catching those punts and the the kid is
• 1:07:03
  doing really well in that aspect and it's exciting to see him do
• 1:07:07
  some stuff on offense. Believe it or not, Luke and
• 1:07:10
  Jalen were actually ranked higher than Jayden on the PFF
• 1:07:14
  grants. And granted, Jayden had two
• 1:07:15
  turnovers, so that's why. That dumps you down.
• 1:07:19
  Yeah, and Trent Scott was actually higher than Jayden,
• 1:07:23
  right? And he only played 14 snaps, so
• 1:07:24
  it's kind of hard to take into account.
• 1:07:26
  But it was nice to see Zach Ertz show back up after having 0
• 1:07:30
  catches the week prior. And he actually turned it on
• 1:07:33
  this past week and we're going to need him this week.
• 1:07:35
  I mean ertz had 6 catches for a touchdown and a touchdown this
• 1:07:39
  past week before or three yards. So it's just for you.
• 1:07:44
  What are the keys to US winning on Sunday out in the AT&T?
• 1:07:51
  Well, obviously mistake free football or as closest to
• 1:07:54
  mistake free football that you can play.
• 1:07:57
  Like you said, that young man's got to put a Cape on his on his
• 1:08:00
  back. No turnovers.
• 1:08:04
  The turnover game has been killing us and they want to get
• 1:08:08
  this taste out of their mouth. That happened 3 minutes left in
• 1:08:12
  the game to two minutes left in the game.
• 1:08:14
  No turnovers, complimentary football because Dak can carve
• 1:08:23
  you up and the defense has got to be on the same page.
• 1:08:27
  What about you? For me, right, The new turnovers
• 1:08:33
  thing, obviously, but we can't settle for field goals, right?
• 1:08:37
  We can't settle for three instead of seven, right?
• 1:08:40
  I just no offense to gay or kicker, but every time he goes
• 1:08:46
  out there my butt hole puckers a little bit man, I think.
• 1:08:51
  It gets tight, huh? It just, it doesn't matter if
• 1:08:54
  it's a 35 yarder or A50 plus, right?
• 1:08:57
  I just, I get worried and where my seats are, I'm on the
• 1:09:00
  sideline. So I didn't know he was missing
• 1:09:03
  that kick until it docked off the freaking upright.
• 1:09:05
  So I have no idea what's happening.
• 1:09:08
  I just, I worry we have not had a kicker that we just don't have
• 1:09:11
  to worry about and I don't even know how long.
• 1:09:14
  So how about we just don't let him kick it?
• 1:09:17
  We just scored touchdowns instead, right?
• 1:09:19
  Tress had one punt, right? And that's great.
• 1:09:21
  Well, obviously, because we had a fumble and an IMT, but Tress
• 1:09:24
  had one punt. How about we have 0 field goals
• 1:09:27
  in all extra points, right? That to me is going to be key
• 1:09:29
  because Vegas is expecting this to be a high scoring game,
• 1:09:32
  right? 54 1/2 points, right?
• 1:09:34
  And if we are going to keep up with Dallas's offense at 29
• 1:09:39
  points a game, we're only putting up 26.
• 1:09:41
  We have got to score touchdowns. Have to.
• 1:09:44
  We cannot miss tackles. We have to gang tackle like a
• 1:09:49
  mug, right? We got to make sure that if one
• 1:09:54
  guy gets there, he holds him up until the cavalry comes slows
• 1:09:57
  him down because that missed tackle along the freaking
• 1:10:00
  sideline that they took for a freaking house call it just that
• 1:10:04
  cannot happen against Dallas and Dallas has speed man.
• 1:10:08
  Their receivers are quick and so were the bears.
• 1:10:11
  So it's. And you're playing on turf, so
• 1:10:14
  yeah, you going to be a little just a much faster.
• 1:10:17
  Something feels off with Sam Rastelle.
• 1:10:20
  I don't know what it is, but maybe it's because he's playing
• 1:10:23
  a different position than he played last year, right?
• 1:10:25
  He's instead of being outside, he's inside, whatever, I don't
• 1:10:28
  know. But something just feels off
• 1:10:30
  where he seems like he's getting there a little later than he
• 1:10:33
  should. And in the meantime, we need to
• 1:10:36
  make sure that other guys step up or they play their
• 1:10:39
  assignments, they play their spots because it just feels like
• 1:10:41
  we're missing tackles because people aren't where they're
• 1:10:43
  supposed to be. And Bobby Wagner should never be
• 1:10:46
  in coverage, right? I just, I don't know how many
• 1:10:49
  times I saw that happening where guys are going in motion and you
• 1:10:52
  can see that Bobby's on them. And believe it or not, Bobby was
• 1:10:56
  the second lowest graded person in PFFI have never seen his name
• 1:11:01
  this far down the freaking list. He was 17th out of 19 on the
• 1:11:05
  list of players, right? Defense.
• 1:11:07
  Bobby's grade was a 48.2, right? His cover grade was a 42, right?
• 1:11:13
  If Wagner is out there covering somebody, we got a problem, all
• 1:11:17
  right? They got to make sure that pre
• 1:11:19
  snap they understand that mismatch and they pass it off to
• 1:11:23
  a safety or somebody else because it is going to be a
• 1:11:27
  rough long day if that happens. Well, as they say, Father Time
• 1:11:32
  is undefeated, so I'm hoping that, as you said, that they can
• 1:11:37
  mask it to the best ability to pass it off on someone and he
• 1:11:42
  can plug up the holes like he always plugs them up.
• 1:11:46
  I mean, rush defense, dude's a monster, right?
• 1:11:48
  It's you. Know he knows where the ball's
• 1:11:50
  going, definitely, but speed, yeah, speed is something that,
• 1:11:55
  as they say, is uncoachable. So.
• 1:11:58
  But hey man, it's the commander's game to lose.
• 1:12:04
  I feel we we can be victorious in Big D.
• 1:12:08
  So for you, who has a step up on offense?
• 1:12:10
  Who has a step up on defense? Well, as I said, they got to put
• 1:12:15
  the K back on JD because ultimately he is the one who
• 1:12:18
  touched the ball every time and I need my secondary to be strong
• 1:12:24
  against as they call him the Quavius.
• 1:12:29
  You know, I need, I need him to, to my, my, my cornerbacks and
• 1:12:34
  DBS to, to shut that down as much as they possibly can
• 1:12:37
  because CD, he's itching to get back and prove his point because
• 1:12:40
  he doesn't want, I think it was a Peterman.
• 1:12:42
  He didn't want Peterman to take his spot, though.
• 1:12:45
  He's he's ready. Yeah, for me on offense, I hate
• 1:12:53
  to say it, I agree with you. I think it's Jaden.
• 1:12:55
  Just to change it up, I'm going to say Bill, because to me, he's
• 1:12:59
  got to prove something. He's got to prove he doesn't
• 1:13:00
  have a. Fumbling problem.
• 1:13:01
  He's going to prove you can handle the pressure.
• 1:13:03
  Your seventh round pick, kid, you fumble this ball again, I
• 1:13:07
  don't think you're going to get another shot, all right?
• 1:13:10
  I just, they cannot afford to keep giving you the ball so you
• 1:13:14
  can make mistakes. This is actually DQ talking
• 1:13:17
  about the fumbling problem. With Bill Krosky, Merritt
• 1:13:20
  Fumbles and back-to-back weeks, Obviously there's teachable
• 1:13:24
  moments, learning moments in those situations, but when,
• 1:13:28
  What's the point of when maybe becomes an issue and not
• 1:13:31
  necessarily any more of a teaching learning moment?
• 1:13:33
  Yeah, it's a great question. We've got to give him the space
• 1:13:37
  to grow for sure, and prove that those lessons are learned.
• 1:13:40
  Sometimes you don't really get to show that you've learned them
• 1:13:44
  until you're back into that spot.
• 1:13:46
  And so we want to make sure that man, he's still growing, you
• 1:13:49
  know, and this is a rookie player that's they're going to
• 1:13:52
  have some ups and some downs just like any other guys.
• 1:13:55
  And I'm certain he's made of the right things to come battle
• 1:14:00
  through it. I can remember, you know, a few
• 1:14:01
  weeks back, we're talking about Connerly and early start on some
• 1:14:04
  guys. And he said, man, we're going to
• 1:14:06
  fight through it and get there. And so this is no different to
• 1:14:09
  me. This is learning, growing, and
• 1:14:13
  he'll bank on these experiences and they're hard to go through,
• 1:14:17
  but it is necessary. It sucks when you go through
• 1:14:21
  them, but when you come out the other side, there's a lot of
• 1:14:25
  value that comes with that. Someone was joking saying that
• 1:14:31
  Tiki Barber needs to give Bill some lessons on how to hold all
• 1:14:36
  that ball right? I was looking up and try to do
• 1:14:40
  some research, said he only had four fumbles in college right?
• 1:14:43
  And I don't know if that's correct.
• 1:14:44
  This is all ChatGPT and some other research stuff I was
• 1:14:47
  trying to see. But he only had four in college
• 1:14:50
  according to all that stuff. So it's not like he has a
• 1:14:53
  problem or has had a problem in the past, right?
• 1:14:56
  And you know, got Montez Sweat is a beast of a man.
• 1:15:00
  So him punching that thing out, OK, I get it.
• 1:15:03
  But you just you can't let it happen, right?
• 1:15:06
  And go back and watch a game. He's running out of that hole
• 1:15:08
  with one hand on that ball, right?
• 1:15:10
  If he's got to change it up and put two, do what you got to do.
• 1:15:13
  But for me on defense, I need Duron Payne to step up and get
• 1:15:19
  some interior pressure because we see the guys on the ends
• 1:15:23
  coming around getting there. But next thing, whoever throwing
• 1:15:26
  the ball, all you have to do is just step up in the middle of
• 1:15:28
  that pocket. There is no pressure in the
• 1:15:30
  middle of that pocket. We cannot give DAC a clean
• 1:15:33
  pocket like that to do and he's just going to pick us apart.
• 1:15:36
  We talked about earlier he is the most accurate passer right
• 1:15:39
  now according to PFF, 74% of his passes, the guy is hitting his
• 1:15:43
  freaking targets. If you jam up the middle of that
• 1:15:47
  pocket and mess up some of those passing lanes, he ain't going to
• 1:15:50
  be as accurate and it's going to give our guys a chance to do
• 1:15:52
  something. So if one of those two guys
• 1:15:54
  steps up, then I think we're going to get a chance to, you
• 1:15:57
  know, you get 3V stakes. I think you're owed now or one
• 1:16:01
  massive 1 instead of you know what.
• 1:16:03
  Happened. It will be a tomahawk.
• 1:16:05
  It will be make no bones about it.
• 1:16:07
  I'm I'm going to get it. And if we when we went in
• 1:16:11
  Dallas, actually it was 4 O clock.
• 1:16:13
  Ruth Chris probably closed by then.
• 1:16:15
  So I don't I don't think I'll be able to do it, but definitely
• 1:16:18
  I'm going to get it if it's if it if it means that I got to get
• 1:16:22
  it in Kansas City, the the state capital, the beef capital, or
• 1:16:25
  rather I'll, I'll do that. But you know, before we close it
• 1:16:29
  out, Ted Young Bill has for our our older listeners who were
• 1:16:36
  watched worldwide of sports back in the day.
• 1:16:39
  They used to have this line. Bill has witnessed the AG, the
• 1:16:43
  thrill of victory as well as the agony of defeat.
• 1:16:48
  So he's he's seen it in his young career, so we hope that he
• 1:16:54
  gets the thrill of victory again.
• 1:16:56
  Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm hoping he bounces back better because he
• 1:16:59
  just, he's got so much promise, right?
• 1:17:02
  I went to the other Super Bowl jersey release on Saturday
• 1:17:05
  before I was doing some tailgate stuff and guess what?
• 1:17:10
  3-4 jerseys they had at the release.
• 1:17:14
  Which ones? Jayden, Louvou, Terry and Bill.
• 1:17:22
  Wow. That's it.
• 1:17:24
  Right. He's hot though.
• 1:17:25
  I mean, he's hot right now. So yeah, I can see it.
• 1:17:28
  And I don't there are obviously more people grabbing the Jaden
• 1:17:32
  jerseys, right? That was there.
• 1:17:35
  But I want I was there for maybe 45 minutes to an hour.
• 1:17:38
  I would say I saw more 22 jerseys Bill going in Terry
• 1:17:42
  jerseys, which maybe because Terry's not playing right now
• 1:17:48
  and they knew Bill is or what? I know there's some fans that
• 1:17:51
  are still upset at Terry for everything going on, right?
• 1:17:54
  Some guy tweeted me today saying trade Terry, but I just, you
• 1:17:56
  know, mute and ignore whatever. But I just I hope for the kids
• 1:18:01
  sake he bounces back because this fan base is ready to get
• 1:18:03
  behind him. We want to get behind him,
• 1:18:05
  right? And it's just everyone loves an
• 1:18:08
  underdog success story and the kids got what it takes that
• 1:18:11
  there's a reason why we traded away B Rob and kept him here.
• 1:18:15
  So I'm hoping it happens. I hate to say it, man, I I think
• 1:18:21
  it's too much this week. I think Dallas is going to
• 1:18:25
  unfortunately beat us out there. I hope to got him wrong because
• 1:18:29
  it pains me to say that out loud.
• 1:18:31
  I just don't know if our defense can slow them down.
• 1:18:33
  And until they prove to me that they can, I think Dallas's
• 1:18:37
  offense is just too much. Well, the last time I went
• 1:18:40
  against the boys was against the Chargers and that we wind up
• 1:18:44
  winning so I can't do it again. I'm riding with a burgundy and
• 1:18:51
  gold. I hope you're right, man, I hope
• 1:18:55
  you're right. I hope I'm wrong and maybe we
• 1:18:59
  get that massive victory stake together out in Kansas City and
• 1:19:03
  you know, we can share a napkin around our necks and just hang
• 1:19:07
  out there and do that. And Misses Rally can take a
• 1:19:09
  picture, but. Some good BBQ, That's right.
• 1:19:12
  Enjoy yourself out there man, have fun at What was the name of
• 1:19:16
  the bar again for those going out there?
• 1:19:18
  Bar and Libre. Have fun at Bar and Libre.
• 1:19:21
  From what I can tell, you guys are all going to have a blast of
• 1:19:23
  Bar and Libre and definitely take some pictures for your.
• 1:19:27
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• 1:19:31
  was let's me know we are bringing another episode to a
• 1:19:34
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• 1:19:47
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• 1:19:50
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